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i WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1923 17 MANY CLUBS ENTERTAIN YOUNG PEOPLE DURING HOLIDAYS Good Literature For Children Important Factor in Early Life REGULAR meeting of the Win- netka Woman's club was held on Thursday, December 13, Mrs. Willoughby Walling, presiding. The minutes of * the previous meeting were read and approved. There were a few announcements made, among them, the following : The result of the Red Cross drive in Winnetka was very satisfactory, the total mounting to $3,590. Red Cross stamps are on sale in all drug stores of Winnetka and Hubbard Woods and at the Sweet Shop. The next regular club meeting will be in the form of a recital on Decem- ber 27. The artists will be Mr. Cooper Lawley, tenor, and Miss Marjory Wins- low. A very charming program is promised and it is hoped that a large number of young people home for the holidays will appear as guests of the club that afternoon. On January 10 Mr. Percy Eckhart will give an illustrated travel talk. This will be the first regular club meeting in January. Mrs. Gottlieb, chairman of the Fdu- cational committee, introduced the speaker of the afternoon, Mrs. Porter Lauder McKlintock, whose subject was "Children and Literature." A snynopsis of this most interesting talk follows: "Literature has reached a minor, at least a diminished place in our schools. Pushed aside, as it has been by science, cooking, music and other studies, the best must be chosen in the time allotted to it. "The first thing to be thought of is to bring to the children the ideals and tra- ditions of the race. Nothing makes the past alive as does literature. Science and even history fail to bring the ideals and hopes of the past to the little child. "We would like to put our children abreast of the world. Literature is pouring in at the present time and we must establish a standard which can be had only from past training in literature which is good and true and genuine. "The discovery of printing and paper gave visible form to literature but it is mostly the work of the imagination. Children must be trained to select their own images to be placed in storehouses for use in after life. Hunger for stories causes children to be satisfied with any- thing that is a story, and the first that is artistic for them comes from the sim- ple nursery. rhymes. ~ "Following these let the children be inspired by the old traditionary folk tale which is of the same technique as the development of the race. "The epic of magic follows close and is a training to an understanding of things unseen. Here is the introduction to the world of poetry and possibly the world of religion. "Next comes the old hero tale which embodies accumulated culture of the race but told in "The Oddyssey." "King Arthur," and "Don Quixote," also in the modern epic romance, "Robinson Crusoe" and "Robin Hood." "Literature has but one medium, that of language. As words do more to stimulate thought than thought does to stimulate words, so good literature helps the children to the intricate weaving of a vocabulary for their self-expression." Mrs. McKlintock made this summary of her talk on what the best literature means to children: 1. It trains their imagination. 2. It fills their minds with significant images. 3. It brings up to them the traditions 'of the past. 4. It puts them abreast of their own world. 5. And to equal all, it gives them their vocabulary by which they can form their personal avenues of expression. Mrs. McKlintock answered a number of questions from her audience after which the meeting was formally ad- journed to a social hour in the club parlors. The following were hostesses: Mrs. Darrell S. Boyd, Mrs. Florence S. Cap- ron, Mrs. Walter T. Fisher, Mrs. Wil- liam D. McKenzie, Mrs. James F. Por- ter and Mrs. Harry L. Street. fers 3 RITA SMITH Teacher of DRAMATIC ART Announces Class Instruction and Private I.essons SATURDAY MORNINGS Ouilmette Country Club Phone Miss Winter Wilmette 625 Interpretative Dancing : Class Gives Exhibition N appreciative audience saw that music says things to the children that Miss Lotz has been teaching for one short term, on Tuesday after- noons at the Woman's club. The little tots put the Naughty "Jack-in-the-box™ into his right place and sat on him, responding to the walking, running and skipping music, and did the "See Saw." The older girls interpreted a Chopin Prelude in phases and Gulnar Kheiralla dramatically presented Massenet's Ele- gy, sung by Mrs. Kheiralla. The "Bluebird," adapted from Mae- terlinck, was given by the whole class. They knew the story so well that there was no trouble to find a substitute for the Dog. All the characters were whimsically portrayed, Mytyl and Tyl- tyl, Fire and Water, the Dog and Cat, Bread and Milk and a whole flock of birds were there. Miss Lotz has taught a similar. class under the auspices of the Parent-Teach- er's association, in Rogers Park, and they gave a more pretentious program a few days later to such an enthusiastic audience that there were numerous re- quests to have .it repeated. Cooper Lawley Gives Recital on Thursday EXT Thursday's program at the Winnetka Woman's club will be a recital by Cooper Lawley, tenor, assisted by Miss Marjorie Wins- low, pianist. Mr. Lawley's accom- panist will be Mrs. Ernst von Am- mons. Hostesses for the afternoon will be Mrs. Burton H. Atwood, Mrs. .admitted Frederick W. Burlingham, Mrs. Per- | tion, 71 E. Madison St., on Thursday, cival Hunter, Mrs. Thomas Ratcliffe, Mrs. James A. Richards, Mrs. Roland D. Whitman. The program is ar- ranged by the Music committee, Mrs. Norman Harris, chairman, Mrs. Fred- erick K. Copeland, Mrs. Rudolph Matz, Mrs. Colton Daughaday, and Miss Augusta Fenger. Catholic Woman's Club Gives Children's Party HE Woman's, Wilmette had a most enjoyable Men's night Wednesday, Decem- ber 12, when the Duo Art company provided the program. The artists in- troduced were Milan Lusk, violinist, and Mr. William Beller, pianist, artists of the first water. Despite the inclemency of the weather a representative audience of true music lovers was present and was most enthusiastic in its applause. Both artists were generosity itself in their encores. Mrs. Bradford's inter- pretative talks added much to' the en- joyment of the piano numbers. Wil- mette may well be proud of its talented young townsman, Milan Iusk. The Children's Entertainment will be held December 31, at 2 p. m. at St Francis Xavier's school hall. Owing to lack of room children's guests will be only by ticket. Miss Anne Varner Baker of the Boston Players, whose children's programs are renown- ed, will furnish the entertainment. SMITH COLLEGE CLUB The Chicago Smith College Club will hold its annual Christmas lunch- eon at the Chicago Athletic Associa- Catholic club of' December 2/th, at 12:30 o'clock. Miss Suzan R. Benedict, professor of Math- ematics and dean of the Class of 1926 at Smith College, will be the guest of honor. All graduates, stu- dents, former students and members of the faculty are cordially invited. Reservations must be made with the treasurer, Miss Marjorie Winslow, 2628 Hampden court. WOCMAN"S LIBRARY CLUB A Chri S party . be given for members x Woman's Librap "December otid "will enter- bring your sewing and enjoy a social eflieve in Santa Claus? Some do and some don't but, would- n't Christmas be disap- pointing without him? The same with holiday PARTIES, DANCES AND DINNERS without FAV- ORS. 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