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The old Frenchman lowered himself to the steps. He raised â€"one shoulder, spread out his hands and shook, shook noiselessly until I believed he would surely come mpart. Tears flowed into the creases of his cheeks. ~I left quiâ€" etly, and ran to quiet my aged paâ€" tients. » k . * When I came back, he was in He said, "These peeg she is hunâ€" gry. When I am a liddle poy I have a toy like these. I would like to have these peeg." _ _ â€" _ _ I gloated as I removed them and snapped the pig together again. She began to yellâ€" Holy °St. Michael! . How she yelled! ~I snatched her up and shook her, I ran here and there with her, I rolled her in towels; I rushed to the window to throw her out. Alas, every window wired. Then I made for the stairs. I must run through the office with her and wake the «dead house with * her unholy. screams, throw her out of the door! Theé Column thanks contribuâ€" tors for their loyal support in 1944, and wishes them and all readers a happy, productive New Year. way, A pair of shoes for everyâ€"day, A radio, a telephone, ‘The dog must have a rubber bone, You and I are disconsolate Because we have no cigarette. What is the date?: I said before ‘This is December fortyâ€"four. Our country‘s free, we are livingâ€" December, 1944 (NOT SO LONG PAST) December nineteenâ€"fortyâ€"four, What is it we are waiting for? Butter instead of margarine, More fuelâ€"oil and whipping cream*? Nylon stockings and sirloin Americans get such tough breaks. We‘re asking for more gasoline And flakes to keep our undies â€" .. clean, For fruit that‘s canned the easy The China Pig | I sat at the desk and made out charts.â€"Then I remembered that I had not placed the coin in the ‘bank â€" the china sow, a gift from the old doctor. She must be almost ready to #pill her load of fiftyâ€"cent pieces, It was 2 a.m.; all quiet but the <adence of snores. All the aged patients asleep... I stood the sow before me and thrust the coin in her back. Click â€" the two halves divided and there was the money, long rows of fifty cent pieces, enough to buy a bond. e Bang! I ran full tilt into the French doctor. He steadied me as I stood clutching the sow, my cap â€"over one eye and my whole appearâ€" ance that of wild despair. "Nurse, what ees it you have in the towel? Let me see these thing." "Wowâ€"wowâ€"wowâ€"weeâ€"o0!" moanâ€" ed the sow. Nothing other than the fire whistle ever made so much noise. Lights flew on everywhere, bells rang shrilly. â€" % ‘The doctor reached for his pocket and took out a coin and thrust it into the sow‘s back. Siâ€" lence. ‘Thursday, January 4, 1945 she gave me." > Yesterday he was standing beâ€" side my desk in the chart room and before him was an iron roosâ€" ter. "See, I have found these bird for you. Eeet does not crow; all eet does is eat money for bonds." â€"I handed it to him.‘ â€"‘She is yours, doctor; it will take me a wear to get over the brain storm score years or more; She swayed in a creeking rocker on the institution floor. She smiled with toothless glamour, and her faded eyes of blue When matched ‘with the autumn A Little Child Again She was a quaint old lady, four I watched her in the gloaming, l'lflntmyhkrehln Her face a wrinkled apple with the rosy touches there, Her life‘s long course forgotten as she lives, a child, once more. "Nurse, do you see my daddy? He‘ll soon be at the door." Age brings kind forgetting, dulls and blots away the years, Hushes long dead laughter, and And a gimple child once more Can feel the joy of waiting : greet Father at the door. _ skyline were of the self same wipes away the tears ; One of the bitterest aspects of SHALLOWS D.AR. Active in Support O£.Sehools in the South The Tamassee school celebrated its 25th anniversary Oct. 29. It has grown into a school of 337 boys and girls and covers 495 acres of land, has 26 buildings and accommodates children . from 80 mountain districts. * From these schools have gone forth boys and girls into the servâ€" ices of our country toâ€"win distincâ€" tion. The D.A.R. contributes, alâ€" so, to the support of many other southern mountain schools, and as the seeds of patriotic education are sown in the minds of these young people, so shall our country reap the harvest in the future of America. 