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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 17 Nov 1938, p. 60

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Vacation Puzzle )EN S Leave the Chidren witfh US. while you are away. For a night, week-end or a month, or two. We can 'transport to school now attend- ing. Also-Pre- schoot 'and After-sch ool Clubs. Swýimning, 'riding end dancingj. REASONABLE RATS OUTDOOR RUCREATION SCHOOL 822. Michigan Ave., l2th year Miss. Shapker, Wilmette 676 Patronize Our Advertisers THE VILLAGE and FARM SCHOOL For ChiIdreu - 3 t 10: LETTIE L. JOHNSTON WANDA GREINEISEN 717 Gr..nwoed Ave. If Horati.o Alger had written about i s 1 a n d s instead of newsboys, he could hav2 chosen no better hèro than Curacao, whose history is a pat ill ustration .indeedi of the time- honored "rags to. riches", theme. -Curacao has mnanaged:, to turn1 even, its defectÉ into virtues,"1 says Douglas Malcolmof the Amierican Express TravelI service, which is co- operating with the H-olland-Amierica line in sending the Rotterdam on a s p e.c, i al1 post-New, Year's5 cruise, there. The. cruise, planned so that 1 travelers ýmay spend their Christ-,1 mas, holidays, at home. leaves Jan-1I uary 7 and'uses*,New Orleans as its! starting point, for the convenience' of travelers from the South and thel Middle West. In addition to Cur- 1 acao, it will call at Cristobal, Canal: Zone; La Guayra, the port of Cara- cas, capital of Ven'ýuela.; Kingston, Jamaica, and Havana, gay capital of Cuba. Like Fabled Story *Any race but the sturdy, Dutch might long ago have given up thei attempt to wrest a living from Cura- > cao. Those people have not only1 made the island one which consist-q ently pays its own way, but also! turned its chief city, Willemstad, ininq miiae.flambovnyn+Am- schôol.. Rer tallc on Mvexico will oe rpart of the aduit education. series By Mtirjorte Melrnin Leary In last week's issue we discussed. which is held in the English :club the, courses op.en to .parents for the room every other Wednesday at 8 crean sholig f hechld As th i e to*f M x co o r , d u rin g th ir stay in th e S ou th . W e , Mrs. CÙervantes is known'to a num- o tln eda, inha ber: of . North-Shoreresidents,who wge n'l way, the have travelled' in Mexico. She' tatth chols agraduate of Sith college and befoe hr mâriae hld iporantin the key winter- ~,~' befre er a'riag hed iporantres or t locations posts in the foreign departmentof arepeae the. Y. W. C. A. Speaking with.thedofrtersr- authentic. information of. one- who tr uis has.been a Téexican citizen for sev- M a n y Parents eral years, Mrs. Cervantes gives :a who are contem- clear picture, of the primitive- cus- plating a, lengthy toms of the natives, of that country. :winter cruise or Colored motion picturesý and an ex' are to be situated hibit of arts and crafts will also in locations where be a feature of the evenîng. There there are no ade- Marjorle Leary will be a small admission fee. quate schools may ternie Photo jw1is to place thie chi1çIreni in board- LECTURE ON SPAIN ing schools. familiar to them in the Prof. Lawrence Martin, professor Chicago area. 0f journalism at Northwestern uni-ý versity, and creator of -Ken Par- Most of the private schools not.in ticles," will preside as chairman I the resort locations are organized when Joseph North, Spanish warl'on the year or semester basis an d correspondent of the Dally Record pngsaefldadcotcs rnakes his first appearance in Chi- .opigsaefldadcotas cago. North will relate his experi-i made with parents according to this ences Sunday, November 20, at 31 plan. Frequently openings do oc- p.m. at the Skyline Athletic club, cur, however, throughout the year 188 W. Randolph street. and many, of the smaller schools, less, pondless, ,Curalcao went on catching the Ettle Water it couId in cisterns and tanks, buying mýoOýre from visiting ships Today its people are hailing this lack of ramn as a blessing in dis- guise- its's a tourist attraction, and a real one. Curacao can practically guarantee travelers sunshine and good weather at any time of year, and it has not been slow to exploit that fact. the island, for mo st of the oranges may wish' to place their chiidren in were shipped out and processed boarding schools for a shortened à,broad. period and will let us know the ages Later Curacao had'1 visions of the of the children and the approximate w e a 1 ?Ph to be made in ostrich time and duration of their absence, plumes. It had no sooner stocked up with ostriches than the feather we will be glad to put them in touch market collà-psed, leaving the ost- with schools where -th ey. can make rich men holding the sack. these arrangements. In the gooci Horatio Alger tradi- tion,. however, Curacao had its re- Note: Marjorie Mclean Leary is lhe .war atlas. Ql ws dscoerj consultant. of the School and Camp Bu- :70ý 'and Irving. Whits, -was a-- ---- --- - h it of a few seasons ao ta" in an class e to be Decemn- Bennett oadway S'y7 S. Wob.sb 7Sb lý j7oo

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