The morning call., 1891-09-20
CHhUfAUQUA.
Some Men and Women Of Note Met at the
ChaltduQla Assembly.

First. and among the foremost. is Mrs.
Mary Livermore, the gifted and popular
lecturer, who honored the class OF 81 by
standing at its head as Viee-President.
Mrs. Liyermore is past the allotted three
score and ten Yeas of mortal sojourn, yet
age has not dmmed her eye, enfeebled her
frame nor quenehed her spirit. Sac has the
carriage and presence Of queenly woman,
with step quick and hru, ana says her
health is prrfect.
Tall and finely formed, she dresses with
quiet elegance, and having never been
lrammeled with that harness Of torture, the
corset, her gestures and movements are
particularly graceful aud unstud ell.
She was only exempted from the impris-
oument of stays through the gnod sense
and frmness of her father, who came off
victor in the contest with an excellent but
firm and straight-laced maiden aunt.
Mrs. LiveTmOre wears her hair combed
smoothly down over her ears in the old-time,
tidy way with a knot at the back OF her
large, shapely head, wherein rests square
Of rich lace, very becomingly assuming the
place OF a cap.
When this grand woman stands on the
stage before her hearers and addresses them
in her clear, strong, finely modulated voice
that is easily distinguished by the most dis
taDt listeners in the circle of that great
audience of nearly haf-score thousand
people, one knows not which most to adj
mire, the spirit and strength or the rich
streams of eloquence which flow from the
ready, wonderfully informed mind Of the
rare speaker.
"Pansy," Mrs. Alden, is one of the most
unassuming and lOVeliest of women.
Scarcely middle-aged, notwithstanding her
grown-up son, she yet looks younger than
her years. She dresses very plainly, always
wearing her hair, still dark and abundant,
in thick braids, coiled low at the back OF her
fine head.
Parted simply through the middle, and
combed smoothly behind her ears, this way
of dressing her hair, without bang, frizz or
wave, gives her intellectual head and cast
of features gentle dignity, more fitting
than would the more modern and compli-
Gated modes.
She is seldom seen alone, but is sur
rounded with loving friends, sometimes
walking with her digDifed scholarly looking
husband. DR.. Alden, or arm IN arm with
her tall handsome son, Raymond, and her
niece, Grace LIVINGSTON, author of the sweet
"Chantauqua Idyls."
Mrs. Buel of the W. c. T. U. is lovely,
youthful-looking woman, whose uncon-
scious magnetism draws the sympathetic
crowds that always follow her.
Two very fine and yOuthful-looking and
distinguished men Of letters belonging to
ChautauQua are DR.. William Rainey Harper
of Chicago University, aud principal of the
Chautauqua system, and Professor Herbert
b. Adams of Johns Hopkins University,
and President of the class Of '95.
One OF the greatest of surprises comes to
the visitor who meets, for the first time,
here the talented auth0resS of 1.-The Battle
Hymn Of the Republic" The portraits of
this gifted woman, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
give one the impression of great age and
lnfrmty. One meets, instead. brisk,
charming woman Of apparently between 80
and 60, with the step OF a woman of 80, with
gray hair, to be sure, but which is abundant
and dressed in mode.
Genial, smiling and soclable, she was ap-
pointed to place of honor in the ranks OF
the classes at commencement, and the
writer had the pleasure and honor of being
in the same ranks, and conversing with her.
She is nearly Y, and learned Greek when
past 20, SO as to We able to read Sophocles in
the original.
Mrs. Wards son has lately received the
prize, $500 francs, from the National Society
for the Encouragement OF Industries al
Paris, for treatiese on the metallurgy Of
steel.
Last coming on this list is the name of DR.
| Edward Everett Hale, whom 1t is worti
| while alone to visit Chautauqua to see and
| meet. One of the counselors, he, with Bishop
| Vincent, President Miller and others, pre-
| sented the diplomas to the graduates.
And when the great scholarly lecturer gavt
| each student the well-earned diploma witt
| hearty congratulations and warm grasp o
| the hand, it was to win the heart of tina
| one. to whom it was one of the events of
| lifetime to have greeted and to have beef
| greeted by the kindly and kingly agei mai
| of letters. LOUISE SNOW.
bonneville IN. ~. Sept ", 1891