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12 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1919 Holland to Pump Zuyder Zee Dry Holland plans to pump the historic Zuyder Zee dry. The work is expected to occupy thirty-three years and cost over $75,000,000, says Everyday Science. A great dam or embankment is now be- ing built across the north end of the sea from Wieringen in North Holland to Piaan in Friesland. It will have a length of nearly fifteen miles, easily making it the longest of sea embank- ments. It will result in turning over half a million acres of this great arm of the North sea into dry land. Where of old the great Dutch war fleets gath- ered, where now 4,000 fishermen sink their nets, there will rise villages, pas- tures, poplar-bordered roads and sleepy canals, new farms and homes for thousands of people. Some few months prior to the war the Dutch government put in hand their long projected scheme for draining and reclaiming the historic Zuyder Zee, but during the upheaval the project was dropped. The great dam is being built of sand mixed with rubble and stone, and not of concrete. Communication with the North sea will be maintain- ed by thirty-three large sluice-gates The construction of the embankment and a couple of locks for shipping. is expected to occupy nine years. Within the embankment four areas, known as the northwestern, south- western, northeastern and south- eastern, are to be drained and re- claimed, each of which is to be ap- portioned to the province which it adjoins. These reclaimed sites will have an area of 54,270, 78.800, 127,125 and 209,410 acres respectively, or a total of 259,605 acres, of which 486,- 025 is clay and sandy soil, suitable fer farming. The rest is fen and sand. This means that 827 square miles will be wrested from the sea and added to the kingdom of Hwol- land. FLYING IN FRANKLIN'S DAY. Benjamin Franklin, who closely re- ported the aerial experiments he view- ed in France in 1783, wrote: "The Improvement in the Construc- tion and Management of the Balloons had already made a rapid Progress: aud one cannot say how far it may go. "A few Months since the idea of Witches riding thro' the Air upon a Broomstick, and that of Philosophers upon a Bag of Smoke, would have ap- peared equally impossible and ridicu- lous. A Title Page From Our 1920 Catalog "The Right Kind" For Every Need lishury& Go. \ 308 W. Madison St. CHICAGD ii bre Phone Frankiin 5744 TU - Esesosasasasosasmsasesa sal) Rubber Sn in : Ee CENTRAL 6402 oo] ; 71 1 Wilcox Studio of Millinery 1010 Marshall Field Annex ORIGKWNATOR DESIGNER @ "These Machines must always be subject to be driven by the Winds. Perhaps Mechanic Art may find easy means to give them progressive Mo- tion in a Calm, and to slant them a little in the Winds." COAL FAMILY NUMBERS 200 Ammonia, aspirin, carbolic acid, in- digo, oil of wintergreen, saccharin toilet water--this isn't a druggist's | catalogue. It's just a druggist's memo | of a few of the members of the coal | tar family. The chemical department of Bar- rett & Co., New York, has just pre-' sented to the American Museum of | Natural History a chart showing this family tree. More than two hundred' direct desendants of Old King Coal, are indicated on the chart, and, each | in its proper place, the descendants are represented by typical specimens. A BUY + CHRISTMAS SEALS Klever Klub Subscription Dance EVANSTON WOMAN'S CLUB Subscription $1.50 ! Saxophone, Banjo, Viclin, Piano and Drum Every Saturday Night Your Christmas Candies Can be bought here at a low price and because we are a local concern and desire your patronage at all times you can rest assured that you will receive highest value for your dollar. Deliveries on any and all goods from 8 A. M. to 6 P. M. AT INDIAN HILL ST INDIAN HILL INN Open from 7 A. M. to Toa CONSTANTINE SYMON, Proprietor \ 7 HE ideal gift must please both the giver and the person to whom it 1s given. There 1s real pleasure in selecting and giving jewelry of high quality, such as we are displaying for the discriminating Christmas shopper. For the sweetheart, for the lover or for the friend, for each member of the family as well as for the home, there 1s a jewelry gift in . our cases which will bring new joy to the Christmastide. A. RODELIUS & SON 827 DAVIS STREET Telephone Evanston 2635 EVANS TON (Open Every. Evening Until Christmas) AY?