80 Ens. Frank McDonald ‘‘ Mr. and Mrs. Clayton® O. Hull have announced the engagement of their daughter, Muriel, to Ens. Frank W . McDonald, USN, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. W. McDonald, also of this city. . , Miss Hull is a student at Lake Forest college, and Ens. McDonald, a former Lawrence college student, is stationed at Hollywood Beach, Muriel Hull Betrothed The engagement of Miss Wayne Nash to Alexander S. Bellows, USN, of Beverly Hills, Calif., was announced last week by her parâ€" ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Byron Nash, 235 Central, at a tea given at the Exmoor club. Miss Nash is a graduate of Roycemore, and is at present a stuâ€" dent at Purdue university. Belâ€" lows, of the quartermaster comâ€" mand school at Great Lakes, was a student at Annapolis U. S. Naval California Girl Bride of .. David Brittain of USCG Last Saturday, in Oakland, Calif., Miss Irene De Renzo, daughâ€" ter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph De Renâ€" zo, of that city, was married to David E. . Brittain, pharmacist‘s mate, 3/c, of the Coast Guard. . A member of the service for three years, Brittain was employed prior to that time in Gsell‘s Ravinia drug store. Miss Wayne Nash to Marry Navy Man Frieda Barr, Rockton, III., was reâ€" Norma Meyer To Marry Rockton, III., Man â€" The engagement of Misg Norma Meyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. August Meyer, 494 Sheridan PIL, to Arthur C. Barr, son of Mrs. cently announced by her parents. No definite plans have yet been made for the wedding. Braeside School Presents "A Night in Sun Valley" of Braeside and their friends, called "A~Night at Sun Valley," will be held Friday, Jan. 5, at 8 p.m., at the Braeside school ice skating rink. If the weather is unâ€" favorable the event will be postâ€" poned to the following Friday, Jan. 12. Exhibition skating will be presented by members of the followed by racing and relay events for the children. No admission will be charged. | * E Figure Skating club of Chicago, Due to the recent playground improvements the Braeside skatâ€" ing rink has been doubled in size and can accommodate a much largâ€" er attendance for this annual event. > middle age is disillutionment with Santa Cléus. This columnist has long ago given up whispering among the whiskers around his ear. This year she became her own Santa Claus, the only sure For more years than she will adâ€" mit,â€"it has been her ambition to own Grove‘s Dictionary of Music (5 vol. with supplement). In 1iâ€" brarires it does not circulate. You read it with one eye on the clock, the man with the broom jingling his closing keys in your face. To read it in comfort, without a time ;.,Idt bbonb;:'?hhhbbdâ€" Aahnhnfi:‘-hlh‘nfld the pillow add up to ‘a lot of sharp ‘The North Shore chapter of the A skating party for all residents of Mrs. Sydney niz Ct., at 2:00 years a student of Frank Vanduâ€" sen of the American Conservatory in Chicago, and also of Dr. Horace Whitehouse of Northwestern uniâ€" versity. â€" Well known along the North Shore, she has played in many _ prominent _ Chicagoland churches. Miss Owen has made her services as accompanist available to Lake Forest Lutheran at their weekly worship. The toneâ€"chamâ€" ber of the organ, which has been repaired since the fall concert, has been relocated in the organ loft. The program arranged for the conâ€" cert is as follows: I. Suite Gothiqueâ€"Boeliman 1 . Choral 2. Minuet Gothique 8. Priere a Notre Dame II. Pastorale (First Organ Sonata) A. Guilmant III. Air in‘G Minor (Cello Sonata) Henry Eccles ® IV, Sonata IIâ€"Felix Mendelssohn. 1. Grave Organ Recital at Redeemer Luth. Church Redeemer Evangelical Lutheran church, 587 W;. Central, has arâ€" ranged a winter organ recital for Sunday, Jan. 7, at 4 p.m. Miss Gladys Owen of Lake Forest will be at the console. Miss Owen; an accomplis organist, is a memâ€" Md’lm-nm.wdm Baby, How Sweet You Smell Advertisements of â€" Americanâ€" made perfumes monopolize the profitâ€"sections of Christmas issues of the ‘sleekâ€"paper magazines and the metropolitan newspapers. The eyeâ€"catching brand names and fraâ€" granceâ€"worded text of these ads may grasp the fancy of American buyers and make it tough sledding for the imported nameâ€"perfumes to recapture the postwar market. The perfume adâ€"writers apparâ€" ently have robbed Roget‘s Thesauâ€" rus of all its enticing, inciting and aphrodisiac‘ synonyms, and they even have coined more to spice their copy. ‘The exquisite, precâ€" jous, flistreet and indiscreet fumes of angels‘ breath: are touted as dreamâ€"makers and heartâ€"unlockers. The witchery and enchantment of the aromatic concoctions of the old and newâ€" feminine. argumenters really are a devil‘s brew. The ravâ€" ishing pulseâ€"quickeners of wartime incense and myrrh have the subtle distinction of~ instilling thoughtâ€" transfusion â€" and such thoughts! Oh baby, how sweet you smell! This is one Christmas ‘when virâ€" tuous old Santa Claus better wear a gas mask, or he‘ll get jailâ€"baiting ideas while filling the rayon socks hanging on the fireplace mantels. â€"R.M.R.