Dr. Sadler's Company

              DR. SADLER'S COMPANY

WILLIAM S. SADLER. M.D.



LENA K. SADLER. M.D.



ANNA B. KELLOGG, R.N.



SARAH MILDRED WILLMER


Exclusive Management of the CHAUTAUQUA MANAGERS ASSOCIATION, Chicago



POPULAR HEALTH LECTURES
ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND ACTUAL DEMONSTRATIONS

DR. WILLIAM S. SADLER

1.
The Science of Living, or the Art of Keeping Well
The story of Modern Hygiene in plain everyday English.  A practical, sane and sensible method of living the Simple Life—free from impractical fads, unscientific teaching, and fanatical extremes.  A bird's-eye view of the Laws of Life.  How to choose the virtues of modern civilization while rejecting its vices.

2.
The Physiology of Faith and Fear
One of the most extraordinary and helpful of all the Doctor's Health Lectures.  A pointed, popular talk based on careful and original scientific experiments and clinical observations.  Fully and fascinatingly explains the fundamental principles and intricate workings of the mind and nervous system in health and disease.  A remarkable exposure of modern psychological frauds.  A lecture which never fails to promote the health and happiness of all who hear it.  It interests alike the college professor and the schoolboy—not a dull moment.  Every sentence breathes with timely truth—an enlightening message for these days of diverse occult teachings.

3.
Americanitis, or the High-Pressure Life
A popular lecture on high blood pressure and its relation to the strenuous life of modern business and civilization.  Tells just why apoplexy, Bright's disease and nervous prostration are on the increase.  Shows exactly how the blood pressure is raised and how it is lowered.  Discriminates between true and false remedies for modern high tension.

4.
How the Body Resists Disease
A fascinating presentation of the natural defenses of the body against infection and disease.  The story of the invincible arm of the interior.  A portrayal in plain English of the divinely ordained means of maintaining health and preventing disease.  A lecture that inspires the listener with wonder, admiration and reverence.

5.
The Marvels of Digestion
In this lecture the use of all medical terms and technical phrases is avoided.  A practical, popular and scientific presentation of the physiology of digestion in relation to the science of eating in the light of modern discovery.  The doctor tells in common language of the wonderful and revolutionizing investigations of such dietetic discoverers as Pawlow, Cannon, Chittenden, Fletcher, and others.  It traces the food from the table to the tissues.

6.
Errors in Eating, or Mistakes Made at Meals
A scientific and popular discussion of common, everyday causes of dyspepsia.  Not only an attack upon health-destroying practices, but also an elaboration of the fundamentals of the art of eating.  Few popular health lectures ever contained so much wholesome advice and substantial help for the crippled stomach of the average American citizen.

7.
Foods—Facts and Fancies
Consideration of comparative food values; caloric values, etc.  The truth about various food fads; an examination of some well-known dietetic systems in the light of science.  A concise presentation of food facts; a complete expose of popular dietetic fancies.

8.
Food Frauds, or Wholesale Poisoning
This lecture is a fearless exposure of common, everyday food adulterations.  You see the poison laden foods, and learn how to detect common adulterations.  This lecture is elaborately illustrated by actual evidences of unwholesome and adulterated foods.  The demonstrations that accompany it are unusually interesting and highly instructive.

9.
Worry: Its Cause and Cure
One of the Doctor's new Lectures.  Step by step shows just how and why you worry.  Points on the way of deliverance from this cruel Tyrant of Fear.  A lecture based on original research and numerous experiments.  When you hear it you will know exactly what worry is, how you got it and how you can get rid of it.  Fully explains the workings of many of the modern Humbugs of Healing.

10.
Are We a Dying Race?
An inquiry respecting the present physical and mental status of the civilized races.  A lecture are to awaken new thoughts in the minds of thinking people.  By no means pessimistic, but a frank and see discussion of some hard physical, mental and moral problems which confront modern society.  A full disclosure of the ravages of present day diseases, including tuberculosis, pneumonia, cancer, etc.  Startling facts concerning insanity and feeble-mindedness.

