The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1914-03-06
OPENING SESSION OF THE
CHAUTAUQUA IN THIS
CITY


After calling on Rev. w. II. Dodge
of the Presbyterian church for an
opening prayer, which he delivered
with great clearness, force, perspicac-
ity and appropriateness, Secretary
Rooney of the Marion county board OF
trade, told why there were so few
present, gave a history of the chau
tauqua movement, and why the pres
ent one was given under the auspices
of the Marion county board of trade
it was done, he said, for the moral, in
tellectual and spiritual uplift of the
community.
The secretary referred to the speak
er CT the afternoon in very f1attering
terms. He said that she had delight
ed audiences in the principal cities of
the United States, and was every
where decorated with as choice flow.
ars of rhetoric as her critics were ca
gable of framing into language.
The speaker was Dr. Carolyn Gel
eel of the Battle Creek sanitarium
and has won the soubriquet of the
Apostle Of Health" Dr. Geisel, aft
er thanking the secretary for his
flattering introduction, and speaking
in high terms of all the lecturers
booked for our chautauqua, and max
ing special reference to DR.. Byron w
King and DR.. Russell H. Conwell, she
plunged Immediately into the discus
sion of her theme, THE Conservation
of Our Babies"
DR.. Geisel holds to the theory that
the government should prohibit the
marriage of the "unfit"-imbeciles
the feeble-minded, those with inner
table diseases, and detectives" gen
orally.
She gave a history of the marriage
of a certain imbecile couple, and
what its offspring had cost the com
monwealth where they lived. Then
she gave the history of a couple that
possessed the attributes of physical
and moral health, and she recounted
The number CT famous men and wo-
men that had blessed the common
wealth as the result of that marriage.
She said that the government is
now paying more attention to the
raising of pigs than babies, and she
protested that this should not be.
The lecturer was opposed to indis-
criminate immigration, and said that
the true type of the American was
now found only in the south, and she
congratulated us for being SO fortu-
nate.
Dr. Geisel lectured for fully an
hour, and her lecture was very great
ly enjoyed by the audience, and some,
who are most capable critics, said
her effort was as fine as ever fell from
the lips of any orator, man or woman,
and from both a moral and education
al standpoint. was little less than an
inspiration.
At the Monday morning session
and again at the early afternoon ses-
sion DR.. Geisers health lectures were
again featured, and again in her elo-
quent and forceful way presented
some of the crying needs of the pres
ent generation. 1t is said that no one
who did not possess the high senti-
ments of motherhood and the duty to
the unborn generation could have de-
livered such splendid lectures as did
DR.. Geisel. Her addresses are not
only interesting but highly inspira-
tional. She will lecture again this
morning and also this afternoon.
DR.. Geisel's afternoon health lee
ture was especially fine, and her plea
for clean cities (civic as well as spir-
itually) was splendid. She used the
city of Tacoma, Wash, as an exam
pie. This as is we'll known by all
who are deeply interested in civics,
is the cleanest city in the United
States, and has the lowest death rate.
There is not fly in the city, and ev-
cry man, woman and child works to-
gether for the cleanliness of their
city.
Following hrs. Geise1, DR.. ". H.
Dodge introdu ed DR.. Byron w.
King, president of Kings School of
Oratory at Pittsburg, who delivered
his well known address, What Fools
We Mortals Be-"
DR.. King is quite scholar and a
poet, and during his lecture recited a
number OF his own attractive poems.
He is a very clever entertainer, and
although the audience was rather a
small one those who heard DR.. King
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