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26 WILMETTE LIFE }aQuary 10. 1930 begin Monday, January 13, with ·'Looms and Weaving" at 11 o'clock and "Fur-bearing Animals" at 3 o'clock. Tuesday at the same hours subjects will be "Egyptian Art" and "Mines and Ores"; vVednesday, "Beadwork" and ··Material From Recent Expeditions"; Thursday, two general to11rs of anthropological, botanical, geological and zoological exhibits; and Friday, "Religious Ceremonies" and "Big Game Animals." These tour s of museum exhibits are free, and the general public is invited to participate. Parties ass~m ble with the guide-lecturers inside the north entrance of the museum. ESTHER GOULD"S TRAVEL CORNER TURNING LEFT 0:ow '"e are about to step froin our imaginary ship into our J a pane e print. Lafcadio Hearn warns us that Japan is a co_untry in which everything is done precisely the opposite way from which we would do it. The Japanese read backward, write backward, in fact ~1r. Hearn assures us that anything we would do this wav do it the other if we would be Japanese. From a country of \\'estern individualism we go to one where the indi,·idual is literally exterminated bv the group. It is the welfare of the family or the clan ,,·hich decides every problem. Ancestor worship, the basic religion of Japan makes this necessarY. The maintenance of the ancestor cu·lt is the most important thing in Japanese life, and for that there must he a continuance of the clan or familv. Therefore it is a man's and a woman\ duty to marry and have children. Failure to have children is, of course, grounds for divorce. ~farriage, also of course. i. not a matter in which the individual has an\· choice nr anv reason for choice. - It is a means l;f perpetuating the familv and is therefore a famih· matter.- If bv chance the husband and wife arc ·found to he gro,,·ing too fond of Qne another. the familv oiten arranges · a divorce. LoYc would he upse'tting to the allimportant group institution. It i hard for us in the \Vest to realize the level Df standardization to which such rigid laws and rules have reduced the Japanese character. Yet U r. Hearn a:;surt.'S us that thev are t1<1t unhappy. \Yithin their rigid ·limits the\' find life interesting and beautiful. Cli pped wings for so manv centuries have made them satisfied with the Right from door sill to gate post to garden. \Yhile we of the \Vest. like Icarus. burn our e'·eballs and singe our " ·ing. tryinl;{ to .reach the sun. BEGIN LECTURE SERIES The first of this vear's illustrated lectures on science ·and travel at Field ~1 useum of X at ural Historv will be given Sunday, January 12, i.t was nnnounced this week bv Stephen C. Simms. director of the rnuseum. "The Rainho\\' Isles of the Guinea Gulf" is the title, and T. Alexander Barns, noted British exp lorer and naturalist, \\'ill be the lecturer. \Vhile certain seats in the James Simpson theater of the museum. where the lecture will be gin·n.- are reserved for member. of the institution, all seats not occ-upied by mrn1hcr. at the hour of the lecture, 3 o'clock, will be available iree of charge to the general public. ~f r. Barns' lec ture is a narrative of his explorations and research on Africa's "south sea islands." and in the remote fmesh of the Congo in pursuit of the giant gorilla. It " ·ill be illustrated with b()th mOtion pictures and colored ster~op ticon liJes. The nati,·e peoples. the animals, and the conditions of life in Spanish and. Portuguese Guinea, wh1ch have been the subject of much study on 1\fr. Barns' part. \\·ill b treated of in the lecture. "As You Like It," Next Shakespeare Production RAYMOND-WHITCOMB INDIES CRUISES Three Crutses on the 30,000,ton Holland, America "Stater,Jam"largest and newest Caribbean cruise,ship for this Winterbringing under Raymond . . Whit . . comb Charter. new luxuries to West Indies Cruises. 16-DAY CRUISE Sailing on January 9 for Haiti Jamaica. Panama. Havana ' and N· assau. $200 up. GOLFERS! ···G0 I NG S0 U .· · · MANY TWO 25-DAY CRUISES Sailing January 29 and February 25 for Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Venezuela, Curacao, Panama, Jamaica, Havana and Nassau. · $300 up. OTHER CRUISE5-1929-1930 Round the World North German Lloyd S.S. "Columbus· January 21 - 106 daYl- $2000 up For the tenth week of Fritz Leiber's Shakespearean festival, at the Civic theater, Chicago, under the auspices of the Chicago Civic Shakespeare society, will be offered for the first time in many ye:t rs, that d.e lightft.l comedy of William Shakespeare, entitled "As You Like It," with these favorite characters: Jaques, admirably played by Mr. Leiber ; Rosalind by Vera Allen ; Orlando by Lawrence H. Cecil; Touchstone by Robert Strauss; Oliver by Hart Jenks; Celia by Virginia Bronson; Phoebe by Marie Carroll; Audrey by Elizabt:th Farrar; Banished Duke by Louis Leon Hall; Duke Frederick by Thayer Roberts and. the other members of the company suitab ly cast, so on the "·hole it should be a perfectly balanced offering. Shakespeare has held his own during this repertory season, despite the sTark realisms of our moderns. Mr. Leiber is faithful to the classic tradition. He has taste, undoubted intelligen~e. thorough training and an excellent background. He has done his best for that proportion of our theater-goers who find Shakespeare ever fresh and GUIDE-LECTURE TOURS Next week's guide-lecture tours at significant and he will not seek to reField Museum of Katural History will enforce that best by self-praise or claims of intellectual leadership, because, these are better demonstrated thaon written about. He has come hefore Chicago audiences, simply, unpretentiously, content to let his work speak for itself and by that \\'Ork, to build a place for himself and his ver. atile company. Onlv two more weeks remain and then '1·1r. Leiber and his cohorts will make a flying tour covering all the principal cities in the East before they Meet y~ur return to Chicago next season. For friends at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. those two weeks, "Ki ng Lear," which has not been presented in years and which witt be enacted. for the first time Evanston, Wilmette, West· in his career, will be the offering, week of January 20, while for the final moreland and other north shore golf players week, Mr. Leiber will give a gala will be seen at Fort Lauderdale Golf and repertoire covering every offering of the successful season. Seats are sdlCountry Club this winter.. ing for all remaining performances at both the Civic theater and the spedal "Loop" box office at 33 West Madi.:;on of Fort Lauderdale in street. 'r H ? · · · LOCATION Cuna.rd S S. " Carinrhia" - January 2) Winter Mediterranean Round South America Cunard S.S. "S&maria"-February I relation to Miami is just like Evanston and Chicago. Close to all activities, but separated from the jostling crowds, noise, and confusion. Wealthier Classes Enjoy Longer Life, Says Expert A new and important reas on for maintaining and. boosting prosperitv is s~en by Dr. Andy Hall, state health chr~ctor, :n recently compiled stati stics which sho ,: that people in comfortable economic circumstances and t h e ~ealthy enjoy a significantly longer life, over 15 percent in terms of years, than do those in the lower range of the economic scale. Clergymen are at one. en~ of the mortality column, rxpenencmg a death rate scarcely more tha!l 01'.le-half the general average, while mmers are at the other with one of ~he highest death rates of anv occupatwnal group. "Birth iates are nearly twice as high among the very poor as among those of. moderate or better economic status" sa1d Dr. Hall, " but the average life span of the white collar and profes swnal workers run s from 15 to 20 pe ~· cent above that of the laborer. Spring Mediterranean North Cape-Russia S.S. 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