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38 WILMETTE LIFE April 19, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 188UBD FBIDA Y OF BA.CB WEEK LLOYD BOLL18TEB, INC. 1!3!-1!36 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill~ Cblcaco oftlce : I N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 63!6 by lfelep·oae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . · . . . . Wilmette flet IUBSCBIPTION PBICE ............. . tl.tO A. .TE..&.B All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles tor pubUcatlon must reach the editor by W edneaday noon to Insure appearance In current 188ue. · Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituaries notices of entertalnmenta or other aftalre where an admittance charge Is publlahed, wlll .be charged at regular advertising rates. Grade Separation will save life. Let's have immediate action! The other evening we heard the concert given. by the musical organizations of Skokie School, 'Ar innetka. It was a long concert but by no means too long. Skokie School It was a wonderful concert, the like of which Concert we have never ex perienced. There we~e presented to us and others that evening memorable singing and playing. Had we not with our own ears heard these grammar school youngsters sing compositions by Palestrina. Bach, and Tschaikowsky, we should have found it hard to believe that such immature organisms could tackle successfully such difficult pieces. And what made it still more remarkable was that the children sang all the numbers without scores ·of any kind. To be sure we saw one or two who were using scores, but they constituted the exception. They not only sang in time and tune, but they also accomplished marvels of shading. Their succes speaks volumes for those who trained them. The work done by the director and his assistants must have been tremendous. We know very well what giving such a concert means. All those involved in this enterprise-older people and children-deserve the highest praises of all who had the good fortune to hear the program. Should you want to realize ful.ly the contrast between city life and suburban life, to appreciate most adequately how the other half · lives, you could do no . West Madison better on a sunny spring Street mornfng than to ride into Chicago on a North Western train and from Canal and Madison explore the neighborhood . immediately to the west. You would find no vegetation of any kind. Brick, stone, and concrete would be taking the place of grass, trees, shrubbery, and flowers. You would find no open spaces in the \Vest Madison street · neighborhoods. As for birds, there would be not one, except the homely little sparrow. Not a. growing thing except human beings, not a resting place except the curb, not a pleasing sound, not a child. What would become ot you if you had to live as these West Madison street people live? Would you not sink in the scale as they have sunk? How would you get along without children to show you how to become fit to enter the kingdom of heaven? If you care to soften your sympathies, which may have hardened, if you care to understand men and women whose · lives are dull and desperate, mingle once in a while with your kind on West Madison street near Canal. SHORE LINES THE STRANGE MALADY Dear Mique :· I don't know whether to blame it on the fact that Spring is here ~r not, but anyway the hankering for wrilting poetry ( ?) has somehow gotten into me again-and here's my first effusion: ToM----April . . ............. . ..... .. ...... Rain, .. . Alone ............... . ........... .. .... Pain Thottghtful ..... .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Weary .. . Silent ........ .. . · · · · · ........ .. .... Dreary Oh God! What pangs pervade ·My aching being! What flames assail My yearning soul !While rm away From yotl . . . . from you ........... . and love .. .... .. ..... love ..... . April ..... . ......... . · ............ Rain .. Alone .. .. ........... . ........ . ..... . .. Pain The Piscator No Cause for W onoy · Why become unduly concerned about c:lanrerous c:.onsequencea of the apparent unceasinr rise in the lake level? Oh, haven't you heard? Northbrook and Nortb6eld both contemplate takinr their water supplies from the big pond in the near future. But don't pus this alonr to our Wiaconain, Michiran, Ohio, New York, or what have you, friends. WELCOME, FRED! Frank Whitney's painting, showing a Winnetka neighborhood as it might have been in 1889 no doubt prompted many to wish for a return of those good old days Back to when there were on the north Nature? shore few houses and few people and when a picturesque herd of cows could be seen coming home from pasture. How beautiful it all was! And how wonderful if time were to turn backward and bring peace and rustic happiness! But in those early days the water supply was by no means so pure and abundant as it now is on the north shore. Kerosene oil took the place of electricity. Neighbors were not near by. There were no sidewalks, no well-paved streets, no telephones, no radios, no autos, no libraries, no churches and schools within easy walking distance. In short, conThough a tempest in a teapot is no novelty · veniences and comforts were few compared in our national capital, still it is a long time with the number that we have today. since so serious a one 'has brewed and burst Moreover, many of the features that made as that involving the social those old time days so attractive still exist. A Teapot rank of "Dolly" Gann. And The sky with its stars a:1d fleecy clouds is as even though this critical ques- it used to be. Trees, shrubs, and flowersTempest tion of precedence. has been they're all here today and in some respects nominally settled the subject has not yet been more beautiful than in '89. True, there are finally sunk out of sight. no cows coming home at sunset, but then The average American c~res little for such there is the 5 :49 suburban just sliding into problems. Vvhether she sits in a certain place the station. at the dinner table is a trifling matter to the north shore woman. Whether she will be given the "honored" position at the dinner Every north shore autoist on returning to table causes no north shore woman, so far as his home from a Sunday or holiday ride is we know, to lose sleep. And the fact that caught on one or another east and west highsome other woman has been placed above her way by hundreds of cars occasions the same sensible individual no spe- Outer Belt headed in the same direction cial heart-break. Highway as his own. As he approaches · The north shore woman saves her emotions Waukegan Road his car befor crises more important than seats at dinner comes one of ·an almost solid line of cars all tables. She spends her thoughts and other eastward b.ound and almost as stationary as if _ . energies getting people out to the polls at the line were really solid. election times. Questions of national and civic We found ourself in that predicament last improvement concern her. How to bring up Sunday afternoon somewhere about supperher children to be useful and happy men and time. We were moving at satisfactory speed women engages her attention. on Touhy Road just out of Park Ridge when It seems to us unfortunate that the Curtis- suddenly we were forced to crawl east towards Gann episode should have been broadcasted so Waukegan Road. Once at Waukegan Road widely as to make Washington society an we were able to roll merrily north to Dempster object of ridicule. and so home. Fred Clerk, our genial high school superintendent, who holds the world's record for getting caught at speeding in New York state, returned to his desk this week after six months dodging Paris taxicabs. M. Clerk was given a royal welcome by the ·student body and faculty. Lindy never e.njoyed a reception more sincere nor demonstr<lltive. The unusual calm prevalent in our villages last Tuesday was attributable to the fact, no doubt, that moat of the noise-makers along the shore transferred their activities to the Cuba ball orchard that afternoon. Ah, We Suspected As Much! Having been addicted to almost constant consumption of five-cent seegars we, too, were highly pleased with the current advertisement bearit)g the top line: "Women Love Such Men." And continuing: "I am so glad," quoting the beautiful lady, "you're the type of man who smokes cigars ! I couldn't love you unless you were a regular redblooded he-man, etc." And Stargerecl Employes? We note among other things in "Chicago Faots," a clip sheet devoted to the dissemination of knowledge concerning the big town's "civic, commercial, industrial and cultural activities," in contradiction to gun and racket items, that the A·ssociation of Commerce is suggesting "staggered hours" for employes as a remedy for Loop congestion. W 'i th Our Contemporaries Says the North Shore Realtor: A girl of today is just a'3 pretty as a girl of fifty years ago-provided, of course, that it's not the same girl. Wbat? We Ask You What could be sweeter - in this season of uncontested vittage elections-than that ·staid little Kenilworth shoul4 rise up and stage a genuine battle of the ballots, or that School District 40 (former Gross Point) should decide to perpetrate a bit of similar strife in that vicinity? Even dear Old Lake Michigan has been con·.siderably upset about it. -Mique