New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-02

culture, lectures methods IN public school singing
TO teachers who here for Instruction. and In adj
don to his chorus work gives numbcress private les
sons yet the vesper services HIS robust tones
tlnue TO drown the efforts of all corners and rise
majesticaly above the mcodious volume produced by
organ, choir and congregation combined.
HERE ONE LEARNS HEBREW
While Tho singing lessons arc in progress Professor
r. f. weIdner. OF tho Augusana Evangelical Lutheran
Seminary at Rock Island, Ill.,, is teaching Hebrew at
the college DIR. Wodner IS large and broad, with
good naturod face set in great brown beard, He
has the gft Of many tongues, and in his classes at
Rock md sometimes hears Rotations IN five
langu In a single morning. He is Pennsylvania
Dutcl,al a. and was born at Centre Valley, Tehigh
County. in 1851. lie was graduated at Mullen.
berg College Allentown, Penn, in 1859, a pastor
in philadelphia from 1877 1882 and has edited the
Lutheran Church Review He is voluminous
author his pal works being a theological encyclo-
paeda commentary on St Mark now In It's third
edition. and Biblical Theology Of the Old Testament
For the last six years he has been associated with
DR.. Harper in teaching Hebrew. His Greek method
enables a raw beginner to reproduce In Creek after
three weeks instruction, the English Of the first
chapter of St. john and at the end of six weeks the
first nine chapters Of the book, with complete
mastery of 600 of the most nouns and verbs
In the New Testament.
LEARNING TO PAINT AND DECORATE.
Even during the midday dinnerhour there arc
lessons provided for those whose mental easerhesS Is
stronger than their physical appetite Inere Is
Chautauqua Society of Fine Arts, and Ernest hnaunt'
of New.Yors IS its director. Mr. Knauift has stuo'o
in the museum building, where the artistic pupil
learns to sketch his favore professor in charcoal or
reproduce the picturesque lakeside scenery and pre-
servo the changeable ns Of the Chautauqua sky In oil
and water.color At the Kellogg Memorial Han,
building erected by Mr.. James II. Kellogg, OF Troy,
in honor Of bis mother, and recently presented 10 Tue
Assembly, there many special classes during 'n7
day. In one Of Its rooms, surrounded by "atocau-
liko screens, flower. painted plaques ana Shelves Oh
curiously shaped bits Of pottery, Miss lsaoel H.
Smith teaches between forty and fifty aesthetic
damsels to paint llfe-sized heads on porcelain
and miniatures on tiny brooches for setting In dia-
monds Many of the pupils in this department. as In
others, are themselves teachers, who come 90 Pain
the newest styles and methods Miss Smith has studied
abroad I'm Paris and at Dresden and Sevres. She has
studio In East Twenty St, New YORK. anu tnls
Is her third season here. Among her best pupils.
Miss Roberts, who teaches in the young ladies' college
at Quincy, H.. Is successful painter OF oIchIds'
Miss Mcdonald, who has studio az Anstln teAa ~
her own in the South. Miss Clark OF Marion ono
is niece of the late President Garfield MIS- ?uilus
King OF Cleveland and her daughter are paintlhg
DoultOn ware. Other pupils are Miss Buchsnan, VI
MerIden Miss; Miss Grey, of Seattle, W. l., anu
nlcces fired on Tie grounds last year, only two were
broken Mr. Edison, who was here not long ago.
evnced great interest IN the emma IrnF, anu ~
careful examination Of the process decided tlat Cle
only way 10 fuse the color into the glaze IS by heat
which increases as gradually as that Oh t.c rSfms
Miss Smith has Just finished pOIidtt OF s,
kellogg to hang IN the hail. Her principal assistan'
Is Mrs. Eleanor c. Dean.
AT THE 'AMPHITHEATRE.
