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WILMETTE LIFE December 20, 1929 News o¥ the North Shore Clubs Start Soap Wrapper Tells. Garden Club Campaign for Arden of Birds, Flowers Shore Table Silver Urs. Robert Stoddard, 524 Lake aveBy Bird Call and Picture Guy C. nue, opened her home Thursday afterCaldwell Brings Lecture to noon, December 12, to members of the Garden Club and Guests Arden Shore board of Wilmette, who held an all day sewing meeting. Many Women Voters Offering Summary of Jury System '"The Jury System in Illinois," a fourteen page pamphlet just off the press, is offered by the Illinois League of \\'ome n Voters as a readable summary for the lay person of this much discussed question. The pamphlet serves as an opening g un in th e educational campaign for the bills which will come up for referendum next fall. In addition therefore to a study of the Illinois Regulations for Jury Service, and section on Juries in the Federal Courts, there is an historical summary of women and the jury system, and a reprint of the legislative act s pro'viding for Women's Service o n Juries, to be voted on November 4, 1930. Says the pamphlet in part: "The United States Supreme court has stated that whenever a whole group of citizens as a class is excluded from jury service, it seriously lessens the value of the right of trial by jury to members of that class. So far as women litigants are concerned there is material injustice therefore in having all women excluded from jury service. fn ancient times women were called upon to sit on juries in specific cases, which the courts believed were peculiarly within the knowledge or experience of women . . The same principle applied today would compel the presence of women in the jury box in all cases. Women, about one-fifth of whom are engaged today · in gainful occupations, have left the sidewalks, where they have so long been spectators, and have joined the procession." Leagues Arranging . sCh00I ln . c· . . lVlCS By H. B. R. Wilmette, Kenilworth and Winnetka Leagues Providing Interesting Day at New Trier On January 10, the ·women of the north shore are going to renew their youth and go bacl< to school again for one day at the Citizenship school conducted by th~ Wilmette, Kenilworth, and \Vinnctka Leagues of Women Voters at New Trier High school. \Vouldn't you like to know how much the racketeers extort annually from Chicagoans ~ Joseph Nielsen, assistant secretary of the Employers association of Chicago, will have something interesting to tell about that. Do you realize that sometime in the near future it will be possible to drive tifty miles along the l)esPlaines river without getting out of the forest preserves? A new Trier student will tell us about this in his talk on the extent and ·c ontents oi our Forest Preserve system. There will be a treat for all in the wonderful historic him from the Yale laboratories of "The Declaration of Independence." This film is one of the finest of its ~ind in the country. The students-for-a-day will have a chance to see and hear Franklin and Jefferson just as they looked and talked. They will see john Adams. There will be laughter and song and dance in the filming of the old cotillion. They can hear " l'homas Payne and the people in the stre~ts talking of the great event, and best of all they can attend a session of the Continental Congress and hear Alexander Hamilton. This film is absolutely authentic in every detail and we were fortunate in being able to secure it. Luncheon will he served in the New Trier cafeteria and there will be ample time for a tour of our great educational plant afterwards. The afternoon session promises to be equally interesting. We will hear a comparison of things English and things American. Miss Laura Ullrick of New Trier will tell us about English and American schools. The contrast between schools which can trace their origin back to the Tenth century and those of our extremely young system should be very instructive. For a grand finale there will be· the discussion of the government of London by K. S. Binnie, exchange teacher from England, and a comparison of the government of Chicago by Miss Alma Hurst of New Trier. Did you know that the King may not enter the city of London without the permission of the Lord Mayor? Did you know that London, which dates back to the time of the Caesars, and Chicago, whose earliest year was 1832, have nearly the same population? If you want to hear all these and many more intere ting facts, come and be a student again and prepare yourself a bit more for your adult duty of citizenship. It was spring and summer and early small dresses were completed for the autumn that Guy C. ·Caldwell brought girls at the summer camps. to members of the \Vilmette Garden Club and their guests Friday evening of ~ast week. These seasons he suggested to the mind ·by his informal, yet authoritative talk on birds and their calls, and on wild flowers. These s~asons h~ suggested to. the eye by Ius beauttful! colored shdes. M ustc further contnbuted to the atmosphere of a time of year so different from the blustery one current, as did charm of the lounge with its bowl and basket of yello.w and bronze chrysanthemums chosen by the hostess, Mrs. Hayes McKinney. At the hour of 8 the guests arrived to be greeted by Mrs. McKinney and by Mrs. John F. Weedon, who, as president of the garden club, presided at the meeting. Mrs. Wheedon dispensed with all business and introduced the program. Mrs. Charles N. Hurlbut told of winter birds and their feeding. Mrs. Frederic 0. Ebeling, in her clear, sweet soprano tones, charmingly sang two numbers, the one, in French, a reminder of birds and of spring; the other, in English, a gay, joyous number. She \vas accompanied at the piano by Mrs. N orrnan Hall. · That the speaker of the evening is not only a lover of nature but is a scientist as well, his pictures and remarks proved. He brought to his audience the beauties of the mountains of Colorado. In these mountains at an altitude of about 9,000 feet, he lives, ~nd works as director of the