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28 WILMETTE LIFE WILME'ITE LIFE 188UBD FRIDAY OF RACB WBBX by LLOYD HOLLISTER. INC. 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chlcaco oftlce: 6 N. Michigan Avft. Tel. State 6326 'filetioae ....··...·.....··........··.·..· Wilmette Jt:au StiBSCBIPTION PBICl!l ··..·..·.····· liM A Tl!:A.K All communications must be accompanied by the name and addresa of the writer. Articles for publication must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In current Issue. Resolutions of t".Ondolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notloos of entert~lnments or other aft.'afrs where an admittance charge Is published, wlll be charged at regular advertising rates. In the late afternoon of ~Ionday, May ·9, when the heavens hurled at the earth hailstones big as hen's eggs, one of the particularly heavy rainstorms suddenly ceased and the . · A R ar.n OW sun as suddenly came .out from behind a cloud. Then there appeared in the east a great rainbow. It w~s a rare and beautiful sight, recalling the hnes of Wordsworth: "My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow ·in the sky." The majority of our fellow passengers on the Elevated did not see the wonderful seven-hued arc. They were pccupied in talki.ng with one another or in reading the detatls of the Snyder murder case. Nor did many of the people on the street share our inspiring experience. Either the buildings obscured their view or the people themselves did not look upward. Comparatively few saw this ·w,o nder of the heavens. We noted also that the rainbow seen1ed to move southward; ~o that we had it in view almost the entire distance from Howard to Wilson; at the latter point it had faded away. This apparent forward n1ove1nent of the how caused us to realize that ~here were really as many rainbows as there were people looking at the eastern sky in our vicinity. A niinbow for everybody who looked ! Wonderful ! b the work .of about five years.. There will be twelve grades of five years each, so that a student entering at the age of about twenty will be ready for graduation, if all goes well, at about the age of eighty. If he survives the graduation exercises he can fill out the rest of his remaining time with po~t-gradu ate work. · This school for. adults will differ from the ordinary school in that those who enroll will take up studying not as a vocation but as an a vocation, a side line. There will be no examinations. Students will continue for sixty or more years the subjects they liked most in college or university, adding others as they desire. At regular intervals they will be given opportunity to attend lectures given by great scholars. They will also publish anything that will be of interest to the reading public. If the demand is strong, we shall write another article telling what good results may be expected to follow the establishment of this system of adult education. Aln1ost fifty percent of the New Trier students will in all probability attend the 1927 summer school. Quite different fron1 the percentage of attendSummer ance at the old time sum. h h l mer high scho,ol. Then the H r.g Sc 00 percentage was zero. Nobody ever thought of having high school in the sumn1er time. It wa~ too hot and all the boys and girls were supposed to vacate during July and August. But nowadays the sutntner scho.ol students are fast becoming the rule instead of the exception. Six to ten weeks, or eight as at New Trier, of intensive schooling in the long vacation is no\v welcomed as an opportunity to make up college entrance ~nits, high school graduation credits, or to nnprove low grades. Having been dean of a summer school for several years we know the trials and triumphs of summer school work. The days are sometimes insufferably hot and humid, but not often in Chicago and vicinity, with the great cooler to the east. And then how pleasant are the extra credits! The extra tnoney is, moreover, not wholly unpleasant to the teachers. :\ Sunday or two ago the \Vinnetka Rifle club held a "shoot" at Fort Sheridan, where. we understand, J. M. Dickinson, Jr., carried away the honors of the ocPractice casion. Not being ""en in· formed on events in this Rr.fle special field \Ve had supposed that target practice with rifles had died out, but we are glad to learn that such is not the case. There was a time when the man of the fan1ily and the older sons were very handy with the rifle, and here and there c,ould be found a man who was able to drive a tack 'at fifty yards. Those were the days. when the gun provided food and protected the fireside. But with the coming 9f the neighbors and the police the rifle receded to the rear of the attic closet. R.ifle practice is, . howev.er,. coming in agatn. Target shooting soctettes are being organized. The Winnetka Rifle club is a notable instance. And this is well, for exercise in this field develops strength and steadiness of muscle as well as keenness and steadiness of eye-sight. .