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WINNETKA TALK October 1, 1927 TMT CE pe A EASE Belt SORE News of the North Shore Clubs ) Date Is Set for Gold, Silver Sale North Shore Women on Com- mittees at Work for Gold and Silver Offering and Sale The date of the Gold and Silver sale has been set. All day Tuesday and Wednesday, October 25 and 26, in a shop in the Loop district, probably on Michigan boulevard, the sale will be held, although the exact locale has not yet been determined. For several months plans have been formulating and gifts accumulating for this ven- ture of the Woman's auxiliary of the Chicago diocese of the Episcopal church. Every parish in the diocese has a committee at work, telling of the purpose of the benefit, and appeal- ing for gifts" of silver and gold, no matter how small, which will be gath- ered in a Gold and Silver offering in the churches Sunday, October 9, and Sunday, October 16, during the regular morning offertory. The chairman of each parish will provide a basket into which the gifts will be poured. The committees. are asking for dona- tions of old rings, napkin rings, chains, old cuff buttons, watchés, bracelets, pins, tea pots, vases, cream and sugar bowls, spoons, forks, badges. Dental gold is also desirable. The proceeds from the sale are to provide the auxiliary with funds for the rebuilding of St. Margaret's school in Tokyo, Japan, completely destroyed in the earthquake of 1923. The general committee for the sale is made up of: Mrs. George Allen Mason, president of the Woman's auxiliary; Mrs. Carl A. Gowdy of Oak Park, chairman; Mrs. Hathaway Wat- son of Winnetka, vice chairman; Mrs. Joseph E. Otis, chairman of shops and sales; Mrs. M. Paul Noyes, chairman of sorting and appraising; and the district chairmen, Mesdames Hermon B. Butler and C. Colton Daughaday of Winnetka; Edwin J. Randall, John Oliphant, Herbert Bird, J. A. Carter, C. E. Osborne, W. F. Pelham, and Miss Jane Larabee. The north shore chairmen are: Mrs. Vance Roberts, St. Luke's, Mrs. Harry Wells, St. Marks, Mrs. E. C. Roogle, St. Matthew's, Evanston; Mrs. Thomas Hardwick, St. Augustine's, Wilmette; Mrs. G. D. Flood, Church of the Holy Comforter, Kenilworth; Mrs. Harry L. Street, Christ church, Winnetka; Mrs. C. C. Coldrun, St. Elisabeth's, Glen- coe; Miss E. W. Towner, Trinity church, Highland Park: Mrs. Robert M. Ingalls, Christ church, Waukegan. Winnetka Music Club to Open With Luncheon The fall season for the Winnetka Music club opens on Monday, October 10, with a luncheon and program at the home of the president, Mrs. Dwight C. Orcutt, 185 Green Bay road, Glencoe. After the luncheon, Mrs. Charles L. Byron of Winnetka will give brief sketches of the guest artists who are to appear on the Artist Recital pro- grams. A string quartet consisting of Mrs. William Sherman Hay of Winnetka, and three members of the Chicago Symphony orchestra, will give the afternoon music program. Mrs. War- H. Robinson of Winnetka, so- no, will assist the quartet as soloist. League Painting Classes Commence on October 15 The Saturday morning painting classes sponsored by the North Shore Art league will begin October 15. The Winnetka class will be supervised by Mrs. Kate B. Bond, assisted by Mrs. George Engelhard. Mrs. Bond is a graduate of the Chicago Art institute and was for some years on the faculty of the Art Institute school. Mrs. Engelhard is also a product of the Art institute. The instruction given will in no way parallel that given in the schools, the idea being to give the younger artists the opportunity to paint with brush and canvas from attractively arranged studies in still life. Classes in modeling are also being arranged. Opportunities will be given to meni- bers of these classes to exhibit the best of their work in the big Art League exhibition in the spring. This possi- bility" of. viewing their work in the exhibit 1s very unusual, as it will hang side by side with the work of professional and other members -of the league. Mrs. Bond at Winnetka 