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WILMETTE LIFE February 14, 1930 ~ll N~ or the North Shore aUbs [[n] Neighbors Club Meets Feb. 18 · Will Have Homecoming Luncheon and Program in Honor of Thirty-Fifth Birthday The thirty-fifth birthday of the Neighbors of Kenilworth is to be an auspicious occasion. A one o'clock luncheon that is to be in the nature of a real homecoming, with an unusual program. has been arranged as a iitting celebration for Tuesday, February · 18. The spirit of reunion witt hover over the luncheon for members of the Neighbors are granted the privilege of mviting guests with the stipulation that these guests be former members of. the club. Because of the recent injuries Mrs. Victor C. Sanborn has suffered, she is unable to complete arrangements for the surprise program which is to be a luncheon hour event, and Mrs. Vibe K. Spicer now is planning for this phase c,f the day's celebration. When the luncheon program is concluded, Mrs. Lorenzo C. Dilks will p!ay a group of piano numbers which will iJe followed by a lecture recital on Afro-American folk songs by Mrs . Collingwood Tucker of New York. Whenever Mrs. Tucker has given her program of songs of the old South, enthusiasm has greeted her and critics have giv(:n her acc1aim. Of her Eric DeLamarter, Chicago critic. composer, conductor, has said "Her enthustasm is contagious; her material is . fascinati~g and her comment is the most instructive sidelight on the significance of the Afro-Am erican folk song heard in our concert halls." Rupert Hughe s, author, commented that "She has made a peculiarly delightful corner of her O\a,·n. Her wor!< i · unique and it is fascinating." Edward. C. Moore of the Chicag-o Tribune ays, "~f rs. Collingv.ro.>d Tucker !tas very little of the manner cf the conventional lecture-recital artist, but rather that of the vivacious conversationalist and with none of the detached pose of the professional, makes her points fluently, easily, a·1d certainly." Mrs. Tucker is a native southerner and learned the so ngs from the negroes themselve s ancl knows hundreds of spiritual and plantation melodirs. Critics proclaim her entertainment as unusual and as a "svmpathetic exposition of negro music.;' \\'hen the :\cighbors club was organiz<>d thirty -ti \·e years ago, Mrs. Homer Taylor was its fir ·t . preside11t. Mrs. Ta\'lt;r left Kenil\\'orth and now i.:> maki;, ,,. her home in Greenfield, M a s. ~l rs. Spicer is also one of the past pre"tdents. Mrs. E. John Hicks, luncheon chairman and ~1rs. Clyde E. Ross are in charge of luncheon ararngement ·, and the president of the 1'\ eighbors, Mrs . C. Howa;d Bent, will preside. Arranges Program St. George Auxiliary Giving Card Benefit The third annual benefit card party given under the auspices of St. Ge~rge <1ttxitiary will be held in the gymnasiUm of St. George's school in Evanston Friday evening, February 21, at 8 o'clock Three thousand tickets have been distributed and the party promi~es to surpass all previous affairs of tts kind. Tables will be prepared ior uridge, five-hundred, and bunco and, · in addition to twenty-five others, there will be a prize for each table. One of the prizes will be a beautiful fur coat. Mrs. Thomas Roche of Chicago is social chairman of the Mothers' club c.t St. George's and is in charge of arrangements for the party. She is asststed by the following chairmen: Mrs. F. L. Dougher, tickets; Mrs. A .. J. Gorssmann, program; Mrs. C. V. 'Stter, prizes: Mrs. J. J. Morrisey, house, and Mrs. C. .\f. Healy, publicity, and Mrs. ). ). Hurley B. P. W. C. Hears f WOmen 00 · JUOeS · 0 Wilmette Women Attorneys Give Program for Business and Professional Women's Club BY B. G. Two \Vilmette women attorneys, members of the Wilmette ·B. P. Vv. C., Miss Esther Dunshee and Miss Eli?:abeth Beuthe, provided the P.rogram for the home club Monda.y even!ng, February 10: ~n introducmg Mtss Beu;he, ~he . l?nnctpal speaker of the evenmg, mentton was mad~ of the fact that she \~as graduated fro!ll th~ law school of. ~?rthwest~rn umverstty l3:st Jm~e, wtth the .htghest honors posst~le. Mtss Beut~e nas. a very charmt!lg personahty wluch puts her. aud!,ence at case even though her subject, ~omen on Juries," sounds rather formtdable. Miss Beuthe explained that the bi!ts providing for service of jurors of bnth sexes had been passed by the General assembly with the provision that they were not to go into effect until suhPlitted · to the popular vote on Nove'11ber 4. The system of juries, the kinds and functions of juries and the method of call to jury service were made cle~r. The eligibility and requirements of jurors were discussed. The questi()n was raised as to whv women were not automatically eligibfe to jury se rvice C!t the time they were given the other rights of voting. The reply was that the attorney ge neral had given the opinion that the law is to he intt' r pretecl to mean legal Yoters as of the clav on w!1ich the law was passed. Points brought out for consideration. favoring the service of women on ,iurtes were : That women are maintaining et:onomic and political interests. That jury service is a duty of citizenship that women should not sh irk, That, in the matter of housewives se rving on juries, it is as much th~ir (·bligation to be well informed in on!er tn he proper companions and mothers, a" for business or professional women to be informed of the affair s of the community, That women are as competent to de ,. termine the fate of their fellows, who 1t1ay be women, as men, That women could read and discuss court proceedings more intelligently