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Show nmomsT will be SEEK IT LOCAL CHAUTAUQUA Variety is the spice of life, so they say By way of variety on the coming com-ing Chautauqua program is found a cartoonist; what the cartoon Is to a newspaper the cartoonist is to a ! Chautauqua. The great newspaper cartoonists of 1 America have had a large share in I shaping the current opinion of the j iand and the cartoonist on the plat-1 plat-1 form has a double chance to make ! good as he appeals to the eye as j well as to the ear. Mr Ash Davis, whose entertain-i entertain-i ment will come on the Wednesday ! night of the Chautauqua, is one of the j three best known cartoonists now ou I the American platform Mr. Davis is unique. He h three j in one- cartoonist, lecturer and story 1 teller, so artistically blended as to : make an ideal entertainer He paints word pictures as impressive as his drawings are beautiful. The enter talnment is divided into three part-. I each built around fundamental truths His humor is pure and wholesome and I his lecture, while witty and entertaining, enter-taining, has plenty of food for thought. His drawings are large and made in colors and are reputed to be the best on the platform The landscapes are perfect cems of art. Mr. Davis is not an amateur. In thirteen years he has given almost I two thousand entertainments. In common with all public men, .Mr Davis has had some unique experiences, experi-ences, recently when giving an entertainment en-tertainment in a western town, and after the entertainment a lady of the audience, caine forward and asked for some of the pictures "I want them all." said the lady. Davis was surprised, as he make; about forty pictures each night, and asked her What she would do with so many "You see," said the lady, "Our club wants to giVe them to a young man in tbi3 town in whom we are interested inter-ested He isn't very bright, poor fellow, and we are trying to make an artist of him " |