The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

72 WINNETKA TALK March 24, 1928 TELLS OF IMPRESSIONS ON COMING TO AMERICA Student in English Class for Foreigners Prepares Paper as Illustration of Work Olga Hausman, a member of the ad- vanced group of the Americanization classes at Community House, read the following paper at the graduation ex- ercises held Monday evening at Com- munity House. This clever sketch, written by Miss Hausman herself, is illustrative of the work accomplished in these classes. Miss Hausman calls her paper "Little Gertrude's Impres- sions of America." I am going to America. America! Oh dear, what a strange name! Now Switzerland, France, Italy, Austria, Germany, how friendly that sounds. Of course I know it is an immensely big country, but what does it look like? I remember having seen a pic- ture of sky-scrapers, and oh, I know now, there are Indians. Yes, Indians, and sky-scrapers. I wonder how these Indians climb up the sky-scrapers, if they don't lose their head-feathers and moccasins running up and down the steps. I would very much like to see those feathered heads looking out of the big windows, although it seems to me that the picture would look rathe: strange. I feel just like Alice start- ing for Wonderland. Goodbye, then, dear people, envy your little Gertrude. A Living Note Book Here I am on the boat. What a re- lief! I am a person again! Unitl I arrived at the boat I was a kind of living note book, divided into columns, where each date of each act had to be put down onto a certain line, and My! how many lines there were! There was a certain time to take a certain train; a certain time to go to the har- bor; a certain time to go to the boat; not to speak of all the certain times between. I am still shivering thinking back on all these fearfully calculated "certain times." Had I only missed one, little Gertrude would have been Alice without seeing the Wonderland. Now, on the ship I don't even need to ask all these people where they are going. They all go to America. How startling! Some lie in their chairs all day long, and some poor ones lie in their beds; others sit; others walk, oh, so many times around in the same circle. Those circles are sometimes oval, some are pointed on one side, and some are almost square. But they go without using their feet, they go to America. This went on for many days until the Wonderland came in sight. Now, I will have to open my eyes and my ears to see the new things, and hear the strange sounds. Oh, here are the sky-scrapers, but where are the Indians? Never mind, there is enough color without the Indian feathers and moccasins. I must say there is plenty of gray in the city, especially. I am thinking of the great big buildings, they are so tall, they could not look down at you, even if they wanted to. They would bump their heads together by bending them and then--I leave the picture for others to describe. Everything in Color Oh yes, all colors; I have seen them Especially in a black night, above, be- low, and in the city. There are also the blue roofs, the green, the yellow roofs of the houses, not to speak of the red and brown ones, in contrast with the small black roads. And on those smooth black roads run so manv blue, green, yellow, red, brown cars. and in the cars sit so many people dressed in blue, green, yellow, red and brown clothes. In the stores, in the papers and magazines, what a displav of colors! And on the ladies' faces-- Hanson Motor Co. Displays Graham - Paige Models The new show room, which is the latest addition to the garage and sales department of the Hanson Motor com- pany, 555 Chestnut street, Winnetka, was completed this week, and in it are being displayed the latest models of the Graham-Paige automobiles, now being handled by the Hanson Motor company. but there I see only white and red- Now for the noises. In the city I could hear only one, and that is not 50 bad, is it? As for the language, 1 think I have done my best. I went to evening school. I have enjoyed it just as much as at home. In the end we had a nice party, just as we have at home, and people are just as nice as they are at home. Christ Church Guild to Hold Program on Monday The Woman's Guild and Auxiliary will follow their March program Mon- day, March 26, commencing with a Litany service in the chapel at 10 and sewing from 10:30 to 12:30, when luncheon will be served. This lunch- eon is to be provided by Mrs. William Ogden Green, and the amount realized will be used in the purchase of kitchen utensils. At 1:15 o'clock the Lenten Study class, under the leadership of Mrs. Joseph Halstead of Evanston, will meet for its fourth session. Talk Ad Brings Merrill a Barrage of Business William Merrill, of the Black & White Garage, 554 Lincoln avenue, Winnetka, avows he was busier than the proverbial cranberry merchant, following the appearance of the two- page advertisement which his company placed in WINNETKA TALK last week. "That ad. last week," Merrill de- clared, "brought eighteen positive re- sponses in the way of customers with- in two days, to say nothing of many others, whom he has no doubt came, transacted business, and said nothing." Shirley Madeline