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to .Be Lvent This. Sunday A Scout's Own will be.beld for al Wilmette Girl Scouts on, Sunday, March Il', at 3 o'clock at St., Augus-ý tine's EpiscopaI church. This is a service of reverence.in whicli aIl Girl Scouts, regardless of race or creed, may participate. The week of March. 12 is Anniver-- sary week, clebrating the'22nid anni- versary of Girl Scouting in Amierica. The Minmette Girl Scout leaders 'con- sider this Scout's Own .'service'1 as a veyfitting way -in which to bave al 'tAlette Girl Scouts, leaders, Council and. Committee -miembers, gather to- gether, and thus start the week rigbt.ý As maost Girl Scouts know,, a Juliette Low Memnorial f und was started after the Girl Scout founder's death. Each- ye ar contributions are sent from, the various councils' in the counîtry. It bas been suggested that at this. Scout's Own each person bring a penny or two for this f und. "Let's do our best to have every troop well represented, at this service on Suniday,!" is the plea made by Wil- n*tte leaders. Girli Scouts of Troo> 3, Play Morse Code Gaâme The first thing the menibers; of Troop 3 did last Thursday was to sing somne songs. We also learned a new mie. After tîlat .we went to. patrol cornets for attendance and we. were supposed to think of a game in which we .could use our laws. Ellen Jones' patrol was ready. first, so we played their gamne. We aIl stood, in a circle, and one per- ..ýson wbo. was ýin the middle turned, around witb 'bher eyes sbut. Then she would stop and point to someone and say a number; then that person would. have to. say *tbe law she numbered. Next We pla2yed -a Morse code game. There were cards -around the noom with letters 'in Morse code on. tbem. Tbey were numbered 1, 2,' and 3. Trhe ones were ail one word, and the twos were alI one word, etc. Then Miss I The Girl Scout Leaders' association met Tuesday of last week. Many plans were nmade, including those for the Scout's Own, the Misses Dorothy Tay- lor, Agnes Bichl, LeNore Palmer and Norah: Palmer are to arrange this. service. It was .d ec ided that Miss. Dorotb y Taylor, Mrs. D.* W. Ormsbee and Mrs. 0. E. Anderson work on a committee with Mrs. Hl. J. Dernehi: and Mrs., I. .. Reynolds to make plans for the pro- grain at the father andi daughter bail- quet 1<> he given April 16. The badges. for March were dis- cussed, witb special' empha1sis on the minstrel badge as a.fine one.to work on in troop meetings. flrownie bandi-, craft furnished great. fun' for those presenit, and the meeting closed with a "good-night", circle.. DiscussSix Methods. of Measuring Heights Troop 1 met Thursday nigbt at the usuial liour of 7:15, although b lie very honest, quite a number of the troop members failed to 'leave home early enough to make it possible for, themn to arrive at:that exact time. Sev- eral other events made it impossible for a numnber'of these older girls to he present, and the resuit was that the small nuniber i attendance de- cided it would. be a splendid opportun>- ity« to do sanie real "digging" on first class measuremnents. Six methods of nieastiring beights were discussed and, it is hoped, Very tboroughly learned. Measurement of' distances. wiît be the. rext step. . The girls also tried their abilitv at observation as well as their' watistic.ability as tbey played "Aniimal they ývould have to be more-observing n the, future i'f th.ey were tomake, their lead pencils show, the difference )etweeli'a cow and a dog! Scouts Wr«Ite 'Messages to Their Absent Leader Iiursday,, March, 1, Troop 2 began its meeting ,by playing, games. Then week. The meeting was hnv'u t Line Shawnee Country club and was one of several evening meetings that the Chamber of Commerce is. planning ta bold this year. Following the dinner Bradford < Keeler, president of' the Chamber, turned, the meeting over to Miss, Ruth Slown, president ofthe Business and Prof essional Women's. club. Miss Slown and Mrs. liallie Barton Smoot. chairman of the local business wom- en4s public zrelationis committee, intro- duced the ýspe.akers, aIl