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HM Ww INNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1925 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK by LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill. Telephome............. 8 Winnetka 2000 Telephone. .............. Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. "Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the post office at Win- netka, Illinois, as mail} matter of the Second class, under the act of March SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1925 Depress the Tracks. 'Give the Business Men Fair Play. Enforce the Traffic Laws. Build the Truck Road ig THE COG Here at the window all day long I stand, Eight hours a day, six days a week and sell : Stamps, and weigh packages, and things like that. A child comes in and wants a postal card, A blonde stenographer wants two cent stamps, "A farmer's wife has eggs to par- cel post, "How much it cost send this to Budapest ?" So it goes all day long and every day. One day a woman said, "I want to get Eighteen Kenosha stamps." You'd never guess What twas she meant. Yes, there are funny spots Light the routine--but it's mo- notonous, Some day I'll drop and then--an- other chap At the same window, doing the same work, In the same way, for the same pay--about. Sometimes I tell Janet I'm just a cog, - In a machine. Then she bursts into flame: "Why, Dickie, boy, you're .not, you're no such a thing! You stand there at your window and you weave The web of life. Think of ijt! Christmas gifts, Engagement rings, and bits of wedding cake, And packages of food to hungry lands. Letters from home to far-off boys and girls, Letters from boys and girls to folks at home, Letters from friends, and lovers, husbands, wives, Pass through your fingers like the warp and woof Of a great, golden tapestry of love, Tucked close around us to keep us warm, A cog! Why, Dick, what makes the world go round Is just such strong and faithful cogs as you." Of course, that's only Janet's jollying But--jollying, too, helps make the world go 'round. FrEDERICK HALL TRAINING Training will improve a per- son's acting, thinking, and feel- ing. Whether this training is ad- ministered by other people or by oneself, it is, in the majority of cases, sure to be beneficial. A person can be so trained in manual skill that in the course of no very long time he will be able to perform marvelous feats. A Japanese balancer does miracles with bamboo rods and dishes. Paderewski shows perhaps even greater dexterity on the piano keys. Ability to think can be trained. | Huxley and Darwin are outstand- ing examples in this field. The thinking of expert lawyers and engineers is a matter of great ad- miration to untrained thinkers. Feeling, too, can be trained. A man can by practicing cheerful- ness train himself not to feel grouchy. One who does not ap- preciate good music can, by long exercising, cultivate his love of good music. But the best training is the training to save life. The train- ing that boy scouts and girl scouts receive in this direction has often resulted in the actual rescue of the lives of those who were in danger of drowning, for example. The girl scout who recently dis- covered a girl swimmer strug- gling for life, who swam to her, brought her safely to shore, and then revived her, is a striking ex- ample of the splendid effect of training. CHOKE THE WRIGGLERS The mosquito must go! The intelligent, persistent north shore has taken up the fight against the miserable pest, and it must go. Now is a critical time. Pools of water, mostly on private prop- erty, are serving as comfortable nurseries for mosquito eggs and young. Unless these wriggling possibilities are ruined, complete- ly put out of business, the enemy will be upon us again. Remember last summer! Live over again a few minutes of those pestful days. Go out doors, and mosquitoes begin their awful work on face, hands, and legs. Go into the house and mosquitoes follow in a horrible cloud. And when your skin is reeking with the poison, come back to 1925 and resolve to do your best to prevent the mosquito's return. At once, when you notice the coming to your home of this buzzing nuisance, telephone to the authorities in your town and tell them the news. This is the best method of keeping your of- ficials informed. And being in- formed they can act most effi- ciently. We are told that Skokie is "threatening to give forth a good- ly crop." The best way to de- stroy this harvest of wigglers is to--REPORT MOSQUITO AN- NOYANCE! ALGONQUIN It is a sight to "warm the cockles" of anybody's heart to see little girls from homes in which there is no experience of want or hardship bent upon activities whose purpose is the raising of money to be contributed to such a cause as the summer camp where children and women from homes of quite a different char- acter have a little season of com- fort and plenty that they take quite as a matter of course in their more fortunate life experi- ence. Camp Algonquin is an institu- tion which might be expected to appeal to the best that is in the adult population of the district that supports it. They have ac- quaintance, if not experience, with poverty and squalor; they know something of how the "other half" lives, what are the conditions against which little children of the poor find it so hard to battle successfully in a fight for life itself. But when little girls evince their under- standing of the cause for which such institutions as Camp Algon- quin stand there is reason for hope, even expectation, that the time will come when those con- ditions will be so completely changed by the institution of a new social order that the summer camp and the slum will be things of the past. Until that time comes, until the children of today become the men and women of tomorrow, it is well to encourage in their little minds the realization of the ob- ligation that the exceptionally fortunate owe to the excep- tionally unfortunate. THIS AND THAT Until We Find a Title