Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 243, 23 August 1917 — Page 2
TAGE TWO
THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, AUG. 23, 1917
PARLETTE DOES HIS WRITING ON RAILROAD OARS Only Time He Can Get to it, He Tells Fleming in Interview.
By ROSCOE FLEMING Ralph Parlette, doesn't like to talk cbout his own experiences. ' Every man has the same experience in life," he said Wednesday nisht as the big audience that had cheered end enjoyed his lecture was filing out of the Chautauqua tent. "You've had the same experience that I have had, end the other fellow has had the same 83 us both." Just the same, Parle tte's life-story 0 3 he tcld it deprecatingly Is an interesting one. He was born and raised just across the line in Ohio, his father being a Methodist minister. Picture is True. The experience of sitting .and growing emptier and emptier while he watched the presiding elder getting away with the last piece of chicken, with which he kept hia audience roaring, is a true one, he said. . -'l had learned the printer's trade when a boy, and when I wanted to go to school it came in handy. . I started a little print shop there in Ada in lb&S-'SD to help me through Ohio Northern University, and later a newspaper. "Folks who read that paper, wrote in and asked me to come out in the country and lecture tor them. That's how it all started, how I believe evry lecturer and orator started, just l'y talking to the folks around home. Circle Kept Growing. "There wasn't any stop to it then. 1 he circle kept growing and growing. In the last twenty years, I believe I have spent more time On trains than I have off, and I have edited a paper, written bookr, and run that print-shop ui Ada. "I haven't any time to write except when I am on trains, but 1 believe I can write better now on trains than in a study. People don't interrupt you on trains." 'i took up more time tonight than I should have done, but your folks here are so good to talk to, I just wont ahead. I could talk fast to them, aud I Just shoved things to them as fast as possible. Some audiences have to be nursed along." Hot Hamburgers Are Richmond Favorites Richmond is a hamburger town,1
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the Chautauqua restaurant. People here eat more hamburger sandwiches than those of any place he's ever struck, says Sarchet. "Soft" pies, especially lemon, are very popular with Richmondites. The restaurant has disposed of more hot water than iced tea, in the drink line. SUFFRAGE CAUSE BOOSTED AT "DINTY MOORE'S" RALLY Twenty-five enthusiastic male campaigners held a suffrage meeting about eleven o'clock Wednesday night in "Dinty Moore's" tent. Several speakers advanced the cause of suffrage, and received much applause.
Chautauquettes
The audience jrrinned out loud when the Chicago Male Quartette announced "A Perfect Day," as the concluding number of their afternoon program, Wednesday, and sang it with the patter of the rain on the canvas as an accompaniment "Your committee here doesn't treat lecturers as they usually do," says Ralph Parlette. "Most committees carefully put the lectures where they won't interfere with the program." Fragment of phone conversation: "Money, we ain't got any eats, we ain't not anv money. I tell you houey, we're a!l in." Lots of flags appeared on the trounds Thursday morning, in honor of 'Old Soldier's day and Enipey's war lttiirr'. Clapping runs through the hearers like fat and lean streaks in bacon. One wide lane of people will sit stolidly
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Even "Dinty Moore" Has "Place" in Chautauqua s Classic Camp; "Hicksville Breeze" There Too
Names of the temporary "ancestral estates," out in the Chautauqua camp don't always tell the strict truth, but they show poetic imaginations. There's the "I. W. W." tent, for instance. The two young men who live in it don't belong to the Industrial Workers of the World, they claim. The meaning they give to the initials is "Indiana Waltxing Wonders," and their friends say neither of the two ever waltzed a step In his life. "Dinty" Hai Place, "Dinty Moore's Place," up on the northwest slope, shows a taste for the classics, but again Chautauqua officials say that nothing but soft drinks are ever served at "Dinty's" table. "Cave Canem," Beware cf the dog, takes all the threat out of the title WISSLER (With apologies to "The Librarian") By ROSCOE FLEMING At times, behind a desk he sits; At times, around the grounds he flits, And answers questions just like these: "Did Mister Phelps write 'Lovo Is All"? "Call ine if I have a telephone call?" "Where's this man Ellis principal?" "Find my daughter, if you please!" When do the city streot-cars go?" "When'n thA next train to Kokomo?" "Say, Mister, can you find my paw?" "Where's them books you promised Ma?" "When's Mister Empey due to come?" "Wissler, what makes you look so glum?" "Will we get our shoes all wet?" "What is a sympathy sextette?" "Why's the Chicago Male Quartette? "The Herron Sisters were to come." "Got an evening paper here?" "Say, your program's bum this year!" Job never ran a Chautauqua tent; Job didn't know what patience meant! Male Quartette is Popular Attraction The Chicago Male Quartette sang its way straight into popularity in two appearances Wednesday. The members sang nothing but the simplest and most unaffected songs, in a simple and unaffected manner, and got applause for almost every number. Nursery rhymes, "Gene" Field poems, "Dixie," "A Perfect Day," were a few of their numbers. William Orville Smith, basso, was the most popular soloist of the quartette. Edmundsons Sorry He Quit Railroad ftmvial Policeman EdmundsOn. who ciuit a job on the C. & O., to work on the chautauqua grounds, wishes he were back on that railroad. Fact! The women complain too mucn, says Edmundson. after a number, while in another lane they will go frantic. "If I come out to the chautauqua this afternoon, will I get my shoes muddy?" asked a male voice over th' wire to Secretary WIssler Thursday afternoon. P. J. Walters, negro advance man for Arthur Empey, owns a bootblack stand. In the office building where Empey had his office before enlisting, lie has known Empey for seven years Ty Cobb is the Shakespeare of baseball, says W'illiam Lyon Phelps. WOLVERINE FURNACES Terms to Suit. Prices will advance. Order now. Bert D. Welch 64 South 18th St. Phone 2321 Navy Beans, lb 18c Lima Beans, lb . . 13c Pinto Beans, lb 15c 10 Bars Swift's Flake White Soap, for 53c 10 Bars Bob White Soap 53c 10 Bars Swift's Pride Soap.. 49c 5 Bars Mascot Soap .50c 3 Cans Red Beans 23c 25c Can Pork and Beans 18c 5 lb. Box Lump Starch 35c 15c Box Currants 10c Pinhead Oatmeal, lb 5c 70 lb. Sack Salt 75c Phone 1329. i!
