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Highland Park Press, 7 Nov 1946, p. 3

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-:‘.“ iuh.‘..“m,.‘ on l‘mfllâ€" oven doors of Hades were wide heat. ~Lugi, my houseboy, brought That steadied things a bit . . . So this, I .‘m.n is Zanzibar! The yearsâ€"of dreams! Then my mind did a flipâ€"flop of a few thousand miles . . . and I remembered Robbie. "She‘s got everything," I told Lugi. _ "Coppery hair â€" burnâ€" picked to go with it. Brown velâ€" vet cattails against flaming auâ€" tumn leaves." That sounded good. Didn‘t know I had it in me. I spilled my heart out to Lugi. "It was Robbie, y‘see, versus plans of years‘ standing. *o-cn!'hh e‘m or leave ‘em. And everything under control until that last year in college. Known her all my lifeI had, and never known that she was alive. Then â€" wham! there she was . . . just like I‘d seen her for the first time. What d‘ye make of that, Lugi?" Thursday, Nov. 7, 1946 Lugi, his mahogany face inserutâ€" able, readjusted the iceâ€"pack. "Calls me ‘Ricky‘," I rambled on. "Silly, but sort of cute, at that." I knew I was running off at the mouth, but I couldn‘t seem to stop. ‘"Take the way she looks at a fellow â€" shy, but protective, if you know whata I mean, Me â€" a great big hulk twice her lil‘: Tlfg took over. â€" Bernard‘s a swell eggâ€" but she‘s a Spartan. Raised me to be‘a Spartan, too. I think she‘d shoot me if I called her ‘Grandâ€" mother.‘ . Oh, she‘s a character, definitely. _ Took over all grandâ€" father‘s holdings after his deathâ€" managed them like a general . .. I‘m the spit‘n‘ image of my grandâ€" daddy. And all set to follow in the old boy‘s footsteps. Romance . . . adventure â€" it‘s in the blood. How I used to thrill to his yarns..." way a mother might . . . if you‘d ever had a mother. Mine died when I was two. ‘Then Bernardine True enough, grandfather‘s salty tales had instilled in me a longâ€" ing for romance and adventure at a very early age. Zanzibar, es pecially,.where he‘d â€" acquired a clove plantation, had become someâ€" thing of a symbol to me. _ _ _ The old sea captain had painted his pictures with a master hand. Zanzibar. The name conjured up an atmosphere so heavy with spice that it smote you and wakened you in the dead of night when the boat steamed into harbor, Row upâ€" on row of clove treesâ€"the deep, clear green of their leaves dotted with purplish clusters of tiny flowâ€" The new Gâ€"inâ€"1 kitchen aid Easy to use. all sizes of vacuum sealed cans, jars and bottles. 90 per cent of all mm?unldhdlym'm" out um'nm also serves as a bottle opener, olive and cherry L.2 TBX a0/â€"emahiat? Wipersr on os ow made of a fine spring steel, heatâ€" Mwmu.wtm- hidnr f.-':'mu en & have one. mefiflm teed. 35 cents at the f: stores: Blue Goose Food Market, Central Hardware, Highland Park Pharmacy, Husenetter Hardware, Ravinia, Sears, Roebuck & Co., Larson‘s . Stationery, Deerfield Enpdadgfiaaow& So This Is Zanzibar! THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE READING ROOM Maintained by First Church of Christ, Highland Park, Mincis HOME PRODUCTS Highland Park, Minois },...n...-nwa-...h-..-l.. and Christian Literature may be read, borrowed, or purchased Hours: Week Days for opens aid er buds. | Dazzling sunlight. The old city, itself, with its crooked, """.""‘""‘-mm quaint cemeteries, . Thoroughfare uâ€"h‘vifib::.â€"'hih.ihe:.