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·wiLMETTE LIFE . April 26, 1929 The· Juniors Know Their Bridge.Hold a Party P. T. A. STATE MEEtiNG IN EVANSTON'NEXT YEAR Large Representation F r om North Shore Attends Annual Sessions at Mattoon More ·th.an seven hundred delegates from' every county in the state attended the thirtieth annual convention of the Illinois Congress of Parents and Teachers at Mattoon, Ill., April 17 to 20. District 21, in which the· north shore villages are located had twenty-one delegates. . Although Mrs. H. A. Storms, of Wilmette, chairman of District 21, was unable to attend owing to a recent illness, the ~orth shore was well .represented bv Mrs. Robert Brown and Mrs. George Lee, of Winnetka; Mrs. W. A. Kendrick, Miss Marie Fox, Mrs. Clara A. Groves. and Mrs. H . Otto von der Hoff, of Wilmette; Mrs. James M. Sheldon, and Mrs. R. V. Sawhill, of Glencoe, and Mrs. Herbert Smith and Mrs. A. W. Jenkinson, of Highland Park. Mrs. Sheldon wa·3 elected recording secretary of the organization for the ensuing year. Study classes were held every morning at 8 :30 for the folowing groups: parliamentary law, publicity, child itudy, local presidents, district directors, and program. The theme of the convention was "The Art of Living." Dr. L. C. Lord, president of Eastern Illinois State Teachers' college, spoke on "Home and School"; Dr. N. J. Gould Wickey, president of Carthage college, spoke on aThe Art of all Arts"; Dr. R. L. Lyman, of the University of Chicago, spoke on "Making a Living, Making a Life," and Mrs. B. F. Langworthy, of Winnetka and Chicago, chairman of the Juvenile Protection department of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and retiring president of the Woman's 'City club of Chicago, gave the closing address, "Can Parents Be Educated?" At the closing session of the convention Saturday morning it was voted to hold the 1930 meeting of the organization in Evanston, where thirty years ago the Illinois Congress was founded by the late Mrs. Roger McMullen. Letters of invitation were read from the Evanston Chamber of Commerce, the Evanston public schools, the Evanston Woman's club, and from Walter Dill Scott, president of Northwestern university. Other cities bidding for the honor of entertaining the educators next year were Springfield, Chicago, and Joliet. Members of auxiliary of Catholic Woman's club Wilmette pass an afternoon at cards at St. Francis Xavier school hall. Lots of ~un and prizes -nuff said. of (Photos by Staff Photographer) Cabaret Supper Dance Will Benefit Lighthouse Work Undaunted by the fire that destroyed .the Bat Tabarin, the Lighthouse Volunteer Aids will follow it to its new quarters, and there, on May J, they will give their annual brilliant affair, which, this season is to be a cabaret supper dance. The proceeds, from this, as from the previous balls the Aids have given, will go to assist the Lighthouse board in carrying on the work at the Lighthouse, which, situated on West Twenty-second street, is an industrial school for the blind. Each season, the Aids, a group of Chicago and North Shore society girls and young matrons, realize a splendid sum from their one benefit, which is always an eagerly anticipated event, and upon this sum, the board of directors of the institution largely deThe pends to defray its expenses. committee is arranging for clever entertainment, and supper will be served, the price of which is included in the admission ticket. ~~Sleepy Hall's" orchestra will play for the dancing. Arrangements for the aff.ai.r are in charge of: Miss Virginia Collins and Mrs. Franklin Clement, tickets; Miss Margaret Sinclair, publicity; Miss Jeanette Peterkin and Miss Letitia Channon, cigarets; Mrs. Olive P. Kline, entertainment; Mrs. James Hopkins, Jr., table reservations. Plans for the supper dance were discussed and developed at the annual meeting of the Aids on April 5, at the Drake. Among those present at that time were several residents of the north shore, Mrs. Rush ~utlerA Jr., Mrs. Alfred K. Eddy, and Miss Margot Atkin. Miss Elizabeth Lamson and Miss Bety Pain" of Winnetka, also members of the group, were unable to be present. Mrs. Botsford Young is president of the Volunteer Aids this season,. with Mrs. Sta11ley Morrill (formerly Beatrice Fenton of Winnetka), their expresigent. Lorna Doone Jackson Delights Shawnee Group By Critic Last Sunday brought. to the Shawnee Country club one of its most delightful programs. Miss Lorna Doone Jackson, a member of the Chicago Civic Opera company, gave an hour of lovely songs and her charming personality and excellent choice of selections will long be remembered. In the absence of Charles Triggs, vvho is chairman of the entertainment committee at Shawnee, President Albert N. Page introduced Miss }ack~on. She inaugurated the recital with the "Invocation of Orpheus" and sang with great dignity and beauty. Before each of her songs s·he gave a word or two to remind her audience of the song itself or the thought conveyed by its composer and, with a beautiful speaking voice, created the atmosphere for each number. Among her selections were the aria from Samson and Delilah "My Heart At Thy Sweet Voice"; an aria from an Indian opera which was written from the melody of an old Cheyenne Indian folk song; Russian and Italian folk songs, and closed the program with the Carmen soug which she ga\·e with the added suggestion of Spanish shawl and high Spanish comb. Commencement Speaker at Northwestern Announced A true to-life story of a love- hungry girl. Hegins Friday, April 26th, in the EVENING AMERICAN Dr. Frederic C. Woodward, acting president of the Univer :- ity of Chicago, It Takes Two to Make a will deliver the commencement address at the seventy-first annual commenceMatch, This Story Shows ment at Northwestern university, June Once when May Christie, writer of . 17. Dr. Frederick C. Eiselen, president numerous serial stories was asked of Garrett Biblical institute, will dewhere she gathered all of the material liver the baccalaureate sermon. Both Dr. Woodward and Dr. Eiselen for her stories, she replied: "From my friends, my relatives, my neighbors and were formerly professors at ·Northwestfrom life." It is apparent that good ern. Dr. Woodward was professor of friends furnished the answer to a big law for five years, from 1902 to 1907, question which is the theme of her when he resigned to acce11t a professorship of law at Leland Stanford univernewest stor:x "Man Madness." The question which Miss Christie sity. He was made dean of the law answers in this story is "Is lo~e .tt school there in 1910. In 1916 he went first sight .. . true love?" It is the to the University of Chicago as prostory of a girl, eighteen and pretty, fessor of law, and in 1926 was made · who thoug:ht she was being held back vice-presider:tt of the university and by her middle aged parents. Kitty dean of the faculties. Since the resigGrayson, the heroine, knew the minute nation of Dr. Max Mason as· president she set her ~yes on Jimmie Barron, she of the University of Chicago, Dr. loved him. And then she found that Woodward has been acting president. it takes two to make a match. Dr. Eiselen was professor of Bibli. There is a surprise angle in "Man cal lit('rature at Northwestern from Madness" which is so true to life that 1918 to 1924. He went to Garrett Bihone is led t9 believe that again Miss tical institute as professor of Semitic Christie took a real life case to tell of languages in 1902, and in 1924 was made a romance which will be widely read. president. ·