The Monticellonian., 1916-10-26
Parents, Your Boy or Your Girl $ Future is on Trial. What
 are you going to do?

Tn your power, very thought less parent if you sent him to the first school that mailed you a catalogue, and an unpardon- able parent if you entered him in school without first investi- gating it's location, sanitation, equipment, character of student body, faculty, system of discip- line, and above all, the moral surroundings. Yours is the duty of investigation, comparison and decison.
 You acknowledge the hearsay that "One school is just as good as another, /" Git all depends up- on the boy or girl" :" If you rest your decision on that, you may later on have bitter occasion to regret your indolent and indif- ferent attitude. Your boy or girl Is the hope of your life. In him or her is centered your most cherished ambitions. On him or her rests your future happiness, your joyful right to live, or your sorrow or your willingness to die. His or her worth to you cannot be measured by dollars and cents, but his or her value must be measured by the train ing which he receives in home and in school. If the local school were an ideal place for your boy or girl, you wouldn't think a. bout sending him away from home. Under present conditions, they doubtless need more self reliance, because they lack the power of initiative, are wanting in breadth the scope of vision, havn't learned how to study, can't make for themselves, and are ignorant of the fine art of a business career. If so, their education should be continued in school where discipline real. ly means something, where per sonal supervision by the faculty Is constant, where our service rendered above everything else, and where manly and womanly character and conduct are held paramount to all other considera. tions.
 Our school offers many advan- tages that no other commercial school can afford. It's location excellency of environments, its student body is made up from the best homes of the country, the faculty is second to none, its discipline is the outgrowth of long experience, tempered te conserve individual need, just sane and firm. One or two hun dred dollars spent on your boy or girl now may mean unbounded success for their future life. There is time in every young persons life for them to consider an education, and if that time goes by, unheeded by the par ents, and they fail in the future, you are, in a measure, responsl, ble for that failure. On the oth- CT hand, if you encourage the seed thought of an education when your young son or daugh- ter is interested, 1t may mean the turning point in their lives, and will cause you much joy and happiness Tn the future. One ol two hundred dollars spent on them is one of the best business investments you ever made. It will pay you greater dividends in their future than anything else you could bestow upon them
 Our 22S page catalogue will tell you as to the financial stand. ing of our institution. It will tell you of the endorsements by the best business men, ministers lawyers and bankers, it will give you the experience of young people who came to us with lim- ited means, and in short time in our school, what their success and future has meant to them. We know you are bound to be