‘ ’& -,,nm'c .!m veiled ones. The picturesque naâ€" tive» sultan with his imposing esâ€" eort, clad brilliantly in scariet fez and jersey, with white shorts. The babel of strange tongues . . . "So you see," I told Lugi, "why I couldn‘t let even little Brownâ€" eyes disrupt my deepâ€"laid plans. Bernardine had this post all picked for me. I owed her that much. And it‘s just the way grandfather said . . . only it‘s so hot . . . so inâ€" fernally hot!" . Lugi turned into a fussy little man with a VanDyke and a paunch who, in turn, wavered and faded and became a white, severe woman with a cap, continually trying to shush me. . But I talked anyway. "Berpardine knows me better than I know myself. I‘m a throwâ€" back to grandfather. Wanderlust. Never‘d be content to settle down in one place â€" not, at least, till I‘d seen my fill of the werld. So . . . Robbie‘s married, by now, to young Whosis â€" and long may she wave! And here I am, thousâ€" ands of miles away â€" roasting alive." The woman in white became a goldfish with big brown eyes. . I stared. â€" "Shoo!" I told her, "and likewise, scat! Look here â€" you can‘t do this to me, _ Besides it isn‘t respectableâ€"following a chap all over the globe. You‘re marâ€" ried to youwm â€" rememâ€" ber? And this is no place for young Mrs, Whosis â€" not by a long shot! Oh, you‘re marvelous; you‘re adorable . .. and besides all that, you‘re cuter ‘n a bug‘s ear. But you panic me . . . always tryâ€" ing to mother me. â€"Picking threads off my collar, straigtening my tie, wanting to sew on buttons. "Tisn‘t fair. I‘m no creamâ€"puff. I‘m a rippin‘, seaâ€"farin‘ ol‘ heâ€"man, like my grandpa, Go ‘way, apronâ€" strings!" ‘The brown eyes brimmed and spilled. Robbie‘s face floated away and hung from the ceiling by an eyelash, looking down at me sorrowfully. T I rambled on: "Oh, I know â€" you‘re all that‘s sweet and desiraâ€" ble, but you‘re not for me. Though, confidentially, I could go for you in a big way. .. But you don‘t want to be tied â€" shackled . .. ask Bernardine, . She knows what it‘s like to have a husband galivanting all over the face o‘ the globe, home mybofioneenym...: 4 Robbie becane a goldfish again, and swam down to put a cool hand on my forehead. Wonderful! Only I knew, of course, that itâ€"wasn‘t real; it was just another one of those things. â€"â€" ‘Then one day I opened my eyes and there was Robbie sitting beâ€" side me ‘reading a book. _ She wasn‘t the McCoy, I knew that, and just to prove it, I pinched myâ€" self, only something went wrong and, I pinched her, instead. We both jumped. _ She dropped her book. + "Ricky!" â€" Reproachful brown eyes. "Was that nice?" "Very," I told her, "but I offer no apologies, because, you see, 1 know you‘re only an hallucination. You‘re really Mrs. Whosis, back there in the States. Oh, I knowâ€" \I‘ve been through this hundreds of times." _ Robbie‘s eyes were brown velâ€" vet and her lips were like fresh, crimson pansies. They opened to If you need repairs, demand authorized Buick Parts and reâ€" really serve. a Buick car. 110 S. Grant D. Benson, Branch Mgr:‘~ 10 5 First St. Tel. 496 $80 am to 520 pm 930 am to 900 pm 240 pm to 520 pm North Shore Buick Co. Buick Owners, ATTENTIO N ! only Buick dealers can , demand say a startling thing. *"Oh, but Ricky, I am real. You see, I didn‘t marry young Whosis, couldn‘t. She laid a cool hand on mineâ€" only it didn‘t look much like my big, brown paw. . â€" _ * ‘"When they radioed Bernardine â€"you were in a pretty bad way, you know, Ricky â€" she was franâ€" tic â€" and I mean frantic! . She couldn‘t take it, and so she sent me, by plane, with her blessing."