11.
Heroes of Health, or The Seers of Science
A thrilling recital of the wonderful discoveries and marvelous self-sacrifice of the masters of medical science in the last century.  Describes and fully explains the discoveries of the men who conquered mallpox, cholera, yellow fever, hydrophobia, lock jaw, malaria, etc.  A timely tribute to the uncrowned Heroes of Health whose battles in the arena of science have added to the length and pleasure of our lives.

12.
Accidents and Emergencies
A thrilling presentation dealing with all the common accidents of modern civilized life.  In very ordinary emergency is demonstrated before your eyes in fullest detail.  Four to six nurses and doctors participate in this unique, instructive, and never-to-be-forgotten series of tableaux.






TO COMMITTEEMEN:
DR. SADLER'S life-work, in study and experience, has been the preparation of his lectures; but, owing probably to the training and ethics of his profession, the Doctor studiously avoids newspaper notoriety and other ordinary methods of publicity—nevertheless there are some generally known facts respecting his work and personality which we think rightfully belong to the Lyceum.

The Doctor's labors for the submerged classes began years ago, while he was yet a student, and have since continued, notwithstanding his professional and other duties which have greatly multiplied from year to year.

The Doctor began his work in the slums among the street children—he was one among them, and the views shown in his lectures tell the story of his close contact with these little fellows, and how subsequently two of these little outcasts were taken into his own home.


Philanthropic Work
For years he was the secretary of the old Chicago Medical Mission which opened the first free baths in the city of Chicago, and no lecturer on the American platform has come more closely in contact with the submerged tenth,—mingled with the dwellers of the slums in their actual daily life,—than Dr. Sadler.

A dozen years ago he was joined in his work by Dr. Lena K. Sadler who gave special attention to the organization of Rescue Work, and the establishment of Homes in behalf of unfortunate women—for years appearing each morning before the bar in the old Harrison Street Police Station in behalf of these unfortunates, and ever since the Doctors have labored and planned together, giving their time, as far as their profession would allow.

The Doctor has taken great interest in securing honest employment for these denizens of the slums, and to-day hardly a week passes that some of these uplifted outcasts do not appear at his office and offer their gratitude that at one time he was their only friend.  Many of the Doctor's beneficiaries can be found to-day in the counting-room, in prominent business establishments, and some have even attained eminence in his own profession.

We do not hesitate to say that the Doctor's illustrated lectures relating to the slums are the most interesting and extraordinary of anything of their kind—they are alive, every sentence throbbing with human interest.  They are simply a revelation to the average man.

There is no class of people or phase of slum life in our great cities that the Doctor and his wife are not personally acquainted with, and, therefore, they speak with authority.

The Doctor's slum lectures are in every sense refined.  Scenes of poverty and squalor are presented without the odor of vice and crime.

The majority of the views shown by the Doctor in his slum lectures were taken by his own hand, or by his wife and co-laborer, during their dozen years of work in the slums.



Health Lectures
The Doctor, in his Health Lectures, is intensely interesting and practical.  He is positively unique.  His methods are new and original.  His delivery is animated and his audiences are captivated by the simplicity of his style and the force of his witty illustrations.

Dr. Lena K. Sadler is an enthusiastic speaker—possessing an earnest style and direct delivery which enables her to go at once to the very hearts of her hearers.  She had years of experience as a public school teacher and afterward as a trained nurse, before taking up the study and practice of medicine.

Dr. Lena's Lectures and Demonstrations are very popular—interesting alike to men and women.  She gives but a single lecture to women only—to all other lectures men are invited.  Some of her demonstrations are very unique—truly remarkable.  Like that of her husband, her work will be found to be of high scientific quality—thoroughly up-to-date—at the same time most simply and plainly expressed—everything told in plain everyday language.

Miss Anna B. Kellogg is a graduated nurse of 12 years experience—duly registered under the laws of the State of Illinois.  She has had years of experience as a teacher of Scientific Cookery, Domestic Science, etc.  For five years an instructor in practical hydrotherapy and at present chief demonstrator of Hydrotherapy in Dr. Sadler's Clinic and head nurse at the Dr's Institute of Physiologic Therapeutics.  She has assisted the Drs. in their Chautauqua work for the past three seasons.



