Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1910-10-23
THE AMERICAN
WOMAN'S LEAGUE


University City, has formally resigned
the presidency of the Los Angeles
chapter, and at a meeting of the board
of trustees at DR.. Henriette E. Sweets
..Rest Home" 1911 Temple street, the
board elected DR.. Sweet to fill Mrs.
Spaulding's uneXpired term of office
The annual election will occur on the
first Thursday after the first Monday
in April.
When the Los Angeles chapter and
the r. G, Lewis chapter consolidated,
March 4, the new organization was
confronted with the grave problem Of
a president acceptable to both chap
tiers, and Mr.. Lewis solved the problem
by suggesting that Mrs. Spauldlng,
whose magnificent work in organizing
the west and establishing the Los An
gees chapter on a basis that has en-
abled it to rank as the largest chap
ter in the United States. be elected
president; that DR.. Henriette y.
Sweet, the able president of the e. G.
Lewis chapter. and Mrs. Ella x. Sprln-
kle, whose pioneer work for the
American Womans league in California
has been publicly recognized at Uni
versity City. be elected vice presidents,
with equal power in the newly con-
solldated chapters, to be known as the
Los Angeles chapter
NEW OFFICERS ARE CHOSEN
Mrs. Claudia Hazen White, now
nominee for the state regency for Cali
fornia; Mrs Leland Norton, head of
the Legal Aid society of Los Angeles,
and Mrs Amelia Gunton, who received
the Grand Gordon of Honor at the
First National convention, were elect
ed vice presidents; Miss Jennie Van
Allen, secretary and treasurer.
Inn fNI fnCs
chapter requires a fOrtnights notice OF
an election. Eighteen hundred men,
bers make it a clerical impossibility to
send postal notices. This has been re-
peatedly announced by card, by let
ter, from the platform and through the
columns of the Los Angeles Herald,
that all notices in the columns of The
Herald be regarded as official notih-
cation and all business of the chapter.
Mrs. Spaulding's record as a business
woman is unparalleled even in an age
where extraordinary achievement is
the rule among women. Her knowledge
of law and banking, her long and
successful affiliatiOn with the business
men on Wall street, her exceptional
abili'J as writer, have made her
pre-eminent in the business world and
qualified her for the eXacting duties
as head of the Organization depart
ment at University City. She is the
only woman in control of a department
and the only woman on the board of
trustees of the American Woman's
league.
LOYAL WORK FOR CHAPTERS
Mrs. Spaulding has been absolutely
impartial in eXerting her influence for
the upbulding of the chapters Of the
United States. Her active co-opera
ton has been extended as generously
TO the obscure town as to those of
the largest cities. The Los Angeles
chapter has been honored by having
as president woman whom Mr.. Lewis
publicly referred to at the convention
as "the greatest woman in the United
States"
BEAUTIFUL HOME OF CHAPTER
The beautiful new chapter house Won
hv the Los Angeles chapter i'll the
Los Angeles Herald's voting contest,
has been occupied five months and has
been the scene of many delightful So
cial affairs.
Glasses have been organized in law
by Mrs Clara Shortridge Foltz at her
Offices in the Merchants Trust building,
saturday afternoon at o'clock; art
at the studio of Mrs. Emily Lockwood
Hubert, 1901 West Twenty-tirst street,
Friday afternoon from TO 5, and a
class to be organized by Miss Ida NJ
Coates at her studio, 2157 West Wash
ington street; parliamentary law, DR..
Susan Balfe, at her Offices, sos Mason
building, Tuesday evenings at S o'clock;
ornamental lettering, Miss Emile
Perry, at the chapter house, Saturday
afternoon at , o'clock; Mothers club
(extension of kindergarten, Mrs Pru-
dence Stokes Brown, the first teacher
sent out by University City, at the
chapter house, SATURDAY. night, 1880 to
$50, until November 4. after which It
will be in the afternoon from to 4;
Mrs. Marion Leslie Carlisle, chemistry
of food, class to be organized at the
chapter house by enrolment: remedial
and physical culture, to be organized;
music, to be organized as Miss Lister
is out of the city on mountain trip.
body building, to be organized when
seVenty-iVe members have enrolled;
also Chautauqua and reading and
domestic science classes. The depart
ment Of home economies, now being
formed will he under the direction Of
Mrs Eliza beth Frances Fowler.
During the summer months tho long
ride to the chapter house has been very
delightful, both in the day and at night,
but during the winter il Will be a
great hardship particularly for the
- eachers living out of town, notably
Mrs Brown. who comes from Pasa-
who would be OBLIGED to return to their
homes late at night.
NEW CLASS ARRANGEMENT
There has been general protest
from members. and the attendance does
ot@karrant keeping the chapter house
open Saturday evenings during the
winter, particularly a s classes have
been arranged at the offices and studios
of the teachers, therefore 1t has been
deemed expedient to close the chapter
house every day at o'clock, Saturdays
included after October % It will also
he closed all legal holidays. For the
convenience Of members finding that
the hours ride to and from the chap
ter house consumes too much of the
short winter days business can be
mailed to the chapter house, 1882 West
Forty-ninth street
The chapter has made a magnificent
record in the volume of business turned
in during the past months, a record
that is receiving public commentator
at University City Instructions have
lust been received to express the days
business to headquarters every night
instead of weekly as has been the Gus
tom. This will greatly facilitate the
dispatch in filling orders for subscrip-
tions promptly.
Members unfamiliar with the conduct
of the business Of the American Wo-
mans league can scarcely conceive OF
the enormous detail involved in every
transaction, both at the Los Angeles
office and at University City,
LEAGUE ENJOYS PROSPERITY
Under the new plan recently outlined
by Mr.. Lewis the American Woman S
league win hereafter perform the func-