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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 9 Sep 1922, p. 3

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'full-time schedule of classes on Tues- 'day. WINNETKA WEEKLY TALK, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1922 INNOUNCE SCHEDULE IT NEW TRIER HIGH School Begins Monday Morning at 8:30 The New Trier Township High school will open' Monday morning at 8:30 o'clock with a general assembly for all students. Those entering as freshmen will meet in the boys' gym- nasium--all upper classes, sophomores, juniors, and seniors will meet in the assembly hall. After receiving instruc- tions as to the day's program, all stu- dents will meet with their sponsor teachers for the distribution of pro- grams and assignment of lockers. Between 10 and 12:30 o'clock the regular schedule of classes will be followed with 10 minute periods dur- ing which time lesson assignments will be made for the following day. The hours between 1 and 3 o'clock Monday afternoon will be devoted to the adjustment of difficulties, and an opportunity will then be given for late registrations. Those who have not al- ready registered before Monday morn- ing will have no chance to do so until one o'clock Monday afternoon. All students have been asked to come prepared to purchase books Monday afternoon as there will be a The daily schedule for the coming school year is as follows: Periods Time Ae LTT 8:30-9:10 Aa PL DSR 9:10-9:55 Session room period 9:55-10:15 Fo DOI REL iS eS 10:15-11:00 2 Sri Lr IE Tha 11:00-11:45 De = its saat ann gros ae em 11:45-12:3¢ ESPEN ARR Ea 12:30-1:15 he LAVIN RSE, ATER 1:15-2:00 i ea en ey 2:00-2:45 | See Meee SO 2:45-3:25 Book Reviews By John Philip Morris We being what we are, a dog fight in our back yard is more interesting to us than is a revolution in China. The words, Evanston, Wilmette and Winnetka are far more eye arresting and hold much more magic than even such a beautiful phrase as 'Those Queens of Egypt and Mesopotamia and Persia and China." This being true we will attach much greater interest to THE BREATH OF SCANDAL by Edwin Balmer than the book literarily merits. Mr. Balmer is one of our authors who writes as a Democrat makes a tariff and whose works are as imperishable as the Daf- fodil. Nevertheless in THE BREATH OF SCANDAL he centers upon an in- teresting and vital social problem and by painting our own homes as the background of his picture he doubly catches our interest. Here is his thesis: Mr. Hale, a very successful Evanston business man, is married to a woman who does not understand him and with whose striv- ing at a life full of society and empty of emotion he cannot harmonize. Their daughter, Marjorie, is Victorianly and unEvanstonly innocent after several vears of society and petting parties. Hale turns for the love he needs to a lady who lives in the vicinity of wicked Wilson avenue. He is shot by this lady's divorced husband and the book revolves around the hushing of the seéandal that would arise were the shooting to come to the ears oft Mr. Hearst and Mr. McCormick and its psychological effect upon Marjorie. Marjorie's violent reaction to the destruction of her stereotypes, ignor- ance and filial affections lead her from the embraces of society and the arms of her fiance to earning her own liv- ing and dwelling with and among the --to her--polluted outcasts and out- landers that "Wilson Avenue" sym- bolizes. Later her fiance, the impossible and too good Billy, is killed in a road house brawl where he has gone in a hallucination that he is saving Mar- jorie from the fate conventionally known as worse than death, and the decks being thus cleared she marries the predestined other man, keeping her job and determining that her max- riage shall be a fifty-fifty proposition. The ending lacks conviction, sev- eral of the episodes are unnecessarily melodramatic and look as though the author had written with one eye on the possibilities of the silver sheat and the style is rather unpleasantly involved and .over wordy, but Mr. Balmer has at any rate given us a thought worth while. Of course there may be many Mar- jories in Evanston but I cannot be- lieve it. Most of our girls face life clear eyed and with a knowledge of its rules and pitfalls and with enough married friends to hold no delusions about the monogamy of American men. Besides the war and jazz have broken down many barriers and not so many girls have Marjorie's holier than thou feeling. Hale loses his daughter and his home and Marjorie loses all that made up her life, but Mrs. Hale goes on protected by the others from knowl edge and by her own lack of interest in what should have been vital. Mr. Balmer shows that she, the "kept wife," is the real villain in the piece, but she receives neither the curses of the audience nor of the other actors. And yet--we all know that the north shore women--and I suppose those of the world outside as well--are divided into two classes. Those who are the housewives, nursemaids, sometimes even washerwomen and wage earners and besides who are their husband's mates and mistresses and those whose life is dedicated to bridge, pleasure and the avoidance of everything that would be disagreeable or uncomfort- able, including the bearing of children and any extension of the honeymoon, and it is to them that Mr. Balmer real- ly has a message. For every Sybil on Wilson avenue, there is a Mrs. Hale in Evanston or somewhere and men understand this and temper their judgments accordingly. But it is something that the Mrs. Hales never grasp until after the re- volver smoke has blown away or the decree is granted. If Mr. Balmer can reach their consciousness he deserves a statue on Davis street erected by grateful husbands out of the silver saved from the Sybils. "Day by day, in every way I'm getting better." Say and BELIEVE this, says Emile Coue, and you will be all you desire. This is the newest form of self-help and is detailed in a simple and easily understood fashion in .THE PRACTICE OF AUTOSUG- GESTION by C. Harry Brooks. It has helped others and may be worth its weight in gold to you. JOHN PHILIP MORRIS. LOCALS LOSE FAST GAME TO EVANSTON Thirteen Inning Fray Goes To Tigers By 7 to 6 Winnetka dropped a hard-fought battle that went to 13 innings, Sun- day, the Evanston Tigers winning by a 7-6 score. Evanston scored one run in each of the second, third and fourth innings. Winnetka evened it up in the next inning, bringing in three runs, after two were dead. Kassner, M. Knox, Eckart and Car- penter singled in succession, scoring the three tallies. Winnetka brought in one more counter in the fifth, another in the sixth, on a homer by Gute- kunst. Still another came in in the seventh. Evanston brought in two more in the sixth, and one in the ninth, making the score at the end of nine innings, six all. Both teams were unable to count tn the overtime period, until Evanston scored in their half of the thirteenth. Winnetka tried desperately to even up the score, in their period. After two were down, Eckart made his fourth hit, Carpenter beat the next one out, but Lucchesi was unable to come through in the pinch. The game was tight all the way through, a nip and tuck affair, with Lucchesi of Winnetka and Monty for Evanston pitching a sweet game of baseball. The game was featured by five hits from Kassner's willow, Gute- kunst's homer, and Eckart"s four healthy swats. M. Know, with one less hit, also starred. Guntekunst played a fine defensive game, being all over the infield at the same time. Mike Russ was a demon with the bat for the winners, making three safe cracks, one of them being good for three bases. TEMPERANCE UNION MEETING The Woman's Christian Temper- ance Union will meet Tuesday, Sep- tember 12, at the home of Mrs. Lewis Norton, 370 Walnut street, Winnetka. The meeting, which will be called at 2 o'clock, constitutes the annual meet- ing with election of officers and a special program. It's toasted. This one extra process gives a delightful quality that can not be duplicated RRS \ - What quality can compare with the dependability of the CA Bull AC The man who has owned a Type 61 Cadillac for any length of time realizes every day he drives it that he has a motor car which he can rely upon to accomplish any transportation task he may impose upon it. He feels uniformly secure in contemplating its power, acceleration, dependability, comfort and the many long developed and proved mechanical features for which Cadillac is admittedly famous. 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