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14 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1924 Winnetka Weekly Talk LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 1222 Central Ave. Wilmette, Ill Telephone ........... Winnetka 2000 Telephone ............ Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION $2.00 A YEAR All communications must be accom- panied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for publication should reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, poetry, notices of en- tertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge will be made or a collection taken, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Entered at the post office at Win- netka, Illinois, as mail matter of the ig class, gider the act of March SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1924 Eo : Depress the Tracks. Give the Business Men Fair Play. Build a New Village Hall. Enforce the Traffic Laws. Build the Truck Road. A GARDEN? A Garden? "Oh, perhaps a rose or two Struggling and dusty, for the soil is light ; Not quite, the spot coher rei seem to do" Tho heaths and pine trees get along all right. A Garden? It's more like a narrow strip. But - somewhere for a quiet evening's stroll; x A place to mess about in, dig, to clip; A place--well! if you like-- to save my soul! A "buffer state" which guarantees my heart That God and Mammon shall be kept apart. --WILLIAM ARKWRIGHT. THE NOVEMBER TICKET The lawn is covered with with- ered leaves, and it doesn't seem as if we'd ever have the time to rake them up into piles and burn them. Perhaps the early days of December will afford a suitable opportunity. Autumn is waning, and far away can be heard the threaten- ing drums of winter. A few pre- cocious snow-flakes alarm the timid householder. Already he sees January's cold white walls closing in about him. He dreams of the mercury falling down, down, finally losing its identity in the bulb below. He is tor- mented by nightmares of the fur- nace fire dying at midnight, the water-pipes freezing, and home congealing into one solid ice- block. But the November ticket is a delicate blue. It cannot be that while it lasts Nature will be cruel. Robin's-egg blue prom- ises mild days and unclouded skies. The future will not be too severe on thin-skinned mortals. The Lord will temper the wind to the shorn lamb. REDUCE BURGLARIES! "Sneak thieves gained entrance to the home of R: M. Smith, 367 Willard avenue, Tuesday night. They escaped with a number of trinkets and other articles." "Sneak thieves made a haul of jewelry, handkerchiefs, perfume, money, and an alarm clock from the home of F. G. Jones, 362 Wil- ton avenue on Saturday night." "Several valuable pieces of jewelry and expensive wearing apparel comprised the loot in a daylight robbery at the M. O. Brown home, 1764 Henson street, Wednesday of last week. The Browns were in Chicago at the time the burglary occurred. The house was thoroughly ransacked by the burglars, no trace of whom has been found." Items such as these are occur- ring with altogether too great frequency. Almost every week our local papers report such hap- penings. Is there no possibility of preventing burglaries? : Can they: be made less frequent? There are good ways of de- creasing the number. If you are to be-out for the evening or the night, be sure to leave a light ne in your hore; A well- to thieves as a dark one. If you are to be away for several days make arrangements to have your daily papers NOT delivered. A paper lying on the walk or steps for a day or so is a plain notice that nobody is home. Come right in! So, leave your lights turned on and don't have papers strewn on your walk or porch. The best way to guard your home against looters is to get the co-operation of the local police. Telephone to the chief and let him know when you ex- pect to be absent from home. He will then watch your home with especial care People loitering about your.. premises will be questioned or arrested. You will also have greater peace of mind than if you had left your home unprotected. Help the police to co-operate with you. WHOSE FAULT? Young people may think that middle age and old age are devoid of fun. They often act as if twen- ty or twenty-five rang the cur- tain down on good times. If they want pleasure they must get it before it is too late. J Older folks are largely respon- sible for this demoralizing idea. For it certainly is a demoralizing idea. If a boy or girlehtertains this gloomy to-morrow-ye-die notion he is very likely to act upon it. Much pleasure attends the sowing of wild oats; but sor- row and suffering attend the reaping. So they say. Therefore "gather ye rosebuds while ye may." And youth goes wild. Who started and kept up this idea? Authors and speakers. Novelists, playwrights, poets, public speakers. In numberless ways and in multitudes of