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12 WILMETTE LIFE December 25, 1925 WILMETTE LIFE ISStJED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by Chicago, office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Tel·phene .....·............·.....·. Wilmette 1920 LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave., W1Jmett .. . Ill SUDS(';RJP'l'ION PRICE ·.··..·...·.·2.00 A YEAR 87 Carrier ......................... 2Gc a month are conspicuou~ by their ~bsence. On the north shore women voters are unusually active. They hold frequent me.etings, private and public. They are studytng the issues and candidates wtth ardent enthusiasm and discrin1inating insight. They are training themselve to present political probletns and solutions clearly and to argue convincingly. All communications must )c accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publtcatian must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to insure appea rance 1n current Issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notices of entertainments or. other affa.irs where an admittance charge is published, w'lll be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the post office at Wilmette, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class, und er the ad of March 3, 1879. · THE TRAYELLERS \Ve met,-my dear, remember?As travellers wandering through Lov d paths and precious nooks, Disco\'ering quaint, like taste s In the curl of dying leaves, And so ngs of shade -c lothed pool s One trea sured hour we lingered, But hour s end too soon; \ Ye ki ~sc d. our lips clinging Like \·inc tendrils clutching Desperately a mouldering wall; An darkness whi spered through Needlework EEDLE\iVORK is far from being the universa l accotnplishn1ent for n1odert1 \\·omctl. ln tnany households the needle a n d t h i m b 1e com e into use on 1y c;; e 1d u n1 , for l>its of tnending or re-adjustn1C'nt of the deta il s of garn1ents bought in the shop "reach· to \vear." :.J e\·er in hi ~ t orv ha ~ ,,·qtnan kind had the lci~ur" that i~ todav afforded her. The mani ·old 1ahor-sav ing devices in the hon1 . the 1noven1ent a ,,·ay from the big and ranl hl ing hou se in \Vh ic h carl ier g-eneration t;rew to tnaturity. the \Vithdrawal of the old hou se hold industries frotn the hon1e into the factory-all these changes have given to the home ~\·o tnan hours of freedom fron1 hon:chold cares \vhich affords oppornnity for other sorts of artivities. But t-here seetns to he an instinct in won1cn \Yhich is expressed only throno-h the tnaking- of garments " ·ith " ·hrch othe~s arc til l>c clothed. lt is tnanifest in the Bazaar. so ubiquitous at this ~cason of the vear. It i~ ~ ho\\·n in the grotips of \YOtnen gathered t< gether to . C'\V for orphaned children. for families that have fallen into ,,·ays of di stress. for the disabled men \\·ho st~ffered in jury in line of duty during the war. '1~h~re is vi:tue in this purely fetninine arttnty. It ts at its highest expression when needles are plied in the helping of those ,,_.h ,J n1u~t look to charity for help. -Contributed. N Prepare to End War 1\fACHINE gun troop is to he organized in Wiltnette. Another is to be organized in Winnetka. Thrse two troops \Vith a third in Evanston are to constitute a tnachine tnH>p squadron. with 21 officers and 371 enlisted n1cn. The question at once arises. \Vhy, \vhen the world \vants to end \\·ar. organize machine gun troops? 'Yhy prepare ~ for war? The ans"·er is that the object of organizing these troops is NOT to encourag-e \var but" to END \Yar. Does anvone donht that the recent \\'ar ·w ould -ha YC he en shorter ·and less expensive had the . \ nwri can forces been better prepared? This organizing of tnachine gun t n >ops in Wilmette and Winnetka is a n1 ove m carrying out of the provisions of the preparedness act of 1920. Tt is under stood that the n1ain object of this act i. to organize a large part of the available n1an power of the country that it n1av lw able to respond effectively in tin1e o-f need. A 0, was that hour, so fleet, Too perfect to repeat? - Hom=-It Is Indeed Fortunate That They Didn't Fail at the Crucial Moment "The Kcw Trier High School Concert Band ga \'e it~ first concert of the year on Friday night, December 4th. The hand succeeded in playing some n.'ry difficult number !'