Scientific Qualifications
The Doctor and his wife are regular practicing physicians.  He is a member of the leading scientific and medical societies of this country, including the American Medical Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Health League, the International Congress on Tuberculosis, The International Medical Congress, The National Geographic Society, etc., etc.

The Doctor holds chairs in two medical colleges, and hundreds of physicians annually attend his clinic where he lectures on Physiologic Therapeutics.  He is also Director of the Chicago Institute of Physiologic Therapeutics.  Dr. Lena is also an Instructor in the Medical Schools.

The Doctor's Health Lectures are positively unlike anything of the kind heretofore offered.  They are the modern Gospel of Health, free from all impractical fads and the teaching of extremists.

The Doctor talks straight to the common people—plain, everyday English.  No medical terms or scientific technicalities.

Don't be afraid of Dr. Sadler's Health Lectures, for while your doctors and college professors will say they are first class, please remember that the Doctor talks in the language of the masses, therefore, his lectures may be comprehended by the merest child.

Another important thing about the Doctor's Health Lectures is this: He delivers a message for its own sake.  He represents no cult, no medical institution or association of cranks.



The Chautauqua Managers Association





SPECIAL CHAUTAUQUA WORK
DR. SADLER'S COMPANY AND THEIR SPECIAL WORK

Three Programs a Day…At the Option of Committees
Dr. Sadler will arrange special programs for the time assigned, or committees can arrange their own programs from matter in this circular.

Dr. Sadler's Company is a whole Chautauqua in itself, except the music



DR. WILLIAM S. SADLER

1.
Popular Health Lectures
Suitable for either morning or afternoon hours—usually given at 2:30 or 4:00 P. M., as Dr. Lena's lectures more often occupy the 10:30 A. M. hour.  Both Dr. Lena and the nurses assist in the Demonstrations when required.

2.
Unique Social Lectures
Either forenoon or afternoon.  [Lecture to men only, a favorite for Sunday afternoon at 4:00 o'clock.]

3.
Illustrated Slum Lectures
Stereopticon talks at night.  The Dr. carries his complete outfit and special lantern.  Dr. Lena operates the steropticon—no hitches nor blunders from inexperienced lantern management.

4.
New Lectures on Mental Hygiene
Suitable for either afternoon or evening hours.  Adapted to any hour on Sunday.  The strongest lectures the Dr. has in his repertoire.




DR. LENA K. SADLER

1.
Demonstration-Health Lectures
Either forenoon or afternoon, usually 10:30 A. M.  For men as well as women, except the Dress Lecture which is for women only.  Assisted in demonstrations by the nurses.

2.
Domestic Science and Hygiene Lectures
Also talks on simple treatments of common diseases in connection with Miss Kellogg's classes and demonstrations.  Forenoon or afternoon.

3.
Mothers Conferences and Women's Meetings…Where Desired
4.
Assists Dr. Sadler in Many of His Lectures
Alternating with him in the presentation of the heavier Demonstration Talks, such as Accidents and Emergencies in which the entire company takes part.




SARAH MILDRED WILLMER

1.
Prelude and Interlude Work
She appears in this capacity in connection with most of the Drs. Sadlers' lectures, and does similar work in connection with other lectures and entertainments, when she is not on the program for a full hour of her own.

2.
Mixed Programs
Suitable for forenoon, afternoon or evenings.

3.
Full Programs…Plays
Something adapted for any hour.  The Sign of the Cross and others especially well received at evening hours.  She fills a whole program from one to two hours with perfect ease and to the entire satisfaction of her audience.

4.
Assists the Drs. in Special Demonstrations
Doing many clever acts of impersonation in several lectures, such as Accidents and Emergencies.




ANNA B. KELLOGG, R. N.
Miss Kellogg is an ever-present assistant and helper in all the many demonstrations which are a feature of the Sadler Health Lectures.  She conducts classes, with the assistance of Dr. Lena, in Practical Cookery, Household Sanitation, Physical Culture, and the Home Treatment of Common Diseases.

