Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-07-10
Chautauqua Assembly.

EDS. RECORD MON: On SaDDatn morn
ing we were favored with choice music by
our usual talent and most excellent ser
mon by Rev. NJ C. Briggs. His theme was
the oft-discussed and much abused ques-
ton of " Woman's Sphere" If the major
ity of the sterner sex were as liberal of view
as DR.. B., no privilege would longer be
withheld from the mothers of our land
they who have such need of power to act
against the growing evils of the times.
In the afternoon a children'S temperance
meeting was held, at which several brief
but eloquent addresses were made, and ap
propriate music sung. One pointed lesson
was given. from which we culled the fol-
lowing statistics, compiled from the census
of 1888, and other reliable sources
The nations annual drink and tobacco bill
compared with other large items ofexpenditsre:
Spent annually in liquor. $500 900 900
In tobacco 600 600 900
In bread sos 900 900
In meat ...................... 303, 600, 600
In iron and 800 900 900
IN wooden goods........ .......... 237, 200, 900
In sawed lumber 23}3 900 900
In cotton 2l0O000OO
In boots and l9b,OOO,UOO
In sugar and molasses .............. 155 900 600
In public education ....... $1,000 900
In home missions. 100000
In the face of these appalling facts, is it
not time for women to act? Women whose
homes are desolate, hearts blighted and
whose fathers sons and, alas even daugh
ters are dragged from paths of purity and
sobriety by the accursed demon of the
bottle?
An hour was afterward devoted to Nor
NAL School Work in the Sunday School"
by Miss L. NJ. Washburn. The evening
services were of unusual interest and the
w. C. T. U. employed the time to good adj
vantage. After music and prayer by Rev.
VIM. II. Hill formerly of Sacramento, but
at present Chaplain at San Quentin), the
President, Mrs P D. Brown, of Oakland,
spoke in general terms of the noble
work in which the Union is engaged,
and earnestly endeavored to enlist the
sympathies of her hearers i'll its
behalf She was followed by Mrs. NJ. 7.
Mccall, of San Jose, who made a strong
appeal for the temperance instruction of
our youth.
Rhode Island has just passed the com
pulsory scientific temperance instruction
bill, and now five States are arrayed against
the saloon-and it is to be hoped that Cali
fornia may not be far behind.
After Where is My Wandering Boy
To-night?" was sung with touching pathes
by Mrs Blake Alverson, Mrs. Cove pleaded
nobly for the poor, unfortunate women of
the San Francisco prisons, where she has
been laboring for three years past.
The subject Monday morning was
"Greek Women" by Mrs. NJ. H. Field.
She first introduced to us the goddesses of
Greek mythology, Juno, Pallas, Athene,
the Nine MUSES., and others, whose appear
ance and attributes were beautifully de-
scribed. Then but a step downward in the
scale came the heroines of heroic times,
whom the blind old bard" has immortal
lied in the Had and Odyssey beautiful
Helen of Troy, the industrious Penelope,
and Euryclea, the tender nurse of Tele-
machus. Later on, the brilliantly intel
lectual Aspasia, and Zantippe, for whose
disposition our essayist found the most
reasonable excuses. Mrs. Field invested
each character with charm peculiar to
itself, and the graceful wording of each
sentence, like the beautiful framing of
picture, made the effort one of which, as
Chautauquans, we all are proud.
Miss L. NJ Washburn then concluded
her admirable teachings on the best method
of studying the scriptures, recommending
that each student arrange for himself
bible in chronological order, assuring us
that we would be amply rewarded for the
time devoted to this work by the facility
with which we could refer to any given
period. as well as the aid it would afford
for continuity of thought. She also sug
gested the study of Robinson's Harmony
of the Gospels.
When Miss Washburn asserts that the
" Chautauqua idea - had its origin in bible
study, and that we of the West are in dan
ger of forgetting this, and that it is our
duty to prepare ourselves to teach the bible
to our children as thoroughly as we prepare
to teach any other book, we are convinced,
and rejoice that we have one so thoroughly
conversant with the subject to show US the
best method.
Monday evening the exercises consisted
of a solo by Mr. Crandall of San Francisco,
and lecture by Adley II. Cummins, of
San Francisco Subject, " hat the Orient
has Done for Mankind"
Tuesday morning, after piano solo by
Miss Carpenter, and the invocation by Rev.
| Ira McClane, we listened with deep inter
est to an illustration of Shakespeare's &" As
You Like It," by Miss Jessie Thompson.
trayed, and apt quotations from the play
like rare mosaics, came just where they
fitted best The paper closed with care
full resume of the whole, showing its arts
tic value in contrasting city and country
life, and noticing the cheerfulness of the
great poet that shines throughout.
H. S. y.
Pacific Grove, July s, 1884
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