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January 1, lYlo WILMETTE -LIFE WOMAN PHYSICIAN to ~ -· POETS REMAINS TO \\ "Gold Diggers" in Stars in Opera Midst Guests ADDRESS SUNDAY CLUB REST AT KENILWORTH Our at Kenilworth Hunt·------------: Eug~e F~el~ Children's Poet, to Fmd Fittmg Resting Place in Church Cloister ~· . Eugene Field, famous children's poet, who has rested under an unvretentious headstone in the Gracela~d cemetery, Chicago, for 30 years, \\-til soon be removed to a tomb in the close of a cloister connecting the parish house with the Church of The Holy Comforter in Kenilworth it was announced this week by the Rev. Leland Hobart Danforth , the rector of the church. The remoYal will be accomplished within a few days, it was said by Mr. Dan forth. The family of the poet ha \'e given their consent and the new and probably final resting place will he known as the Eugene Field 1Iemorial lois ter close. A plain stone ~tab will ~urmount the tomb and it i~ planned to can·e portion" of the poe t' s best known children's poems <dl this headstone. · Opposite Memorial Altar Oppo it the tomb in the cloi ter is a beautiful memorial altar. a gift to tl~e pari sh I: l· l11 ~fr=-. H. C. I-;on, in memory r,f her mnt h er. \f r~. } ranee:, Chittenckn. -:\l'ar the tomh i-; a memorial \\·inclm\· t '> Field'-; gratHlson, \\'illiam C. Fn~br. Jr .. who \\"a:, an acti\·e worker in the churc!1. The rh urch rloi..;ter it-.elf is a memorial to llnm a n ~faun· nra ... -.crt. !..!in·n hv ~1r. and ~fr ~ . Tln.nnn .-\ . l~r as~ert, -mem1 c·r, oi tlw rlmrd1. Prominent in Church ~fr..;. \\'illi am C. Englar, a member <,f the Church of the Hoh· Comforter l< ;r many ;-ear~. is ~fr. l;ieltl's eldest d:,ughter. and ~fr. I\nglar In s se rved ;,:-, :-.eninr warden oi the church. She 11 ow l i \ t·" in P a ad c n a. Cal.. with the \':;do\\· of the poet. Other mrml)ers < i the Field familv arc Ro . well Field f E\·a n..;ton. Frcd~rick S. Field, Bradlc~·. \\'i ..;., Eu~enc Field, Jr.. also of Hraclle\'. and ~frs. Elmer Foster of Tom a I;a wk. \\'i s. Monday last, the Frank Ketchams · of Devonshire lane and the James Ralph Starrs of 320 Raleigh road, gave the most unique party ever attended in Kenilworth, a treas ure hunt.· About 40 of their friends. dressed for roughing it, met at the Starr residence, and after receiving instructions, they were divided into 12 teams, two couples to a team, and, m automobiles, started out on the hunt. The prize was to be a "pot of gold" and th e chase led to the lake iront, to the old golf course west of Kenilworth, back to the Wilmette Harbor, to Indian Hill, under bridges, up and down ra \·ines and high bluffs, eacl~ new destination di sclo.:>ed on a cleverly worded clew, printed on a shingle and hidden a way at the spot. The sea rch was conducted with the aid of searc h lights, and the frantic ha ste of the "gold digger:-" tearing from clew to clew in their cars as fast as the s lipp e r y st reets would permit, and somet ime'i faster, was th<: occasion for two 4- 11 alarms for the Kenilworth police. The "pot o'f gold" with 4000 pennies in it. wa s f111;tlly di..;coH·red under the pier at the I,t·nilworth beach. The winning team was led by Holden K. Farrar ~ The g:1nt:-.. 111tll..' h \\·inded. and in llt't'd of rdre"lnncnt. then \\T.nt to the Frank 1\.('tchams where n: i re--h mcnb \':ere quickly consumed. Madame Pearl V. Metaelthin, Authority on China, to be Speaker January 3 St. John's Church w.·tt · H aVe New Year S erVtCeS T\\ () ... pecial "cn·ice~ arc announced for t l1e congregation of St. John' p.JUtheran church over the Ne\Y Year holiday. The first of these will he on ~ t'W Y car's EYe \\"hen there will be a Communion ervice at 7:45 o'clock with se rmon by the pastor, Rev. Herman \V. }\fever. New Year's morning \\'ill he marked by services at 9:45 o'clock at \\'hich time there \\·ill be Communion and a sermon by the pastor. Sunday morning. January 3. 