CHAUTAUQUA WEEK 1915

A reast or Rare entertainment and instruction ENjoyed and Appreciated by All.

Culver's third season of Chautauqua is in high tide with a program fully up to the standard of the two previous years, and an attendance nearly as good.

The weather is responsible for a light falling off in the numbers who come. At this time, Wednesday morning, it is figured that if there ig a deficit in the finances it will be very small. The guarantors hope so.

The talent furnished this year by the Lincoln system is excellent, fully up to the demands of the people and all that could be expected in a course which does not pretend to engage the highest-priced entertainers in the country.

It is a matter for congratulation that Culver is able to give the people of this communnity so rich a week of entertainment and instruction, and it the people do not heartil appreciate it they are not awake to their pportunity and privilege.

No one can listen to the lectures and music of each day's sessions without acquiring something that adds to his intellectual and spiritual growth.

Rev. Dr. Williams, Chicago's fighting preacher,"opened our eyes to social and political conditions in Chicago and made us understand that the rural communities that furnish so large a percentage of the population of the the large citites have a responsibility; that it is our duty to send young men and women to take part in the activities of city life who have clean minds and bodies. One felt that if Chicago had 500 men like Dr. Williams the problem of the city's corruption would be happily solved.

The Warrick Male Quartet on Monday was in every way satisfactory.

Tuesday brought the Schroedter Quintet and Mrs. Nannie Webb Curtis' lecture.

The quintet is a high-class musical organization. Its technique wns prehaaps faultleaa, but a full measure of appreciation for its work could hardly be expected from a rural audience untrained m music. We think, however, that everyone realized and enjoyed the exquisite playing of Mr. Schroedter on the violin.

Mrs. Curtis' lecture hvas the most forceful presentation of some of the social problems of the day - especially that of social purity - that has ever been heard here. She combines the sledge-hammer blows of the masculine mind with the wit and tender senti-ment of the feminine, and her ex-perience as a nhysician, vice-presi ent of the National W. C. T. U and member of various state and national sociological organizations, qualifies her to speak with understanding as well as deep feeling. She told some truths which rural communities unfortunately do not know much about, or at least do not think much about, and if the the future health and happiness of their offspring.

Mr. Stockton is a good nlatform director. He is a young man of ready wit and pleasing manner, and knows how to give his audience an at home feeling,

The Junior Chautauqua is a new thing this year and a fine thing Miss Florence Bradley is the direct or, and she is a "good sport" with the youngsters. She is assisted by Miss Julia Moss of this place. Games and story-telling twice a day have supplied a heap of fun and instruction which more children should have "been in" on.

There are plenty of good things I yet in store before Saturday night's closing of the Chautauqua.

The great big card of the week is Ellis Brooks' orchestra this afternoon and tonight; the Emerson Winters Co. (who were heard here in Culver's lecture course two years ago), the Sam Jones lecture by Denton C. Crowl, and the magician, Edwin Brush, Friday; and the Mozart Quartet and Dr. Ira Landrith Saturday.