New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-23
FEEDING HER AUDIENCE.
DEMONSTRATING A LECTURE IN A COMING
ING MANNER.
Mrs. EMMA EWING TALKS OF CHEAP COOKING
AT cHAuTAUoUA INTERESTING FEAT
UREs OF THE DAY AT ruv LAKE.
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Nh@utiuqus' July 2s-rhe feature Of to-day at Chsu
was MRS. Emma Ewngs striking and suggestive
ooectiesson this morning on aCheap cooking" Jacob
A hlis, Of York. Surprised c.bantauauans last
nieht oy teHing them How the Other Half Lives" in
te metropolis but Mrs. Ewing fairly astounded them
To-Day by telling how badly the two halves OF society
ovoA anu eau and how we'll and how chesply they
Hne"' wine ana dine.' Mrs. Ewing clnched her ar
suehls oy actual demonstration so that every doubt
ing Thomas was converted before he left the class
room Inc most delicious coffee was passed around
winch the speaker called hygiepic homemade coffee
four ndred cups of II Just twenty cents or one
t"eeth OF cent per cup 1t certainly eclipsed every
tnihS ID the way Of clearinghouse coffee that any one
PioehV na1 oluhA ana this the unanimous testi-
mOhy' MIS- Ewing next told her astonished audience
tht the most delicious and delicate desserts cost only
1-2 cents plate and proceeded To prove her nrppo
siuon' Ihen the delighted audience had an oppor-
Vuh 70 smack their lips most tempting desserts
many OF them being made Of fruit juices and whipped
cream.
The trouble nowadays said the speaker ais that
we pass over The soup at dinner because IL is slop
We cannot eat the meat and vegetables because they
are lmpertecfly cooked and we devour pastrv only
because Of the flavor, hence A nation NJ d,snontics
Cook knowledge as well as book knowledge f. needed
IN thls broad land Of ours. and the offer of good rich
piece OF pumpkin pie 70 every individual in attendance
would draw bigger crowd together than any poltcal
or religious meeting ever held so much do people
ycarn for good food,
Ihis was the programme to-day: : 10 a. M. col
lcge chapel college Han; 30 Woman's Club A
Mothers PREPARATION Mrs Emily Huntington Miller
lTemplel ! AS p. m. lecture Memory Training >
Professor W. W. White, Of Xcn.s. Ohio 1IalD: 30
IcctuIe' Inc children Of the Old Dominion Pro
lessor F. y. Thorpe Of Philadelphia (HaID; 4 D. M
lecture. "Peculiarities Of Old Testament History
PROFESSOR W. r. Harper. Of Chicago (HalD D. m
(Amphltheatre) p m, Illustrated lecture continued
81 How the Other Half Uves,' Jacob A. Riis Of New
York, in the Amphltheatre
IN MS lecture today Professor Thorpe continued
his examination Of the civil development OF the United
states anayzing the development OF government in
the south The influence OF virg1nian ideas over all
the country SOUTH Of Mason and DixOns line was
traced to its origin, the political and civil insttl-
lions introduced or interpreted by the eminent men
Of 1916. the Augustan age the Virginia and Ken
tucky Resolutions, the course Of Virginia IDEAS ms
taceable in the Successive State constitutions OF the
Southern and Southwestern States the union Of tb4
Church and State in Virginia compared with the union
OF Church and state in Massachusetts, before the Revo
luton, the economic conditions OF the New-England
belt OF States and that Of the vrgnlan belt the civil
life Of the Southern states determined by these
conditions. the period of the Civil War and Of Re-
construction and the New North and the New South.
were all discussed The purpose Of the lecture
"as to show the intimate and necessary relations ex
isting between the economic and the civil life Of the
people. State constitutions of government are the
formal definition Of these relations
DR.. Harpers talk showed that he Is lowering pretty
close TO the so-cacd heterodox7 line Of thinking
His subject Six characteristics OF Old Testament
History" Said the speaker:
There is first lack Of chronological order in the
Old Testament second. in many cases lack o.
chronological indications, that Is the text is not
careful TO point out the time when or during which the
events described in it took place; thirdly apparent
ncompleteness or fragmeItary character: fourthly
selection Of special subjects for emphasis For ex-
ample, in Judges, five chapters are given 10 Gideon
with his son, four TO Samson. two each 70 Jephtha
Micah the DANTE, and the outrage at Gibeah These
five subjects taken up fifteen out Of twenty chapters in
book covering 300 years. Fifth the material is con-
piation from various sources sixth, the prophetic
character and the religious spirit. There is prophecy
CT the past and present, well as OF the future
These sOcaed historical books are not history tbev
are prophecy. 1t was necessary for the man Of God
in prophesying 10 give the exact date Of every event.
Last evening the newly formed Press Club gave a
reception in the hotel parlors which was attended BIZ
many Of the best Chautauquans Through the courtesy
Of Messrs. Sherwood, Professor Cheney Miss Bishop
and May DOnaly Kel-O a pleasant programme was
rendered Jacob A Rs was the guest Of the evening and
gave pleasing address Mrs Emily Huntington
SIiller this morning exploded the fallary that good
education thrown away because t6c girl did not
60 into professional lfe' The results If eduraton
Just the study of sanitary laws does not make 1t
necessary for her TO compete with the plumber and
IS necessary Here the speaker niOr,cd Mrs Ewing
Again GOd makes mothers fond and tender but He
does not give them wisdom They must study to get
rid OF their ignorance