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W·I'LM E T T E .L lF.:E · November ·s, 1926 News of the North Shore Clubs Authority on Status of Women Speaks at Next League Meeting The next meeting of the Winnetka League of Women Voters· will· be held Monday, November 8, in Matz haU, Community House. Mrs. Ida Clyde Clark, well-known speaker, will address the league on "Uncle Sam Needs a \Vife." There will he a few announcements made at this time, the address follov..·ing right after the luncheon. Mrs. Clark, an editorial writer for the ::>ictorial .Review since 1916, has had a most iilteresting career. She was sent bv the nation::1l board of the Y,. \V. C. A. to tour South America, atJd to make a survey of the condition of \vomen on that continent. In 1921 she was the press representative of the National Council of vVomen of the Uniterl State at a meetii1g of the Int~rnational Council of .. \Vomen held in Norway. Mrs. Clark was sent to London to speak for America at an int~rnation~l conference in the interest of the nameJess child. Si1e v.;a~ invited by the Swedish government . to visit:-that country as a delegate to the Internatiorral Press congress held in Stockholm, and she was the only woman delegate )~resent. In Dances of Past · By R. L. P. · Mrs. Clark has recently returned from a trip to Europe, ,,·he;e she visited ten countrit·s, at the request of the ~merican \\.'omen's cotUmittee for International Goodwill. Mrs. Clark has written many books, her latest being "Uncle Sam Needs a \Vife." · The New Orleans Item savs of Mrs. Clark. "No stage of womet~'s activity lies without the scope of Mrs. Clark's i~terest." Tt \\'as with great difficulty that the Winnetka LeaQ'ue's president was able to secure Mrs. Clark as speaker, so a la.rg-e attendance is hoped for. tl'e board announces. Under the direction of Mrs. Willard Lockridge of the eighth precinct, the luncheon to be served at this meeting is announced to be most attractive. A corcfial invitation b~r the league is extPnrled to new members. · The boarrl of dirf'rtors wi11 hold a meeting at 11 preceding the luncheon. American Citizenship · Topic of ·Club Meeting On Friday evet1ing, November 12, the Friends-in-Council of Evanston will meet for a () o'clock dinner at the Orrine-ton hotel f_ollowed by a program, tne thrme of which will be American citizenship. Mrs. M. A. S·anley, chairman of ~merican citizenship committee, has arranged the pr0gram which will be given bv C. A. Tupper, prominent for· his work in the interests of intf'rn::ttional relations, and by Mic;s Marion Harney. Henry Rigg-s Rathbone, congressman a,t large, will be the guest of honor. PLAN JO,NT MEETING Dr. Fr::tnk Slutz from the Moraine Park scho0} of Dayton, Ohio, will speak on "The Twentieth Century and the Schoolm~ster" on Tuesrlay evening, November 30, at the Kenilworth cJub. The orr~~jon will he a i"i11t tnPPtinfY of the Kenilworth club an The Neighbors. The .Tohannah North Shore committPe will hold its second meeting on thunday, November 11, at thP home of Mrs. Alfred Flesh~m of 1380 Scott ~venue, Hubbard \Voods. Luncheon wilJ be served at 12:30. At its meeting last Monday afternoon in the home of Mrs. Asa B. Cooley of Hubbard Woods, the Winnetka Music club offered a program of picturesque social dances of the past. Mrs. Everett Harris, who art anged the program, introduced each g-roup by giving a brief history of the origin and significance of every number. Mrs.. Dwight C. Orcutt plaved a group· 'of piano numbers, the first of which was a ,.Pavanne" by the Italian com.ooser, Leot)i. This is a very old and ceremonial dance. A favorite of Louis XIV, the "Courante," was the next m·ost conspicuous dance of nobilitv. being also popular in the courts of Eliz~betft and Charles II. The "Courante" played by 1frs. Orcutt was com0 I posed by th~ German, Reitrecke. Four dflnces· J)y Bach ended the group, a "Botir~e,'~. which was introduced in the French court in 1565: a "Passp:ed," The child and home <fopartment of which was the dance with which most the Woman's club of \Vilmette sends of the balls began: the "S~r1hand"," the follo~ing announcement to all once gre::ttly pop!llar in Spain, France women of the village: and England: and the "Gavotte," orig"You are corrlia11v invited to attet1d inal:ly· a French peasant dance, but the cooking lt>cture.s and luncheon to later adopted by higher society, becom- be (Tiven on November 10. in the \Voing popular with. Henry VIII especial- ma~'s Club building at Tenth street ly. anrl Greenleaf avenue. Mrs. Cooley sang three Mexir.