The San Francisco call., 1898-05-08
HAMMERED LEATHER CLASS.
From a Photograph.

usually prominent in society. whom Miss Emery trained in her normal class. They submitted to severe writ ten examination and proved their fit ness before being assigned to work in the class rooms.
 Mrs. Robert Watt of Oakland had been wanting to find just such a teacher and quickly got together nor mai and model class among her per sonal friends when Miss Emery came to San Francisco. Miss Emery S idea is to begin at the top of society rather than at the bottom, for women quite as much as men have the sheep idea and will follow wherever the leader goes.
 In the normal class of the new school in Oakland are Miss Watt, Miss Ella Goodall, Miss Bailey, Miss Wilcox, Miss Lehman and six other young ladies' The small daughters of friends formed the model class and in one instance at least the lessons bore immediate and abundant fruit.
 A new maid has just come to Mrs. x As she was about to give her directions about the work the lady was astonished to hear her little daughter of Il years singing a lesson in bedmaking and air ing and deftly showing the woman who had been doing such work for years how to make the bed. tucking the clothes in so neatly that the maid was watching with attention. Next with the broom the child began to sweep, singing the directions.
 A little later in the morning the little girl went to her mother and said: The grocer brought a broom, but it was 'nadultered' one so I told him to take it back and bring a good one.'
 The child had had only two lessons and had been told that brooms should be of a certain color all through, other wise they were likely to be of inferior broom and dyed.
 Mrs. x decided to attend her daugh- ter's lessons and hoped to still maintain her voice in her own establishment.
 All little girls naturally play with dolls and keep house and have tea par ties. The development of this instinct is the formation of the kitchen garden system. It is quite distinct from the Kindergarten and stands in the same relation to the real housework school as the kindergarten does to the gram mar school.
 It is intended to prepare pupils first for the humber homes, then Gs mis- treSseS in larger homes and also to be training school for domestic manaPe- ment, just as the hospital training school is a training school for nurses.
 With such a woman as Mrs Watt behind 1t, and with the assistants she has chosen this new Oakland school will be no small feature of the develop ment of education on the coast while the servant problem is in the present condition. Chinese and Japanese have driven out the servant girl and in sweat shops she is working ten to six teen and eighteen hours day for the barest necessities.
 The hospital training schools have lists of applicants yards long, not be- cause nursing is easy work. but be- cause it is a profession which gentle woman may enter and not lose caste and it is well paid.
 She must however submit herself to the severest training and discipline and must pass all her examinations before she receives her diploma. Consequent ly. when she begins her work she knows exactly what she is about and does it thoroughly and well. She wears proper clothing while at her work and respects herself and makes every one who comes in contact with her look up to her.
 Nursing is essentially woman's work, but how much more so is the work of making homes her own first, if she have one; but some ones else if she have not. This, too, will be the open ing most appropriate for the hardest class of woman to find her level-the woman who has been carefully brought up in her own home never expecting to have to earn her living. If it becomes necessary she finds that she is not able to take her place and compete with the woman who has been in business from childhood. Her refinement all her ideas are a bar to her advancement She Is not accustomed to the wear and tear of business life, or to the publicity of it.
 Naturally she would prefer to re-