Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1898-12-08


the wake of Rev. jenkins Lloyd-Jones
are in prominence and his personality
and strength forms the nucleus around
which the assembly gathers Many
city people who have discovered this
charming retreat come here annually
to spend the hot summer months.
But the embarked 'llect:-s t.eitution
of the locality, al which has given a
tone and fame to the valley, is the Hill
side home school. This is a co-educa-
tional school for limited number of
young people and has at present an at
tendance of sixty-eight pupils, with
complete faculty of fifteen instructors.
1t is the most unique private school of
it's kind in the state, and one of the
most successful of any. A 50O-acre
farm is under the same ownership and
control and the entire institution repre-
sents an expenditure of $4,000 All
this was eleven years ago but the
dream of two enterprising women. The
fame Of the school, which extends not
only throughout Wisconsin, but far be-
yond, is due partly to the excellence or
the intellectual and moral standard
maintained, and to it's ideal seclusion for
quiet study. Educational investigators
SluuylHS Tic dSep VI Co0No-
ton find that city environments are
too exciting and stimulating for health
full growth of mind. The pupil often be-
comes the victim of arrested develop
ment or of an overstrained nervous
condition. The location of this school
removes it from the distractions Of the
city, and surrounds it with the emo
bling influences of nature. 1t seeks the
patronage of only such as are in full
sympathy with it's aims. These are
simple habits of life, attention to physi-
cal well being, close contact with ma
ture. and independence of convention
alities. 1t seeks to be devout but nom
sectarian, hospitable to all forms of
thought, and seeking the underlying
unities of faith in the diversties of
creed and form. In short, character
building Is its AIM
Department of Domestic Science.
The school comprehends home and
partial personal supervision of the daily
life as well as the studies of the pupils.
1t has pleasant and comfortable quar-
tiers and excellent equipment for almost
all lines of educational pursuit. The
Curriculum includes, besides the
branches ordinarily taught in acade-
mics, physical culture manual training.
art, music, dancing and agriculture.
One of the newest and most novel de-
partmentS is that of domestic science,
in which the students are taught the
secrets of good cooking and good eat
ing. A practical kitchen is in operation.
New shops have also been recently
erected, in which wood and iron work
is taught The scientific department Is
especially well equipped, and TO 1T
Thomas Lloyd-Jones, university grad
uate. is devoting his life work as in
structor The teachers employed are all
specialists and college trained. The
principals are two sisters Miss Ellen
| c. Lloyd-Jones and Miss Jane Lloyd
| Jones, whose success in the founding
and up-buildng of this school have Civ
en- them deservedly great reputation
| in educational circles throughout the
northwest. They are sisters of Rev.
Jenkin Lloyd-Jones of Chicago, who en-
| couraged the founding of the school and
whose personal influence brings to it
| many pupils from the foremost homes
| of Chicago. Previous to the establish
| ment of the school, the senior principal,
| Miss Ellen Lloyd-Jones, had for nine
years held the chair of history in the
River Falls normal school,
The territory from which the pupils
are drawn this year includes Wiscon-
sin, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan,
| Iowa, Indiana, Ohio, Kansas, New Mex
| leo, Arizona, and New York. One young
lady at the school purchased ticket
straight through from Hawaii. She Is
Of native and of Japanese parentage,
| 7 Tn1y INV ha ic
bright and skillful and takes much of
the American conceit out of the teach
ers and her fellows students. She will
remain two years. and after graduation
will return to her native home and fol-
| low teaching.
An Ideal Home.
Many prominent families are repre-
scented in the student body among them
| some millionaires. Wealthy parents
who want to protect their daughters
from enervating and dangerous infiu-
ences of society In their early teens
find here an ideal home. Florence Fifer,
daughter of Ex-Governor and Mrs. Jo-
seph W. Fifer, was graduate of 1895.
] Miss Georgia Hayden, daughter of H.
II. Hayden of Eau Claire, who has since
been graduated from the university and
| studied in Europe, was one OF the class
of '92. The Moon and Burlington fam
! lilies of Eau Claire and the Hicks of
Oshkosh are among others of promi-
hence also represented
A delightful and wholesome freedom
marks the school life of this rural re-
treat The roads afford excellent BIZ
cycling, the river fishing and boating.
At the school dancing is taught and
enjoyed. The absence of other distrac-
tions leads to the cultivation of out
door sports. The girls become athletic,
expert horsewomen, and this is one of
the few communities in which the la
dies ride astrde with no thought of i'm
propriety on the part of any one. AL
| together the school is most excellent
| institution, the pride and Joy of the
neighborhood population, with whom 1t
exchanges congratulations on environ
ment and influence.
A Coincidence of Grandsons.
A strange coincidence recently &C.
Cured in the family of exCounty Com