lustration: Sherwood Memorial Studios]

[Illustration: Traction Station]

For the little ones, there is the kindergarten at Kellogg Hall, and out
of doors beside it the playground, where the tots make cities out of
sand and find other pleasures. And we must not forget the Children's
Paradise, the completely equipped playground in the ravine at the
northwestern part of the grounds. I remember hearing Jacob A. Riis, the
father of the city playgrounds, say in one of his lectures: "They tell
me that the boys play ball in the streets of New York and break windows
when the ball goes out of the way. Good! I hope they will break more
windows until the city fixes up playgrounds for them!" Jacob Riis lived
long enough to see at Chautauqua one of the finest playgrounds, and to
find in it one of the happiest crowds of children on the continent. One
blessing for tired mothers at Chautauqua is that their children are in
safekeeping. They may be turned loose, for they can't get outside the
fence, and in the clubs and playgrounds they are under the wisest and
most friendly care.

There are Modern Language Clubs in French and Spanish, with
conversations, recitations, and songs in these languages. "No English
Spoken Here," might be written over their doors, although nearly all
their members elsewhere do their talking in the American patois. There
was a German Club, but it was suspended during the war, when German was
an unpopular language and has not yet been reestablished.

The Music Club holds gatherings, in the Sherwood Music Studios on
College Hill.

There is a Press Club, composed of men and women who write books and
articles for publication. They hold social receptions for acquaintance
among wielders of the quill; perhaps it would be more accurate, though
less classic, to say, "pounders of the typewriter." Several times each
season they have an "Author's Night," when well-known writers, some of
them famous, read their own productions.

There is a Lawyers' Club, a Masonic Club, and a Grange Club, the latter
having its own building of Greek architecture; also a College Fraternity
Club of the wearers of sundry pins and keys.

The Bird and Tree Club has a large and representative membership of
those interested in identifying and protecting the fauna, flora, and
bird life of Chautauqua and its vicinity. On the Overlook, beyond the
Athletic Field, they have established a herbarium for the preservation
of the different forms of tr