of whiom were women outs.tanding in their particular business or profession. ,Heur Fedtratiôn Head, Miss Celia Howard, president of thé Illinois. Federation of Business and Professional Women, was the firs t to speak. She told of the aims and accomplishments of the business women's. organizations truhu the country. ýThe- excellent. average; attendancee record of -the Wilmette Business and Professional Women's club' was. praised iiy Miss Jessie Sentnev, who followed Miss Howard on the pro- gram. Miss Sentney, a teachen. at New Trier high schooi, is district ýchair-' men for the business and professional womien. Following ber talk Mrs. Smo ot. who, as public relations 'chairnian of the local business women's group. planned the 'prograni for the din.ner. introduced the f ollowing ,%oi-eri Speakers, aIl of them prominent in, their particular fields of labon: Noted Womnie Speak Mrs. KarI A. Buehr, artist; Miss Kathleen McLaugblin, journalist 'and member' of the staff of the Chicago Tribune; Dr. Vida Latham, physician and dentist; Miss ITarriet Vittuni. Eiead resident' of the Nortbwestern UJniversity settlement; Miss, Alice Green acre,, attorney1;. Mrs. Bert , Sehil- ler McDonald,' director. - at - large of the International Florists' association a d past, president of, the Chicago 'rea Florists' club, and Mrs. Martin Kent Northam, who was bead of the publicity department at A Century of Progress last year. Each speaker discussed. her particu- Very early in the survc-y it was brought out that flot alI who came to the library took out books. About tNcntyý per cent of the visitors came to read the magazines and newspapers, look up questions in the reference. books,. and browse among the ýbooks 1on the shelves. 1 Housewives and students contrih- uted the. grcatest numbers ini the oc- cupational gioups, with wide varia- tion in the re maining pursuits. The library numbers .,among1 its active, b)orrowers physicians, statisticians., steiographers, chbe fs, secretaries. clerks, musicians,, bankers, insurance men.. teachers,ý printers,. realtors, en- gineters, artists, plasteriers,. architects. advertising men,. nurses, lawyers., brokers, CWA workers, comiptone- trists, decorators, painters and a large number of unemployed.. Fiction, was the most popular ciass. with biography, literature, :travel. philosophy, art and science also1 in. demand. The book:ýbuying policy was clani- fed, but' will flot be chaneed to an-, great extent, for ail types of reading- interests must be satisfied. High scbool and college students dernand books in ail fields and they must hebc servèd. Recreational and. occupa-. tional interests overlap,, and it will be necessar.y in thefuture, asini the past. for the library to balance the needs. of the whole cornnunity to. seci-rea \%cll-rounided whole. RETURNS F1ROM FRANCE Mrs. C. A. McCann réturned to her home at 1529 Washington avenue last Sunday 'from a trip to France, wheee she 'had been since early in January. She arrived in N ew York- on Wednuesday of last week on the Champlain, and then. spent -several days in the .east. Mrs. McCaà,n was called' to- Nancy by the. deatb, of her father. She spent the month of Feb-, ruary in' Paris. Her mother, who ne-_ turned - itb her,, will, leave s oon for California where shewill make lier homeý. Uit ii 'ICI I.UViK., ' urlu. -801 Uibbard 'road, and their son and daughter-in-làw, Mr. and Mrs. Har- DINNER FOR GUILD LUNCHEON HOSTESS old Hamxnond, 1630 Walnut avenue, Mrs. R. J. Bennett entertained the Mrs. judson Large, '1942 Thorn- returtied Sunday 'motoring from Young Woman's guild of the Pres- wood avenue, 'will be luncheon host- Florida. They were gone more than byteianchuvh a dinerTuesay ss o be brdgeclubFriaythree weeks, spending considerable byteianchuch a dinerTuesay ss o he brdgeclubFriaytime at St, Petersburg. The last day at her home, 1033 Ashlanld avenue. Marcb 16. ' fte tpte drove 50mls UNDERGOES OPERATION Gordon Buck of 1518 Forest avenue was taken seriously ilI Iast Monday night and was rushed to the Evans- ton hospital for an appendicitis, opçra- tion.