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4 January 2, 1926 WINNETKA TALK POET'S REMAINS T0 REST AT KENILWORTH Eugene Field, Children's Poet, to Find Fitting Resting Place in Church Cloister Eugene Field, famous children's poet, who has rested under an un- pretentious headstone in the Grace- land cemetery, Chicago, for 30 years, will soon be removed to a tomb in the close of a cloister connecting the parish house with the Church of The Holy Comforter in Kenilworth, it was announced this week by the Rev. Le- land Hobart Danforth, the rector of the church. The removal will be accomplished within a few days, it was said by Mr. Danforth. The family of the poet have given their consent and the new and probably final resting place will be known as the Eugene Field Me- morial Cloister close. A plain stone slab will surmount the tomb and it is planned to carve portions of the poet's best known children's poems on this headstone. Opposite Memorial Altar Opposite the tomb in the cloister is a beautiful memorial altar, a gift to the parish from Mrs. H. C. Ison, in memory of her mother, Mrs. Frances Chittenden. Near the tomb is a me- morial window to Field's grandson, William C. Englar, Jr, who was an active worker in the church. The church cloister itself is a memorial to Herman Maury Brassert, given by Mr. and Mrs. Herman A. Brassert, mem- bers of the church. Prominent in Church Mrs. William C. Englar, a member of the Church of the Holy Comforter for many years, is Mr. Fiell's eldest daughter, and Mr. Englar has served as senior warden of the church. She now lives in Pasadena, Cal, with the widow of the poet. Other members of the Field family are Roswell Field of Evanston, Frederick S. Field, Brad- ley, Wis, Eugene Field, Jr. also of Bradley, and Mrs. Elmer Foster of Tomahawk, Wis. New Trier Cagers to Tackle Elgin Champs New Trier High school's basketball team will meet the powerful Elgin High school five this Saturday evening in the local high school gym. Game time is 7:30 o'clock. The Elgin boys won the Illinois state championship in 1925 and have three regulars back in this season's line-up. They are reported to be winning all their games this year. Thursday night of this week the New Trier boys encounter the Columbus, O., high school cagers. This game is being Plaved in the gymnasium at Evanston igh school. New Trier has a new team. However, her basketball teams are always strong and this one has made a very fine early season record. New Trier ex- pects to show the visitors a merry time. NAME NEW OFFICERS Winnetka chapter, No. 942, Order Eastern Star, held a stated meeting Monday, December 28, at 7:45 o'clock in the evening at the temple. Initia- tion was held at that time. At a pre- vious meeting the following officers were appointed: Mrs. Frank Ander- son, worthy matron; William C. Kent- nor, worthy patron; Mrs. Roy Whipple, assistant matron; Mrs. Ferdinand Wolter, Jr. conductress; Mrs. E. Irving Belote, assistant con- ductress ; Miss Jennie Stevens, secre- tary; Miss Hazel Wissman, treasurer. [ | NEXT WEEK IN WINNETKA Monday, January 4 Schools re-open. Tuesday, January 5 Afternoon-- Winnetka Woman's club. Evening-- Village p. m. Masons, Masonic temple, 8 p. m. Wednesday, January 6 All day-- Women's House. Thursday, January 7 Open. Friday, January 8 Council, Village hall, 8 society, Community Noon-- Rotary club luncheon, Community House, 12:15 p. m. Evening-- North Shore Congregation, Ma- sonic temple of Glencoe, 8:15 p. m. Saturday, January 9 Open. DRAMA SPLENDID GIFT "Why the Chimes Rang," is Presented by Drama Club, Received Enthusias- tically by Villagers; Brilliant Cast Again the Community Drama club made its Christmas offering to the vil- lage, playing "Why the Chimes Rang" Saturday afternoon, December 19, for the children, and Sunday evening, December 20, to the adults. Both presentations received the compliment of utter silence as the beautiful story unfolded. Many of the actors were serving for the third time--Mr. Harry P. Clarke, Mr. E. P. Farwell, Mr. Albert Scharf, Miss Mary Williams and Mrs. Harry P. Clarke. Using Matz hall for the first time necessitated some change in the former properties which added to the burden of Mr. Alfred Freeman, stage manager; but, as always, Mr. Freeman, with the assistance of Mr. John Marshall, Mrs. Clarence Haap. Mrs. Caroll Dean Murphy and Mrs. Lloyd Faxon, director, provided a very satisfactory setting. Miss Virginia Ogan made her debut, as did Mr. Jack Thomson, Mr. Jack Hunter, Mr. Die- bert Miller, Mr. Frank Windes, and Mrs. J. D. Pierce. Mr. Henry J. Cary- Curr lent his well known histrionic ability to the part of the king and made it most effective. The play, however, owes a large part of its beauty and appeal to the music. And here again for the third time, the club expresses its gratitude to Mrs. Arthur Dean who was in charge. Such singers as Mrs. Burton Atwood, Mrs. Louise Slade, Mr. W. A. Snyder, and Mr. Arthur Dean would make any chorus lovely, and, with Mr. Griff Lathrop in charge of the chimes, added just the spirit needed to make the Christmas play reach every heart. Its message was well expressed by a seven-year-old explaining to a small sister--"Why dontcher see! Even the King's Crown wasn't so good as his little pennies." --Contributed. HOLD JOINT INSTALLATION Joint public installation of newly elected officers is announced by the Royal Neighbors and Modern Wood- men units of this vicinity for Friday evening, January 8, at 8:30 o'clock. The installation will be held in Odd Fellow's hall, Wilmette. Mrs. Nash