Los Angeles herald., 1910-09-18

registration office is literally besieged
from morning until night. After today
the office will be open evenings until
8 o'clock to accommodate business
women who can best come to consult
about courses at that time Every
kind of work, domestic, commercial,
professional. academic and artistic, is
in demand.
Nearly every subject taught is of
fered in both day and evening classes
All of the English branches, including
grammar and correct English, rhetoric
and composition, word studies, litera-
ture history, arithmetic, business pen
manship, expression and parliamen-
tary law. A course in English for for
eigners was popular last year and is
arranged this year so that those who
have time for outside study can ad-
vance as rapidly as possible. The per-
sonalS help given in this class has en-
abled many young women who were
quite helpless in the use of the Ian
guage to talk with ease and others
who had been in this country a year or
more to improve their English express
sion so that they no longer felt
ashamed orr embarrassed when con-
Versing.
Mrs. Dwight Rittenhouse Brown will
return to her post this fall and take up
the branches that she had previously
taught, including a full years course
in Shakespeare.
French, Spanish and German will be
taught, and in connection with the
last two subjects clubs will be conduct
ed as membership privileges in which
pupils will have additional opportunity
in an informal and social way to gain
a conversational command OF the lon
guages.
Those who are planning to take up
domestic science and domestic arts
should make their arrangements as
early as possible, since these classes
are all limited in number. Besides six
different class courses in cooking, a
demonstration lecture course will be
given by Mrs. Charles e, Pearce on
Tuesday mornings. The various dishes
will be prepared and cooked before the
class, while every part of the process
Is explained and the principles of cook
cry involved are made clear so that
they can be applied in many other
ways.
The courses in sewing range from
plain sewing to fancy dressmaking,
drafting and tailoring. Art needlework
will be introduced, either for making
fancy articles of for the working out
of unique designs in dress trimming.
The fall season turns every woman's
mind to the hat problem, and the large
room filled with busy people conquer
ing crude shapes and creating artistic
wonders shows in what way we have
solved it.
Miss Helen Coan, who was connected
with the association last year. viii
conduct a school of art there this year
on a new basis. A three years course
is outlined, which will give thorough
and progressive training to any who
are studying either for their own edu-
cation and recreation or with q com
mercial aim. SeVenty-f1Ve per cent OF
those who took the work last year
were preparing to be illustrators and
designers. Those who do not wish to
give much time to the study can elect
fewer hours. Bookbinding, leather
tooling and wood carving will be
taught.
The department of music affords
training in almost every line of vocal
and instrumental work. Besides sight
singing, the art of singing and choral
club, piano, violin, mandolin and gull
tar will be taught, and two orches-
tras under the direction of MILAN II.
Mead will be conducted as member
ship privileges.
The department of physical educa-
ton has greatly enlarged it's scope of
work for the coming fall. Besides the
usual gymnasium work, which in
cludes gymnastics, apparatus work,
rhythmical and recreative exercises
and corrective gymnastics. lectures will
be given to the classes on anatomy,
physiology and hygiene, covering in as
practical a way as possible the most
important phases of the subject. For
these lectures new charts have been
provided and special talks will be
given from time to time by physicians
of the city. A course that will be es-
pecially interesting to teachers and
any who are thinking of playground
or gymnastic work is the normal
course, in which both theoretical and
practical work will be given.
In connection with the department
of physical education a course in train
ing attendants for the sick will be
given.
The lecture courses this year will be