There arc many important classes in the afternoon
but when tho bell rings for the halfpaSt = ioclulo
a great crowd troops toward the Amphheatre. Inc
Amphltheatre is natural gen with great WOODEN
roof thrown over IT, circular tiers of benches rangeo
along its steep Sides and at end large organ,
choir space and a rallied platform with speaker
desk AT this desk schuyler Cofax has described inc
life Of Abraham Lincoln .y Joieph c,oo TSTf
over disputed points in theology , John t.,r,e 81
Cough Miss We and f %T and ssn have
narrated adventures in India and Burmah, and Judge
Albion W Tourgee has fresh laurels as lecturer;
rom II his IDEAS about Sunday Observance Pro
fessor Mahay will tell what he knows OF Greek ne
Minor cyS Mil NH % cad C% his noye
David Swing and Pension Commissioner Tanner VIII
as9Grse I@ n usually comes epro9ded with
note books is not disposed to be hypercritcal though
nv rigid etiquette from rising and leaving as soon
tired is in this building d dh a tnS 1 and
nothing could be more striking than the devouthess
of its immense coneregatons on st sunny hIs ana
thJC0lce OF the worshppers rectng IN deep harmony
the responses Of tho Chsutauqua litany' ror IN tbe
NJ ., pbiloscnby. a wooden imitation of the Par
thenoE painted white, and set in maple grove e.
Here from slightly raised platform, members OF
the faculty deliver those talks on literature ana
history Of which the true Chautauquan Is SO I1la;
There are cottages three sides OF the man, Whee
tho mxtirously Inclined can sway in rocker on the
verandas or swing contentedly in hammock aiT t
drink I'm knowledge with the least expenditure VI
Vital force excepting whom the t0ot of passng
steamer or ubilant shouts from tho baseball heli
their reserve energy. The hall is also the place Wnere
the round tables arc held professor Loi Ua ,er
called Chautaudua the most American thing IN Amer.
len The Round Table Is undoubtedly the most
haaqquaG thing at chantag1a With was tho rSs1S
circles, and recently described by Or Hul9 9e
as a meeting for information and Inspiration; me
Bishop usually conducts It himself IN qul'e ia'ner ,
way. asking and answering questions Wsn et ,n
readiness and success. and some OF the lniormauOn
brought ont IS curious enough TO an 2usioer' ono
learns for instance, thar OUT OF ciass VI GOO
readers Of the four years Chautauqa course, OoUV
or 1000 generally complete IL; that l63 diincui'
tion paper, and that students who have dropped out
of the course after years reading nave oesh hno"
class TO the end. The Round Table generally enc,
with an cvcnsonr Outside tho han are number OF
these arc lighted I'm tho dusk. and throw their fiery
radiance upon the white pillars and the tree trunhs
hail the effect IS sufficiently picturesque. on grsdi-
atlng days the hall IS the scene OF Impressive cctc-
monies
CHEAP TRIP OVER PALESTINE.
The Museum is popular resort of tho younger
students and the excursionets who come in occasion
ally from the surrounding districts make at once ior
the CODY Of tho black Rosetta stone and the Gamer
saddle from Palestine and stand openmou'hed before
the great AsSyrian wingedlion and bull. large
raised map Of Palestine. appropriately colOred, ms
the centre Of the Museum. But even This IS not ih'
best aid 10 the study Of Biblical geography on thn
grounds. When traveller lands from tho boat al
The Point 10 get directly Ia the hotel he has u STUN.
bic over dcceitfIl hillOcks, reacheOu5 brooks ana
pools, and great mounds of rugged rock which leave
their marks on his shins. 1t never dawns upon him
that these obstacles are placed there by design bu'
they are and the first time he sees an Eastern faV-
elcr lectnring upon them, under an umbrella 10 an
attentive omen audience. he learns that the brooks
represent the Jordan and its tributaries the pools the
Dead sea and the sea of Gaee, aud the rocks. Len
anon and Mount Hebron. while the lake front stands
for the Mediterranean shore. Not far on IS large
model OF Jerusalem, under wooden canopy. The
domed houses look like little stone onions, and the
olive trees arc successfully represented by small bun
dies of excelsior mating dipped In green paint AMI
stuck on a stick I'm hills OF cement