Ethel Morton at Chautauqua

h, "even if we don't have the house in the exact order that we want it i

pens?" as

said Roger apprehensiv

duction but it is worth your while to be present when the gavel falls because y

ll in the tower on the lake shore rang to indi

built since I was her

er Memorial Tower," s

did you find tha

h and ran down there to

d "we" the other Ethel was th

t was called th

heard us wondering and she came over and said it was named in memory

nt is alive and he'll be here on the grounds in a few day

ea?" ask

thy s

is Do

was a great Idea that Bishop Vincent had to make people come

en listening with interest to the girls' explanations. "You are lu

oof but no sides. At one end was a platform and behind it rose the golden pipes of a large organ. The audience was gathering rapidly. Only the pit was full, for

stitution walked upon the stage and after rapping t

never ends. Chautauqua has given a new word to the language; has been the pioneer in summer assemblies and summer schools, and has become the recognized leader of

very good movement has received a hearty welcome. During the first year, from this place went out the call for the

xperience are able to speak with authority. Chautauqua, the place, has been beautified and equipped with every convenience for community life. It has been a paradise

. No system of lectures or of individual study can compare with this great co-operative opportunity which Chautauqua gives for living together, for working out one's own intellectual and religious salvation

when he found that the speaker was to be the President of Berea College, Kentucky. Roger had read of President Wilson's calling these Southern h

ing toward the southe

said Ethel Brown. "Dorothy told us where i

do folk dancing and all sorts of things," explained Ethel B

went up the steps of the hospitable looki

will i

hardly wait," and one Ethel seized the other E

Boys' Club building if there

Ethel Brown. "Do

to know all abo

she has been all over the United States and she ne

belong, then. Are there a

to belong to the Boys' Club and Dorothy

isn't b

ch attention to him any more and that he tried to do all the things

ught they'd

'good little sport' and she sai

el Blue as they turned away from the lake and st

aid Helen. "Father taught me when I was smaller than

f I don't do another thing," excl

" said Et

ain in the centre. At the left was a beautiful building shaped like a Greek te

you suppose?" won

rown as they stood gazing at the inscrip

, I know; it's Latin for hall. That must

ing that's been built sin

out it. Perhaps the

dded her head toward a large wooden house painted cream col

Sons and Chickens,"

hautauqua," contr

s turned to meet the smile of a tall, slender woman who was on her way into the bui

joined when she was here ten years ago

duate?" asked the lady, w

to her. She hasn't been he

ces of meetings of her class and that there are many fest

r are in this year's c

ady knew their names

answer to the girls' look of surprise, "so I correspond with many peopl

cried Helen. "I've heard Mother s

ou're going to be a Reader when your

And Ethel Blue and I'll belong later. There ought to be some member of the family joinin

mball l

t day," she said. "Would you like to go into the C.L.S.C. building? I have

ed it to her new companions. The C.L.S.C. classes, it seemed, occupied the rooms for their meetings. So many classes had graduated

signed by an artist and when that is done it will be as perfect to look at as it is

mean a great deal to the class members. The 1914 Class hasn't had time to pick up mementoes yet but they have a really valuable ornament in the

men with impossible legs and women with extraordina

kens," sa

opics were about England-so they took the name of an English author. Now if you've seen enou

cer whose name had been familiar to Helen, at least, for a long time. Her geniality prevented them from being speechless, how

C. class, they learned as they passed it, and

Helen's 'History of Greece,'" cried Eth

enon," mur

way this is beautiful, too, in its setting of green trees, though that was

sed Helen, struck by the enjo

he joyous memories of m

pillars and the breeze blew softly through. Miss Kimball and the girls sat down to rest a wh

thel Brown. "They are all different. Look, each one h

Mother's Chautauqua magazine that her class had their tablet put down last summer but it was not to be dedicate

's; here's the Dickens square," and the little group gathered around the Dickens tablet, feeling an ownership that they had not felt before. They were yet to

14' on Aunty's square," sai

s the class flower,

ery hard?" asked

aughed Miss Kimball. "We don't mean to make it hard; just sens

belongs," said loyal Ethel Blue, slippin

Golden Gate on Recognition Day behind the graduating class," s

her a "Good-bye" and

cottages, one of which, they noticed, was marked "Unitarian Headquarters," another "Bapti

es instead of churches

House' back of the Amp

," cried Ethel Blue. "You can go to any kind you want to just the same as if you

Ethel Brown, and the two children tore along the matting laid down beside t

e saw?" they cried breathlessly, and recited a

eshment booth in the pergola. Then the elders strolled slowly back over the road the young people had just come, for there was to be a read

of the way and then turned down a side st

e across Roger som

s Hancock whom they met as th