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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Jan 1939, p. 42

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Be Theme Song Of Flower Show ~This year s Flower. showw~il be best :of ail": is the , annal spirited prediction eranatiflg f rom headquarters o';f the Garden* Club of Illinois, %which even at an: early date, buzzes with activity asý it forges ahead energetiCally with plans for its exhibition -on Navy Pier. l'Real!y, this year's will be the' best,".Mrs. Raymond Knotts assures. us in.respOnse to, a tele- phonie call to -headquarters."Ti year's show will be entirely dilereflt fromn any of the others,", is another,, forecast for that huge Chicago évent, te be from March-25-April 2. inclu- sive. It lhas 5, themne song. -Illinis- Illinois in th past, Illinois forever " In contrast to last season's exhibi- tion created around thé idea of gar'- dens fromn east tô west, orly this state will be featured, its history outlined through its gardens, its future pre..described by women's conceptions of gardens of tomorrow. "A forest primeval" wiil strike the flrst note of'the theme song. The pioneer cabmns with herb gardens *and those plots utiized horticultural- ly by earliest settlers will be de- Dicted., corne the Civil war perwuc, tne nrs World's fair and its gardens, to be climnaxed by Illinois today, Illinois tornorrow. "Stunning backgrounds a 1 r e a d y have been mtade," Mrs. Knotts, en- thusiastic- dispenser o! publicity, convmnces us. Once again ail North Shore garden clubs wiil be arnong those participatiflg in an event which has become a Chicago tra- dition. T -ý'-Annfie wl be announced Mrs. Burt J. Denan of .Wimette is One Of the Associates .activelll interested in promoting the. success of "Spring Notes," which the boa'rd affiliated with the Woman's Symphonyi orchestra' will sponsor Monday afternoon, January j6,.as a bene fit for the orchestra. The event will be a verv large fashion show .an(d tea at Marshall Field's at 3:30 o'clock. Fashions for ail ages and fashions for, tables wil be demonstrated «t th miius pro ject which, it is expected., will be attended by thr .ee .:housand persans. See "Spring Notes"f A g-oup of, y o u n g. won'in promiflent socially, will . be on' hand to usher guests, exPected to numnber a b o. u t three thousand. arriv7ing next Monday afternoon in the Walnut roomn of Marshall Field's for the huge fashion show and tea sponsored by the Chicago .Woman's SymPhoriy associats and board as, a benefit for. the orchestra.ý Armong those. Who will see that spèctators are :seated will be Miss Eleanor Litsjnger of Chicago, chair- man of ushers, and the Misses Cyn- thia Cleveland,' Jane Zimmerman. Kay Stenson, Virginia Win ston. Hel- en Shoemaker, Ann Loeher, Ann Wiletts, Bonriy Jean Clark, Diana Winston, Beatrice Bamford, Nona Jane Handwork, MIrs. Wilbur C. Smnith, Mrs. George Bates, and Mrs. Jane Le Graham. Seven children will be arng the mannequins and ,will show the là test word in fashions for boys and girls, Among them is Carole. Joy Spach- ner, whose mother is a. memnber of the coffimittee sponsoring "S$pring Notes," as the benefit iscalled, and who at one time wNa s a member o! the orchestra's personnel. Two daughters of Phyllis Fergus Hoyt will model, as will Hugo Daîrnar. Jr., and Leonore Karcher. grand- dau4ghter of Eleanor Everest Freer. Reservations for "Spring Notes,"- Dwhich wiil "sound forth- modes of a new season, both in clothes, and table appointments, are. coming i fast and most satisfactorily, accord- .ing to the çomnmittee. Among those, who have_ alrè'ady indicated that. they wiil be present ýare Mesdames John R Thomps on, Helen . Shedd Rneed, HI-oward Willett, »A. Watsonl Armour, A. K. Eddy, E. J. White" Joseph Beuttas, Ray Schaeffer,. .Mark Trude, A. F. Callahan, Burt, J. flnman.Townsend McKeever, chlarge of rv»rennnt' v-à lard Kennedy, chalrmnpof tables and chairs; Mrs. L. V. Stephenson, prizes; Mrs. Kenneth Brush, publicity. Members 0f t] at the club's m~ to 5:30 o'.clock board wiil receive Mr. a itbly tea frorn 3:30 Boca eday, January 17. there dtonflu in Frorida, tao e r a week or ten daysil street, Lvanston. .IMr lqng and Mrs. James assisting hostesses. and

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