ANTIQUITY OF
DECORATIVE ART
Strange Sources From Whick
Pigments Used by Modern
Painters Are Derived.' -
PRESERVATION OF SURFACES.
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MAUDE WILLIS,
' Dramatic Reader.
T wa .;A of I-'iss Maude Willis,
? raMttn riauiatic reader, who
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P 1 , roniniunity Chautauqua pro
f tLe v r toen character analysis,
pmnrkably beautiful
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. . ,,r nprformaiK-o a delight
:rf.n!.a, 'lovreal American drama
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BR US H THE GREAT COMING WITH
COMMUNITY CHAUTAUQUA, v
rrush the (Irear, master magician
nd i!i:r;h-iiiiiler. believes that an
U!!iei!:e should lie amused as well as
vr;;ii';l ?r be combines fun with
lmi.dc. You ra-ver can tell when
1 will in:: Ue a ruMut aipear out ol
;r r.eiL'hbcr's hat. or a bunch ol
knitting,
guessing
will do
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A!N HEALTH AT COMMUNITY
CMA'JTAUQUA.
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O'j'ZZ L. MclNTYHE.
SINGERS AND FIGHTEFlfi TO THRILL COMMUNITY CHAUTAUQUA ON
JOY NIGHT.
These four fighting Tanks come straight frorq the firing line with the
imisie that made our army a singing army as well as a fighting armv. All
the four men have been in the thick of the fighting, and their performance
has the snap and dash that is typically American. Thev are presenting a
program of patriotic airs, soldier songs of all nations, as well as some dis
tinctly American airs thsit appeal to every one. They will appear at the
Community Chautauqua on the fifth day and on joy night.
LEARN HOW TO LISTEN TO MUSIC AT THE COMMUNITY
CHAUTAUQUA.
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THE MISSES KELLER.
The Misses Grace and Laiella Keller are two charming young American
girls who are doing something most unusual in musical entertainment. Con
vinced that many people, who have never studied music can enjoy it quite
as much as any musician, if they but understand the meaning of it, these
two talented artists present a program on the third day of the Chautauqua
which they explain so interestingly that every one says "I never know there
was so much to music." This program has been presented before largo audi
ences and groups of, music students throughout the country who have round
it a great inspiration in their work.
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bii'i:-; Mcij.iyt-;. ;ippe:trs on
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' Or THEIR LIVES.
Crude but Effective Processes Employ
ed by the Egyptians and Greeks of
Pliny's Day Noah Prudently
Waterproofed the Ark.
STRICKLAND J LLI LAN WHO WILL APPEAR TO CROWN JOY NIGHT
AT THE COMMUNITY CHAUTAUQUA.
Stricklr.:n Gmilnn, America's greatest living humorist, is said to leave
a train of smiles behind him wherever he appears. He has made more than
a million people laugh, he has never made one cry, and he claims that as
laughter is a tonic, he has a greater number of patients than any doctor living.
His fame as a writer is as great as 'his reputation as a lecturer, so that his
appearance on Joy Night, the closing night of the Community Chautauqua,
Insures an evening of ram fun.
KEEPING MONEY AT HOME
(Matter Suitable for Editorial Appropriate One Week Before Chautauqua
Opens).
In every town there are a few people i
who see in everything new and un
usual a possibility c harm, and who
oppose bringing into the community
any outside ideas. Even in this en
lightened day a few we are glad to
say of cur community that there are
very few oppose so useful and bene
ficial an influence as the Chautauqua
which is to open here next week.
The chief reason these non-progressives
advance against this great insti
tution of entertainment and education
is that "it doesn't belong to our town,
so why should we give it our money; and spend their vacation money riirht
and support?'' The first part of this I in their own home town. In addition
statement, "it doesn't belong to our to this money the town gains from the
town," is the greatest advantage : Chautauqua, because every member of
gained from the Chautauqua, because, j it who comes here spends money here.
coming as it does from outside our
horizon, it brings new thoughts, new
tion of present day problems.- We all
1 need thif? new inspiration. It doesn't
tnear. 'Iiat wo are to change our ideas
Whether paint was invented in an
swer to a need for a preservative or to
meet a desire for beauty is a question
fully as knotty as the ancient one about
the relative time of arrival of the
chicken or the egg. It was invented,
though, and it serves both purposes
equally; so whether it is an offspring
of mother necessity or an adopted son
of beauty remains forever a disputed
question.
