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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 20 Mar 1920, p. 11

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INT TAALIN,, OAT UND ys AVL. cones ---- come Jj #1 .UB women of New Trier Township are interesting them- || selves these days in the study of politics. Ever since the close of the Suffrage convention, it has become quite the fad for women to hold small meetings in various of the Last Friday 5! 0) homes, or to sponsor lectures on "Political Education." morning a representative group of the women's clubs on the north shore, met in the home of Mrs. James F. Porter of Hubbard Woods, to discuss plans for holding a series of lectures on this same subject. Mrs. James Porter, was elected chairman of the Township committee, and will have assisting her Mrs. W. J. Huddle and Miss Gemmell of Winnetka, Mrs. Dwight C. Orcutt, Mrs. Charles F. Pearce, and Mrs. Albert E. Olson of Glencoe, Mrs. I. M. Allen, Mrs. Mark Cresap and Mrs. Frank Chaffee of Kenilworth, Mrs. Wallace W. Kerr, Mrs. Charles N. Hurlbut, and Mrs. John Clark Baker of Wilmette. A series of six lectures has been arranged, to be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon on the following dates: . On Friday afternoon, April 9--Professor Secrist of Northwest- ern University School of Commerce, will speak on "How the Nation is Financed," at the Winnetka Woman's club. Tuesday, April 13--Speaker to be announced later. Woman's club. Friday, April 16--Professor James of the History Department of Northwestern University will lecture at the Kenilworth Woman's club. Tuesday, April 20--Open date. Library club of Glencoe. Friday, April 23--At the Winnetka Woman's club, Professor Ray of the History Department of Northwestern University, will speak 1 "I'he History and Development of the Political Parties." Monday, April 26--Professor William E. Dodd of the History Department of 'the University of Chicago, will lecture on "The Struggle for a New American Foreign Policy," at the Wilmette Woman's club. Tickets may be secured from any member of the committee or from the following women in Wilmette, Mesdames Charles C. Brackett, Wallace W. Kerr, Amos Hostetter, Irwin Adkins, E. C Osman, Shelby Singleton, C. N. Hurlbut, Lewis B. Springer and William J. Weldon. Wilmette Meeting to be held at Woman's Stories of the success that women have found in gardening small pieces of land, or their back yards, will be part of the program of the confer- ence of the mid-west branch of the Woman' : Farm and Garden associa- tion, to be held in Chicago on Mon- day and Tuesday, March 22 and 23, in the rooms of the Fortnightly club and at the Art Institute. Everyone who is interested in gar- dening and farming is invited to at-| tend the comferenc e, and landscape gardeners, practical taemirs, young women who have taken agricultural work in college, as well as the own- ers of some « the most famous country estates, with extensive gardens and vegetable plats, are planning to come. The conference program is lows: Monday morning, March o'clock--Four short papers on horti- culture, including one by Mrs. Francis King of Alma, Mich., national presi=y dent of the association. Monday afternoon--2:30 Illustrated lecture, with slides, an "Old New dens," ton. Monday as roi- colored evening--38:15 on "Edible and Poisonous York Botanical Gardens. Tuesday morning, including one by Mrs. land branch. Tuesday afternoon, at 4 o'clock--at "Plants by W. A. Murrill, to which Art Institute members and out of the Art Institute--Lecture on in Design," town guests are invited. Tuesday evening, 6 o'clock--Buffet Economy Eat SCHULZE'S BUTTER-KUT England Gar- by Loring Underwood of Bos- o'clock-- Lecture illustrated with colored slides Mush- rooms," by W. A. Murrill of the New March 23--10 o'clock--Short papers on agriculture, George U. Crocker, president of the New Eng- supper for members and guests of the conference, at the Fortnightly club- rooms. There are about 2,000 members of the Woman's National Farm and Garden association, representing practically every state in the Union and every kind of agricultural work. In the membership are those who are professional landscape gardeners and those who are making their first ex- periments in setting out and culti- vating plants successful woman farm- ers and women who are looking about for help in their :mpts; those who are proudly culti- vating 'a small bed of flowers and vegetables in their own back yards nd those who have extensive gar- lens on their private estates; lectur- ers, teachers and demonstrators on the su canning, gar- tbjects of foods, 3210 dening, farming and horticulture. Mrs. Gertrude W. Parker, promin- | ent Illinois clubwoman, who has ac- | cepted the state chairmanship of the Illinois women's division of the Near Relief, is lining up the 60,000 i 515 Davis St., Evanston A MATINEES 2 and 4 Evenings 7 and 9 Saturday March 20 Bryant Washburn *The Six Best Collars" Universal Screen Events Briggs Comedy Monday and Tuesday March 22 and 23 Elsie Ferguson in "His House In Order" Wednesday March 24 "Dangerous Hours" A Thomas Ince Special Thursday and Friday March 25 and 26 Eugene O'Brien in "His Wife's Money"' Saturday March 27 McLean and May in "Mary's Ankle"' farming at- | members of the Illinois Federation of Women's clubs as a nucleus for the women's participation in the Near Fast campaign to save the lives of thousands of starving Armenian orphans and to rescue thousands of girls from Turkish harems. The Illi- nois quota or orphans to be saved is 11,290, of which 7,000 are alloted to Chicago. It cists only $180 to save a life. Mrs. Parker, who is chairman of the speakers' bureau, eleventh dist- rict of the federation, aims to have everyone of the six hundred clubs of the state adopt at least one orphan, and through her organization she hopes to reach thousands of women who will heed the hunger cry of the homeless children in the Near East. Mrs. Parker is arranging for a con- ference dinner to be held in Chicago within the next two weeks, to which at least six hundred leaders of the Illinois club women will be invited. Try an Electric cabinet or Rain-Bo Bath for Men and Women. North Shore Hotel, by appt. Phone Evanston 6424. --Adv. LTG16-tfc RAINPROOF CLOTHING FOR AUTOING FISHING CAMPING | 3 KITE $0 EIITES 39 10 6 SIEEE "HUNTING AND THE STREET We Have the Right Garment for Every Need W.H.Salisbury&Go. Established 1888 308 W. 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