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Li 4 SN. Winnetka Weekly Talk V 2 4 LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill Telephone .............. Winnetka 388 Telephone ............. Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1924 about from flower to flower, go- ing nowhere in particular. But is this wholesale condem- activities wasteful, of no good to 32.00 a YEAR |anybody except florists and ca- terers? Because you don't hap- pen to like them is hardly suffi- cient reason for being intolerant. Much, of course, may be said for "social activities," but let us tertainments or other affairs where here consider the value of only an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at|one benefit, but that one a big regular advertising rates. Entered at the postoffice at Winnet- ka, Illinois, as mail matter of the sec- ona class, under the act of March 3, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1924 Depress the Tracks. (Give the Business Men Fair Play. Build a New Village Hall. Enforce the Traffic Laws. Build the Truck Road. one It often happens that peo- ple go to these parties and re- ceptions feeling at outs with the world in general. After having talked, danced, and dined with friends and acquaintances, these same people often return to their {homes feeling much more kindly disposed towards their fellow humans. If you think that this mind the fact that love is the LEARNING TO WRITE greatest thing in the world. Al- Some days ago we had the rare be of a spread of this kindly feel- privilege of reading a letter writ-|ing all over Europe. ten by a college girl. In this letter she said, among other|and see if you don't find some- things, "Well, I guess I'll have to| thing kind of heart-warming stop; I'd like to write a lot more, | about it: "Mr. and Mrs. Dan but I have to turn in a thousand} Simonson have invited the Park- word theme to-morrow morning, | way Bridge Club to spend next and how I hate it!" I may not|Tyesday Evening in their home. have quoted her exact words, but|There will be a dinner at seven the idea was that she liked one|g'clock, followed by cards and kind of writing and hated an-|dancing." other. Regarding this particular young lady and her likes and dislikes JANUARY 24 January 24 will be a notable we propose one question: If shelday in the annals of New Trier were allowed to write what she likes to write, wouldn't she learn 'more rapidly to write good En- glish than if she were forced to write what she hates to write? Why doesn't her English teacher take advantage of this girl's in- terest? Isn't this teacher like a High School, for on that day classes will not meet, as usual, in the morning and afternoon, but, as most unusual, in the after- noon and evening. No boy or girl, now attending New Trier, will ever forget the strange ex- perience of having the school gymnasium director who compels | clock set back half a day, and of his pupils to" gét that exercise at coming to school in the evening. the pulley-weights which they| Nor will parents ever forget could get in some delightful gamer oF lio) : fe Hire Alleges adopt hose methods of teaching which Te more primary schools haye long 'since found so effectixg? ; RH . ~~ 4 ls «SOCIAL ACTIVITIES" "A cotillion with many lovely features"--Aw forget it! Who wants any of that stuff? "A group of young folks on the north shore have been invited to attend a dance"--Say, haven't the boys and girls got anything to do that's worth while? "Mr. and Mrs. John C. Welton entertained informally"--Why don't these folks go out and help somebody that really needs to be helped in- stead of giving things to people who already have more than they want? - The cynical attitude expressed above is not an unusual one. In fact, it is remarkably 'common. There are thousands who regard "social activities" as, to say the least, useless. They think | of those who take part in these functions as "butterflies," flitting the day when they got their eve- ning meals at the high school and heir translate a passage from 'Caesar: and their little Nellie de- |liver a speech on the literary i style of Abraham Lincoln. i Maybe this experience will rouse these same parents to the value of having their children spend four years in forming such good habits as most of our pu- pils do in our own wonderful high school. CLOTHES FOR ARDEN SHORE Mothers. Haven't your boys, going away to college after the holidays, left behind them at home at least one suit of clothes that would be suitable for some underclad Arden Shore boy? up and are now storing in the attic--tell Mrs. Marcus Richards about it. She lives at 806 Rose- wood avenue, Winnetka, and will see! to it that your boy's clothes get to some needy Arden Shore boy. LELAND HOBA tainly a poor specimen of filial hobo rather than the spirit of *~God and give nothing. ing. a ghostly folly, for which the v portunity. "Poor simple ones. arrow" "Simple Ones." (Church of the Holy Comforter, Kenilworth) Cénduct maketh manners, and the man who believes in a God to whom he is unwilling to give one hour a week, is cer- God calls us all to be sons and the test of life is, whether we have the decency to act as sons should act or whether, "among the ¢gimple ones, God discerns a little man devoid of understand- . bd ¥ If we are not big enough to see that God calls us to a spirit- ual inheritance, it makes very little difference how important we are among our fellow men. That is the way I fancy that God looks at human importance which misses its spiritual oppor- tunity to lay up treasure in Heaven and fails to express its filial gratitude for all that it has received. Some day the wisdom of this world will be shown up to be RT DANFORTH. gratitude. 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