Leonard, J. W. The Industries of Saint Louis. Her Relations as a Center of Trade. Manufacturing Establishments and Business Houses . St. Louis: J. M. Elstner and Co., 1887. [format: book], [genre: narrative]. Permission: St. Louis Mercantile Library
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St. Louis has an excellent school system which offers the advantages of education to all the children brought up within her limits. The public schools are conducted upon the most approved principles of teaching, while the high schools offer to the ambitious youth the opportunity for securing instruction in higher branches of knowledge. In addition to the public schools are those of the Catholic Church and others belonging to the several religious denominations.

Fine church edifices abound, all shades of belief being sheltered in elegant structures which add greatly to the architectural attractions of the city.

In social life there is every means provided for the pursuit of instruction or pleasure. The St. Louis Club House, an illustration of which is found elsewhere, is the home of one of the leading organizations, but there are many others devoted to social intercourse, to art, to music, to literature and to the various objects which indicate the intelligence and enlightenment of the people.

From a sanitary standpoint St. Louis is a desirable place to live. Comparative vital statistics show it to be a very healthy city, in fact the last comparative table showed that St. Louis was, with one exception, the healthiest city in the Union, Cincinnati only excelling it by a small decimal in its favor.

In short, St. Louis is a live, vigorous and progressive modern city, endowed with many natural advantages to which are added all the improvements which art or science has discovered to aid progress in business, in social life and in the pursuit of happiness.

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