Programmes for Chapter Evenings.
The Washington Chapter, of Racine, Wis., one of the oldest in the Order, meets regularly save during the summer months, and the interest does not flag. Sir Frank H. Marlott, in telling us about the Chapter, remarks that he, and he thinks others, would like to know how Chapters elsewhere keep up interest; what they do, and how they do it. We agree with Sir Frank, and hence will be glad to receive morsels from Chapter officers giving us this information.
One Chapter sends us its record unsolicited. It is the Tennyson, of Piqua, Ohio. It was organized two years ago, and has held meetings regularly ever since. These meetings occur every two weeks, and take place at the homes of the members. The member at whose home the meeting is furnishes light refreshments, restricted, we believe, to two articles, as coffee and sandwiches, or lemonade and cake. The Chapter is composed of Knights only. As most of its members study English history at school, that subject was taken up. Programmes are prepared for the entire year. Here is the one for the present year:
September 24th.—Quotations from Tennyson; The English Restoration and Revolution. Earl R. North.
October 8th.—Quotations from Lowell; The Great Inventions and Industries of the Age of Queen Anne. Lane L. Angle.
October 22d.—Quotations from Scott; The Age of Queen Anne, 1702-1714. Roe L. Johnson.
November 5th.—Quotations from Longfellow; Literature of Queen Anne's Reign. Fred McKinney.
November 19th.—Quotations from Goldsmith; England under George I. and George II., 1714-1760. William S. Ramsey.
December 3d.—Quotations from Emerson; England under George III. and George IV. Allen G. Rundle.
December 17th.—Quotations from Browning; The Iron Duke. Albert B. Schroeder.
December 31st.—Quotations from Shakespeare; Five-minute Readings from Eighteenth-century Literature. The Chapter.
January 14th.—Quotations from Hawthorne; The Ministers and Wars of the Georges. Charles Stilwell.
January 28th.—Quotations from Dickens; Queen Victoria and her Family. Wilber S. Lenox.
February 11th.—Quotations from Holland; Readings from Carlyle on Chartism and Corn Law. John Wilkinson.
February 25th.—Quotations from Burns; Readings from the Corn-Law Poet. Joseph F. Loewi.
March 10th.—Quotations from Poe; The Ministers of Victoria. Augustus Clevenger.
March 24th.—Quotations from Holmes; Foreign Affairs of the Reign of Victoria. The Chapter.