ELSIE LINCOLN BENEDICT

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 989, 4 June 1930, Page 8

ELSIE LINCOLN BENEDICT

LECTURES IN CONCERT CHAMBER To a crowd which packed the Town Hall concert chamber, and listened with rapt attention, interrupted only by applause or “Hear, hear,” Elsie Lincoln Benedict, popular American lecturer, opened her farewell series of free lectures last evening. Her subject, “Some Secrets of the Successful,” dealt with the contrasts between those who lead, control and dominate the world, and those -who follow and perform its toil, the speaker declaring that places in life’s procession are determined not so much by fate or caste, as by mental, v. musclework. “Statistics show,” said Mrs. Benedict, “that in America less than 3 per cent, of the average city’s population ever enters its book-stores, and not more than 5 per cent, ever sets foot in its libraries —the situation which enables those who study, think and otherwise develop mentally, to rise above the other 95 per cent.” Mrs. Benedict will speak tonight at the concert chamber on “What Your Type Tells—About Your Health, Vocation and Mating Tendencies.” The meetings, which continue each evening this -week, are all free to the public.