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WINNETKA TALK September 24, 1927 rn WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURDAY OF EACH WEEK y LLOYD HOLLISTER, INC. 564 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, Ill 1222 Central Ave., Wilmette, Ill Chicago office: 6 N. Michigan Ave. Tel. State 6326 Telephone ..........s. Winnetka 2000 or Wilmette 1920 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ........... ...58.00 A YEAR All communications must be accompanied by the name and address of the writer. Articles for pub- lication must reach the editor by Thursday noon to insure appearance in current issue. Resolutions of condolence, cards of thanks, obituary, notices of entertainments or other affairs where an admittance charge is published, will be charged at regular advertising rates. Hundreds of our north shore girls and boys, having completed their high school courses, are off to college. Having learned to cross safely the pons asi- Off to norum and when to use shall and will, our future citizens College have migrated in large num- bers to the many centers of higher learning, east and west. To most of them the change will be sud- den and radical and the adjustment diffi- cult. Until now these young people have lived at home under the protection and guidance of parents. In many cases every- thing has been done for them and they themselves have not learned to be respon- sible. In other cases parents have wisely endeavored to cultivate in their children some sense of independence, some ability to go it alone. But even these latter will find college life different not merely in degree but in kind from life in the schools back home. Many of the young people will be obliged to find their own lodgings and boarding places. They will have to answer for them- selves questions regarding subjects and hours. Not having any longer easy access to the parental ear and mind they will have forced upon Doubtless they will do many things that they will regret in later years. But the breaking of home ties is not to be deplored. Changing of one's religious views has sometimes been productive of real good. The boy must become a man, and the girl a woman, and the college puts valuable stiffening into many a limp de- pendent. It is not pleasant to have one's youthful illusions roughly dispelled, but it 13 well to face the facts of life early. Saving is not always true economizing. A stingy man is not necessarily an eco- nomical man. The thrifty Englishman 3 practices more economy Wise than the close Scotchman. Economy Economizing is wise saving plus wise spending. The habit of wise saving is an excellent habit. Putting away in a trustworthy bank a fixed amount every week not only finds one at the end of a year with a most sat- isfying amount in the bank; it also culti- vates in the saver a desire to save, a pleas- ure in saving, and a regularity in doing something worth while. The habit of wise spending is also ex- cellent. There are times when spending puts a man farther ahead financially than saving. No doubt it is much better at times to buy a high priced suit than a low priced. Better in the long run. It was well said that education takes time and that the saving of time in being educated is wasting time. Likewise the saving of money that needs to be spent is them weighty decisions. the wasting of money. When a house needs to be painted, it is folly to put off getting the work done merely to save money. In fact it is often true that the best way to save money and energy is to spend it. There may be here and there a few be- nighted individuals, tucked away in the backwoods, who still imagine that church life comprises only Sunday Church School, regular church serv- ie ice, and prayer meeting. Activity These back numbers think that the church building is used only twice a week, once on Sunday morning for Sunday School and church service, and once on Wednesday for prayer meeting. Therefore they blame the church authorities for making so little use of an expensive plant. The modern church is open the year round, every day in the week, and almost every evening. At almost any hour of the day or evening one may gain access. A business office may be open only from 9 to 5:30, but an up-to-date church is doing business both day and evening. A mere showing of organizations in a single church gives one a useful idea of the extent of this activity. In addition to the congregation, which meets on Sunday morning, and the Sunday School, there are probably a young men's club, a young women's guild, an aid society, a missionary society, the boy scouts, the girl scouts, the choir, the boys' club, the neighborhood circles, to say nothing of organizations pe- culiar to individual churches and divisions of the organizations listed above. During the recent untimely heated spell when we were coming out from town on the 2:05 North Western we ran into a totally unexpected, but Rain and highly welcome, rain storm. s We and our fellow passen- Shine gers had been more like steamed clams than normal human beings, gasping for air as only steamed clams can gasp. As the rain be- gan to sprinkle the window sills one could almost hear the thanksgivings that per- meated the car. One tired woman de- liberately chose to be wetted than lose the benefit of the delicious rain. All seemed to agree that at last the heated spell was cracked if not broken. But strange to say we ran out of the rain as suddenly as we had run into it. At Chicago Avenue we had met the storm. At Morse Avenue in Rogers Park we left it. The sidewalks and streets were now as dry as a bone, and the air as hot as though rain hadn't fallen for months. Rain and shine. That's the way it goes. Some get soaked while their neighbors dry up and shrivel away. There were no Boy Scouts when we were young. Otherwise we should have been one. We shifted for ourselves, we boys, in those days back in the 19th century. We went barefooted in summer. Our greatest fun was to go chestnutting. We'd tramp off to the woods with a bunch of pals. When we got there we'd throw sticks up at the open burrs and down they'd come rattling on the dry leaves. Or we'd go hunting bull frogs or mud turtles. Do Boy Scouts hunt bull frogs? SO EI A I UA - SHORE LINES LAMENT All my dresses are so short, Oh! How to get them long! These changing styles will Drive me daft, Each dress has something wrong. > There's one that's short; another's full; And still one more that's tight; There's not one in the whole ainged bunch That really is just right. So tell me, what's a girl to do-- One with not much money? These changing styles perhaps Will leave Me just a bit--well--funny. . --ANNAMARIE. Would that we could give a hand to Annamarie in her desperate plight, but, really, we quite like her just as she 1s. Still, if we can be of service-- Why, Tho Thad Dear Mique: We are thome of the Wilmette thitithenth who, like the Arabth with their tenth, fold up their automobileth eath night. Qur alley ith being paved and thith little poem was inthpired while watching the big gravel and concrete men. Pebbles on the sands of time, Concrete on the pebbles, Make the ribbon band of road On which the tourist trebbles. --THERIOUTH THUE. Barnyard divs I The rain has spoiled the hay this year, Although it's liked by every froggie; Just so your anger, Hepzibah, Has made my heart all soggy. II Dear Hepzibah, you doubtless know A curry comb makes horses sleek; I feel as brushed and pepped, I'll say, When you just kiss me on the cheek. III A cow that has no cud to chew Is surely very dumb. Dear Hepzibah, when you're not here I feel so lost and glum. I take a bath just once a week, That's quite enough for me; But I could bathe within your smiles For all eternity... "4 My hopes are all dead horses (I rode them much too far) But I'll make glue of Tho'ts of you And charge five cents per jar. You can't make soapsuds without soap, You surely must agree; You are my scented soap; O wash This longing off of me! --HENRY BUB. Having spent a few days down on the farm 'tother side of Niles, we can appreciate fully just what Hepzibah's heavy hearted Henrv Bub meant when he yearned for improved facilities for the daily ablutions. That Settles It Of absolute knowledge I have none; But my Aunt's washerwoman's son Heard a policeman on his beat Say to a laborer on the street, That he had a letter just last week Hand-written in the finest Greek From a Chinese coolie in Timbuctoo, Who said that a son in Cuba knew Of a colored gent in a Texas town, Who got it straight from a circus clown, That a man in Klondyke got the news From a gang of South American Jews, About some fellow in Borneo Who knew a man who claimed to know A hermit who lived beside a lake, Whose mother-in-law will undertake To prove that a friend's sister's niece Has stated in a nicely written piece That she has a son who knows about The date the new Ford car comes out. --SAM, THE RADIO MAN. What dn we think of the Cubs? Well, hardly that. = MIQUE.