THE DESPOILER Within a golden garden, Ah, far from lust and sin, There dwelt a dainty rose-bud, Softly sweet--and pure within. She waxed, And soon had grown Into a rose, full-blown, Beloved of all who knew her. Into the golden garden, One night, on glittering, flittering wing, A gorgeous moth descended-- Toyed a moment with the dew-dipped rose-- Then slipped away. Within the golden garden, Ah, far from lust and sin, All are grieving; For the dainty rose-flower Is slowly drooping--pleading, Pleading for just one more drop of dew Pleading--drooping--sighing, Softly crying--slowly dying. And as the life-shades drew, There crept from the heart of the rose-- A worm. --Dogris L. AIN'T THAT TOO BAD! "But there are no more lamplighters in Glencoe," moans our sob-sister de- mon feature writer in the NEws. ADD OPTIMISTS LEAGUE We wish to propose for an honorary membership in the Optimists League, a certain Cub fan who ventured to pre- dict that the Cubs were about to go mad and win about 20 straight! Yep. He Wins The Pink Hand Painted Outfit! I think the prize goes to the bozo who stood looking at. a display of razors in Snyder's window and said, "Well there's a safety in numbers." --TaE PureLe KNIGHT. THE YARDAGE IS LESS! "It is not difficult for a girl earning $15 a week to get together a wardrobe of six or seven pretty dresses," we read in the paper last week. SUPER-OPTIMISM There's a smile for every frown; There's a joy for every sorrow,-- Tho to-day be dark and dreary-- There's the sun shine of to-morrow. There's a pleasure for each hardship,-- There's a friend for every foe; There's more good than all the evil-- If folks only saw it so. --Lrrrug Miss MUFFET. Tut! Tut! Shame on you Miss Muf- fet! We fear you've been reading Dr. Frank Crane, or some of our own cheerful editorials! Which brings to our mind the one particular one in which our editorial writer tried to Pollyanna us out of there being any cold weather on the North Shore in the winter! My Ideas About Michigan (By One Who Has Never Been There) I have recently discovered that there is a part or district of the United States known as Michigan. Of course the city of Detroit has long been fam- ous as a tinware center, but, somehow, one never associated it with any par- ticular state. It was just Detroit. From what I have learned about this district, Michigan, I understand that it is a full-fledged state of the Union. The natives, I believe, are a hardy race and simple, their chief means of livelihood being fishing and exploiting tourists who come from all parts of the coun- try to invade its primeval wilds. In the winter, which is long and cold, there is little fishing and no tourists, but I have been unable to discover what occupies the time of the inhabitants. Perhaps they hibernate as do some of the denizens of their vast wilderness. One of the natives of this strange country has recently ben imported, as a curiosity, to the village of Wilmette, and by observing his strange actions and talking with him in his own un- couth dialect, of which I have made shift to learn a portion, I am convinced his race, though semi-savage and fond of raw meat, has reached a surprising state of civilization, almost comparable with the American Indian, whom they supplanted. As further discoveries are made I will relate them to a breathless world. --THE SLAVE. WORLD'S DUMBEST REPORTER! Our temperamental star reporter just asked the boss, "Say, Mike, is 'Ty' Cobb still in the big league?" Yes, Tommy, and it is rumored that John L. Sullivan is no longer cham- pion! ANOTHER CANDIDATE! And another reporter on our paper recently remarked' that "the World's Champion Yankees were not doing so well, this season!" And then said wide-awake reporters wonder why we find it necessary to have copyreaders, editors and proof readers to check up on their stories! SHE STILL EXISTS Who? Why, the old-fashioned girl! We have discovered her in Evingston. She still refers to her "boy friends" as "beaux!" But then she hails from Texas, which may explain matters. --T. R. C. EVERGREENS, PERENNIALS, SHRUBS AND TREES Winnetka Landscape Company Not Inc. M. J. SULLIVAN, Prop. GRADING--SEEDING LAWNS--TRIMMING--FERTILIZER BLACK DIRT--MANURE Men for private grounds by the day 882 Pine Street Phone Winn. 1549 WINNETKA, ILL. isconsin No.Michigan VACATION POINTS NJOY your vacation from the mo- ment you leave home! Travel the clean, quick comfortable way -- on the North Shore Line. Fast North Shore trains to Milwaukee; convenient connec- tions there with rail and boat lines to Wisconsin and Michigan vacation points. There's a train when you want one on the North Shore Line! No smoke, no soot, no cinders. Waukesha Beach Nagawicka Lake Pewaukee Lake Oconomowoc Nashota Lakes Nehmabin Lakes Silver Lake Delafield Take North Shore Line to Milwaukee--step into T.M.E.R. & L. trains outside the door of our Milwaukee terminal, for above points. Through tickets. Epworth Heights Hamlin Lake Manistee Portage Lake Onekama Best way to go! North Shore Line to Milwau- kee; Pere Marquette Line steamers from there; arrive Michigan next morning. Through tickets. Crystal Lake Elkhart Lake Cedar Lake Sheboygan Port Washington North Shore Line to Milwaukee; connections outside the door of our Milwaukee terminal with Milwaukee Northern trains for above points. Lake Geneva Silver Lake Twin Lakes Powers Lake Genoa Junction Pell Lake North Shore Line trains to Kenosha; luxurious North Shore Line Motor Coaches Antioch Lake Villa Loon Lake Channel Lake Fox Lake resorts Bang's Lake from there. Through tickets. McHenry or 4 North Shore Line trains to Wauke- gan; luxurious North Shore Line otor Coaches from there to above points. Through ti 160 Check your baggage through to your point of desti- nation. For schedules, and other information, {quire at North Share Yckes Offiée, or = Traffic artment, est nroe t, Chicago-- Phone Randolph 6226 or Central 8280. Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee . Railroad Company Winnetka Passenger Station Telephone Winnetka 963 Sor? -