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) 4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1919 Winnetka Weekly Talk ISSUED FRIDAY, OF EACH WEEK y, The Lake Shore Publishing Company -.. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill. Business Telephone... . Wilmette 1921 Editorial Telephone. ..... Wilmette 1920 Winnetka Office Telephone. . Winn. 38% SUBSCRIPTION, ........ $1.00 A YEAR | Strictly in advance Address all communications to the Winnetka Weekly Talk, Wilmette, Ill. Anonymous communications passed to the waste basket. The same applies to rejected manuscript unless return postage is enclosed. Articles for publication should reach this office by Tuesday afternoon to insure appear- ance in current issue Resolutions of condolence, cards of | notices of | thanks, obituary poetry, will be] entertainments or other affairs where | an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged for | at regular advertising rates. Entered in the postoffice at Winnetka, Illinois, as mail matter of the second class. under the act of March 3. 1879. FRIDAY, MARCH 7, 1919 English As The Universal Tongue The world has never seen an occa- sion which so demanded a universal tongue as the present peace confer- ence in France. Men of every na- tionality are gathered together to discuss questions of moment to them all. Tt is highly important that there should be no misunderstanding of the opinions expressed and it cannot but be most difficult for a full wunder- standing to be gained. It is one of the measurable results of the war that English has been ma- | Parent-Teacher Activities As the actual activities of the war sink into the back ground, we pause n consternation to review the desolation and the loss. We count the loss and point with pride of the youth of the world who have carned laurels for us and for them- elves at so great a. sacrifice. And so in the schools we count our gold stars and pay tribute to the: our boys who went into service. We have followed up these boys and we recall their Horace Mann school days and we wish to inscribe a tablet to their memory in the school. lo this 1 and to Horace Mann end we sking each child in the school and tormer pupil to erect the tablet. Calc h one dime to Dimes may be mail- give | ed to Miss Dwyer or Miss Williams terially promoted towards the posi- | tion of the universal language. While | . " . ! it has not been made the official lan- guage of the peace certainly much more widely under- stood than it ever has been before. It is a human characteristic to think that one's own tongue is the simplest and best fitted for the ex- pression of human thought, and so it is perhaps natural that the Eng- lish speaking people should look upon the gain made by English towards becoming the universal language as a benefit to humanity. But there are certain reasons for such a notion, reasons that have to do with the very fundamentals of the tongue. English is far more a composite language than that of any other peo- ple. It owes so much to both the Latin and the Greek that the heirs of those two languages find them- selves far from strangers in the Eng- lish tongue. The Teuton, too, much 2s we may dislike holding anything in common with him, finds the door of understanding . of our language hospitably open because of the habit of the Briton to assimilate whatever came his way in the realm of speech into his own vocabulary. For centuries French has been the polite language, the language of di- plomacy, the language of the court. Today, perhaps because of the growth-of democracy as a result of the war, English, that most catholic of all languages, is about to displace the established usage and take its place as the universal tongue. The Nursing Act The attention of the general public is so absorbed by the progress of legislation in the National Congress that thé affairs of more local inter- est that are being discussed in our general assembly suffer materially from this pre-occupation. And there are some important matters pending in Springfield, measures which will affect the people of the state in many ways. Among the important bills under discussion in Springfield is the Illi- nois Nursing Act, known as House Bill 151 and Senate Bill 116, which is designed to meet the emergency created by the shortage of graduate nurses and to fill the constant need for a nurse who has had sufficient training to meet the ordinary de- mands of the sick room at a wage that can be paid by the family of moderate means. For a long timc the leaders of nursing education have realized that two types of nurses were needed to meet tha demand of the public. There is the need of the woman with an adequate preliminary education and a training in nursing of a high order fitting her for administrative work, teaching and public health duties and for the nursing of patients