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WILMETTE LIFE : January J. 1930 F. H. Gathercoal Expanda Insurance Business Here F. H . Gathercoal, 1213 Wilmette avenue Wilmette, wen · known north shore builder, real estate and insurance broker, has been appointed north shore representative in all branches of insurance for W. A. Alexander and company of Chicago, general insurance agents for the Fidelity and Casualty company of New York, The Penn Mutual Life Insurance company of Philadelphia, and several leading fire insurance companies. A. H. Burg, who has had a wide experience in the insurance field, will assume complete charge of Mr. Gathercoal's insurance department. Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Kerr, 122 Seventeenth steet, ha<;l as their guests ori New Year's day, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Ashland of Waukegan and Mr. and Mrs. Burton Bosworth of Oak Park. E,Sl'HER .GOUU>·s TRAVEL CORNER. JAPANESE PRINTS Cherry blossom-time in Japan! W~at has that to do with us tioundenng about in ~inter's playfulness and WOl.ldering each morning if the .car wtll start? The very phrase stnkes our ears as unreal, it has in it some of that brittle crispness of ] apanese art. As PUBLISH BULLETIN our imaginary ship heads toward that Field Museum of Natural History place won't we find it merely one of has begun publication of a monthly the exquisite prints we have so .often bulletin "Field Museum News," which admired, hung this time· not agam~t a wall but "in situ," as it were, agatnst is to · b~ circulated among the institution's members, now numbering nearthe sky and sea? As a matter of fact everyone that ly ·6,000, it was announced this week writes of Japan says that the land- by Stephen C. SimJ?s, director o~ the scape does partake of the same un- museum. The first tssue was pubhshed real qualities as their prints. And today. Announcements, reports and records that of course is scarcely strange when we remember that looking at the of all museum activities will be pubbackground of a Florentine Renais- lished in the periodical, including not(':; sance picture is precisely the same on additions and improvements in the thiug as turning and looking out of exhibition halls, and accounts of the I one of the windows of the Uffzzi work conducted in the museum's scientific research laboratories, and by Gallery. So we have every hop of. disem- its many expeditions operating 1:1 barkitig from our ship into a ] ap- widely scattered and remote parts of anese print. It is said that a great the world. lady of Japan would not have dreamed Director Simms is editor. Contribuof wearing a robe not attuned to the ting editors include Dr. Berthold L::t1Jseason at1d the day. It would have. fer, curator of anthropology; Dr. B. been an unforgivable breach of taste E. Dahlgren, acting cur~ tor of botany; for example to have worn a g own Dr. 0, C. Farrington, curator of gesuggestive of chrysanthemums when ology, and Dr. Wilfred H. Osgood, cherry blossoms were blooming out- curator of zoology, H. B. Harte, he.1d of the museum's division of Public r ::side. The Japanese have trained them- lations, is managing editor. The pap~r selves to a sensiti_veness to nat1.1re is printed by Field Museum Press, the which amounts almost to a sixth museum's own plant which also pr!nts 1 sense. They believe that man is a the scientific books and pamphlets composite part of nature, that he can published by the museum. and must h_ e in harmony with it. Thu s in their art instead of painting a landscape objectively they enter into it as a subjective experience, and so make it live with a spirit of its own. It is perhaps the secret of the simplicity and the extreme significance of their artistic work. SAVE 25 to40% EST INDIES CRUISES Three Cruises on the 30,000 .. ton Holland, America "Statendam"largest and newest Caribbean cruise .. ship for this Winterbringing under Raymond , Whit.comb Charter. new luxuries to West Indies Cruises. Fitted Overnight Cases Traveling Bags Suit Cases Wardrobe Trunks Slightly shopworn ~ 28~ fi5W~ EST 18S~ CHICAGO I BOOK ON FIELD EXPEDITION 16-DAY CRUISE Sailing on January 9 for Haiti, Jamaica. Panama, Havana and Nassau. $200 up. GOLFERS! · · · G 0 I N G S 0 U T H ? Meet y~ur friends at Fort Lauderdale, Florida. TWO 25-DAY CRUISES Sailing January 29 and February 25 for Porto Rico, St. Thomas, Martinique, Barbados, Trinidad, Venezuela, Curacao, Panama, Jamaica, Havana and Nassau. $300 up. OTHER CRUISE5-1929-1930 Round the World North German Lloyd S.S. "Columbusw Junwy 21- 106 days- $2000 up · ·· · MANY Evanston, Wilmette, West· moreland and other north shore golf players will be seen at Fort Lauderdale Golf and Country Club this winter. · · · LOCATION of Fort Lauderdale iri relation to Miami is just like Evanston and Chicago. Clos~ to all activities, but separated from the jostling crowds, noise, and confusion. Cunard S.S. "Carinthia'·- January 2) Cunard S.S. "Samwia' '-February I Winter Mediterranean Round South America Spring Mediterranean North Cape-Russia S.S. "Carinthi&. -.June 24 On the Land Cruise T r&in Cunard S .S."Carinthi&"-April 8 · · · HOME-LIKE than half Miami rates. living conditions at less Mexico-California ESCORTED TOURS TO EUROPE VISITING THE PASSION PLAY AT OBERAMMERGAU INDIVIDUAL ARRANGEMENTS fw TRAVEL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD ST£AMSHIP TICKETS ON All LINES AT REGULAR RATES Publication of Part II of the monograph, "A Sumerian Palace and the 'A' Cemetery at Kish, Mesopotamia," a quarto si~e volume detailing s0me of the most recent archaeological discoveries of the Field Museum-Oxford University Joint Expedition, has been anonunced by Field Museu!n of Katural Histor}:. J?art I was published some years ago. Ernest Mackay, one of the archaeologists \\·ho has participated in the work of the expedition, which is still in operation, is the author. The book is illustrated with forty-two large size photogravure plates. It contains a preface by Prof. Stephen Langdon, director of the exp~dition. Dr. Berthold Laufer, curator of anthropology at the museum, is editor. The volume contains the first publication of details of the architecturc..l discoveries and the rich Sumerian archaeological treasure recovered at Kish. It presents new facts concerning the life and manners of the c·arly Sumerian and Semitic inhabitants oi the ancient city, where has been uncovered the oldest and most unique royal residence in 'Sumer and Accad. The book is the latest adition to the Memoirs Series of the department of anthropology of the museum and Is printed by Field Museum Pr~ss. · Obtllin detailed or special i·for· matio· Jlfld pamphlets b, pho·e to Golf a11d Country Club office. GIFTS TO MUSEUM Gifts of funds donated by two members of the board of trustees of Field Museum of Natural History were ann~)Unced ~his week by S~ephen C. Stmms, dtrector of the institution. Frederick H. Rawson has contributed $_10,0001 towards a fund for the installation of a new exhibition hall in the museum, plans for which are under way, to be known as the hall of preh!storic ~an. Martin A. Ryerson, first vtce-prestdent of the museum has given $10,000 which is to be add,ed to the museum's pension fund. ,., ~.-..,,... Raymond & Whitcomb Co. 176 No. Michigan Ave., Chicaqo Tel Scate 8615 R. D . C·- U N N I N G H A M 810 CHURCH ST., EVANSTON UNIV. 488:>-4884-1842 f'