Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Mar 1935, p. 44

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Show, Is Entirely in Womnen's. Hands The Chicago Flower. show, sponsored-:by .-the 'Garden Club.! of Illinois,,which will bie: held at NayPier. April .6-14, and in, preparatioîn of which,,the niem- bers of .the local garden clubs are shelving other activities. is unique in many ways the com- tittee stresses. At is the only important Flower show: in. ihe United 'States wholly in the, hands -of women. its sponsors* state. M rs. O. W., Dynes, teired presideni of the Si;ate, federation. is general chairman, and' her assistants are ail1 womnen active' in. garden' club) worL The show bas 100,000 square feet of continuous floor space. whicli mnales if the largest show in 'this re-' spect in the United States. Mrs. G. McStay Jackson of Lake. Bluff, a' member of the board of> directors of the staîe federation. is the art director' of the show. The colors this. year will be Ceres yellow, which is the yellow of early flowering tulips, and the' misty blue of the spring sky, which is so admirably broughi into th.e show by the Nlue bunting wbich cloaks the iron girders. be used es backgrounds xor the ex- 'hibits.' These quick-growing balsams are 'planted and harvested as a coin- merical crop, 50 their fragrance and beauty may 'be enjoved to the titmost.- Navy Pier, is, in many ways, ideal for the siaging of a fiower show. There is only one level, and no 'pil- lars to obstruci the view. "Wiih the spring days' of the .past f ew dayrs a pleasant. herald," says Mrs. Dynes. "We are moving rapidly toward the completion of alI details. Tt 'will he a a Biusy mon*h Carlos Photo Ckildren's fashions for -s>ring ard' sitmmner will be pari of the tathion shwaptd bridgý e4a Tues- day oftern-oon at thse Drake under auspices 'of thse Chicago Wellesley club. Charlotte McComiell of Wil- mette is one of thse' ittie mnmie- quins. A meeting of the North Shore Vas- s ar club wîll be held at' 2.30 o'clock Monday, Marcb 18, at the home of Mrs. Johin O. Karstrom, 2528 Sheri- dan, road, Evanston. Mrs. Robert Cross and Mrs. Matthew Gaffney. will be co-hostesses. M'jss Elizabeth Robertson will speak on "Ouilts' and the History of Their Making,"' and wilI show some of ber own choice ones. Members have the privilege of The regular meeting of the Wil- mette Infant Welfare will be beld' e Monday afternoon., Marcb 18, in the lougeofthe Woman4s club. Many "I hai have learned to knit warmh little bon- the govi nets and are also given pracical help' tof by the sewing committee ini finishing other garments. Thé materials used 1vhch are Most. colorful and with the match- have iii ing. bindings make attractive little cratic > outfits. says H1. After sewing tea will be served at wife of 4 o'clock by Mrs. Walter Hildebrand, inBr social: chairman,' and her assistants.nB . Mrs. George W. Stewart, Mrs. Hiarry the pasi Kerr, Mrs. -H. J. Smnith, Mrs. Lester, give a s( E. Mee, Mrs.: Kellogg Logsdon,, Mes. the Geoi -* Williamn McKnight, Mrs. A. L. Fuller, M larch1 a n4 Mrs. F.,G.,LaBonte, who is chair- «can We i] of. the hostesses for March. Gra The group is unusually busy ii the scho month, what with a board meeting on Marchu 11,;and the.atteixdence y ersîty some of the members yesterday ai cIIII) Of the board meeting of the auxiliary in invited. the Chicago Infant Welfare' room, "Russia, 203 N. Wabash avenue. On Tuesday,dutya March, 19, another book review will Musr. Deu be 'given Mrs. Carl Johnsen 'at the form.eus home of Mrs. A. 'E. Beirnes, 927 Ro- forerceâ mana road, for members and friends. lias enabl On Tuesday, March 27, one of thearyit groups is arranging a benefit pro- amsi mo gram for Infant Welfare, '"An Afier- it they h. The Junior aux.iliary 'held its regu- lar meeting on Monday, March 4, with Mrs. Knight Blanchard. A dessert luncheon was served at IC:3 toa eighteen. Mrs. D. D. Gillespie is president-of the juniors. Evanston Junior. Friends WiII Meel in Wilme1$e We Can Learn From many and Russia' vemrot seen a.nythi4lg ini vernrental, experimenta- of Germany or ,Ru'ssia eads nme to believe .-tlev. nproved upon our demo- forrn of government," larriet Goodwin. Deuss, a foreign correspondent in and Moscow during st ten years. She ý will ctries of three lectures at irgian hotel in Ev.anlst'to1i 17, 20, ýand. 24, on dé.W lat eLearn from Russia aind ýi?"' for the bene fit of larship fund of the Uni-' of Wisconsin Aluinnae Chicago.- The public is ais building a strong in- :iremnendous cosi," comments' iss, wife of Edward L. 'Deuss, ad of the Internat ional News ii central Europe. "So far it bled ibem to supply their h exccellent airplanes and the >lern equipment, but to do have 'stripped the homes oi citizens. *rrom the '"dctatorship ot the proletariat" bas come the dicta- torsbip of a smiall rutbless group of powerful menx, another type of fascism. "eermian), under Hitler has aban- doned the. position. it. was, gaining under the republic and is today a menace to the peace of the worldý. The eînphasis ,.placed by the Third Reich 0on armies and miliiary pre- paredne'ss, the characicristic racial policy, their short-sighted' foreign Mrs. Alired H. Taylor of Glencoe iassisting wit½ the sale of tickets. Mrs. William E. Schweitzer of Chi- cago, is chairman of the cirent, a beàefit for the Club's scholarshîp fusxd. iette, in c. ziincrica, u.> o'clocic at the home pent two Robert Zimmermann, 303 ýey were avenue. 'In * this program rs. John Ryder will consider the fan' are stilli in. illustration' will play the1 of Schumann and Schubert.. maiV4 AVAl . %. NM. Âviurn O; f Cicago 18 damne 'in charge. The purpose of this party ,and is to aid the Loyola university schol.' asies arship fund whlch the club bas spon- sored for the pasi eight years'.

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