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4 WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1917 Winnetka Weekly Talk PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Y The La%e' Shore Publishing Co 20 Prouty'Annex, Winnetka, Ill. Telephone Winnetka 388 Lroyp F. HoLLisTER, Business MANAGER Subscription price $1.00 per year in advance. To insure publication, items should be in THE TALK office not later than Wed- nesday noon. Entered March 1, 1912, at the postoffice at Winnetka, lIl., as second-class mail matter. FRIDAY, JANUARY 26, 1917. ADMIRAL DEWEY'S HOUSE One of the most curious incidents of Admiral Dewey's career related to the gift of the house made to him by the American people. When the pres- ent was made, no one for years had been such a popular idol. In a moment he lost his popularity, simply by giv- ing the dwelling to his wife. No doubt his act showed a certain defect in taste. But even at its worst it was but a trifle in comparison with the matchless service rendered by the man who broke the Spanish power. Yet, for a mere incident like this, our people rose in their wrath and were ready for the time being to cut him off our list of heroes. Aa EA It goes to show what a transient possession popularity is. A man may render the most inestimable services. Yet, if in a thoughtless moment he somehow fails to conform to the pop- ular code of manners, off with his head. The American democracy takes itself very seriously, and it demands due deference even from its heroes. #o% 8 8 BOOKS AND POSTAL RATES The magazines have been protest- ing bitterly at Washington against the proposed increase of postage on their issues that are shipped more than 300 miles. 'They argue that a two-cent stamp carries a letter from Maine to California, and they claim their pub- lications should go anywhere on the same basis. Yet the parcel post has been established on a zone basis, the rate being dependent on the distance a package was carried. No one has claimed that this was unjust. The magazines are exceedingly bulky. The labor handling them must be very large, and it is greatly multi- plied by the distances covered. The magazines reply that the ad- vertising in their columns originates a great deal of mail business that tends to increase postal revenues. But inasmuch as §o much mail business is _ done at a loss, there is a question if these publications are entitled to any special favors on this ground. It is hard for the average man to see just why the magazines are entitled to any special favors. If a private corporation were running the. post of- fices, the cost of carting these great bundles all over the country would very soon pay a charge proportionate to its value. It is necessary for the commercial unity of the nation that letter postage rates be low all over the country. High rates for long distances would impede business. But a low rate for maga- zines is no such necessity. The stan- dard magazines would be widely taken anyway, even if the readers did have to pay a bit more for postage. And there is a raft of trashy publications that would be put out of business, with no one the loser. * ® * * * THE NAVY FOR YOUNG MEN The death of Admiral Dewey con- centrates attention on one of the great naval careers of American history. As our young men read the dramatic story of George Dewey's life, with its thrilling climax at Manila Bay, a great many of them will be fired with the ambition to enter this career. If the United States should be drawn into' war, a great many young men now ob- scure would in a day become figures of history. ' Those who long for money making will not chose navy life. Republics are ungrateful, and most of our heroes have never received much financial reward. But there are many solid advantages in a naval career. The strict discipline of these little kingdoms on shipboard produces a very self-controlled and well ordered type of character. The navy men are alert mentally, and erect physically and morally. Their drill makes them quick thinkers. The pos- sibility of war makes them very brave and resolute fellows. Any family with a naval officer among its boys is prouder of him than of the money makers who stay at home and enter business. Naval officers say that the navy has a more democratic spirit than the army. The various grades of the ship- board life meet in close quarters, and artificial distinctions could not live long. American sentiment has decided that an increase of our navy is necessary in these times of world anarchy, and we need many bright young fellows in our ships. They should note that Dewey's great achievement was not due to any luck or chance, but to the fact that he had prepared himself for a historic emergency by a life of in- cessant industry, study and technical skill. * kk kx kx 3k POLICE GRAFT Every once in a while, from some of the big cities, there comes a tale of alleged police graft. Chicago is the latest to call for a show-down, the state's attorney claiming that one man has put $25,000 in his pocket from il- legal dealings with lawbreakers. War- rants for others are also issued. It is a constant problem also in smaller cities in appointing police officers to find men who shall be impervious to crooked work. Formerly, in appointing policemen, the principal question was as to their! athletic ability. They were supposed to be big, muscular fellows, who could handle the most riotous drunk or cap- ture the most fleet-footed runaway. Police work is still a rough and tumble. These physical qualifications are still quite necessary. But certain moral qualifications are even more es- sential today. The policeman's sense of right and wrong needs to be quite as vigorous as his arms and legs. That police forces are as honest as they usually are is a testimony to the good side of human nature. It shows that alfer all there is a lot of honor left in the world. A great many men who seem very ordinary types of