bject, after a few months entered the Woman's
Medical College in New York, during her course took several prizes, and
graduated with high honors. It may have been that she foresaw what came,
the failure of her husband's health, so that of necessity she became the
bread-winner for her family. She was a successful physician, honored in
the community, the Chautauqua Circle having opened to her wider
opportunities of knowledge and usefulness.

Two college professors of high standing have told me that they were
first awakened to a desire and determination for higher education
through their early readings in the C. L. S. C.

One rather amusing yet suggestive incident came to my notice. Visiting a
city in the Middle West, I met a lady who told me that she belonged to
a club of young people who met weekly in a card party. One member told
the rest about the C. L. S. C. which she had joined and showed them the
books, whereupon they all sent in their names as members, and the card
club was transformed into a Chautauqua Reading Circle.

I was seated with Dr. Edward E. Hale at a C. L. S. C. banquet in New
England, when he pointed out a middle-aged gentleman at the head of one
of the tables and told me this story about him.

While a boy he came to his father and said, "I
don't want to go to school any longer, I want to
go to work and earn my own living, and there's a
place in Boston that is open to me." "Well," said
his father, "perhaps you would better take the
place, I've noticed that you are not paying much
attention to your studies of late. I'm very sorry
for I have set my heart on giving you a good
education. You don't know now, but you'll find out
later that the difference between the man who
gives orders and the man who takes them is that
generally one of the two men knows more than the
other, and knowledge brings a man up in the
world." The boy went to Boston and took a job in a
big store, and he found that he was taking a good
many orders from those above him and giving none
to others. He realized that for success in life he
needed an education. Ashamed to give up and go
home, he began to attend an evening school which
some of us had established. There I met him and
was able to give him some encouragement and som