The Lyceumite Press, Chicago





UNIQUE SLUM AND SOCIAL LECTURES
ILLUSTRATED BY ORIGINAL STEREOPTICON VIEWS

DR. WILLIAM S. SADLER

1.
Child Life in the Slums (Stereopticon)
A stereopticon lecture revealing unsuspected and astonishing conditions among the submerged classes in our great cities.  An unusually full and interesting presentation of one of the problems of the age.  The majority of the views are original, and were taken by Dr. Sadler.  Realistic facts and scenes dealing with the great problems of child labor.  A stirring lecture illustrated by touching pictures.

2.
Modern Miracles (Stereopticon)
A thrilling recital of the career and conversion of Jerry McAuley, Sam Hadley and other noted criminals and outcasts.  A revelation to the average man.  Stereopticon views illustrating everything talked about; a panorama of Christianity in the slums.  Shows you how one half helps the other half.  A presentation of the nation's great agencies for uplifting the downcast and discouraged.

3.
The Slum—Its People and Problems (Stereopticon)
A stereopticon talk which takes you through the very heart of the slums of New York and Chicago.  You see it all with your own eyes.  Underground and in the attics you see conditions as the camera found them, and hear about them from one who knows.  The city slum, with its civic, sanitary and moral problems, is a matter which the American people must squarely face.  Knowledge is essential to intelligent action—and action is demanded by the conditions existing in the slums of our great cities.  As a physician, Dr. Sadler has had opportunity to trace the terrible trail of vice from the slums to the boulevards and out into the villages, and even to the country home.

4.
Crime and Criminals (Stereopticon)
A touching lecture; the Doctor tells his own experiences with noted criminals; shows you on canvas pictures of their life and environment; answers fully the question, Are criminals born or made?; prison life, juvenile criminals, paroled prisoners and ex-convicts, are all touched upon; a practical presentation of a perplexing problem.




DR. SADLER'S SOCIAL LECTURES
These Social Lectures are NOT Stereopticon Talks

1.
Men and Morals (This Lecture for Men Only)
This is a plain, confidential, heart-to-heart talk to men over eighteen years of age; a pointed, helpful discussion of many perplexing social, moral and health-problems of vital importance to every young man.  A wholesome and scientific study of a much-abused and wrongly-presented subject.  Every phase of this lecture is plain, practical, and pointed.  A lecture pronounced by many critics as the best presentation of this great moral problem on the American platform.  (A Sunday afternoon favorite at Chautauquas.)

2.
The Rise and Fall of Nations
A resumé of National Life from the dawn of history until the present hour.  The rise and fall of empires in the light of dietetics, temperance, luxury and morality.  An appeal for the conservation of our National Health.  The necessity for improved municipal hygiene and sanitation.  A review of the great Health Reform movements of the present day.  (Especially adapted to Sunday program.)




HEALTH HINTS—By Dr. William S. Sadler
A New Health Lecture—Illustrated by Lantern Slides
This lecture embraces many of the best and brightest snatches from the Doctor's numerous health lectures, beautifully illustrated by original stereopticon views.  This unique lecture will both instruct and entertain.  The great principles of Hygiene made plain, practical and popular.



Lessons From Nature (Stereopticon)
New illustrated lecture.  The fascinating story of cell intelligence, animal instinct, and the mighty power of natural forces.  Stupendous facts from the physical world.  Wonderful wisdom and working of the tiny insect creation, a portrayal of the energy and enterprise of animal activities.  Mysteries of the lower forms of life.  A glimpse of Nature's wonders bordering on the miraculous.  Pronounced one of the best instruction-entertainments ever brought out by Dr. Sadler.






