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Highland Park Press, 13 Oct 1927, p. 18

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After having reflected upon the difâ€" ficulties and burdens carried by the president, most of us here have chosen not to run for that office. 435,500. All records were broken on Thursday, which was Governor‘s day, with 110,000 people passing through the gates. The only disagreeable weather was on Tuesday, Springfield Day, when the afternoon program had to be called off on account of rain. Estimated attendance at the Illinois state fair exceeded that of 1926 by 137,91‘)[)‘ V'IA'he total attendance was STATE FAIR CROWDS LARGEST IN HISTORY North Shore Radio Shop 129 UUTs ‘u throbbing "Zum, M -"o?t‘bebuviol, € the shrill staccaro of the futeâ€"on this radio speaker ;n:h comes thr(;nlh :ith amazing naturainess and true musical quality. Ask for demonstrat "The Victorians did not like to speak of death because they thought death ugly and it affronted their pomâ€" pous dignity, therefore they called it ‘passing on,‘ or ‘facing one‘s Maker,® or ‘the final moment‘â€"cireumlocuâ€" tions which meant nothing. We do not like to speak of death because it is interrupting and affronts our restless exhibitionism, therefore we say ‘getâ€" ting his) or ‘passing out‘ or if we belong to a lower social order, being ‘bumped | off"â€"cireumlocutions which also mean nothing. } Concerning the much _ boasted frankness of speech, Mr. Burt says: May Say Anything "There is practically nothing that cannot be said if the circumstances ind the intention are correct, there is mss s ee dn itcaums _the inâ€" tention are wrong. The mere‘ de@re to shock is as sentimental as the mgre desire to suppress. We have all heard people say God in a way that made our hair creep and we have all heard people use indecency in a way that warmed our hearts. There is not much sense in destroying a fiction ifJ we erect another in its place. To be educated out of reading True Tales: into reading, let us say, College Wit,j is to be educated out of the kitchenI by a circuitous route back to the butler‘s pantry. | The modern revolt against convenâ€" tions is greeted by a counter revoluâ€" tion in a recent issue of Scribner‘s Magazine. Struthers Burt is the leader. Mr. Burt, who is a young man, aithough he has many books to his credit, doesn‘t object to the charâ€" acterization of Victorian prudery and sentimentality as "hokum," but he exâ€" ercises his privilege of pointing to what heâ€" considers the "hokum" in the modern attitude. The young intelâ€" lectuals are in danger of sufl"ucatiunh by their own conventions, he declares. ‘ 384 CENTRAL AVENUE Telephone 265 Magazine Ridicules Much of Modern Conventionâ€" al System NEW REVOLT AGAINST HOKUM In gits far beginings â€" the impulse to ; make the good better, better babies, better mothers, better humanity," l "‘Sience is realizing," concludes the {article, "that its contributions to: the | home and to family life are not the ilt-asl among .its responsibilitics and \ powers," â€" __ Danald Marice Hall, 34 months old, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilbert H. Hall, Kincaid, was declared to be the most perfect child examined at the twelfth annual state fair better baâ€" bies conference. He was given a $20 bank savings account and, a gold watch., Elizabeth Jane Holler, 2 year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee I. Holler, 1516 Dia} court, Springfield, won the $20 sweepstakes award as the highest eligible girl in the conâ€" ference. Her rating was 99. 4 } satisfaction. e . "To make housework casier. better planned and ...3 considered; to make children ?ier to understand and ea +a KINCAID CHILD Is STATE FAIR WINNER ier to understand and so family relations; these are diate aims shared by the Institute and many other tions. _ The remoter purp impulse that has lifted the "The dog, turning around before he :(“: sleeps on the hearth rug is only, some wes! speculative minds hold, trying to reâ€" gain produce the forest background that is high his birthright. . The modern mother 0 who builds a healthy, harmonious and, happy family life from the complex| °"4 civilization that surrounds the people | th¢ of today as completely as the jungle | Shee surrounded their remote ancestors,| ‘"*" has the same organic and creative