1f r. ·Meyer \\"ill gin· hi:-; annual report to the congregation and outline plans for the church in 1926. Logan-Howard P. T. A. to Hold Meeting Thursday The regular January meeting of the Logan-Howard Parent-Teacher a~ sociation will be held Tuesdav afternoon, January 5, at 3 o'clo~k, with :l\1iss Emma Gertrude \Vhite of the \Vashington school, Evanston, as the speaker. Miss White will have as her subject, "Americanization." The \Vilmette Public school orchestra. under the direction of Miss Catherine Granquist, will play and Miss Mable Pearce will have somt: of her dance pupils give an exhibition of rhythm work. Mothers of the fourth grade pupils will be hostesses for the social hour. Madame Pearl V. Metzelthin, doctor of medicine, who has spent many years in China and is thoroughly familiar with conditions in that country, will appear before the Wilmette Sunday Evening club, January 3. The speaker will appear in Chinese costume and will be assisted in her lecture by :Madame Edith Bideau Normelli, soloist of St. Luke's church, Evanston, who will give a special musical rrogram in direct relation to the address. Madame Metzelthin, a charming cosmopolitan woman could offer sufficient material offhand from her personal to fill se veral books, it is said. Born in the Vnited States, intensely American in all her ideals, she was educated in Europe, where she studied medicine. Know~ Mandarin and Coolie Her marriage to a distinguished German cholar in the Diplomatic service Howard Preston, 1031 Greenwood in China unlocked for her the magic an. nue. \\'ilmette . won loitv t)rai se I doors of the East. She pent 13 years irom Chica~o ~lu~ic critics l-as t Sun- I !n China in Yarious cit!e s. and prov . t d tnce , where she '.Yas on mtimate terms 1en, on ~ 1 10r t no t tcc, 1 1e s cppe · · 1 d a\· ,,. 1 · ttl 1 t. F · 1 · "D \\"It 1 1 t1 1e rulmg c as ·es and through 111 o 1c ro e o anma m er 1 · ·· . - 1 · l~ o--t:nka\·alier" and came a\YaY with .l.t'r c 1 o..;e contact wttn me<1 tea mts1 ~[ p t ·~ d :-.tOns \York, she also knO\\·s the stt ugwnor~. . r. r_e:-. on 1 1a..; game an gk of the ma:-.scs. excellent rcputauon as a concert and Tl 1 1 t' i 1 · 1 I 1 d f ()pvra :-.inger. !lc i:, regarded a~ one . e J(:au 1 u troptca san o. .. fi· .. . tl Cl. Jlatnan. lanton. IIongkong, Shanghat, 1 ot 1e current PI t· 1 1e IH" 11cago .-.an.;:mg. " 1· Il an·o\\' k k' ·. an d · p e-mg a 11 1 1\·1r ,,pe_ra :-.ea:-.o_n._____ · w1 · 1 touc 1 1e d. 1 1er 1·tte, 11c 1 s1 1e pent en·t·t · l thtt~iastically absorbing the color and f, 1 charm nf the new \\'Orld in \\'hich she ~[ embers of the \Yilmt:tt e School }1' found herself. J,c'ard, the Playgrounds COilll111SStOn, She liYed through the stirring days tl:e fark board and the Village. hoar (! of the Chinese revolution in 1911 and ot 1 rustees ·met Tuesday C\'t'!lttH~· ot many other thrilling experiences, such lv :, t week at the Village hall to di ~c u sBY OBSERVER as a trip through bandit-ridden South plans for co-opration to proYide iurThe 11ith annual community carol China in men's clothes. Trips through t her facilities for recreation for tlw :-.inging-but the first around \ Yil- Siberia, I ndnch!na, Japan. India, the children of the Yillage. A committee mete's 0\\"11 liYing Christmas tree- South Sea I lands, Australia, Egypt consi tinO' of Henry Fo\der of the \':a successfully held Christ111as E\·e. and the Holy Land and numerous Park board, Robert- Stoddar~l, of the Fortunately, the weather man with- o ther countries punctuated her colorful -1 h ts ' zero stu ff untt·1 a f ter Cl1nst· ,·ears in the Orient. Plan commission, and J. C. Gapen, IH.' lu · . J(lhn Steffens and Enoch ~teen - of ma s, thu s treating us more kindly than But not only the East opened up · some of its secrets to this unusua! the Pla \'PTOUild:' rommi~..;ion was ap- was t 1 1e case a year ago w 1 len fi \'e 111pointed to make a survey of the situa- dividuals braved the six-below-zero '"oman. In the West too, she has live<! 