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March 31, 1928 WINNETKA TALK 51 HOLD LAST OF FOUR CHILD CONFERENCES More Than 300 Residents Attend Last of Conferences Con- ducted by Woman's Club (Contributed) The last of the series of four child study conferences conducted by the Education Committee of the Winnetka Woman's Club was held Thursday afternoon March 22, and was attended by a group of 300 or more vitally in- terested women. The subject was "Parents' Mistakes" and was treated from four points of view--those of the teacher, the psychiatric social worker, the physician and the mother. The speakers were Mrs. Julia Childs, Miss Frances Dummer, Dr. C. A. Aldrich, and Mrs. Alfred Alschuler, Mrs. Childs, dean of girls at North Shore Country Day school, presented the teacher's viewpoint. She said that most of the mistakes that parents of the average child made were under two groupings: 1. Mistakes in relation to the school itself, and 2. Cases where the parents' relation to the child has something amiss. Miss Francis Dummer, psychiatric social worker in the Winnetka schools, was the second speaker. The following is a con- densed summary of her remarks which were illustrated by striking examples. There seem to be two major reasons for the large number of mistakes made by parents, Miss Dummer stated. The first we are all liable to, as human be- ings; the second is specifically traceable to the conception of parenthood and the upbringing of children as natural functions whose fulfillment can be left to instinct without training and forethought. The latter aspect was discussed first. Every other profession has its schools and training courses, but parenthood, one of the most complicated of all human occupations, is left to instinct and the common sense, to the trial and error method which characterizes the primitive stages of any activity, she said. The physical care of children is one phase of the parents' job which is an exception to this neglect. Up to the present there has been very little opportunity for par- ents to get the information they need. "Now for the other cause of mistakes, --the one which is operative for all hu- man beings, but for parents in particular because their feelings are bound up with their jobs in an unusual degree. In the language of the street it is called, 'kid- ding yourself'; in the clinic it is known as 'rationalization.' How many of us really know what we are doing or why? How many of us are able to face our- selves squarely enough to try, honestly and freely, to understand our own be- havior? To review what we have done or have wanted to do with the object of finding where we are at fault, will not help us. Neither will the comforting idea that we were doing our best make us more able to face ourselves. We must be as free from preconceived ideas of what the results will or should be as the research scientist. The undertaking requires courage, the willingness to see what we least like to see in ourselves, the part we try to repress and so get rid of but which stays with us and ex- presses itself in devious substitutive channels just so long as we refuse to deal with it openly. "But what has this to do with parents' mistakes? Just this: Until parents (for that matter all of us) are strong enough and free enough from feelings of de- pendence and guilt and fear to be able to face themselves and their actions as in- dividuals and parents, to see them for what they really are, not veiled by what they would like them to be, they will con- tinue to make mistakes without knowing they are making them. What is far more important than' child study, or a background of psychological information, is that parents themselves are fundamen- tally poised and happy, emotionally ma- ture enough to face themselves as well as their problems squarely." Thirteen Winnetka Artists In Evanston Exhibition Winnetka boasts thirteen artists showing work in the Evanston Wom- an's club annual exhibit of north shore artists, which closed yesterday. The exhibit this year was marked by the number of excellent paintings and un- usually interesting sketches, litho- graphs and photographs. : The Winnetka list included: Miss Catherine Murphy of New Trier high school, who showed 'Pine, Colorado;" Mrs. Edna May Johansen, character sketch and "October Fog;" Mrs. J. W. F. Davies, portraits of Mrs. Arthur Dean and Miss Carolyn Case; Mrs. George Engelhard, "The Artist," "New Baby," "The Bath," and "The Rattle;" Mrs. Anita Willets Burnham, "Ann and Rags;" Coral Lou Burnham, "White Mountain" and "How Many;" Mrs. H. McClure Johnson, "Milk Street ;" Hazel Bell Risk, "View from Thunder Mountain" and "Charley's Pumping House" : "Kate Bacon Bond, miniatures; Allen Philbrick, "The Beach;" Pauline Graf Davis, "Drizzle" and "Speak;" Ruth Calef, "Library Window;" and Mrs. Felix Bolden- weck, "Portrait" and "The Red Chair." RETURNING FROM CALIFORNIA Mr. and Mrs. Hugo O. von Hofsten and their daughter, Miss Polly, will return on April 15 from a winter in California and will spend a few weeks in Winnetka before going up to their summer home at Leland, Michigan. CIRCLE TO REHEARSE PLAY Basketball will be omitted from the program of the Girls' Friendship Cir- cle, Tuesday evening, April 3, at Community House. The members that evening will rehearse a play to be presented in the near future. CIRCLE MEETING The Fuller Lane circle will meet Monday, April 2, at 2 o'clock at the home of Mrs. H. B. Ryan, 170 Fuller lane. A large number of Winnetka mem- bers of the Chicago Woman's Musical club were present Thursday at the musicale at the home of Mrs. Phyllis Fergus Hoyt for the benefit of the scholarship fund. attention. cleaning is completed. High Grade Upholstery Refinishing. Specialists and Repaired. 897 Linden Ave. Your Furniture and Spring Cleaning! There are many articles that are probably scratched and worn and in need of immediate Phone us--let us know your needs, and we'll have the pieces back to you when your house- and Cabinet in Interior Furnishings Slip Covers Made to Order. HussArD Woops UPHOLSTERY Co. Mrs. R. Halun HUBBARD WOODS Work, including Furniture and and Antiques. Repairs Mattresses Renovated Ph. Winn. 3014 Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Ripley, 29 Indian Hill road, have been in Florida visiting different points of interest for two months. They will return to Win- netka shortly after Easter. Their daughter, Beatrice, who is a junior at Vassar, and their sons, Hampton and Wilder, who are in eastern schools, will be with their parents for a short spring vacation. --(-- Walter Marx, son of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marx, 522 Essex road, Kenil- Seventh District Voters! Plump your votes for representative, general assembly, at the Republican primary April 10 by marking your ballot in this way: Anna W. Ickes A ster sania for observing some of the professor's ex- ture! periments. SPECIMEN BALLOT TOWNSHIP OF NEW TRIER ELECTION APRIL 3, 1928 5 Rew: Taer-Tomalin Party For Highway Commissioner [] JAMES A. WILLIAMS | Dinnetka ] IL 71 Uongregational )\ 1 = I © EN, Church _Z0\ am ATRATAATAATAATARTARTRATAATAATAATAATA MMM rae MORNING-- 9:30 9:30 9:45 11:00 All departments The Men's Class "Immortality" VESPERS-- EVENING--- 6:00 Meeting of the ning Club 3 7:00 Meeting of the Young People's Club TUESDAY-- WEDNESDAY-- THURSDAY-- GOOD FRIDAY-- silent prayer Sunday, April 1st The Woman's Class Morning Worship. 5:00 Singing of Stainer's "Crucifixion" by the Choir and Quartet 8:00 In Christ Church. Richards will speak 10:00 Meeting of the Woman's Society 8:00 In our church. Union Service. hard from Christ Church will speak 8:00 Christ Church joins this church in observ- ance of the Lord's Supper 8:00 Special service of reading, meditation and of the Church School Sermon, Mr. Richards. Winnetka Sunday Eve- Union Service. Mr. Mr. Ger-