â€"in Emporia Gazette. 1 The Wounded Don‘t Want Pity By Benjamin de Casseres . We have thousands of wounded veterans. We will have more. Nothing â€" Nothing! â€" is too good for our boys who slugged it out in the Pacific and European area with the two mot savage eneâ€" mies of moderf times. must extend to them psychological hâ€":lttath mental and spiritual â€" p. o %muthke their places with strong America. gion Post Newz, is a reprint of an editorial that appeared in the Herâ€" ald American on No¢. 30, 1944, and sent to us for our consideraâ€" tion by Lester Benston.) The United States Civil Service Commission announces an open competitive examination for filling the : positions of rent specialists, $3163 to $4428 a year including overtime in the varkous federal agencies in the states of..Illinois and Wisconsin. United States Govt There are no age limits for these positions. * ‘ Obtain application form toâ€" gether with copy of recruiting cirâ€" cular No. 7â€"12, from the regional director, Seventh U. S. Civil Servâ€" ice Region, New Post Office Bldg., Chicago 7, T.; or from the secreâ€" tary, Board of U. S. Civil Service Examiners, at any post office of HITTING THE ENEMY American Army Air Force pilots have engaged in more than 1,350,â€" 000 sorties against the enemy since Dec. 7, 1941, of which 71 per cent were flown in the first nine months of 1944. T the firstâ€"or secondâ€"class in the states of Illincis and Wisconsin. . Applications will be received unâ€" til the needs of the service have been met and must be filed with Bldg., Chicage%, HI. But aside from the material help Our wounded must not be a class (The above, taken from the Leâ€" Allegro Maestoso THE PRESS The members of the Woman‘s Clubs of the North Shore have been very cooperative and loyal volunteer workers at the Highland Park USO. Members of the Highâ€" land Park Woman‘s club, under the leadership of Mrs. Harry Perts, hvcnrndnny!nhym buffet suppers for service men and women. The Highland Park Womâ€" an‘s club members have also preâ€" pared and served dinnérs at the USO for men of the U.S. naval hosâ€" pital at Great Lakes. * Other Nfl;iam woman‘s :::hS:::.h" cooperated in servâ€" y evening suppers are: Northfield Woman‘s club,Winnetâ€" DoR PSOCTS OCCERTE PMD T Ture ka Woman‘s club and the Wilmette Woman‘s club. The Highland Park USO staff greatly appreciates the generosity and interest of these organizations. Friday, Jan. 5â€" Wives of service men wil} meet for lunch at the USO at 12:30. There will be a dancing party from 8 to 11 p.m. Music furnished by the 344th Army band. During the band intermission, a variety show will â€"be presented. Refreshments will be served"at 9:30. Tuesday, Jan. â€"The Wfln'y:Lhry will sponâ€" sor a dancing party from 8 to 11 p.m. Service men and GSO girls will dance to w of the T40th MP band. will be enâ€" tertainment during the band interâ€" mission. Refreshments will be served at 9:30. _ â€"~ ® N. Shore Woman‘s Clubs Cooperate in USO Work Supt. of L. F. Schools ___ Speaker at Rotary Club Fred‘ Quinlan, superintendent of, schools in Lake Forest, spoke to theâ€" Highland Park Rotary club members Tuesday, Jan..2. His topic was "What §chool People Are Trying to Do in ‘Education." Visitors included:George Greene and William Copeland, Lake Forâ€" est; Stanley McKee, Frank Musser, USN. Are Coming!" Sam Campbell, noted "philosoâ€" pher of the forest," and Mrs. Campâ€" bell will appear at the Highland Park . Woman‘s club on Sunday, February 4, at 2:30 p.m. â€" Mr. Campbell will show pictures in natâ€" wral color of the Bad Lands and The Rotary club meets Monday noons at the Sunset Golf club. "The Campbells Dear Land to which Desire for . .. .ever flees; Time dothâ€"no present to our grasp allow; Say in the fix‘d Eternal shall we seize . ~= At last the fleeting Now?