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WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1919 ° _R ELP FIGHT THE WHITE PLAGUE! Let that be your slogan this month! Be sure to testify to your participation in the spirit of Christmas by buying as many Red Cross] seals for 1919 as you can afford--and then some--to help fight the "White Plague". Two hundred thousand Americans died of tuberculosis at home during the same period that 67,882 Amer- icans lost their lives on the battlefields abroad. cost of tuberculosis in the United States is over five hundred million | dollars, says the appeal sent out to explain why we the fight by buying these seals. One of the finest of the enterprises fostered by the Chicago Tuberculosis institute is the growing chain of child health stations. These stations are spreading the light all through Cook county, as each one is a center of information, advice, and instruction for all the mothers within a wide radius. hundreds to be weighed and examined at regular intervals. Small babies are brought by the If they are underweight or out of condition a competent nurse and doctor give directions as to care and diet. Older children have the same scientific supervision, and everything promises a sturdier lot of beys and girls in the coming generation, So buy the Red Cross seals! Thursday, December 4, was Homsy Economics Day at the Woman's Li- brary club in Glencoe. Miss Irene A. Blood of the Rumford Home Economics department gave a lecture and demonstration of salads to the excellence cf which everyone attest- ed latar when they were served as refreshments. The exhibit of Glencoe needlework, under the management of Mrs. Charles Mortimer proved to be an unusual and beautiful display. The articles shown were interesting not only from the standpoint of work- 'manship, but from an historical point of view as well. For, besides the daintiest bit of lingerie, table linen, children's dresses. etc... of modern craftmanship, there were rare pieces of work dating from Revolutionary days. Bedquilts dnd spread, samples in cross stitch, a curious hair wreath, almost two feet in diameter, a rack full of colonial towels, two very pretty fans, bead work, and an ex- quisite embroidered wedding dress and little handkerchief. which some- body's great grandmother wore in 1790. Several antique hand-wrought chairs, heirlooms belonging to Mrs. T. S. Root. and Mrs. Mary Saxby of Maple Hill road, particularly excited admiration. An appropriate setting contributed mich to the charm of this exhibit under the skillful hand of Mrs. Charles Mortimer and able assistants. The whole north room of the club had been converted into a bower of pink. blue and lavender blossoms bhe- neath which on the dais at the far end of the room presided Miss Ethel Delang, in the quaintest of colonial costumes, while to the delight of all Mrs. Henry T. Williams, also in colonial dress was discovered sitting in one of the antique chairs, de- murely darning stockings. Louise Harrison Slade, contralto, accompanied by Beulah Taylor Por- ter will be presented in recital, under the direction of the Music department of the Wilmette Woman's club at their next meeting on Wednesday, December 17, at 2:30 o'clock. Mrs. Slade has appeared a number of times on the north shore, and is en- gaged each year by the apollo- Musical club. The hostesses of the day will be Mesdames Benjamin F. Gage and Charles W. Moody. "Education is not merely a pre- paration for life," said Mrs. Marietta Johnson, principal of the school of organic education in Fairhope, Ala, in her address before the members of the Winnetka Woman's club, and their friends, on Thursday, "it is life itself." And the school process must be a life-giving process. Mrs. Johnson is a "wonderfully con- vincing speaker and has a platform presence and air of conviction that assures her an attentive audience wherever she may speak. She characterized the present school pro- cess a vicious. Desks, grades, col- lege requirements and cramming methods all came in for their share of criticism. "Study the needs of the child," the sentiment of her speech. "There can be no school precess separate from the needs of the children them- selves," she said. And the first study of education is a study of the needs of the child. "The grading system and present school room discipline." she continu- ed, "are making self-conscious cow- ards of the children. They are taught to get their lessons for the grade that it will bring them, and to avoid the ridicule and criticism that follows failure. They are working for ex- ternal reward and anyone that works for external reward is a hypocrite." "Teach them a love for their sub- ject," she said. "Fill them with a de- sire to study. Show them the need for developing their reasoning po- wers. Give them as much mental and physical freedom as is compat- ible with their age and the informa- tive side of educatien will accumu- late as a matter of course." "Let me tell you," she added, "if the schools would cut the number of children in the classrooms in half and double the teacher's salaries it would pay financially. Humanety speaking of course it would pay im- mensely. But beyond that it would pay financially in the elimination of reform schools, juvenile courts and other such institutions." was Miss Mary Welch, contralto, assist- ed by Gavim Williamson, pianist, and Wally Heymar, violinist, who were scheduled to appear in recital early in th fall at the Wilmette Woman's club, will give the program at the club next Wednesday afternodn. Miss Welch spent the summer in the northwest and Canada, appearing in concert with the Ellison-White Chau- tauqua. Mrs. Louise Harrison Slade, who was to have given the pregram was unable to come. The hostesses for the afternoon will ~ EVANSTON WOMAN'S CLUB Every Saturday Night Subscription $1.50 ""'Sazophone, Banis, Vielin, Piano snd Drum To the Ladies of the No:th Shore THE Ruth E. 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