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24 WILMETTE LIFE April 1, 1927 Scout Leader Urges First Aid Teams to Vie for Championship Apr. 22 , Real Hiking as Need ! PERENNIA·LS We wish to announce that we will sell 50 VARIETIES of perennials at $I and .$ 1. 5o a dozen. Also a large quantity of healthy, bushy . Japanese Barberry at $2.50 a dozen. The above perennials and shrubs are of our usual high grade quality stock. · We are offering them · at the above reduced prices because our entire stock must be transplanted to a different location. By taking advantage of this unusual opportunity, you can obtain your perennials for spring planting at ONE-HALF TO ONE-THIRD the regular price. Orders can be placed at 321 Park Ave. Tel. Glencoe 155 Twelve . public utility and industrial first aid teams are no\v practicing daily . in preparation for the fourtl~ annual Chicago Red Cross First Aid championship contest, to he held at the First Regiment Armory, Michigan avenue and 18th stre et, on April 22. Members of the team that kept Albert Frick breathing for 108 hours wilt compose part of the team that ·witt tfepresent the Public Sen·ice company of Northern Illinois. Other teams competing represent : Illinois Bell Telephone company, wi10 won the meet last year, \V estern Electric company, Chicago Rapid Transit company, Chicago, North Shore and Milwaukee Railroad company, South Shore & South Bend railroad, Commonwealth Edison company, People's Gas Light & Coke company, 108th Medical Regiment, the Auro,r a & Elgi n railroad, and the Canadian Pacific railroad, of Montreal, Quebec. All of these teams received their fir:-;t aid training through the Chicago Chapter of the Red Cross. The first annual first aiel championship, sponsored by the Chicago Red Cross,· was held in 1924, to stimulate interest in first aid competition among Industrial organizations. This year's contest promise~ to he the biggest yet, according to Dr. H. W. Gentles, Director of First Aid at the Chicago Red Cross office. of Automobile Age "The reason that the 'out' looms so large in Scouting is not merely that woods and fields and stream appeal so ·s trongly to boy interests," Walter .McPeek Boy Scout executive of the North Shore Area, said last week in addressing a group of Scout parents, "but also because the out-of-doors, with its rugged effect on boy life, makes a very important contribution to boy character. "The ease of modern life tends to soften us. We need more of the sort of ruggedness that comes so jntimately into the life of Abraham Linc.oln. All of us need to develop more of that self-reliance, alertness and initiative that marked the pioneer. We need to develop our powers of it1ugination, so that we can see life ahead as holding great possibilities for us. 1 ·'Scouts in troops and patrols go on hikes into woodland and streamland. They hunt out the byways, the unfrequented places, alert to discover new and interesting things. "In a recent issue of 'Nature 11agazin~.' Henry Wellington Wack, published a splendid article on the 'Ten Commandments of the Trail,' in which he said: 'Don't go walking to beg a ride. The automobile hiker is a fraud.' Naturally, Scouts who go on a hike, want to hike, and not to ride. "Usuall y they hike where automobiles can't go, avoiding the highway s and beaten paths. "Scout troops of the north s hore arc particularly fortunate in having so many beauty spots within hiking di stance." 1 ·~ GLENCOE DINNER AT GEORGIAN Plants will be delivered SUBJECT TO· YOUR APPROVAL Girls belonging to the sophomore fortnightly dancing classes at Roycemore entertained at a dinner Saturday evening, at the Georgian, the group including Mary Eleanor Buck, Marjorie Cowan, Barbara J ohns.on, Evelyn PatMrs. W. L. Joyce of 831 Oak\,·ood terson, Betty Sherrill, Sylvia Smith, Genevieve Sq1ithers and Eileen Spar- avenue returned last SaturdaY from a week \ trip to Fort \\'ayne, II;cl. ' row . .-Well Spent Is ....Earned and Saved Why so little bread baked in the modern home? Better bread can be purchased for less time and money. The same applies to laundry work. Better Laundry Service can be purchased for less time and money. --· I I RESULT SAVING o/ TIME and MONEY- or MONEY WELL SPENT is MONEY SAVED Our many family services (from-Wet Wash-25 lbs., Washed and Wrung $ 1 · 2 5) to complete, finished, ready- to-wear service, should interest you. Call us. WILMETTE 571- NO . TOLL and get this in/ormation FRENCH LAUNDRY VICTOR ORTLUND, President 806 DEMPSTER STREET EVANSTON