~n Interesting talks on rookf'rv at 9 : .'~0 songs, .which were original melodies an<l 2 will featu~e holiday menus and based on Mexican syncopatf'd danre the preparation of c('rt ... in delicious rhvthms, arranQ'ed bv ~a F0rge: "0 foods which an· not widely in uc;e. A<:k of the Stare;, Be 1o v e d," "The . Luncheon will be served to a timit"d Zephyr," and "En . Cuba." . These number by the home service departshowed ~he lovely lyncal quahty, and ment of the Public Service company of the defintte accented notec;. NNthern Illinois. Mrs. Orcutt nlayed a "G::tvotte." folReservations should he made at once lowed ~v a "Mussette" and an "A1 1a- bv letter, to Mrs. E. ~{. Simonds, 834 m::tnde. hv the modern FrP11r:l1 rom- Sixteenth street" poser. D'Alhert: a familiar "\V::tltz" by ___ · _ _ _ __ the Bohemi::tn, M okrei.s: and a "Trlnr-o" bv Pf'dro 'Hernandez, a modern Skokie Chapter, D. A. R. Sp;:~nish composer. ·tn Oh~e.-ve Allniver~a'fy . Mrs. Warner Rohinson ~ang a "MinNovember 24, at the home of Mrs. uet" in the old stvle. It ic; a French Percy Eckart of Kenilworth, the first "BerP"ette," whic-h · j, a folk tnne, arHrthrfav of the Skokie Valley chapter, pnrYed hv WerkPrlein. A "r..::~votte," Daughters of American Revolution "Minuet," "S;~rahande" anrl "Gig-u"·, by will be celebrated. Monhrrue Philinns, a p1odorn comp"sThe Sk3kie V~ltey chapter held the er, f0llowc<l. Thf' "Minuet" W"s the first meeting of the season at the home o11e danre that England lonl.-t>d 0n of Mrs. E. F. Snydacker in Kenilkincllv. It createrl a sensa tin n in worth, Monday, October 25. Mrs. E. Fran~r. and was in voguf> until the L . Scheid, .... '-n'n, ,.. r \V:'·--"+tp rr;l··p a revolutinn ~wept it awav. Tho Minuet paper on. "The Early History of the is rem~trkable ?s having survivPd the ~1.-nki~ Val'cv :1nrl T·<: 1-.· ,., ;fY· h ~ rc; " T~ oldf'r danre fnrms, apnParinP" in the was such a comprehensive paper and son::l ta _and sYmphonv. Thr "GifYttP" is one considered so valuable, so -concise a Jo"elv olr1 dr~nrP. ,~ . t.,;,.h is particular- and true. and delightfully written, that ly arhptNI fnr thr fidrlle. the Skokie chapter voted 1o place it Mr..;_ M f'llf'n C'. Martin of \V; nnetka. in the files of the chapter for future a vuest danrpr for thf> afternoon, fY".lVe reference. three Spanish dances in costUTne. Thr ~rc;t, a "Mal;~(Tuen"." is a form of Each Membe-r of Garden Bolero. its outstanding fe"+ttre h";ngthe diffl'rent stc·ns and the liv-f'lv clirkClub on Program Today inrr 0f the c-ac;tanets. Another .Rnler(), · "Our 1926 G1rdenc; in R"'tros,)Cct" ic:; "F.J Garrotin". w::ts d::tn"~'d mnstlv '"it 11 the subject of a short ta 1 k by e'"~rh thr arms. whtrh "vavNl and trrmhlpd member of the Garden club of Witlike c::~ntured hirrls. The fnot emnh=:~- mettr this afternoon. This exnrrience si7ed the cwin_ g of the d::~ncP "'ith ,,,eeting j., being held at the home of st::~mn..;. "Git'~ner~as." thP lf!st nf Mrc; . Mrs. A. \V. Peard, 110 Third street, at Martin's rrro-ttn. is a tW'rlern danre of 2 o'clock. the vvnsies of Sp<Jin. Th, fnot accPnts The leader of the program for the thP h"at..;. ther e are manv f;:-~·,rv s~PDS afternoon is Mrc:;. John Weedon. ;Jnd the ca~tane1s arn uc;e cl . M ~'"· ~.f "r- Election of officers for the n~"xt vear t:n was accompanied b~· ~f r . .;. Fay is a part of the pro~ram. Tht>r.e is P0l~. now a full membership of fifty in the Refrpc:;hmc nt s wf're "~"rved at the club. rlose of the nrop-r;:~m. ThP next mePting of t 1'P cluh ,,.;11 hr 011 Dl"remhPr 1.1, The Presbyterian Hospital School ;:Jt the Glencoe Union rhurrl,, anrl thic; of Nursing is g-iving its annual bazaar will hP ooeti to tl1e pub lit~. Mrs. Or,.utt for the endowment fund at Art hall, v·: 11 rYive ;Jn (\rfY~tl · rPrito:~l, anrl +hPre Blackstone hotel, Friday, November will be vocal and instrumental numbers. 