fel- lows really show no little heroism in the way they set aside these tempta- tions to easy money. But no doubt there are a lot of po- licemen who stand up very straight and make a very impressive appear- ance on duty, but who are really in the pay of the underworld. Police graft strikes at the very foundation of our civic life. It is useless to pass laws, futile to conduct churches and schools, if crime can flourish un- checked by the simple expedient of paying policemen to be conveniently near-sighted. In appointing policemen, the most careful attention needs to be given to a man's moral record. If he cannot show a clean life, square in all busi- ness dealings, he has no fitness for police work. * * * * * BILLY SUNDAY AS A MODEL Scoffers and skeptics at Billy Sun- day's evangelistic work must be af- fected by the figures of his results. Even on the basis of the crowds drawn, it is an amazing spectacle, without parallel in history. An at- tendance of a million and a half in eleven weeks" preaching in Boston, nas nothing like it in Christian tradi- tion. : The ordinary Christian preacher has a lot o learn from Billy. That does not mean that he must pound the table, mount up on the desk, swing chairs, or sling slang like Mr. Sunday. Sunday has a certain natural physical grace that makes his antics a natural expression of his nervous and passion- ate utterance. Anyone who tries to imitate him, simply makes himself grotesque. Wherever Billy goes, clergymen flock to hear him. They do well to study his methods. They can dis- tinguish many methods used by Billy that the most difinified preacher can usefully employ in his pulpit. For one thing, Billy is tremendously lucid. His language is clear cut, di- rect, straight to the point. He draws his illustrations and ideas from every day life, from much contact with men and things. Different types of char- acter, different courses of conduct, are graphically described and separated from each other with absolute clarity. The hearer leaves one of Billy's taber- nacles with certain positive impres- sions that stick in his mind. No man makes a great popular ap- peal unless he does acquire this habit of clear, lucid, graphic utterance. Many clergymen surround their sub- jects with a hazy fog of speculation and philosophy. The best intentions and the most spiritual desires often fail to "get over," as they say in the theatres. * * * * * THE COMMISSION MERCHANTS The newspapers are reporting the recent convention of the National League of Commission Merchants, held at Philadelphia. It is a big organiza- tion of successful men, with a gift for organization and executive man- agement. The public has a good deal at stake in the efficiency with which they do their work. There has always been a good deal of denunciation of middlemen. Not that anyone accuses them of being more dishonest than the rest of us, but there is a feeling that their funec- tion is, in part, wasteful. Yet these men could not have built up these great businesses unless they performed an economic service. They have grown rich and prosperous, be- cause they served the public better than any existing agency, otherwise they would not be holding big na- tional conventions and traveling around the country. A retailer likes to buy of them be- ceuse they will deliver the goods when the consumer wants it, and of the quantity and quality that he wants. It simplifies and standardizes the busi- ness. The retailer can work on a smaller capital, in smaller quarters. Any scheme to eliminate middlemen must do one of two things: One way is to sell food products in bigger re- tail stores that can afford to carry bigger stocks and buy in a more direct fashion without going through so many hands. The only way to con- centrate business thus in fewer hands is to advertise. The other way of getting rid of the middlemen's service is for a big sys- tem of storage warehouses to be con- ducted in farming districts where pro- duce can be shipped direct to retail- ers. Both these propositions have merit. When they are efficiently per- formed, the big wholesale house will feel more competition than it has yet had to meet. * * * * * No interest in the Daylight Saving movement is as yet manifested by the young people who will sit out on shady porches next summer. * * * * * When a man talks about the extrav- agance of automobiles, it is a sign that he is struggling against a tempta- tion that will overcome him about May first. * * * * * Now that women are wearing over- alls, will they take up smoking, the physical difficulties that have pre- vented them from lighting a match being removed? * * * * * The people are looking forward to government ownership of railroads, when influential politicians will secure them marble structures with terrazo floors for the flag-stations where trains stop once a day. Wl Domestic Science and Living Cost No. 1 This series of editorials will not deal much with household methods. The newspaper women's pages and women's magazines have produced ii- limitable volumes on that subject al- ready. The women are bewildered with multifarious and conflicting ad- vice. A great many of such suggestions are written by women who could not go into their own kitchens and cook an egg. Or they may be done by black browed men smoking corn cob pipes in some newspaper office. In these editorials it is proposed merely to dis- cuss the new point of view which many women appear to be getting, which is encouraged and promoted by the teaching of domestic science and the widening influence of many schools of these arts. To the typical woman of the older generation, housework was drudgery. It was hard, back-breaking work, with many tiresome and footsore steps. There was much distasteful contact with dirt, disorder, and refuse. The women living on small incomes did it with superb fidelity, and a certain hopeless persistence. Frequently they never taught their daughters the first principle