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34 ·W ILMETTE LIFE October 22, 1926 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF E..lCB WEEK by LLOYD HOLLIST"ER, INC. 1%22 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 8UB8CRIPTION PRICE .·...···.···· . 1!.00 A YEAR and plenty of other stunts. The movies help to fill up the evening. But the best of all is the grand eats'- cider,. doughnuts, pumpkin pie and ice cream. Be there on Saturday evening, Octoher 30. You'll have a great time. · Everybody likes Jimmie. Not only everybody in the office and shop but everybody in town. Except those inhuman Jimtnie creatures who even dislike children. What's more noteworthy is that Jimmie likes everybody. On h.is way. home fron1 his master's place of business he goes out of his way to give a ~indly greeting to the crossing policeman, the corner newsboy, the porter at the station, the postman, even to a stray salesman seeking some custo.mer. Jimmie's job in th~ world seems to he di- · vided into three principal . parts-sleeping, eating and the above mentioned exchanging of a pleasant greeting with his human colleagues. Sleeping and eating, he is · much the same as other dogs. But when · it comes to leaving the people on the street a little happier than he found them, Jimmie is in · a class all by himself. He is not effusive. He does not wag his tail vigorously. Not because he has so brief a tail. The reason for his being so mildly, though sincerely, pleased to meet his fellow citizens is that his disposition is not the exuberantly affectionate sort. But though not overly demonstrative, he seldom is misunderstood. Odd as it may seem he once alarmed an abnormally timid lady by his neighborly sniffing. Jimmie is a brindle bull terrior, stock,· but not stout, 98 per cent tailless, and, a"s has been emphasized above, 110 per cent friendly . FALLTIME Gold of a ripe oat straw, gold of a southwest moon, Canada-thistle blue and ftimmering larkspur blue, Tomatoes shin-ing in the October sun with red hearts, Shining five and six in a row on a wooden fence, Why do you keep wishes on your faces all day long, Wishes like women with half-forgotten lovers going to new cities? What is there for you in the birds. the birds, the birds, crying down on the north wind in September· acres of birds spotting the air going south? Is there something finished? ginning on the way? And something new be· -CARL SANDBURG. !'elepllone ............................... Wilmette lt!O All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to :nsure Rl·pearance in current Issue. 'Resolutions of condolf:'nce, cards of thanks, ohftuary, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an Admittance charge Is published, wtn be charged at rt>~uJar advertising rates. Entert>d at the post office at Wflmette, llltnots, as mall m&tter of the second class, under the ac.t ot ~itrch 3. 1879. --·---·-·-· I Altevs and basements, some time back, were dirty places. No one would think~ of taking a walk down the alley Alleys or .of sitting in the basement. Mud and garbage belonged and in the alley, and ashes and Basements dust and cobwebs in the basement. . \Vhen a guest of the town paid it a visit he seldom, if ever, saw more than the entrance to an alley, and even then he took only one sniff and hurried past. And when a rich relative honored your humble home would your wife let you show said relative your efficient but untidy basement? Certainly not! Those days, however, are, as the poet said, gone forever. And they will never return. Oil burners and gas burners have converted the basement into a drawing room or perhaps a billiard room. Pictures adorn its pnce dirty, ·but now beautifu11y tinted, walls. Father sits there in his luxurious easy chair entertatnmg his wealthy relative with accounts of the good old days. The alley, also, is now clean, hard and smooth. The mud and garbage get no The activity of women in politics seems Concrete has chance to · accumulate. to us little short of marvelous. Men are rebrought about this w,o nderful change. Spot- . markably active in business and less cars skim up and down the once disWomen sport, but the fairer half can and reputable thoroughfare. The old basement does stir up more action in the and and alley have gone the way of the buggy and the parlor stove. Politics field of politics than the other half can even dream ot And . And the world is the better for their gowhen election lopms in the ~ffing, the ladies Jng. move about so briskly as to cause temporary dizziness in their more phlegmatic Parents and children are much obliged mates. The numerous local leagues of women to the organizations that arranges for and voters are particularly active. While the sees through to a finish Hallowe'en the Hallowe'en romps giv- men are. won?ering in a foggy way about en in our north