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& WINNETKA TALK ISSUED SATURPAY 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 ............ Winnetka 2000 or Wilmette 1 SUBSCRIPTION PRICE ..............58.00 A 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. One of the most prolific causes of motor accidents is the careless turning of corners. Who has not seen a motorist, usually an adolescent male, speed up to a cor- ner and whirl around it with no consideration for other motorists or pedestrians? Only recently we saw an old lady mak- ing her slow, cautious way across a busy street. The lights were in her favor, but nevertheless, being feeble and perhaps see- ing only dimly she moved very slowly. Just as she reached the farther side of the crossing and was about to step up on the curb a gay delivery lad swung his auto- truck around the corner and putting on his brakes suddenly stopped it with the front bumper touching the old lady. We should not have been surprised had she collapsed. But all she did was to utter a little scream and move along apparently none the worse. Turn Corners Carefully! If you would not be an unwilling cause of some child's untimely death, see to it at once that your dog is immunized against rabies. Protect Protect Your Dog him against this g . - dread disease by Against Rabies! having him in- oculated. T he state of Illinois department of health has not only approved immunization but has strongly urged it. Health officials all over the state are ordering the adoption of this protective measure. Our own village doctors have found out by experience that inoculation of dogs is a positive preventive of rabies. Let us co- operate with them in their endeavors to protect the health and lives of ourselves and of our children. In one of our papers a young man ad- vertises his desire to borrow $1,500. He wants to get a good start in business and says he is a college graduate "with no security other than a reputation for hon- esty." We don't know where in these hard-boiled business days a reputation for honesty will be accepted as a substitute for more material collateral. We tried it once. It didn't work. : If we should say anything about Christ- mas seals you might think we were try- ing to add to your body of zoological knowledge. But we should not be; we should be merely urging you to show ~ yourself a working lover of mankind by 'buying a big supply of those well-known stickers called Christmas Seals. Buy them and become a fighter in the war against tuberculosis. WINNETKA TALK Now and then we receive letters from members of our community asking that our young people do what they can to keep our villages beauti- Help Preserve ful. We live amid : surroundings that Natural Beauties! are unusually at- tractive. Trees, shrubs, flowers, and lawns all contribute to the loveliness of our North Shore towns. We are singularly blessed in this respect. We are, and we should be, proud of the reputation for comeliness of our homes, including houses and grounds. Sometimes our children fail to realize that they must do their part in keeping up the good looks of our home and public grounds. Sometimes, it seems, they do positive harm, as the following extract from a letter testifies: "For some months I have received many complaints from people having beautiful lawns and trees and flowers of wilful dam- age to property. . . Why should these children deliberately destroy a beauti- ful hedge that took six years to grow to perfection? Or a little plum tree laden with greengages for the first time be destroyed?" Many a Christmas package if not mailed within a day or two will reach its destina- tion after Christmas. And what kind of a gift is one that Mail Xmas comes after the long looked for day! We Packages Now! know for a fact that i if a package for some California friend or relative is not now already in the postoffice it will come into the friend's or relative's hands on the 26th or 27th. Moreover, we should wrap our packages securely. Get good strong wrapping paper and good stout twine and after wrapping the packages in our neatest and most com- pact fashion, let us tie them so beautifully tight that only scissors or knife can open them. This done, let us address our gifts so legibly that they cannot go astray. Lastly let us be sure to affix a return ad- dress. : Do it now! Those men who have not lost at one cruel stroke both wife and children can only faintly, if at all, appreciate the crushing grief of Giuseppe As- Sympathy for salone, who only a few days ago lost his be- the Bereaved 4% loved wife and two lit- tle children. Those of us who have lived for years without any such deadly loss come to ex- pect that our days will be bright and our nights peaceful. This poor man came home on that fatal day with the same glad ex- pectation, but unlike ourselves he found the day dark and the night lonely. Let us in these festive days remember with sympathy all who suffer in loneliness. Sometimes it seems as if some waggish sprite had intentionally mixed up the dates on our calendar, such as assigning to De- cember happenings that naturally belong to the summer months. We have especially in mind the mad dog epidemic of only one or two weeks ago and the anti-mosquito campaign. It's hard in December to con- centrate on rabies and mosquitoes. December 17, 1927 SHORE LINES AFTER LONGFELLOW On the vanks of Dusquanand Stood the friend of Hiawatha With his sturdy arms akimbo Gazing at the giant pine tree-- In the lake at his reflection-- At the old path of the Bison. Picked him up a cast-off antler, And again he threw it from him. "What can I send her for Christmas? Old New England's dainty damsel; Grand niece of my friend the singer, He who to the banks by singing Drew the bass--the pike and pickerel; He who hypnotized the fishes, Indian file he led them upward By his strange transcendent music. And when all had reached the streamlet, Skilfully he dammed the entrance. All the summer we had fish food. And the frogs danced in the twilight, Gay and happy in their freedom. And the birds and peeping wormlets All joined in a mighty chorus At the great emancipation From the cruel hook and angler." Thus soliloquized the Indian!-- "I shall gather the pine needle, And my squaw shall do the etching, She shall make a balsam pillow. And the maiden, sweetly dreaming, With her lily hand upon it-- With the odor in her nostril She shall find herself canoeing With her Indian friend beside her, Gazing o'er the lake's wide bosom, And the Rockies in the distance-- At the glorious golden sunset." Henry F. Stow. Homely, Indeed! At the present writing the weather is very homely, not to say uelv. The air is full of fog and drops of water. which constantly run toeether and seek a lower level on human beines and on an already water-soaked earth. The sidewalks are slippery and slimv. and the atmosphere is misty and moisty. So unattractive a day we have not been cursed with for many. many moons. Which lack of lovely features reminds us of a story about one of our girl friends. She was in- formed that a certain society of which she was a member was to give a masquerade and that she was to wear an appropriate cos'ume. "Lend me one," said she, "and the worse. the better." "Oh," was the prompt reply, "you couldn't look worse." --Fil the Filosofer. Christmas Ring out ye Christmas bells, ring out In accents loud and clear! Bring love and joy to all the world, Bring peace and Christmas cheer; Ring out ye Christmas bells! Ring out ye Christmas bells, ring out! Remind us once again Of Christ, the little Holy Child, And tell us why he came; Ring out ye Christmas bells! Ring out ye Christmas bells, ring out, s children's voices sina Of Him, who lived and died for us, Our Saviour, Lord and King: Ring out ye Christmas bells! Olivia Kingsley. Oh, These Young 'uns! A departure from custom and tradition, which, we fear with an abhorrent fear, may become a prac- tice, unless all good citizens join together and shout protest to the heavens, is that adopted by certain groups who like to refer to our North Shore as "Norshore" and varied contractions. Oh, please, Boy Scouts and all, retain the "North Shore," and oblige. --A Pioneer. "Ring In the New" Today spells exit for the old sanctum sanctorum. (Oh, dry those tears). For a week we have lingered in the wake of the vanished shop. Tomorrow we rejoin the cavalcade just west across the alley and occupy, with no little pomp and ceremony, that spa- cious sanctum, which, thanks to Charlie's kindly urg- ing, has been placed in festive order by the now celebrated black brigade. Let us enter, and be ex- ceedingly glad! You simply must come over in --Miaque. 'Za