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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 16 Nov 1928, p. 27

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. WILMETTB LIP8 Christmas Mail to Foreign Countries Should Start Soon The "overseas" holiday period of mailing begins about November 15 and in anticipation of an increased number of international parcel post packages being ·mailed from that time up to the end of the holiday season, Postmaster Joseph E. Shantz has advised Wilmette residents who wish to send Christmas presents to foreign countries to mail early. The foUowing list of dates shows approximately the latest date of dispatch from New York of articles intended for deliyery in foreign c;ountries at Christmas time, it being suggested that the mailing of articles be made in · adyance of the dates indicated: Argentina, December 1; Australia, November 9; Australia (Sydney only), November 24; Austria, December 8 ; Azores islands, December 4 ; Bahamas, December 20; Barbados, December 16 ; Belgium, December 14; Bermuda: December 22; Bolivia, :Qecember 6; Brazil, December 8 ; Bulgaria, December 10 ; Cape Verde Islands, November 21; Ceylon, November 28 ; Chile, November 29; China, November 26 ; Colombia, December 13 ; Costa Rica, December 12; Cuba, December 22 ; Cyprus, December 5 ; Czechoslovakia, December 12; Danzig, Decem'ber 12; Denmark, December 12. Dominican Republic, December 15 ; Ecuador, December 8; Egypt, December 5 ; England, December 14 ; Estonia, December 8 ; Finland December 8 ; France, December 14: Germany, December 14; Gibraltar, December 10; Greece, December 8 ; Grenada, December 15; Guadeloupe, December 6; Guatemala, December 18 ; British and French Guiana, December 7; Dutch Guiana, December 1 ; Haiti, December 14; Honduras, December 15; Hungary, December 12; India, November 21. . List Salting Dates elephant's tusks; an Ethiopian harp of the type used 1500 B. C. ; a · Lama trumpet from Tibet ; a Sulu Xy-lophone ; a Borneo drum used in marriage ceremonies ; a one-string fiddle from Siam; an Italian pochette, or pocket fiddle, formerly used by · dancing masters ; a French hurdy-gurdy; an Eighteenth century Spanish guitar inlaid with ivory; a Florentine mandolino; a Chinese , sheng, (a forerunner of the modern pipe organ) with twenty-one bamboo pipes and only eleven notes; a soung or boat-shaped harp from Burma, said to have belonged to a Burmese princess; a hand drum, or budbudika, from India, used by snake charmers; a vina or bin, with gourd resonators; and a sitar, a favorite musical instrument of India, having a body of ostrich egg shell overlaid with wood, inlaid with ivory. This interesting collection will be found in Hutchinson Wing, Gallery H9. ////////////////////////////////// Baby Should Have the BEST and will have it if the WINNETKA SANITARY DAIRY delivers milk to your · home. Give the kiddies plenty of milk -it's their best food. WINNETKA SANITARY DAIRY 818 OAK ST. PH. WINN. 137 New-Found Leisure for things worth while You, who seek the gracious, more delightful aspects of a hotel home, are invited to dwell in the quiet elegance and home-like charm of The Orrington. Its p I easing informality, its courteous, friendly service, offer everything you can possibly desire in finer, happier living. Come to The Orrington-soon. Enjoy its freedom from household care. The ensuing leisure will open a rich new world of delight for you-in developing wider interests and accomplishing things worth while. Bombay (only), November 28; Ireland (Northern), December 14; Irish Free state. December 14; !tall::, December 11; Jamaica, DecembE.'r 19; Japan, December 2; Latvia, December 8; Lithuania, December 8; Liberia, November 17; Luxemburg. DecE.'mber 12; Madeira, December 5; Malta, December 11; Martinique, December 6; Manchuria (Harbin), November 18; Mozambique, November 17; Netherlands, December 14; Netherland East Indies, November 12. Newfoundland, December 19; New Zealand, No"E.'mber 23; Nicaragua (Bluefields), December 11; Nicaragua (Corinto), NovE.'mber 29; Norway, December 8 ; Paraguay, D ecember 1 ; Palestine, December 5; Panama, December 15 ; Persia, NoYember 21; Peru, December 6; Philippine islands, November 26; Poland, December 8; Porto Rico, December 20; Portugal, December 10; RumaniaJ_ December 8; Russia, December 8; Salvador, DecembE.'r 18 ; Scotland, December 14; . Siam, November 18 ;· Siberia (Vladivostok), November 16; Sierra Leone., November 23; South Africa, November 21. Spain, December 12; Straits Settlements, November 18; St. Kitts, J?ece mber 6 ; Sweden, December 8 ; Swrtzerland, December 14; Syria, December 5; Trinidad, December 15; Turkey, December 10; Turks island, Dece mber 15 ; Uruguay, December 1; V nezuela, December 12; Virgin islands, December 15; and Yugoslavia, December 10. Art Institute in Tribute to Franz Schubert's Work In regard to the univers!ll hom~ge being paid to the great mus1cal genms, Franz Schubert, on the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, every organization having anything to do with music or musical instruments is called upon to assist in commemorating the event. The Art Institute of Chicago responds with pardonable pride when it calls attention to the fact that for nineteen years it has been giving two concerts every Sunday afternoon dur:ing the season: in Fu!lertol_l hall, at \'·;hich Schubert s melod1es, w1th others, have been constantly on the program. In the Institute's museum collections there is also a rare and valuable group of musical instruments, known as the Alice E. Getty collection. The collection includes 110 musical instruments representing more than thirty different countries. Among these are many u'!usual primitive instruments. There ts a lyre from Madagascar with a resonator made from a human skull ; an Ethiopian horn made from an .... IVANSTON·s LAB.GIST AND liNBST HOTit

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