Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1896-06-23
ASSEMBLY RECOGNITION DAY.
RAIN FAILS 70 DAMIEN TuE ARDoR
OF OTTAWA CnAuTAuQUANs.
Graduating Class This Year Com
pri-cs Ten ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Paper by Mis-. Constance
IngnIIs-pcr.onnl.

Forest iafk, ottawa, mas, juno -
Especially Thu second week Of the Ottawa
assembly opened with n steady dow n.p pour
Of rain. But II takes more than u rain to
dhmpen the active enthusiasm OF an as.
sembly.eoer. a dcmand for umbrellas was
tho only result. and the donning Of mack.
intoshcs and galochcs. The Attendance a.
all tho classes and lectures was good. Dr.
Taylor had the usual large audience al
institute ana tabernacle lecture.
The kindergarten had rs many pseudo
bees and birds present US the brightest
morning called forth.
Al the Bible normal class the subJec,
was the Land OF Palestine.
THE Commercial Traveller was the SUBJ
jcct OF a very practical paper read by Miss
Ella Green. OF Topeka. before the W. C..
u. Y. Miss Green. having for fourteen
years been herself u commercial traveller,
knows whereof she speaks. Her chief point
was the lack OF practical interest ovincei
by rhilanthropically inclined Organizations
in the welfare AMI advancement OF this
great class. The Improvement as n class OF
thu representatives In Kansas, thanks 20
the absence OF the saloon, was mentioned.
The political influence welded by them was
illustrated by a recent practical example.
Miss Green made u strong plea that the
". c. Il. L. interest their workers in max.
inE special provisions for the commercial
traveller. and paid n high tribute to the
siuss that represented the U. {. I. OF
An exceedingly bright paper was that
given by Miss Constance ingalls, before
worship. was the subject. Hero worship
- dead" states Miss ingalls,, whether It
Is laudable or co~ndcmnatory fact. whether.
caused by our lack OF ideHlisin, or whether
NangilEheu by the present attitude of in
crcdullty and mistrist-these questions do
not affect this statement OF the plain fact.
The supposition that greatness is a mask.
worn and cast on as the individual de-
sircs, has most probably disturbed the re.
Z IFIp aNF.4s ~ t.V.44t WAN no ,a
sarded something in the light of actors
who play on tho worlds stage the par, of
n Hamlet or an Othcllo,- and on returning
TO their homes throw of the role and as
sumo the garments OF tho ordinary stage
Joyous. ideal D'Artagan in the real APP
p.arancc, next morning OF gloomy. melan-
choly Salvini. with more than suggestions
of garlic. would dampen the most arduous
infatuation of any matinee girl. But great
men are not like ~this-they are the living
worship for Tennysm or Mckinley,
The lack OF reverence for the great was
another complaint. That men whose names
are lndolibly stamped upon the greatest
movements of the century should be. pic
tured in connection with varied advertising
matter in our papers and MAGAZINES. was
a point, alphabetically encored by the In
terestcd audience.
This representative, progressive yoing
Kansas woman has her own very clear
idea OF that much discussed individual, the
new woman. begging your forhearancc.
as / am about TO resurrect from the news
paper morgucs some thoughts relative TO
than Eve of the modern Paradise. who.
unlike her earliest namesake. eats the
whole apple. wipes the juice from her rosy
lips ana only intimntcs to man how good 1t
tastes. We call her now under the more
familiar coEnomen OF New Woman. But
let US MAKE some d|lscrlinlnatlon IN ms
broad held. That young woman whose
breai ana SAT- must ne farhed p| PIT oWn
,ilorts, lgt her o.. lhteiisStuaIly dstr it
ihbSrr f bnlgb INTO o adi i 5hS aeip o sh or b s9aG no alfy
m nslsHts ut.'ISiin ~ nv pjilur,,s ~,
hrGa8 5t9 se iTt sfr k th9SsS efre ami sta'ey wi, be
-; M yG;ur,. Wnn,an WIZ liz an" M
aaii,rjonsiy s1, Sfier ~ Knowiedse for The
mere s1tisfaGilon OF being pronolinccd
mans eduai or searches after some i'm
moral or questionable cult. for tho plr-
pose of attracting To herself a crowd of
curious people. IS the feminine known Us
Miss ingalls, paper caused animated dis
S~ussion-eNen more spirited discussion than
inc lectures y Professor Maciiptock, o,
Tho chicago. university; are especially APP
ITec!aied. To-Day subjects are "a Great
Art Ioem,' "Iennyson's Palace OF Art.
anH IN me stTll.s IN hcuum s'rlss me
hAtaetfr iprt,oTfoM ..r,sMa
~ oh ns, or ;; NM ne W rfrgatt
,tah dsy' axcr1 Tisogt. M, t,aii,t,b " rincrr,sorEirrtr
with the, carrying out of The usual plans.
me htrhcs, instead OF. being erected on
tn sr2nnls. We're placed in the tabernacie