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versi d Mirs. Painter and Decorator. a ~ :# Mrs. J. \V. Higgins and ber m Paul. Boehn o Chicago wa e ter, Mabelle, of Barrington, we 10X Gn.eSe PhSe 2764 cent house guest of Nir. and MNrs. !guests last week-end of lMrs. mwwon.'C. J. Nylund. 1634 Forest avenue. P. Proctor, 314 Park avenue. -j' The, Local Telphýone Directory Goes ,,tô Press Soon In the interest of good service subscribers are, re quested -to call THE TELEPHONýEý COMPANY 'ANY ton, N. Y. Ue graduated f rom New Trier last June. Alta Dee Belsbe, daugbter of Mr. and Mis. Edwin, Luther Belshe, 530, Forest avenue, has been pledged. to ]Kappa Alpha Theta sorprity at North- western university., »Wi England flavor. Few girls do flot kflow her story "BETTY LEICESTER," the. Anierican girl reared in England, who cornes back to America for the suzn- nmer to make the acquaintance of ber two charming aunts and ber own native country. "BETTY LE ETES CRISTMAS" continues Betty's ad- ventures upon ber return to,.England. However, feW girls have, discovered ,Miss Jewett's "COUNTRY 0F THE POINTED' FIRS"-a book of slight, plot but, charming characterýizations. of the inhabitants of a littie New Engiand Watering colony. It wiIl make you want to slip aWay to the country where the fir tree.s are shadowy. and pointed and where nothing can exceed the bigness of the .*'native" hearts. Another woman who can boast. a Sep- tember birthday is Queen Elizabeth- one of the most fascinating of histori- cal woûmen-as vou will aree- upon readîng Hurnphry's "STORY 0 F THE, ELIZABETHS,' one chapterof which tells the. story of this f amous Elizabeth. Tappan's "IN TH~E IIAYS 0F QUEEIN ELIZABETH" gives a fuller account of thi s sovereigns life, reigu. and lonely death. There is one more book that devotees of Elizabeth should read-"MASTER SKYLARK"' (Ben. nett) « tale of >the tirue of Shiakes- peare, Elizabeth's f riend, and of a little, lad 'Who -so enchanted the Qùieen with bis acting and singing, that she granted him any boon. that he should ask-and the Queen was as surprised as you wilI be when you read the story. -at:-the- thing he asked for. Septeruber also gives us famous meni. James Fennimore Cooper was .born Septem.ber 15. He needs no introduction to boys who like Ii'dian and historical adventure. "THE, DEERSLAYER'" "THE LAST 0F TUE.\MOHICANS,". "THE SPY," "THE PILOT" and' '..THE PIONEERS" are just a feW of bis varns. which are always swift-M'oit- ing and filled with action. Another writer of Indian tales, whose birthstone is the sapphire, is Francis Park 'man (September 16)>. who, thougb, flot a blood Indian himself, Iived.amnong. them so long that he was adopted by one of the tribes-as he recounts in bis "OREGON TRAIL." Jullus Caesar bas probably the old-* est hirthclav o-f the mnnth-Sepnmer