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32 WILMETTE LIFE January 10. 1930 WILMETTE LIFE J88UED J'JUDA.Y 01' EA.CR WBEI by LLOYD ROLL18TE. I.C. U3J-1ZII Central Ave,. Wflmette, IlL Chleqo oftlce : I N. Klchlcan Ave. TeL State 6326 !'eletlaoae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . WD·e~a fiN 811B8CJUPTIO:N PJUCB .............. tt.M·. A. YBAB All communlcatlou muat be accompanied by the name and addreu of the writer. Articles for publication must reacb tbe editor by Wednesday noon to &Paure appearance In current laaue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obltuartea, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge Is published, will be charged at regular advertlshac rates. they must take at least three years of one foreign language. This three-year requirement is here emp.hasized because many a student, not knowmg this fact when he entered high school, discovered it in his third or fourth year much to his embarrassment and inconvenience. It is pretty certain that a life cannot b~ a good life unless it includes at least one calhng and several hobbies, one vocation and several · avocations. If a man's North Shore main job occupies practicalHobbies ly all his time and strength, his life can scarcely be a successful life. Either the man's interest or his energy will be exhausted long before it would have been had he turned a large portion of his vitality into the channels of several hobbies. One of the most intere. ting and worthy hobbies is the painting of pictures- landscapes and portraits. At the recent winter show of the North Shore Art league many of. the pictures were not done by professionals but by amateurs, men and women who paint as a side-line. We are led to believe that many of these amateur productions were professional, if we mav use the word. in execution aucl feeling. . l\fav it be that if the American people mclul<Ted in more reallv worth-while hobbies h the general tone of the entire nation would · rise? ~ SHORE LINES O Grade Separation will save life Let,s harie immediate action I one can douht the necessity of proYicling · recreational areas for human heings. To gain and m'aintain health, physical and mental, both children and adults must Recreational play in the open. ~fost of Areas our work must he done within doors wHere there is usually a great lack of sunshine, moisture. and fresh air. \Ve sit at desks in schools and offices. Our Yital organs do not get what they most need for effecti\·e health. Consequently we f aJI easy prey to a thousand and one insidious di~cases. \ Ve must play more in the open. · Private interests. business ancl residential, take up more and more land each year. \Yoocled stretches are bought up and suhdi,·icled into estates and lots of various sizes. \\"hat is a quiet road one year becomes next year a hard concrete highway crowded with rushing automobiles. If these wooded and watered stretches are not bought and set aside for public playgrounds this year there will be none next year to he thus bought and set aside. It is fortunate that we on the north shore have such organizations ·as the Izaak \Valton league who make it their business to keep alive this vital need for public playgrounds. It is no part of their purpose ·to depreciate the value of economic and social progress in all its varied forms, but it certainly is part of their purpose to emphasize the value of acquiring woodlands and fields before such acquisition shall be impossible. The league announces a program of action which when n1aterialized will be a natural forest stretch extending from Evanston clear up to the \Visconsin state line. It's a splendid progran1 and well worth publishing again and again until it becomes transformed into a splendid actuality. Parents of present and prospective high school boys and girls would do well to note the fact, according to 1\[r. Kahler, dean of boys at New Trier, that Language virtually all eastern colRequirements leges require for entrance at least three years of one foreign language. This n1eans that the candidate for entrance must have taken in high school at least three years of French. or German, or Spanish. Two years of one language and one of another will not do. All three years must be in any one of these languages. This requirement . hould be borne in mind especially by those high school students who desire to take advantage of scholarships offered in eastern colleges. The students concerned may not care to take more than one or two years of a foreign language, but to be qualified applicants for these scholarships ~o DIOUS as comparisons may be regarded by , the more learned of our associates, we shall insist upon commenting at some l.ength conc~r~ ing a novel holiday message recetved by Wsllte, the print shop foreman who wear~ ~pats. <;>n second thought we'll let you have tt JUSt as ts: "Thirty years ago-I remember-when eggs were 3 dozen for 25c; butter lOc per pound; milk was