\, c:pccially 'Poet and Peasa nt' o\·erture." We'll Have to Wait for Horace "The double sextet played a mi . ::- rere from "II Tro\'atore" and a ~e xtet from "Lucia di T.amerm oor." The sextet. heweYer, wa s not a success becau se Horrace II uiJ hard, who had a very important part, was ah"ent and had the m~;.,ic with him, so that no one el-..e could play it." ~E\\' TRif.R ~T-:WS. Unlighted Bikes ERTAINLY it . honld not he th'rc:-. . arv for the police to have to \\·arn c hildre~1 ~f th.e danger of riding- hi cycles on the pubhe htglnvay "·ithout light.. Tl1C' dangC'r is so apparent that even the sn1all hov should see it hitnself. hut. lest he forget. tlic parent of the hov \\·ith a hicvcle tnu st hC' a\\ arc of the chances ""hich the rider takes \vhen he rides at night on a street in \vhich autonlobiles are driven. lt is in1possihlc to sec the bicycle until the distance is so short that it is next to impossible to stop a n1achine which is traveling at any speed at all. No driver ,vishe~ to run do\vn a child. 1t is a fC'ar fnl thin oto remetnber that a young life has hee~ taken or spoiled. e\·en when one ra11not in any \vay he held hlan1eworthv. Tt should be quite as fearful for a parent to comtemplate the accident \\·hich tnay happen to a hov \vho is allo\\·ed to ride a wheel at t~o-h-t \vithout lights adequate to \Yarn automnl~ile drivers of his presEnce. C THE FALLING STAR :\ ship. :-.erving as weathervane, surmounts the new village hall in \Vinnetka . .\full rigged vessel with S\\·elling sail~. even though way up in th(' air on the end of a n1etal rod, stitnulate. the itnagination of even a. landlubber .. 1I c sees a queenly ship. hrcastmg the foatnmg billows, on its course to son1' far off port. Through clear \\'Cather and foul she sails ~tcadily on, piloted safely by. crew and captam. l\lay our north shore shtps of state meet with like success! ~igns at s~rcet corners sho,ving street name . . and stgns on hou. es showing house ntunhcrs should be so placed as to be easily see n, and _large enough and distinct enough to he castly read. not nly by pedestrians hut al~o hy people in car.. At night, street ~1a mcs and house nutn hers should be iliummate(~. In son1e of our north shore to\vns the ~trect nan1es can be read \Vith a fair deg-ree of difficulty, but there are fe,v north sh~>rc hon1cs \vhose numbers, \vhen such e~~s!. cant~ot. be detennined except by inqtunng \\·tthtn. }·n11 <i.'Ortld not hrof my ln<'t' Jf\' d,·ar. sn I J[a -;·r lnm .lJ it. a !mttly star Tud·cd in tltc sl·y. ,<,·o it slrmrr. mrd '\'Oll T!t~ard 11nt if'> ralli;rq, That nmc·. 111\' dtar, HZ\' dear, Thr slm: is fal!il;!l! ! nllrf \\'e rerci co a letter from ntH.' " ·ho signed her se lf "A \\·otverinc" somr time ae,o. Later, up0 n looking for it, we found it not. Having no Vang ie in this offlce wr were forced to conclude that Th Flaming- Youth (our proofreader) had approachc ~· too closr to it, destroying it without lea\·ing ;trace . The hi arne mu. t rest upon us, ho"- e\'er. a we foun<i it, together with some last year's Chri'-t mas carets and other long . ought valuable . . whe r we cleaned out a drawer of our desk this week We hope that the \Volverine will see this ;mc 1 write tL again. Having rea<i with interest the many earnest ex hortations to "Do Your Christmas Shopping Earlv which ha\·c appeared in the columns of this papr· for weeks past we suddenly were conscious of guilty feeling because we had not done om Checking up in the office, we learned that ncit I" had the editor, nor the society editor. · \Ve "t 1~0 farther. fearing we would finrl no one who J.., A careful calculation convinces us that if \\"l' ~ through with the paper early enou~h 'hri-..tn . c·ve, we may he able to httY a f<.>w thin~s then . ··: Your Christmas Shopping Early." Women Voters W HILE it tnay not now he true that \Vomen knO\Y n1ore about current political issues than tnen, still it is no exag-g-eration to say that son1c \\·o n1en knO\\' tnuch n1ore about these important matters than son1e n1en. .L\ncl it looks as if the first staten1ent n1ight come to h~ true in a fe\v years. if men continue to be so uninterested in political affairs and \vomen so activelv intere . ted. Almo t every ~on11nunity has its league of wom~n voters. Le~gues of men voter:· In a recent number of the magazine, Chicago .Cor~1merce, is an article n1ade up of ~ontnhuttons frnn1 various suburban rest?l:nt ~ ,. cad: of them telling \vhy he liked ltvtng .n: h1s O\vn particular village. Op~.ortuntttes for C?utdoor living are empha, tzed. and much ts made of neighbors. The suburbs tnentioned are those west and . outhwe. t of Chicago. If you want to be happy and healthy, be a suburbanite. OUR CHRISTMAS WISH As Christm,as time is drawing near We laugh and si1tg and loudly cheer it: We'rr hoPing you'll be ftdl of cheer A Hd (whisper) full of Christmas spirit. THE SLAVE.