The Medina sentinel. [volume] (Medina, Ohio) 1888-1961, 1920-08-20
|CHAUTAUQUA SEASON
HAS been SUCCESS
TREATMENTS OF
SURPRISING EXCELLENCE
The Financial Result is Satisfactory
and Medina is Assured of Another
Chautauqua Next Year.--Review Of
the Weeks Program.

fnal financial report vi the SNdu-
tauqua season shows that GAL tickets
were sold-773 adults and 1853 children.
As the latter tickets were sold for half
rate, indicates in dollars and cents the
equivalent of 857 full tickets, or 157
more than the 700 which the contract
called for. The 157 tickets represent
a surplus of $435.75. Deducting the
war tax there remains net profit Of
| $392.50, which, divided fifty-fifty with
the Community organization, leaves a
profit for that organizations treasury
of $196.25.
The sixth annual Chautauqua sea-
son for Medina will come to close to-
night. Like all of the preceding ones
this too has been successful, both fl
financially and as to quality and va
riety of entertainment, and it appears
to be the consensus of opinion, borne
out by the very large attendance thru
out the season and the generous ap-
lplause accorded each number, that the
Chautauqua this year has been fully
UP to the standard of those of the
preceding five years, if not, in some
respects at least surprising.
The present season opened last Sat-
urday afternoon with a concert by
the college Singing Girls" number
ing five handsome and accomplished
young ladies. Their work was very
good and was we'll received by the
Chautauqua patrons.
They gave another excellent enter
tainment Saturday evening, followed
by lecture, "A Mans Size Job," by
Roscoe Gilmore Stott, the basic idea
!of which was that the relative import
lance or potentiality of ones work is
not to be measured by it's lack of dig
nifty or refinement. That the one big
thing that counts is that II love my
Job, and ! have faith to swing my job"
A supposed digalogue between base
and shaft was frequently employed by
the speaker in accentuating the
thought that every ones job is a"man's
size job" for him who dignifies it by
a spirit of joyful and faithful perform
ance. Tho serious message, Stott
greatly added to it's palatability by the
ladmixture of humor, of which his ma
ture clearly jabounds. f'.
The attraction Sunday afternoon
was concert by the Musical Arts
Trio, consisting of violin, harp, and
piano, with added vocal numbers. The
young women forming the trio are true
musical artists, and their work was of
high artistic excellence. Following the
trio, DR.. E. B. Evans of Chicago gave
lecture on Beacon Lights of Literat-
ure, pointing out the relation of liter
ature to life. He spoke of the power
of great books on the lives of readers,
the influence of such books as Toll
stoy's Resurrection, and great poems.
Literature the record of mans pro-
gress on this planet. One of the bea-
con lights of literature is idealism,
loyalty, and brotherhood. 1t was Rous-
seau's writings that gave the inspira-
tion for the writing of the declaration
of independence. Burns saw how
mans inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn" and he
sounded the note of human brother
hood. Another beacon light of litera-
ture is that of action, the carrying out
of ones ideals. Another is the idea
of serenity, and still another the law
of spiritual justice, seedtfme and har-
vest. Literature furnishes the idea of
truth in all it's power, and the uncon-
querable spirit, such as Henley pro-
claims when he says, "I am master of
my fate, l am captain of my SOUL"
The final thought was that of i'm
mortality, eternity, in the heart, the
Medina people in general, and declared
that no other spot on earth is so dear
to him as Medina, Medina, county,
Ohio"
The perils that unprotected girls so