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WILMETTE LIFE September 24, 1926 WILME'M'E LIFE l!iSUED FRIDA.Y OF EACH WBEX by ' LLOYD HOLLISTER,· INC. 1:!22 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago oft\ce: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 t4UBSCBIPTION PRICE ·.....·.·.·... S!.OO A YEAR 'elephone ............................... Wilmette ·tt!O A 11 <'ommunfcations must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pubttcatlon must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to '!nsnre aJ,opearance in current Issue. ~rtmfttance charge re~ulnr advertising nnti<'t>R of entertainments or other affairs where an Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, is published, will be charged at rates. """~fl m:'ltt Pr of M~r<'h :l. 1879. Enterea at the post office at .W ilmette, Il1fnots, as the S(:'cond class, under the act or of our streets and hom.e grounds be destroyed, but the well being of all those who ~ reside in these favored communities would be seriously affected. Homes without trees hardly seen1 real homes. It is our · duty then to ourselves and chil-, dren to follow the advice of these tree experts. we should exatnine our trees carefully. If we find cocoons on the trees we . BACK YARD BALLADS should at once take steps to remove them The Garden Gate and burn then1 up. It is a simple, easy act, but like many simple, easy acts is often Out in our ~'ant we have ? ol' gate postponed until the fatal damage has been 'At swung on a strap c.n never was straight, En w:1e11 }OU went th:-oug;l fer beets fer a meal done. !t'd foller you up en hump on your heel! Save your tr~es and you will save the value of your hom~~ . Sore llheS / '"o u read in t h e paper the other ll a v .of the Paris-to-London airplane th2.t. iq endt"a\'(Hing to make a safe landing iP a f0g-, c-rashed into a barn and injured more or less seriousOnce lv its passengers? Well, Is Enough d·id. and we recalled most vividly our on~ flight from Pari s to London. \~.Tith whf'.t happv expectation did we buy our . tirkrts fur the flight! Y.o u see we bo11g·ht our air passage in London at the office of the American Express company, 'C'Oncealin g· the fact from onr ·friends .. \vho "·ere to re main behind in England \vhile \Ve madr the ~-ra1~cl tour nf the Continent. We h a d 11 eYe,: flow 11 he f nrc. I I ow de 1 i g h t f nl it \\·onld he to rival the sea gull at lea st once! So we bought ottr tickets in London and S()O t1 a rtcr sta rtrcl off for Belg ittm, H oltand and a 11 the other interesing Continental countrie s. expec-ting to land in Paris last of all and thence hop lig-htly over into Eng-.,. land and there rejoin our waiting friends. How thrilled the~r would be when they ;ttearcl the details .o f our air trip! They were thrilled. hut the details were not what we 'had anticipated. Up to the very n1oment that the plane began moving- with us on board \Ve were full of joyful expectat.ion. But when the gigantic tn.otors began to roar, our first . .suspicion awakened. And when the colossal tnachitH Legan to leave the earth, we got our first real taste of airplaning. To the fairer half of our personal party it meant sotnething more worse than mere sea sickness. To us it meant a feeling .of what fools we were to ha'Je left ·dear old tnothe:- earth and entrusted ourselves to a barn door kept up in the air only by its speed. Fron1 the tin1e we left th~ ground in France until we .landed at Croydon, near London, we were tnost unhappy. All we wanted \Vas to get down again to what we now knew was terra firma. Ed~el Ford can avia~~ all he wants to. We're done ! · n; ct 've A recent very careful survey, made hy the American Libra~")r association, discovered that of all rural residents in the Eighty . th ree l!ni~ed States and Per Cent Cc:dlada 83 per cent wet e t;ntirely with0ut accP-ss to libraries Th<~t means that al111.0 s t nine-ten Lh s of the n ~on 1 e who li" e in :>ur country di strict s do little reading-. We do not regret the fact that so frw rural residents Lave access to current fiction. that section of our public librar~ most patronized ~1:1011 by hook borrowers. The good r ccrivccl f)·utr: tl.e reading of thi:-; ftcti0n is virtua,liy nil. . ;\nd every librarian's monthly report sho"·s that more nO\"els arc read than all the .o ther sorts of hook s put tog-ether. So our sy mpathy goes · out to rural dwellers not for the short- 1ived fiction they miss hut for the other hooks-history. portry, sc ience, biography, classics. One .o f the ways of feeding this ly1ok hung-er is especially attractive libraries on wheels. We ha Ye kn O\\·n for a ntuni)er