Ethel Morton at Chautauqua

fect order before the classes began to assemble at eight in the morning. He always did some of his sweeping the afternoon before afte

im now that if he expected to have the rooms as tidy as his father would want to see them he mus

ng Match. "Last night's the first time I've heard them in a week. That room is worth a lot to me just for t

is mother. "You're quite right, my dear; that's what your father would want you to do. And none of us here have eight o'cl

resented the head of the family and must shoulder some of his father's responsibilities. It made his behavior toward his mother and sisters and Ethel Blue and Dick

doing that just as much as if she were doing it in one of the boarding houses. Yet it did not seem to her just the same. She did not really want to wait on table in one of the boarding houses; she would have been frightened to death to do it, she thought, although she had been long enough at Chautauqua to see many nice young teachers and college girls in the boarding cottages and at the hotel

ing to take sewing from the teacher in the

sewing, dear

nd shirtwaists and middy blouses and how to hang a skirt, if I get so far along. D

it would be a splendid thing for you to learn jus

mily needs," c

ked closely at

she a

class had proved a success and she had learned to do all the things she had mentioned,

ngs down the first morning are, that I'm just crazy to do something, too," she explained breathlessly. "It seemed to me tha

ooked at each other in amazeme

e money, dear? You h

want is to feel independent. I don't like to

g, dear. Just the fact that he has a big,

oo, but when Roger earns his room you think it's perfectly fine and when I wa

hat her mother made no reply did not cal

my dear," he sai

to make himself strong and well so that he'll be a vigorous and intelligent man. We had not thought of your earning your living outside your home, but if you want to prepare yourself to do so you may. I'm sure your father would have

his room and you seem to think it f

boy and so we like to see him turning naturally to being use

hy can

you; and if you'll learn how to make the Ethels' middy blouses and Dicky's little suits and ro

" she nodded after a pause, "it won't help Father a bit. The

pay some one to do the work, so why not you? Unless, of c

," exclaimed Helen. "I do really want to help Father, but I want to do i

to understand family co-operat

ss when every member of the family had to give the labor of his hands. I'm willing to work-I'm trying to induce Mother to let me work-but I want a definite value put on it just as there will be a definite value put on Roger's work when he gets started. I'd l

as the cry of her time that she was trying to express-the cry of the

gest; and meanwhile we'll put our minds on what you will do after you leave college.

s morning and arra

inly y

this morning," apologized Helen. "I'm afrai

ows that every generation has to be handled differ

ll to see my room-if Helen will ex

n fl

to and it's all right and I want to do the same t

nd arrange for your lessons and as soon as you can mak

quite understand it all. And well she might be puzzled, for what she was struggling with has puzzled w

ger," offered Mr. Emerson, "if you're sure

y the ten o'clock Devotional Hour and the eleven o'clock lecture in the Amphitheatre. There she would be joined by Mrs. Morton, who went every morning at nine to the Woman's Club in

led northward along the shore o

because I should feel exactly the same way if you p

rl," remonstrat

aid Roger wisely. "We were talking last night at the Hancocks' about fathers

ed Mr. Emerson u

to his children than you ever

admitted the old

s father was on him although Father expects a sor

," agreed

t on most things. If they ever 'bucked' at all it was when they fell in love with some man the stern parent didn't appr

t think she did

and if Grandfather Morton had tried to see the best in the man she was in love with i

y I believe in every one's e

girls; there are twenty of them in my class at the high school and I don't see but th

think as you d

college a couple of years before she is and if she wants to study a

y to object to anything

s dear old Dad will need a little education himself afte

t rose abruptly from the water. On the other side of the roadway w

lives the grandest sight in Chautauqua. I see him

his teeth protruding, his legs bowed. Belying his war-like aspect he was har

d Roger. "He goes to market every morning

id!" laughed

harness and the strong creature tugged him alo

works' at Chautauq

seem to like it, even C

e hill to a grove behind which rose the wall

, and the building beyond is the College. They aren't especially handsome either inside or out but they are as busy

s we're com

pillars. This place beats the others in the busy bee business. They hum in the mornings but the Arts a

and painting were taught how to teach better. In a hall in the centre they found a blackboard drawing that was as well done as many a painting, but Mr. Emerson's interest began really to grow when they came to the next departments. Here they found looms, some of them old-fashioned and some of them new

oom," whispered Roger. "I've half a mind to learn ho

nd dyeing and tooling bits of leather which were to be converted into purses and card cases and mats, and at another table the bookbinders were

pounded their sheets of brass and copper, building up handsome patterns upon future trays and waste baskets and lanterns. Here, too, the jewelry makers ran their li

o his work well and swiftly; they bent over it, smiling, the teac

ngs up here," murmured Mr. Emerson

od-carving room; perh

rd which was destined to become a book rack. Another man was chipping out his background, making th

come up here," exc

as not long before he was so interested in his work and so eager to get on with his appointed tasks that he spent

ride his neat array of brooms and rags. As they passed through Higgins Grove and out on to the green in front of the Post Office

as you're born, it'

avement. Tins-of corned beef, lentils, sardines-bounced on the floor of the wagon until they jounced over the side into the road. On, on ran Cupid, his harness holding strongly and the front wheels banging his hind paws at every jump. The uproar that he created drew the attention of the dog which had caused all the commotion by his mere presence on the plaza. Casting a startled glance at Cupi

as he handed the leash to the

d I'd be glad to know you better. I've

ok hands over Cupid's head, while he sat down between the sha