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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 Nov 1938, p. 44

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Museum 'Is Under Cuild Auspices T!he McLaren guild of the Church of the, Holvy Comforter is sponsoring a luncheon, at the Hotel. Sherry and a tour-of the famous 1arding home.'and mu- seum on- Moriday.- November 7. Theý day is opento. anv woman "interested. whether a, irnmber of the curchor not. Thase attend ing are te assemble at the, Hotel, Sherry, which. is at Fifty-third' street and 'the Outer. drive, at .12:30. oîclock, and after luncheon théyè.-ill go te the liard- ing, residence a t 4853 South Lake Park drive. FTrom 2 until 4, ýthey w!14 wander through the mnus eurn * with its 'interesting trea sures xhich make of it a collecte-r'.s paradise. The colection é.as strted . som e, sixty-five years ago by. George Harding. Sr-, father of the present George F: Harding. The son has added te. tie collection, year after year. until n(-,.. about $55,000,000 worth of trea sures from al ever the world, each with a history of its ow,,n, is in the rnuseurn. There is an Egyptian mumrmy o!f 350 B. C., her head and feet ex- posed; a rare stone carving tdated 667 B. C.> o! Assur, Banipal, Assyri- The Wilmette Historical rorn ut-LIU be one o!' frhe rov1el attrac of the ttwo-dai Annual Fail bazaqr held urider auspices o!' frhe Wl guild of the Wilmette Parish MNethodist church Nouember 17 an~ The first Zneeting o ' the. com-mirtee ini charge iras held recentZyý those riresent at .rhat time, are pictured here. From left to right, sta7 New Members ot Monticello Club The Chicago Monticello Alum- nae club'is. giving its, annual fali_ teàaia the Chicago'. College clu;b, 196 East Delaware place, on Sýat- urday afternoon, -Novemnber 19, to.greet the new members of the organizatiofl. At à oclock motion pictures will be show.%n of the regular activities of ýth.e p sehool and of the Centennial gather- ï, ings and. functions last. spring when NMontice.llocelebrated its 1one- hundÉed th year. Illinois can boast of having the oldest school in the Mid- die West, founded long before the Civil war at a time when few uwornen received any education. A schôol of this high1 type Was a great achieve- ment for Illinois. President' George Irwin Rohrbough wýil1 cor»e from the college at God- frey to be the principal speaker, Other honored guests will include Martina Erickson Parsons, former president cf Monticello. who v.ill corne frorn Terre Haute, Ind., anid T. S. Chapman of Chicago, a mrem- ber -of the..Monticello board of 5 ns rustees. Id 18. Recent graduates epected to be ,anrid among the new, members includel' nding -Miss Caroline Clark and 'Miss Mar- garet Coleman of Wilmnette, and Miss harp which oelonged tro -Marie An-. tomette; ýa Persian rug that teck five artists twelve years tre w11eave, a gift to Alexçis o f Russia: the. bed carried by Napoleon on his Egyp- tian campaign. Arnong the musical pieces are a piano v.hich belonged te Franz Lis zt, and another on which Chopin composed'his pieces. Among the art treasures are paintihgs, by. Van Dyke, Gainsborough, Goya, and Bu- chet, and statues by Remington and Meyer, an~d Mrs. E.X L. Gr The program will be an of poetry by Ethel Swift. afternoon Miss MacGowan, to Speak1 Tri Delfa Motlhers WiIl at Educational Parleys Clara. MacGowý,an, assistant pro- fesso--r (of art at Northwestern uni- versity, and president of the depart- ment of art education. National Edu- catiron association. will be a princi- pal speaker at two state -annal football ganv .were present. Have Two Books.Revewed A bc rex iev.ý together with a brief la Lkon her experiences whîle traveling in Europe this summer wilbe given by Mrs. Edward L. Middleton of. Evanston on Thursdav. members o! the Gi ny club, recently. wiil act as co-hostesses. Tlo>se wno will serve aouiid the te-a-tables -will be. M-iMary Jane Ten Eyck, -Missý B3etty. Tru~man, 'Miss 'Mary Newýell, Miss Anme MýacKayýe Chapman, Ms .Jcyce StIanton. Miss Frances Garet- son,' Miss. Katherine Simonhds and Miss Jane .Cooley. Reservations for the tea 'are being' taken by Mrs. John Taylor Posteli,ý 1120 North Lake Shore drive,. Chica- go, and Mrs. William R. Purcell, 801 Hinman avenue, Evanston. owmng the an- A mieeting of the North Sh, were .played. ning group o! the Rockford of Wilmette Alumnae association will bE home to the the home of Miss Elizabeth club, a Tech- 630 Lake, avenue, Wilmette, evening, November. 8. ore Eve- College held a t WILMETTE UIFE,

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