GOSLIN BLUFFS REFINED FEMALE COLLEGE, 1831.
REFINED FEMALE COLLEGE. For the Raleigh Register. Madame Walk-in-the-Water, assumes this method of informing her friends and the public in general, that her college is now open for the reception of novices. In this institution will be taught the various branches of an English Education, together with the French and Italian Classics. The Cherokee and Pamunky language will also be assiduously attended to provided sufficient encouragement be extended to this new and accomplished species of American Literature. Wig-warns will be provided for those who desire to become acquainted with the Indian Alphabet, and every other accommodation extended to render the Indian department original and comfortable.
Terms.
English Department.
Scolding and fretting per Session.......................... $1.25
Balling & gadding the streets do............................ 1.50
Talking idly, & dressing ridiculously........................ 2.00
Spinning street yarn thread (very fine)...................... 5.00
Backbiting your friends................................... 1.00
Lacing yourself into the shape of an hourglass...............50
How to keep from work when you return home.................40
French & Italian Department.
Wearing Wigs and false curls.............................. 4.00
Wearing 2 Tuck & 10 side combs.......................... 2.00
Wearing out 10 pair shoes per year taking evening promenades.. 20.00
Behaving like a monkey in a china shop..................... 4.80
Running your father into debt every year for finery, cologne water, pomatum & hard soap dancing & frolicking......... 650.00
Indian Department.
Alphabet ............................................... $2.00
Spelling, Beading & writing............................. 2.00
Cyphering............................................. 1.00
War Whoop............................................ 8.00
Indian Cotillion & sett Dance........................... 4.00
An examination will take place at the end of every Session. Parents and Guardians are particularly requested to attend. Board, washing, &c.: $100 per Session.
Goslin Bluff, Wake County.
References.
Hon. Timothy Jourdon, Boston
Hon. James Moody, Boston
.Mons. Alphonse Debonair, Paris
Mons. Moreno Dansfossy, Paris
Split Log, Cherokee & Pamunky Tribe
Wind-that-passes, Cherokee & Pamunky Tribe.
Red-Jacket, Cherokee & Pamunky Tribe
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Raleigh Register, June 16, 1831.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
