The Leon reporter. (Leon, Iowa) 1887-1930, 1910-08-11
CHAUTAUQUA A WINNER
Opened Monday and Everybody is
Well Pleased with the AttraC-
tions on the Program.

The Fourth Leon Chautauqua un-
der the auspices of the Redpath-
Vawter Chautauqua System, opened
Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock,
the big tent being nicely located on
the High School grounds which
makes it very easy of access. AL
though the big tent did not arrive un-
til noon the boys in charge worked
like troopers and the program open
ed right on time, and so far every
body is pleased and we have not
heard a single complaint in regard to
the attractions. it being the unani-
nous sentiment of all attending that
the program this year is the best we
have had yet.
Rev. A. C. Bracket is the superin-
tendent, and he is good one. He
makes friends with everybody and
knows how to handle the attractions
so as to best please the audiences.
His plan of splitting up the the musi-
cal numbers, giving half the program
at the commencement and the bal
ance at the close of each session is a
splendid one.
The big tent was we'll filled at the
opening program on Monday, and the
attendance is Increasing at each ses-
sion. The Leon Commercial Club
guaranteed the sale of 900 season
tickets, and while all have not yet
been disposed of, it is hoped that the
full guarantee will be sold out today
The season tickets are only $3.50
and people can enjoy splendid enter
tainments at nominal price by pur-
chasing season tickets. 1t is cheaper
to buy season ticket even if you
cannot attend all the sessions than
it is to buy single admission tickets.
The program opened Monday af-
ternoon with the Kirksmith ladies
orchestra, and no more popular at
traction ever appeared in this city
The ladies, six in number, and all
sisters, gave program which was a
feast of the best in music and time
and time again they were forced to
respond to encores. They are musi-
clans, everyone of them, and are also
capable singers.
The speaker Monday afternoon,
was Dr. Mattison w. Chase, a popular
pastor of the largest M. E. church in
Chicago, and those who failed to at
tend the opening session missed rare
treat. As several remarked after
hearing his lecture, it alone was
worth the price of season ticket
His subject was Sight and Insight -
theme rich in suggestion, and re-
plete with good things in the hands
of the speaker. His style is epigra-
matte, and apt anecdotes followed
fast upon each other during the hour.
The fact that we have two eyes
and two ears and only one tongue,
says DR. Chase, indicates that we
should see and hear twice as much
as we talk, but he added, the Ameri-
cans are proverbially great takers
and poor listeners.
Referring to his subject he said
we could only see in anything what
We are able to project into it of our
selves. Again, it is all in the point
of view, and to prove this DR.. Chase
told number of convulsing stories.
1t is not what we take into our
system that counts, but what we as
simulate, therefore we may look and
observe with. unseeing eyes and ears,
but the man or woman who can see
accurately is rich.
Some people go to Niagara and are
disappointed, coming away with the
idea that it is an exaggerated mill
bridal couples. But again, it's all in
the point of view, and DR.. Chase
drew a wonderful word picture of
Niagara, created as he says by the
transcendent power of omnipotence
1t is strange thing that eye trou-
bles have striking parallels in mental
conditions. There is near sighted
ness, which is selfishness, far sight
yUhi hioh Of ! Il;
tainable, forgetting the blessings just
within the reach, color blindness
the pessimist and intellectual astig-
matism-a distorted view of things
which really puts dollars above souls
and things above men.
Although optimism may be carried
too far, it has one really fine feature,
1T makes people agreeable, and after
all what blessed thing to be cheer
full. Inevitably we mold our judg-
ment by our views. 1t isn't so much
what a man has or has not as the
way he looks at it. There are many
seeming inequalities but these things
will all come right if the right view
point is used.
DR.. Chase has happy personality,
and with the kirksmith sisters, gave
IHS SHdulduQud oil lQGdl SSuQ OH.
In the evening the Kirksmiths
again pleased the big audience, divid-
ing the time with Miss Evelyn Bar
gelt, cartoonist and reader. Her en-
tertainment was novelty and she
had her audience with her through
out the hour allotted her.
Tuesday morning King Arthur's
court was organized for the children,
this work being in charge of Miss
Mary Smith, and she has already in
gratiated herself in the hearts of a
I large number of the children, who
are entering into the various games
and sports with much zeal, and this
work is proving very popular. Miss
Alice Boyd was selected as Queen
and Master Dewey Long as King, the
children making their own selection.
The morning sessions are held at
10 o'clock, and Geo. r. Laird, the
morning lecturer, is a scholarly and
forceful talker and his lectures are
deep in thought and abound in rich
things. The attendance is increas-