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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 Mar 1928, p. 34

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permanently been established that C'ertain diseases like typhoid fever and tuberculosis can be controlled, it becomes increasingly the duty of the officials and members of every community to do all in their power to Com i&y bring about such control. mun While it is obviously the Health business of officials, espedally health officials, to . initiate and maintain these protective movements, still it is a legitimate part of the function of community members to work with their officials. In order that this co-operation may be intelligent, dwellers in a community must be kept informed of health conditions. BuiJetins, either in pamphlet form or published in the local newspaper, must be issued by the adntinistration. Such a bulletin appears from time in. columns of this news ntagazine. One of the most notable conveying health information contributed by the president of the village of Winnetka, appeared recently. It called attention to the important fact that interest il\ public health is now at its highest peak, and a!tributed this intensity of interest to the w1de prevalence of the belief that many diseases can be · controlled. It is wise and good that such facts should !requently be disseminated. It may be JUstly expected that the more community Jnembers know about public health matters, the more promptly and strongly will .t hey co-operate. . Even the sponsor of Shore Lines, that galley of gaiety adjoining us on the east admits that without verse his column lack; appeal. In this one particular 1\fique re· sembles Matthew Arnold, who declared in his classic essay, The Study of Poetry that "h ' ·t e be st poetry will be found to have a power of forming, sustaining, and delighting us, as nothing else can." These testimonies to the value of verse encourage us to prescribe for the exhausted business man not a trip to_French Lick but the reading of three or four of the best English poems. veryw ere you go on· Ole oitli Sliore you will find groups of ·people, old and young, bois and girls, men and women, religious an~ irreligioas, .i n ·dlool and out of schooJ,..i...all practicing plays. Consult a church calendar, and DrcamatiCa for you will find that .on next Thursday eventng Ewrybod' the Thespian Society will hold its regular weekly rehearsal. Look into the Woman's Club bulletin, and you will notice that the Dramatic Dozen expect on next Tuesday afternoon to meet for the assignment of parts in the Merchant. of Venice. And the South End Circle intends to give on April lst in the home of Mrs. Schoenbeck a little farce entitled "How They Saved Fifty Cents." Indeed, if you have never been some.. body other than your every-~~y self you are distinctly lacking. Your n«:,xt-d~r neighbor has been ·shylock, and Bdl Stmmons, the old prospector. The wife of your accquaintance down the street has played over a score of roles in her comparatively short life. And you haven't ~e~n . on . a single program? You are mtsstng a b1g opportunity. And it's certainly true that y.ou are missing something very important. If you had played several times behind the f~otlights you wouldn't be so awkwardly rettcent as you must confess you n~w are. . ~ott oould express your mi~d tn a J?Ohbcal meeting without stuttenng and los1ng the thread of what you wanted to say. The world is so full of a number of things that if one wants to see a sizeable fraction of this number he must start early and keep going. It's all very well to devote some time to brightening the corner · where you are, but in jusThe Wmid tice to yourself and incidentally to your corner you is So FuU ought to see the rest of the world . . It may seem like a colossal undertaking and may mean quite an out-lay of hard-earned cash, but it is an investment that will bring big returns in satisfaction immediately and far int.o the future. And if you are at all daunted by the difficulties of the undertaking, think of the Burnhams of Winnetka. "A family of six and a paint box." Winnetka to China and then on to what's left of the habitable globe. And they'd go even if they had to mortgage the old homestead. They're going to China first for the very unusual reason that China is the hardest place to get to. So you see that you can go if