if they had the experience, That women on juries would be a boon to women prisoners. The re.mlts of the service of women C·n juries, where permitted, have been highly satisfactory, according to reports from judges and attorneys of those states. It has been found that n;ore accurate and conscientious verdicts have been obtained by mixed juries since women are better listeners and weighers. In consequence, the men must wait for the women and give more thought to the case. Judges and. lawyers report that, contrary to general opinion, women are not emotional. It is true, there may be women who are not an asset-but the same applies to men as well as women. Miss Dunshee a.n d :Miss Beuthe very kindly answered many questions asked them by members of the club. After a few words from Mrs. Bertha Carlson, secretary of the Illinois committee for \.Vomcn on Juries, of which Miss Dunshee is chairman, the meeting adjourned. · Mrs. Max W. Zabel is in charge of arrangements for the program to be g-iven by the North End branch, Friends of Chicago Junior school, Tuesday evening, February 18, at 8 :20 o'clock, at the Hotel Sovereign. At this time the Illinois Bell Telephone Company Players club, which recently, took second prize in competition with many other player groups, will give three one-act plays. Friends of the Chicago school are groups of workers organized in different localities throughout Cook county to raise funds to assist in th e maintenance of a farm-home school located near Elgin. Ill., where hoys who, through misfortune, have been deprived of a home and home supervision, are giyen health, home, and education. The :\ o rth End branch recently has undertaken to add to its responsibilities th e erection and maintenance of a building for girls. Monthly social gatherings are held at which excellent entertainments are given to further good fellowship among its members and to interest new friends in the organization. Arden Shore to Benefit by Philanthropy Sewing Arden Shore is to be the beneficiary of the work accomplished at the Woman's club Friday, February 21, the next sewing day sponsored by the philanthropy department of the Woman's club of Wilmette. All women in Wilmette interested in aiding those less fortunate are invited to take part in the work whether they are members of the club or ·not. Mrs. D. L. Taylor is chairman of thesewing for Arden Shore, assisted by ~1rs. C. N. Roberts, ~Irs. A. C. \rVenban, Mrs. H. S. Bowen, Mrs. A. R. \Vilson, Mrs. S. P. Stevens, and Mrs. E. L. Scheidenhelm. Mrs. Leslie F. Gates is chairman of the luncheon which will be served at 12 :30 o'clock, a lunche.on to which mothers may bring school children. Sewing commences at 10 in the morning and continues until 4 :30 in the afternoon. .. Lectures on Decoration Hold Wealth of Interest All who heard Mrs. Marguerite Calkins Taylor's opening lecture in her course on interior decorating can testifv to the abundance of interesting ~aterial given. The four remaining lectures for four successive Friday mornings at 10:30 will take up: February 14, color; February 21 and 28, decorating and furnishing problems; March 7, textiles. Course tickets or single admissions may be had for the lecture series which is given in the rooms of the Congregational church for the benefit of the church building fund. · Kaskaskia D. A. R. Has Buffet Luncheon Meeting Kaskaskia chapter, D. A. R., gave a buffet luncheon Tuesday at the home u: Mrs. Arthur L. Allais in Chicago. Mrs. Frank Wright, chairman of patriotic education committee, was in charge of the day. The program con~isted of a lecture on "Mountain Schools" by Dr. Alfred E. Wilson, pastor of th~ Kenwood Evangelical church, c..r~d during the meeting delegates to the Thirty-ninth Continental Congress and to the State conference were elected. The a:;sisting hostesses were M ... s. Thomas ·t·:. Barry, Miss Rossie R. Cox, Hostesses to Spoke Three ~frs. Alexander Hodgart, Mrs. William Mrs. Charles \V. Robb and .Mrs. E. Sparrow, Jr., and. Mrs. Frank Ralph H. Durham will be co-hostesses \\' right. to members of Spoke Three of the Presbyterian church at an all day meeting next Tuesday at the latter's Review Books Today home, 713 Greenwood avenue. Sewing The regular meeting of the Friends in the morning will be followed by in Council of Evanston will be held at luncheon and a program in the after- the Orrington hotel February 14, at noon. 2 o'clock. Luncheon will precede at 12 :30. Book reviews will be given oy Mrs. Lionel E. Bush, 1200 Elmwood. Mrs. R. R. Jenness, who has cho:)en avenue, will open her home for a bridge ~v discuss "The Meaning of Culture" tea for members of the .Cambridge bv john Cooper Powys, and by Mrs. chapter of the Daughters of the Britic;h i:aurence Bean who will review "White Empire next Friday, February 21. Oaks of Jalna" by Dela Roche. To Hear Branson DeCou The Protestant Woman's Service club will meet Wednesday, February 19, in the Wedgwood room at Marshall Field's. Luncheon will be served at 12:30. Branson DeCou will bring one of hi ·; splendid "Musical Travelcgues." Those who saw his "Dream Pictures" last year and heard his lecture wilt wish to hear it again. Friendship Program Today ~Noman's The fine arts department of the Catholic club of Wilmette Hill hold. its regular monthly meeting this afternoon at 2 o'clock, at the \Vilmette · Woman's club. Mrs. Frank Thale, past fine arts chairman, has arMrs. Clyde P. Ross, 1321 Chestnut ranged a Friendship afternoon which avenue, Kenilworth entertained her \Yilt be the program presented today. bridge cluh at her home last Tuesday.