··- ·-·-·-·--- -·-·-·-·-·-··.' May 20, 1927 SHORE LINES . ·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·-·CRADLE SONG -·-·-·-·-· A house· so small. that only love Could dwell within, A roof so low, that far above TreetQps grew dim. And when at dawn, the morning light Played on the floor, I heard some fairy of the night Passing the door. The rustle of her silver wings Roused me from sleep, As by the lintel, Mother sings Of forests deep. Refrain: Silver wing, Silver wing, Fly, fairies, fly, Sunshine and playtime Will- come by and by ! Silver wing, Silver wing. Down thru the wood, I'd be a fairy Yes. if I could ! And They Sbot · ~ ·· etc. We thought that hail bombardment had been forgotten when up pops a Wilmette gent with this one which we can't resist handing to the compositor. We'll let him tell it himself. Here yu'ar (as they say over the radio): "I was in the yard building a fence when the hail started crashing on my head. I'd only finished one post hole, but I had to run into the house to escape the pelting. When I returned to the job it wasn't necessary to dig any more post hole s. The hail .... " Ananias get under the bed! ············· -SARAH SILVER. - ············· Neith, Neigh Ia it plausible to auppoae tbat all the gentlemen boasting hirsute adornage wagered on Whiskery last Saturday? Just Anotber c&.ualty Not being content with having others of the editorial staff in a state of more or less ill repair, it fe11 to the lot of "Gin," the type-eating terrier, to engag.e in combat with a motor car on one of Wilmette's teeming thoroughfares. He is now negotiating rather haltingly on three of his regulation underpinnings. A "dolly" has been proposed for the fourth. Of the other hos})italized members-th~ lady of tht" second desk northwest is basking In the warm ~un shlne of Kentucky, home of accelerated equines and PAT-rician beauties. Wickie, on the other hand. has returned to her native northland, hard by the county line, where, 'tis said, she awaits the completE> rehabilitation of her vocal faculties, "soft, gentle ann low . . . . . an excellent thing in woman." ············· -HUB. On a .A.t irregular intervals nature goe-; on a ratnpage. If these outbursts never occurred, if nature were always calm and ,veilbehaved, man might conclude that he was her pet and immune to all trouble. Rampage So she sometimes goes on a spree and beats n1ankind up a bit. That's what she did on 1\'Ionday, May 9. She rained, blew and hailed something ex- . traordinary. The rain fell in bucketfulls, the wind swept across the fields and streets like a tornado, and the hail can1e down in a .vicious barrage. Poles were toppled over, gtant trees were uprooted, glass was shattered everywhere. Some day we'll have an earthquake. Npw that nursery schools have become fairly popular on the north shore and are to be incorporated in the Winnetka public scho,ol system, it seems to us to say a School for fewappropriate wise words about schools for adults. Just Adults as the nursery school idea has met and weathered bitter opposition, so the school f.or adults will meet and weather bitter opposition. This new school will be divided into several grades corresponding to the traditional grades. But these grades instead of covering the work of a year or less will cover · ············ Remarkable! One of our office colleagues is a most interesting individual. Indeed we might say that he was endowed by nature with most surprising abilities and skills. He can bark so like a dog that not even a dog can tell the difference, let alone a mere man. Many humans -can imitate a bark, but this chap really barks a bark that has all the traits of a genuine canine excbmation. If he were a doghe could do no better. Also he can crow to beat a whole poultry yard. To hear him crow one would swear that the Caruso of roosters was exercising his lustiest aria. Our c~lleague must have been brought up in a rural distnct where he had abundant opportunity to hear at close range Chanticleer saluting the rosy morn. Since leaving his boyhood haunts in lower (geographic, purely) Illinois he must have frequented the small farms bordering our north shore villages. ~lany a hen ~as cackled with joy at hearing him rlap his sides and triumphantly crow. He -can do many other things well-make faces, execute curious steps, etc., but these two things he can do marvelously well. 'fhe sweet young person's definition of Scotland · Yard as "a measurement a bit short of one yard," Is offered for the catalog of quips currently perpetrated at the expense of a considerably annoyed nationality. ············· -PHILUP SPACE. -MIQUE.