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& À) THAT I'LJ@IûN 1 îl- -Our iro n-bou nd guarantee- goes with every stem sold- here. We warrant one year's sound service f or ev er y article.1 .. .A PLUG in the. wall, a lever snapped and h o u r s' of drudgery vanish. Let Eletrity. tireless and capable, save hours of toil for Her. She wuiI appre- cate th. Îf't of an item that wiII creafe delightful Ieisure, accom plishin asl ý'a household task. Some î ggestios VACUUM CLEANERS WAFFLE IRONS SILEX COFFEE* MAKERS TOBACCO LIGHTERS There were a number.of lhonored guests present, inchiding Mrs. S. W. Gibson, president of the Tentix dis- trict; Mrs. Robert L. Elliott, pjresi- dent: of the Womnan's :cub of 1va-'s> ton;- Mrs. Herbert D. Weed, pres-ý dent of. the North Shore Womian's club; Mrs. Bertrand Evans, presi<îent, of "the- Bronson, circle; and ilrs., George S.- Walter,> president of the, Kenore club. Past presidents, of th.e'Woman's club Of Wilmette were also bonored guests, anidamongAthose present were Mrs. S.:S., Dingee,, Mrs. H. B. Gates, Mrs. W. Wallace -Kerr,. Mrs. John Clark Baker,' Mrs; C. Mannerud, and Mrs. R. E. P-. Kline. Mrs.. Blair ýsaid at the conclusion of ber talk that she believed we were on the verge: of a new decade in biography, that books would be written on eval'- uation, and that writers were turni- ing to mi.en and wnmen, who Iived" before the war for material.Sh told of the joys of reading biography. saying that one could confine oîîe's. self to a single person or single peri- od of history, and discôver through concentrating upon that,: richnes-s andl great pleasure. One could also.broaJ1- en one's life by readingý biographies of. many people and many different periôds of bistory, getting aglmc of the whole. 1Mrs. Bl-air told of the differciît types of biography ini a brief 'y so that the listener was entirelv clear on the points she made. Shie remarked-that through biographi we can absorb history and geograpli\-s() much more pleasantly for biography-, revivifies history. She mentionied Ilii- aire Belloc in this connection, parti- cularly bis biography of Marie Aii- toinette, wbich sbows the whole lus- tory of the Éfench revolution. Speaking .of the requirements oft a good biographer, Mrs. Blair feit he. should bave a sympathy with luis subject, but flot sympathy whichl is blind to ail faults. He sbould also 1w throIv acoaintedwitb lus sub)- xnentioned Strachey's "IQueeniVc toria," which was the first of ths ,kind, and Pringle's "Lufe of Alfrel, E. Smith," which used an efllirelev new technique, presenting an otitlini" of the man in the first cliapter, alll using the rest of the book to deepC1l it. 'Pringle. is now. writing the lif e .01 Uosevelt in the -gaine manner . t i