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Show FROM GMDTADOUA. Rass Hilne Describes conditions con-ditions at School. IS A GREAT SUMMER SCHOOL Mormons ndrcat Curiosity, ohd tlio Six Students Prom Utnh Subjected Sub-jected to flaiiy Questions. Chautauqua, Now York, July 8, .1003. Emroitliiux County IIecoiuij Justa few Hues to describe nn Kiistcru trip for h Western lad. Our route in brief to this place was via Ogden, Cheyenne, Jiualiu, Chicago, Drtruit, Herons lake llrio loClevehiud, thenco to Jamestown ind across lake ChuutitiKjua to the col-lego col-lego town that bears its name. Chautauqua Is tiio greatest educatlon-il educatlon-il center for summer woik In tho United States. Tho average attend-.nice attend-.nice at the college during the months if July aud AugUMt is Insiwecn sixteen nud twenty thousand, students and tea-ohurs. tea-ohurs. The area Inhabited by tliese twenty thousnud people is perhaps three miles square. There arc six Students from Utah here and it Ih rather amusing to free now completely duinfounde.l the people peo-ple nre when they learn where we are from. .Several persons havo qulotly .inked me If I had over seen many Mormon Mor-mon In Utah. And when I have told them that I whs n Mormon in belief, ihough scarcely worthy of hoingelassed .is such, they have been astounded nnd nave asked me if every man In Utah did ndt hiiyo 11 ft ecu w.tves. 1 tell them ihat 1 hardly think tho average would xeeod twelve apleee. Then I tell them if tho uoudillous us thoy exist in Utah. Wo six Utah student nre very com-forlnbly com-forlnbly located at Widrlg Cottage md are just. across tho street from the targe amphitheatre, where all the lee-Hires, lee-Hires, musluals, recitals, otn , are given, md if wo Choose wo can remain on our .joreh nud hear the selection rendered. ren-dered. Tho HaHtorn country is really nn inspiration in-spiration to a Westerner. Theronre no nurren places at all. The landscape la overed by various beautiful forest trees, which nre typical of the Haste rn -ttutoN. Lawn grass and flowers, with Hundreds of fountnus cover the ground. It seems a pity that nature lias not been more impartial nnd given the Western .nuutry part of the rainfall that is so plentiful here, enabling us to substitute grasses and trees for our sage and rabbit rab-bit brush which is struggling fdr exist-nice. exist-nice. "To our right tho lnke front'nffords a beautiful scene. Steamers, hail boats, tugs, sklpps nnd boats of all descrlp-tlous descrlp-tlous nre softly, smoothly gliding over the glnssy surface of tho lake, while tlong tho shore hundreds of people ure enjoying the oxhllerntlng effects of a ImuiHipw hutli. - , c. The work at sohojl Is excellent and one must work! world world or bo likely to expose his Ignorance to his omrndes. Tho work I mn talcing Is the physical cdueatiou training. My track work is under Dr. Clnpp, i nlcs famous runner. I taku the Ight gyinnastlts from Dr. Anderson, director of the Ynlc gymnasium. My anthropometry is under Dr. Scarer, tho tnedieal examiner exam-iner of Yale, and other work from the noted Swede, Dr. Uolln of Harvard. All my time is taken up, ns is the case ivlth ull the other students from Utnh 1lui Sunt rur nnil Altss Kahtwnnil nre taking courses In outdoor sketching, painting and artlstlo gyninnstie courses and domestic science, respectively. Thf.other Utah students are taking U reading course. Wo aru watched ery closely nnd hear on every hand Whispers of, "There nio soino real Mormons;" and then people look nt nn, nnd as there are two boys and only four girls of us hero they thlrk wu aro only half Mormons as wo have only two wives pnch, I'leuse nddreaa my Ukcoud to Mr. UrustUH.l. Mlltio, earo of Widrlg Cottage, Cot-tage, Chautauquu, Now York. You cee here they will not allow a good common, com-mon, eyery day name like "Unas," consequently con-sequently for tho preseut make It "lirnHtus." With beet wlshoB for tho good people of southern Utah, I nm your frload, KitABTUS J. MitNi:. (Itaas ) |
