Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-08-21
NORMAL SCHOOL.
improvements in the spearfish Education
al Institution and New Attractions
fo. 7oon ond 1901

improvements in the Spearfsh Education
al Institution and New Attractions
for 1890 and 1891.
This school openes September 10, bet
ter equipped for work than ever before.
During the vacation many improvements
have been made in the building, the lab
oratory has been fully completed and
furnished, and several hundred volumes
have been added to the reference and
miscellaneous library. The governor,
state superintendent, regents Of educa-
ton, county superintendent, and all
other persons that have visited the school
unite in pronouncing it an admirable in
stitution, second, 80 say those whose OBJ
servation has qualified them to judge, to
none in the state. The commercial de-
partment will be more thoroughly organ
lied than ever. Typewriting, shorthand,
and bookkeeping can be learned here as
thoroughly as anywhere else and with
less expense. Every department OF the
school will be better than before. Ar
fragments have been made with Mrs. L.
j. Preece, one of the most distinguished
teachers of Delsarte in the United States,
to give instruction in reading, voice cul-
ture, and physical 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 30 cents 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 re-
ceived $500 and all expenses for five
weeks work at Sioux city. She has an
offer of 800 per week and expenses to
go to Cincinnati. For private lessons
her terms are 50 per hour. Read the
following from the Voice Magazine:
eMrs. Preece is an enthusiastic educa-
tor and holds prominent place as
teacher and exponent of Delsartean prin-
cipals and movements, culture she has
acquired under the leading Boston and
| New York teachers of this new system of
elocution and gestures. She has had
widespread notice from the press of the
northwest and all the large northern
cities for good work in the schools. Al
though possessed of sufficient means to
place her beyond any necessity for work
in any field, her loye for her art is too
great to allow her to rest while there is
work to be done in improving the voice,
carriage, ease and grace of the people.
THE voice of the people is the voice OF
God cannot be taken literally when we
recall the harsh, nasal, snarling voices
that SO many persons have. Love, sym
pathy. majesty, godlike qualities, are not
expressed through the human voice as 6
rule. That these qualities are capable
of cultivation in nearly every voice is now
accepted as an axiom, and it is the prov
ince of elocution to restore these lost
chords, to re-tune the harp whose strings
are rusted and broken. AS an earnes
worker in this broad field Mrs. Preece il
recognized as power by every one with
whom she comes in contact. Her worl
in st. Louis before her marriage is still
felt"
Students that do not enter school a
the opening of the next term and get tn
benefit of Mrs. Preece's instruction vii
deeply regret it when they find wha
they have missed. Apply for sea
now and come the first day. Send for
catalogue of the school to
J, F. l.. Cook, Principal.
! Spearfish, South Dakota.