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30 WILMETTE LIFE December 24, 1<.>.?6 WILMETTE LIFE fSSUED FRIDAY OF EACH WEEK by I.LOYD JIOLLISTEB, INO. 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill. Chicago office: G N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State ti326 I'!IIT:RSCRIPTION PRICE .............. $!.00 A YEAR Telephone ....................··......... Wilmette 1920 All communications must be accompanied by the n'\me and address of the writer. Articles for publi cation must reach the editor by Wednesday noon to :nsure RJ·nearance in current issue. Resnlutions of condolence, cards of thanka, obituary, nntict' S of ent<.'rtainments or other rl.ffatrs where an "ldmittancf> charg-e Is published, wf11 be charged at r t>g-ula::- adYertising rates. the nost office at Wtlmette, Illinois, as ma;l m:ltt('r of th<' sE>cond class, under the act or Ent ered Rt ~r a rc h ~. "\Vreathe the halls with boughs of holly. 'Tis the seas.o n to be jolly!" No other note is so often. · a nd so emphatically . struck at this season of the Year as "'Tis the jollity. It's heard · in the familiar greetings. "~Ierry Season" Christlnas !" and "llappy New · "Year!" Jt appears in the laughing face and rotund body of Santa Claus. hvery holiday gathering takes life easily and merrily . Through e-rery Chri sttna~ story run:-; the theme of unn stwl happmes s. The h <riyino- of .t!·ifts at Christmas time is ,-, seconcbry to the expressing .o f jolly feeling. ln fact the exchange of present:-; is merely a mean s of sho\\'ing the rxtraorcli nary checrf nlne .· s .o f the gi Yers. _ \nd the man \Yho is not jolly about and on Decc m her 25 is an unmitigated g-rouch, an unrc formed Scrooge. ~ ···,_,_,_c_ _ _ ,_.-~----·--~-··:· . ·!··--·-,,_,, __,_,,_,,__,,_,_,._,,_,,_,_ .··· A DOG'S LIFE · SHORE LINES . 1n9. GOD'S GIFT Let all that are to n1irt h inclined Consider tL'ell. and bear in rni nd \\'hat our qood God for us has done. ln sending .his Bcloued Son. Let all your songs and praises be Unto His Heauenly Majesty: And et.'ernwre. an1onqst our mirth. Rcrnemher Christ ou~ Saoior's birth . If choirs of Anqe/s did reioice. ind tcith h·eart and voice . \Vel! ma(j rnank. Sing praises to the God of Heauen , \\'ho unto us His Son has giuen . REFRAIN The normal hoy is now looking forward to Saturday morn in g. Christ ma s mo rn in g. with exalted expectation. ] le can hardly \Yait for the great d<1y to da\\·n. _\nd it isn't so much because uf the gifts be's going to get. Cifts on any uthrr clay could 110t rouse him so peculiarly. No, it' s becau:-;e he\ a part of the great ,,·aye o f joy that is S\\·eeping all the children, and many older people; Oll\\·ard to the best of all holidays. .. Joy to the \Yo r kl !·' It's in three parts- a dog's life_-eatin~. sleep!ng and running around town. The btg part ts runn!ng around town , seeing what's going on , and makt.ng . sure that everything is all right. When men .are dtgging ditches, they wouldn't do .the ~ork as tt ~ug.ht to be done if 1- my name ts Gtn ( the edt tonal canine) - didn ' t come around every so often to cheer them up and let them know that somebody cares. Whenever a new man comes to town it's part of my business to find out what kind of a man he is .1nd whether he's to be trusted. Eating is also very important. Those who know me best know that I won't cat any old thing. Sometimes I'll worry an old shoe or rubber . bur I do that just for fun. I get most of my food from a d~li catessen over on Wilmette avenue. Roast beef I ltkc berrer than an y thing else. It has a very nice taste. I like water. too. Sometimes when I'm not feeling fit I cat lots of grass . It always helps me.' And the third part of my life is sleepin~. =That's what I do whenever I'm doing neither of the other rwo things. I can sleep anywhere- on stone . on wood. or on a cushion. The last I prefer. but I don't object to wood. if ic's fairly lev el. When life gets a little dull I turn around a few times to make my head swim a little . . and then lie down. curlinR · myself all up into a nice heap . My instincts I got from my parents. bur my habits I got from m y human associates. mostly Mique. mv boss. If I'm at all human he's responsible, because I'm more with him than with any other biped. I'm with him all day long. He has taught me all I know about the making of newspapers. The most exciting thing I do in the newspaper shop is to sec if I can't catch a shining piece of type-metal. before it gets into the hole and drops down rhe chute to the metal pot. Mique doesn't care for this sort of thing. but then different individuals have different tastes . - GIN- per FIL THE FILOSOPHER . For to redeem our souls from thrall. Christ is the Savior of us all. -Old English Carol. And Welcome Our Heroes \Vha t \YOrk are you gomg to take up 'vhen you get through school? What are you going to be? . Questions of this sort are submitted with embarLife rassing frequency to our young men and women : Work tnore often, to be sure, to the fonner than to