CONSERVATORY EXPENSES.
Instruction in Piano, Organ (pedal bass) and Guitar Music; Vocalization (voice building), each:
Private daily lessons per year, of Assistant $48.00
Private lessons (same as daily) two per week, per year 22 00
Harmony, two lessons per week, one hour each, four in class, per year 25 00
Private daily lessons from Principal, of either the vocal or instrumental department, per year 97 00
Private lessons from the same, two per week (same as daily), per year..... 40 00
Harmony and Musical Composition, class of four, from Principal, two lessons per week, of one hour each, per year. 40 00
Use of Piano or Organ, one hour per day, per year ... 10 00
Use of large Pedal Bass Organ, one hour per day, per year. 13 00
The arrangement of terms, it is apparent, brings the very highest order of instruction within the reach of those to whom, otherwise, it would be wholly inaccessible. Instruction, which in the larger cities costs $4.00 to $5.00 per lesson, is here furnished at a mere nominal cost. While, therefore the conservatory offers to the wealthy the best advantages money can procure, it also offers the same to those of limited means.
COURSE IN ART.
FIRST YEAR.—Charcoal Drawing from objects, and from castes of heads, hands and feet.
Recreation Painting from copies and still-life.
Sketching in pencil and charcoal from Nature.
SECOND YEAR. —Cast Drawing of fore-shortened heads, and of figures, in Charcoal and Crayon. Pen and Ink Drawing. Painting from still-life in Oils and Water Colors. Sketching from Nature in various materials. Perspective and Anatomy.
THIRD YEAR.— Drawing from the more difficult Antique Casts, and from Life. Painting in Water Colors, Oil and Pastel from still-life and flowers, and out- of-doors. Clay Modelling. if especially desired. Sketching, Art History and Botany.
FOURTH YEAR. —Painting, in the various materials, from Nature, Flowers, and Head and Draped Model, from life. Art History and related reading, Sketching.
MEDAL COURSE.
Those who have completed the regular course, and desire to continue, are given a year of advanced work, for which they receive a gold medal.
The course consists of original studies from nature, in any material used in the school. These are expected to show the pupil's idea of composition in form and color. They are to be landscape, portrait, full figure and still-life, and an original plan elevation and perspective drawing of a public building, as a review of perspective work done earlier in the course.
A thesis on some art topic, approved by the instructor, is written in the fall term.
This course is expected to need three hours' instruction daily in the studio.
LITERARY COURSE FOR MUSIC OR ART STUDENTS.
The following is designed for students making a specialty of Music or Art and it is earnestly urged that every young woman completing a course in Music or Art shall have at least as much other training as this course, or its equivalent, will give:
Common Branches.
French or German—Two years.
History—One year.
Literature—One year.
Composition and Rhetoric.
Physiology. History of Art.
In addition to the above, one daily recitation throughout one year in any department of study that may be advisable for the student, such studies to be selected, in consultation with the faculty, from the regular courses of the Seminary.
TESTIMONIALS.
"For nearly forty years Mt. Carroll Seminary has manifested itself in Northern Illinois as an institution of the highest order for girls, and always under the leadership of the same successful teacher. Thousands of young women have here received the training which to-day is making them good wives and wise mothers, or teachers who are achieving success in their chosen profession. Its methods of instruction are such as form character, develop intellect, perfect the physical nature, and make practical women of its students. Its location is one of unsurpassed beauty and healthfulness, and its advantages for musical culture are second to those of no other western institution. We believe that it numbers fewer unsuccessful women among its graduates than any other school of equal age and size in the land."
MARY A. LIVERMORE, Boston, Mass.
"It is a matter of great satisfaction to me to note the remarkably advanced position the Mt. Carroll Seminary has taken in its admirable schedule for the improvement and comfort of its students. Especially in the department of musical art is its standard unequivocally high. It is based on the soundest principles of musical culture and value, in both vocal, instrumental and theoretical branches. The methods employed are, as far as my knowledge of the subject goes, the best extant, while the artistic culture and enthusiasm of the well equipped teachers in that field is worthy of the most highly renowned standards of our musical capitals. Upon correct methods in music must the future of the art depend."
Wm. H. SHERWOOD, Pianist and Teacher.
A Chance to Make Money.
I have had wonderful success selling dish washers. Have not made less than $8 any day and some days $15. Nearly every family buys one. They are cheap, durable, and do the work perfectly. You can wash and dry the dishes for a family in two minutes without touching your hands to a dish. I believe any lady or gentleman, anywhere, can do as well as I am doing, as I had no experience. Anyone can sell what everyone wants to buy, and every family seems to want a dish washer. Write to the Iron City Dish Washer Co., 140 S. Highland Ave., E. E. Pittsburg, Pa. They will send you full particulars and help you as they did me. I do not write my experience boastingly, but because I think it a duty I owe to others in these hard times.
Martha B.
