Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 May 1928, p. 27

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May 25, 1928 WILMETTE LIFE Z1 OLD SOUTH CUSTOMS TO GREET CLUB WOMEN Federation's Convention to Be Held in San Antonio, Texas, Beginning May 28 Commercial Club Awards· Emblems for Sch~larabip At a meeting of the Commercial club of New Trier High school l<J,st Friday, the honor ·emblem of the club was awarded to twelve members because of good scholarship and conduct. · Following are , the names of the student3 who were honored by this award emblem: Wilma Borovicka, Mabel McCauley, Bernice Cole, Virginia Cordell, Mazie Lesher, Beulah DuSelle, Marion Nettleman, Charles Patterson. Bernice Rossberger, Richard Schuettgc, Betty Scrimgeour and Charles Stordeur. When 10,000 women from all parts of We offer and recommettd the followthe United States meet in San Antonio ing lOQal municipal bonds: May 28 for the biennial convention of the General Federation of Women's WILMETTE clubs and 40,000 more assemble there on October 8 for the annual national $200,000 Wilmette Park District convention of the American Legion 4 ~ % Park Bonds Auxiliary, they will ~nd the last strongDue Serially May 1, 1930-1942 hold remaining in the United States Prices to yield 4.~0% END DRAMA SEASON of old-fashioned devotion to an aristocratic social ritual and elaborate social The Temple Players, dramatic group GLENCOE convention. of the North Shore Con greg at ion $190,000 Cook County School In addition to the many things of Israel. concluded their playing season District No. 35 historic and scenic appeal in this . with "So This Is London," given la·5t Southwestern couotry, they will find Saturday evening at the Temple in 4% School Bonds also the old Spanish customs and the Glencoe. The old members and those Due Serially, ~pt. 1, 1931-1939 influences of two centuries under the who hecame eligible for memhership Prices to yield 4.00% rule of Spain. The tradition of the that evening by their parts in the play Mo0rish restraint of woman, brought recei,·ed dramatic keys. Next year the WINNETKA in in this way, has had a big in fluencl' Players plan to continue their pro$280,000 Cook County School and .stilt persists as a Yital factor i·1 ductions and will enter the Dramatic District No. 36 social relations. league contest. 4 ~ % School Bonds Large Gennan Settlement Another powerful factor working in Due Serially May 1, 1934-1947 the same direction is found in the vcn· Prices to yield 4.00% large German element which has setand tled in San Antonio and all Texas. Dacrip~We Circul4rs will be mat em req·~l The German woman is, traditionally, ,·ery much circumscribed and has ior centuries been held pretty much to the old ideal of "Hausfrau" and "Hausmutter." vVith these two influence s in the TeJephone Central 8400 direction of conservatism in woman';; 39 South La Salle Street, Chicago economic and social relation s goes a third perhaps even more powerful. San Antonio and all thi s part of the Offering· are aubject to prior aale and change in price. country, from the standpoint of its 916 Spanish Ct. Wil. 2950 American e·l ements, wa s settled almost exclusively by people from the old South-hom Vir~11ia. the Carolinas, ·~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Tennessee, Georgia, where the aristocratic idea of protection, and also restriction, oi women reached its full . flower. Old lnflunces Modified These influences have. it is true. bt' rn tremendously modified by modern condition s and ideas, e.;;pecially the idea oi greater freedom for woman. and als0 by the cosmopolitan pop ulation which is to a surprising deg-ree characteristic of San Antonio . But thl'y play ;, large · part in giving the cast to :-;ocicty here. Only · within the past six months or . o, for instance, have " ·ome n Ycnturul to smoke in public in San Antonio. More of the courtesies and formali~i~c:; are ohserved in business as " ·e ll as social life than in the north and cast. · your sattsfact1on \\'omen in offices expect. and recein. it is to your advantage to heat your home that those old-time courtesie s and attentions with this fuel or it is removed at our expense \\·hich have ve ry larg-ely ,·anishccl fro111 the busiT]ess atmosphere of the hurryand your money refunded. ing north and cast. ~len still very generally · give up their seats in street cars and busses to women and remove their hats when women are in office building elevators. N ORT ·H SHORE MUNICIPAL BONDS EUGENE PERMANENT WAVING k I Until June 1Sth $15 . A. B. Leach & Co., Inc. Maison Worth FUEL MONEY goes furthest NOW Our guarantee· Wedem~nstrat~ro · · Order Today at Reduced Summer Prices ~ GIVES BIRTHDAY LUNCHEON Mi3s Dorothy Rose. 753 Twelfth street, celebrated her birthday last Saturday by inviting out of town members of her class at the Art institute to have luncheon and a game of bridge with her. The table was attractively decorated with a maypole with its ribbon streamers holding corsage bouquets of spring flower s and the place cards. HOLD BUSINESS MEETING The Junior Music club of New Trier High school met Monday, May 21, after school in the music department for a business meeting. The annual Fraternity sing at Northwestern was held last Monday evening on the meadows of the school campus before a large audience. EDINGER & SONS 1301 Lake St., Wilmette, Ill. Phone-Wilmette 642 KUTIEN BROTHERS 711 Main St., Wilmette, Ill. Phone-Wilmette l Genuine

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