The principal and seven lady teachers from Normal, Ill., just left me. They will come again, to learn more of Chautauqua. Some Texas gentlemen, one of whom, Prof. Hogg, I have long known as a fellow member of the National Educational Association, have been here again to-day, to say that they would be here to see me with about two hundred teachers from Texas at noon to-morrow. Dr. Mitchell was here this afternoon. On Saturday, the 27th, I was all ready for the two hundred teachers, who advanced in a body with a banner, and I gave them a regular lecture on Chautauqua and its out-reachings. Then I said my friend, Prof. Hogg, had seen me model in Philadelphia, in 1879, at convention of the National Educational Association, where he read a paper on “The Education of the Hand, the Head, and the Heart,” and he had asked me to show this company of teachers some clay modeling, so I would occupy a few minutes in that, as it was one of the methods in the Chautauqua plan to train the hand by clay, and through that educate the head; and if the hand and the head were truly educated, as they ought to be, the heart should be developed too. So, laying out a colossal head in relief, I made a few remarks as to the value of a little easy practice of clay modeling in schools; and then, turning to the board with clay on it, I worked eighteen minutes, and made a head of “an American Teacher.” General Eaton came to me after their vote of thanks, and as soon as they had gone—in the most congratulatory frame. “Chautauqua could afford to pay you two months’ work for that!” he said, shaking me by the hand. Two of the class of ’86 C. L. S. C., from Lockport, Dr. Mitchell, Mons. Buisson and a few others expressed themselves as much interested. I was glad to find I had so many “Spare-minute” circulars—and I must have given out seventy-five or one hundred yesterday, beside one hundred to the Texans, generally accompanied with a conversation of more or less length. All this in the midst of busy work and good progress in the mechanical embellishment of our alcove. It will be very attractive when completed, and I have so planned that I can work at it all along, adding new features from day to day. It is very interesting, how near to people’s hearts and inner lives I sometimes get in these little talks. It is a plan that touches the aspirations and longings of many a true soul. I wish sometimes that words could be instantaneously photographed. It is impossible for me to write as fully as I should like. Our only CHAUTAUQUAN (November) with one copy of the C. L. S. C. circular, with its cut of the Hall, has done good service.