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RemutOuns Of cOndOlen0e, cardaetftha»kum, obitu- aies iOticeB of entertaljimentl or other affaire utier. ant admittance 'charge la publlshed. will b. charged at regular advertisfing rates. Grade Separation, Will Save Life Let', Hasten the Dagi r Unele Sam now charges 'three cents to carry a letter even so short a distance as just aroufid the corner. Four letters cost A nmore than a delicious -c:hocPlate soda. 0f. Suggestion course you know that some'drug stores charge only* ten cents for chocolate spdas. Weill just think of paying almost ýas much for three letters as,,for a top-notch thirst- quencher.. For justa penny more than it costs to send two letters yptu can ride for miles -and miles on a street car. And we venture to declare that the aver- age letter isn't worth three cents.: It's largely, "Dear Susie: Hôw are you? We, are feeling fine. Isnt the. weather awful,1? (And so on for page after page.)1 Weil, 1 can't think of anything more.tosay. Good bye. Sadie." 'Why waste three cents on the average letter? Our sugges 1tion is that you use govern- ment post cards. Each o ne costs onlv a penny. Write small, and you, can say many importan.t things on one of these faniiliar cards. If you. want to send a post card mes- sage that the postal clerks can't.,under- stand, use.an agreed-upon code. Uncle Sain will carry it thousands of miles for s0 low a, price that we are. ashamed to repeat it. 0f. course ."kive and kisses" doesn't9g weIl on a post card. Some of our north shore banks have closed. That's a sad fact. We sympathize with those to ivwhoi the closing has meant A ids totaken away from Aidtom an, h ow quickly Civili*'ation would he 'degenerate into a tbirsty, dirty ani.mal.'Were, garbage -npt disposed of in a sanita ry-fashion, how, soonwolle siicken and die. This 'ittie preface is here proposed to cali our readers' attention to the. fact that in Glencoe there is now in operation a haif ,filiion gallon water storage tank and that. flot far froni- this tank stands the garbage incinerator. Two important provisions for the health, and happiness of. the people of, GI en coe. The village, will now have -ample water for ail purposes-for drinking, bathing, washing, cooking. watering. Garbage Nill also lie consumed. And 'when these funda- mental conditions have been provided for, two of the most essential conditions for who'lesale commulnity living have been supplied. J4aving these, perhaps Glencoe. can, get allong for a, while without a bank. Certain Winneétka citizens have organ- ized. in a. preliminary way a Winnetka Historical society. At the same time a.ý NortkShore *'commnittee w a s ap- Nortlzpointed to make plans History for' making the or- ganization permanent. This seemns to us a praise-worthy enter- prise. Trhe history of a~ nation, a city, a community, a family,. an individu ai, is weIl. wvorth recording. If a history of Europe is valuable, for the same reason, the, history of. a .co mrunity- is valuable. The present and the future are children of thepast.The prohl.ens of the past,,aýnd the, solutionsý of thee poblms hrow light on the proli I'ems of the present and future and suggest solutions. History repeats itself. There is a use of history that we cen- *qiüd 'magic ,naze of color everywzhere. The ftnlip troops and royal iris stood On gitard, 10 keep vagrants front field and wvood Fi-ont siirging o'er the velvet carpet spread 'Ne-atiz poid fringed pasiel canopies overhead.. Then daitivý columb ine danced, through the. day AnUd oriental poppiesç gorgeonls, gay, lit e.otic abandon it hel v swayed To elfin nusic, feathered'min.trels Played. ~'Noup1, lac plumtes have zwithered ta brown rust,. And tarnished fringe lies trodden in the dust For Io, the mterrI' troupe ha-re gonje their wuay Until another gladsomne ront/s of May. .Ruit there is inuch of beatity for us yet- Peluias, hrks ur. phlox and -migto nettel, .4 rose garland will crowvn cacit lovely day WJhile statelv ies graccfudly wu411sway. As columbine doifs ber harle quin cap, To nod o'er tiny seedlikgs in her lap Aitd crimsont geraniums, wet te4th dew, Greet daisy stars 'neath skies of azure bNue. -Edna- E. Lanferinan. AND THE NIGHT SHALL BE FILLED WITH MUSINGS. WeIl., folks, 'tis the' season for ýnear beer and .toldà meats. Which. reminds, us of "bot dogs" and thé, lesson that life ha s taught us ait -the basebali park, namely,. that mnost -of_ this ballyhoo about "biot dogs" being hot is just-a lot. of "boloney-" That's what we learned in' the daylight. Mavbe. m-e'd have somei pretty illusions 'if ive attended a night basebali gaine. But ail is not lost, however cool 'the "bot clogs" mav be. The restaurants rernain open ail night to so(othe the c.ynics with hamburger and onions. Yep; this, combination wilI always-we hope-remain, a. *ple ,asant niystery to us. Then, too, vwhen '"boloney" episodes rankleie luir memory, ive find, solace by Iookinig intoj the winidow of a hakery.. You knôw, the bakery is thé* front door to the print shop-didn't Benjamin Franklin carry buns with hlm Mien he entered Philadeiphia? MXThat' if lie had started an epidemic'of. punis instead of buns? Well, now that we've adjusted the buliet-proof vest which was given us in Meirose Park,. let us proceed with, these deep musings. (Horace Greeley- diln't be?-,once remarked'to a pun-stricken re- porter. "Go vest, young man, go vest !") These are. words of real. assurance, words that may be depended upon: What more cap bank directors do by way of estabIishing çpnfidence than to promise , publicly that they. stand "solidly behind Whereas on the north shore we func- tionied as teacher and editoriai writer, up hère we functipn niainly as water-carrier, firepflace tender,. occasional pianist,. post- holedigger,ý reader and. sleeper. Iocks are airea( they're stili wi the other side a thinkini us. (u 1 crank ti( ýg so ràuch that our f ew gray, but we're thankful .rn the record over on Q phonogràph.) As ,the nman told bis wif e: "When your. hair'bas turnied ýto .sîilver, l'ill go ioff the gold standard." -Night Editor.