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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 14 Jun 1929, p. 40

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40 WILMETTE LIFE June 14, 1929 Less than go days to Septembtr 1st. Ask Now! ESTHER GOULD·s Stop and $ee- TRAVEL BACK TO PARIS the c· o RNER fantastically beautiful cathedral Then you will know there is no other Automatic Heating that can take its place Showrooms: Evanston 1602 Sherman Ave. Greenleaf 700-4821 Hubbard Woods 900 Linden .Ave. Winnetka 650 A NEW SPARTOI ACHIEVEMENT $214-50 COMPLETE The Ama%ing New Sparton brings to the world FA cE-TO·fAC E REALI.SM HERE is Old World Tromance in this magnificent new Sparton instrument · · · craftsmanship and beauty that never lose their charm. But, more than that, in its reception there is FACE-TOFACE REALISM. "Radio's Richest Voice" with an intimate, PERSONAL quality that makes it living .·· captivating ... almost HUMAN. We invite you to listen. ·· The greatest charm of travel is, darkness like a mole under ground. suppose, its dramatic quality. How can Throu()'h Swi'tzerland by night is an one mind the missed connections or experien~e not to be recommended! the full hotel when with one single As if these majestic mountains resented twist of the wheel all these things have vour indifference in daring to go fallen away and there is an entirely through them in darkness, they toss new pattern? It is like the lovely you, roll you, throw you about. until kaleidescopes one used to get for you cling to your berth as to a sltppery Ch~istmas through which by squinting wall while the car creaks in every joint one saw a wonderful pattern seemingly exactly as a ship in a rough sea. fixed. immoYable. But at a touch so · To add to the interest of the situaslight that you were hardly sure that tion three times in the night the cusyou had. given it every piece separated toms officials burst open the door of itself from its place and fell into a ne\v the compartment, threw on the light position. The infinite charm was, that, directly in my eyes, held a guttural and no matter how much or hov.' little you incomprehensible conversation together liked am· one of the designs, you knew and \\'ent away. Having taken no nothat that one would never return. tice of me or of my luggage. With A few nghts ago I sat in an Italian that helpless- in- the-clutch-of-the-law railwa,· compartment talking with two feeling which customs officials always Englis-hmen who had just complete(~ a give you, and certain of being a crimbicvcle tour . through Italy. an Itahan ina) though not certain why, I would arci1itect who was just returning from lie trembling in the glare for a few mohaving spent several years in . Chic~go, ments and then switch off the light and his French '"ife who \\'as an opera smg- turn oYer to sleep. Only to be awaker in Milan. \Ve sat talking of com- ened by a bang and a glare to go munism. commercialism, pacifism, in through the process again. It was as ii fact · all the "isms," so heatedly that they were rehearsing for the time when when the Italian ventured to .speak they really would come in . and lo::>k the name of M ussolini we all pictured at my luggage. They never did. Perourselves. and not too fantastically, haps. as in amateur theatricals, they exspending a cozy night in an Italian pended their enthusiasm in too many jail! rehearsals and never had the energy to \\"e had been talking there for some put the performance on. time. the pattern seemed fixed, when Next day we were going through the suddenlv with a single twist all these lovely rainy little villages of France. people -were gone, I should probably \\lith the sagging roofs and old grey never see them again, it was midnight stone they looked even more \.charmingand I was sitting in the station at through the veil of rain, as if one had Milan drinking coffee and waiting for caught them at home instead of \\'hen nw train to he made up which \\'ould they were dressed up ready- to go out. c<irry me on to Paris. The first days in Paris are delirious A\\·ay from this city of Leonardo and ones . It would be hard to say why, or what it is that makes walking down ( the rue de Ia Paix from the Opera where one has alighted. from one's bus to the Place Vendome· where one \vill get one's mail, a thrilling experience. Then there is walking on the rue de RiYoli with the other Americans, perhaps meeting someone you didn't kno\\' was here, there is . Ruinpclmayer's for pasteries and tea, Prunier's for the best lobster in the world; the cafe de Ia Paix \\'here you sit stacking up ~aucers and cigarette ends, and \\'orth's where you watch the inhumanh· thin Travel's new thrill ··· a trip up the primi.. mannequins parade by. The· large tive coast of Africa. ladie s 'vvatching them remind you of Big game for camera the picture in a French journal of the shooting, Zulu war lady protesting that this didn't look dances,native kraals. the same on her as on the model, and With dazzling Rio the manager replying "Yes, madame, and the sophistihut it's the dress we sell and not the cated Argentine for lady." y without glimps~ng it-traveling in the Phone University 4523 NOrtbSbore Talklna MaObine Co. 712 Church Street, Evanston contrast ··· Egypt and the Mediterranean for climax.And the new 20,000 ton Duchess of Atholl for cool luxury. From N~w York Jan. 21. 104 thrilling days. Priced as low as $1500. Book early for preferred rooms. Your local agent or Manaa~ment One Ship and ShoTe R. S. Elwortl·y, Steamship General .Age nt, 71 E. Jackson Blvd., Tele· IJhone Wabash 1904, Chicago, Ill. All this and more in Paris, and thrilling because of that magic which is not imaginary, but real. Now Sunday peace has descended oil this little garden in the midst of the famous Latin quarter, sunlight is pouring down and the song of birds, and every hour the chimes from the church the unloved Anne of Austria . btfilt in celebration of the birth of her son Louis the Fourteenth. It is a day to sit and dream to forget the rue de Ia · Paix and its gay ,,·indo\\'s, and remember an older Paris \\'hich still lives. SPARTON. RADIO ·"Radio's Richest Voitl" Canadian Rl£ifi( World'· Gr-teet Travel Syetem DRAMATIZE LEGEND Literature classes of the seventh grade at the Joseph Sears school, Kenilworth, presented a dramatization of "The Legend of the Moors'. Legacy" \Vednesday afternoon in . the school auditorium. Miss Gertrude Herric~, the literature teacher, was in charge of the presentation.

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