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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Mar 1928, p. 34

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No one can doubt that the value of the · North Shore as a suburban district lies in its ~atural surroundings. Its easy proximity to Chicago is indeed an important factor in its total value, but our North Shore suburbs would be of little value were Natural it not for the natural Surroundings surroundings. 0 ur lake and our trees make this area distinctly a most desirable residential area. Though perhaps the majority of our people do not see the lake once during the winter and only a few times in the summer, still there it is contributing its benefits, esthetic and hygienic, to old and young. Not a few, it must be maintained, have found the lake hard on throats and lungs and have moved farther inland. But, notwithstanding this, no North Shore resident would care to have the lake filled in and a wide prairie land stretching off to the east. The trees are our familiar friends. Everybody loves them. When a tornado uproots them, we mourn almost as if our human friends had been taken from us. Our trees, elms and oaks mostly, must not be allowed to sicken and die. From every window in almost every North Shore home one ~r more of these towering trees may be seen. Even in winter when bare of leaves they stand out against the grey sky, pleasing the eye with their black tracery. · They must be preserved. They have their natural enemies against which they must be protected. Open wounds must be skillfully treated. Dead branches must be removed. Our natural surroundings must be kept at all costs. The average vote, like you and me, will probably never be a candidate for public office. We lack both ambition and ability. If not .both these qualifications at least the first. So it is not at all likely that the average voter will ever have, or take, the chance Be ci Voter! to exercise his membership in the great American Democracy in any other .w ay than by voting. The average voter is not much at speechmaking~ If he had to gain· votes for his particular candidates by spell-binding he would probably do more harm than good. But he can vote, and his vote counts for just as much as the vote of the· greatest statesman or the biggest boss. It is therefore the plain duty of the average citizen to vote whenever he gets the opportunity. Our one hu.ndred and more million average citizens can make this government whatever they want it to be. They can kill graft and secure clean politics. They can smash the machine and put good men into office. · Vote on every occasion. Do more if ~ou get the chance. latest, the very latest, · in finger bowls is the running water finger bowl. Ever since that far-off day when we first laved our fingers after a too intimate meal we have longed for a bowl that would be adequate to our need for The 1,.,atest something more than a mere dip. And this in Bowls! longing was particularly acute after .our kind hostess had allowed us to pick up in our fingers a dripping drumstick and satisfy a ravenous appetite. After such a feast we did certainly need something more than a mere finger bow1. And now such a bowl has been contrived.. Over at Bill's Shack-otherwise the Villa De Metre-in "No Man's Land," running water finger bowls are supplied with each and every finger-s.oiling lunch or dinner. Enjoy yourself without restraint, let joy be even unrefined! Dip your fingers in the stew with Gipsy John or anyone else ; you can cleanse them thoroughly in the running water finger bowls. MARCH MIDNIGHT And noW a wind stirs t1t! sk?w, Relelllless falling """' . A,.P trails itself dcross #he ..mow In fitful wax and wane. The snow 'receives upon its breast, · ·In muted wondering, . The wind's new yearnings, luJlf-confessed, And tears of coming spriflg. -Wickie LAST SUNDAY-BRINGING AS IT DID THE FIRST . POSITIVE INKLING OF AN APPROACHING SPRING-PROMPTED ONE TO · WANDER AFOOT, THOUGH NOT AFIELD. INTERESTING IN THE EXTREME, OUR MORE OR LESS AIMLESS PEREGRINATIONS IN THE GENERAL VICINITY OF THAT INVISIBLE LINE WHICH TRAVERSES THE BORDERLAND TWIXT EVANSTON AND WILMETTE. SHERIDAN ROAD JAMMED WITH SABBATH PLEASURE TRAFFIC-SIDE STREETS PEACEFUL AS A COUNTRY LANE. REAL ESTATE MEN HURRYING AND SCURRYING IN QUEST OF THE ELUSIVE HOME-HUNTER-FATHER, MOTHER AND THE LITTLE TOTS LEIS. URELY ENJOYING AN