phrases these older people, who ought to know better, have painted life after twenty-five or so as dark and serious. They have depicted lovers -as having a gay, exciting time before the wedding and after that settling down into staid mar- ried folks, or at the best living a rather barren stretch of uninter- esting happiness. Why not tell young people the facts? Out with the truth! Here it is: Human beings after twen- ty-five are normally happier than they were before. The steady good times come as one grows older. The golden days are NOT the days from one to twenty-five; the golden days come later. We are going to start a move- ment to correct this evil. Our motto will be, "Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be." Instead of the "good old days" we shall call attention to the val- ue of the present, which we have always with us. We invite every- body, especially the boys and girls, to join our movement. WINTER How to pass the winter is a question answered in several dif- ferent ways. One way is simply to endure the chilly and the wet and the slippery. Another favor- [ite recipe is to flee to warmer climes and there wait for spring. A third is to enjoy it from start to finish. We have a fourth de- vice to offer. Our scheme is to shorten it by an early applied method. Here we go. It is usually understood that winter has already lived a considerable portion of its allotted span when the shortest day of the year has passed. That day is De- cember 22. Well, it often hap- pens that good weather stretches almost up to that very day. So much for the front part of winter. Now for the tail end. It is not rare for March to be quite a com- fortable month. We have known several very mild Marches. And February is a short month, barely four brief weeks. This handy method of decapitation and cur- tailment leaves only one real win- ter month, January, about four weeks. Stand it until after Christmas and spring will be upon you al- most before you know it. Training in Authorship I will conduct an Authorship Class this winter. Subjects to be studied: The novel, the short story, the es- say, and the article. The course comprises fifteen weekly sessions. It is especially adapted as a finishing course for women who have had some training in writ- ing. For terms and further infor- mation write or telephone to MRS. W. L. BALLARD 219-9th St. Wilmette, III. Tel. Wil. 2412 HART OIL BURNER NA Applicable to any heating LB Zplant. Installed easily and | "quickly. It burns a low grade fuel oil. HART HEAT is To be sure of comfort use HART HEAT A Hart Oil Burner keeps the home comfortable, clean and refreshed,even on the coldest days of winter. You do not have to spend your time running up and down the cellar stairs, trying to keep pace with the changing temper- ature,----because Hart Heat is entirely Gasoline and Oils Tires, Tubes, Accessories Hood, General, Goodyear 5 automatic---no dirt, no soot, no ashes. Designed and built by engineers with thirty-four years of manufacturing experience. And that is why the Hart Oil Burner is perfect--the best. AYRES TEFFT CO. Tel. 1146 Jobbers for Wadham's Oils Three Stores BRAUN BROTHERS 723 Oak St, Winnetka 1565 621 Main St, Wilmette 3243 Ridge and Wilmette Aves. Wilmette 290 WINNETKA 556 Center St. NORTH SHORE -- Mr men 1 ee i | ru? 1 -- EE NOT for bravery under fire, our decorations--but for service under pressure. Not medals, but friendly letters from folks along the road, like you. We are very proud to have them. We won the first Coffin Medal for excellence in transportation last year. But we value most the letters that come to us as a continuous stream of honor decorations from the people we transport. for the prompt manner in which you lo- cated my coat which was left on a train. Your road certainly merits the good will of the public." "I never, to my knowledge, saw a group of employes who were so anxious to look after the comfort of their passengers. I want to compliment the management for having such a well organized group of tiinmen." "You people are indeed to be congratu- lated upon having honest passengers and "One of your mottoes reads: 'The Road trainmen." of Service', and you are certainly living up to it." "In all my experiences with traffic em- ployes; I have never met a more capable, "I wish to acknowledge and thank you courteous and considerate outfit." These are extracts from some of the letters we have received. There are many more like them. They indicate an extraordinary apprecia- tion of North Shore Service from the North Shore residents. We will be grateful if you too will give us your opinion of our service. : Chicago North Shore & Milwaukee Railroad | Company Chicago Traffic Dept., 72 West Adams St. Tel. State 5723 or Central 8280 Milwaukee Traffic Dept.,403 Security Bldg. Tel. Grand 990 or Grand 2762. Winnetka Passenger Station Elm Street Telephone Winnetka 963