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Highland Park Press, 11 Jun 1931, p. 14

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Congratulations To the high school graduate: The Highland Park public library congratulates you at Commencement, at the commencement of a life of larger usefulness and wider knowlâ€" edge. The library reminds you that, merce, or industry, your best life is just beginning, and that for the best life vou will continue to need books. 18 Life itself will teach you many things, but your own existence can be only the smallest segment of the great are of existence. Good books will open to you revealing glimpses of the past, help you to interpret the present, and show you visions of the future. Your library offers you all its treasures of wisdom and delight. Some of these books you have read. Some of them, perhaps, you tried to read too soon. Try them again. As you know, this matter of readâ€" ing goes largely by authors. Read something of every good author, but read all of some good author and call him your own. Then you will know Public Library _ _ Vigit the â€"â€" 1P TC 6 H O W FRANKEN BROS., Inc. Deerfield, Ilinois First Street West of Railroad and Then South to the End of the Street ARE NOW AT THEIR BEST â€" SmdlorourBookkt“Stgbauchfino!Mochrt” Ask to have your name placed on our mailing list & for Spring and Fall Catalogs. C Make your selections from plants now in bloom something of the range and depth of-‘j‘ the human heart and mind. Read something in every field of literature, but read widely in some one field. Then you will know something of the variety and also something of the cneness of the universe. m.’.flcxi . _ The May issue of Scribner‘s magaâ€" ‘aine h vw‘ s é‘éfi atimnp snrcear fi-'fl' cent plays. This is a part of the monthly article by William Lyon Phelps entitled "As I Like It." One is inspired after reading to foster such projects as our North Shore Circuit theatre whose last play. Salt Water was so well done and thorâ€" oughly enjoyable. Phone Deerfield 241 x Camping * "Afoot and lightâ€"hearted, I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me, Leading wherever L choose." â€"From The Open Road, by Walt Whitman. & Roughing It Smoothly, by Elon Jessup, gives practical suggestions for avoiding "vacation pitfalls‘â€"how not to get lost in the woods, how not at to get drowned, care withcampfires, sleeping out, and poisons of the woods. If you are going to build a cabin of your jaunt into the open, Camping Out, by W. H. Miller, suggests backâ€" packing, horseâ€"packing, canoe vyoyâ€" ageuring, autoâ€"camping, or beach hiking. **When" you have decided that it is to be a motor tour, Motor Camping, by J. C. and J. D. Long, has outlined descriptions of camping sites as well as rules tourists. ~~If you> are> going to buil â€"da â€"cabin and stay out all summer,; Camps, by F. E. Brimmer, discusses choosing the site, and construction .of types of camps, including camp plans and sketches, and instructions for makâ€" ing rustic furniture. f Or if you "Sling your pack upon your back and take the outward, upâ€" ward track," perhaps you should read first, The Gentle Art of Tramping, by Stephen Graham. Out of Doors With Youth, by James Davies is also a simple statement and regulations for motor bornâ€" of ~theâ€" practical â€"experience of camping for 20 years. § Lincoln We wonder that so great a man as Abraham Lincoln should spring from humble peopleâ€"but who knows what his more distant ancestry might have been? In "The Path of the King," John Buchan pictures what he imâ€" Lincoln. The worthy son of a northâ€" ern chieftain~ who had come down with his people into Normandy; a Norman knight who had fought unâ€" der Duke William and settled in Engâ€" land; a French knight, emissary of Saint Louis to Kubla Khanâ€"all these ‘and more, in â€" Buchan‘s story, were Lincoln‘s forebears. Their blood ran in his veins and made him, in James Russel Lowell‘s phrase, "The last of the kings." Mrs. Eva G. Grozier, for several years the children‘s librarian of the Highland Park public library returned: to the library on Monday from Hanâ€" over college where she has been a student the past year. She will be at the library for three months durâ€" ing the summer as a general assisâ€" tant while the regular members of the staff have their vacations, and will help in moving into the new li«â€" brary building â€"later <in the~ summer. Flowers s â€"If the comments on the flowers daily found in the library could be heard by the donors, they would feel their efforts were appreciated. Lake Forest academy comnrenceâ€" j ment exercises will_beâ€"held Saturday â€"â€"â€" at 11 am. The address will be deâ€" livered by Curtis W. Reese, D.D., dean of the Abraham Lincoln Center of Chicago. He will speak on "The Need for Intelligent Controls." He was formerly president of Lombard college. .Headmaster John Wayne Richards will announce honors and prizes, and diplomas will be distribâ€" uted by G. Corson Ellis of the board of trustees. Commencement events will begin Friday afternoon with aâ€"~ tennis match. Class day exercises will follow. The annual declamation â€" _ â€" contest will be a feature, and the planting of the class ivy will be a colorful event. Graduates from this }section are: Grant Herman and Fred Zahn, Highland Park, and James Lake Forest Academy ~ _ Closing Exercises â€"â€"_â€" Held Next Saturday uated under the newâ€" Richards plan of extended classâ€"study periods, ofâ€" ficially adopted by the school after a thorough trial, and. which has proved a splendid success. Harrison of Deerfield. Even his best friends wouldn‘t tell him, so he flunked the test. cae w es ie ons hests s o l on ce es n ADAMSâ€"BAUER COMPANY Remodeling â€"New Basements Reroofing â€" Every Branch of Property Improvement a n d Maintenance. Free Estimates. 37 So. Wabash Avenue _ CHICAGO _ .>._ Thursday Dollars Down Years To Pay Juneâ€"11, 1981 fi--'G---.-“-' "uy be grad=â€"â€"â€"â€"â€"

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