of yea1 s that the Eva~ston llhrary used a bool{ truck to distribute books to outlying homes. If it is a great privilege to bring even ont> good hook to a stranded human being. separated from worth while reading, how much greater is the privilege of those who make it possible f0r a Parnassns on wheels to make a \:veekly or monthly tour through our rural neighborhoods. · All of which should make us more thankful for our village libraries. When wondering what to read. the answer you want can always be found on our book page. It often happens- doesn't it?that just at the very moment yon feel like reading Our and have the time, you can't Book Page think of one tl-~at will exactly fill the bill. So you stretch back in your easy chair, and yawn, and long for a good book. Don't yawn. Look at our book page and you'll be sure to find · just the hook you've been longing for. Our hook page announces all the latest and best volumes. It also gives brief and readable reviews. On this page you will also find spicy bits of biographical gossip, interesting information regarding oncoming books. In the same colutnns you will usually find news of what's going on in your own village, in the field of books. Our book page c,onductor is a genuine book lover and at the same time very desirous of increasing the value of the page to all our readers, old and young. How can it be improved? Once lit t 1e Genrge went out there to play En pushed the gate . ·1,ut pushed the wron g way. \\'hen it swung hack it pinrh<'d all his to ·s En hlac:~cned his eye en ldoodiecl hi s no c! X en Ma run out en pickc'l Gcoq.~ic up , . En as she come hack she st cppcd on 'J ttr pup! Nen Pa run out. hut come too latc}.fa said. "Yon bet tn go fix that o l' gate!" Xc11 Jl;1 got a huard til ha111mer <. tt :-a,,· Fn :-aid. 'Tll lix it t() :-.u it your mama!" H c g(;t a IlL' \\ ' h ing<" en :- pring fer the hack Fn <;traightrned tlte ·po..;h en filkd up a nark. .. \t·tt put <ttl arc 11 m·(·r <-o roses ran Fn rai:-.cd the (Jl' catch. rau:-;l' it ,,-a-.. Fn put in a :- rc\\. " ·hnt' a nail tl:-.(·d Fn puttil'd it n\·tr - y L· ha rdly could growhw, tn lH·. :-.t't· ~ Then \\'it h ~Otill· p;· it· t in ;( or p:t in t JH ·t He stained it greell - l'n mo :-; t of the l() t ~ X()\\' tlh' ol' ~ak "ill "'"ing cith r r ,,·ay En 111a ke:; it quit e "a ic i l'r Cenr~ il' to pi:! y ~ "\Yc'll put t\\'O r o:-; (' ;-; ri g ht herr." Pa ~aid. "To show the :;pot wlwrl' little Gc(·rgt· hlvrl . Fer this i:-- the .1 .~c fer Georges to shineLloyd Genrgl'. the kit1~· . en thi:; '(Ill oi J.J ittl· ~ .. - fT . :\. ~ f r r. r. s What Can We Say After We Say W e'rt: Sorry? Dear Slave: You're a fine onr! You ,,·on't en.·n admit that I exist. I got wind nf anotlier column ceiHlnrtor and just for that I'm going to fall in · love with him. Tf he's a she. 1'11 fall anyway. :\ow what are ~ .:>u going to say? - E~r\tY We're No Wilfre~ Cross, Old Thing Dear Sta,·c: . T ha.ve a Leavy date for next Saturchy cvenmg wtth .a ('Oe d from ~orthwestcrn . unin·rsity. After rcaclm g 1 ecent accounts of coed activities from the pen of a )Jr. Cross I am at a lo ss whether to bring the la_dy a fifth of Gordon gin or a pint of l:ourb on. Tt I told you her sororitv could vott ad;rts~ me .as to which she might pre fer? Sh~ is a JUntor thts year. -TnB ]oKI<:R ~--·--·---- Experts tell us that our trees, especially elm and ash, are in danger of being seriously damaged, if not destroyed, by the tussock moth. These experts Save Your advise ren1oving from infested trees and burning Trees the tussock cocoons. It is a1so urged that this be done imn1ediately. Without doubt the entire North Shore would lose its value as a residence district if it lost its trees. If our elm and ash trees were to be destroyed by the tussock moth, not .only would much of the present beaut:r Now Joker. don't crowd us too far . \Vc arc neither Wilfred. nor Beatrice Fairfax, although you seem to thm k us a combination of the two. "vVe suggest that you take the fair coed a pound of Fannie May's. That's what we always used t~ do when we called on a coed. (Aside: Yes we dtd, lykell.) It won:t be long now! Another week and we'll be wat~hmg Northwestern's purple wildcats line UJ~ agamst the South Dakota huskies in their c~tmson sweaters, the whistle will sound a shrill stgnal, the hall will soar clown the field and the greatest sport in the world will be on. We · can hardly watt to hear the roar of the stands when the hall. gets down. on the ten yard line, second dow!1, etght yards to go, and one side of the big stadmm pleads for a touchdown while the other chants, "Hold that line! Hold that line!" THE SLAVE.