of it. They had higher hopes for their girls, and looked forward when their daughters would be freed from thé dominion of pots and pans by getting a job in some shop or office. Women of larger means felt the distaste for household tasks even more keenly. It was not so much that they felt any social degradation in performing them. They merely re- garded them as uninteresting, having nothing worth the attention of an in- telligent person. Asking them to bake bread and tend the coal fire was much like asking their husbands to go out and dig a ditch. So these women held themselves aloof from household tasks, not from any unworthy false pride, but from their aspiration, most commendable under wise leadership, for larger and bigger interests outside their homes. So they turned over their housework to ignorant alien maids, who wasted and scattered while the mistresses read Browning and Tennyson and wrote papers on Rembrandt's art. NR ---- Domestic Science ; and Living Costs No. 2 The former attitude of women toward housework differed somewhat from the attitude of men toward their tasks. Few men ever drop the mere routine and laborious aspects of their tasks, provided they can see a dollar in it. The farmer does not hesitate to take hold with the shovel and the hoe if he sees his crop needs it. The merchant will unpack his own goods and even sweep his own store if help is scarce. He does not com- plain if it is dull and uninteresting work that a boy 'could do. He does it because for the success of most small businesses it is frequently necessary that men take hold and work a good deal with their own hands. The high cost of living is persuad- ing a great many women that it pays for them to attend more closely to their own households. They find a business profit in so doing. They are saving money that gives them, in many ways, a freer life and more money to spend on pleasures and im- provement, than they had when they kept servants. The Domestic Science movement is emphasizing several points with great force that are worthy the attention of every housewife. One of these is that with competent training any woman should be able to perform the tasks of a moderate sized household with half her time, save probably laundry work. The Domestic Science experts say they know in their own acquain- tances a great many women who are doing that. They are perfectly good housekeepers, yet they have half their time free either fur social life, for lit- erary and study club work or for philanthropy. A great many of them use it in some money earning occupa- tion outside the house. It is the testimony of these active housekeepers that they could never in the world have done it, had it not been for the training they had had in domestic science. Also they could not live on their husbands' incomes at present prices, had they not had domestic science training. * * * * * When Harry Thaw was looked at as a murderer, he was rather popular, but now that he is merely accused of assault, he seems to have lost all his friends. es IME KITCHEN TACABINET We all know we cannot always d ourselves well, but few perhaps 1 ize how much we can do to keep selves well.--Sir John Lubbock. SOME PEACH WAYS. Peaches baked like apples are | licious dessert. Place them in a low pan, sprinkle w little sugar, a few ( of lemon and bits of ter, with a grating of meg. They may be b whole or in halves the pits removed. A half of a J placed on a squar sponge cake or angel food, so with fruit sirup and topped witl cream or whipped cream is a de well liked. Peaches sliced and mixed marshmallows and sweetened whi cream is another well liked desst Glorified Peaches and Cre Peel and cut each peach in hall move the pits and put a little 1 schino and a teaspoonful of sug each; let stand for an hour or until the fruit has absorbed it, arrange the peaches around a of sweetened and flavored wih cream. 1 Peach Salad.--Peel and cut peach in half, remove the pits arrange on nests of lettuce; fill dressing and chopped nut meats the dressing use two tablespoo of powdered sugar, one teaspoont celery salt, salt and paprika to | five drops of tabasco, four tables fuls of olive oil and two tables fuls of vinegar. Peach Compote With Peach § --~Secald two cupfuls of milk in a ble boiler and add one-half cupf farina, gradually, stirring const: When the mixture thickens, a fourth of a cupful of sugar, on teaspoonful of salt and cook 20 utes; then add the whites of eggs, beaten stiff. Turn into sli buttered shallow pan. Remove skins from six peaches, put ir saucepan a half cupful of sugal a quarter cupful of water, cove! cook the fruit until soft. Cul farina into squares, put a peac each square and pour the peach | over all. Peach Sauce.--Mix half a | spoonful of cornstarch with one { spoonful of water; add to the sin the pan and cook five minutes, ring constantly; add two yolks, | en thick, two tablespoonfuls of I Juice and a dash of sit. ! Perri Wren The country is wondering how gress can do the rest of its wor six weeks, and the congressmen wondering how they can keep | doing it for that length of time. Hardware and Pai J. F. ECKART "ae Phone 4 SPECIAL PRICE To introduce our Strictly Hal made Chocolates to the public we| making a special price of 50c per pound on our regular 60c¢c Chocolates Saturdays and Sundays. We have old-fashioned butter scot taffies, chocolate fudge and a nun of new candies that appeal to the ti of everyone. Mrs. Illing's Candy Sh '""THE SHOP OF QUALITY' 566 Railroad Ave. Tel. Win. 1 Special Assessment Taxes NOW DUE Your taxes are now due ar payable at my office in the vi lage hall, down stairs, near tl Ash street entrance. Mrs. Preston, who has been cc | your taxes and give you a necessary information. Much time and worry can t saved by paying taxes here. THEODORE FLYNN Special Assessment Tax Collector! eral years for the village, is i my office and will receipt fe lecting taxes for the past se Sh pub nl eb itn