the latter. And in attempting to answer the question the various professions and their values are certain to be canvassed. The problem of values brings up the question, which is the n1ost dignified, the n1ost worthy of the pr.o fessions? ~1any say the tnini stry; oth~rs, tnedicine; in fact, the list is as long as the list itself of the professions. Dr. William Healy, fonnerly a resident of Winnetka' · and prominently identified \Vith the activities of the Juvenile Court, a scientist of remarkably broad and thor,oughgoing culture, in an article in The American ] ournal of. Psychiatry, regards psychiatry as the calling that "should be and readily may grow to be considered the most dignified of all professions-that which is concerned with and treats mental life, the innermost and real being ,o f n1an." Possibly a few of our most able young men and \Vomen tnay be stin1ulated by this estimate of Dr. Healy's to investigate psychiatry as a life occupation. It may be also of interest to know that in the article n1entioned above Dr. Healy speaks ~f "Winnetka procedure-the individual system"-as one that may be of great assistance in mental therapy. This is an acceptable tribute to the value of the individual system. Xothing \Yill tnake one so keenly aware of the differences bet\\'een life on the north shore and life in foreign lands as letter s from those lands appearing Foreign . from time to time in our columtb. \ Vhether theY be Lands letter~ from China, India,"England, the Ha\Yaiian Islands, or the Scandinavian countries, they all serYe to accentuate the contrasts between our manners and resources and theirs. One of the most glaring of these contrasts is presented in a letter written by Dr. Barlow-Brown to a Winnetka friend and published in one of our recent issues. The letter gives an opportunity to appreciate the comfort enjoyed by an American girl in a typical college dormitory. The Chinese girls in the dormitory of the college with which Dr. Barlow- Brown is connected sleep not on mattresses but on wooden boards over carpenter's hor ses. All they ask for is a $5 mattress. It is almost impossible even to itnagine such utterly tneager conditions in an American college, even the ugh many dormitories are bare and unlovely. Such comparisons as this ought to make us not only realize what we have to be thankful for but also share our comforts with the less fortunate in far off countries. \\'ith the approaching pre :-. idential year <tnd plans of the Conn National S-chool of ~f u~ic to organize brass bands in all the north shore Yillagt.:~ . we wonder if the old time political marching clnl" equipped with flambeau torches and headed 1)\· the vi llage cornet hand will again be employtd to parade with spell hinders and po11tical cheer leaders. Or will the numerous bands feature th('ir. se rvices to their respective ~omm uniti es br giYill~ summer night con~erts in the park and "furni-.,h the music" for the annual vitlage celebration . Tf all the Yillages on the north shore organize hand=-. ;jS proposed hy the Conn National ~rhool . i )..fusic, there shou ld he a sufficient nulllhl'r !11 hold ireqnent hand contests. · - F. T . ~ So We Suspected dere mique: i aint got no litry cricket or nuthin but i jest -caint sleep niles till i tell ya bout thet edatorial K9 of yours. he sure is some dawg and i got to hand it to im. y last saturday he comes into my shanty with ta cop whut raided it an wile the cop was drinkin all my ca·wn likker ta dawg waz eatin my pork sawsige. he sure learns. fast an i gotta give im the credick. p. s. ta cop lives in chicawgo. - JOE Know all by these presents that last week's water famine annoyed us not a whit, being as how we occupy a welt appointed and thoroughlv comfortable English basement apartment. (a bath on every floor and plenty of water, al\\'ays) .How fortunat(> the wat <>r ,.11lage on ~nturdny nig-ht. ~hortag"t· did n11t ~tr·ik(> tht, Try Sheik Lure lt's too bad, but it seems as if the prohibition laws \vere cracked tnore often in Winnetka than in any other of our lake shore cotnn1unities. Mary Curriti is the latest violator, but there have been several others. We don't know just why wine, liquor, and alcohol attract so strongly inhabitants of the above-mentioned suburb. Very likely it's just a coincidence, but the fact retnains. Say Mique: \Vhat'n trunkit kin a ieller do win a~l de blasted water WC'rks gits hung up an dere amt no water? T'other day down in Evingstun i hed ta wash my face in Hinde's almond cream an comb my hair in listerine an that aint no soft soap. i aint never felt rite since. -SHEIK Listening in on an exciting ( ? ) hockey match 'tother evening, we decided to switch over to Guyon's WGES, which had alway· been our idea of zero in radio entertainment. om·, And now, boys and girls, young and older, en> ryth e very merriest of Christmases~ And may fa.thf'r nP\·er tire of little Johnny's new elE>ctric train. -:\UQUE. ..--.......... .....-...... ~-----------·-· -----... -. .... __, ......_,.._ . ,~ ........