data This is the time of year when certain planting should be done in order to obtain the best results â€" â€" such as â€". SHRUBS â€" TREES â€" PERENNIALS » We have an excellent stock on hand twice as many mothers as in the first year augurs public interest in the propect. ied saAt 12 closed at Vassar college, that similar schools may be founded throughout the country, says the Woman‘s Home Companion. Women themseives were highly pleased with the instruction they received. "The experiment, which was called an ‘Institute for Euthenics‘ meant the teaching of the science of everyâ€" day living," says the article. "The fact 1 that in its second year it attracted Such success attguiled ti school for mothers which closed at Vassar collems 1 SCHOOL FOR MoTHERS â€" . sUccEss ar vassar Experiment Proves Popular and Ch-!l"&dhm Box 142, Highland Park TIHP.2z75 1| > MOVINGâ€"PACKINGâ€"SHIPPING Iredale Fireproof Warchouses EVANSTON â€" WINNETKA â€" HIGHLAND PARK Highland Park Transfer & Storage Co Baggage and Freight Transfer STORAGE nderstand and so to adjust elations; these are the immeâ€" ms shared by the Euthenics and many other organizaâ€" The remoter purpose is the 374 Central Avenue, Highland Park Telephone Highland Park 181â€"182 m;ic‘e’:fll;ir:n aexith- ifted the race from â€" the impulse to P. H. PRIOR, Manager PLANTING one of the just H data which will prove of vnlll;: Qi‘e good road campaign in the southern While in France with the American Army I obtained a noted French prescription for the treatment of Rheumatism and Neuritis. I have given this to thousands with wonâ€" derful results. The prescription cost me nothing. I ask nothing for it. 1 will mail it if you will send me your address. A postal will bring it. Write today. One day was spent in Springfield, and in the absence of Governor Small the party conferred with Framk T. Sheets, chief highway engineer, being furnished with a large amount of state from Cairo to Chicago, thence west to Rockford, for the purpose of gaining first hand informationyon the highway system. making an exhaustive study of the lllinois hard road system, with the idea of recommending this plan in their state. During the past week Governor Theo. G. Bilbo, accompanied by H. C. Dietzer, state highway engineer, and X. N. Kramer of McComb, toured the RHEUMATISM Travel Over Many Miles of Them In Tour to Get Ideas For Use at Home; Governor Is In Party INSPECT IJILLINOI State officials of PAUL CASE, Dept. Lâ€"96 * Brockton, Mass. icular interest in the organization of the highway department. The infor. 1 Gover 500 Miles The party traveled more than 500 miles over the state highway all of which is paved, the tour affording Mmufl-u.u.‘ number of people in widely separated "‘“‘"“hlhl--bfio*{ of the Milinois highway plan. While in and has placed "“'""'1"";!!- Chicago North Shore and Milwaukee R. R. Co. mcaOued, * Dived vht * tr hetmiad en dhe 2 Aoks c3 «5. annual convention of the awarding Association‘s trophy for speed with , Records show flmmmummuywm&mmflsau%% andMilwaukeeatanavazgqueedofSBSmila an hour without figuring time spaztatlops,andatll.amilaanhwrinchdkgurezuhrschaduhdm Official designation as the fastest electrically operated railroad in the United States was given to the North Shore Line last week at the 46th annual convention of the Nufihl.inw*h Skokie Valley Route has made the Skokie Valtznna‘h as "the newer North Shore" community of homes! Frequent of their homesite problem. Many parâ€" e marartans that they may have their children live Well Rotted Manure Deerfield, Hlinois BLACK DIRT | FRANK SILJESTROM JUST . to us as your telephone. 152 North First Street, Highland Park Phone Highland Park 65 Valley the solution An Incomparable FRANKEN BROS., Inc. .‘.."b_-dma-u-a:'ha..ln. Hesnoctively. thew ‘noumait mAE Il-:;-ui?-l;"&' lems confronting Mississippi. Three reccived i to Pligeah ib d parg c heng malghs advg GIVEN The Road of Service (Horse or Cow) The Skokie V of the North Crsdi="poSckr> -tgfi"n.'zaâ€".. to of Mexico, 1623 oailes away To the younger generation, especially, e T oneâ€"4 Phone Deerfield 241 @nough housemaids in the kitchens. study physiclegy, and anyway they mmmm: at the sods fountains. There always seem to be plenty of 99 and 98 per cent in their grades at the state fair. «9

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