Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1902-12-20
WOMEN'S ADVANCEMENT
One Ambitious Feminine Finds Employ
ment as Vocal Coach-Ala-
bama's Record.


COACH" which means something different
from the work of an instructor in singing
or tone production. This particular
coach" is a good singer. She is also Il
regular attendant at the opera and best
concerts throughout the season and is
therefore familiar with the work of the
leading vocalists. Those who come 20
her to be coached" are supposed to
know how to sing. and, although she
calls attention to false intonation, harsh
tones or badly sung phrases, her special
work is to point ont to her pupils the
particular manner in which the great ar
lists sing certain arias and songs.
Speaking of her work she said: "The
idea of becoming a vocal coach came to
me one day after hearing someone say of
a wellknown amateur singer with
fine voice: She goes to every opera or
concert where Nine. Blank sings IN order
to get points on style, intonation and
tone production Not every student of
vocal music can afford the time and
money demanded by attendance at the
opera and high class concerts. AS | am
familiar with the particular method and
style of the great singers who come to
this city in the season and have heard
them time and again, / determined to
embark in business as a vocal coach and
see II there was amy demand for the
particular information | was able to i'm
part. / started last spring and received
sufficient encouragement to take the
work up again this season.
Il believe that coaching of this sort
is destined to become important. Often
a good vocalist will come in from a con
cert tour, perhaps, or season in opera.
She has had tiresome time, heard no
soprano or, il may be, contraltO if she
has been singing in concert, but herself.
Her voice is tired and she is in a kind
Of rut. 1t is then that the vocal coach
is needed. She can detect faults in in
donations, tone and, in fact. in everything
the singer does, while the singer herself
is not at all conscious of them. The
coach goes to work 10 set everything
right again, and if the pupil responds to
her efforts, the result is ample compensa-
ton.
Alabama has made a record for itself
in the line of feminine advancement by
having a woman on the state board of
examiners of teachers.
The appointment has been given to
Miss j. n. Bishop and is the first state
office in Alabama to fall to a woman.
There has been general approval ex-
pressed at the action Of the state super
intendent in recognizing the women
their most prominent members to fill the
vacancy on the board.
Women who are suddenly thrown upon
their own resources are often sorely per-
picked 10 devise means by which they
can exc out their scanty means and sup
port themselves and those dependent
upon them. Says an exchange: "Some
of these women have earned comfort
able incomes at home in unusual ways.
h. l..
as the Little Biscuit Woman because
she so excelled in making beaten biscuit,
and which she disposed of through the
woman's exchange. In n few years she
had earned sufficient money to build a
small, pretty home. Some people smiling
ly speak of it as the house built of little
biscuits
\ teachers health became so seriously
impaired because of the strain of her du-
ties in an ovcrcrowded country school
that she was ordered to give UP teach
ing and live an outdoor life. But how to
do it, that was the question. One after
noon in the early spring while walking
about the big front yard, she noticed II
quantity of hyacinths Sprouting and
found that they had so multiplied that
they were spriuging up in the barren
fields. 1t suddenly occurred To her. why
not have hyacinth farm and raise the
bulbs for sale? After discussing the pos
SibilitieS of such a business with num-
Der of florists she undertook the raising
of bulbs and SO shrewdly disposed of
income and meanwhile has regained her
health.
\ little old woman in the West sup
ported herself by the combined efforts of
raising lilies of the valley, sewing little
and taking few dodgers. Another young
woman whose mother had taught her to
do beautiful needlework when school
girl. because she thought it such wom-
anly accomplishment. now makes infant
wardrobes, all hand sewing. and her
skill commands large prices.
Artistic hookbinding, so much neglected
in recent years, has lately had much
more attention paid 20 il. with the result
that there has been a marked improve
ment in the quality of the design. The
work of the Guild of Women Binders
of London, which was established few
years ago. is thus described by one fa-
miliar with the achievements of these
! clever artisans; THE work these women
have turned out has shown most EN-
| phatically how well fitted they are for
| the production of the very best results.
| III winch evidence Is gwen Of the highest
| artistic taste, combined with splendid
| craftsmanship. In common with 50 many
| other associations, the Guild Of Women
! BnderS has prepared an address for pres
| entation to the king. congratulating his
| majesty on the coronation. The address
| Is illuminated in gold aud colors on vellum
| ana bound IN green morocco. with 16S
| mays or colored leather. including the
| douhiureS or Innings. Ii was designed by
| Miss Constance karslake, and the, work
| ing az the cover was done by her and
| 10y Miss Dorothy Holmes. The cover
Is an extremely beautiful piece of work.
! Brooklyn Eagle.