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March 15, 1929 WILMETTE LIFE Better Homes "Expo "to Open in Splash of Color Wednesda;v BIG PROGRAM ARRANGED ·FOR EVENT OF FOUR DAYS Important Affair to Be Held at Wilmette Woman's Club, Many Exhibitors. Complimentary tickets for the Better Homes Exposition of the Woman's club of Wilmette, March 20-23 inclusive, have been mailed to resident's of Wilmette and Kenilworth. Tickets for Woman's Club members have been enclosed in the Woman's Club Bulletin which ia issued this week. Visitors without tickets will pay a nomiaal charge of twenty-five centa at the door. · Prize Winner-in Club Poster Contest WOMAN'S CLUB HISTORY AN INTERESTING STORY · Organization Started .With Few Mem~s37Y~aAg.-H~d Meetings in Home The story of the Woman's club of \Vilmette provides many chapters fraught with interest. It is a story of fine progress, which, beginning thirtyseven years ago, has resulted in a forward moving organization which is soon to have one of the finest clubs in the country. The club now has 650 members and a waiting list. It was back in a past century-in 1892-that the Woman's club of Wilmette was formed. The idea of a Woman's club germinated with the late Miss Ida I. Law. Her idea was to start an organization, similar to one in Glencoe, where she had been a member for years. She began interviewing: her friend'.5 and neighbors in Wilmette and Kenilworth to arouse interest in the new plan. The most difficult problem was to get a leader who could bring all the women into harmony, and not have them divided by the churches in little cliques. On discussing her plans with the new Methodist minister, 'Mr. Leonard, he spoke of his approaching marriage to a young woman, who was then Dean of a woman's college," and the problem was solved. · Club Started in Home The Laws, Miss Ida and her sister, Anna E., were building a new home on the southeast corner of Forest avenue and Twelfth street at that time, and had planned for two rooms large enough to hold the meetings. Shortly a meeting was called and about twenty women responded. Plans were discussed and it was suggested that the coming minister's bride become president. The plans met with approval and a committee of three was appointed to lay out a course of reading for a few weeks. "Romola" by George Elliott was the first book chosen, as that gave scope for papers and discussion. The members took turn'.5 in reading, and a critic was appointed each week to make . a note of all mis-pronounced words. The meetings were informal, because the majority of women of those days were rather timid about expressing (Continued on Page 54) \Vith all arrangements practically completed the Better Homes Exposition of the Woman's club of Wilmette is to open at the clubhouse, Tenth street and Greenleaf avenue, next Wednesday morning. The event promises to be one of the most important ever held in \Vilmette, judged by the program and large number of exhibitors. The Exposition is to last four days, closing on Saturday evening. · The clubhouse is to be tastefully decorated for the Exposition, green and yellow being the color scheme. Flowers also will form a part of the decorations . The proceeds are to go to the Building Fund of the club. The Exposition committee, which is headed by Mrs. 0. E. Thaleg as chairman, has been busy with the ·various details and reports much progress macie. The committee has been divided into four sections - Decoration, Program, Tea Room and Sale of Booths, and Public:ty. Many Interesting Features Many interesting features are scheduled for the Exposition. Opening on Wednesday afternoon at 2 :30 there will be songs by Mrs. Charles Evans. Then the Better Homes Exposition will swing into its true character. The exhibits in the booths will attract the visitors, for all modern devices are to be shown. The program for the four days also includes several talks on the requirements of better homes. Mrs. Eva Shanks will tell of the "use and care of house h b 1 d appliances." C. E. Thorney will talk on "Our Accomplish(Continued on Page 56) . T\HIS attractive design was awarded first !1?nors in competiti~n held in 1 connection \\'ith the Better Homes ExposttlOn of the Woman s Club of Wilmette. The contest held at the Evanston Academy of Fine Arts for the best posters advertising the Exposition brough.t. out twe~ty-six posters and the prizes offered by the Better Homes Exposttton commtttee were awarded as follows: First prize ($10.00) Louise Ebeling, 1~24 Asbury avenue, Evanston. Secondary prizes ($5.00 each) Robert Kmg, 243 Center avenu e, Lake Bluff. Mrs. \Villiam Swift Lord, 1418 Lake street, Evan'ston. Hugh Campbell, 829 Elmwood avenue, Wilmette. Honorable Mention-Robert LefHngwell, 905 Colfax street, Evanston .. The committee .which judged the poster3 was extremely plea~ed wtth the quality of work submitted by the s~udents of the. ~cade~y of Ftne Arts. The po·.;tcrs now being used to advertise the Exposttton wtll b~ placed on display at the Exposition. New Clubhouse to Aid MeritQrious Work A day in October is going to be an important one for the members of the V..'oman's club of Wilmette. That is to be the day when their new clubhouse which is to be erected just to the north of the present club at ?"enth ~treet and Greenleaf av~nue wtll be opened. This new step 1!1 the march of progress by the club ts worthy of a celebration. The new clubhouse ":hich will ~e joined with the ol~, whtch was bUtlt nineteen years ago JS to be one of the most attractive on the north shore. But along with it.s attractivenes.s there Mrs. Hayes ~..-~Kinney (I{ 1035 Chest- is something else of greater Importnut avenue is pr~sident of the Woman's ance and that is its spaciousness. It will give the club what it has needed club of Wilmette. for a long time-the room to carry on the meritorious work it has been doing for something like thirty-seven years. The Woman's club and its work have grown so· rapidly in recent years that something had to be done. Only a new building could solve the problem and now that hope is soon to be realized. · The completion of the new structure will offer the club everything that is most modern in Woman's club ap· pointments. The outstanding improvements in the plans over the pres· ent quarters are the new auditorium Mrs. 0. E. Thaleg of 617 Greenleaf with a capacity of seven hundred, the avenue is chairman of the Better · (Continued on Page 56) Homes Exposition committee.