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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Sep 1939, p. 42

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Be Musicale', Tea Noted Duo Pianists Wifl lnifiate Season of Excellent Attractions cit Womans Club of Wilmte An unusually fine program hias been planned, for the year 1939-1940 for the Woman's,Club of Wilmette,, according to the Club's Year book, which has just been pr nted. Mrs. George B. Williams is the new president of the club. The. pro- gram chairman is Mrs..Hatrley L. Ward. Members of -her commfittee, which is, comfposed of department chairmen, are:, Mrs. ]Kenneth B. McAfee, literature; Mrs. Howard_ Miler, art; Mrs. ýEdward, Meier, home and education; Mrs. Henry W. Drucker, civics; Mrs. Edgar A. Fel- lers, music; Mrs. ThomasS. S. Hard- wick, philanthropy. The opening program will be Wed- nesday, October 4, ait 2.o'clock wlth Vera Gillette and Vincent Mieari, duo-piano artists. On Wednesday, October 18, a t 10:45 in the morning, Miss Laura Lorenson presents a cultural travel- ogue woven around the story. of pot- tery and porcelain in full color on lantern slides. At il: 45 the Paul Dunsing Dance group will entertain with Slavic songs and dances. The afternoon program b e gi ns at 2 o'clock. The literature department The morning of November 1, Mrs.' Esther Dunshee Bower will tel about 'Women as Jurors." Bergen Evans' lecture on "Chaucer" fol- lows. After lunch the civics depart- ment bhas arranged for Miss Char-. lotte Carr, -resident head of&lii sel to t41k Moffett Photo Mrs, L#rfreuL., War is servi ng. lier second year as p r o g r a m chairman of the Womftn's Club of Wilmette, which wiUl inaugu- rate 'its regLlaT season of club meetings on Wednesclay, October 4, with Vera Gillette and Vincent Micari. dwo-pianists, the artista. Rummage. Sale October 5 avenue. N.rs. A. C. Youngberg, chairman of ways and means who is in charge of the sale, asks thè co-operation of alYrmembers, and ad- vises she will be glad to eall for any donations. on social pro blem s rtment is sponsorirn O.of M. Meeting art exhibit by Helen St. Francis Housebi on for Novernber 15. Marthn xxfll hffld *ho in November. Since women are now eligible for jury service the léague is dirnatizirig the possibiIities, of Club This Friday. In Colored Picture and Folk Song, Story of Manx Nation to Be Told oReproc y .Day jury service.. Mrs.Weinerg ays bat ore Friday,. Septbmber 22, is the open- thà fiylocal leagues plan to hold ing meeting Iay for. the 'Woman's than iftyCatholic Club of Wilmette. schools, and they. are open to, mem- bers and non-members alike'. , At *8 o' clock in the morning, a t St. Francis Xavier cburch, Mass will be Tbe school in Wilmette will have off ered for ýclub members and al as speaker a judge of the Circuit ar e urged to attend. court who will. talk on the quali-fi- At2ocoknthWoasclb cations and duties of.jurors. Alter- Abous e Greenataenue, and Tenlub wards there will be two field trips, street, Mrsà. Edward Cummiskey, one to see a civil case and the other a criminal case being, tried with president, assisted by ber board of juries. managers,ý will receive guests.. As juries.it is reciprocity day, presidents of the federated clubs of the Trentb dis- trict bave been invlted. Among tbe guests of honor will be Mrs. James Arrange Tea Tables Massie, presidenit of the. Federation ~ of Clubs of the Tenth Çongressional Mrs. Hg:oemno inte district, and Mrs. Henry Rhode,' formerly of Kenilwortb, a member president of the Lake County fed'er- of the Kenilwôrth Garden club, -ind ation. Mrs. Beéntley McCloud of the same garden club, will be among those After Mrs. Cummiskey gives ber in charge of arranging the tea address of welcome, Rev. Martin D. tables for tbe large fasbion show McNamara, spiritual director will and tea the Wmnnetka board of address the club. Following a brief Northwestern university settlement business meeting, Mrs. Thomas Gib- willgiv Thrsda afernonSep- bons, program cbairrnan, will intro- tember 28, in the auditorium of New dc atrJ tvnoantv Trier High school. A wedding partv of the Isle of Man.. With colo*red, Isle of. Mon Order I I j slides 'andi folk music, Mr. Steven- son will give a. travelogue of this little isle in the Irish sea, the small- est self-governed country ini the world, with its tbousand-year old parliament, or Manx Tynwald anid its flag of three-booted, legs. He will give the legends and folk- lore of this island of purple shadows and silver mists made, famous by the late Hall Caine. He will* tell of the strange tail-less cats whose, an- cestors drifted to the island- frorrn the wreckage of the Spanisb Armada and of Moodey Dhoo,' the spectre, hound, about wbich Sir Walter Scott wrote in the "'Lay of the Last Min- strel. " the

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