The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-28
GIVES CHALK TALK
Ross Crane Lectures on "FrOm
the Eyebrows Up"
Urges His Hearers to Use Their
Imagination.
WE MUST REALLY SEE LIFE
Lecturer Requests That Every
one Become a Home Owner.
Sixty Per Cent of People in the
United States Pay Rent.
We MUST REALLY SEE LIFE

There has been much speculation
as to the meaning of the Ross
Crane chalk-talk entertainment lee
ture, From the Eyebrows Up" which
was given this afternoon at the city
auditorium. Some thought it meant one
thing and some another, but the
meaning of the whole thing as ex-
pressed in the artist-lecturer's philoso-
ply is that the onlys help for middle
age is to live from the eyebrows up.
If we do live from our eyebrows up,
keeping our imagination always alive
and our hopes and ideals and our
faith, then it will be possible to live
a thousand years in one.
Must Use Imagination.
The speaker brought out the
thought that as long as we can not
stretch out our years on the earth.
and that in order to live life to the
utmost, We must touch life at every
point possible. The first things to
learn to do in order to come into con-
tact with life more is to really see.
He also brought out the thought that
heretofore in our educational systemW
have endeavored to crush out the i'm
agination of the child and have put a
premium on mere memory.
Crane believes that children have a
greater wealth of ina gination and see
a great deal that grown-up folks never
notice. He recalled his own childhood,
telling of the mountain in his home
town which was so high then and
when later he had gone out into the
world and had come home, how the
big thing had changed into a little hill.
how the river, where he had learned
to swim, was so clean and cool, and
when he returned home, it was little
and dirty. But in spite of the fact
that we have lost many things of our
childhood we have gained something
also.
Illustrates His Lecture.
Ross Crane has a national reputa-
ton as a cartoon entertainer and in
this lecture he draws pictures to il
lustrate what he is saying. The one
given this afternoon is a well known
Ohautauqua faYorite and has been
given to thousands over the country.
you can't borrow money on rent
receipts but you can borrow money on
a house" was one of the convincing
arguments given in favor of home
owning by Ross Crane in the sixth OF
the Better Homes institute lectures on
How to Build a ServantlesS House.
Persons owning homes are more in
terested, too, in civic improvements
Crane, who also adds that "sixty per
cent of the people in the United States
live in other peoples homes"
Exhibits Several Types of Houses.
The lecturer exhibited several types
of houses talking on the good points
and the bad points of the various
plans. In his trip about the city We'd
nesday Crane says he observed one
house in twenty which was a beauti-
full home. I'VE built houses long age
for our neighbors to look at and won
der at, and they are still looking and
wondering" commented Crane. "a
house should serve two purposes. Il
should be homelike and it should sui
| the domestic and social needs of the
household for which it is intended >
| The Iecturer-artist advises that wheT
! building a house one get an architec
| to do the planning. I'VE don't try tc
iifi1l our own teeth. we go to dentist
SO why try to plan our own house p
! Began in Kitchen.
| In taking up the plan of the servant
! less house, Crane began with tht
] kitchen, because. as he stated, 'tht
kitchen is the stomach of the house
and then continued, 1.-The buffers pan
try is the vermiform appendix. TIL,
ice box should be built in the wall s,
as to be iced from the outside there
| should be a little alcove off of TIL,
kitchen, where father may eat hi
breakfast when he is hurrying to catcl
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