Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1858-10-09
Female Edueat on in 81. Paul.

through the State OF New York, in New
England, and in various other States, there
are Female Boarding Schools, or Seminaries,
or Ladies Colleges, where a first rate educa-
tion-intellectualy, morally, and as to the
incubation OF polite laanners and social con-
ducts bestowed On yonne ladies whose
parents are in a sii iou TO afford the expen-
ditu,e.
These instit .on - not rely for their sup
port alone NJ -. -, immediate district of
country aroun tne:.i; but as t. cir Reputation
INCREASES, osue' States, a large. area, aud pa.-
ticularly the South, contribute to their susie
nance by furnishing the chief moisty of their
pupils; and they annually send out through
the land large rumter Of graduates accom-
plished in r0ind and manners as they are fire.
quently handsome in person, to become the
leading mothers, physically and intellectually,
Of tine land.
These institutions benefit not merely those
who own or control them, and those who
participate in their pupillage, but also the
localities where they are placed; which are
advantaged. in material view, by the expen
diture they create around them, Immediately
and incidentally.
No portion of the Union, we think, affords
such desirable locations for such institutions
as Minnesota. Its undeniable healthfulness
at all seasons OF the year must render it
the favorite educational locality for people in
the States south of us to send their female
children to live, until they develope intellect
ually and physically into charming woman
hood.
Our hracing atmosphere is the very me-
dunn in Which the human animal, male or
female, is toned up to its highest beauty and
visor. We repeat, Minnesota is just the State
for Female Colleges and Boarding Schools to
flourish in; and while they would aid in Civ
ing us material market for what we produce
or manufacture or our merchants have to Sc /
ourselves and our own children would partici
pate cheaply in the intellectual advantage:
strangers 90 SO far anu take so much pans tt
enjoy for their offspring.
70 establish them, however, in tie first
place, has been anc is the great difficulty
1t has long been seen that first class Female
Seminary " Boarding School, located here
in st. Paul, under proper auspices and with
suitable buildings and grounds around then.
combining the ornamental and the usctu
in their appurtenancea; inspiring the idea .
elegance OF interior by exterior embellish
ment-to he emphaticaly Home such a.
gentccl parents everywhere would desire fol
their grls-.is an institution demanded 1ei'e il
our city, Which, as being at the head Of nayi
cation on the Mississippi, is at any rate {
Summer resort, easily accessible, and therc-
lore convenient point TOR parents 10 place
their children; in an institution where
every summer they could be seen 10y then
and their progress noted, and the advantage
NJ disadvantages of the institution judged &
| by personal inspection and it would De 81
ten an induccmeut for their taking up a per
manent residence in orr city.
| For such an institution as this, combining al
| he requisites We have m,nti ned rs must IL
>ilA',le, and presenting the very Kind %! Q TIA.
n which pnreuta everywhere, il tiny ~ =
>li,v us peculiar excciic,icirs, would cacc.l,
eel; 'lo privilege Of placing t1elr daughters
he Nv. mir. ''urnr.. FrrR. Of tic -ocono
| Pre- sbyerian Church Of iii, place, has ii
length, after several years' iuitatofy struggles
completed the buildings on sufficient.
'7~ge anu comprehensive scale--for JUS
| such an ins. tuition as ST. Paul should have
should cherish, and should be proud of--ane
which, in time, we expect to see heralded fa'
and wide over the Union with reputatio,
quite equal to any Of the Female Sem'narie'
of Troy, N. Y; equally renowned with then
for elevated intellectual and ornamental f.
male culture, and superior to them on thu
score Of maintaining the health of its youth
full aspirants for female accomplishments, il
its fullest vigor.
The buildings constituting Mr.. R1HrLDAF
FER's Female College of St. Paul, are situa
ted on the bluff Immediately IN tho rear o
the State Capitol. They are Of the mos,
pleasant, airy and commodious style Of semi
cottage architecture. 1t is really refreshing
of summer day, to walk in that direction
and observe the pleasant neatness and ele
| gance of their appearance. Their elevated
position enables their inmates to command q
handsome andscape-overlooking st. Pau
and the Mississippi River-the eye of vision
taking in even the settlements at the cunfu
ence of the Minnesota and Mississippi al
Mendoza and Fort Smelling, six or seven miles
above. And yet while sufficiently retircc
| from the hum and noise ard dust, it is neal
enough to the business localities of the city
to make only short walk necessary to reach
them.
Ali departments of elegant and substan'
tial female education are attended to in Mr.
| RluELDAFFfR'> institution. He is Principal
and Mrs. RIHELDAFFER is Marion of the
Seminary. There are fou. resident teachers
in the College, and French is taught by Pa
tisian Gentleman who lives III Tie city.
We say to the citizens OF ST Paul, that
| they are not sufficiently alive to the advan
| tages of this Institution which, so quietly and
without parade, has been buiaed up in then
midst, solely by private means and 'aboriou'
private effort. They should grow more alive
to those advantages; and Individually ano
collectively should take pains TO extend tic
knowledge that we have at this point ar in
sttution of so much positive excellence and
so much future promise, tn 'oughout indeed
the whole VALLEY OF the Mississippi, Proper
exertions to let the world know that We pos
sess here that which affords so desirable an
opportunltv for the acquisition Of an elegant