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30 WINNETKA TALK December 5, 1925 Winnetka Girl Wins Place on All-Star U.S. Hockey Team Elizabeth Waidner, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry L. Waidner of Win- netka, was the only college girl to play on the American hockey team which met the Irish team at Boston, Mass., Saturday. Other members of the team were chosen from city teams. Altho the Irish team won, 2 to 0, the American girls made an excellent showing considering that they have not been playing the game as long as their opponents. Miss Waidner played on the for- ward line and won considerable fa- vorable comment for her excellent playing. She is in her sophomore year at Smith college and has captained her class team for two years. She also played on the all-Chicago team in the fall of 1922 Stolp Children to Give Xmas Play December 17 "Why The Chimes Rang," a Christ- mas play, will be presented by the <hildren of room 7C of the Byron C. Stolp school Thursday evening, December 17, at the school auditorium. The play will begin at 8 o'clock. It will be staged entirely by the children who have also made all stage settings and scenery. There will be a small ad- mission charge and the proceeds will £0 to the poor and crippled children of the Fallon Public school of Chicago. All friends of the pupils are urged to attend the play which is expected to be an excellent performance. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer D. Becker spent Thanksgiving and the week-end at the Crystal Country club. Mr. Becker left Friday for a short hunting trip down the Illinois river returning to Chicago Monday, and Mrs. Becker remained at Crystal lake. High Cost o' Living? Electricity Goes Down "There are a few fundamental facts regarding everyday affairs which should be more generally understood," reads the Public Utilities Bulletin. "Since 1913 the cost of living has gone up 65 per cent. This means that you are paying 65 per cent more for your clothes, groceries, meat and such monthly bills, than you were 12 years ago. "Contrast this with achievement of electric light and power industry the same years. Figures taken from Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Department of Labor, show that the cost of electricity has actually gone down since 1913. "Few other commodities or services, except insurance, can show such a record. The cost of government dur- ing this same period has in many in- stances doubled and trebled. One trembles to think what would have happened to electric light and power industry and insurance business if they had been owned by the government and the cost for these indispensable services had been increased in pro- portion to cost of government." OPEN CAGE SEASON The first Suburban league basket- ball game of the season will be held at New Trier high school gymnasium this Saturday evening when the Gray and Green squad meets the Austin five. The New Trier men are in great shape and are confident of scoring a victory over their opponents. The game will begin at 8 o'clock. : Miss Louisa Sanborn, formerly of Kenilworth, now of Lake Forest, has just returned from a five months' trip abroad. After visiting relatives in Eng- land, she spent two months in India. -- Give Glasses for Christmas Gifts Glasses have always made an ideal Christmas gift, giv- ing comfort and good vision to the recipient. Those who regularly wear glasses will appreciate the gift of a new pair as much as any other gift you could select--and for those who have been hesitating having their eyes examined, who feel they are straining their eyes yet won't take the initial step to get relief, you will do them a real favor. A Gift Certificate given at Xmas can be exchanged afterwards for a thorough examination and proper lenses and frame. 16 years of successful practise Dr. O. H. Bersch, Optometrist 1177 Wilmette Ave. Wilmette Phone Wilmette 2766 Phone for an appointment 4725 Lincoln Ave. Chicago Phone Rav. 3469 GIFTS FOR EVERYBODY BIOGRAPHY, ETC. BOOKS! Almost any wide- awake American man or wo- man would like a copy of "Twenty-Five Years, 1892- 1916, by Viscount Grey, England's great statesman. Then there's William E. Barton's "Life of Abraham Lincoln," best of all recent biographies of our martyred president. Has this older person whom you 2 wish to remember at Christ- mas read "One Man's Life" by Herbert Quick? A most read- able autobiography! Possibly he would enjoy Amy Lowell's "John Keats." I he is a doc- tor, or interested in unusual human beings, he will want to read "The Life of Sir William Osler" by Cushing. Why not give a book of travels? Like Chatfield-Taylor's "Cities of Many Men." He gives his memories of Paris, London, New York, and Chicago. Or "Roving Through Southern China" by that famous vaga- bond, Harry Franck. Or to 3 turn to America, "The Aristo- cratic West" by Katharine Gerould. Tells about Salt Lake City, New Mexico and Reno. Like adventures? Give him Donald MacMillan's 'Four Years in the White North." FICTION Everybody is fond of fiction. Here are half a dozen sugges- tions: Hugh Walpole's '"Por- trait of a Man with Red Hair," the author's most thrilling ro- mance; Willa Cather's '"Pro- fessor"s House'; Martha Os- tenso's "Wild Geese,"" which won $13,500, 'probably the largest prize ever offered for a 4 first novel; Christopher Mor- ley's "Thunder on the Left"; Harry Wilson's "Cousin Jane'; Gilbert Parker's "The Power and the Glory"; Conrad's last novel, "Suspense," the story about Napoleon that Conrad for over twenty years had planned to write; Edwin Balmer's "That Royle Girl" (Balmer is one of your Evans- ton neighbors). PROSE AND POETRY And some books on religion. Dr. Harry Fosdick's "Twelve Tests of Character'; Bruce Barton's pen picture of Jesus; 5 Bishop Quayle's "A Book of Clouds." What about poetry? Amy Lowell's "What's O'Clock'; Vachel Lindsay's Collected Poems; the Collected Works of John Masefield; Ed- gar Guest's Book of Verse; Essays are welcomd by a select few. Robert Lynd's "The Peal of Bells"; Edgar Good- speed's "Things Sen and Heard'; Newton's "The Great- est Book in the World." FOR CHILDREN Books for children? Lots of them. Scovill's "The Red Diamond"; "The Boy Scout's 6 Year Book'; Joseph Ames' "Clearport Boys'; Roy Snell's "Told Beneath the Northern Lights." So much for books for boys. For girls: "The Little Cockalorum Finds Ro- mance"; 'Hilda of the Green Smock'; '"Peggy's Prize Cruise"; 'A Prairie Rose." And very little boys and girls love books. "Old Mother Goose'; "Tommy Tucker's Stories"; "Twilight Storis"' by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Smith; "The Jungle Man and His Animals," illustrated by Sarg. We either have or can get you any of these books on very short notice The Book Store Alice McAllister Skinner Winnetka 1101 724 Elm St. WINNETKA A TE maine) - JW au