The first men, cowering under the
fierce and glaring suns of the biblical
countries, constructed rude huts of
wood to shelter them. The perishable
nature of these structures caused rapid
oecay, and it is probable that the oc
cupants, seeking some artificial means
of preservation, hit upon the pigments
of the earth in their search. It Is per
haps natural to suppose that it was
the instinct of preservation that led
men to the search, although the glories
of the sunsets and the beauties of the
rainbow may have created a desire to
imitate those wonders in their owu
dwellings.
The earliest record of the applica
tion of a preservative 10 a wooden
structure dates from tb- ark, which
was. according to the Bible, "pitched
within Mud without." The pitch was a
triumph of preservation whatever it
lacked as a thing of beauty.
Decoration applied to buildings first
conies to light with ancient I'.abylon,
whose walls were covered with repre-
situations of hunting scenes ami of
combat. These were done in red and
king, this was
as it was the
' and ideals, but it is useful to know
how the other fellow thinks.
Therefore, the Chautauqua, brings I
money to the town and keeps money !
here. Our best advice to everyone is '
to fake the whole family down to the
big brown tent next week and enjoy
together the most delightful and prof
itable vacation that can be obtained
anvwiieie.
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THE DEL MAR LADIES' QUARTET OPENS THE COMMUNITY-
CHAUTAUQUA.
Dainty and entertaining is the Del Mar Ladies' Quartet which appears
on the first day of this year's Community Chautauqua program with a splendid
program given with sotting and costumes that are strikingly beautiful in their
richness and color. The program includes all the popular melodies that every
one likes to hear, with just enough of the modern music to give a contrasting
' lighter touch.
One of the Inhere
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NO MATTER WHAT IT IS, IT'S THE
BEGT1
MORE THAN THE CITY OFFERS!
tl :..';':''in" xhp Chautauqua ten
o- . ' ':i:::u" v,'!l wish to be a chih
, ' ."' " ' ii:!l'by are the boys am
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N" v-''der! They are hav
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ui'.-:j ," ;. -::mies as wer-:- nevei
C',' ; and enough of then
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; !';r outdoors, games fo;
s ; Lm' gui.ues fur sunny days
The remaj-fcable part of t?ie program
offered lv the Community Chautauqua
has always been that while every form
of high class entertainment is present
ed it is hardly possible to say which is
best. Each attraction is different from
all the others on the program and fnmi
all others in the same line, hut it nas
to be the best to get on the program
of the Com:;iu:i!y Chautauqua.
This year's program surpasses the
hlgVv s:ahd,tr set by the Community
Ohantnuquj! in previous years and is
bat an ad li;:o:';M re.--.son for the unique
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A glance at the complete program
of the Community Chautauqua causes
the reader to wonder at the array of
high class talent offered at so reason
able a price. In a large city a single
lecture by such men as Ilarwood
Spicer, Montaville Flowers or Strick
land Gillilan cannot be heard at less
than the $2 Broadway scale of prices.
Yet these three great speakers and a
host of other talented artists are ap
pearing for five days at the price of
?2.7o, and if one is fortunate enough
to secure one of the first five hundred
tickets, $2.20. Five days' entertain
ment at a price that is just a little
more than the cost of a single perform
ance in the city. j ,
"But," it is asked, "why should we
pay our money to an out-of-town" at
traction?" The most direct answer is
"because it keeps money in the town."
Almost everyone at this season of the
year is planning to take a vacation
and many are wise enough to take it
at home when the Chautauoua comes
to town. For through it they enjoy all ,he method followed, was to paint the
the best in entertainment that the citv ' scene on the bricks at the lime of
offers and are saved the expense, and manufacture, assuring permanence by
inconvenience of travel. They stay I baling. Strictly spe;
right at home with the rest of the ht painting so much
family, have all the comforts of home 1 '"'arliest manifestation of our own fa
miliar Ka isonuning.
