Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-09-27

KATE LOUISE N. ID,
are frequent all along the road OF this wood
land village. In passing the telephone tent
you see, not a male operator, but III the fore
ground, behind her tidy bedroom, a young
woman, who in the pauses between calls is
learning the Greek alphabet Even at the
postoffice it is woman whom you see behind
the window distributing the mail and what
this particular postmlstress has not known
about the billets-doux of the Chautauqua
bellies fer the past few years is not worth the
telling. Even now long fle of them il
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 a
nominating convenuon-are flying hither and
yon, getting the freshest news. and the Wo-
man lecturer is stroliing 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 lr-
regular as their architecture, there is still an
other picture Of womans untiring industry.
On one corner Of the shady piazza THE old
est living graduate of Chautauqua'S famed
&c. l.. S. c." a gray haired, blue eyed cid
lady Of fouTscore, has gathered together all
the lOungers who are waiting the dinner bell,
for pronouncing bee. In another corner
the principal of " aShington territory acad-
envy 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
- Ia l,ar of
professors of Chsutauqua's summer school
FRENCH AND HOUSEKEEPING.
Mvsie, the landladv's l6-year-old daughter,
who, when not helping mother, Is studying
French, runs to take your bag and leads the
way 10 the second story bedroom. The win
dows are shaded by the maple boughs, and L
YOU look down into the out-of-door rear
kitchen you can tell just what is under way
for dinner. As dav by day from this eyrie
You see your landlady fit from kitchen 10
veranda, and from veranda back 10 kitchen
again, first prodding up the fat boy sinking
70 sleep Us he turns slower and slower the
handle % the ice cream freezer. then listening
with smiling face TO the guests complaints.
rs IN the hallway she awaits the new boat
load Of arrivals, you are lost in admiration OF
the wonderful energy and arniabihty, not 70
mention the recupersIive faculties, of the
American woman. All unconsciously you
have had demonstration lesson IN house
wlfery more valuable, perhaps, IN the moral
il inculcaves, than are those TO which YOUR fell
low boavders are foc.1ing in the white can
vased pavilion labeled The Cooking School. :"
at Chautauqua, Il anywhere. woman's
work puts 20 successful test the truth Of
Longfellow's optimistic sinile Of the Gulf
Stream The octogenariaa here is not thought
too old to study geology. and three genera
tons Of women sire sometimes seen side by
side in the drawing class. To make leisure
for the mothers, an infinite variety Of arnuse-
ments and entertaining classes are provided
for the little people, Chau;apqua being, as q
mother said, 1.-THE chldrens paradise"
Chautauqua has been unusual in develop
ing several new phases Of womans work for
children. Chief OF these, Of course. is the