Ethel Morton at Chautauqua

his cap as the gi

e in front of?" he whispered, glancing up at th

e wooden part or the te

there were only one or two houses and for

!" cried

gs weren't very comfortable. The Bishop and Mr. Miller had these combination

any people here now who

was here then. He was

esn't remember a

ten twenty people who stand up when they ask how many present were here at the first session. The Chancellor, that's

r. We just met her," and they to

in luck," was

anniversary of the very

isingly. "Grandmother thinks it's the most

" asked Ethel Blue who liked t

irst Tuesda

e. Isn't anything interesting

s begin and a little later there'll be a

lue in a doubtful tone th

inks about spelling," laughed H

re kids. They don't let anybody under fifteen go in. Mr. Vincent, the

wouldn't agr

very day, and the grown-up people don't get so much practice. They look up

eople fail, but I suppose they give

urse books for the next year. Miss Kimball told

rls all cried in chorus. "Ou

on is in this

is Grand

you know, and he says that if he didn't read that

thel Brown, who liked to hav

anything but his medical jo

r coming on Re

the wrong time. He says he wouldn't miss it for anything. Th

nition Day be?"

ddle of

Blue g

so far off!"

toward a large building with a tower and with a verand

the hotel piazza and the people walk around below here and sit on

s of girls her

ou as soon as she sees you on your porch. That's the only way people can make calls here. Everybo

her right off," said Helen ho

this corner on the piazza is where the teacher stays. Mother goes there all the time, and my married sister. You know the

have

asked for them. Listen. It's de

go out

auqua, f

et still

rdest thin

ional' 'ti

crochet-w

three, skip-

ps me wi

rd much the

dropped

splendid,

he duties

res, sermon

uch thing

o think the

set ther

to old C

ry off t

ty yards

that I

e lectures forty years ago," James went on, somewhat abashed

came of

atform and the people sat in front of it and whe

ve grown sinc

ke room. The first houses were built around the edge of the o

cottages rising side by side,

nizingly, "but the Institution doesn't allo

y n

small scale as a big house and no house can look its best if it's jammed up int

passed between two houses to a

e," said James, "and there's

" cried the E

ps at her brother's call and aske

making the first

at was pleasant to see. "Nobody stands on ceremony at Chautauqua," she went on, "

e had used almost the sa

cock family holds to

Dorothy

l on the porch to Helen, for she

d, "this is our friend Do

nd lacking in their appearance of vigor. Otherwise she was not unlike them, for she had curly brown hair and her nose was just the least bit "puggy," to use Roger's descriptive word. Her eyes, ho

learned how to make lots of things there last summer, and at Christ

years younger than she and she was earning money to pay for h

said Margaret to Helen. "They say they are going to h

ds of things did you learn t

to learn how to do one thing very well than to do a lot of things just middl

fferent

some pretty grasses that I found across the lake one afternoo

e beauties," sai

me of them. I thought the prettiest of all

ould you work with them? I should think

grows in the South. I got them in North Carolina

ot quite sure that it was polite to ask such a question

. Mother was teaching embroidery in an art store, so she got acquainted with the ladies who w

Blue to Helen's relief, for she did not

ike paying rent for the table you see and a salary to a clerk to sell it. That's the way Mother explained it to me," ended Dorothy rather s

s usual method-over the rail-and joined his new friend before he reached the house. As they strolled of

atre this evening?" asked Margaret

zy to see everything," replied Ethel Brown, "but she says we've got to go to bed e

plendid travel lectures that are illustrated. I love those. And once in a while I

bed just as late as we want to?" Ethel Blue asked

going to bed early when he was a boy and that when the time finally came when he could go to

that way," sighed Ethel. "

to go to the Amphitheatre that evening. It was a wonderful sight, the immense open building, the glittering organ, the brilliant electric lights, and, facing the thous

that another Assembly has opened. Higher and higher the flames roared at different points along the shore. Point Chautauqua, across the water, saw the beacon and flashed on the n

hel Blue to Ethel Brown, and Ethel Brown an