â€"Bulâ€" werâ€"Lyttton. TUXIS TO HOLD SKATING . ‘ PARTY ON JANUARY 14 Members of the Tuxis society wishing to attend the skating party scheduled for. Jan. 14, should phone for reservations to Art Humphrey not later than Jan. 10. Phone H.P. 2182. MRS. EMMA BLAIR TAKEN BY DEATH Mrs. Emma Blair, invalid mother of Mrs. Lee Gatewood, 286 Laurel, passed away at the Gatewood home Wednesday, at the age of 85. ; Born and raised in England, Mrs. Blairâ€"movedâ€"4zâ€"zyLondon to Henâ€" derson, Xy., where she lived until three years ago, when she came to Highland Park. Besides Mrs. Gatewood, she is survived by two sons, of Henderâ€" son, Ky., where the body will be taken for burial. â€" â€" MRS. MARY McGUIRE SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS Mrs. Mary McGuire passed away on Tuesday after 6 years‘ ‘illness .tth.h-._ofh_cru-,_hfio-y! at 330 N. First St., at the age of 78. Last rites will be observed at 9:30 Friday at St. James‘ church in Highwood, and interment will be made at Ascension cemetery. ‘.lIrancm.omAnfiuy,-.: ughter, Agnes, town, two grandchildren. DEATH OF LOCAL PHYSICIANâ€"SURGEON nesday, Jan. 3. He would im{ been 58 years of age next month. Son of the former Dr. Ernest Llackner, he was born in Chicago, and for the past 19â€"years made his home in Highland Park. Promiâ€" nent in medical circles, he was forâ€" merly president of the Chicago a son, John, a daughter, Susan, all of Highland Park. One sister, Berkeley, Calif. s Funeral services will be held on Friday at the home, Rev: Christoph Keller officiating. knows nothing truly that he ;,u_b-â€"dfi-mâ€" e Black Hills. Dr. Julins Lackner, 31 However learned or eloquent, man, guest speaker, a member of their speakers‘ bureau and a memâ€" ber of the faculty of Lake Forest academy. His topic will be "How to Avoid a Robot World." The meeting will be held at the home of Mrs. Bernard G. Davis, 1527 S. Sheridan, Highland Park. Mrs. Leslie Bezark and Mrs. Harry I. Canmann are chairman and coâ€"chairman. The North Shore committte of the National Council of Jewish Women cordially invites its memâ€" bers and their friends to attend a dessert luncheon ‘at 1 p.m., on Wednesday, Jan. 10. Opportunity will be given to meet Mrs. Howard W. Ruopp, coâ€" chairman of "Women of Goodâ€" will" (the woman‘s committee of the Chicago Round Table of the National Conference of Christians and Jews) and Dr. Robert Hartâ€" Lake Co. Leads State In Sale of Seals Jewish Women Present Dr. Robert Hartman‘ In‘spite of the fact that there is still x long way to go until final reâ€" turns are in, Lake county is leadâ€" ing the state in the sale of Christâ€" mas seals, according to reports from the Illinois Tuberculosis asâ€" sociation in Springfield, as of Dec. Lake county had reported sales amounting to $22,885.35, followed closely by Winnebago county with $21,219.39. Kane county . was mamdthirdvithm,- While these reports are encourâ€" aging, Miss Orpha L. White, execuâ€" tive secretary of the Lake county Tuberculosis association, will not be satisfied until she is assured of the additional $21,000 necessary from this year‘s seal sale for the purchase of a mobile chest xâ€"ray unit to be used in the association‘s caseâ€"finding program. The modâ€" ern unit would make it possible to xâ€"ray the chests of nearly every man, woman and child in the counâ€" ty to determine early symptoms of the disease which Christmas seals are fighting all through the year. ~‘They are the sole support of the organization. BIRTHS AT HIGHLAND PARK HOSPITAL * Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Roffâ€" man,, Duffy Lane, Prairie View, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Wessley, 1105 Harvard, Arlington Heights, boy, Dec. 28. 343 S. Linden, boy, Dec.. 31. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Ekdahl, 752 Ridgewood, boy, Jan. 2. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Carter, 1014 Osterman, Deerfield, girl, Mr. and Mrs. Robert ‘Kinsey, ll’-v-y-nblhmllnm.lt’uinâ€";l;-â€"l, allâ€"purpose Windbreaker that turns back wind world of comfort and long, dependable service. You‘ve seen it featured in LIFE and the POST SUPERâ€"WARM JACKETS Highland Park Winnotka Glencoa Ai.he..loo‘h-râ€"glflo;ddw'-d-ptw(, REO. U. 8. PAT. OFF. JOHN RISSMAN & son s ra k 2Fs es 1 3 NATIONALLY ADVERTISED FELL‘S Dynamic Wheel ‘Balancing Body & Fender Repairing Auto Painting â€" Blacksmithing 322 N. First â€" Highland Patk 77 * BEGINNING AND ADVANCED TYP. * BEGINNING AND ADVANCED BUSI ARY 8 AND 10 FROM 700 TO 900 P. M., FOR ADULT EDUCAâ€" TION CLASSES AT F O L LOW I N G COURSES WILL BE * INTERIOR DECOâ€" * ADVANCED WOODWORK * BEGINNING AND ~â€"â€" ADV. SPANISH * PUBLIC SPEAKâ€" * BADMINTON * UPHOLSTERY * SEWING * ARTS & CRAFTS Ten Members the Minimum of Each Class DA HL S PARK Page 3