New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-02
BUSY CHAUTAUQUANS.
HOW THE TINE is OCCUPIED IT THE AS
SEMBLY GROUNDS.
EARLY RISING AND OUTDOOR ExERcI sE-cooK'
ING, PHYSICAL CULTURE, MUSIC AND
OTHER STUDIES.


him ard is usually eager TO crowd into them
binary twelve weeks work Professors arc no less
enthusiastic than their pupils and lust now. az the
height Of the season. this perhaps the most active
hive Of busy thinkers in the world.
The sun gets up early at Chautauqua, and Chau-
tauquans are up with the sun. While the morning
mist IS still hanging the lake. assduous brain
WORKERS are out boating, or getting up an appetite at
tennis or croquet and for the next sixteen hours or
until 10 O'Clock at night there Is almost constant
round Of occupations offered. Immediately ai'c
breakfast the serious business Of the day begins In
the college alone can choose between lessons III
Creek by Professor H. E. Waters Latin, by Professor
Lewis Stuart; French German. by Professor A. dc
Rougcmont and Professor Adolph schmtz; history,
by Professor II. b. Adams; mathematics, by Dr.
F. H. Moore r., and elementary Hebrew by the
learned Dr. Harper. At tho same hour arc held the
meetings Of the newly formed Woman's Club, over
which Mrs Emily Huntington Miller the wellhnowh
writer for young people, presides, and al which III
tellIgent housebeepers wrcse with such knotty proc
lens as "The care OF infants while teethlng" ana
Must tho Dutch oven got These meetings were
originally held at O'Clock but wero put forward an
bour To facilitate attendance Mrs. Emma p Ewings
cooking School.
SCENES AT THE COOKING SCHOOL.
The cooling school Is held in large marquee on
s,do street. with a shed attachment containing re-
marlsable oven that looks like patent refrigerator OF
a shp's bread tank thermometer and Few pots ana
pans Separating these from the benches on whch
the fair audience sit, and at moments OF excltemehV
stand arc long tables, and here MIS- h"lhs eA-
Wounds those sensible theories Of scientific cookery
which are intended to degenerate the American people
and drive all dyspepsa remedies out Of The market
Nre Ewing Is plump and of medium height, has a
round pleasant face glasses, and is one Oh tne
most deliberate and entertaining speakers on 'no
grounds Her first efforts as cook were made 10
benefit an invalid member of her family. She has
since become an enthusiast At her school In chi
caro Mrs Joseph Medill and Mrs. Cyrus MCCORMICK
,rere freopent visitors From Chicago She went
70 Ames Iowa. to organize the culinary department
., tho Iowa Agricultural University, and she
now directs a similar branch at Purdue unWerslS'
LAFAYETTE, Ind, where she ranks as ono Vi mo
faculty. The arrangements at Purdue are the pest
and most complete in the country, and TINS Winter
Mrs Ewing intends 10 make good her promise Oh
boarding students cost of from 81 10 to " each
nor week providing them with the pick OF tho
market Her theory Of cookery involves knowledge
Of the elements OF botany and chemistry, and she
bales the best French rolls at Chau'auqua, MIS-
Fwnq's princpal assistant Is Miss Clara Mann,
graduate Of Purdue.
THE DELsARTEAN CURE FOR INSOMNIA
As soon as the cooking class is over has 30
choose between the attractions OF Mrs. W. D. NC
Cl,ntocRs lectures on Old English and those on tho
Delsarte principles, by MIS- ColehdH T. DsH"P' Va
Jamestown. Mrs Bishop is graceful and agreeable
lady, with a soft voice and a winning manner Her
instruction Is given in connection with the School for
physical Culture and she IS teaching sixty three
Young women the science of repose and the poetry OF
attitude and gesticulaion. Her most successful pl-
pil Is handsome Western girl who, few years ago
was too nervous to rccte schoolroom lesson Ellen
| Terry and Mme Modjeska are notable disciples OF
this system At first lesson this morning, Ms
| BIsbop explained tho Dcsarte theory the with
drawal of VIII tension from the limbs. She Illus
| tratcd this by causing the learners to extend their
arms to their full length and then lot them become
linn and fall suddenly to their sides. Aiter the
requiste expertness In becoming limp had been at
tanned exercises were given for balancing on tho ball
Of one foot and bending and stifening tho knee
An important feature of the system is It's efficacy IN
curing insomnia, and the particular movements per
formed for producing drowsiness are no less curious
than picturesque The head Is allowed 10 droop slowly
forward with tho chin resting on the breast. Then
| the whole body ncne5 gradually until 1t rests In
tho Ian. After this it is as gradually raised and II
the performer Is not asleep by the time she egans
her upright position, she will be- Paralysis
IL Is believed may DC warded OIL By the practice OF
these soothing exercises, and they unquesonaDy I'M
part great grace to the feminine figure
DR. Julius King OF Cleveland Ohio, Is also attached
TO the Physical Culture Department His speclaiy l.
the care Of the eye and hts efforts have lately been
directed TO simplifying the physiology of the organ
as related to tho different defects Of vision. In eX'
aiming cases of colorblindness among railroad men,
he has discovered that about per cent cannot dis
| tnguIsh green from rcd. The percentage Of chill
drcn with defective vision In primary schools, caused
by low desks and insufficient light is about 20, Will"
in the higher schools this rate IS doubled lie
recommends that desh-lds be made adjustable to an
angle Of 40 degrees for writing and 20 degrees Tor
! reading Dr. King born at warren, Ohlo IN
1885, and does not look more than forty
DIR. ANDERSON AND HIS CLASSES.
Dr. W. G. Anderson, of Brooklyn, the director Of the
gymnasium, IS a tall. good-lookins young man. with
a clear eve and cavalry mustache. HIS department
IS one Of the most popular on tho grOulds' ana
there is hardly of the day when the gymnasium
Is not full Of enthusiastic athletes punching the
swinging bag or hanging by the feet from the rapezc
or performing surprising cvolutions among the hang
ING ropes and rings. The children's classes at
which clubs and dumbbells arc swung In unison 10
lively piano tunes, is the most interesting OF all
Dr. Anderson's success with children of weak minds
| has been surprising An idiot boy, whose hatura
dspositlon was to travel I'm circle has been taught
IN walk n crack without ninchng. and another with
whom the mere opening and shutting Of the hand at
will was feat impossible OF accomplishment, has now
fuu control OF his muscles and nerves! and bids far
largely TO overcome his affection Dr. Anderson was
born in Michigan. lie began to practice gymnastics
under n medical prescription, when only nine years
old and the age Of sixteen was offered employ neht
nc circus acrobat. lie resisted this allnrng Invita-
| tIon however, and went with his studies at the
Roxbury Latin School, graduating later from Amherst
| and receiving his DOCTORS degree from the medE
| cal department OF the Western Reserve, ut Cleve-
land Ohio. In 1855 he organized the
| American Association for the Advancement
OF Physical Education, OF which Dr. Hitchcock, OF Am
| herst IS president and the same year organized the
BROOKLYN Normal school for Physical Education on the
advisory board Of which President Andrew White,
| OF Cornell William Blake and others. Dr. Anderson
f. Fellow Of the Victoria Institute, London holds the
record for the twelve mile swim and Is the author OF
several works relating to his speciality. lie is twenty
nine years old and married. Among his assistants arc
Claes Enebrlsle, the swcdc- Dr. Eliza Mosher, Of
| Brooklyn and DR.. J. W. scavcr the Yale lecturer
During the morning the deep tones Of the large