Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1890-08-30
The spearash Normal School.


This school opens Sept, IL, better
equipped for work than evti before.
During the vacation many improve.
ments have been made in the building,
the laboratory has been fully completed
and furnished, and several hundred
volumes have been added TO the refer
ence and miscellaneous library. The
governor, state superintendent, regents
of education, county superintendent,
and all other persons that have visited
the school unite in pronouncing it an
admirable institution, second, so say
those whose observation has qualified
them to judge, to none in the state.
The commercial department will be
more thoroughly organized than ever.
Typewriting, shorthand, and book-keep-
ing can be learned here as thoroughly
as anywhere else and with less expense.
Every department Of the school will be
better thar ever before. Arrangements
have been made with Mrs. r.. j. Preece,
one of the most distinguished teachers
of delsarte in the u. s., to give instruc.
ton in reading, voice culture, and physi-
cal culture for four weeks in the early
part Of next term. She will teach each
class in school 40 minutes a day. The
instruction will be absolutely free, the
only expense being SOC to each student
for the printed outline Of the course.
Mrs. Preece has taught in San Francisco,
st. Paul. Cincinnati, Sioux City, st.
Louis, and other large cities of the
West. Last winter She received $500
and all expenses for five weeks work al
Sioux City. She has an offer of 500
per week and expenses to go to Cincin-
nati Enr npiuatn laaannu l,ar tarp,a -
$500 per hour. Read the following
from the Voice Magazine:
Mrs. Preece is an enthusiastic educa-
tor and holds a prominent place as
teacher and exponent of Delsartean
principals and movements, q culture
she has acquired under the leading Boss
ton and New York teachers Of this new
system of e~locntion and gestures. She
has had widespread notice from the
press ofthe Northwest and all the large
northern cities for good work iii the
schools. Although possessed ofsutficent
means to place her beyond any neces-
sity for work in any field, her love for
her art is too great TO allow her to rest
swhile there is work to be done in inn
proving the voice, carriage, ease and
grace of the people.
Inc voice Oh lne people IL inc voice
OF God" cannot be taken literally when
we recall the harsh, nasal snarliug
voices that so many persons have. Love,
sympathy, majesty, godlike qualities, are
not exp -ssed through the human voices
as a rule. That these qualities are cap
able Of cultivation in nearly every voice,
is now accepted as an axiom, and it is
the province of elocution to restore these
lost chords, to re-tune the harp whose
strings are rusted and broken As an
earnest worker in this broad field Mrs.
Preece is recognized as a power by
every one with whom she comes in con-
tact. Her work in st. Louis before her
marriage is still felt. Students that do
net enter school at the opening OF the
next term and get the benefit of Mrs.
Freezes instruction will deeply regret it
when they find what they have missed.
Apply for a seat now and come the FIRST
day. Send for catalogue Of the school
to
+. l.. Cook, Principal,
Spearfsh, Sonth Dakota.