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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Nov 1926, p. 33

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November 12, 1926 WILMETTE LIFE Merle C. Nutt of 33 · Mrs. John ·A. Dennis, 812 Greenleaf returned from Florida where she had been for eight months. Mrs. Dennis was with her daughter, Mrs. B. F. Renick, in Tampa, and visited other cities in Florida including Miami and Palm Beach. JPunlblln~Jln<ecdl ~(f;~®IID ttll y 1001 Li~den avenue, has returned from Moline, Ill., were among the Chicago avenue, has last Sa.t urday. .They will be the guests of Mrs. Nutt's· parents, Mr. and Mrs. John D. Small, 411 Maple avenue for a week or ten days. ~ Mrs. Raymond W. Armstrong of Mr. and Mrs. was the guest of her cousin, Mrs. Donald ]. Hoskins. Mrs. Hoskins was Biography formerly Miss Dorothy Iliff of this vil"'Eight Years With Wilson's Cabinet, lage. 1913-1920"-David Houston. David Houston was the President's ~ closest friend in the cabinet. The women's waiting room "The Theatre of George J can Nathan" · -Isaac Goldberg The biographer of H. L. Mencken and Havelock Ellis now turns his X-ray on Nathan. · "'Charles W . Eliot: The Man and His Beliefs"-Wrn. Allen Neilson. · A collection of his notable speeches and papers together with a biographical study. "My Life and Times" -Jerome K. Jerome An informal account of a varied and notable career with many humorous g-limpses of celebrities. (Extracts from publishers' comments.) a visit to Colul!lbus, Ohio, where she· rooters at the Illinois-Chicago game at the new Adams and Wabash (Chicago) station of the North Shore Line is causing no end of favorable comment. Conventional ideas of railroad .station planning were disregarded in the furnishing of this attractive room. · Rich period furniture, in V8.rious styles and colors, makes this more the living room of a beautiful home than the waiting room of a railroad station. Soft;cushioned chairs and davenports add the final touch to this quiet, lovely room that is a rest room in every sense of the word! There are cozy desks and convenient reading tables. Women are invited to make this waiting room their headquarters when in Chicago. . It's at 223 So. Wabash Avenue, near Adams Street. - ···The Study of Swinburne" · -T. Earle Welby A critical study of Swinburne's time his life and his verse. ' "John Wanamaker" -Herbert Adam s Gibbon s A two-volume work on one of the gr~atcst citizens of recent years. ·"Benjamin Franklin: The Fir st Civilized Amcrican"-Phillips Russell. An uncotwentional <Lnd intere sti ng biography which re scues Franklin from the myth maker . "Revery.--Samuel Hopkins Adam. Background is politics . Tells some things that will make vVashington folks squirm. ··~o tes on Democracy" - H. L. Menrken. Ten vears of thought and experiment ·have gone into the making of this hook. Every Child Should Otvn \f other Goo se ( 3-S vear~ l Pictmc Rooks (3-6 ·,·cars) The Three Bears The Three Pi p;:; Peter Rabbit Little Dlack ~amho F~irv Tales (5-8 rear~) Anderson's Norse Cr imm's Alice in \\'onderland (8 -10 years) Swiss Family Rollin so n (9-11 years) Heidi (9-11 \'Cars) Pinnorhio (9~11 Years) Robinson Crusoe (8 ~ 11 Years) Robin Hood (10-13 yea~s) Arabian Nights (12.-14 years) Treasure Island ( 12-15 years) BO\·s Little Women (11-14 years) Girls ~fany peoplr ,,·ho han' read "\\'a~·s of Escape." han' wonrl<'rcrl if :\oel Forrest migl1t not he tl1r pscudon~·m of some well kno\\'n \\-ritcr. Tt i-;, it now develops, a p. cudo,lYill hut of an individual \\·lw has neY ·r pt1hlishcd a hook hrforc. TTc is a unin'rsitv graduate ,~· ho is an cxa111ination co~cli living in the south of England. 1\oel Forrcst scn·rd in France during the war. is a lover of rountrr life and a kf'Pil natur:-~li"t. ~n(l di"likcs publicity. l'non publication "The Nature of The~ \Vorld and of Man" has created a sma ll stir in C'hir~ll!'O. where it was published hv the University of Chicago Press. \Vrittcn hy sixteen memhcrs of the University faculty, it was in its ori)!inal form a series of lecture~ to freshmen at the university and for that reason is unusually free from technical terms. -Publishers' Weekly Milwaukee terminal is at 6th and Syca.. more, in the heart of the city, convenient to everywhere, saving time and tav:i fare. 1· 2. 3· A fast train every flour. Clean, comfortable, courteous service. NQTB· -·· trains operate each day via Seven Milwaukee-bound the Shore Line Route, stopping here f· passengers. At other houn, Shore Llne Limited train a operatin1 to Waukepa make direct connections at North Chicaso Junction with Milwaukee l..imiteds op~ ting over the Skokie Valley Route. Fa. schedules, fares and other information. inquUeatticketo~ Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad Co. The high-speed electrically-operated railToad WILMETTE PASSENGER STATION Telephone Wjlm ette 2 5 14 Baggage Checked

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