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WILMETTE LIFE February 1, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE ISSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1232-1236 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago oftlce : 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wilmette UOO SUBSCRIPTION PRICE .... r .. ....... t!.OO A YE.A.R All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication must r each the editor by Wednesday noon to Insure appearance In current Issue. Resolutions of condo\ence, cards of thanks, obituaries notices of entertainments or other atrairs where an admitta nce charge is published, will be charged at regular adverti sing rates. Grade Separation will save life. Let,s have immediate action! Our fellow sharesman, Carey Orr, cartooni st and philanthropist, rec~ntly ~pre sented in most graphic form the truth that the way of the transgresThe Public's sor is hard. Before hi ~ Ingratitude . office table sits such a man as the grand jury is now investigating, just a regular Illinois legislator, who has been holding down two jobs, one at Springfield, the other nominally for the Sanitary District. On the waH hang portraits of ex-senators, ex-aldermen, etc., who because of their political activities are now holding down hard jobs, at Joliet. As our man sitting before his table write~ his explanation he perspires profusely, the perspiration not being due to heat. We are inclined to believe that the mot ;ves of our sanitary -district tru stee s in :-pendir.;- n.iiiions for lamps, boulevards, sign boards, bridle paths, and so on, were entirely generous. They did it all for th e people of the sanitary di strict. The spl endid boulevard, the double row of gleaming lights, the almost endless bridle path, and especially the magnificent sign-boards2-a1l these were for the pleasure of the people of the north shore and vicinity. The handsome sign-boards, what a decoration they were, and still are, to the landscape! But the people did not appreciate these efforts. They even asked that the board s be removed. What ingratitude! And no",,. these generous expenditures are being !nvestigated. Again what ingratitude! The girl of today is not the little frilled and starched lady of yesterday, who sat quietly with folded hands, or else meekly embroidered handkerchiefs and linens, Girl Scout but rather one of freed om of action and speech. The Discipline girl of today must be as thoroughly disciplined as the boy, and there is no place in which she will gain this discipline so surely as in the Girl Scout organization. The Girl Scout learns how to play and to work alone and with others. She may think it is all play, but the subtle point in discipline comes with the fact that work is play, and when a Girl Scout is hiking or playing games that require thot;ght, action, skill, or memory she is being disciplined mentally and physically. -Contributed. North shore realtors have decided to go back to "Sunday opening." They tried Sunday closing for three months. 'fhe experiment was success£ ul, inasmuch as it convinced the realtors that opening or closing on Sunday should be optional with the individual dealer. May it be suspected that there was during the probation period a realtor here and there who did not adhere strictly to the agreement ? We understand that if the well-known groundhog sees his shadow on February 2 he goes back into his hole, convinced that the ' remainder of the winter is Groundhog sure to be harder than he Day can stand. Or is it the other way round ? Being rather inclined to fignre things out, and this groundhog problem not being of the figurable kind. we don't bank on this popular superstition. Other popular beliefs we have also discarded. We never knock on wood just after announcing our success in some enterprise. \Ve have friend s who disagree with us as to the value of knocking on wood. They have told us again and again of the bad luck they have averted by this simple practice. All the talk about the relation of salt to human happiness is to us as so much empty sound, signifying nothing. \Ve are firmly of the opmwn that those individuals who spend time reading about the influence of planets and stars upon men and women spend that time worse than foolishly. They spend it wickedly, for life is short and full of trouble. Therefore it should he spent in some more profitable way than in studying astrology, a withered and worthless branch of human learning. If ~'OU enjoy watching the groundhog's actions on February 2, and feel that they are truly prophetic, why, then, we give you up in despair. SHORE LINES LITTLE HOUSE Little, house my little house. Not everyone you'd please; There's ·nothing grand about }'Oll. Save j1tst a few tall trees That stand so close around you, Tlzc y seem tv love :vou, too ; For '\'Cars their loft}' branch ~s fi ave hovc1·ed over you. u rhere merrily the songbirds Pottr out their roundela y F· rom earlv morn till twilight, And checkered stmbeams play. Where throttgh sweet evening's silence, The starlight filters through, A nd seeks the little rose-sweet gat e Atzd floods the garden, too . Little house, my little house. Thronqh \'Ottr small 'l.uindot('Pmze I 7.