New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-14
CHAUTAUQUA ON WHEELS.
SUMMER WORK OF PEOPLES INSTITUTE
TOURS UNDER THE AUSPICES
OF BEREA COLLEGE.

"Chautauqua on wheels is what President
Frost of Berea College calls the summer work
carried by that institution for the isolated
people of the Southern mountains. Four groups
of workers are at present scattered through as
many localities in Kentucky and the extreme
western counties OF North Carolina and Virginia,
trying. IS President Frost says Ito bring the
fruits Of modern progress the door of the log
schoolhouse and the hearth Of the highland
home"
One section is IN charge of young women
who, the request of several students of the COL
lege, from Perry County Ky, have gone
into that remote locality, spending a week in a
place and holding religious meetings for women,
organizing Sunday schools. etc.
Another party started early this month for Letch-
County, In the State, where the work
Will be of industrial nature. Lessons in
the household arts will be feature Of this effort
In the extreme counties of Kentucky and the
sige Of North Carolina and Virginia, Peoples IN
stitutes in progress These consist of public
meetings. which provide programmes religious
educational. ethical and Industrial subjects adapted
TO the audiences. Many of the lectures and talks
are illustrated by the stereopticon. Sundays are
usually devoted to music Bible lessons and stere-
opticon lectures the life of Christ A work
similar TO this is going in counties Berea.
The tours made through the mountains by
wagon, and beset by not few perils. so
many OF the creeks have only one ford and that
ford 'endwise.' due to the roads following the
streams that driving often partakes of the nature
Of navigation" said one of the workers of last
season. "Only when one has spent from two to
four days in driving over such a country is the
full meaning of isolation spelled out
A circuit Of 300 miles through ten counties was
traversed by the Peoples Institute tours year
ten stops of five days each being made and two
days of travel allowed between each two.
The following programme OF one day is fair
sample Of the work: Opening services, prayer and
music. at 645 a. m Then Bible lesson; music
and round tables brains in Our Hands" and
all ctr on
as How Budding and Grating Improve the FRUIT
Mst Moaei Gr9 9n6 nor
ming" Later, Health In the Home under this
head. suggestions on What to Do Until the Doctor
Cheerful and Fresh" Good Nursing and food
for the Sick" In the evening, singing school.
lecture on "Mormons, the Foes 10 the Home.
lantern lecture showing views OF Berea and the
day closes with the singing Of Home. Sweet
Home"
Everywhere last season the workers were greeted
with hospitality and enthusiasm. Twice. at least.
the camp pitched within the regions of recent
feudal warfare, but the meetings unmolested
Circuit Court adjourned in county seat
TO give a chance for a lecture on education The
many of whom compelled to stand. and the
audience listened eagerly for an hour to an adj
The Peoples Institute tours form section Of
the University Extension department established
seven years ago by Berea College. From the first
The object OF the movement has been to take to
the mountaineers of remote localities Of the
from Berea who have returned to their homes to
maintain the ideal that they gained there. Among
70 serve a connection between the college and
the home. Not the least Of the work OF the move
by fostering the manufacture of homespun cloths
Ded covers OF artistic antique patterns etc, both
money Tor an education The travelling libraries
are part OF the enterprise more than 1000 pack
S Sses OF DOCKS having been distributed last year
Second hand books and the like much needed
Tor this purpose.