12. Following a short business meeting of The Neighbors Tuesday afternoon, the chairman of the program committee, Mrs. George M. Spangler, introduced Mae.s tro Giorgo Polacco, who spoke to the women on "The History of Grand · Opera." · Owing the th~ impossibility of making train connec.tions from Pittsburgh, Madame Edith Mason w?s unable to be at the meeting, and Theodore Ritch, Russian tenor of note, gave several selections which were en thusiastically received by the audience. · A meeting of the art and literature department will be held at the home of Mrs. Richard C. Johnston, 321 Melrose . aw1nue, Kenilworth, Tuesday, November 9, at 10 o'clock in the morning. Music Program Given at Book Talks Before Meeting of The Neighbors Catholic League Are for All Interested The North Shore Catholic Woman's league held the ·first of its series of hook talks by Mrs. Anthony French MerriJJ, Friday, October 29, at 2 :30 o:ciock, in the . home of Mrs. John Janette of 315 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth. Mrs. Merrilt, who also speaks at the \Vinnetka ~r oman's dub on Wednesdav mornings, brinQ'S to her disrusc;ions of books an current events, the results of many years' travel and stud~. She . is a psycholo~ist . herself, a~d· the ·daUQ'hter of one of the former sunerintendents of schools in Chicago. The · .h ooks that were dis~ussPd were "The Story of Philosophy,"· by Dur~nd, whirh Mrs. Merrill feels is a marvelous outline of philoc;onhic thought and theorv. She urged everyone to read . this book. "The Man Nohody Knows," rttH.I "The Book Nobody Knows," Mrs . . 1-f err ill dwelt on, and disarmed the criticism that this application of morlrrn business philosophv is wrong. "The I ife of Dean Brig~s" anrl "C~rn-oe:; a~1d H;rvests," \\,.re also inrlurled in tlw list taken up a~ this first tn~'eting. The mavazinc articlcc; dic.cussed by ~[ rs. :Merrill were, "Ts Progress a DeJuc;ion," aPp~"aring in the November "Harner's," "Men 'at Geneva," by . Ernt·st Poole, whic:h came out in th:c September "Cf'nturv." and an article in thf! October "Ca~holic World," en·itled "The Catholic Looks at the Modern G(\(1." The next hook talk tQ he givf'n by Mrs. Merrill before the le::~rYue wilt be held November 11, at 2:30 o'clock at th· home of Mrs. Davirl Hallinan of 105fl Spruce street, Winnetka. The .leag-ue also annnunres that anyone who is interested in these talks is welcome to attend them. I. f 1 t 4 W omen f W "/mett e Invited to cookery Lecture wednesday Coming Catholic Club Program Based on Arts The fine arts department of the Woman's Catholic c-lub of Wilmette '"ill meet with Mrs. Paul Fieberg, 1000 Michi~an avenue, on Fridav, November 12, at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Thomas Ch?mbers is to read a naner on rurrf'nt evE-nts. Mrs. N. ]. Conrad wili review "After Noot1." hy Su~an Ertz. "The Art of Story Telting': is Mrs. F. X. Thale's suhiect. RWh Rttf'h) Flick, well known artic;t on WE BH, will ,!!ive a readinfY, "The Muc;ic M<Jster." The work of Chflrles Wakefi('hl Cr~dman wi ll form the music study, \\'ith Mrs. Frank Kave, Mrs. Rohert Font ham, Mrs. ]. ]. ·J oyce, and M r!' . Paul Fie berg- to sinP" his songc;. M r:;. Arthur Lamkev anrl Mrs. Frank Roth ing- will be at .the piano. Asc.isti1in- thP hostess will be Mrs. \h::~rles Englehardt and Mrs. Frank Widger. KENTUCKY SOCIETY TO MEET The Kentucky Society of Evanston and the North Shore will meet for luncheon at the home of Mrs. Henry Mason. 301 Central avenue, Highland Park, Tuesday, November 9. In addition to Mrs. Mason, the hostesses will he Mrs. ]. L. Pnwh, Mrs. E. P. Harlam, Mrs. George Murray, Mrs. Frederick Harrison. The Winnetka Heig-hts circle will meet at the home of Mrs. George B. Everitt of 1035 Dinsmore rg'ld, Winnetka, Friday, November 12, at 2 o'clock.