Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-03-24
Another Attractive Entertainment at
the BeIlview Public School
Friday Evening.
(By Henry C. Gilmore.)

Once more l have approached the
portals of the Bellview public school,
and this time to take in" not edi-
bly, and drinkably, the good things
of life, but provender of an intel
lectual and uplifting character, of
which Miss Maud Hawley, Mr..
USHER telephone company, Judge
Watson and Mr. Routledge (Western
Union Telegraph Company were the
accredited purveyors. The entertain
ment was under the matronly au-
spices of the Parent-Teachers' Asso-
citation and conducted by Mrs. Cor
don, its new president. THE Habits
and Customs of the Mexican People
as | Obse we'd Them" aptly desig-
mates the interesting talk Miss Haw-
ley furnished for the occasion. She
spoke without notes and related
facts and incidents in the life of the
average Mexican that plainly set
forth the claims OF interested inves-
tigators that, while it is a country
of great possibilities, there is little
to recommend it OIL the score of sta
bility and dependability. License,
too frequently, is made to take the
place of true liberty, while, illogical
as it may seem, the hilarious ten
dency of any citizen is checked by
the necessity of procuring a permit
from the legally constituted authori-
ties before indulging in the invigor-
ating exercise of smiling or whist
ling on the public highway. Miss
Hawley exhibited g number of curios,
not the least attractive being SOM
brero, which, during an unguarded
moment, landed so serenely on Judge
Watson's head as to suggest the
thought that, unquestionably, the hat
was "to the manner born"
THE Lifeboat" portrayal on can
vas, with the various ups and downs
of a life on the ocean wave" was
splendidly presented by Messrs.
usher and Routledge, who-the one
in poetry and the other as skillful
manipulation of lantern slides-suc-
ceeded in investing the subject with
an unusual degree of interest. The
vicissitudes of sea life have always
appealed strongly to the minds of
the would-be mariner, and among
the boy listeners at the Bellview
school house on Friday night were
many youths quite solicitous of get
ting aboard and making friends with
"Old Briny"
The third attractive feature of the
evenings entertainment was a splen-
did address by Judge Watson on the
grand natural scenery in all direc-
tions around our mueh-extolled Ash
land. Moving pictures manipulated
by Mr. Routledge illustrated the
many interesting points of the
judges address, and his minute
handling of what, substantially, may
be regarded as the prehistoric caves
in Josephine county, in this state
comparable in their main features
with those SO long celebrated in Ken
lucky, was~an inspiration for the
young and inquiriLg minds present
} to seriously investigate matters fol
themselves. To be told that Grizzly
peak was once submerged by the Pa.
cific ocean and that Ashland, where
} it now stands, was nothing but 6
watery waste, is to start a train oi
thought. Suggestive of Judge Wat
sons fascinating manner of dealing
geologically with the universe, which
: miraculously enough, has a dali!
revolution of more than one thou
sand miles an hour, and which, a!
the Psalmist informs us, the grea
Creator holds (just think of it) il
the hollow of His hand"
; Bellview is Enthusiastically to tn,
= foe, and the Parent-Teachers Asso
5 citation has it's net spread for othe
3 allurements in the near future. A
3 the request of the association, assist
ed by promising pupil in the per
t son of Miss WeiseEburger, l was in
, duced-and willingly SOTO furnisl