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Winnetka Weekly Talk, 23 Jul 1927, p. 16

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i capi | WINNETKA TALK July 23, 1927 Wir it you can easily and quick- ly beautify ALL your floors-- wood, linoleum, tile or composition. It matters not how they are finished -- whether with varnish, shellac, wax or paint. It takes only a few minutes-- there is no stooping--no messy rags and pails. It doesn't even soil your hands! JOHNSON'S WAX &lectric floor Polisher This marvelous new labor-saver bur- nishes wax on floors to a brilliant lustre | that is hard to mar and easy to clean. Ten times faster and better than hand methods. Runs itself --you just guideit. | Phone and reserve a Johnson Electric | Floor Polisher for any day you wish. | We also deliver and call for the machine. | We carry Paste, Powdered and Liquid | Wax--and recommend Paste Wax when | using the Electric Polisher. | RASMESEN'S PAINT STORE Painting © Decorating 556 Center Street Tel. Winnetka 344 (OUR REPAIR WORK'S THE KIND -- THAT ' OOD solid plumbing is the only kind of work you will connect with at this place. We do our repair work in a good-as- new manner and thereby gain the plaudits of our patrons. Our bathroom fixtures are depend- able. Phone 874 ~ 464 S.J. STEFFENS IP OAK ST. WINNETKA, ILL. _- ---- Read the Want Ads J. H. Williams Recovers From Severe Naphtha Burns J. H. Williams, assistant village man- ager of Glencoe and superintendent of the Glencoe Golf club who was serious- ly burned in an explosion of naphtha, was able to attend the Glencoe club tournament Wednesday though not to play. He came out for a little while about noon time and met scores of his friends who were very glad indeed to see him out again. It was the first time he had been permitted to leave the hospital since July 2 when he and Mrs. Williams were severely burned as the result of an explosion of naphtha in their home. Mrs. Williams will not be able to leave the hospital for a few weeks, but is slow- ly recovering. Mr. Williams says that despite the fact that both he and Mrs. Williams were severely burned about the face, physicians declare no per- manent scars will remain. Glencoe Woman Physician Taken by Death July 17 Dr. Eugenia M. Culver, Glencoe physician for 25 years, died Sunday, July 17, in the Evanston hospital of heart disease. She lived at 414 Wash- ington avenue, Glencoe, with her foster daughter, Lois Hathaway Culver, 13 years old, whom she adopted twelve years ago. Dr. Culver was 58 years old. Funeral services were held Tues- day at 2 p. m. at St. Elisabeth's Epis- copal church, Glencoe. Burial was in Memorial Park cemetery, Evanston. We wish to announce prices this month. at cost. 1054 GAGE STREET Announcement to our July Pre-Inventory Sale and urge them to avail themselves of the greatly reduced 20% Reduction on Everything We are also closing out our dresses and still have a few Jerseys and embroidered models that are selling almost THE PAINTED BUTTERFLY ART STUDIO AND GIFT SHOP Telephone Winnetka 1207 customers our usual HUBBARD WOODS very reasonable cost. COMPLETE 562 Lincoln Avenue Automobile Painting at Lower Prices In order to keep our shop busy during the dull period we are pleased to offer for a limited time, attractive prices on high grade painting. Personal attention and extra fine workmanship are especially available at this time. Perhaps the paint on your car is only a little faded. We can renew it or change its color at a DUCO Finish--the latest shades will beautify your car beyond your expectations, and can be applied in three to fifteen days, depending 01 the work required. Estimates are gladly given. WINNETKA SERVICE Phone Winn. 165 TELLS OF RESEARCH WORK AMONG CHILDREN Expert From Iowa State Welfare Station Addresses National Kindergarten Students Dr. Bird T. Baldwin, head of the Child Welfare Research station of the University of Iowa was the speaker at assembly of the summer session of the National Kindergarten and Elementary college last Monday afternoon. Dr. Baldwin told about the child welfare research work that is being conducted in the state of Iowa. Dr. Baldwin stated that ten years ago when this work was started in Iowa it caused a great deal of com- ment that one of the states of the Union should set aside a department and appropriate funds for the study ol normal children. It had been the habit of educators up to that time to study only abnormal people and children be- cause it was so much easier to arouse interest and sympathy concerning de- fectives. In his opinion this seemed rather useless because after all only about 15 percent are defective, the other 85 percent being normal and it seemed wiser to know all that could be known of the latter. The first ques- tion that arose was how to study nor- mal children and here the word "Pre- vention" came into use with the idea of preventing abnormal conditions to develop through the provision of proper conditions. He said that at this time all branches of education are in- terested in this study of preventive work except the sociologists, but that he does not know of a single study of the kind being made by them. He feels that the sociologists will have to get interested in children if they are to help and certainly their help is needed in making social adjustments easily and naturally. Describes Various Groups The University of Iowa conducts five Pre-Schools which Dr. Baldwin de- scribed somewhat as follows: 1--The Pre-School where they keep the children all the time and have them from the age of two months. Here they make intensive studies of metabolism, nutri- tion, mental development and physical development as it takes place in the very young infant up to the age of eight or nine months. 2--This is called the Pre-School Home Laboratory and the children are kept all day and range in age from 15 months to two years. This place is like a home in every way except that all equipment has been fitted to a child's needs, small chairs, low steps, low shelves, small beds and chairs, etc. The children are brought at 9 a. m., usually by their fathers, and stay until 4 p. m. Here they are studied from the standpoint of food, exercise and all kinds of development. 3--Here is the Nursery school where the children are kept for half a day.and range in age from 18 months to three years. Here the children are measured in numerous ways from time to time and observed. Nursery School 4--At Ames is a Nursery school where the children are studied primarily from the position of Home Economics. This school is more like a typical nursery school. The Home Economics people have almost run away with the Nursery school idea, Dr. Baldwin said, from the stand- point of nutrition, but that they also needed to get interested in and develop technique. 5--The fifth branch of the work in Towa is at the State Teachers college at Cedar Falls which is called the Pre-kindergar- ten school and takes children for either half a day or all day as is desired. The reason for introducing this sort of thing at a teachers college Dr. Baldwin said is that there is now a group of psycholog- ists who say that the little child is more than an "I. Q." they look at him as an "integrated unit." The head of the de- partment is called 'The Professor of Child Development." The child is regard- ed from all standpoints--physical growth, mental growth, metabolism, because it is considered that one of these things is as essential as another if the whole life of the child is to be properly understood. On June 29 Bloomington, III, was the hottest place in the United States, the temperature being 99 degrees.

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