Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — UNCLE EPHRAIM IS A CHAUTAUQUA FAN [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

UNCLE EPHRAIM IS A CHAUTAUQUA FAN

Says He Is Going With Ail the Kiddies to Every Session. TO HEAR AND SEE TALENT. \es, sir.' ’ said Uncle Ephraihi. “It’s a fact. I believe it is just as sacred to play as it is to pray. 1 believe it is just as much a part of the human family's needs to play some, laugh some and grow young as it is to sing some and pray some and listen to a sermon. Ale for some fun every sumrner’ I am either going to the mountains or down to the lake or over to Farmer Jones’ grove to the picnic or somewhere. lhey tell me that this summer we aie going to have a Chautauqua here; that it is a Chautauqua named after Abiaham Lincoln; that there are people to lecture, sometimes seriously and sometimes humorously; that there are people who play musical instruments; people who sing; that some folks are makeup artists who impersonate and imitate other folks, and that some 1 are actors; that some make drawings with crayons; that there are bands and orchestras; that there is a lot of fun in the program; some of the greatest men and women of the country will tell us what they see and think that is worth

while and that Alls heart chinks with gladness and the air with merriment. “I understand that these folks have as much fun in singing and acting and playing as you can have at a National league ball game, or when you go fishing, or play ‘Run, sheep, run,’ and I’ll be doggoned if 1 ain't going to take that in if it's, the last thing I ever do. “Me for the Chautauqua—to sit under that sage green tent in a good chair and listen to a man talk who knows how to talk, or a girl sing who can sing some, or somebody play a part who looks it and acts it to a fault. My neighbors and I and all the kiddies are going to take this week off to play with these Chautauqua folks and have the time of Our lives. Yes, sir; you bet!”