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38 WILMETTE LIFE December 20~ 1929 WILMETTE LIFE 188UBD FB.JDA.T OF BACH WEEK by LLOYD BOLLI8TEB llfC. 1231-1236 Central Ave.~ WUmette, IlL Chicago oftlce: 6 N. Mlchlgan Ave. Tel. State 6126 'l'eletlloae . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .. . .. .. . Wilmette 41to 8UB8CJUPTION PRICE .............. ti.H A. TEAB All communlcatlona must be accompanied by the name and ·address of the writer. Articles for pubUcatlon must reach the editor b:y Wednesday noon to l,psure appearance In current Issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituaries, notices of entertainments or other atralrs where -.n admittance charge Is published, will be charged at regular advertlslnr: rates. Grade Separation will save life Let's have immediate action I ' Although every child on the north shore knows that next Wednesday is Christmas, still there can be no harm in repeating the fact. We also take Next Wednesday the opportunity to 1s Christmas call attention to another fact, namely, that Christma s Day is preeminently the children's holidav. \Nhile there's no harm in older people b~e ing happy and gay on Christma s. still the day belongs especially to the children. All the other holidav s of the vear are davs for the older folk ~. Easter Day contafns much of significance for the older person, for the one who having lived many years ha s gone over the top of the hill s and sees before him the end of his earthly journey and the beginning of another and longer journey. Independence Day con tains much of significance for the ~\meri can citizen. who can appreciate the meaning of that event which took place on July 4, 1776. Thanksgiving Day gives opportunity for returning thanks to the giver of all good things. and since the adult ha~ lived longer he has more cause for gratitude than the child. Rut Christmas is the children's holiday. because it is the birthday of one \\·ho had a sincere love and a high respect for children. ~Ioreover. it is a dav of unusual happiness and ,a day of the giving and receiving of presents. \Ve venture to believe that most people over 20 have lost their ta . te for Christmas glee and also for the customary exchanging of gifts. But children love the day and all that goes \Yith it. \\' e therefore urge all middle aged and elderly people to help make Christma~ Day the happiest day in the whole Year for the children. . \mong the various enterprises ani111ated by the Christtnas spirit none is quite so admirable as that which has for its object the ;t"lelping and making Hubbard Woods happier of the less Toy Shop fortunate. Let us tell YOU of one of these enterprises, using the "words of one who is very directly and actively interested in the good work. "For two weeks we have organized the school shop as a Santa Claus headquarters~ where all of the five hundred children and teacher help n1ake new toys and recondition several hundred old ones which were collected by the children. "At first nearly everything brought tn was a cast-off or worn out gift. Then as the interest grew and became more definite many children brought in gifts which they really wished to keep themselves, but decided to share with their less fortunate friends in Chicago. "Soon the children asked to take work home, or volunteered to make gifts there. Then a great many mothers, some fifty or more, took dolls home to dress, or made themselves responsible for one or more gifts. "To make the . project complete we have set aside Wednesday evening of this week for the fathers to work in the shop so that they, too, may shaTe in the enterprise." Doesn't this simple story introduce to you a genuine community Santa Claus? Saturday, December 21, will be the shortest of alJ days. By this we do not imply that there will be fewer hours in that day but n1erely thctt on that day The Shortest the sun will rise later and of Days set earlier thari on any other day in the year. Inasmuch as up to the time of this writing the sun has remained hidden behind a heavv cloud curtain for a solid week, day and ~ight, December 21 will not seem darker than usual. The sun, having traveled as far south as he intends to, now stands still to rest a bit before turning northward. When he begins hi s northward journey the days will begin to lengthen. and even though real winter will not Yet have arrived still, since the sun rise s ea.rlicr and sets later , spring will seem much nearer than before the winter solstice. \\'h en shall vou begin your spring plantin g? . La:-;t week we happened to meet a newlymarried couple no\\' occupying an apartment in Oak Park. In the course of the con\'e rsat ion \\'e di scove red that they were planning to build and own a home of their o\\'n. ".