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December 13, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE ES-rHER. GOUlD'S TRAVEL CORNEll MR. ELLIS IN THE SOUTH SEAS where every effort to clisco\'er their reIn January 1816 the Reverend Mr. treat, or to reclaim them proved inEllis and. his wife left England, as they believed, forever, to embark on a voyage to the South Seas, where Mr. Ellis would take up his duties as a missionary. Years later, in 1829 after his return to England Mr. Ellis "amidst incessant public engagement s" took up his .Pen to write a long and extremely interesting- account of those missionary experiences. · His "Polynesian Researches" arc spirited, scholarly, and not \vithout literary distinction. \Ve are filled again, on reading it, v. . ith wonder at the courag-e of the men who went out into a world so little known in their small sailing vessefs, to deal with saYages. The courage and the supreme arrogance of those who ventured into this \\·oriel so completely alien and tried to bring it to their O\\·n wav of thinking! It was as if today Oile were to wander into a hardware shop and suggest casually that the o"·ner throw out l1is 0\~11 stock and put in your line which happens to be drygoods. But that arrogance in their wav was called re·liginus faith anti armed with it these people went confident!\· out to be a nine cla\·s' \\'Onclc:r to the sa,·ages. That the -c savages could he happy as they " :ere, seemed impossible to 11r. Ellis, he says, '·The South Sea Islanders appear under circumstances peculiarly favorable to happiness. but their idnlatry exhibits them as removed tn the farthest ex treme from such a state." How the sa\·agcs reacted to the 1)Cnign administrations ni the missionaries can he seen in matl\· little sidelights. such as, "The . rhonl \ras a most interesting institution, I fre(luently visited it, and \Yas surpri~ed to lean1 that. though treated '"ith ever~· kind ne:.s the young scholars. " ·hen an opportunitY occttred. frequent!~· left the . chool and fled to their llati\·e \\'OOrJS, effectual." Poor Mr. Elli;. . The book is good reading. Aside from amusement it contains plenty o~ excellent information. Roosevelt Made Honorary Head of Porto Rico Scouts Governor Theodore Roosevelt wa s recent ly made honorary chairman of the Porto Rico council of Boy Scouts. He told the Scouts that his father was probah lv the first scoutmaster in the United ·states. "\"'ith fa ther as scoutmaster and my brothers and cousins as members, I believe we had~ at Oyster Bay, the fi rs t Scout troop in the United St at es, probably t en years before the movement became definitely organized in America," the governor said~ Later Col. Roosevelt said he believed his father's chief charact eristic was covered by one word, a word also characteristic of Scouts, "service." "He wanted to be doing something. So do we Scouts. And we are not going to be long-faced about it, but will smile and have a good time w hile we are about it," Colonel Roosevelt declared. The Rev. and Mrs. George P. Magill, 1011 Lake avenue, spe nt T hanksgiving with the latter 's mot her, M r s. J ames Ogilvie, of Kan kakee, Ill. Mrs. Magill remained for a short visit returning the latter part of last week. M r s. Ogilvie had been spending a month 111 \ Vilmette with he r daughter. GUIDE -LECTURE TOURS Xext week's guide-lecture tours for the public at Field Museum of :Katural History will begin Monday, December 16, with "Rubber, Lacquer and Turpentine" at 11 o'clock and "Indians of the Plains" at 3. Other da\'s at the same hours subjects will be: Tuesday, "Looms and Their Products" and "China"; \"'ednesday, "Masks" anJ "Physical Geography"; Thursday, two synoptic tours of the anthropological, botanical, geological and zoological exhibits; and Friday, "Skeletons" and .. Roman Home Life." These tours, conducted by staff lecturers, are free; Parties assemble inside the north en1 trance RAYMOND ..WHITCOMB ~~· ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ TH E R OAD OF ·UNUSUAL SERVICE NOW A WONDROIJS WINTER TOUR ARIZONA- CALIFORNIA AND A Cl RCLE OF THE WEST Personally Conducted Hiqhest Ooss-lowest Cost Never before a trip like this! All the delights and thrills of the West- from the Old World spice of the M e xican Bord er and the e n chanting beauty of Apache Trail to the charm of the Pacific's Golden Strand and the rugged gr a nde ur of the mighty Colorado Rockiest ous south western cities and winter resorts, El PasoJuarez, Phoe nix, San Diego, Coronado, Ag ua Caliente, Los A ngclcs, Hollywood, Santa Barbara, Palo Alto, Paso Robles, re turnin g throu gh and visiting San Francisco, Salt La ke City, and Colorado Springs. Twe nty-one d elightful and c&arefree days. Every item of expe nse incl uded - rHil and motor transportation and the fin est ho tels e ve rywhe re . Leave Chiea ~o J a nua ry 18, F ebruary a~d March 15, 1930. OUND THE WORLD CRUISE .._THE TIME- 106daysfrom shorter than the ordinary world cruise, but with no sacrifice of time ashore. Sails Jan. 21, 19)0. .6. THE CRUISE~SHIP-S.S. "Columbus" (32,000tons) recent.. ~-North German Lloyd flag_.. Her superior speed enables tiW magnificent liner to shorten ap.preciably the steaming time between ports. ~evv~orkto~evv~ork--vvecka Supt. Harper to Attend State Teachers' Parley Supt. ]. R. Harper. of the \Vi lmctte Public schools ' \viii he one of thr ·dele· 1 gates at the annual meelm.r- 01 t.1e Illinois State Teachers' association at Springfield December 2o. 27. and 28. Mr. Harpe r is president of the Superintendents' a nd Principals' association of Nor th ern Illinois and in that capacity is a utomaticallv a delegate to the state teachers' meeting-. Mrs. Roger \ Yill iams \\· ill entertain ntemhcrs of her bridge cluh at lnncllcon today at her home, 410 Forest aven ue. .a. THE ITINERAR~-Eieven Da~s of sport or motor-roving in the balmy air of fam- Peking, Korea, Japan-in aD 29 Oriental points, besides Egypt and many other Mediterranean and Pacific pons. .a. THE RATES--$2000 and day~ in lndia,Ceylon.-Java..Si&Jn, up, with accommodations f~ 230 members from the minimtn ' rate up to $3500. 15, OTHER CRUISES for19i9-1930 NtW Holland-America Line S.S. "S.......Decamber 21 a,. Januuy t (I' ·,.) J....wy 29 a.. p~~wuuy West Indies . FITTED OVERNIGHT CASES Westbound THE NEW GOLDEN STATE LIMITED Eastbound THE NEW ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIMITED Expressing the Utmost in Travel Luxury Cun.rd S.S. "Samaria.. u as ·)ol) Round South America Mediterr1ne1n Cunard s.s. "Carinchia'" -F._, I s.n.--~t..a I 'Nw--JM. 2l 'f Many styles to select from ranging in price from $ZO to $175 ROCK ISLAND ~ ,. 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