EVENING SESSION.

Evening Post, Volume XCVIII, Issue 138, 9 December 1919, Page 4

EVENING SESSION.

The Concert Chamber was well-fi]led in the evening, when the Zedeler Symphonic Quintette made, a welcome re-ap-pearance, and delighted all with their high, artistry. An. ambitious programme was rendered, including the Festival March from Wagner's "Tannhauser," a fine' performance; the overture from ;Rossini's "William Tell" selection, and .Gounod's "Faiist." The audience whk most' enthusiastic in its appreciation, and the players responded to the- insistent demand for a recall. Each item was a revelation In orchestral internretation, and Wellington music lovers who failed to hear the combination have missed a treat, for the quintette made its final appearance last night. Jliss Helen Fortune, soprano, sang '.'Chanson Provencal," "Roses of Picardy," and a dainty encore number. She has a flexible, sweetly modulated voice, and pleased all with her items.

"The Value of Vision" was the subject of an entertaining lecture by Mr. M. C. Reed, of Washington, a newspaper v man of high attainments, whose lectures are the condensation of deep thought, .CQupled with a spontaneous humour-and a ready wit. Success in life, Mr. Reed contends, is measured by a mane vision. He who does not see, doe 3 nothing. One does not accomplish things -without the vision of future possibilities. Even the farmer must have hi 3 vision—that of seeing something beyond the farm, in tho farm, something more in the farm than he gets out of it. The power of appreciation was one of the greatest gifts of God, with the power to express it. Some people took pleasure in having a mighty bad time. Happiness, the lecturer proceeded, was not a thing, but a condition. In buoyant strain he showed that the spur of appreciation helped to build up the right public mind. The value of vision was vital, the very life and power of a man's life. Hard toil and labour was a necessary adjunct also. In the words of Edison, genius consisted of 10 per cent, inspiration, and 90 per cent, perspiration. The pernicious doctrine of getting everything without working for it was a 6enous matter in all parts of the world. Loafers, as units of society, ought to be made to do their part. America, he pointed out, was full of able-bodied men, loafers, who had no right to shift their responsibilities on* to others. In all walks of life, there must be vision, the fa-culty for seeing possibilities in the future. It was the duty of parents to cultivate in their children any particular gift which might be apparent. Delivery, said an Ohio University professor once, consisted in having something to deliver. Ih paying a tribute to the far-seeing statesmanship of M. Venezelos {Premier of Greece), Siguor Orlando (Premier of Italy), M. Clomenceau (Premier of France), King Albert of Belgium, President Wilson, and. Mr. Lloyd George (in-whose praise Mr. R-eed "was warmly enthusiastic) the lecturer gave it as his summing up that' when i God wanted to bless a nation he sent a man to lead. He, or she, who lived for the benefit of others, tho life that "gives" and seeks not to '"get," was certainly fulfilling a mission. In reflex action, people got from life just what they . put into it. Mr. Reed's leoture, hopeful, optimistic, educative, puuetnated with bright wit, all in illustration of points to be remembered, was listened to with evident interest, and he was accorded hearty applause at the finish. To-night's programme will be supplied, by the Fenwick Newell Concert Party, including New York's operatio tenor,' Fenwick New'ell, and Dr. Caroline Giesel, a noted authority on health matters, a forceful personality whose lectures grip and compel admiration. Dr. Carolyn' Geisel, M.D., M-A., who lectures at 'Chautauqua to-night, graduated from one of the large medical colleges of America at the age of twenty. Besides building up a great sanatorium at Battle Creek, Michigan, she has found time to take degrees from two ether American medical colleges, as well as the Universities of Edinburgh and Tetrograd. During the war Dr. Geisel was a member of America's flying squadron of lecturers. Her first lecture to.night is called "Just You." It is an appeal to the manhood of the English-speaking world to be efficient. Dr. Geisel will be introduced by the Mayoress, Mrs. Luke, A special invitation is extended to members of the Women's Club to be present at the lecture, as Dr. Geisel is chairman pf the health committee of the If.-der-ated Women's Clubs of State of Michigan.