New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-05
FOR WOMEN WORKERS.
Especially Helpful Glasses at Y. W.
c. Il. This Season

The class department OF the Young wonens
Christian Association, at No East F1fteenth-st.,
opened for the year October !. Nearly every
class is fun its maximum limit and in several
cases applicants have been forced TO walt for the
formation OF other classes or go elsewhere. The
art school, one Of the most successful and prom
inent OF the many divisions Of class work has been
re-equipped. a number Of casts and all the
most modern appliances for drawing. modelling.
etc. having been added through the summer. Morn
ing classes meet for eight months. twenty hours
q week and evening classes for four hours a week
for the same number Of months. In the morning
classes the schedule includes parallel courses IN
wood carving ana clay modelling -four hours each.
historic ornament, color scales and cast and me-
chanical drawing. The object OF the entire course
Is 70 apply the fine industrial training. The
advanced classes pay special attention to water
color from still life and flowers. and time sketches
from students posing in Turn.
The costume class Is for dressrnakers. illustrators
for fashion MAGAZINES. and the like. A professional
model is employed Pupils are first taught TO draw.
and. when more advanced, are required TO make
pen and color sketches and design costumes This
class was begun last year, and proved popular and
helpful The art department offers scholarship
for the second and one FOR the third year, which
are awarded at commencement, and special Ger
t'hcates are given 20 students completing salts
facto-ily the three years course.
Pupils in the Young Women's Christian Associa-
don AT School have been exceedingly fortunate as
prize winners in competitions at Cooper Union
ard elsewhere, and the practical value Of the in
struction they receive is shown by the fact that
one girl while stil pupil made SO day last year
designing for a Fifth-ave. house
The dressmaking class is fun TO overlooking.
We could have placed many more Of our girls
assistants last spring II we had had them" said
Miss " D. Nesmith clerk Of the educational de-
nartnent There is hardly q dressmaking firm in
Fffth or Sixth avenue where you cannot find our
girls after q little while they get charge Of a
room or an establishment II is much the same
with the sewing classes graduates Of which are
always IN demand for the finest work on babies
fr0cks, wedding trOusseaus. etc beginning with
uubIeached cotton patchwork, they 90 Till they
do the most exquisite work on the finest OF main
sook and lawn.
The diploma Of the stenography department is
hed in high esteem by business men"
one Of the classes which seem 10 offer exceptional
Inducements 10 the self-supporting woman is that
which trains them 10 serve as attendants on the
sick. The purpose OF TINS class is 10 nj women 10
care Tor conval escents. feeble or elderly persons
and sUD-acUte and chronic cases. -, - 49,
able give study the length OF time required TO
become a trained nurse and there are many faIni-
lies Who for economic reasons are obliged TO DO
without the trained nurse IL times OF illness. II
Is 10 enable such homes 10 obtain better AID az a
moderate compensation and TO offer an honorable
means Of livelihood TO women that TINS work IS
established The place Of an attendant IS not, now
80 =, 800 rai-e6 nurses hy taking this course
alone The course Of study for a trained nurse
lasts al least TWO years, while TINS course laSts
only ten weeks An attendant cannot charge or
expect to receive as much trained nurse on
the other hand. The attendant cannot be expected
10 assume the responsibilities Of trained nurse
Applicants must be between the ages OF twenty
ana forty. Durg Ike course members OF the class
have hospital practise. and after graduS Con tneE
are kept busy, cordially 90 physicians approve
OF lefn The trained attendants are not peiiultleq
20 charge more than = week, with board ana
tA1--ltutk. during the first year after graduation
- ne oSokheepiIg class starts out under new
$500. Win new methods, and the COOKING Class
Eo1-a.es q Which are IL great demand as teachers
-e Nacatlon schools. has had its kitchen He" ~
- ~. besloes these classes, there Is ihe ad-
$500 S1ASs an English. designed especially Tor
t..it--Is anc typeHrters. secretaries ana
4-si dslails ana teachers The class in choir
= ausoluiely free popular class is that in
t4s go S1.A1le Which opens On October y. and
1T "-.iSI more applications have been received
80. - Dc aScoinino Hated. For those WHO
1eno!eLt iI aTllhmete. writing ETC. there are pre-
palatvi4 t4asses also Il business forras
As usual. series Of euterf IN 30 ,5,-e,,
through TIE winter. the last Mondav 81 every
month Inc ifst one viii take rIace ~, Tho Lass
Monday IN November. fNe vi 'lle ias'
"Onc OF the surest signs Of the de.nsrd among
women and girls which our class MI, ei, i -
20 Lle IseliLl1 WIN winch our graduates ind en-
ployment Or obtain better wages Is 49, b.,--.i-
moss hile stuc3lng, said Miss Nesmith aarI,,
ali express regret when the years VOL, T.; -
aI1 girls come back &c year after wear ''