The provisions of the law at present limit its application to congested
neighborhoods.

In regard to afternoon classes for the women, one of the home teachers,
Mrs. Amanda Mathews Chase, writes as follows:[51]

Organize mothers' classes to meet afternoons at the schoolhouse.
This group work seems to me absolutely necessary in order to cover
the ground efficiently, and also because of the outlook and
inspiration for the mothers.... I would suggest forming classes
from the leading nationalities, each class to meet two afternoons a
week. One afternoon the program can be an English lesson, followed
by cooking, cleaning, or laundry. The other afternoon the program
might comprise English followed by sewing, mending, weaving, or
similar handcraft instruction. Sanitation, including personal
hygiene, and patriotic teaching should be kept in mind.... Every
forenoon will be spent in the homes. After all, the classes will
only be islands in the sea of your visiting. You must visit to
form the classes and visit to hold them. You must visit to see that
the knowledge absorbed at school is actually put into practice at
the home. You must visit to talk over many matters too delicate and
personal to be taken up on class afternoons.

The school system of Los Angeles has, under this law, employed an educated
Jewish woman from Russia for work in the colony of the Russian sectarian
peasants. The impression of the writer when he visited the colony was that
she was doing splendid work in helping the peasant women. The writer's
belief is that if she had been of the Russian nationality she would have
accomplished still better results, as the writer observed some antisemitic
feeling among the peasants in connection with her. One peasant woman told
the writer that this home teacher was a good protector for them, but did
not recognize that she was their educator. As the colony is large, the home
teacher really could not do much educational work other than to supervise
the attendance of the children at school and to help disentangle family
difficulties. It would be advisable to train and employ home teachers who
are of the same nationality as the people of the colony in which they work.

ORGANIZATION OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN

Immigrant women's organizations have been already started here and there on
the initiative, and by the efforts of the immigrant women themselves. F