Mellor, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence L. Mellor of 1094 Pine street, is celebrating her fourth birthday today. She is having ten of her friends for luncheon and the afternoon. --(-- Mr. and Mrs. Barnett Faroll of 741 Prospect avenue, left Sunday, March 18, for a ten days' visit with Mr. Far- oll's brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Faroll, of New York City. --_--Q-- Mrs. Emmons Blaine, Jr. of 960 Sheridan road, and Mrs. J. F. Dam- mann, Jr., of 853 Prospect avenue, are spending four weeks at the Princess hotel in Bermuda. They are expected home by Easter. iy Joseph I. Adler of 485 Orchard lane, returned last Tuesday from a six weeks' business trip in Europe, which took him to France, Germany, Aus- tria, and Czecho-Slovakia. Architects of North Shore Hold Exhibit at Homestead Hotel Works of Evanston and north shore architects including sketches of many buildings already erected here are on display in the first annual exhibition of the Evanston-North Shore Associa- tion of Architects to be held all this week at the Homestead hotel, 1625 Hinman avenue, Evanston. One hun- dred eight pieces are in the exhibition including photographs of both exter- iors and interiors, floor plans, pen and ink and water color elevations of business buildings and home in this vicinity, Among the pieces exhibited are drawings of the proposed chapel, li- brary and music school for Northwest- ern; the preliminary sketch and ground plan for the Chicago World's Fair, the Lloyd Hollister Inc. printing plant, the Bahai temple, photograph of a model of the Chicago zoological park, one of the drawings submitted in the Tribune Tower competition, the Kil- deer Country club, the First Congre- gational church and church house, the Bryn Mawr Community church and mixed residences. Architects exhibiting are: Bennett, Parsons and Frost; Edgar Ovet Blake, Louis Bourgeois, Edwin H. Clark, Philip A. Danielson, Robert S. De- Golyer, Walter T. Stockton, Allen E. Erickson, Arthur Howell Knox, Elmo C. Lowe, Charles H. Markel, Maher and McGrew, Stanley M. Peterson, Jas. Gamble Rogers, Shattuck and Layer, Leon E. Stanhope, Meyer J. Sturm and Tallmadge and Watson. The exhibition opened with a dinner at the North Shore hotel Monday eve- ning at which Allen D. Albert was the speaker. Illustrating his talk with stereopticon views, he spoke on the proposed Chicago Worlds fair, making comparisons of the various expositions up to the present as to plan and color scheme. Sixteen hundred acres of land will be available for the 1933 fair, he pointed out, including 800 acres of new made land between Roosevelt road and Oakwood boulevard, 500 acres of main- land, 300 acres in the south end of Grant park. RECOVERING FROM INJURIES Bill Porter, the little seven year old son of Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Porter of 381 Locust street, Winnetka, is gradu- ally recovering from the injuries he sustained on March 12 when run over by an automobile truck. The accident occurred at Ash and Locust. The truck passed over his leg but fortu- nately no bones were broken. Men's Garden Club Will Meet Thursday Paul Battey and Percy Armstrong of Glencoe are among the north shore men actively interested in the or- ganization of a Men's Garden club of the Chicago region which will hold monthly meetings for the discussion of gardening. The first meeting of the group was held Thursday, March 15, in the Hotel Sherman, and a special meeting will be held on Thursday evening, March 29, during the Flower Show week. A room has been assigned the club at the Flower show in which literature will be distributed and applications for membership received. The membership will be limited to 150 men and meetings will be held at noon the second Thursday of each month. It is thought that there are several hundred men along the north shore with whom gardening is the chief pastime. This club will serve as a meeting place to bring these men together for the discussion of thei hobby. Day School to Close for Spring Vacation March 30 The North Shore Country Day school will close for the Spring vaca- tion on Friday, March 30. The closing exercise will be at 11 o'clock in the auditorium and will be in the form of a spring program, a play written and acted by the Fourth grade children of the school. The play will represent the old Greek myth of Dionysius sent from the gods to earth to teach men to grow the vine from the earth and make the soil fruitful. MOTHER TAKEN BY DEATH Friends of Mrs. John Cordner West have learned with reeret of the death of her mother, Mrs. Thomas Dawson, at the old family home in Hinsdale, on March 10. Mrs. West whose daughter. Tessie, is a senior and son, Tohn Cordner. a freshman at the Uni- versitv of Tllinois, is at present living with them in Champaien. but will re- turn to her home at 937 Gordon ter- race on September 1. EXTINGUISH SMALL BLAZE The Winnetka fire department was called to Sacred Heart school, on Tow- er road. west of Linden avenue, in Hubbard Woods, Wednesday after- noon at 4:30, to extinguish a fire which had, in some mysterious manner broken out in a pile of kindling wood, in the basement. The damage to the building was slight.