Los Angeles herald., 1906-04-22
MEETING
BRINGS TEACHERS
PASADENA ENTERTAINS FIFTY
PEDAG0GUES
important Gathering of Southern CALI
fornia Instructors in Manual
Training for Discussion
of Work
Pasadena Agency,
IL North Raymond Avenue,
Telephone Main 1147.


city today, the members being the
guests of Throop Polytechnic institute.
This association is made up of South
ern California teachers of manual
training, and fifty teachers from diff
ferent parts of this section of the
state were in attendance. Pasadena,
Long Beach and Los Angeles, in the
order named, furnished the greatest
number of teachers, though there were
teachers present from Redlands, Santa
Ana, Lordsburg and several other
places. The days program was taken
up at IL a. M, when the visitors were
taken on a tour of inspection over the
several departments of Throop, with
particular reference to the manual
training equipment and methods. At
noon the guests made a merry party
at a dainty luncheon served by the
girls of Throops domestic science
classes AT L p. m, or a little later
as the guests fingered longer than was
expected over the toothsome dishes
prepared by the Throop girls, began
the business meeting, followed by the
regular program.
Miss Ida Mellish. teacher of design
ard elementary drawing at Throop,
opened the formal program with d
carefully prepared paper on Italian
art. Miss Mellish has just returned
from a four years sojourn in Europe
the bulk of the time being spent in
study in Italy, and was therefore par
ticularly well prepared on this sub
ject. DIR. Millspaugh of the state nor
NAL school at Los Angeles spoke upon
"The Present Tendency" referring to
the existing conditions and possibli-
ties of manual training instruction. Els
talk aroused much discussion upon two
al, fnF f4 "a
a prescribed course of instruction to
be accredited to the state university
and the desira bility of forming q
travelling manual training exhibit
The teachers were practically unanl-
nous in their opposition to the first of
these two propositions, asserting that
such prescribed course of study would
work hardships to both teacher and
pupil and would tend TO effectually
deaden the entire work in the lower
schools. The executive committee of
the association was directed to give
the proposition thorough investiga-
ton and report at the fall meeting.
The other proposition met with gen
eral favor. 1t is merely the preparation
of an exhibit made up by specimens
of work from various schools and held
ready to be loaned to different schools
wherever needed most from time to
time. Another committee was author
lied for the purpose of considering the
possibilities of the introduction of man.
ual training instruction into the rural
schools.
1t was p m. when the meeting al
journed to meet at the call of the
executive committee, which is composed
of the regular officers of the associa-
ton as follows: C. w. Kent, principal
of manual training department in the
state normal schools at Los Angeles,
president; Miss Matte Clark su-
perintendent of domestic economy in
the public schools of Santa Ana, vice
president; Miss Mary S. Morse, as
sistant supervisor of drawing in the
Los Angeles public schools, treasurer,
and Miss Ellis Victoria Dobbs, in
structor in manual arts at Throop in
stitute secretary.
Club Women Sew for Sufferers
Todays regular meeting of the
Shakespeare club was hastily turned
into the biggest kind of a sewing bee
by reason of the all absorbing interest
in the suffering ones at San Francisco.
The attractive program arranged for
the day was indefinitely postponed.
Mrs. English Of Los Angeles, who was
to favor the club women with certain
food demonstrations is nearly pros
relatives in the bay city and the MEM
bers themselves were in no mood to
have the meeting take it's usual course,
Therefore a hurried notice was sent
out and this afternoon nearly one hun
dred women gathered at the clubhouse
and aided by twelve sewing machines
and their own nimble fingers set about
making garments for the use of the be-
reft and needy mothers and children of
SnT INt,l11 11ntg mi of "a
garments for the wee ones were finished
and many more begun before the
gathering was dismissed. From a..
m. tomorrow until high noon these same
ladies promise to gather again at the
clubhouse and go on with the blessed
work. Some of the best pews in the
city churches will be vacant tomorrow
morning in consequence, but the need is
SO great that the seeming Sabbath
Dissertation is not desecration at all. 1t
is hoped that the work which the ladies
have set before them can be accom-
plished by noon tomorrow for at that
hour it is proposed to start the gar
ments on their journey northward.
Each little bundle of clothing will be
fitted with pins, needles and thread, a
comb and a towel. which will no doubt
make it doubly welcome. The shipment
will not be turned over to the general
committees of relief but sent instead to
certain well known women in Oakland
who will see personally to the distribu-
ton. AT this afternoons informal meet
ing the Shakespeare club voted to take
$100 out of the general treasury and to
send this with the general contribution
of the city.
Busch Party at Frisco
Adolphus Busch and party were
among the unfortunates stopping in
San Francisco at the time of the re-
cent terrible earthquake and follow
ing confagration. This was not known
with certainty until a telegram was
received here this afternoon announce
ing the safety of the entire party and
stating that the interrupted journey to
st. Louis has again been resumed. The
millionaire brewer and family went
from Pasadena to San Francisco ex-
pecting to remain there only a day or
two, setting out on the last stage of
their journey to st. Louis not later
than Monday of this week. 1t appears
that they finally postponed their leav-
ing until Wednesday morning. They
were stopping at the st. Francis ho-
tel and following the earthquake on
wednesday morning fled precipitately
to one of the United States forts pre-