The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-07-08
LIFE AT THE LAKE.
The First Oroaker Of the Season Routine
School Work Platform Attractions
Band Concert at 7:30 this
Evening.

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Band Concert at 7:30 this
Evening.
Friday.
A CRoAKER.
There was placed on the program for
yesterday afternoon at $50 o'clock q
meeting of the State Educational Coun-
Gil Of South Dakota. Whatever it
means, matters not, as it did not meet,
but we heard one old grumbler who had
gone to the auditorium and discovered
the omission raise a dissatisfied wall
the first OF the season. Had the council
been here it would hardly have drawn a
~corporal's guard from the multitude on
the ground. The truth OF the matter is,
there is too much on the program now.
The great work of Chautauqua Is edu-
c~ational. At Z ia the morning q dozen
Glasses in different departments Of
special study are at work in different
tents on the ground. This is kept up
until IL o'clock by a change OF classes
and studies at 10 O'Clock. Then the
platform attraction at Ii is always a
strong one and draws everyone who can
leave classes. The rest at noon is little
more than one hour as another series
OF classes resume work at 1:30 so that
when 2:30 comes around, there are not
many but actual non-participants IN
anything else who care to be present
at the lighter part of the afternoons
platform meetings. So at this meeting.
But the old croaker was there, and the
State Educational Council was at the
worlds fair, so they did nj meet
Hence the growl. Wish the old fellow
had been obliged to listen to as many
class lectures which he could, just as
we'll q not, free Of charge, as your re-
porter had to do that day, the wall
would have come out of him In a differ
emit way.
FROM PARIS TO BERLIN"
Was the story the old chap expected
or wanted to hear at the Tourists Con-
ference in that State Council meeting,
and was no doubt amply repaid for all
his disappointment in hearing Prof. w.
Ell. Dana deliver the lecture at $50
o'clock. The professor is a very happy
narrator, described those incidents for
eign life OF which books give no account.
He thinks Paris delightful, the people
liv~ing:largely out OF doors, does not think
the women beautiful though they dress
handsomely. In the great restaurants
is the place to see real life as 30 many
people eat out. Light wine is the favor
tie beverage. The catacombs or caves of
human bones and large sewers OF Paris
are interesting places to visit. German
customs differ radically as you can tell
the minute you cross the line by the
difference in the size OF q loaf OF bread
or other articles. The boarding life or
mode Of home life is peculiar to a for
eigner and the professor afforded much
amusement in giving his personal ex-
~periences with the German feather bed,
! the Easter and New Years customs and
German econmy. He did not like the
mental and degraded relations in which
woman is kept in the "Fatherland."
At the close of the lecture, Mrs. Hat.
: the Brush Murray sang Polly and l."
ROUND TABLE.
Nearly a hundred persons gathered
in the q. Il. S. G. tent at 5 o'clock to
) take part in the Chautauqua Circle,
Prof. Lee Kratz led the singing. The
first exercises were a test in finding de-
|. scriptive adjectiyes to a rose; then a
contest between the two sides of the
: house in completing quotations, the
quotations, the sides alternately sug.
gested a quotation by giving the frs,
!. part and the other side being required
to complete it. The relation of the
J. preacher TO the G. l.. 3. G. was ther
: discussed, and the last 20 minutes oil
8 the hour was given to Prof. Dana to give
q talk or "Glasgow and Edinburg." He
referred to the remarkably cheap, clear
and wholesome food OF the Glasgow pub
] lie eating houses, the beauty of scener,
along the Caledonisn Canal 40 equallinl
that on the Rhine and would rather set
and live in Edinburg than in London.
N ExERCISEs.
The announcement of the 4th Regi
o ment band concert at the auditorium a
6:45 was sufficient to cause q rush to til,
auditorium at that early hour. The per
d Torrance was enjoyed with intense de
! light, the descriptive number calling
2 forth q prolonged encore which coule
only be silenced by q repetition of tn,
chorus ard homeward march.
After chorus practice, the four Ship
7 Brothers, English Bell Ringers, openet
2 their entertainment with a number en-
titled, "A Botch." This wal well re
z ceived and called forth an encore. Tn
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