New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-14
DOINGS At CHAUTAUQUA.
INCIDENTS OF THE WORK AND An ELOPE'
MENr.
MRS EWING PLEADS FOR BETTER PUMPKIN PIES
AND LESS PoLrTTCs-oTHER LECTURES
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AND LESS POIITTCs-OTHER LECTURES
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Cbautsudua July 13.-Many Chautauquans got NJ
NJ O'Clock this morning TO catch the early tram 1oi
Toronto where the National Teachers Associauor
cgnyencs this week. The Normal school mere VIII
suspend operations until the big meeting Is over IN
order 20 give every Chautauqua teacher chance to ~
a, the trim Thu weather to-day was warm and even
n tii1e oppressive but all the public lectures were
crowded Hero and there an earnest stndent would
DO overcome With tho heat or the speaker ana drop
of into nap. The appetite OF the average Olau
luquan IS something refreshing TO contemplate Every
thing seems to combine TO make him as hungry as a
bear, so that three meals day don't exactly Ill u'e
lii. At night time the man who bakes the sav0ry
dishes Of beans has sold out completely, all OF whlc
goes to show that Chautauqua is becoming decidedly
n,tcIlectal and 50 il follows that fad" has sprung
IN here for using big words. and the Chautauqua girls
csn knock Grover Clcveland's "innocuous desuetuuc
into a cooked hat.
The DAYS programme opened with lecture Dy
Professor Frederick starr. OF the NewYork Natural
History Museum, On the Natives Of the N0rthWeSt
Coast This was a talk the red men of the United
states and was atentively listened 70 in the Han Of
Philosophy by large audience. At 4 O'Clock
Professor John Bach McMastCr. the weiENOWh
Historian began his course of lectures in American H.
tory his subject today being The Eary STRUGGLES VI
tho Colonies in Acquiring Public Domain" AZ .
o'clock the lecture by Mrs Ewing the great authority
on cooking, came off In the Hall OF Philosophy ana
created sensation among the women by reason Oh tne
original ideas presented Mrs. Ewing IS never duii
and generally sets people TO thinking. Her SUBJECT
was Work for Women" and this is what she sila'
Letters come to me from all sections OF the couii-
try written Inv women inQuiring what KIND oil WorA
there is for women to do, and what klhu oil PiI'e'
they can ill. have for them an invarlaOe repn
that while years ago Only seven industrial occupa-
tons were open to women, statistics show thdt u'eIV
ara nnU nearly 400 open to them. In my 0Nn
special field of labor opportunities are opening every
dav for women to fud employment as teachers OF
bouscbod science. as matrons and managers, a.
catnrors and cooks but women are unwilling 10
oualfy themselves for these places. hear not III
freouentlv that Mrs. SOandSo or MISS Somebo'N'
ofter attending few lectures and lessons III coohrS
has started out as nedgcd teacher OF housenoo
science In a short time l hear again that th.so
neopIe have proved failures and have gone 20 clRhV
in a store or worse STILL have gone home 10 paint
chiro or nrav 10 the Lord 10 send them husbands
Cooks are wanted everywhere. There Is scarcely
q ,sllaca In fhe land where competent woman couh
mot earn big wages in giving cooking lessons. Han
a dozen churches in Kansas City each palu Ihe lor
course of lectures sum larger than inc aVeiree
schooI-teacher can earn in year. why, "Omch III
stead of men should make all the pies Ah CAKES lor
our cities and towns and villages. What TINS country
needs is better pumpkin pies and less politics hut
the women say il Is too hard work kneadng the oreau
This Is one of the biggest lies That was ever inNicted
upon a creduous public, Good bread Is the greatest
need Of the nineteenth century. Some one ought 70
write good book on how to wash linen clean. Many
women could raise bees and honey. Here IS great
field for women. They could raise poultry, engage
in fruit culture become pharmacists and drug CLERKS
The speaker referred 10 Mrs. @. W. King, Of Warren
Penn. as q notable example of pushing woman.
Left early poor widow, she lad become rlch
hotel-prOpretor.
big concert closed the Day. Miss Maud MufrNy
of Boston, assisted with dramatic readings
Cupid has entered Clautauqua, and a romentc
elopemcnt and marriage the result Charles Wads
worth came from Huntingdon, Penn, short time
ago to spend the summer mere. lie had buried MS
Young wife about SIX months ago. and intended 50 far
as possible to forget his grief in the various lines pf
study and recreation that Chautauqua oilers. Seine
Parker rather pretty brunette, came here fr0ln
Cattaraugus County New-York. about the LIST Of July
TO study She proposed to work her way through the
summer school by serving in q diningroom here. az
many other bright girls do. Wadswortl went ~ inc
Same house to board met the girl and was completely
captivated Last Sunday morning Wadsworth ard Miss
Nellie were missing. Later il was learned that they
had crossed the lake In TOwbOat and gone 70 james
town where they were subsequently married.