The first Hebrew to mention paint
ing is Moses. In the thirty-third chap
ter of the book of Numbers be in
siructs the Israelites, "When ye have
passed over the Jordan into the hind
::f C;;r:::;in. then shall ye drive out all
t!i' inhabitants of the laud from be
fore you and destroy all their pie
' it res. . . .
At later periods the .lews adopted
many customs of the peoples wb.: suc
cessively obtained power over tb'm
mil! in the apocryphal hook of tljo
Mao'-ahoos is found this allusion to
tl:.' art of decorating, "For as the mas
tea builder of a new bouse must care
for the whole building, but be that
r.ndertaketh to set it out and paint It,
must seek out things fur the adorning
thereof."
Although Homer g! res credit to n
Creek for the discovery of paint, the
allusions to it in the books of Moses,
the painted mummy cases of the Fuyp
tians and the decorated walls of Baby
lon and Thebes fix its origin at a
period long antecedent to the Crocian
era. The walls of Thebes v. ere paint
ed 1,000 years before the coming of
Christ and 000 years before " 'Omer
smote his bloomin' lyre."
The Creeks re-cognized the value of
paint as a preservative and made use
of something akin to it on their ships,
l'iiuy writes of the mode of boiling
wax and painting ships with it, after
which, he continues, "neither the s -a,
nor the wind, nor the sun can destroy
the wood thus protected."
The Itomans, being essentially a
warlike people, never brought the dec
oration of buildings to the high plane
it had reached with the Crooks. For
. nil that the ruins of Pompeii show
i:iany structure's whose mural decora
tions are in fair shape today. The
colors used were glaring. A black
background was the usual one ami the
r-ombinat ions worked thereon red, yel
iow and blue.
In the early Christian era the use of
'mosaics for churches somewhat sup
planted mural painting. Still, during
the reign of Justinian the Church of
Saint Sophia was built at Constantino
ple and its walls w loomed with
paintings.
In modern times Z. "TZ&s of paint
have come to he a? numerous as its
myriad shades and tints. Paint is
unique in that its name .ias no syno
nym and for it there is no substitute
material. Bread is the staff of life, but
paint is thelife of the staff.
No one thinks of the exterior of a
v lea building now except in terms
of paint coated. Interiors, too. from
jainted walls and stained furniture
(It wn to the lowliest kitchen utensil,
i.ll receive their protective covering.
Steel, so often associated with cement
n'-en forcing, is painted nei'ore it jroes
to ui e solidity to the manufactured
5: one. The huge girders of the .sky
scrapers are daubed an ugly bu- ehl
cient red underneath the satfa e coat
oa tuple
is found
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"'A STREET SCEIvE IN BERLIN DURING THE REVOLUTION, DESCRIBED
BY HARWOOD SFiCER ON THE OPENING NIGHT OF THE
CHAUTAUQUA.
This is one of the street scenes in Berlin just before Cermany surrender
ed to the Allies. The revolutionists who have taken control have placed guns
in every street, to prevent the autocratic powers from forcing the people back
The leader who is addressing the mob
was photographed while ho was inciting the mob to attack the Iloyal Palace,
and he was killed a few hours after this picture was taken by Ilarwood Spicer,
who opens the program or' the Community Chautauqua.
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jnj? Exhibits Shown at
list Centenary Celebration
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TO prove that his soul is above worldly trouble? and physical pain, this
Hindu fakir nonchalantly reclines on a bed of spikes, much to the
amazement of less spiritual observers. The bed of spikes will be one of the
interesting exhibits shown at the Methodist Centenary Celebration, in Co
lumbus. O., June 20 .o July 12. Whether a fakir, Hindu or otherwise, can
be found to demonstrate his power of endurance on it is still an unsettled
o -n-ib a! dir."? tion cfilciais. -
-.-.f black. Perhaps the best
of the value of paint on stee
'n the venerable Brooklyn 5
wh.-h a gang of painters N
!r.g oontinuallv. It is scare
iliink of a single manufaemi ed ar
ticle which does not meet paint soiae
f. lei. hi the course of its construc
tion. So has paint tvown iuto the
very marrow of our lives.