CHAUTAUQUA.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 12011, 13 March 1920, Page 8

CHAUTAUQUA.

AND SUGAR COATED PILLS. Again fl wy large audience were treated to an evening full ot interest from start to finish. The Zedeler f Symphonic Quintette did not disappoint. Their original programme was lengthened in response to clamorous applause, and Miss Fortune, a brilliant soprano soloist, contributed an ana from ‘ 1 1l Trovatore an item highly appreciated, and she sang in response “I hear you calling me.” Judge Alden spoke on. “The Powder and the Match,” and The Health of the Nation,” and gave a few sugar coated pills. His lecture was a forceful one, and full of witticisms, He told his hearres that no one was really sane —all men were more or less cranks. Oolnmbus, Franklin, the Wright Bros of aeroplane fame, and even Lloyd George. He made a strong plea for more education, which he said was the only hall mark of aristocracy. He spoke in scathing terms of the mao who sold his vote and the one who bought it, and also of race suicide, saying that in his country at any rate, he did not know about New Zealand, automobiles were more prized than baby carriages. He dealt fearlessly with the sex question and'denounced problem plays and novels. The health of the nat'on and our future genera* tions depended on a better understanding of the question. There should b£ less prudery, more confidence netween and advice from father "to and mother to daughter. No marriage should he celebrated unless accompanied by a certificate of health. The lecturer was cheered at the conclusion of his remarks.