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WILMETTE LIFE February 1, 1929 ·· News ·oF the North Shore Clubs State President Speaker at Business Women's Club Working on a common ground, working for a common goal is the basis of successful co-operation and the purpose of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women, according to Mrs. Erm~ Templeman of Springfield, president of the Illnois federation, who gave a clear and enlightening talk to members and guests of the Business and Professional Women's club of Wilmette at its Monday evening meeting. With a slogan of "Better Business Women for a Better Business World," this national organization is figuratively marching on with rapid strides, one learns from listening to the speaker. This slogan expresses the outstanding aim of the club, to make it possible for every business girl and woman to be financially independent. This goal can only be reathed through co-operation of the individual club, with the state orginization, and of these state federation s with the national, Mrs. Templeman pointed out. She told of the growth of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women from its inception ten years ago until the present time when it consists of forty-five state federations, with over nine-hundred individual clubs and a membership of fifty thousand women and girls. " Mrs. Templeman gave suggestions to the local organization for expansion, varied activity, for what it shoulct stand in its community, and how it can co-operate with the state federation, and urged it to participate activelv in Business Woman's week from Marsh 10 to March 16. Her talk \vas \Hll thought out, and forceful and interspersed with a touch of humor. Following the dinner and preceding the talk, Raymond Nelson, a youthful violinist plavect "Meditation" from Thais. and gradously responded with an encore. He was accompanied at the piano h.r his mother. Evening Club Plans Winnetka Woman,s· Flower Show Entry. Club Opens Prison Reform Talk to All Catholic Club to Meet Next Friday Program in Charge of Fine Arts Department; Bible Scenes Featured in Tableaux The Fine Arts department of the Woman's Catholic club of Wilmette will hold a .meeting Friday, February 8, at the residence of Mrs. Edward J, McArdle, 111 Broadway. Miss Margaret Hayes will read a paper written by Miss Isabel Beecher, formerly a member of the faculty of Northwestern university, the subject of which is "Our Cultural Heritage." The rest of the program is as follows: "The Bible as Literature," a talk given by Mrs. W. L. Ballard. A group of tableaux based on scenes frQ.m the bible, under the direction of M'rs. B. M. Lupton. 1. "Rock of Ages/' posed by Mrs. Frank Oelerich. 2. "Visitation," posed by Mrs. M. J Kelling and Mrs. Frank Kutten. 3. "Judith," posed by Mrs. P. _T. Joyce and Mrs. James Tarleton. 4. "Rebecca at the W 611," posed by Mrs. George Beaudin. 5. "Naomi, Ruth, and Orpha," posed by Mrs. John Tracey, Mrs. Andrew Burkhart, and Mrs. A. W. Boylston. 6. "The Widow's Mite," posed by Mrs. D. W. Wilson, the widow, and Joan Savage and Charles Krippes, the children . Mrs. Charles Norman will sing and read s_ e lections from the "Story of the Crucifixion" a cantata by Stainer. She will be accompanied on the piano by Mrs. F. B. Morris. Wilmette's Evening Garden Club One of the outstanding meetings of the year of the Winnetka Woman's to Enter Six Exhibits: Names club will be that of Tuesday, February Participants 5, when the civjcs and philanthropy committee of which Mrs. Gross WilMembers of the Evening garct'en club liams is chairman, · will present Dr. of \Vilrnette are busily at work p:-e- Mary B. Harris, superintendent of the pari!_tg to maintain the honor of their Federal Industrial Institute for Wom. community in what has come to be en at Alderson, vV. Va. ·the event of the year in suburban life, Prison reform has held the country's a veritable tournament of gardening attention for many years but less :s skill-the Chicago Garden and Flower known of the progress mad.e in those show.. institutions that attempt to correct beIt will be held in the hotel Sherman, fore the prison is reached. Dr. Harris February 25 to March 3, inclusive. has made a life study of such reformaThere wiU be eight competitions for tories for women and after several garden clubs, and seventy clubs will vears of executive experience in some take part in them. In every center of of the eastern institutions she evolved suburban life, committees chosen for a plan saict to be so superior to any altheir skill arc preparing exhibits for readv in oractice· that it was endorsecl hv- the Federal government and put the following classes: in operation under the department of 1-Luncheon table d~corations, justice at Alderson, W. Va.. Dr. Harwhich are to be without limit on value ris 'vas appointed superintendent of of flowers or table furni hings. this exoeriment and it has proven I!O 2-,Vindow boxes, either indoor or successful that it is said the governoutdoors. ment hopes· the plan will be adopted 3-Miniature back-vard gardens, re- hy every state. produced on scale of ~ inch to ~he It is due to the fact that such a foot. orohlcm is now under consideration 4-Little gardens. made of livi!lg in Illinois that Dr. Harris has come west and she is speaking at the Winplants. netka W0man'~ rlub next Tuesdav be5-Before-and-after-gardens. cause of her soecial interest in the 6-Floral pictures, exhibited in shad- unusual work that has heen done bY . ow boxes. the club's courts committee. 7-Decorative arrangements of plant Following- Dr. Harris, }.if iss Jessie matedals other than flowers. Rinforct of the Juvenile Protective 8-Conservation posters. This ex- association will speak on the oroposed hibit is open to the public. Entries reformatory for women in Illinois. for it must be made by February 11 , The committee in charge believes the committee announces. that the speakers and their subjects The Chicago Garden and Flow\~ r will have much a!