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· WILMETTE LIFE November 15, 1929 Local School Children . Observe Armistice Day Wilmette Public school children, many of whom were born after the World war, observed the eleventh ann.iversary of the signing of the Armistice Monday morning of this week. At the Stolp school taps were sounded at. 11 o'clock in the morning and the chtldren stood at attention in their rooms and faced east. With a leader at the door of each room the children sang "America" in unison. Each room had its indiYidual Armistice day program also. . At the Ho...yard school pupils of the stxth, seventl~ and eighth grades gathered in the auditorium shortly before 11 o:clock to hear Armistice day cere .. momes broadcast 0\·cr the air. The colors were brought to the . stage and t~ps were sounded. after which the children faced cast for a few mintttC's. The t~ledge of a~legiancl' to the flag was gwen and thts was followed bv a play by Mrs. Pearl ] ones' room wliich depicted war scenes. ESrHER GOULD"S TRAVEL CORNER ".M odern Sons of the Pharaohs"·there are some! Yet it is hard for us to ' believe it. We have a feeling, haven't we. in countries of a great and overwhelming past, that nothing has happened to them since that past. That if we go to Egypt, for instance, Cleopatra will still he floating in her gilded barge, or the haughty Pharaohs wilt stilt be watching over the building of their imposing monuments. \'Ale for get that Cleopatra is but dust and the Pharaohs but mummies inside their monuments. Things have moved on\\'ard in Egypt even without our consent. Modernism has penetrated even there. V..'e may be affected with th'! pained surprise of the Englishman who comes to Chicago hoping to find ~he population :' till chasing Indians. but it is true. And hein~ true, it will make our trip to Egrpt more interesting if we learn something of these modern sons. The story of the building of the Suez canal reads like a gigantic farce worthv of international diplomac~· and finance. The way in which the gullible Pasha was fleeced by clever European ~ financiers-even paying into the milGUIDE-LECTURE TOURS lion . of francs for the value of fish in Next week's free guide-lecture tours a canal that \\'as never built-and thea for the public at Field Museum of Na- from an almost empty treasury spendtural History will hegin · ~[onday, Noing twentv-one million dollars on th e vemher 18, with "Palms and Ever- ietes celebrating the opening of the greens" at 11 o'clock and "Orie ntal ca nal, shows that the spirit of the Theatricals" at 3. Other days at the Arabian nights is not yet dead. same hours subjects will he: TuesdaY, The opera "Aida" was written for "Ancient Records" and "Headwork';; thi. great occasion and n1useums were \Vednesday, "Eskimos" ancl "B irds of ransacked for the precious stones and Gay Plumage"; Thursday. two general authentic cost11mes used for its splendid tours of the museum, and Fridav presentation. \Vhat matter if \\'ithin a "Japan and Korea" and "\Vood Ca~: ' hort time the Pasha himself was <:~n vers." · Parties for these tours of mu- exile in Europe? seum exhibits, conducted 1)\· staff lecThe sto rv of Great Dritian's orturer:', assemble inside t IH·- Jlnrt h en- cupancv of Egypt, of the country's re trance of the museum. CP\·cn· from bankrupt cy to prosperity , of the great projects carried out for ORGANIZES FRENCH CLASSES regulating the \Yater~ of the :\ile, arr Mrs. C.:\. !\.fcCann, \\'Ito has several like modern fairv-talcs. "Can nne check rrench classes in the \Yilmrtte Public the tears nf Isis?" \\·as an ancient sa ·: ~chnols this year, recently has organ- ing ahnut the ~ilc, \\'hich was thought 1zed a small French class inr teach ers. I to he the tears wept 1)\· Isis oYer the The teachers' gronp meets each Fridav tomb of Osiris. Ye s. m och·r 11 ngineers 110011 . · answer, and for the prayer~ and entreaties of a starving population han' :\f r s. George Benson. 210 Mrl- been substituted dat~ls and lncks and rtlse aYcnue. 1\:enilworth is entertainintT canals. Romance. tlwugh differenth· her bridge club today. -' garbed. is . till a li Ye in Egypt. "Bird Islands of Peru," a free lecture for the general puhlic on one of the strangest regions in the world, will be given Saturday afternoon, November 16, at Field Mmeum of Natural History. Dr. Robert Cushman Murphy of the American Museum of Natural History. New York, will be the lecturer, and his talk will he illustrated by mov · ing pictures and stereopticon slides which he made while conducting hydrographic and biological investigation~ along 1,200 miles of the Peruvian coast. The lecture will begin at 3 p. m., and will he giYen in the James Simpson theatre of the mu seum. The Peruvian islands of which Dr. Murphy will lecture have a sea-bird population more dense than any other place in the world. His lecture tells of the life of sea-lions, hirds, and other creatures on these barren isles washed by the cold Humboldt Current: of rock gardens and condors among mountains of the sea: of maritime Indians and of fishing re·s ources in one of the richest yet least developed littora l regions of the world. LECTURE ON PERU SINCE THE PHARAOHS RAYMOND .. WHITCOMB L. M. Allen. 258 ~f e lrosl' avenue Kenilworth is on an inspection tott; of the Rock Island lines for a period of two weeks. Mrs. L. M. Allen left on .~fonday of this week to spend a \veek tn New York visiting- her son, Francis, and his famik, and her dauo-ht·' r Priscilla, and. her family. .:-. · OUND THE WORLD CRUISE TIME-106daysfrom New York to New York-weeks shorter than the ordinary world cruise, but with no sacrifice of time ashore. Sails Jan. 21, 1930. .A. THE CRUISE .. SHIP-S.S. uColumbus" (32,000tons) recent.· ly North German Lloyd flagship. Her superior speed enables this magnificent liner to shorten ap . . preciably the steaming time between ports. A THE ITINERARY-Eleven days in lndia . . Ceylon . . Java . . Siam . . Peking .. Korea, Japan-in all 29 Oriental points, besides Egypt and many other Mediterranean and Pacific ports. 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