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WILMETTE LIFE it away. It seems a strange thing for people to despoil a community garden. The little woods still standing in the village are the happy hunting grounds, these May days, of the very young. They come with little baskets in which they place the few spring beauties and the fewer violets that they gather. If they are careful not to pull up the roots, they do no harm in picking these flowers. The anemone, hepatica, Jack-in-the-pulpit, and trillium are among the flowers that we are asked not to pick. It is a pleasure to see the delight the children take in finding the spring beauties. Native shrubs growing in our village woods are worth 'much more to our community left growing in the woods than they are when transplanted to our own yards. They are difficult to remove without injuring the roots and often die after they have been transplanted. Only a week a~o I happened to see 'two women cuttmg awar with hatchets about the roots of a fine large bush in one of Ol;1r woods. They had already removed a smal!er one. This larger bush they were . merrily wrecking; they ha? not a cha~ce in the world of gettmg the enttre root up. And a bush can be bought for a ve.ry small sum. Anyone living near ' a piece of woods cannot help feeling responsible for its protection. One even drives away the cats that tie in hiding, waiting for the birds, to say nothing of the numerous boys one sends away, who come, with gun or slingshot, to kill the birds. Yay 11. 1928 ·Dtamatic Club Witneasea Play by Deerfield Group A meeting of the New Trier Dramatic club was held Tuesday after school in the auditorium. The entertainment consisted of a play read by Gordon Van Kirk and a portion of a play presented by a Deerfield-Shields high school group. This presentation, an act from "To the Ladies," by Barrie, is entered in the Drama League contest, the preliminaries of which are being held this week..:end at Hull House and the finals of which will be held at the Goodman theater. The New Trier Dramatic club has entered a one-act play, "The Scales and the Sword," in this contest. Garden Talks (Contributed by Wilmette Garden Club) Violets, trillium, phlox, anemone, and hepatica are in bloom in the woods. Plum trees are white with blossoms. Beauty is everywhere. In the village here and there, an empty lot needs some attention where cans and papers and other rubbish have accumulated. Signs on trees need to he removed. In the community wild flower garden people who do not understand have taken some of the wild flowers away and some of the stepping stones to use in their own gardens. Someone has even taken away the sign that shows v;hat garden it is. One of the wild crabapple trees looked so beautiful that someone dug it up and took Mr. and Mrs. John E. Benz of 620 The Service club at New Trier held a party on Thursday of last week at Gregory avenue had as their guest for the home of Miss Georgiana Fowler of a few days this week, Mrs. William 512 Roslyn road, Kenilworth. · Crooks of Oshkosh, Wis. DRESSES, SUITS and ENSEMBLES At Practically Cost Because of the unseasonable and backward spring weather, we are forced to sacrifice our entire stock of Spring Dresses~ Suits and Ensembles at practically cost. Every garment is deeply cut in price to insure quick clearance. We must make way for .summer merchandise that is arriving daily. Patricia Gown and Bonnet Shop 507 DAVIS ST., EVANSTON PHONE GREENLEAF 1918