The courier. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1894-1903, 1896-07-18

onoATisn Oy whom tney were surround
ed locked upon them with suspicion and
the Taylors had to go much more than
half way. Finally they are established
In the confidence of their neighbors and
the tone Of the district has been raised.
The thermometer that measures the
moral degradation Of the neighborhood
In the price of real estate and rents. The
houses In the immediate neighborhood
Of the Chicago Commons have appreci-
ated In value to a much greater value
than the property in contiguous dis
trtcts. At the present time the settle
ment numbers seventeen people. The
lorger number are students in the theo-
logical school where in DIR. Taylor is a
professor. The members of the settle
mept are paid a sum which is sufficient
for board and clothing. They dine to-
g1eher and pay so much a week for
board. room. lights. heat. etc. The
Commons Is organized on the plan of
Jane Adams Hull house, which has
probably made more good citizens out
Of bad ones than any other institution
in Chicago.
DIR. Taylor lectures like physicist Just
out of the laboratory. His face is
Luminous with the discoveries he has
made and the indications his expert
ments show of the possibility of greater
ones. Only the passion of the scientific
Investigator is one thing and Professor
Taylor's love of humanity is another.
DR.. Griggs, who took President Jor-
dams place on the program Is a young
professor of ethics in Stanford univer-
sfy. His voice has not much more than
the conversational pitch, yet after he
had spoken for a moment or two the
twitter Of wren, the rustic of the
leaves and his voice. know Of no one
except Phillips Brooks to. compare him
70 The personality of Phillips Brooks
was so respondent. He was six feet
and four inches high with noble fea-
lures. a resonant voice. and he made
few but impassioned gestures. Yet in
the compelling sweetness f,their words,
in their control of an audience, In the
form of their sermons. the two men are
alike.
Professor Griggs' learning is wide
He seems to have absorbed the literature
of all nations and ages, yet he puts the
product of. reading. experiment and
meditation In SO simple a form that ITO
each one 1t seems as If he might have
said 1t himself. Effortlessness Is one
of the tests to which artists must sub
nit their work. Professor Griggs' I'M
assuming talks show no more labor than
THE Angelus," or ''The Skylark"
Mrs. Ford is a Chicago lady and lect-
ures on art and literature before club
ratheri ss She mas an instantan- GUS
command ~ laneuag VIII she ac-
quires a new word she puts 1t where she
can find 1t in the dark. She does not
hesitate from the beginning to the end
of her lecture for the right word. Her
lectures are not written out. She is
a just and discriminating critic. The
literature of France, England and
America are as familiar as childhood
tale to her. Her comparisons. there
fore are not provincial or lacking in the
sympathy which can only come from
knowledge
The lectures by Professor Favour on
electricity and chemistry were elemen-
tary. They were about what the stud
ent receives in first-year work in ply
sizes. Lectures on a technical subject
must be elementary of course, before a
mixed audience.
The little Eskimo woman. Olaf Krarer.
was a surprise to everyone. She is
three feet and four inches high and she
weighs one. hundred 400 pounds. Yet
for an Eskimo woman she is til and
slender. Tho point is an important
one, and keeps her out of the freak
class. She is the only representative
of her race in this country. The Eski-
mos have almost lost the use Of their
limbs from sitting on the floor cross
legged. wrapped in furs which prevent
free movements, Their toes turn in
ward like the polar bear, whose skin
they wear. Their walk Is numbering
and shutting like the bears walk. The
men are slightly taller and more active
than the women because they do
more. They eat six or seven pounds
of meat or blubber or fish at once. They
do not wonder or love or hate. or swear
or smoke or lie or laugh or cry. They