Cazel and her mother, Mrs. West, 860 Pine street, entertain- ed relatives on Christmas day. They had their usual family reunion. Stars in Opera Howard Preston, 1031 Greenwood avenue, Wilmette, won lofty praise from Chicago Music critics last Sun- day when, on short notice, he stepped into the role of Faninal in "Der Rosenkavalier" and came away with honors. Mr. Preston has gained an excellent reputation as a concert and opera singer. He is regarded as one of the "finds" of the current Chicago Civic opera season. Rotarians Enjoy Talk and Playlet at Joint Meeting Winnetka and Wilmette Rotarians joined in a New Year's meeting Wed- nesday noon of this week at Commu- nity House. The Rudolph Matz hall was effectively decorated in holiday garb--the work of Boy Scouts--and the program included--besides a won- derful luncheon--a talk by Frederick E. Clerk, member of the Winnetka club and superintendent of New Trier High school; and a Rotary playlet entitled "The New Office Force," presented by members of the local club. A feature of the luncheon was the presentation to President James Fonda of the Winnetka club of a Rotary pin set in diamonds, the gift of the Win- netka club. Mr. Clerk gave the Rotarians a graph- ic description of a personal experi- ence in China when he, with two other "foreign devils," witnessed the Em- peror at worship, a scene forbidden to all but the Buddhist priests and the Emperor's retinue. Rotarians who took part in. the sketch were Earl Weinstock, Dr. J. W. F. Davies, W. T. Wersted, R. H. Schell, Dr. Gilbert Loewe, Raymond Kloepfer and Harry F. Clarke. The playlet was directed by Willard W. Beatty, prin- cipal of Skokie school and member of the Rotary club, while Mr. Clarke served in the capacity of stage man- ager. Among the guests at the luncheon was President Joseph Breese of the Evanston Rotary club. An old fashioned Christmas gather- ing was held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lvnch in Glencoe. Many of their Winnetka friends and relatives were present, and their out-of-town guests included Capt. C. Montgomery of Omaha, Neb., Col. W. Gallagher of Oak Park. Lieut. F. Eames and Miss Pauline Miller of Tos Angeles. Mr. Lynch served at toastmaster. CAMPERS RECALL DAYS SPENT OUT-OF-DOORS "Chief" Davies and Indian Hill Campers Hold Annual Re- union at Community House BY OBSERVER Were you up in the lobby of Com- munity House at about 6 o'clock Tues- day evening, December 29, and were you among the throngs of expectant campers crowding around the door of the Assembly room? Or were you just an on-looker; wishing that you too might join in the fun? Well, for the benefit of those who couldn't be there or for those who are in some way in- terested, a short review of it seems ap- propriate. Though everyone arrived a little early, "Soupy," the Camp mess call, wasn't blown until 6 o'clock sharp. At this familiar bugle sound, the crowd made for the door of the Assembly Room and in five minutes, every one had found seats. Then, while the waiters busied themselves in regular camp style, the rest of us admired the decorations. Masses of Christmas treés were banked high against the walls, lending not only the familiar odor of pinewoods but also transforming what is usually a bare room into a regular camp mess hall, the thought of which brought to each and every camper present, distinct memories of the north woods. As we looked around, we caugh sight of many camp friends and re- newed all of our old acquaintances. Everyone that had been able to come at all, had arrived and from those ab- sent we got many greetings both by letter and telephone. Here "Vet" Campers After dinner was fairly started, and following a short speech of welcome, "Chief" (Dr. J. W. F. Davies) made us feel very much at home by calling on some of the campers present for speeches or stunts of some sort. We enjoyed particularly the messages that the campers home from college had for us, and their actions during the eve- ning emphasized their words, that "We wouldn't have missed this for any- thing !" When the tables were all cleared, we recalled our camp life by viewing slides thrown on the screen by "Chief." You can't imagine what fun it is to see yourself as others saw you at camp! * As the reunion drew to a close, the girls of last vear's camp presented the camp with a set of books by Ernest Thompson Seton on. woodcraft and pioneering, in hopes of starting the custom of giving books on camp for everyone up there to use. We could not close our fun without a story from "Chief," and our requests was answered by one of our camp favorites, his "Tale of Kitty Nelson." At the close of the story. everyone joined in singing "Father Time" and "When the Moon Plays Peek-a-boo." You cannot imagine the thrill that went through us when--boys and girls --we hummed in unison the latter song through a second time. "Chief ended" the program with a "hort talk (as at camp) emphasizing the idea that though we had gathered to reveiew past experiences and fun at camp, we were also there to look into the future and decide what everyone of us. with our father's help, are going +n strive to accomplish toward making this world a better place to live in. A short praver, and then, as we imagined the embers of our own camp fire at Indian Hill burning red, we closed the evening as we do up there-- bv singing "taps." Tt was perhaps a more solemn group that said "Good- night, Chief," as we left, realizing our awn resnonsibilitv for the future, but. after all, that is what we like to feel our camp is for.