\nd "·here are you intending to locate?" '"e asked. "\Ne don't know just \\'here, hut \\'e'd like to live somewhere along the north shore," was the reply. So it has been, and so it \\'ill always be. Some people want to go t o heaven. Others prefer the north shore. SHORE LINES MY CHRISTMAS PRAYER Oh Lord let me ask not for the material blessings alon~, this Christmas, but rather for the spiritual. Let me reach out my hands for possessions that are worth while, and when I find them , let me pass them on to others. Let me come to know the full meaning of the word "Christmas," and let the day be spent in a manner that shall bring peace and comfort to those around me. Let my gifts be not gifts of exchange, but gifts that are overflowing with Love, Faith, Hope and Charity. And lastly let my Christmas be a Christmas never to b~ forgotten-a Christmas that shall endure-a Christmas that speaks of the immortality of the soul. -Olivia Kingsley. ' Buy Christmas Seals! About the simplest and most effective manner in which to catch the true spirit of the holiday season is through the medium of Christmas Seals. One cannot buy too many of the little stamps and the benefits of these purchases. cannot be estimated in monetary terms. \Vhich recalls the bit of verse we culled from the Chicago Tubercu losis Tnstitute campaign literature: HOW FOOLISH To get' his ·wraith he Sfl'lli his hea lth , A nd th en ·with might and ma.in H c tunzed arozwd and spent his wealth To get his h.-alth again. HOW SENSIBLE But now he's learned to guard his health From dread disease that steals; He gets examined c1.·cry )·ear A 11d uses Christmas seals! Ain't No Juatice \i\Thi}e. the author of the adjacent columns is concerned about what he shall be doing with the next two weeks (he's a school teacher)-whether it shall be a jaunt to Alabama, Nawth Ca'lina or just a tour through the Central \Vest-we are dubious as to whether or not we can get away early enough on Xmas Eve to catch a fast train to Milwaukee to spend Christmas clay. All of which leads us to believe there's something out of kilter about this equality stuff our good forefathers dwelt npon so thoroughly. The first named gentleman indicated in the foregoing breezed into the sanctum sanctorum this day bearing what appe~red to be a large container of confectionery. \Ve were inclined to be enviou s until he volunteered the information that the parcel emanated on Canal street with a person of Sicilian ori1-dn. Now the question would seem to be: \Vas it candy or fruit? and one guess as to the kind of fruit we mean. Ancl now we are more at loss than ever to learn the p1obablc itinerary of the author of the adjacent cf·lumns. If . anyone feels inclined to gtve us a Christmas present \\'e now and here say that we'd like to g-et Dickens' Christmas Carol. · printed and bound so as to look exactly like the original edition. with drawings by Cruikshank. .\nd we'd like to have it given to us not on Chri. tmas Eve or the cia\' after Christmas but before breakfast un· Christmas morning . We are of the personal optnton that if tnore people rode bicycles good health would be more common. People who don't live many miles from where they work would find the exercise taken in cycling to and fron1 their places of business very beneficial. Incidentally they would save quite a few dollars. Just as soon as we heard that Charley, director of our "front office," was furnishing auto license blanks and also notary service we slipped down the front stairs, made our request known, and soon had what we wanted. Much obliged, Charley! Ah, Those Southern Bel1/ea! Joe of the Texas and AIC\,bama S~idmores, whose passion is · splashing in the cooling surf of the pool at the Sovereign hotel, arrived a few moments ago with her first annual contribution of Mistletoe -sent along from home for her express pleasure. Needless to say, she dodged out of bounds before we could get the dangged sprig attached to the nearest light fixture. Our very, very great loss, as all and sundry who enjoy her acquaintance will readily agree. The precocity of modern youth was never m<=!re · ~trikingly ilustrated than in the terse but prectse missive directed to Santa by a Seventh grade Glencoe girl who specified a diamond ring and a roadster as her outstanding Yuletide demands. Merry Christmas ! -MIQUE.