who are critically ill. There is, besides, the need, ouite as definite, of the conference, | neither has French, and English is| at the school, or to Mrs. W. A. Otis. Pi ; ; I'he war work committee on its last lap wishes to make known what it has done with the children this year in war work. In the early fall the children of the upper grades wrote letters to the little French children in Dr. Brown's circuit and by their generosity and self denial made it possible for those French children to continue with the cup of chocolate every afternoon. Think- ing it only fair to do something for our own soldiers they decided it would be nice to send to the sick and wounded soldiers at Fort Sher- idan some little greeting. So once a month they have collected magazin- es and once a month jellies, jams and fruits. Now each school has a woman of average intelligence, with a' lesser training in technical nurs- ing. who is fitted for bed-side nurs- ing. The bill now under discussion in the general assembly is designed to meet this need Vy providing for the Junior Registered Nurse, the nurse with the lesser period of training qualified for the less cases of illness. demanding 3y this bill the age of the oradua- tion of the Registered Nurse is plac- ed at twenty-two and of the Junior Registered Nurse at twenty-one. The educational requirement for both is one year of high school, but after 1924 the Registered Nurse must he a high school graduate. The experience of the winter has gone far to develop the appreciation of the public of the nee!l for a great- ly increased force of nurses and promote interest in the bill which is designed to effect that end and at the same time protect the public against exploitation by the Registered Nurse and the by the hospital. The bills which are concerned with this matter of provid- ing for the public safety and comfort have been referred, the House bill to the Judiciary committee, of which William P. Holloday is chairman, and the Senate bill to the Public Health and Sanitation committee, of which John A. Wheeler is chairman. Letters addressed to these two chairmen will help materially to se- cure the passage of the bill which is so much needed and establish the fact that the public is interested in legislation affecting the health of the family so intimately as does the measure to provide the two classes of nurses and tc make the nursing course shorter with the end of an in- nurse against exploitation crease in the number almost imme- diately available for service. Dr. Mikkelson to Return French orphan, "the style" being voted on by the children. The money for these orphans was made by | the thildren last year in plays. Their names are as follows: November the Holiday Month According to a letter received from| November is the popular holiday France this week Dr. Mikkelson, | month, 26 of the 30 being held as formerly of Winnetka, will open an holidays by some of the different Greeley schoo.--Louis { office in Winnetka in the Prouty | countries. May comes next with 23 years old. | building about April 1. holiday days. Horace Mann school--lower grad- | | | | va) Butel, es--Yvone Sauchery, 8 years old. QL okie chool--Boy. I vear old LL HLL A SA A HA A FEA A AAA Fr AA wKOKIE 5 Ool--boy, d id, / Mr. Cy De Vry, head of the z00- | R lit N logical garden of Lincoln Park, gave |N . uali y his stereopticon lecture, "Wild | Animals in Captivity" at the Assemb- | ly hall Friday morning at the Skokie | Serbice Is what we demand of those from whom we do our buying. school." The second grades of the It's what we demand of ourselves for those to whom we sell. orace Mann and Greeley schools | were invited. The children as well \ N N N N N N N \ N as the teachers learned many things Ny \ about wild animals that they had O MA ' not known before. The second grade have been studying about cave peo-| ) 'qq eg N - | £ ple and wild animals. Farly in the 796 ELM STREET, WINNETKA fall they made a trip in automobiles N to el Dark od L: 5 oy 4) CY Wr Oe | Nr EE Zr rrr to Mr. De Vry and asked him to give | his lecture at their school. The re- | sult was Friday morning's most en-! joyable hour. As the little girl who Tr { y 1 : | D bl J ; Bir 1004 was chairman told Mr. De Vry in pier lm oionia ou e closing "It was the best morning! N / ~~ B il assembly that Skokie school ever -- = olier had." The children. are now busy, = 17/7 writing articles about the lecture for | | J $ ¥eistog articles af b No rivets to rust or work loose. No is oe dg. N= dirt - catching corners. Easy to clean. Ihe Parent-Teacher association : : will have its second social evening at Mirro Aluminum means twice the efficiency the Greeley school, Tuesday evening, | {or half h k March 11, at 8 o'clock. Everybody | or hall the work. is invited. Come and join in the! Community singing. Mrs. Philemon | E B TAYLOR & C0 HARDWARE