~~A rich flush crept through the warm cream of Robbie‘s skin. "It‘s the climate, You‘re allergic to it, and I‘m to bring you back gic to Zanzibar, Ricky, think of that P* But I had made another and still more startling discovery. One that really outâ€"Columbused Columbus. "Robbie," I blurted out, "get this! I‘mâ€"allergic to any place on God‘s green earth . . . unless youâ€" ‘re there, too, Brownâ€"eyes, to mothâ€" NANCY NEWEY IN DOLPHIN SHOW Nancy Newey, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Newey of Prospect avenue, has recently been chosen g be in the Dolphin show . at orthwestern university, where she is a member of Alpha Phi sorâ€" ority. Nancy came to Northwestâ€" ern as a junior, transferring from Connecticut college where she was a member of the athletic organizâ€" ation and the dance group. . She has been active on _ Alpha Phi speedball and swimming teams. Mrs. Earl Gsell Hostess to D. A. R. Mrs. Earl W. Gsell will open her home at 421.S. Sheridan road on Thursday, Nov,. 14, at 2 p.m., when the North Shore chapter of the Daughters of the American Revoâ€" lution will _ hold _ their regular monthly meeting. _ Mrs, Frederick A. Sapp of Otâ€" tawa, III., the new state regent, elected at the Illinois state conferâ€" ence last March, will be the guest speaker of the afternoon. Being a very active member in the DAR organization, her message will be up to date and most inspiring. . Assisting hostesses will be Mrs. John C. McNicol, Mrs. William 8. Jacob and Mrs. Ellis H. Ibbotson. Movies Climax Lincoln Book Fair The book fair at Lincoln school, under the direction of Mrs. Jerâ€" ome Goodman and Mrs. Herbert Klee, closes Friday, November .8 with movies at 7:30 in the evening for parents, children and friends. ‘Three interesting cartoons and two shorts will be shown in the school auditorium. At the conclusion of the movies, a basket of fruit and a basket of canned goods will be awarded to the lucky winners, The basket of fruit is being donated by the Subâ€" urban Grocery and Market, while Lincoln . school patrons are supâ€" plying the canned goods. Tickets for the drawings may be ‘purchâ€" ased at the fair. Maxine Philipsborn will display a beautiful line of paper Christâ€" mas wrappings. Patronage of the school book fair will mean new books in the school library for the children to enjoy. In large letters across the front of the Art Institute in Chicago, are the names, Hogarth, Turner, Constable â€" three distinguished names in the world of art. How fortunate we are to be living in a community close enough to Chicaâ€" go to be able to study and enjoy these masterpieces brought here from London. To study and enâ€" joy these originals should create how to enjoy a good painting, and last, if dabblers, how to improve our ~technique. The â€" Highland Park public library has many inâ€" teresting and helpful books in its art collection, If you have never \w-«mumumnm Arts room, do so now. in us a desire to know more about ml;rt'hll'bury'f ‘s show cases is an interesting exhibit relating to the United . Nations. Flags, maps, books are displayed. * M CALLING STORMSASH MADE TO ORDER and INSTAL BRONZE WIRE SCREENS 150 So. First Street PUBLIC LIBRARY 5 1 0 2 HIGHLAND PARK H,. N. GAMLIN â€"R.B.0. T HE ~PRESS Mrs. Gertrude Wollbrinck Succumbs To Hiness Saturday at the Sequin Funeral Home for Mrs. Mary Gertrude Wolibrinck, 63, who passed away on the preceding Wednesday at the home of her sister, Mrs. Harry Winkler, 1835 East street. Rev. H. K. Platzer conducted the serâ€" A resident of Highland Park for for 26 years;sheâ€" was born in Missâ€" ouri. Her husband preceded her in death in 1920. vived by a son Willard, a daughâ€" ter, Mrs; Albert Mecham, a broâ€" ther, Edward Seney, and 4 grandâ€" children all of Highland Park, and a brother, James, of Chicago,, Interment was made at Vernon Cemetary, Half Day. First Child Born To Evanston hospital, a baby girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Kapalka of Burton avenue. She has been named Anne Elizabeth, and is their first child and the first grand child of Mrs. Anna Wildt