shore com- the quahficattons of the many candidates, Romps mumttes. It is always a the w~me~ are holding tneetings at which lot of fun to go to a big these candrdates show themselves and their party on Hallowe'en. You see all your ideas. Incidentally the men attend these school and playground friends, and the more meetings and become less foggy. the merrier. The speed and thoroughness with which the lea!!ues of women voters get members Many boys and girls would rather have a for thetr organizations is admirable. No party at home, but you can't begin to have the gay time with only two or three that worn~!!' whatever her residence, age, or you can have with a big bunch of all the condttton, escapes the solicitations of the boys and girls . in the neighborhood. It's membership committee. This committee fun for parents, too-at least for the kind not only. aims at getting 100 per cent of the . we have up here-to go to a romp and take w,omen m a community to join; it does get a hand in the good time their children are them. having. One of the enterprises in politics carried At these romps they have a fine program on by the leagues is the citizenship school of music, games, movies and wonderful ~hose p~rpose is ~o give voters adequate eats. The music is not the dry, uninterest- mformat10n on tssues and candidates. ing sort but songs that everybody knows, Speakers who can deliver this desired inwhistling and harmonica solos, and pinno formation give addresses at this school and pieces that tickle your heart strings. And discuss critical political questions. the games ! you know them-bobbing for As said heretofore, men are much beneapples, pinning the tail on a tnuslin donkey, fited by these activities. Autumn is here and has cast its mesmeric spell over village and countryside. Its arti stry is noted at every hand, and at every turn in the street some diligent householder may be fo~nd offering up his sacrifice to good old Jack Frost who, also, is just around the corner in the cycle of the seasons. This is a happy sea.on for those who would a-touring go. Juat by way of sugrestion: Take a drive alonar the west north shore. Get of£ the concrete roads and on to those charminr by-waya that traverse the country-sic\e as yet unmarred .,. glaring signboards and disfiruring Barbequed filling stations. Ten minutes from home and one can be . in the midst of nature's rarest beauty apota. "No Man's Land" Truly, autumn appears to have a most stimulating e'ffcct upon our villagers. Bear witness, if you please, to the rumble of excitement that has of late disturbed our customary suburban calm. And it is all about "No ~fan's Land." It seems that, while most north shore folk were away on vacation or busied with their golf games, some enterprising gentlemen came forth to trans· form the wildernes s into a thriving, teeming metropolitan \:enter. We're to have, they say, clubs lake shore. Hence, conference upon conference, stores and a theater right along our beautiful resolutions and. mass · meetings, all for the pur· pose of frustratmg the plans of these enterprising gentlemen and preserving the wilderness stretch for park uses. Well, a little excitement will do us no har.~. But, aren't we just a bit tardy on this propos1t1on . Ten years ago, perhaps, but now? Well, we shall sec I Vote Frauds . Judging. by ~he number of bright, new spare tare covers an eVJdence in these pre-election daya, it would appear that the candidate with the best ad. vertising manapr ia clestiDed to ret the votea at the November balloting. The Forum for 100 Per cen.t VotiDr alaould consider seriously this situa· tion in ita review of the vote fraucls. They don't seem to be after the Ford voters. -------- . Radio, that newe.st of American indoor pasP?ssesses 1ts aggravating situations. Tother mght we were enjoying a fine Schubert concert when station JAZZ horned in with a lot ?f drive). The crime commission should inv:estlgate thts peculiarly insidious type of infractton. ~ ~tmes, Oh, For the Old Days The · annoyinl' thinl' about theae radio iDter· lopers Is that we can't reach them with the "bouquet · " we wouId so love to fling. Not that we aren't fond of jazz concerts, but, by all me~u1~, not on the same wave length, or whatever tt ts these things travel on. ., Somet~nr must be clone about Brown.intr and Peac~ and M~ther Heeman. Why not pat them an a; vaucleVJIIe sketch. It seema deatiaed for a continuous performance. How About His License? . An~. all the" while we're concerned about the dtsposttiOn of No Man's Land," Railroad Jack, bUilder of portable cottages, and mental gymnast, wor~s !'n co.mplaccntly, building, demolishing and rebutldmg lus nondescript domicile on the Sheridan road parkway. · Another of our film idols lies shattered at our feet. Wallace Beery stop· over in Cbic:aao lonr tmough to l'et a manicure. -MIQUE.