you just want to. Reading qooks and seeing pictures and. hearing lectures about Europe and Asia aren't in the same class with actually .seeing, hearing, feeling, and smelling these strange lands and peoples. It's as real and vivid as the difference between hearing about being married and actuaJly being married. , · . Make your steamer reservations to-day. We ··read in the papers where it says" that Adventure Island Kinney is heading north from Fairhope, Alabama, to the North Shore. . Coming to get the boys al! excited about camping out, swimming, boating, and such. Got a plan for a new canoe, safe and light and easy to make. Sell us one, Mr. K.? SHOllE LINBS TO A SECOIO) LOVER tJIC violtt.r · roses willa loiJg stnru, Or ~"~"'""s subtly boiiW, ,.,,, N tVtr bring o.o.- tMCinll, prtciotls gtflll. Ro11.r, /'tr/Ntne.r, sctlflttl fltlflll, I'w lttJ4 tlltlll all btfort·· ··· My Jirsl low gtJW tlllst tltittg.r ID · , Atul tiOU' loves me flO fll W ,. -Wieiil. Barring a sudden turn of .events, the only Gladiatorial festivity we are to witness this season in Village balloting will be~kon to the politi~at. arena in Glen~oe where the People's ancl Residents" . camps are even now staging remarkabiJ interesting rehearsals. To the casual observer there would appear to be a ~onsiderable distinction between people and just plain residents, or vi~e versa, as the ~ase may be. Camp.ip ...... · Spriq At first tJ straw hat, Thl'n a lavender s/XIt They dug from tire SIIOU.'-CO'l.·ered mound; Tlu11 digging again, A hand grasping a cane Belongi'd to a body they fot~ntl. At the sight of her bOJ', Now restored, mother's joy Unconfined. made the welkins to ring; As she flul him lo bed A ud kissed him-lit said: "0 mother, I thot~ght it uw S/Witlg." (Suggested by last Monday's slap-back of winter.) -H. F. S. WHAT COULD BE SWEETER 'l This wanton heaving of high-voltage pineapples upon the front stoops of senatorial and judicial abodes in Chicago, prompts one blatant official to ascribe the outrage to, oh. just the old sympathy stuff to get the votes. Which line of chatter is novel if not incontrovertible logic. Can't you just picture your friends tossing those lovely little missiles at your doorstep, each bearing its own sweet message of enduring regard and the promise of an undying devotion? You wouldn't mind the little matter of killing off a few stray relatives, now would you?. Reward of Patience Postmaster Joe Shantz at Wilmette untangled a good one the other day when he received a letter addressed to "A Collar Gent. Wilmette." That looked like a real puzzler, but Joe calmly placed the missive on file to await possible future developments. Within a few days he was rewarded with a second letter addressed: "A Collar Gent, Wilmette," and adding: "a tall slim gent." The letters were promptly delivered to A. Cox. a towering and angular gentleman of color, who does a considerable odd job business in \Vilmette. Keep 'em oa, Fd! As the Low Dutch would say, What for kind of weather is this anyhow? One day so warm and open that a superstitious acquaintance te11s us that we'll have to pay for this; and the next day a terrific blizzard under the command of Old Man Boreas himself. One day almost every auto on the way somewhere, and the next-chains and alcohol! It's this sort of meteorological revolutions that drive the young folk to dr:ink and the old folks to Florida. And to make it worse, the day following the blizzard it thawed, and w~ all had a very sloppy time. Here's hoping for a ca11a lily ~ster ! -Fit the Filosofer. ,.... ia ........ DO tndJa ia tM NpOI't. tJ.t, if ud .._ Mr. Lea ..._ .....t to Mr· .._, he wiD .. Ntaiae.t to .a tM eo-=nla f· Wilalgn&- --------------------- A good society is one in which there is full and free interplay betwee11 its· members and one which interacts fully and freely with other societies. Clear-sighted members of our North Shore communities can see that we fall short of this high ideal in many respects. But the important question for each of us as · individuals is whether or not each of us is doing his share. There's one hard road that we wish Len ., l Small would help us complete before fall, ' and that's the through truck highway ~,__ F. v atoo throoP Gl~ncoe. llletle'· .................. ,, ..... And then n could expect aome appropriate 11111&11, but IDtereetlDC. . -JIIQ~

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