Rocky Mountain Nature Camp for Boys at Estes Park. By bird call and by picture he . illustrated his talk, which he· did not confine entirely to the west. He told in story and picture of flowers found near his home and in the Alpine zone above timberline at an altitude of between 11,000 or 12,000 feet above sea level, where life habits of flowers and tre_ es change \\'ith more rarified atmosphere. Beautiful autochrome pictures showed the aspen trees that supply the beaver with his food and give color to the mountains in the fall; showed birds' eggs in color resting in nests arranged to protect them from snakes ; showed flowers in the Alpine zone, and flowers native in this section of the country _thriving in the altitude of the Rocky Mountains· cacti in bloom, and other flora of th~ west. Stereopticon slides colored bv an artist further illustrated the talk and showed unusual pictures of flowers and of birds; one of the three weeks' o1d eaglet in his "butcher shop nest," where one half of a Tack rabbit and two thirds of a young i1og were found; of baby sand pipers, of the road runner, the bird that kills snakes, and countless others. From the standpoint of notes of the scale Mr. Caldwell whistled his bird calls, the few he selected from his repertoire of about two-hundred calls and alarm signals. Some birds sing in perfect thirds, some in fourths, and some run the scale. He mentioned the European cuckoo that strikes F sharp and D. and the black and white warbler whose high note is pitched higher than the piano records, the Maryland yellow thro.at that sings down the scale, the canyon wren whose song Mrs. Willis Hutson requested that residents of Wilmette commence to save soap wrappers from soap cakes as well as from the soap flake boxes. Practically all of the table silver used for the Arden Shore camp has been obtained by the premiums given for · the soap wrappers. There is always a need for more table silver at the camp. A special appeal is being made now for out-grown Scout uniforms, a s a Scout troop is being organized at the winter camp. Suits and clothing and underwear for boys from 12 to 20 years of age or small. men's suits are · a)ways much needed at the winter Arden Shore camp.' It was also stated that many boys arriving there are scanti ly clad, some wearing only a sweater and trousers. League Play Popular Every seat in the Harris theater has been sold the past two Saturday mornings for the Junior League play, "The Patchwork Girl of Oz." The last performance is to be given December 28, and a new play will commence about January 15. A substitute is plaving the Wizard of Oz character for Mrs. Henry Field, who has gone out ·of Ait Theater Presents town, and Mrs. Donald LaChance Catholic League Program (] ean Logan) is replacing Mrs. \Villiam Smith as Jack Pumpkin head for The December meeting of the North the last performance. Shore Catholic Woman's league was held Tuesday of last week at the Winnetka Woman's club. Hostesses for Has Christmas Party the rlay were Mrs. Leo ]. HiiJman, Mrs. The St. George auxiliary of the St. Robert O'Brien, Mrs. Sidney Beech, George school of Evanston met Mon. Urs. R. D. Bessey, and Mrs. George day, December 16, at 2:30 o'clock. in Purdon. St. George High school Mrs. F. G. The program was given by the ChiKrueger, program chairman, arranaeJ cago Art theater, presenting HThe a splendid program and. Christt;;as Cricket on the Hearth." The play was party. artistically and most successfully presented and was well received HOLDS SALE b.\' everyone present. The Cambridge chapter of the The Chicago Art theater, founded· by Daughters of the British Empire heid the late I van Lazareff and directed by a sale of fancv work recently at the him until his recent death, is well home of Mis s Jean Munro, regent, 1119 known along the north shore for its Elmwood avenue, for the benefit ,Jf worth\\'hile productions. the British OIJ People's home. Tea was served between the acts of the play, and a quartet consisting of follows its flight into a canyon by de- Mrs. Sidney Beech, Mrs. Robert scending seven notes down the scale. O'Brien, Mrs. Robert Mehren, and Mrs . He mentioned birds whose songs vary Chester Cleveland, rendered Christmas in different sections of the country, carols. anll he told of the canaries and how the pitch, quality, and composition of their songs differ as they .do in the Art, Literature Group human voice and human song. He of Neighbors Hear Talk told of the individual habits of some birds, of the nighthawk, the raven, the The art and literature department of crested flycatcher, and other birds that the Neighbors enjoyed an interesting have traits no other birds have, the meeting Tuesday morning at the home of Mrs. John O'Connor, 149 Kenilworth reason for which no one knows. !\I r. Caldwell held his h~arers !n ab- avenue, when Mrs. Cora Cooly of New York gave a talk on the modern trend sorbed interest. His talk over, 11 rs. McKinney's in decorations, a·nd which was illusguests gathered for an informal recep- trated with very beautiful fabrics, tion while thev were sen-cd with tea many of which were copies from collecand coffee, san-dwiches, nuts, and cakes tions in the Metropolitan museum in from a charming table graced with New York. Mrs. S. S. Frankleton showed the creamy yellow roses and tall yellow guests a few pages of her illuminated tapers. The club's guest on December 13, manuscripts from the donor's book that \\·ere husbands of its members, the she is designing for the Chicago Wom\Yilmcttc Evening Garden club, and an's club. the tre siclents and conservation chairMrs. Walter D. Launder of Kenilmen of several north shore clubs, I worth is chairman of the department. To Open New Plant Exhibit On Christmas day, August Koch, noted artist with flowers, is opening his Christmas or Mid-Winter show at the Garfield Park conservatory. Wonderful poinsettias, holly berries.. and other plants of significance to the Yuletide are to be on display to the public, and during the show, which is continuing until January 12, lectures on garden subjects will be given.