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or window WINNETKA TALK August 14, 1626 Residents Rush to Share Garden Blooms With Unfortunates Contributions of a basket of apples and masses of colorful flowers fresh from the suburbs marked the opening day, Monday, August 9, of the Chica- go branch of the National Plant, Fruit and Flower guild at its booth in the Chicago and North Western station, just above the Canal street concourse. Society women in many of the north shore towns have been spending their time at the booth, receiving donations and arranging the flowers for distri- bution. Miss Harriet Vittum of the North- western university settlement is head- ing the committee on distribution which will apportion the flowers. Under her able guidance, the institution or center which will receive the flowers each day is decided upon, and a representative of the designated institution or center calls at the station for the plants, fruits or flowers, as it may be. Mrs. C. D. Ewer, president of the Wilmette Garden club, has made ar- rangements to have members of the Wilmette club be in charge of the booth in the North Western terminal during the last week in August. Mrs. Ewer, herself, will have charge of the booth on Monday of that week, and Mrs. Robert B. Taylor, Mrs. Albert E. Gebert, Mrs. Walter Gore Mitchell and Mrs. C. P. Berg will be in charge on the other days, in that order. Mrs. Ewer says that arrangements are being made so that anyone in Wilmette who will be unable to go into Chicago may leave his contribu- tions on a table at the Wilmette sta- tion, where any commuter who is going into the city is requested to pick them up and deliver them to the booth in the terminal. Kenilworth to Help Although the Kenilworth Garden club has not made definite plans in connection with co-operation with the Guild, it is expecting to do something along that line, according to its presi- dent, Mrs. Rufus B. Stolp. Mrs. C. C. Daughaday, 180 Chestnut street, Winnetka, a member of the Winnetka Garden club, is in charge of Winnetka's part, and will welcome memberships of $1.00. . The requirements are simple. Pick a bunch of flowers, or gather a basket of vegetables. Ask your husband to carry them to the booth at the station and leave them there in charge of the committee. Small bouquets are as welcome as large, and many a husband will carry a little package of flowers rather than a large bulky one. Send just a nosegay, but send something, the com- mittee urges. And while it seems an effort to pick and deliver these flowers, the women working in the booth find the effort well-repaid. H Crippled Children The first day the booth was opened a crippled man came with seven bou- quets to go to crippled children in hospitals. Phone calls come for para- lytic women who have read of .this flower exchange. It is hoped to supply perennials so that flower lovers who live in "flowerless" Chicago may tend and grow a few plants in their yards boxes. David Hill, the organizing of the guild, is organizing a Hi nued on Pa; - Mrs. ge 27) SELL VLVRLRLRE ing commendable work Hold Golden Anniversary The Rev. and Mrs. Q. L. Dowd of Lombard, Ill, celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, Sunday after- noon, August 8, at a reception for some of their old Winnetka friends in the home of Mrs. Douglas Smith, 915 Sheridan road, Winnetka. All old Winnetka friends of Mr. and Mrs. Dowd were invited to meet them at this time. Saturday evening they were enter- tained at Ravinia Park, and Sunday morning Mr. Dowd, a former pastor of the Winnetka Congregational church, preached the Sunday morning sermon. nmin LULU TT Arden Shore Pageant to Be Held August 19 The annual pageant given by the campers at Arden Shore will take place at 3 o'clock Thursday afternoon, Au- gust 19, at the camp, which is located about a mile north of Lake Bluff on Sheridan road. The pageant, which will consist principally of an operetta entitled "Little Bov Blue," will be un- der the direction of Miss Leila Martin, camp plav director. The opera singers and actors will be children and their mothers. The operetta forms part of the fun and frolic at Arden Shore, and means refreshment and relaxation from the heat and grind of the city. After the program for the afternoon, tea will be served, in charge of the following general social committee: Mrs. Norman W. Harris of Winnetka, chairman: Mrs. William E. Clough, Lake Forest; Mrs. Leslie Gates, Wil- mette; Mrs. John Kreutzberg, Take Bluff: and Mrs. George Mason, High- land Park. Assisting the general committee will be Mrs. Gilbert Scribner, Mrs. Rich- ard S. Bull and Mrs. Henry Tennev of Winnetka. Mrs. Henrv Pope. Mrs. Gordon Ramsay. Mrs. Bruce McLeish and Mrs. Pirie Carson of Glencoe will also be present to welcome friends of the camp from that village. The committee which has renresent- ed Glencoe at Arden Shore this season has consisted of Mrs. Henrv Poe, chairman © Mrs. Pirie Carson and Mrs. Gordon Ramsav, vice-chairman: Mrs. Mark Rector. treasurer: Mrs. Frank Loomis, industrial chairman: Mrs. Ed- ward A. Brion. nublicitv chairman; and fortv other active members. Those who are interested in this camn on the north shore are urged to attend the paeeant next Thursday af- ternoon in order that thev may see once more what they are giving their money to support. LLL LUTTE CETL HT Give Third Musicale at Skokie Club This Sunday The third of the series of Sunday afternoon musicales at the Skokie Country club will be given August 15, at 4:30 o'clock, and will offer a pro- gram given by Ida Mae Cameron, dramatic soprano, and Linda Sool, vio- linist, Miss Cameron has appeared before the foremost clubs in Chicago and in other cities. She will sing an old Eng- LLL ish group, a southern group, and a Spanish group, all in costume. Beulah aylor Porter 'will accompany her at the piano. Linda Sool is a young violinist of bright personality who has been do- in