i{ohlsaat and Mrs. Grace Banks! . . » Tel. Winnetka 999 Sammons will have charge of the! musical program. |: ~ Captain Snell gave a twenty-min-| ute talk at the morning assembly of | the Skokie school last week. He told | in detail of his trip across the ocean, | gave a vivid description of his ar- | rival at the Emerald Isle, and held the children in breathless attention | as he told of his experiences, omitt- | ing all of the horrors of war. { LOWER UPKEEP COST GREATER SPEED GRACEFUL LINES INCREASED MILEAGE STURDY CONSTRUCTION EASE OF OPERATION WINNETKA WOMAN IS \ FASHION AUTOMOBILE SALES CO. NOW NATIONAL FIGURE | GENERAL DISTRIBUTORS | BRANCHES | South Side . . | 51st and COTTAGE GROVE give a talk. I hang up a pair of trousers, a shirt, stockings, all of things, and then I say: iL sors] G. H . M oO R R | S this pair ot trousers? Well out of SALES REPRESENTATIVE the legs a coat can be made and out! of the seat a cape and I cut out the] patterns as I talk. Over 7.600 patterns | have been given away. A baby's kit, for instance, will contain a creeper, (Continued from Page One) North Side 5218 BROADWAY TELEPHONES Edgewater 1332 Glencoe 203 Gira rrr Ny N N band, shirt, stockings, bib. booties, skirt, dress, kimona, coat, jacket, THERE IS REAL PLEASURE bonnet, mittens. A boy's corduroy suit is made out of ten samples and is as good looking as any bLoy's suit. | Winnetka averages 1,000 garments a | month for the American fund the French wounded and none of| them was made from new material. ! Coats were often made up of portiers | interlined with bits of cotton left | from dressings and lined with pieces | of cretonne curtains. Now that the! American fund for French wounded is disbanding here the work should be kept up for home service. It is my dream to have a central distri- buting bureau for articles made in a conservation shop in every town and city in the country." Mrs. Fulton is on the advisory council of the woman's committee, | is head of its conservation depart-| ment and is a member of the com- mittee's speaker's bureau. The wom- an's committee is about to publish a little book written by her which ey iro Aspegren& Company establishing of the conservation workshops." TEL. WILMETTE 420 EVANSTON 466 in looking over the record of your deposits and watching the balance side increase month by month. A savings account has been the refuge of many men in time of emergency. If you have not one, now is the time to start it. for A N N Ny N N N N \ \ N CAPITAL $35,000.00 Formerly BANK OF M. K. MEYER Established 1894 (lliaiiiiiidddddddildid idl aa a 2 rrr rr rr LASSI SLL ISS) and SAVINGS BANK We close at 12:30 on Saturdays \ N N N N N N N N N N N I Rl lili dddidiid ddd dd ddd ddd iiiiiidire. New Operator at Telegraph Office Joseph Pretzel of La Salle, Illinois. took up his duty at the local Western Union telegraph office this week as night operator. BIRD SEED---French's, contains Bird Biscuit, pkg. 20c. Home : Sweet Home or Ferndell Bird Seed, pkg. 25c. Kaempf- F. ARENDT er's, pkg. 35¢c. CANDLES--An assortment to be sold at special price. O CEDAR OIL--Bottles, 4 oz, 23c; 12 oz., 45c; can, quart, 93c; LADIES' TAILOR 1; gallon, $1.41; gallon, $2.39. DATES--Our aim is to have a supply on hand. IMPORTER HABIT MAKER RADEO GLOSS--Polishes Silver, Brass, Nickel, Glass. Leaves a lasting lustre. Can 25c. Showing the Latest French Models for 402-3-4 HEYWORTH BLDG., CHICAGO SPRING & SUMMER INSPECTION INVITED SALMON--AII sizes. Attractive prices. BEECH NUT JAFFEE--A Rational Drink; pkg. 29c. COLMAN'S MUSTARD--1; lb. can, 49c. GIANT RIPE OLIVES--Can $1.25; Mammoth, bottle $1.29; Jumbo, bottle, $1.25, 29 E. MADISON STREET Conditions under which Food Products are distributed 0) EI0 EE OMI OI OCI 0 Eom O EI 0 mI O LJ 0 COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF MUSIC CLARE OSBORNE REED, Director CHICAGO WINNETKA BRANCH 2 Er -------- KATHLEEN AIR, PRINCIPAL PHONE WINNETKA 974 [ebsites 4 | ed SCHOOL NOW IN SESSION Private and class instruction in Piano, Reading and Rhythm, Practice teachers to go to the homes. Hoon I oO EO Ee OE O I 0 EX affect both their value and price. Opportunity to purchase. quality merchandise becomes more appreciated when compared with conditions where such opportunity is absent. Customers' gratification and satisfaction is not alone de- sired by themselves, but also an ideal to which reliable merchants strive. A business institution that can always suc- ceed in reaching this ideal is in a class by itself. The customers confidence in the merchant's sincere desire to serve their patrons truly and efficiently makes business an increased pleasure and a great impetus to maintain a high standard. May we rely on your immediate report to help us promptly rectify any error that may occur? NEW BANK BUILDING LINCOLN AND ELM STS. Harmony, Ear-training, Sight O Pr ------ 0) T=] © ---- ---