1688, will give additional information and is in charge of enrollment. Northwestern Sororities Pledge North Shore Girls Twenty-two north shore girls were among those pledged the last part of last week by sororities on the North- western university campus. The north shore girls together with the groups which they joined, are as follows: Estelle Englehart, Ruth Kinne and Esther Sprenger, Chi Omega; Lois Truesdale, Alpha Omicron Pi; Grace Glennon, Kappa Kappa Gamma; Win- ogene Springer, Delta Gamma; Ruth Caldwell, Sigma Alpha Iota; Esther Crabb, Helen Drynan and Ruth Miller, Delta Zeta; Virginia Bradford, Ruth Hinchcliff, Betty Lawrence and Mar- garet McLoney, Alpha Phi; Jean Mc- Callum, Alpha Xi Delta; Margaret Sterrett, Alpha Chi Omego; Marjorie Banning, Gamma Phi Beta; and Helen Ellis, Virginia Evers, Jean Evers, Alice James and Helen Southward, Pi Beta Phi. Wilmette Garden Club Meets Again Next Week The Wilmette Garden club will meet Friday, October 7, at 2:30 o'clock, for its regular monthly meeting at the home of Mrs. John F. Weedon, 204 Fifth street, Wilmette. Mrs. Weedon, who was the chairman of the judges of this division in the Tribune contest this summer, will be the speaker of the afternoon. Her subject is, "Our 1927 Gardens." Each member will give a short talk on her 1927 garden. At this time the new nominating committee will be appointed and the program committee elected for 1928. There will be a plant exchange con- ducted after the meeting by Mrs. Edward E. Moore. Circle Meets at Stevens The year's activities of the Rose- wood circle started Wednesday in a delightful manner. The motor bus chartered for the occasion carried the members to the Stevens hotel. A delicious luncheon was followed by a tour of the hotel. A business meeting was then held in one of the beautiful rooms, with Mrs. R. F. Feagans, the new circle chairman, presiding. Un- usual plans for the work to be done by the Rosewood circle were britfly dis- cussed. More of these social affairs are planned for the coming season. Nursery School Directors Meet in National College Directors of the eight nursery schools in Chicago and on the north shore, in which students of the Nation- al Kindergarten and Elementary col- lege act as assistants, met in Harrison hall last Monday afternoon, for a con- ference and discussion of problems in various situations. Among those at- tending the conference were: Miss Nina Kenagy, Mrs. Louise C. Freeman, Miss Mary Raffety of the Mary Crane Nursery school, Hull House; Miss Jean Hess, Miss Straus, Franklin school, Chicago; Miss Marion Spach, Miss Nina Criss, Winnetka Nursery school; Mrs. Alfred Alschuler, who directed the organization of the nursery school in the Winnetka and Franklin public schools; Miss Helen Prouty, Miss Kaye Reintges, Lake Bluff Orphanage Nursery school; Miss Vera Larson, Nursery school, St. Luke's Episcopal church, Evanston; Mrs. Charles Lloyd, Nursery school, First Baptist church, Evanston; Miss Helen Hubsch, Outdoor Play group, Winnet- ka; Miss Edith Maddox, Miss Miriam Brubaker, Children's school, National Kindergarten and Elementary college. Music Society Opens with Italian Program The new season for the North Shore Musical society opened last Monday with an Italian program given at the home of Mrs. George Truitt in Deer- field. The hostess was assisted by Mrs. Dorothy Wing Macauley and Mrs. Marie Pettibone. Mr. Mulfinger was the guest artist. The program given, follows: Contralto Duette Doubt Not Thy Father's Care .......... ER Lm i Edward Elgar Tuscan Folk Songs .... Luigi Caracciolo Mrs. Alvene Ressiegue Mrs. Dorothy Cordts Cello--Kol Uidrei .......... Max Bruch Miss Estelle Swigart Soprano--Fiocca le Neve ....... Cimara ROMBNZE dvs sole cess ssssvne Drigo YI Bacio cause: vans asain ees Arditi Mrs. Frances Copthorne Violin--Serenade ............... Toselli Midnight Bells ... Hueberger-Kreisler Madrigal .. c..mpvee. isi Simonetti Mrs. Bertha Dubbs Contralto--Speak Again, Love ........ J RE TT wr Antonio Lotti Dearest, Believe ...... ov... Giordani Dance, Oh Dance, Maiden Gay ....... a Nissi Erin BY Francesco Durante Mrs. Helen Stewart Trio--Noveletta, from Trio Sinfonico ... Fr PE Ta Th Bossi Mrs. Winifred Cree, Miss Swigart, Mrs. Ernau Akely Artist Pianist--Selected Numbers ...... PE NIA IE TT oe GRR. Mr. Mulfinger Accompanist .... EEE Mrs. Akely The next meeting of the society will take place October 31, at the home o Mrs. E. L. Essley, 234 Warwick road, Kenilworth. Miss Adelaide Jones and Miss Ethel Flentye will assist the hostess. To Begin Dance Classes Alvar L. Bournique will open the next season of his dancing classes on October 17, at the Evanston Woman's club and on October 19, at the Win- netka Woman's club. Mr. Bournique's school long has been known on the north shore, having been founded here in 1867 by his parents. Many of his present pupils are the grandchildren of ones who attended the school in its early days. Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Lloyd Zipf (Callette Anderson) of 575 Arbor Vitae road are receiving congratulations upon the birth of a daughter, Joyce Anne, on September 25, at the Ravens- wood hospital. afi % f business was taken care of. Woman's Society to Hear Dr. Washburne Head of Winnetka Schools to Give Resume of His Education Mission Abroad The Woman's society of the Winnet- ka Congregational church will begin the season's work with an all day meeting on Wednesday, October 5, beginning at 10:30, at Community House. The morning will be devoted to an exchange of greetings after the long summer vacation, and to sewing, as usual, in the Neighborhood room. Mrs. A. M. Scharf will lead the de- votional exercises at 12, which will be followed by the luncheon at 12:15. The speaker for the afternoon will be Dr. Carleton M. Washburne, su- perintendent of the Winnetka schools. Dr. Washburne has just returned from Europe, where he went primarily as specialist in education for the Unoffi- cial American Trade Union delegation to Russia. He was also a representa- tive in Russia for the International Bureau of Education, and for the new education fellowship. Dr. Washburne recently gave a resume of the results accomplished on this mission before the Rotary club, and the program committee feels it has been very fortunate in securing him to give the same address before the socies ty. "Under the leadership of Mrs. Wiley M. Huddle, who is beginning her sec- ond vear as president of the society, assisted by Mrs. Norman Anderson as vice-president, Mrs. Ralph M. Snyder as secretary, Mrs. W. O. Kurtz as treasurer, and Mrs. Percival Hunter as social chairman, the society is looking forward to a most successful year, de- voted to many interests with which women are concerned. All those in the community who are interested in the work which the or- ganization is doing are invited to at- tend. The officers and members are desirous of promoting an atmosphere of good fellowship, so that strangers in their midst will be sure of a wel- come. Committees Report at Meeting of Drama Club Mrs. L. Harrison Mettler of 1119 Sheridan road, Hubbard Woods was hostess Monday to the Community Drama club. This was the first regular meeting of the season, and all club Reports of all the committees were given by their chairmen. The selection of plays to be given this year practically has been completed, and the names will be announced soon, according to Mrs. Sherman Goble, president of the club. The first play of the season will, as is customary, be presented the second Wednesday and Thursday in Novem- ber. 3 Folders will be in the mail soon de- scribing the object of the club and the work of the players. These are de- signed to stimulate interest in the club and to let the people of the village know that membership in the club is open to everyone here. The next meeting of the club will be held the fourth Monday in October. Mrs. Samuel Fleager of 952 Pine street entertained at luncheon and bridge Tuesday at the Vista del Lago club. Two tables of bridge were in Oplayas ©