Chicago. LUELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLRBNDRINRNLNRICLLLLLRLRERRRISY Society Brings Cheer to Sick SUHLLLLLLLLLLLLLL LLL ILL LRRRELE Margaret King Galloway Wed to Wesley E. Bowman Miss Margaret King Galloway of Winnetka wore a dress of white taf- feta and duchesse lace when she became the bride of Wesley E. Bow- man of Evanston Tuesday, August 3, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Galloway, in Xenia, Ohio. She wore a cap and cape veil of tulle, which formed a train, and carried a bouquet of lilies-of-the-valley and shell pink roses. The reading of the service took place at 8:30 o'clock in the eve- ning, and was followed by a reception. Mrs. Marshall I. Barker of Hamil- ton, Ohio, who was her sister's matron of honor, wore a dress of blue geor- gette and lace, and carried a bouquet of Ophelia roses. Dorothy Galloway, the bride's niece, acted as flower girl, and was dressed in shell pink taffeta and carried flowers of rainbow shades. Dorothy Rankin, a cousin, who was ring-bearer, wore yellow taffeta. The ribbon stretchers, a niece, Rebecca Galloway, and Dorothy Hughes, were also in yellow taffeta. John D. Cam- eron of Wilmette, a classmate of the bridegroom's at Wayland academy at Beaver Dam, Wis., was the best man. Mr. and Mrs. Bowman planned to go to their cottage in Dayton, Ohio, on their wedding trip, and will be at home after this week in an apartment they have taken at 2249 Ridge avenue, Ev- anston. Mrs. Bowman, the sister of Dr. Charles Galloway of Evanston, has been secretary to the Rev. James Austin Richards and the Rev. Thomas A. Goodwin of the Winnetka Congre- gational church for the past year. She attended the Western College for Women for one year, and is a gradu- ate of Denison university. Sew for Bazaar The Ladies Aid society of the North LUTTE TTL Shore Methodist Episcopal church held an afternoon meeting Friday in the home of Mrs. Edwin R. Cole, 1139 Lincoln avenue, Highland Park, to sew for the bazaar to be held in Decem- ber. The Ladies Aid will hold its meeting next Friday in the home of Mrs. George Adams, 1241 Ash street, Winnetka, when the members will also sew for the bazaar. LLL TTT TT The East Elm Street circle enter- tained forty-five children and four counselors, from the Chicago Com- mons, Wednesday, at a beach party, from eleven to five o'clock. The chil- dren spent the day at the beach, bath- ing and enjoying the box lunches pre- pared at Mrs. James Clipper's home, by the ladies of the circle. SII Nn Mrs. Harold F. Tideman, of 138 Abingdon road, Kenilworth, and Mrs. Herbert B. Taylor, 631 Abbottsford road, Kenilworth, entertained 75 of their north shore friends at luncheon and bridge Thursday at the Sunset Ridge Country club. wn SI nm Members of the Current Evénts "club will meet at the Natural Museum of History building in Lincoln Park, Chi- cago, at 10:30 o'clock in the morning on Friday, August 30. Aid for War Vets. Claims Interest of North Shore Women Quietly and unostentatiously, but regularly and faithfully they do their work, these women of the north shore who are constantly giving their time and services to do whatever they can to help the ex-service men at Great Lakes. They may do it as members of a committee of a woman's club, or they may simply be interested as individuals enough so that they make the trip to see the boys as often as once every week, but they all do it with an urge in their hearts which takes them back again and again. Eight years ago today north shore social columns, "Mrs. Jones entertained twenty-five sailors from the Great Lakes station," or "Mrs. Brown held a charming supper dance in her garden for a group of jackies from Great Lakes." We lived, breathed and worked for the boys who were giving for us. A dance wasn't a dance without uniformed men. With all the grimness that accompanied the thought of war, those dances were gay, and the excitement was high. But today most of us have forgotten how to tie a sailor's knot. Debutantes can no longer interpret elaborate stripes and insignia which once told the story of a handsome officer. A few women along the north shore, however, have not forgotten, and have formed committees to provide enter- tainment to pass the weary hours we read in spent in the Navy hospital at Great Lakes, and often even furnish neces- sities to help the families of the men in the hospital. The Woman's club of Wilmette has a committee in its philanthropy depart- ment which has as its official name, "Friendly Co-operation With Ex-serv- ice Men's Committee, a group of workers whose spirit is expressed in the verse at the head of the list of members in the year-book: "When a smile or a cheerful greetin' Means so much to fellows sore, Seems we ought to keep repeatin' Smiles an' praises more an' more." Mrs. Willis H. Hutson, who is chair- man of this committee, explains that the range of the committe's work is extremely wide. It is a question of helping and helping, and then helping some more. "West 31" is the unit which is assigned to the Wilmette group, each member of which tries to assume the spirit of a "big sister" to- ward every member of the adopted . unit. The committee members visit the boys every week, or as often as it is possible, taking with them records, playing cards, cigarettes, cookies or candy to cheer the boys up. Nor do they stop at entertainment and luxu- ries, but continue their sympathetic services to help members of the fami- lies. At the meeting on Monday of this week the committee members sewed rags for rug weaving, this being an occupational aspect of the work. The committee says, in fact, that it does anything that is needed, and mentions as an illustration the case of one boy who is going blind, and whose wife and two children aze being helped. 'There is a total of fifteen boys in this nit which the Wilmette women care or In Kenilworth, taking the towns from south to north, we find Mrs. Joseph Joyce and Mrs. M. H. Dement as two (Continued on Page 28)