Accidents and Emergencies



Restoring the Drowned



Dressing the Wound



Taking Blood Pressure



Feeding Baby



Food Frauds



Original Chart



The Home Sanitarium



Life Size Chart


SNAP-SHOTS OF HEALTH LECTURE DEMONSTRATIONS





The Little Beggar



Abandoned Babe



Product of the Slums



Boot Blacks



Sleeping on Fire Escape



Tenement Yard



The Lecture Outfit



Slum Life



Children of the Slums



Prison Life


SPECIMEN VIEWS FROM THE ILLUSTRATED SLUM LECTURES




DEMONSTRATION HEALTH LECTURES
UNIQUE DEMONSTRATIONS—NOVEL ILLUSTRATIONS

DR. LENA K. SADLER Assisted by the Trained Nurses

1.
Healthful and Beautiful Dress
A startling lecture-demonstration concerning the evils of the Fashion Tyrant.  Deformities and distresses of modern dress exposed.  Demonstrations upon models and living subjects, showing how the evils and health-destroying influences of modern dress can all be easily and quickly corrected, at the same time beautifying both form and dress.  Twenty-five special charts used to illustrate this lecture.

2.
Dressing and Feeding the Baby
Practical and helpful instruction concerning infant feeding. How to dress baby right is demonstrated—everything shown you.  Scientific artificial feeding discussed and demonstrated.  This is one of Dr. Lena's most popular and spectacular lectures.  Everything pertaining to the modern scientific care of infants is shown on the stage during the lecture and the trained nurse carries out the Doctor's instructions just as she would in the nursery.  A talk that interests both father and mother.

3.
Catching and Curing a Cold
Explains just why some people catch colds so easily.  Tells fully what to do to prevent colds—how to secure a winter constitution in advance.  This lecture is illustrated by trained nurses and shows how to break up a cold at home, all the methods and treatments being fully demonstrated and explained.

4.
The Home Sanitarium
How to make your own home a health training station.  A live, practical demonstration of what can be done at home to regain and maintain health by means of the wonderful and inexpensive natural remedial agencies, air, water, exercise, light, heat, etc.  Trained nurses demonstrate the wonderful things that can be done at home with water in the treatment of common diseases.  Exceedingly practical from start to finish.

5.
Food Combinations, or Model Menu Making
Proper food combinations for both well and sick stomachs.  Why some foods do not agree with your stomach when combined with other foods.  This lecture gives special help to those who suffer with enfeebled powers of digestion.  Scientific principles of menu making, or how to properly balance the various food elements in the daily bill of fare, fully discussed.  Principles and methods which make scientific eating very simple fully explained.

6.
Cause and Cure of Constipation
In this lecture the Doctor explains why so many tired mothers and busy housewives are exhausted as a result of autointoxication.  Relief from this troublesome ailment by natural methods fully presented.  Inactivity of the digestive system is becoming one of the curses of modern civilization.  This lecture deals with this almost universal ailment in a thorough-going and practical manner.

7.
The Truth About Alcohol
Modern scientific study has shown that the drink habit is largely the result of other exciting causes and predisposing influences.  These drink-producing agencies are fully dealt with in this lecture, and the way out clearly indicated.  A complete departure from the ordinary Temperance Talk.  A full explanation of the effects of alcohol on the human body.  A lecture so scientific and up-to-date as to receive the indorsement of a medical convention and yet so plain and simple that it is fully grasped by a school child.  A straightforward presentation of facts respecting the temperance problem from the scientific, sociological, moral and health standpoints.  The question, Is Alcohol a Food? fully answered.

8.
The Cause and Cure of the Blues
A new revelation as to why so many good people are afflicted with the blues.  Bodily influences and physical agencies as a factor in producing the blues.  The workings and inter-relations of mind and matter.  The reasons explained and the source of relief pointed out.

9.
Symmetrical Child-Training
Why do so many young women break down just as they finish school?  Balanced education—training for both mind and body clearly outlined.  This lecture is of great value to mothers.  Discusses scientific stairclimbing; physiological sweeping and how to get physical development out of the household duties instead of disease and deformity.  A practical lesson in correct methods of standing, sitting, walking, etc.

10.
Childhood Purity
A heart to heart talk from a physician-mother to mothers.  Brimful of instruction of untold value to mothers who are troubled over the vital questions and problems of early childhood.  Every mother should hear this lecture.






