Bismarck weekly tribune., 1889-10-18
MRS. BLANK,
Teacher Of the Guitar. Mandolin. and Banjo

learning the Greek alphabet. Even at the
postofRce it is a woman whom you see behind
the window distributing the mail, and what
this particular postmistress has not known
about the billets-doux Of the Chautauqua
bellies for the past few years is not worth the
telling. Even now a long file of them in
gymnasium blouses or tennis caps await her
pleasure
Newspaper correspondents-and at Chau-
tauqua the women correspondents are as
numerous as are the man specials at
nominating gconvention-are flying hither and
yon, getting the freshest news, and the wo-
man lecturer is sstrolling thoughtfully toward
the amphitheatre, manuscript in hand.
When atlast valise and umbrella are landed
on the veranda of one of the three hundred
or more cottages, whose base lines are as ir-
regular as their architecture, there is still an
other picture of woman's untiring industry.
On one corner Of the shady piazza ssthe old
est living graduate" Of Chautauqua's famed
&C. L. s. c." gray haired, blue eyed old
lady of fourscore, has gathered together all
the loungers who are waiting the dinner bell,
for pronouncing bee. In another corner
the principal of Washington territory acad-
emy is absorbed in her study of methods,
while her associate principal is bent nearly
double, in the veranda rocker, doing Ger
man exercise.
you can't tire out these western school
teachers, y is the unanimous verdict of the
professors of Chautauquas summer school,
FRENCH AND HOUSEKEEPING
Mysie, the landlady's l6-year-old daughter,
who, when not helping mother, is studying
French, runs to take your bag and leads the
way to the second story bedroom. The win
dows are shaded by the maple boughs, and if
you look down into the out-of-door rear
kitchen you can tell just what is under way
for dinner. AS day by day from this eyrie
you see your landlady fit from kitchen to
veianda, and from veranda back to kitchen
again, first prodding up the fat boy sinking
to sleep as he turns slower and slower the
handle Of the ice cream freezer, then listening
with smiling face to the guests complaints,
as In the hallway she awaits the new boat
load Of arrivals, you are lost in admiration of
the wonderful energy and amiability, not to
mention the recuperative faculties, of the
American woman All unconsciously you
have had Q demonstration lesson III house
wifery more valuable, perhaps, III the moral
it inculcates, than are those towhich your fell
low boarders are aocking in the white can
vased pavilion labeled 'sThe Cooking School" !"
AL Chautauqua, anywhere, woman's
work puts to successful test the truth of
Longfellow's optimistic simile of the Gulf
Stream: The octogenarian here is not thought
too old to study geology, and three genera
tions Of women are sometimes seen side by
side in the drawing class To make leisure
for the mothers, an infinite variety of amuse-
ments and entertaining classes are provided
for the little people, Chautauqua being, as
mother said, .'the children's paradise.
Chautauqua has been unusual in develop
ing several new phases of woman's work for
children. Chief Of these, of course, is the
now famous walking science class 1t an
swers, for the Chautauqua children, Carlyle's
fervent prayer, Would to God some one had
taught me in my youth the names Of the
grasses!' !''-Jane Meade Welch in Harper's
Bazar