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22 , ....... WIL·METTE · Llrf£ December_. 2& . 1928 1880D 1'81DA.Y 01' BACH WBBK ,1111-1111 Central Ave., Wilmette. Dl. f"'btr,..,,. omre: I N. Jllehlpn Ave. TeL State 1111 bJ' LLOYD BOLL18T·a. IB'C. 14···· .. ..........................Wuae&se ilii ·tT8M('81P'I'ION PBICB ........... . ....... A. UA.a DUDe ancl a44rea of the writer. Artlcl· for publication must reach the editor bJ' WednMCI&J' noon to blnN appearance In current 18Re. Reeoluttone of conclolenee, earde of thanke, obltuarlee. notices of entertalpment8 or other allah·· wheN aa admittance charge Ia publllhecJ. will be Uvce4 at ~'" A~venteln.r AU communlcatlone must be accompanied b7 the ratee. · · A young couple once catted at the office of that great surgeon. Christian F-enger, to arrange for an operation which the young wife had to unrlerg-o. Health Thev talked of the expen;e of the operation, of Comes First! the possibility of distressing results, apd of the difficulty of setting a date that would suit all. The wise doctor listened patiently anrl with unexpected sympathy. He then placerl his hand on the young man's shoulder and · said gently but \\'ith impressive firmness. "Health comes ·f irst!" This admonition should he kept in mind anci practiced not only v,'hen such epidemics as the "flu" are abroad hut also during periods when good health prevails. Though the advice of doctors to go to heel when you have a cold is rarely feasible because of the pressure of so m.a ny and such exacting responsibilities. still the fact remains paramount that health comes first. Persons of sedentary habits should recall the methods used h)r President Coolidge for main ·taining his health under pressure of most insistent duties. Perhaps they will want to buy an electric vibrator. Resolve to take during 1929 .a little physical exercise ever~ day. came and now it's gone. Nothmg more now till New Year's. \Vhilc it-including Christmas Eve-was with us, we had the usual festive But Once time. The hours were full of holiday cheer, and the a Year! spirit of good-will was evident everywhere. 1£- all the really old people (those who feel old no matter how few their vears ·) should attempt to abolish Christmas: their attempt would be certain to end in failure. All the young people would · combine to defeat the attempt. Christmas n1eans so much to the young, no matter how manv their years, that .the mere proposal to mak·e · De<·emher 25th like anv other 25th would at once arouse a hurric~ne of protests. What a tumult of joy the coming of this \\'onderful day aroused in our youthful body! For weeks previous we had been !ooking forward to the morning of that Joyful day when we hoped to find in our stocking. or beside it on the floor behind the stove, a pair of club skates. a book or h\ o telling h~w Jack made his way up in the world agamst tremendous odds, a brand new checker hoard, a pair of warm woolen mittens. and most exciting of all a stationary \\reeden steam engine that would really run and could be stopped just by turning a wheel. We always found sotne of these hoped-for presents. Christmas is the children's holiday. We i}ope you're still a child! f"} . ~.... 1:1stmas . .Th.~. relations of high school boys is a term 's ufficiently broad to suggest a multitude of problems. It suggests problems inV('·Iving- the relations S-uburban League of high school boys with other boy's in ~oys' Council t he same hi gh school, in other high schools, with girl students and . teachers , in contests of all kinds, in the class room, outside the class roon1, at social gatherings of various sorts, and so on almost without end. There are plenty of these problems, enough without any doubt to justify the formation of the Suburban League Boys' Council, made up as it is of 12 seniors and six teachers from six township high schools -New Trier, Deerfield, Evanston, Oak Park, Proviso, and l\1orton. A council thus constituted is just the one to discover . di scuss, and solve problems growing out of the relations of high school boys. We know only one member of this Boys' Council, but inasmuch as he is the president we feel that our ignorance is not so repr~ hensible as it tnight otherwise be. We have known Alan Hoagland for n1any years. We knew him first when he was a little toddler. \Ve have watched him grow up through the grades and through the first three years of the high school into his senior year. The good qualities of Alan are the ones that have caused his associates to elect him president of this Council. A long and useful life to the Boys' Council! Ends are just as natural and just as necessary as beginnings. This fact would be so obvious as to go \\'ithout saying were there not many people An End and who love beginnings but hate endings. Of course a Beginning n1o t of these foolish people are under age, rather green in fact, but still some of these same children remain prejudiced in favor of beginnings all their lives. \\'hen the big End comes thev act as if they hadn't known all along that"' its coming '"~s certain. The end of the year is at hand. and close at its heels \Yill con1e the beginning of a new year. Something will happen just after the very first stroke of twelve next l\ionday night. An end and a beginning will ' tourh hands and then "eparate. Tt will he like a relaY race. 1928 witl reach the mark where 1929 ~t::wds waiting-. On the rlot, 1G28 will ~ton and 1929 will start. Although. "Dear R;utus. the fault is not in our stars but in ourselves that we are underlings." still times and seasons do make ~ differenre in our wavs of living-. Certain days do fun1ish us the unique opportunitv of beginning- over again, taking a fresh start, turning' a new leaf. And surely there is no time so c.;uitahle for beginning over ag-a1n as New Year's Da~r. · r.n"'lt men in anv field do thine-s in a th:-tt seems imoossible to ordin~rv oeo~)le. Horowitz. for.exam!1le. nl~vs the piano m a wav that seems imoossible to averae-e nianic.;ts. To us his playing seems mo,re than a miracle. way SHORE Dearest Friends and Severest Critics Sincerest Wishes for a i!;uppy and Jrnsprrnus ~1r. Harper .o f Glencoe was hit by that fly- In the midst of life we are in death. \Vhen Nrtu lrnr ~Mique . mg chunk of coal he certainly was taken entirely unawares. Tomorro\v J chunk of coal or so!11ething else just as hard may suddenly htt you. ~ot plenty of insurance?