The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1916-09-28
OBSERVATIONS ON TIMELY AND INTERESTING
TOPICS BRIEFLY AND ENTERTAINMENT
DISCUSSED
OUR CHAUTAUQUA
Paper Read at Charities and Corrections Confer
ence by President Of Chautauqua Circle
By Mr.. J. S.


Gle is essentially possession of the inmates
The Chauauqua orgauizaion which unique
administration Of penal institutions 1t is part of the prison
educational work. while has its work within the prison. 1t
organization and such stands apart and distinct from
the prison administration.
The Chautauqua Circle volunteer organization whose
every department of this great institution Kit
Farm Yard Hospital Workshops Library PrntShop Bus
mess Offices all represented upon the rolls.
Many English, Ger
man, Austrian Swede, Irish.
Many vacations represented Common-laboers Book
keepers stenograhers Mechanics Businessmen Farmers Sales
men, Professional men.
question work offered for educational needs
benefits be derived of practical character? By
character will receive such help and education
from his Chauauqua Studies will strengthen his character and
give him better himself when he out into the
world.
study required the preparation of class papers broad
scope members outlook society," brings
him the historical and economic facts the life of the world and
leads him better understanding of the duties and
of citizenship within free
Reading his class papers before his felow-members gives
sefconfdence selespec and Three
a factors the making of character formation Taking
the general the meetings the members have
the opinions of Others to be and fair
Cbautauqua holds open the door which
portal through environment of
wholesome effort, and volunteer endeavor
The Chautauqua work the the opportunity for
help work interesting and valuable
the inmate that when he enrolled member he will continue
advance his and needed equipment his future
requirements.
While there strong bond of friendship which holds the
members for the Chauauqua Work. class
faction feeling This spirit of good fellowship which prevails within
the Circle prestige the nonmembers and lets the
members realize that they engaged work that is Of
help prisoners spirit
pride within them.
Thus the fact of membership gradually the members
congrauaon for volunteering work which adding
dignity to their character
In Chautauqua Work learn something
in
the insight topic professional
adding little erude times the mechanics helping with
their technical knowledge the farmers lending their of
and the aborers assisting with helpful suggestions
Thus the Chauauqua Circle fills its place educational
the life of this institution. An inmates society-tha merits
designation as--OUR CHAUTAUQUA.
Tue Prison Chauauqua Circle unique in penal adminstra-
The members of the Circle their meetings.
Judges Debates
for membership, make their outline the of
study the hosts the Quarterly meetings.
Critic who member and who permitted frank and free
preston of opinion at the meetings.
The work offered by the Prison Chautauqua comprises
reading which Modern
Literature, Studies of the Lives of Men,
topics.
The of ideal which satisfy all kinds of
in literature, would be impossible miracle Popuarzng
type fiction impossbty
serial and short-story forms in the magazines.
We have distinct of fiction which be correctl,
termed magazine fiction This class of literature which has
within the last decade
heones 1t has atmosphere and mode of living
has language typical of itself 1t has peculiar
clothes One of the features strongly emphasized
the titles the They usually pertinent
original Magazine creators
WELL for there number magazines
the market Perhaps the influence the largely
sponsbe for the popularity of the and the
of this school Of fiction.
Kplng, his American Notes, has this notation
American method of the English anguage
Oliver Wendell Holmes that Yankee schoolmarms.
cider and the salt Goldfish the
for what he calls nasal Hindu Hindu
his Frenchman is French
because he his language but the
He is dialect slang, provncialism