Caroline Lycan Cornwell

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Stories for Little Tots and Grown-Ups
Caroline Lycan Cornwell


Stories are the natural soul-food of children, their native air and vital breath; but our children are too often either story-starved or charged with ill-chosen or ill-adapted twaddle-tales.

G. STANLEY HALL



CAROLINE LYCAN CORNWELL was a child once—and it seems that she has not entirely grown up.  Not that her stories are immature or childish—that is not the thought.  But she has that rare accomplishment of being able to tell the right kind of a story in the language the child understands.

With the little tots about her, she enters their world and becomes one of them.  And this world takes on a modern air.  The goblin and boog-a-boo tales are displaced by the wholesome, true story of today and yesterday; happenings of everyday life are pictured in such a way that they leave a good and lasting impression in the mind of the child.

A repertoire of more than one hundred and fifty stories provide ample material for any occasion, anywhere.  Real stories of child life in Virginia, California, Kentucky and other states have an intimate, natural atmosphere that creates a healthy stimulus in the child-mind.  Wild and domestic animals are pictured in educational and instructive tales.  The production of such things as silk, chocolate, rubber and glass are explained in simple language and illustrated by actual exhibits.

Bible stories carry the message to the children in a way they understand; the great morals and teachings of the Gospel become a part of their lives through a perfect understanding.  The classics from English and American literature are simplified and told in a manner which creates a desire to know more of better literature.

Grown-ups are captivated by this little woman, too.  The stories for the wee-folk are interesting to older people, but Mrs. Cornwell has provided readings of exceptional interest for adults.  In this work, she combines an unusual fund of knowledge with a pleasing and forceful manner.

Mrs. Cornwell is a young woman of engaging personality, with a clear, sympathetic voice, good enunciation and perfect poise before her audience.  Her manner is natural and wins the admiration of child and adult alike.  Her influence on a community is lasting; she leaves a part of herself in the hearts of the children and their parents.





Once upon a time



Mrs. Callie Cornwell has been given charge of this very important part of the chautauqua.  The stories that she will tell will be of a very entertaining nature for children of all ages.  They will also be of educational value to the children.  She will have a story hour at 9 o'clock in the morning and at 2 o'clock in the afternoon of each day during the chautauqua, except the two Sundays, and then she will entertain the children in the afternoon only.  The stories in the morning will be from English literature, true animal stories and a continued story of child life.  In the afternoon the stories will be of Child Life in Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, California and other places.  There will also be stories of various industries, such as silk, rubber and glass.  Come, bring your children and let them enjoy this fine story telling.—
Paris (Ill.) News.

Mrs. Cornwell has conducted our Story Hour at the Library for the past year, and I want this to be a note of appreciation as well as recommendation of her work with the children.  Our attendance has grown from ten and fifteen to forty-five and fifty as one proof of her success.  As a guide to the best in literature Mrs. Cornwell has had great influence.

Mrs. Cornwell is and has been a student of literature, and possesses the happy faculty of winning the Little Folks in her originality of narration.

Ruth I. Link, Librarian.

Mrs. Callie Lyean Cornwell is a story teller of rare attainment.  She uses the best of stories and tells them in a way creditable to the writers.  She has the faculty of grasping the central thought of a story and of making everything contribute to its development.  She combines with intellectual grasp that rare emotional insight which makes true story telling charming.  The children love her and joyously listen to her words.  Young people are charmed with her stories and the older ones enter again into youth with joy.  Mrs. Cornwell will make a success in chautauqua work, and in that growing educational movement which places value upon the stories of life she will be a leader.  After hearing her many times I am prepared to make this unqualified commendation.

H. H. Peters,
Pastor Christian Church, Paris, Ill.


Those who attended the Christian Endeavor meeting at the Irvington Presbyterian Church Sunday evening were pleased with the story telling of Mrs. Caroline Cornwell, of Paris, Ill., who is visiting relatives in the city.  The art of story telling is increasingly popular, and deservedly so, for many a lesson may be taught by means of a good story, well told, that would be exceedingly difficult to impress otherwise.  Mrs. Cornwell is a young woman of pleasing personality, with a clear and sympathetic voice, good enunciation and a straightforward manner that at once challenges attention.—
Indianapolis Star.



A Typical Chautauqua Story Hour


My Dear Mrs. Cornwell:

I was so charmed with your story of Van Dyke's Mansion, and several others that I have heard you recite, that I feel that you have a great future in store for your talent, and that you are especially fitted for our Chautauqua work.

I do hope you may touch thousands as you have me, for I certainly was thrilled.

May the choicest blessings be yours.

Aimee Trogdon Archer.


Mrs. Caroline Cornwell, of Paris, Ill., gave a pleasing entertainment at the Irvington Presbyterian Church yesterday afternoon.  Mrs. Cornwell is a reader of dramatic ability and was especially good in her reading from Oliver Twist.  One of the rare traits in Mrs. Cornwell as a reader is that she makes her readings pleasing to both her adult and children audiences.  She gave several children's stories, which delighted the children present.  Mrs. Cornwell is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Virgil Morris Kime.—
Indianapolis News.

To Whom This May Come:

This is to state that I have known Callie Lycan Cornwell for several years.  She comes from one of the best families in Illinois, and is a young woman of unquestioned Christian character.  Her studies are presented with an unusual power that is supported by genuine simplicity.

Her children's stories place her in the superlative degree, while her readings for the general public are given with equal success.

I trust that you will give her claims due consideration.

Yours truly,
Geo. W. Brown,
Superintendent of Schools, Pana, Ill.



THE services of Caroline Lycan Cornwell are available for Sunday School and other Church Conventions, Teachers' Institutes, Women's Clubs, Social Settlement and other work of similar nature.  Complete programs provided on short notice.  Address,
James T. Eads, Paris, Illinois