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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 19 Jul 1929, p. 37

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July 19, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 37 l Librarian Chooses . 1 At Convention Sample Sentences for Book Readers - - - - - - - - - 1 Miss Anne L. Whitmack, librarian, prepares the following paragraph extracts from books to he found at the vVihnette Public library : "Leisure," said her sister, "is probably one of the most important things in life. To be in a perpetual hurry and hustle is to be crude, unripe, undignified. Indeed leisure ought to be classed as a virtue; without it we should lac·k good poems, pictures and books."Catherine Dodd in Three Silences. Mr. Walpole still watched the world hehind the battle~ents of Strawberrv. A twinge in the shoulder and tl~e dreadfu l tale of fifty-six nieces and nephews served to remind him that lw could not look on forever. But his eves ""ere still sharp; and he followed the ton most . creditably for his years. The balloons, which bobbed periloush· over London, intrigued him immense)~. -Philjp Guedalla in Palmerston. "I am not a libertine," he said in his last years. "I am not a murderer; I am not a traitor. I never broke a prt~ mise to a woman in mv life. I did not intend t o kill i-Iamilton and did not shoot first. I never got within ten thousand leagues of a wish to hrcak up the Un it ed States by a separist or a secessionist movement. though I did hope to establish an empire in ~1 exico and to become its emperor."-T n Aaron Burr, hv \ Vandetl and Minnegcrode. · EDEBT CEMENT COMTBACTIMG A good foundation is the most important pan of the strunure. Our knowlrdge of matrrials and soil conditions. gainrd through many years' experirnce. together with our modern methods and equipment assures you of the best quality work .nanship and sl!rvice. Allow us to submit ouc estimate on cement work of all kinds. 1\Jabel Syl,; es Studio ~~ rs. .. F lorence t.::. Freund of 125 Thircl street. president of the Wilmette Business and Professional \\Toman's club, represented that organization at the tenth annual con\'cntion of the .t\ational Federation of Business and Professional \\' omen's clubs in scss1on Mrs. Charles Eldridge of 1029 La·ke a\·enuc has hcen traveling for two at Mackinac I sland Ia . t week. weeks in Canada and New England ~f rs. Alma T. Calkins , 400 Eighth Yisitiilg friends and relatives, and will he home the last of the month. Mr. .;trert, accompanied hy her brother and Eldridge will motor to Toledo, Ohio .;ister, ~1 r. and Mrs . George \ V. Smith to meet Mrs. Eldridge and drive her 8f Evanston. is spending the month home. . ; ._,- 1f July at Colorado Springs, Colo . Paul Resehke A Co. CEMENT CONTRACTORS 5 22 Center St. WINNETKA Phone 13 7 8-1 36 2 PATRONIZE OUR ADVERTISERS ·· ANDERSON & NELSON Distributors For tlinckley & Schmitt, Inc. 1920 Railroad Ave. EVANSTON, ILL. Univerc!ty 980 Sold 'a lso at your neighborhood store

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