DOMESTIC SCIENCE & HOUSEHOLD HYGIENE

CONDUCTED BY ANNA B. KELLOGG, R. N. LECTURES BY THE DRS.  SADLER

1.
Practical Cookery
Class instruction in scientific and hygienic cooking.  A practical course with full demonstrations by Miss Kellogg and accompanying lectures by Dr. Lena.  Not a new, fantastic and impractical system of food preparation—but rather an improvement on your well known, everyday methods of cooking.  An effort to help the housewife to prepare her foods in a more healthful, hygienic, and palatable manner by methods with which she is already familiar.  A new departure in cooking lessons, dealing with common everyday dishes.  Instruction in the preparation of wholesome dishes for the sick.  Tells you just how to convert the kitchen into a scientific work shop and how to cook food so that it will taste good and be easy of digestion.  [Facilities—utensils—dishes and materials, must be supplied by Chautauqua management.]

2.
Physical Culture
Class work in practical physical culture—teaching how to use the body for its own development—no use is made of Indian clubs or other apparatus.  The self-resistive system of physical exercise.  Full demonstrations and lectures covering proper breathing, how to strengthen weak abdominal muscles, the treatment of constipation, spinal curvature, etc.  Special exercises for the reduction of weight in obesity and the correction of round shoulders.  How to make the weak children strong.

3.
Household Sanitation
A course of practical demonstrations showing how to combat germs, flies, etc., in the home.  Discusses garbage, plumbing, cellars, and back yards.  The lectures to these classes are given by Dr. William S. Sadler.

4.  
The Home Treatment of Simple Diseases
A demonstration course teaching the uses of hot and cold water in the treatment of common household diseases.  The Doctors explain how the mother can co-operate with the family physician in the work of preventing and treating simple disorders—such as pain, headache, colds, sore throat, sleeplessness, etc.  The nurses teach just how to prepare and give hot fomentations, hot blanket packs, wet sheet packs, cool compresses, rubs, salt glows, and all forms of ordinary baths.  This course of lessons presents just the things every mother ought to know.  [For this course the Chautauqua management must provide pails, hot water, ice, etc.]



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The Question Box
The Doctors Sadler are accustomed in connection with their Schools of Health, to conduct a Question Box, in which all are free to ask questions on any matter of health and and hygiene which has been touched upon in the lectures, or upon which they may desire further light.  The Question Box is by no means least among the good things comprised in the Chautauqua School of Health.



We Give Three Programs a Day
Dr. Sadler's company gives three programs a day at the option of committees.  These programs may include anything announced in this circular.  One member will lecture at 10:30 A. M., another lecture or read at either 2:30 or 4:00 P. M., and still another appear at the evening hour giving a lecture, reading, or stereopticon talk.  Class work takes the place of one program.  Prelude work by the reader is not taken into account in this matter.  If only one or two programs are desired, they will be given at the hour arranged.





POPULAR AND CLASSICAL READINGS

SARAH MILDRED WILLMER
Miss Willmer's work is characterized by a determination to present literary masterpieces of true dramatic value.  She is not content to please by mere cleverness—she makes an earnest and honest endeavor to do her work artistically and well.  She has purposed that her work shall be educational and uplifting as well as pleasing and entertaining, and this feature or quality has won warm approval wherever she has appeared.

Miss Willmer has studied with the best American teachers and is thoroughly schooled in her art.  She has made a deliberate choice between the stage and the lyceum platform—choosing the Chautauqua because it affords a clean, consistent opportunity to reach the masses—to exalt their ideals, to elevate their standards, to increase their love for and appreciation of the good and the pure in people and in literature.  She has determined that all her work shall be educational as well as entertaining, To point out the highest, broadest, most idealistic conception of life, in fact, be the medium through which the Masters of all ages may speak.

Miss Willmer (with her invisible company) presents a strong, varied and well-balanced repertoire, embracing many modern and classic selections.




1.
Prelude and Interlude Work
Miss Willmer appears in the prelude to many of the lectures and demonstrations by the Drs. Sadler, as well as in connection with other lectures and entertainments.  She is available for the usual amount of this kind of work, except on afternoons or evenings when she is to render a full program.  Her preludes, while bright and amusing, are of a high quality, refined and educational.  This is a strong feature of her work—one which has been well received by Chautauquas.

