and other distractions of the city, the
pupils have better opportunities and
fewer necessary restrictions in their
work than is possible in the down town
districts. The school was founded twelve years
ago by its present principal, Miss
Mattie Lewis, who had served a num-
ber of years as principal in the public
schools of Sherman, Texas. It is, therefore, a well-graded school
from which the pupils can, at any time,
enter their respective grades in either
the grammar or high schools of the city
without examination. Accommodation for ten boarding girls
and forty day pupils is the present
limit of the school. A faculty of twelve competent teach-
ers supply all the necessary require-
ments for music, art, expression, for-
eign languages, etc., given in the larger
schools. The classes being small, much care-
ful, individual work is done in all de-
partments from the primary to gradu-
ation.