('Q l ~h tile .5priHgtinte moving A long the hills and plain, A 11d ee the climbing rose-bush lis carlv blossoms rear .·lbo rtt 111\' iatticed wi11do·w. Tlze ·first of all the }'ear. }.. ittlc houst' , my little house, .V o castle in th e la11d Cau e'er be likened 11nto }'Ott , Nor any palace graml lV ith state!:: for:mal garden Laid out with artful care. Just give me my own garden vVith common blossoms there. From bleeding heart to cour slips ~V ith fo:rglove and bluebell, Egla11tine and cherr}' blooms And flag-flowers near the 1.vell. J' our old t·oof tinged ·with moss-green Your thatch-eaves O'l'crgrown J V ith ivy-vines that murmur With every wind new-blown. -· During the second semester of the school Year a series of talks on vocations is to be giYen to New Trier high school boys and girls. These talks will be given What Is Your e\·ery two weeks beginVocation? ning about the middle Little house, my little house, of February. Of mttch \'Ott cannot boast. }' 01t hm'e but ·sky and sunshine, There can be no more valuable information, And garden mzd a host di scussion, and suggestion than that which has 0 f birds that sing in tree-tops to do with vocations. The choice of a vocaA bo·ve }'OUr humble roof; tion is of tremendous value, determining as _ "\-1 y little house, o/1, !Je content it does the life work of the individual. And ' A re these 11ot qrtite enough ? -Laura Rathbone, from since one's life work occupies virtually al! "On Wings of Song." one's waking hours and often a large part of the hours when one should be asleep, the deHe's a Fast Worker ciding of what that life-work is .to be tr~n Dear Mique-:scends in value every other chotce. Thtn k We see by the papers that the Henderson (Ky.) of how widely varied are the aims, ·i nterests, Gleaner, of which our fonner snappy aide-kick, and activities of the lawyer, the teacher, the ,.Hub" is pony editor and general manager. minister, the engineer, the business man. &Tabbed the Gump strip and toted Tom Carr to It therefore seems to us that the older people · prison on Sunday, whereas the venerable "Trib" told the tale of Tom'1 rocky road to ruin on in New Trier high school could do nothing Monday. Moral: The WGN is now located in that would be of more value to their younger Old Kaintuck. -Jim, the Berries. charges than to discuss with them their vocations. 1\Ionday, February 25, is the first day of Home-coming Week at Lewis Institute. It is highly probable that on the north shore now live more Lewis Institute students, old and new, than anywhere else except in Chicago. If you ever attended the' Institute, plan with some of vour old-time school pals to meet at Madison and Robev on some dav of this Home-coming Week. .There is more of the atmosphere of home about Lewis than about many a college located amid the beauties of nature. Its campus can boast of no trees or grass, hut in its halls and class rooms thousands have been made to feel at home. Competition brings out new ideas. Now here is this more true than in the field of auto advertising. Study the current full-page auto ads, and we ~. re confident that you will see that competition among makers and sellers of cars has created a rnultitude of novel ideas. Stung Apin! As we were glancing through a recent copy of our own estimable news-magazine, our roving eye~ were caught by the headline, "All About Bes.s." Inasmuch as we are well acquainted with a lady by that name we paused to read further. What wa:; our disappointment to find that the story was all about bees! -Fit, the Filosofer Yes, Yea, Go On And while on the subject of journalistic achievements, may we quote from the astonishing Evanston News-Index: Headlines- ·· Evanston Firemen Answered Foar Fire Alarms Yeaterday And the StoryEvanston firemen answered four fire alarms yesterday. Aa Usual ~ Spring is near when Jack Nord packs his grip to attend the annual convention of cutters and designers of suits and cloaks. This season's models, we understand, are to be designed to circumvent any cut in prices. -MIQUE.