New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-12
CROWDS AT CHAUTAUQUA.
FULL AND INTERESTING PROGRAMMES
DAY BY DAY.
CAKE-BAKING'-A LECTURE on ARTISTS
AND ARTIS ANs-TALKS OK GYMNASTICS

AN EXCITING SPELLING DEE"-MRs. EWING ON
oAKE-BAKING'-A LECTURE on ARTISTS
AND ARUsANs-TALKs on GYMNASTICS
.BY TELEGRAPH TO TIE TkIbUSE.I
Chautauqus, N Y, July 11.-This was another per
feet day at Chautauqua The lake steamers brought
pleasure seekers and "new arrivals" by the score.
The cotagtrs already doubling up" putting two
guests in ROOM in order TO accommodate the rush
that has set in
The oldfashloned spelling bees last night was a
great success. Nearly 100 contestants entered the
lists to capture the prize. Expectation ran HIGH
for most Of the contestants were Ohio and New York
school teachers Professor McClntock, Of Wells
College, Aurora, gave out the words
Interest In the contest became intense toward the
close and for awhile 1t looked bad for New-IorR
State but hard word came to the last Ohio teacher
and she misspelled it. amid applause and laughter
The winners Vincent Aldndge Brooklyn, first
prize; and w. f. Wckersham, Philadelphia, second
prize.
Mrs. Ewing gave lecture "cake baking this
morning. Despite the fact that an admission fee OF
fifty cents charged large number OF women were
present with note books Ii IS weakness Of Chautau-
qua girls TO want to know how TO make angel food.
In fact cakes by the name of angel food here, be-
cause ii is said piece of cake struck visitor
on the head. having tumbled from a cottage window,
and made an angel OF him. Mrs. Ewing's object
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of cake -bakers. Next week the students will be re-
aured to show what they can do in actual cake-ba-
ing
The Apollo qusrtette opened the programme in
the Amphltheatre this afternoon with a concert and
was assisted by Mrs. Jennie Hall Wade. Of Brooklyn.
The quartette, which is composed Of Messrs Noble.
Bruce. Woodward and Bunton, was frequently ap-
plauded.
At O'Clock, Colonel Francis W. Parker. of the
Cook County Normal school, Chicago lectured in the
Hall of Philosophy on "Artists and Artisans" The
speaker said that II he should take text il would
be "YOur Work Makes You" Blessed Is the
man who loves work and throws his brains
into it, lie continued, "more blessed is he that
loves that work which best cOnduces his own
growth; and most blessed is he that does the work
that gives the most to humanity There two classes
Of workers in our great world first, those who im
tate; they observe object, and by their skill
| reproduce it: secondly, those who do not produce
the concepts formed in their minds by the external
world: they originate. The first call the artisans
the second the artists. My purpose is to show the
reflex action Of the work upon the individual Both
adapt themselves to conditions but the artist rises
above his conditions while the artisan only initiates
The speaker described the case" lawyer, and after
ward the original artistic lawyer; next the doctor
who worked from books compared with The
physician who brought his skill and originality TO bear
on each individual He closed by recommending
his hearers to he artists rather than artisans.
In the evening Dr. W. G. Anderson OF the Adelph1
Academy, Brooklyn, and head of the School of Phys
| cal Culture here, gave delightful lecture on the
growth of gymnasium work In the United States. Dr.
Seaver of Yale, also gave an interesting talk on
anthropometry. The stereopticon was used and many
| beautiful scenes were thrown the canvas.
W ;. Maltby. the champion bicycle rider, gave an
exhibition OF his skill on the wheel after the lecture.