Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1892-07-06
DOWN AT THE CAMP.
A SERIES OF VERY GOOD MEETINGS HELD
At THE
Ohio Valley Prohibition Assembly Hall at Mounds
ville-W. U. Day Yesisrday-OOl.
BANS Splendid Popular Lecture
Last Night

property adjoining.
The programme of entertainments
that have been provided at the Assemb-
ly hall since last Sunday and which con-
tinue till July IS, have added very m a
terially to the pleasures of camp-ground
life and the place takes on very many
of the characteristics of the larger
ChautauQua Assemblies.
The Assembly programme opened
last Sunday morning at 1890 with a
sermon by Mrs. Mary Il. Lathrop whom
the Prohibitionists revere, and to whom
they refer as 1.-THE Webster of the Pro-
hibition Party" Her sermon was a
most pleasing and entertaining effort,
to the power and effect of which much
was added by the music of the Silver
Lake Quartette which conducted the
music of the series of meetings.
On Sunday afternoon Col. George
w. Balm. of Kentucky, delivered an ad-
dress, and the days services were
closed in the evening by an address by
Rev. G. w. Hubbard, of Ohio.
On Monday morning Miss Lydia j..
NewcCmb gave the first of a series OF
classes in physical culture, which are
the features of the meeting, recurring
daily at 9 a. m. Her pupils are quite
numerous and include large proper
tion of the ladies on the camp grounds
with quite number OF gentlemen.
At 1890 Mrs. Lathrop again enter
tanned large audience, and Mr.. Balm
and Mr.. Hubbard conducted the after
noon and evening meetings respectively
Monday being the nations birthday,
all the exercises took on more or
less patriotic turn, and considerable
fireworks OF various sorts was burned
about the grounds.
Yesterday was devoted to matters
that interest the w. c. T.U. Mrs. Jen-
ME ?. Sisson, President of the State
Union, presided over the morning and
afternoon meetings with grace, and
both meetings were full Of good things
that not only interested the ladies, but
the gentlemen who favored the occa-
sion with their presence, as well. The
morning session opened at a. M, with
devotional exercises conducted by mem
bers OF the Union, after which Mrs.
Jennie McClurkin addressed the meet
ing. At 10 o'clock Miss Newcomb with
her class took the platform and went
through their exercises, after which Miss
-,9wcsmb delivered an address upon
the value of physical curture, and exer-
else carefully and Systematically taken,
to women and the good effects derived
from it. Her talk was very interesting
and instructive and seemed 10 be most
heartily enjoyed by her hearers.
A conference Of w. G. Z, L. workers
was held between IL and y, at which
methods Of work and parsons Of re-
suits were dilated upon by members of
the Union. The noontide prayer meet
ing began at noon and that over, the
meeting adjourned till p. M, when,
after devotional exercises, Miss Vande-
liza Varnum, of New York, addressed
the meeting on the question so sue
cessfully answered by Lieutenant Gov
ernor Jones, of New York, "Who Pays the
freight" Miss Varnum touched upon
many everyday topics, such as dress,
society, style Of living, temperance,
wealth, poverty, folly of various kinds,
ETC., prmiscuously. She showed clearly
that all violations OF the laws of nature
and the laws of God tend to increase the
freight bills" enormously, and that all
sin, all folly and all excess and dissipa-
tion only lead to misery, degradation
and despair. Her talk was most pleas
ing, and she was frequently interrupted
by applause. She is thorough master
of her voice and gestures, and gives her
hearers comfortable feeling so neces-
sary to full appreciation and under
standing OF an address.
Miss Newcomb was not down on the
programme for the AFTERNOON, but at
the request of number OF the ladies,
she delivered short talk on physical
culture and the necessity for dress re-
form. She said that the greatest objec-
ton to the modern dress is that 1t
cramps the wearer and renders impossi-
bic the performance Of their full func-
tionS by many of the most important
organs of the body. She believes that
all pressure and unnecessary weight 10
dresses should be removed and that
clothing should conform to the body
and not the body TO the clothing. She
did not wish it understood that all
dresses should be alike. Different
women require different styles OF dress,
the material and cut TO conform to the
physical pecuiarities and occupation
OF the woman who is 10 wear 1t.
She firmly believes in an in
diyiduality in dress, and believes wo-
man should clothe herself with gar
ments that suit her instead OF allowing
the dreSS-maker to put her into gown
M hnr
women look well in it, and because an
imaginary and unusually impossible
woman on fashion-plate makes pref
ty picture when so clad, She believes
that women will be much better able TO
reform their husbands and brothers
when they shall have reformed them
selves, and given up their foibles and
envieS aud iealousies, many OF which
arise from dress, than they are now.
So long as woman is hampered by I'M
natural garments, and lives under con.
slant and frequently painful pressure,
so long will it be impossible
for her to reach the highest
sphere of usefulness and the highest
state of physical and mental develop
ment. She thinks there are times when
trains are in order to show how easily a
train might be attached and detached
from a dress, she had her companion on
the stage remove the train and Wateau
pleat she wore while she was talking
without causing the slightest Interrupt
ton.
She closed her performance with a
very graceful exhibition of club swing
ing which was loudly applarded.
At s:4s .. m, the hall was fairly well
filled with an audience to hear a pepu-
lar lecture by Col. Balm. The crowd
was numerous but did not look
large, scattered about, as it was, over
sthe big auditorium. 1t was the banne,