of the above address. The paternal grandfather, , Francis Kapalka, lives in New Jersey. Fraternity Pledges URBANA . CHAMPAIGN, ILL. Robert Redfern, S. Sheridan road, has been pledged to Sigma Alâ€" pha Epsilon fraternity at the Uniâ€" versity of Illinois. There are more fraternities and sororities on the U. of I. campus than at any other educational inâ€" stitution, _ Although many of the chapter houses were used for army and navy trainees during the whr, the 52 fraternities and 25 sororiâ€" ties have now returned to normal activities. f Other Highland Parkers pledged to various organizations are: Herbert E. Holt, Judson avenue, Chi Phi; Thomas E. Gilroy, Cenâ€" tral avenue, Kappa Sigma; Phillip J. Randall, Qakwood avenue, Delâ€" ta Phi; Arthur Vyse III, Green Bay road, Epsilon Kappa; Nathan Corâ€" with, S. Linden, Alpha Tau Omeâ€" Gloria Linari To Play Role In Herbert Opera Mrs. Annie Cawley Miss Gloria Linari, 634 Central Highwood, is now in New York, where she is rehearsing for a part in Victor Herbert‘s musical comeâ€" in Chicago November 15. Miss Linari takes the part of one of the sisters in the musical, a singing home November 10. Taken By Death and acting part. She will return On Sunday, Mrs. Annie J. Cawâ€" ley, 233 N. Second street, passed away after arm illness of 15 weeks, at the age of 82. > _A native of Ireland, she had been for 58 years a resident o_f Highland Park, at the above adâ€" Besides her sister she is surâ€" On Sunday, November 3, at the A small deposit will reserve any POLK‘S JEWELRY 2 N. Sheridan Road 7 Tel, H. P. 2028 Diamonds â€" Watches â€" Jewelry Use Our Cenvenient "LAY AWAY PLAN" Quick Service on all WATCHES AND ‘ Hours 9 to 6 Highland Park dress. She was preceded in death by her husband, Patrick 20 months ago. In 1941 they celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, havâ€" ing been married in the St. Mary‘s church, now known as Immacuâ€" late Conception. Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Marie Mann, Miss Annie Cawley and Mrs. Marguerite Wiesâ€" grand child, all of Highland Park. ~~A solémn requiem high‘~ mass was celebrated on Wednesday at the Immaculate Conception church, conducted by The Rev. Magr. Joseph P. Morrison, Rev. Edmund Shoner and Rev. J. P. O‘Connell. Interment was made at Ascension cemetary. A fuss; a brother, ‘Harry Cullen; fifteen grandchildren and 1 greatâ€" Walter On Tuesday morning Mr. Walâ€" ter I. Schiff passed away suddenâ€" ly at his home on 1212 S. Sheriâ€" 246 RAILWAY AVENUE â€" GARNETTS NAME YOUR DRINK WE HAVE IT wise and otherwise! Ti Softâ€"asâ€"aâ€" whispes sweaters of 100% virgin wool. Cuddle in these colors . . . Caramel So smart . .. campusâ€" & WE CATER TO PARTIES OF ALL SIZES IN OUR NEWLY DECORATED DELICIOUS FOOD "ROSE ROOM" .. . White! Sizes 34 to 40. Phone H. P. 5509 or 2206 TULIPS dan. Born in Milwaukee, he had been a resident of Highland Park for 23 years, and was an associate of Shearson Hammill and Comâ€" pany of Chicago. He was a memâ€" ber of Lake Shore Country Club. Surviving are his widow, Beaâ€" trice a daughter, Mrs, Rosemary Barnard; a son Donald H. and a granddaughter, Cynthia Anne Barnard, all of Highland Park. A sister, Mrs. Meta. Ascher, lives in Funeral rites were held on Thursday at the Rosehill cemetary chapel. A professor, strolling with a friend through a downtown street, came to a fish market, in the winâ€" dow of which was a row of fish with their mouths open and their eyes staring. He stared at them, elutched his friend‘s arm and exâ€" claimed : ® "My goodness, that reminds me. I should be teaching a class." _ HIGHLANDER It will be Your Favorite ONCE YOU HIGHWOOD, ILL. $5.75 Page 3

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