, 1889-08-25
H HOLY CHILD.
Something About the Catholic Con.
vent Located Here.
A Magnificent Building in the
HeaIthiest of Cities.
Educational Advantages Offered
Day Scholars and Boarders.

Facing the radiantly beautiful city park,
almost adjoining Wyoming's magnificent
statehouse and but a short distance from
the pretty Laramie county hospital is an
imposing brick structure of striking archi-
tectural beauty and with a perfect lawn
dotted with sturdy trees in full leaf and
luxuriant shrubbery for a foreground.
A wooden cross planted high in air at
the center of the roof indicates hat the
handsome and massive edifce is the home
of a Catholic institution. A visitor who
can scarcely remember the nam of his
hotel will tell you that the building is the
convent of the Holy Child Jesus, while
any citizen will at once warm up to the
subject and establish that 1t is second to
no convent in the entire West, or even in
the East, if it contest to comparing sections.
The convent of the Holy Child is in the
healthiest quarter OF the healthiest city in
the United States. Perhaps it is not gel
orally known that the Cheyenne mortality
record, like the Wyoming iiliteracy per
centage, is the lowest noted in the statis-
tics of cities having 10000 inhabitants or
more.
The convent stands high and dry above
the slight depression in which the major
portion of the city is built and where the
consumptive. asthmatic, miasmatic and
rheumatic find quick relief. The convent
grounds are well drained and refuse is
conducted miles away in the underground
trenches maintained by the city. Be-
yond the noise and turmoil Of the busy
town thus model institution is a veritable
retreat. The bare building cost sos, 900.
Sept. 2, only one week from tomorrow,
marks the opening of the school for the
fall and winter terms of the current year.
ceived at the convent; at the end of the
last term there were fifteen of the former
and l20 of the latter. The Mother SUI
perior is being fairly deluged with
applications, and it is expected
that the matriculation will be nearly
double that of last year. The many
merits of the institution are daily becom
ing more apparent both at home and
abroad and enlargement of the building
may be necessary in a couple Of years.
The study course is one OF the APP
proved modern systems with the desir-
accessories peculiar to converts. There
are six classes and a special higher course.
In three years the pupil who is known as
a junior on entering becomes a senior.
The teaching includes athorough course of
common English and many branches.
These might be enumerated: United
States English and modern history, politi-
cal and physical geography, physiology
botany, astronomy, natural philosophy,
higher mathematics, drawing, French,
German, painting, instrumental and vocal
music and all kinds of needle work.
The health OF scholars is subject OF solicit
tude and department is a special feature,
the graduates being all of exceeding grace
and pleasing manner, while calesthenics
aid physical development.
At Sharon Hill, Pa, just outside Phil
adel2hia, is the mother house of the Sis
tiers of the Holy Child and from this seat
of learning are graduated the nine finished
teachers, who ha &c in charge the classes
at the Cheyenne convent.
Until about eighteen months ago the
convent accepted only day boarders and
did not receive much patronage from
abroad, but now nearly every state and
territory in the West is represented and
the many attractions of the institution
will bring scholars from a great distance.
Since Bishop Burke was assigned to Wyo-
ming he and Fathe. Nugent have done
much for the convent.