2.
Mixed Programs
In these programs Miss Willmer renders cuttings from her heavier numbers, together with numerous and varied unique selections embracing pathos, humor, satire, and tragedy.  These hours are very popular, and include poems from standard authors.  Humorous cuttings from Mrs. Alderman Casey included in these mixed hours.

3.
Full Programs—Plays
Among her more pretentious readings, occupying the whole time of an afternoon or evening program, the following are found:

A.
The Sign of the Cross—Wilson Barrett
The characters of this wonderful drama are made to live and move before you.  Miss Willmer regards this as the greatest Christian drama ever written.  She presents her own original dramatization which competent critics have pronounced a very near approach to the author's personal interpretation.  A graphic picture of the growth of a soul from paganism to Christianity, a thrilling presentation of the horrors of religious persecution, and a faithful delineation of the tremendous price paid for the religious liberty which we all enjoy.  A stirring recital which affords opportunity for the free play of the widest possible range of emotion, feeling, and artistic talent.

B.
Aunt Jane of Kentucky—Eliza Calvert Hall
A truly homely story well told.  Concerning the book Ex-President Roosevelt said: A story every American should read.  Miss Willmer is an artist with the dialects and this story abounds with the homely philosophy of a homely character struggling to escape from the thralldom of popular superstition and customs.

C.
The Dawn of a Tomorrow—Frances Hodgson Burnett
A story rich in lessons of personal character and social transformation, one of Miss Willmer's best selections.

D.
The Adventure of Lady Ursula—Anthony Hope
A bright and sparkling comedy, a reading which demonstrates the versatility of the artist.

E.
Romeo and Juliet—Shakespeare
F.
Programs from Longfellow, Lowell, Whittier, Ibsen, Browning, Shakespeare and Riley







The Sign of the Cross

PRESS COMMENTS

It is a great undertaking to interpret a whole play before an audience and to hold attention and interest during the delineation of the various characters and the unfolding of the plot.  Only a reader of great magnetism and power could carry such an undertaking to a successful issue, and Miss Willmer deserves a place unique in her profession.—
Menominee, Mich., Herald Leader.


Miss Willmer succeeds in impressing the story she is telling so vividly upon her audience that her own personality is lost in the character she represents and she has the power of dropping from one character into another quickly enough to keep up an illusion that there has been no transition.—
Minneapolis Times.


The manner in which Miss Willmer glides from the impersonation of one character into that of another is so easy and natural that it is not at all difficult to close one's eyes and imagine the scenes that she depicts.—
Fond du Lac Commonwealth.

You caught and held your audience from the beginning.  By the sincerity of your own feeling, the accuracy of your interpretation and the felicity of your manner, you won their breathless attention.  I regard your work as worthy of any congregation you are given the opportunity to face.—Rev. Judson Titsworth, Pastor Plymouth Church, Milwaukee.


Certainly no reader on this assembly platform has ever given a more perfect and artistic presentation than she gave on Sunday evening in 'The Sign of the Cross' and her reappearance will be eagerly looked for.—
Marinette, Wis., Eagle-Star.


Miss Willmer is one of the best readers that ever appeared before the public in this city.—
Fond du Lac, Wis., Bulletin.


Besides a natural adaptability to dramatic art, her work suggests much preparatory care and a joy in doing in an efficient way what she undertakes.—
Oshkosh Times.


Miss Willmer is certainly a genius.  No newspaper description can do her justice, but to be fully appreciated she must be heard in her readings.—
Devil's Lake, N. D., Chautauqua Inter-Ocean.


Miss Willmer in her reading of 'The Sign of the Cross,' gives a rendition so true to life that it outrivals many a sermon in religious force and yet surpasses the finest of melodramas for intensity of interest and beauty of character drawing.—
Superior Sun.


