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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 1 Feb 1929, p. 5

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February 1, 1929 BRANSON DE COU · sao~S . - ·. Givea Second · of Two Illustrated Lectures at Sunday Evening · . . l MORE "DREAM.· PICTURES" . Cl~b . 'v. WI.LM£TTE .LIFE . 5 . ... . . . New Books "----"""'----------~ February 3 . Branson De Cou; who a·p·pe ared · ta~t Sunday night at ·the Wilmette Sunday Evening dub with his· '.' Dream Pictures of Europ· e an Wonderlands," will present his "Dream Pktures of Mysterious India," . with musical · accompani~ent · before the club Sunday, February 3, · This is an entirely new ·address with new pictures never before di.;played here, it is announced. The program· for this Sunday has been announced as follows : Pictures In and Around Bombay India of the Great Moguls (Delhi, Agra, Fafehpur-Sikri) Studies in Rajputana "J aipur, the Pink City" "~fysterious India" (Mt. Abu to the Vale of Kashmir) Luckn.Jw and Cawnpore. Mutiny Memories. The Sacred Ganges "Bewildering Benares" Calcutta. The Trip to Darjeeling "The Top of the World" "The Taj Mahal" Music :Non-fiction is featured in the list of sixteen .new books ·for aduits announced this week at the Wilmette Public libr~ry by Miss Anne L. Whitmack, librarian. Following are the new . volumes : )ohnsen-National Defense; Gollomb-Spies ; Almack-Beginning Teacher; Collings-Project Teachi.n g in the Elementary Schools ; Chamberlain-Child and Childhood in Folk Thought; Arnold-Stained Glass ; Bie-Shubert, the Man; Martens-Thousand and One Nights of Opera; Webster-Help Yourself; Dowden-Studies in Literature ; Aesopus-Fables ; Wycherley-Buccaneers of the Pacific; · MacCreagh-Last of Free Africa; Bartlett-Log of Bob Bratlett; Daniels-Rise of the German Repnhlic, and Morison-Oxford History of the United States. Bearing the APproval .. of St. Valentine ANDIES and confections of our · wellC known excellence bear the approval of St. Valentine. They are packed in appropriate and novel boxes for this occasion. a pound. · One dollar Prelude-"Exquisite Udaipur" Orientale ....... . ... .. ....... (Cesar Cui) In the Village (Ippolitow-Iwanow) Kashmiri Song from the "Indian Love Lvrics" . .....-. . (Amy Woodforde-Finden) Native Hindu Song Prelude in E Flat ........ . . (Chaloff) On Wings of Song .. (Mendelssohn) Service for Mrs. Pape at St. Joseph's Church Funeral services for Mrs. August P. Pape, of 1715 Lake avenue, Wilmette, who was formerly Miss Rose Alles, were held at St. Joseph's church in Wilmette January 21. Burial was at Sacred Heart cemetery. Mrs. Pape, who was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alles, 1636 Lake avenue, Wilmette, died of pneumonia on 1anuary 17. Her husband and two children, Dolores, 3, and Charles, three months old, survive her. We also have an assortment of novelties for your Valentine's Day Party. DoN'T FORGET OUR HOT NooN LUNCHEON Blind Woman Hostess to Transcribers in Braille Miss ~fary Hays, a blind woman recetttly appointed hy the Chicago Chapter of the American Red Cross as active director of Braille, was hostess at a reception and tea for the transcribers given at the Red Cross headquarters, 616 South Michigan, Chicago, Tuesday afternoon, January 29. More than two hundred · transcribers from Chicago and suburbs attended. Miss Hays "proofreads" manuscripts which more than three hundred volunteer workers around Chicago transcribe from books into raised printing, \\·hich the blind can read. For instance, now she is working on Ludwig's "Napoleon" which Mrs. Theodore Keehn of \Vinnetka transcribed. The book is 1,371 pages long in the Braille. After Miss Hays has read the proofs, they go to the Braille room of the Chicago Public library. The National library, or the Congressional library. The machines by which the books are transcribed are lent by the Red Cross, and the work is supervised by that organization. Edward Peterson, librarian for the blind of the Chicago Public library, and Maurice Reddv, executive secretary of the local Chapter of the Red Cross. were the speakers. VILLAGE CHOCOLA·TE . SHOP· First National Bank Building, Wilmette Ave. * ,- ----1 THERE. is no monopoly of perfectly co-ordinated servtce - but it takes years of experience to be able to give it! MILLEN HARDWARE 1219 WILMETTE AVENUE co. WILMETTE 3060 Invite Public to HeJr State Education Head The Illinois State Teachers' association, Chicago Division, invites all friends of education and teachers in and near Chicago to its meeting at Fullerton hall, Art Institute, Saturday morning, Februarv 2, at 10:30 o'clock, to hear State Superintendent of Pub. lie Instruction Francis G. Blair soeak on "From Chance to Certainty in Education." · Mr. Blair is a past president of the National Education association and has the distinction of being the olde!'t superintendent of public instruction, in point of continuous service in that office, of anv state superintendent in the United States. Membership cards are not . required, it is explained. One Lot Wo111en's Dresses, Sizes 14 to 40, $4.95 CLEARING SALE on WOOL JERSEY DRESSES One Lot Girls' Dresses, Sizes 8 to 14, $4.95 WORTHEN~CARRICO 1148 Wilmette Avenue r CO. Phone Wilmette 588

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