by stating in small letters underneath that the dog is ? "Mexican Hairless Pup." ' "The Royal Order of Knight Shirts" is composed of the most Informal bunch in camp, the "Never Inn." is said to be hospitable, and the "Here We Bee" has the reputation of being deserted. There are lots of others "Camel Inn". "Dew Drop Inn", "Sunset Hill" and the office of the Hicksville Breeze.
Audience Don't Mind Rain When Parlette Cracks His Jokes Ralph Parlette with his lecture, "The University of Hard Knocks," kept an audience that packed the tent laughing and thinking for an hour and a half Wednesday night. Parlette's audience didn't mind the rain. Scores of them stood on the Outside and let er drip, while they choked over his homely and effective philosophy. Other scores sat patiently beneath drips in the roof until they had heard the last word of the hour and a half lecture. Parlette is a skillful platform actor. He said things with his mouth, but he said them much more effectively with his mimicry. "'Taint so much what that feller says, corns to think of it," said a man in the audience as be was going Out, "It's the cute way he says it." PARLETTE PUNCHES "This was in the old days when we had dinner in the middle of the day. The Ladies' Home Journal was not yet in existence." "My mother knew what kind of a stubborn insect she was trying to raise. The stubbornness came fr6m father's side of the family," "When I realize that at forty-seven I have been able to make a dent in one little bump of stubbornness. I begin to see the need of an eternity and I'll seed two eternities unless I get Into high pretty soon." "Life don't begin to get sweet until you have been killed four or five times." "Parents say: 'We're going to get advantages and give them to our Lizzie and Jim,' as if you could get a barrel of advantages and insert them through a squirt until the patient is inflated. Inflated is right Lizzie and Jim are going to be running on their rims pretty soon." DOESN'T COST MUCH TO TRY IT ANYWAY Tells How to Take Soreness From a Corn and Lift It Right Out. Hospital records show that every time you cut a com you Invite lockjaw or blood poison, which is needless, says a Cincinnati authority, who tells you that a quarter ounce of a drug called freezone can be obtained at little cost from the drug store but is sufficient to rid one's feet of every hard or soft corn or callus. You simply apply a few drops of this on a tender, aching corn and the soreness is instantly relieved. Shortly the entire corn can be lifted out, root and all, without pain. This drug is sticky but dries at once and Is claimed to just shrivel up any corn without inflaming or even irri tating the surounding tissue or skin. If your wife wears high heels she will be glad to know of this. Adv. o tor o
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FRIDAY CARDED AS "STAR DAY"
THE PROGRAM Friday 9:00 a.m. Rev. J. G. Beuson, "The Brick-maker of Goshen." 10:00 a.m. Dr. William Lyon Phelps, "Browning and Christianity." 11:00 a.m. Miss Emma Colbert, "Poetry for Children." 1:30 p.m. Dr. William Lyon Phelps, "Culture and Happiness." 2:30 p.m. Address,, Hon. William Jennings Bryan, "Two Pictures." 3:30 p.m. Concert, Boston Symphony Sextette. 8 : 00 p.m. Grand Concert, Boston Symphony Sextette. Friday will be chautauqua "Star Day." William Jennings Bryan, With his lecture. "The Two Pictures," Dr. William Lyon Phelps, in two more of his talks on books and the men who made 'em, and the Boston Symphony Sextette, made up of players from the famous Boston Orchestra, will be the headliners. Bryan appears at 2:30, Phelps at 1:30 and. 10:00, and the sextette gives a concert in the afternoon and wind OX about her corset is the to know about.v Corsets "Breaking in" but feel easy J1 yuu wear mem. Standing o II o II o n EO Your Health" Phone 1603
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Cincinnati Family Came Farthest to Chautauqua Camp Hev. Harry McMinn and family of Cincinnati are the people who came farthest to camp for the Richmond chautauqua. The explanation is a simple one, says Rev. Mr. McMinn. He's a RichrcondJt)oy, was graduated from Earlham ooliege, and knows many people here. ' Mrs. McMinn, however, says she would want to come here if the camp were the only reason, though she never was in Richmond until after her marriage. She's Richmond's even at that, though, having lived many years ia New Richmond, Ohio.
up with a grand concert in the evening. , Everybody knows the Commoner, and one of the greatest crowds of the entire session is sure to hear him. Dr. Phelps is growing more popular every day. as a college professor who has remained human. The sextette is the headline musical company of the program so far. All set for the biggest day!
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TIME OF BRYAN'S TALK CHANGED
William Jennings Bryan will speak at 2:30 o'clock Friday afternoon in stead of 3:15, as announced in the original program. The commoner must make a train to Cincinnati shortly after four, and the change is made for this reason. John Davenport Has Birthday;" He's Been Here For 57 Years
John Davenport, ground superinten-j dent, is celebrating a "birthday" j Thursday. i Fifty-seven years ago on that date; Davenport came to Richmond from j New Jersey for the first time. Wolves ! were common and wild turkeys were 1 shot in the present city limits of Rich- j niond after he came, says Davenport, j
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