| Show The C L S C c The letters C L S C stand for the s Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circlet Circle-t This is really one of the most notable and r interesting features of the assembly It Ir was organized in 1878 for the purpose of i promoting habits of reading > and study in nature art science and literature in connection con-nection with the routine of daily life and is more especially intended to be helpful to those whose means are limited and whoso frlvantwr are ci circuniicrihad < d t 1 c a J n n 5 When this plan of home study was first unfolded at a meeting held iti the amphi theatre Tot persons joined the society1 once Now there are 17000 local circles as the groups of students are denominated and they are literally all over the face of the earth Even in South Africa there have been several hundred members enrolled en-rolled and Miss 1L E Landfcsr who is the secretary for South Africa with her headquarters at Wellington Cape of Good Hope is here at the assembly and gives a I cheerful report of the immense good wrdught in that region by the C L S C Japan has its circle also o tin that country coun-try it lw s been found necessary to arrange a special course The secretaryof the C L S C is Miss I Kate F Kimball one of the youngest I women among the leaders at Chautauqua I She has been a worker in the society for < twelve years She said of it j The enrollment for the first year or the first class was 8000 The largest class ever formed numbered 25000 It is a four + j year course and takes up successively English j I En-glish American Greek and Latin history and literature with other subjects which occur naturally with each in turn It is a rotating course so that everywhere at the i same time members are following theme j I sa the-me line of work and members of the same circle whether in their first or either i succeeding year are going over the ground together and may be mutually helpful The books chosen are not text books because > be-cause this is a reading course and subjects presented are set forth from a reading standpoint Cog New York World I Scientific Shoplifters Yon want me to tell you1 some yarns of I shoplifting said a detective Certaihly t i Here on my record book I havethe uamje of an old lady who kept i small shop or j i > notion store in n town within a few miles of Boston I caught her one day in tttore standing near jewelry counter busily engaged in purloining small articles of that nature I wondered where she was putting it all until I managed to go a little closer when I saw she had n picture rolled tip and into one end of which she was putting the jewelry A fine hiding place she had for it too as the bottom was closed and when I searched her I found eightyfour different articles of jewelry I asked her what she Intended to do with it all and she replied that she kept a little notion store and intended to place the I things in her stock I I had a doctors wife and her sister from I Lawrence on < a shoplifting case once They were cool hands too They came inearly in the morning went to a half dozen i 1 different stores so that by noon they were pretty well loaded down They collected all their goods took them to a large store and had them checked then went and ate their dinners returning for the goods in the afternoon 1 was waiting for them and arrested them The case made quite astir a-stir as they were prominent people It was carried to the supreme court where they were convicted It cost them over S100 all told Exchange I |