1 f h through dramatic days. · · 1 t1011 and report :-uggestions to the yatemperature tO Slllg t 1e caro S Or t C ri:1u-. !Jodie-.. community. Witnesses R~volutions This year the attendance ran to beThe German Revolution of 1918 with The meeting was attended by most all its attendant mt'sery ·, extenst've re. 1 1 tween 300 and 400 and four well known Ch t H' mem )l'r~ oi all the hodie repretilt:> con::.truction work in depleted homes, .'\11 o t. t 1 '11 age trustee s wtt ·1 c;,rols were sung to ,_ accom- a thrilling trip in an aeroplane over se ntc d . ... 1e \ ' 1 1 · r ne exceptton \\Trl' pre se nt. A mong paniment oi some eight musical in- the Danzig Corridor, presentation at to- sen.'ral European. Courts, can be mene· tl 1er rna tt ers cl . bcussec1 wa t1 1c fi - struments that had been hrou!rht ~, . 1 aspect o f t 1 · gether by Homer Flentye at the re- tionecl as among the numerous worthnancta 1e propose d tn,., recreattOna · 1 f act·1·tttes, · · que:'t of the \Yilmette Church Council. while experiences of Madame Metzelcreaseu an d tt was suggested that tickets he sold to under who se a us pice::. the program was thin. rPsidents as are the beach tickets. Xo gi\·en. The · inging " ·as conducted by This exceptional knowledge and ;lction in this regard \\'a taken at the: Edwin P. Phelps. breadth of view gives Madame Metzelmeeting. There will he a meeting of The programs were printed gratis by thin an unusual grasp of political the special surYe\' committee this the publishers of \Yrr;~rF.TTr·: LIF£ and ::.cience, an intimate appreciation of · was sat(. · t · ,,. 1 · \\·re k· . tt 1en t 1 1e matter expenses incide!1ta 1 to the observance t 1 1e most dehcate affairs of state and \\·ill he gone into furtl~er. The chair-· were · defrayed hy local business men. int('rnational relationship. On the platman of the meeting- was ]. R. Harper, The lights for the tree were pro\·ided form. whether interpreting Chinese . ; uperintendent of schoc.k h\· the Public Sen·icc Company of life from "Mandarin to Coolie" or · !\orthern Illinois at the in..;tance of whether presenting some far-reaching F t h L t Village President Earl E. Orner. political question, she speaks with auIrs - . er aps as At the conclusion of the program thority. Her message is always stimulatRobtn Seen Here Sunday the carolers exchanged Christmas ing-, constructiYe and forceful, tt is said. The first robin of the season, or per- greeting-s and departed as the snow behaps the lpst-it seems doubtful-was gan to fall to whiten everything for Woman Injured When ~ecn last Sunday hy Joseph 1-f. T. Christmas Day. Automobiles Collide lloyd, 718 Greenleaf aYenue. Mr. ----------1Irs. John Fi"cher, 1618 Wilmette lloyd saw the bird standing in his SPEND XMAS HERE 1fr. and Mrs. Willard Charles a\·enue, was bruised about the head hack yard and went to get some food for it, hut it had disappeared when he Thayer of Detroit spent Christmas at and face last Sunday afterno ..m when returned. Last year William A. 11el- the home of the former's parents, Mr. a taxicab in which she was riding chior, 719 Central avenue, reported and 1frs. Willard H. Thayer of 522 struck a lamp post after a collision "t:eing two robins on Christmas dav. Central avenue. Mrs. Thayer has left with another automobile. The acciIt is sairl that there is an Alaska-n for her former home in Tryon, N. C, dent occurred at Greenleaf avenue and robin which migrates South along the for the month of January, and her Fifth street. The other automobile west Coast in w ·i nter and sometimes husband is returning to Wilmette to which figured in the accident was gets this far East, which may explain spend New Year's with his father and driven by Gus Koepke. 414 Washin~ ton avenue. mother. the presence of these visitors. I Leaders i· n Plan I ·. , to A Ugment P I ay H F act tes ere community carol S ervtce · · t·tttng Herald of X mas p I