Sc a quart; the butcher gave away liver and treated the kids with bologna; the hired girl received two dollar! a week and did the washin'. Women did not powder and paint (in public), smoke, vote, play poker or execute the swagger sway . . . . Men wore whiskers and boots, chewed tobacco, s_pat on the sidewalk and cussed. Beer was Sc and the lunch was free. Laborers worked ten hours a day and never went on a strike. No tips were given to waiters and the hat check grafter was unkno\vn. A kerosene hanging lamp and a stereoscope in the parlor were luxuries. ... No one was ever operated on for appendicitis or bought glands; microbes were unheard of; folks lived to a good old age and every year walked miles to wish their friendsA MERRY CHRISTMAS .. Today, you know, everybody. rides in automobiles, or flies; plays golf and bndge; goes to the movies nightly; blames the H. C. of L. on the Republicans; never goes to bed the same da~ he gets up, al}d thinks he is having a wonderful t1!Ue. These are days of profiteering and racketeenng, excess taxes and prohibition, and if you think life is worth living, I wish you-A· Happy New Year." There's a Ketch in It Somewhere According to authoritative statement s Winnetka has an area of four square miles. Wilmette has an area of six square miles, two more than Winnetka. A Com· The number of firemen on the ari.son \Vinnetka payroll is nine fullP time and ten Yolunteer firemen. The number on the Wilmette payroll is six full-tin1e (with chief) and ten volunteer firemen, two or three less than \Vinnetka. The 1928 \Vinnetka fire loss was $23.605. The 1928 \Vilmette fire loss was $34,733. The 1928 \Vilmette fire loss was $11.128 more than the \Vinnetka 1928 fire loss. The 1929 \Vinnetka fire loss was $16.390. The 1929 \Vilmette fire loss was $63.981! The 1929 vVilmette fire loss was .$47,591 n1ore .than the 19'29 vVinnetka fire loss! Almost .three times as great! 1f figures don't lie, it would appear that Wilmette could use a few more fu11-time firefighters. According to the Illinois state health director the "best preventative against both influenza and pneumonia is high bodily resistance." These two winter The Best diseases cannot easily gain Preventative a foothold in a healthy body. B~ their attack on a poorly fortified organism is almost certain to result in a long-continued and serious illness. Inability to pay bills, a prevalent form of economic illness, can best be prevented by maintaining one's self in a sound financial condition. Foresighted expenditure of money, a ·substantial bank balance, and sound credit with all tradespeople constitute an impregnable resistance against that form of dis-ease and discomfort known as financial despondency. One of the verv best New Year resolutions and one from ~hich spring a multitude of benefits to all concerned is the resolution to pay all of one's bills at small and regular intervals. The village blacksmith looked the whole world in the face, for he owed not any n1an. It's very likely that he paid cash. The holidays again a memory, we are besieged ,.,.. ith the customary early season contagion oi insurance and other itinerant selling folk who despair of having us survive another annum and urge upon us a peaceful demise encouraged by generous honorariums for all and sundry who may profit by our passing. And, queerly enough, each one simultaneously urges · upon us a happy and prosperous New Year. Come On Along! With the advance guard of winter tourists headed for Florida and other points below what Amos, the porter, loves to term th~ Mason and Dixie line, we shall remain content to get in on the later contingents which will forsake the north shore sometime in February. A winter vacation for us is going to be a real novelty and we're still suffering with a guilty conscience, although we're saving up a flock of aches and groans with which to test out the vaunted Florida sunshine. Doctor Hughes, the north shore's World Book man, insists that the principal drawba~k to this job of snow shoveling lies in the painful fact there's little if any future in it. Unfair Competition Speaking of snow, we're willing to wager a ha'penny or two that during the recent Big Drift many a merchant on one side of the street was constrained to chuckle fiendishly at the plight of his competitor across the way. Probably the most atrocious perpetration of the new decade may be attributed to Milwaukee Ed who declares that a merchant who sells goods on the installment plan might be said to feather his nest with down payments. Getting Even Our Cleveland correspondent starts the New Year right by sending along this entertaining bit: Matrimonial Agent: I shall never forget that fortnight I spent in prison. · Client: Were you so badly treated? M. A. : Yes, my warden was a man who had been introduced to his wife through me. Definite assurance that the holidays are gone comes with the passing of the last barber pole cane from the yule tree. MIQUE.