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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 2 Nov 1928, p. 20

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· a· WILMETTE LIFE November Z. 1928 1 Life of Indian Portrayed Mexican adobe huts hung w!th sacred ·Wilmette Library Geta ·c0 S'ki D A. R corn of many colors ·or the ptcturesque . at Re.idence in Wilmette VlVI J at KO e · · fireplace forming an artistic ·corner in 22 New Books Thia Week r ........ Diea Clar~nce E. Freeman, 61, who had been Jiving with his brother, E. H. Freeman, at 601 lAurel avenue, Wilmette, died Saturday at the residence. Mr. Freeman was unmarried. Besides the brother in Wilmette, he leaves another brother, Q. L. Freeman, of Seattle, Wash. The remains were to be taken to Topeka, Kan., for burial this week. LIBRARY BOARD MEETS The regular OctQber meeting of the Wilmette Public library board was to be held Wednesday night of this week at the library. · Mrs. Leon Allen, 258 Melrose avenue, Kenilworth, who is east visiting ber daughter, Mrs. Slater Dwinnel will return to Kenilworth about Nov~ ember 5. I .Helen B·.Lawrence ! i 1 · I : PIANIST . . COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF ·MUSIC Academic and Collegiate · Pupils Only Phone Winnetka 87f : I I I ~-------~················r. ······················---~ I The Skokie Valley chapter of the · R 1 Daughters of the Amencan evo uM d f 0 · tton met on on ay a ternoon, ctober 29, at Mrs. George Kingsley's home, C.umnor road, Kenilworth with .about twenty-five members present. It was the first regular meeting of the season. . Mrs. Farinie Cope the regent, presided. After the usual preliminary exercises and the reports of the officers and committee chairmen present, the program of the afternoon was enjoyed. Mrs. Harold Ickes gave a most interesting and illuminating talk about the American Indian, telling the group especially about the Pueblo and the Navajo tribes. She has just r~ . cently arrived from the southwest, where she spends a part of each year, and where she has had ample opportunity to study the traits, customs, aims, religion an<J habits of the Indians. Mrs. Ickes has a very pleasing way of telling of this New Mexican country and her listeners could vividly picture the amethyst foothills, the undulating mesas, or the brilliant stars and vibrant skies. They saw the some · quaint, characteristic, mudfloored living room. She told of the 1· · d h · Indians' symbolic re JgJOn . an t elr religious rites and dances, of their home life, their sleeping quarters, their baking ovens, their weaving and pottery industries and lastly ~omething h 1 of the Gov. e rnment sc oo s. fi d It was a very ne program an very much appreciated by the chapter. Delicious tea was served by the hostess. The next meeting will be on the fourth ~fonday in November, at Mrs. David DeCamp's home 011 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth. WILL IMPROVE GROUNDS The Wilmette Garden club is planning to landscape the front of the publie library grounds this month according to an announcement by Miss Anne L. Whitmack, librarian. One hundred tulip bulbs are to be planted on the grounds soon. Mrs. L. C. Bouchard, 222 Oxford road, Kenilworth, is entertaining a number of friends at luncheon at the Club Vista Del Lago Wednesday, November 7. Eleven new non-fiction . books and the same number of new rental books havA been received ·at the Wilmette ' Public library this week, according to an announcement by Miss A~ne L. Whitmack, librarian. Following is the list . of new books: Rental-"Silver Slippers" by Bailey, "New Temple" by Bojer, "Wild Horse M " b Grey "Silas Bradford's esa by Y Boy" Lincoln,' "Day of Fortune'1 by Matson, "Horns of Ramadan" by Train, "Money for Nothing" by Wodehouse, "Empress of Hearts" by Beck, "Giant Killer" by Davis, "Matorni's Vineyard" by Oppenheim, and "Hounds of God" by Sabatini." · Non~fiction-"Romance of Forgotten Towns" and "Romance of the Boundaries" by Faris, "Great Game of Politics" by Kent, "Edgar AlJen Poe" by Krutch, "Boss Tweed" by ·Lunch, "Religio Grammatici" by Murr.ay, "Book of Hand-Woven Coverlets" by Obenchain, "Diary of a . Communist Schoolboy" by Rozanov, "Andrew Johnson" by Winston, "Steel" by Walker, and "Light from the North" by Hart. · ... .I I Sevent . her life~ spent in slavery she forces herself to go O through the tiresome strain of doing the famUy washing. It woula be almost as 'bad if ehe had a laundress come to ,. NE whole day every week work, for she would still be kept at home with the mess and bother of washday. .A phone call will give back~ to you that seventh you may be slaving away. her home to do the laundry THE WAS BING TON LAUNDRY 700.,04 Wasblagtoa St. WUatette 145

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