AFTERNOON We've read much about Count Keyser- . · STROLL. TOM AND HIS CATS DROWSING ling of Darmstadt. We've run across this IN THE GREAT BAY WINDOW OF HIS foreign gentleman in daily papers and QUICK LUNCHROOM-SHORTY'S BROTHAL. RAUCOUSLY CALLING HIS WARES periodicals, and the more we learn about ER AT THE "L" NEWS STAND. A SABBATH him the less we like him and his philosophy. AFTERNOON IN VERY EARLY SPRING. That he is an TYPICAL, AND THOROUGHLY ENJOYegoist and egotABLE. The Count from Dannstadt ist to boot is unpleasantly apparent. The extremely arrogant list of regulations sent out either by his business manager or himself is to be laughed at or thrown into the wastebasket. What surprises us not a little is that so many people should be willing to welcome into their homes and lecture halls men and women with such unprofitable doctrines. Most of what he has to say about women and their effect on men is either as old as the hills or outlandish. But the sensation won't last long. It never does in the States. Soon the Count will enter his Korean monastery to be forgotten forever. The First 'un Ain't Got a Chance That earliest touch of Spring brought out the annual flock of observing citizens who, even at this premature season, are finding !ulips ~hree· inches out of the ground, trees buddmg bettmes,. and Jo, of aJJ persons-our Soc .Ed., emboldened'. to announce the arrival of an or10le. Re·eri~ Russel hills rise up from the wiley and reaclr forth caressing arms to etnbrace the settit'{J sun.. Soon, a pale sky of subdzwd pink is all that remains of the departed day. The gatheritJg shadows slowly deePen witiJ the· approach of their qiteen-Night. They are her courtiers, and, blending into an impenetrable dark-· ness, they pay her d"e honuJge. Nothiflg disturbsthe quiet of the roening. Ah! At last it co~s . . . . . . The melancholy moon glides gracefully across the star-sprayed heavens. · The beautiful night is paradise for a lonely dreamer. -The Piscator. And Replar u North Shore citizens hav~ always opposed Small and politicians of his kind. Never has the North Shore failed to make perfectly clear its desire to have Small and his friends withdraw from politics and remain withdrawn. At the primaries on Keep Up tfte April 10 another opporGood Fight! tunity to fight Small presents itself. The most effective way of defeating him is to v.ote for Emmerson, Glenn, and Carlstrom. On April 10 we shall have a better chance of getting rid of the pr~sent governor than ever before. Rally around Emmerson, · Carlstrom, and Glenn. Fight against SmalL Pay. your taxes, real and personal,. at the Winnetka State Bank. By so dotng you will ?e saving money for ~se on enterprises tn your own con,tmuntty. If ~11 North Shore taxpayers patd taxes, not tn Winnetka, but in ChiSaw Money cag:o . at the Cou~ty Butldtng, our own tnfor Yourself stituti.ons would not · have the money when they \vanted it and so would have to borro\v it and pay interest. Therefore, pay your taxes on the North Shore. · Many have asked us who Piscator might be. And the only response that comes to mind is the simple fact that he (or is it she?) is dern good copy, if you gather our meaning. Spoon or SpMe Raminatiq Ray autfawed with many a loud and harsh autfaw upon reading that the men, aot to he outcloae by tlaeir spousea, are about to establish a Carden club of their .ery own. The question beiq: Does a maa become a aardener before or after tlae aolf .-.....? lgnuio, Mount Thy Pedestal! Bia Ben Speaking further of gardeners. Our recent announcement that Narcissus Ferraro is a Glencoe gardener brought this from Phil Livingston, alJ the way from Ardmore, Pa. : "May 'I nominate for a nearby niche in the same Hall of Fame one Hyacinth D'lgnazio, landscape gardener of Wayne. Pa.?" · Refereace Ia to Garden Bowers · . The Men's Guden club, we trust, will not fail to nominate Narcissus to some worthy oftice, such u, perhaps, lnaer Guard of the Riaht Bower. Fuaiti'Ye . The boys who tarry at Ernie Cazel's emporium were astonished last Monday to see a bee buzzing across the window pane. And the quick-wit immediately observed: "Escaped, no doubt, from the bonnet of some erstwhile precinct commi emanship aspirant." So saying, we repah· to the aid of Ruminating Ray. the Box-fight expert, who Is engaged in writing plecP.s about a new church edifice. -:anQUE.

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