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WINNETKA TALK January 15, 1927 WIt TER IS HERE -ANC SO ARE WE--- WITH COAL TO SERVE YOU FAITHFULLY. THE icy north wind is a sharp reminder that we are entering upon a season of intense demand for coal. Order today and be sure of getting yours before there is any danger of a coal shortage. Phone Winnetka 450 We'll do the rest 1IDD ADR VAINNA LUMBER & COAL CO. IVDDMHMINY TYUV For All Your Needs in Lumber and Building Material Phone Winnetka 451 or 452 From Basement to Roof Parents and Teachers to Confer at N. K. E. C. A meeting of the parents and teach- ers of the Children's school of the Na- tional Kindergarten and Elementary college will be held in Harrison hall Tuesday evening, January 18. Department conferences on topics of particular interest to the parents of children of varying ages, will be held in the Nursery school, kindergarten and primary rooms from 8 to 9 o'clock, followed by music and refreshments in the alumnae room. The first semester of the Children's school has been a very successful one, it is reported. The fact that a few of the children enrolled for this semester are spending the remainder of the winter in the South has made it pos- sible for the school to enroll, for the second semester, opening February 1, several children who have been on the waiting list. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Heinsen of 772 Lincoln avenue are entertaining a group of friends at bridge this eve- ning in celebration of Mr. Heinsen's birthday. WAITING WHENEVER you drop in you will find one of the new Orthophonic Victrolas waiting to play for you--the most wonderful music in the world! Don't miss this treat. Come in soon! North Shore Talking Machine Co. 712 Church Street, Evanston 554 Center Street, Winnetka Open Tuesday, Thursday and saturday Evenings. The New Orthophonic Victrola ) Conference Value Is Discussed at National College "The ability to accept help and criti cism from students is one of the splen- did things that has come out of our newer practice with children and students," said Miss Lucy Gage in speaking before the directors and stu- dents of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college recently on "The Value of Conference Work to Student and Teacher." Miss Gage is professor of early ele- mentary education of Peabody Teach- ers' college, Nashville, Tenn, and chairman of the National Council of Primary Education, and has therefore had an opportunity of putting her theories into practice with the students of the college and with the children of the demonstration school there. "The little child has a right to ques- tion anything that does not seem per- fectly clear to him," said Miss Gage, "and I believe it is coming to be true of colleges that where we are not meeting the needs of students they can and ought to challenge the type of work presented to them. In the past we have thought that the student was too inexperienced to make suggestions of any value, but the viewpoint of an inexperienced person who comes into a situation may be of tremendous value to the experienced person who has lived in the situation for years." Miss Gage pointed out the fact that it is just as necessary for the student in college to have an opportunity to grow and live and have his being in college as it is for the child in kin- dergarten, and stated that, in her opinion, if the conference between stu- dent and director is to have any value, the student as well as the director must be perfectly free to make suggestions and ask questions. In closing Miss Gage suggested that directors and students alike take for their New Year thought the old say- ing "He who walks in the shadow of the temple cannot give of his wisdom ; he can only give of his faith and his lovingness." "We have to grow our wisdom along," said Miss Gage, "but we can help another person to wisdom through our faith in childhood, through our lovingness and good will toward each other." Football Star Turns to Boxing for Winter Howard Winberg of Wilmette, whose playing on the gridiron at Kem- per Military school the past season put that football team on the athletic "map," is now going in for additional laurels in the Booneville, Mo., school's sports' activities. He is taking up wrestling and boxing, at which, by the way, he is no novice. Winberg is not going in for basketball this year, pre- ferring the more strenuous workouts on the mat and in the ring, by which he hopes to keep in the pink of con- dition for next year's session on the football team. Assist at Bridge Tea at New Georgian Hotel The Georgian hotel in Evanston is giving a bridge, musicale and tea Mon- day afternoon, January 17, at 2 o'clock. Pivot bridge will be played, with a prize for each table and the music program will be given by Mrs. William H. Knapp and her daughter, Miss Vir- ginia, and Mrs. John Dienner. Mrs. Frank Scheidenhelm and Mrs. Louis Bruch will pour. Mrs. Walter D. Steele, Mrs. Matthew James Mac- Adams, Mrs. Charles Harrison Smith, Miss Isabelle Smith and Miss Dorcas Branson will assist in receiving the guests, and Mrs. William Y. Burdsell and Mrs. William Allen Speelman will