It is hard to write justly of Miss Willmer's presentation last evening of Wilson Barrett's 'Sign of the Cross' without seeming to be extravagant in praise.  When one person presents all the characters of this play suggestively and strongly, it is evident that she has done an extraordinary piece of work.—
Green Lake County Reporter.


Miss Willmer represented no less than eighteen characters and so realistic was her work that a person could almost see the characters in real life before him.—
Duluth Tribune.


You make your 'Lady Ursula' a living, breathing, dainty, lovable character.—
R. L. Nesbit, critic, in Minneapolis Tribune.


Her remarkable versatility was shown in various short sketches in which she moved the audience alternately to tears of pathos and tears of laughter.—
Waupun Leader.


Aunt Jane of Kentucky





Announcement
The Formation of Dr. Sadler's Chautauqua Company
For several seasons Dr. William S. Sadler has been assisted in his Chautauqua work by a trained nurse, who gave demonstrations in connection with many of the Health Lectures.

In 1908 Dr. Lena K. Sadler accompanied her husband, giving her Popular Demonstration-Lectures on Hygiene.  Miss Kellogg, the registered nurse, assisting both the doctors.

In 1909 the Sadlers continued as during the previous year.

For 1910 we announce the addition of Sarah Mildred Willmer to Dr. Sadler's Company.  Miss Willmer has been more or less associated with the various lines of work of the Drs. Sadler in Chicago for several years, and beginning next season (1910) joins the Sadlers in their Chautauqua work.

Speaking of this Company a manager recently remarked:

Dr. Sadler's Company is a whole Chautauqua in itself, except the music.



A FEW PRESS NOTICES AND LETTERS
CONCERNING THE SADLER LECTURES
Concerning Dr. Sadler's lecture at the I. L. A. Chautauqua, Oshkosh, Wis., The Daily Northwestern says: Dr. William S. Sadler gave a lecture on 'The Physiological Influence of Faith and Fear,' which was pronounced to be one of the most useful lectures given during the series.

Dr. Sadler, assisted by his wife, also a doctor, and their trained nurse, gave the most interesting of his health talks yesterday afternoon to a very appreciative audience.  These talks are proving the best drawing card on the entire bill, as they are instructive as well as interesting.  The doctor is an excellent speaker as well as a learned physician and the audiences take great pleasure in listening to everything he says.


The Sadlers grew on the people during the ten days and the largest audience of the season was a compliment to his ability last night.—
Terre Haute (Ind.), Tribune.


To give a complete synopsis of the lecture would be practically impossible and would hardly do justice to the speaker.  To appreciate such lectures one must hear them; to give such lectures one must have power and experience, and Dr. Sadler undoubtedly has such requirements, for he is surely a success as a lecturer.  He is a success not only because of his power as a lecturer, but also because of the subjects which he has taken for topics.  The pity of it all is that the tent of the Chautauqua was not larger, for the crowds could not all be seated under it.—
Kearney (Neb.) Hub.

Sample Committee Report: —The people were delighted.  One of the finest things that ever struck our town.—C. L. Fidlar, Mgr. Terre Haute Chautauqua.


The Sadlers are growing in popularity every day.  Local physicians have been interested in their work and many have attended the sessions.  One said last night that the discussion of 'Colds' was the best he ever heard.—
Terre Haute (Ind.), Star.

Your lecture on The Shum, Its People and Problems, given in our recent course, was a revelation to me.  It was intensely intensely interesting and helpful—W. D. Eastman, Dept. Secy., Young Men's Christian Association, Chicago


Dr. Sadler made a hit last night.  His address on The Slums was second to none.  To say the lecture was interesting does not do justice to it, and an audience has not left the Chautauqua more pleased than was the crowd that attended last evening.—
Appleton (Wis.) Star.


The account of the body's unceasing battle against the germs which attack it reads as alluringly as a romance, when presented in the way Dr. Sadler presented it and illustrated by views reproduced from photographs taken from life under the microscope.  The lecture aroused much interest.  The lecturer did not advance a set of fads and fancies or propose impracticable things.  His plea for the simple life is sane and sensible.  He is no extremist.—
Appleton (Wis.), Crescent.

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