>peal not only to chth show enlists the intere5t of garden members but also to members of the clubs to a greater extent than any League of Women Voters and all show in the country. It is notable that orP"anizations interested in civic prohevery large city in the cold weather lems. It is because of this fact that states now has a spring flower show, the club has announced this as an which is one of the outstanding events open meeting for all women interested. of the season. In New York, Boston, Are on State Garden Club Philadelphia and Detroit, exhibition>; Evening Garden Club to Committee for Flower Show on the same scale as the Chicago shew Have All-Star Program The Garden Club of Illinois which is will be held, while in Buffalo the SoThe· Evening Garden club of Wil- co-ope.rating in the plans for the third ciety of American Florists will st'!ge the national show, which each year is mette is to hold its regular monthly annual Garden and Flower show -at the meeting Tuseday evening, Febraury 4, held in a different city. · S 25 to In addition to the garden club com- at 8 o'clock, at the Woman's club. Hotel herman from February March 3, inclusive, has representing it petitions, the Chicago show will have This is to be another "all-star" proas its Flower Show committee, Mrs. competitive exhibits of plants and cut gram wherein the members take part. Henry B~ach is to explain the pro- Frederick Fisher, president of the cltth flowers by both commercial florists and private conservatories, and the great cesses of grafting the orange, lemon, or and chairman of the committee, asgarden display, made in the exhibition J.rrapefruit upon the wild lemon. George ststed by Mrs. V. K. Spicer, Mrs. 0. hall of the Hotel Sherman, which has lliff will talk on annuals and J. E. W. Dynes, Mrs. Fred Record, Mrs. Kingsley, Mrs. George Arbeiter, been each year the spectacular feature Worthen on pests of the garden and Frank Mrs. Harry Peters ; Mrs. Arthur Watof the show. Manager John A. Serva.s, the process of extermination. who is responsible for the success 0f F. M. Hamilton of Evanston has son, chairman of the hostess committhe Chicago show, has designed an consented to come before the club, tee; Mrs. John A. Armstrong, cha'trentirely new arrangement for this taking for his subiect, "Landscaping man of the registration committee: Mrs .. frank W. Kingsley·. chairm!ln of year's garden displays. He promises Around Public Buildings." pubhctty; Mrs. C. A. Gner, chatrman that, as a spectacle, this section of the A s_ u rprise in the way of refresh- of the tea room; Mrs. Fred Record, show will be one to live in the memory ments is in store for the members. chairman of lectures; Mrs. George ' of everyone who views it. Kendall, of the committee on arrangeUnder the guidance of Mrs. Gordo~ ments for flower show judging; Mr.;. To Give Book Reviews Wilson, the Evening Garden club of Charles D. Ewer, radio. Wilmette will participate in the followMrs. J. Melvile Brown, chairman ing exhibits : of the literature department of the I Luncheon table - Mrs. J. E. Woman's club of Wilmette, has made Young M otbers to Meet Worthen and Mr.;. C. M. Burlingame. arrangements for another book review Dr. George D. Allison, pastor of the II Window boxes-Mrs. J. A. Pan- at the clubhouse next ·Wednesday First Baptist church of Wilmette, will coast. morning, commencing at 10:30 o'clock. speak to the Young ~! ther's club at III Miniature model-C. M. Bur· Mrs. Ralph F. Potter will review "The its next regular meeting Monday evelingame. Case of Sergeant Grischa" by Arnold ning, February 4. The Misses Mildred IV Floral pictures-Mrs. Margaret Zweig, and Mrs. F. 0. Ebeling will gh·e and Anna Chinlund of the Columbia Taylor and Mrs. Gordon Wilson. a resume of Galsworthy's "Swan Song." School of Music wifl give several V Decorative arrangement of plant musical numbers. material other than flowers-Mrs. C. BEGINS ART TALKS MONDAY The meeting will be held at the R. Bixby, Mrs. C. N. Hurlbut and Francis Marion Arnold comes to the home of Mrs. E. A. Claar, 1301 ChestMrs. C. D. Ewer. Woman's club of Wilmette next MonVI Posters - Mrs. Gordon Wilson, day afternoon to begin his series of nut avenue, with Mrs. Earle D. Lyon and Mrs. Harry Burnside as assisting Earle Lyon, and Charles Ewer. art appreciation talks. hostesses. Indiana Daughters Will Hold Meeting Tuesday The Daughters of Indiana, an organization which has quite a north shore representation among its members, holds its next meeting February 5. In the interests of its Better American Year program, a luncheon will be given in the Fine Arts building at noon with the hostesses Mesdames Norman Tolson, W. E. Goodman, 0. Rush Daiy, Joseph Banks, Stephen Condon, B. G. Stowell, Fred L. Johnson, Carrie Fairfield, Walter Helloway, and Miss E:thel E. Jarrett. Th~ program, "Patriotism in the Home," will be given under the leadership of Mrs. Charles C. Curry. Col. Chas. Roth, and Howard Savage, past national commander of the American Legion, will be the speakers during the luncheon hour. The regular meeting of the Daughters of Indiana will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Dennis Gent, contralto, and Brayton Eddy, with a selection of "Town Topics in Antdorn " will give the afternoon program. ' -------To· OBSERVE POETRY DAY' The Friends in Council of Evanston meet again on Friday, February 8, for a celebration of Poetry dav. Mrs. \V. H. Lawton of Wilmette will give a reoort ·of the Tenth district meeting and Mrs. L. G. Bean will give a paper on "American Poets." ·. ADDRESSES WOMAN'S GROUP Eston V. Tubbs of Wilmette, research authority with the Chicago public schools, was the princioal speaker at a meetinll of the Cook County Federation of Women's clubs, Thursday of last week. The subiect of his ad·· dress was, "Course of Study Revision in the Chicago Public Schools."