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38 ~ I L M E T."J:' E 1:- I F E ~~~-·======~------------~~----~~----~==~;-~ News of the North Shore Clubs Solves Evergreen Problem Miss Jane A. Neil Is for Chicago Flower Show · on Neighbors' Program From a two weeks' sojourn in a northern Michigan lumber camp where the snow is three feet deep and the temperature has ranged from 29 to 30 below zero, Aurthur C. Korsgard, forester of the Cook County Forest preserve, has retur.ne~ with a ~eport which made the . Illmots Federation of Women's clubs rejoice. M~~ Korsgard solved a problem whic.h threatened to block plans for the ChtCf.l.go Gar·Jen and Flower show, to be held March 28 to April 5, in the Hotel Sherman, in which the women's clubs are cooperating this year. He has mad~ it possible to obtain six carloads .ot evergreens from the north ~O??s, wtth which to transform the exhtbttton hall of the Hotel Sherman into a l!lammoth garden, without violating a sm~le one of the conservation ideals to whtch the women's clubs are pledged. The evergreens are nec~ssar): to provide .a background for ltfe stze rock gardens, water gardens, rose gardens, tulip gardens, wild gardens, and ot~1er examples of up-to-date . g.a~den de~tgn which will make the exhtbtbon hall mto the avenue of beauty which previous shows have made world famous. . But the conservation department msisted that the women's clubs should not be responsible for ravishin~ the north woods in order to provtde a Chicago holiday. Mr . Korsgard, who will build a wild garden in the show, was called into consultation, and departed for the cold north on a tour of investigation. He reported yesterday to Mrs. Charles E. Caldwell, state garden chairman of the Illinois Federation of Women's clubs, that everything needed could be obtained without cutting down a single tree, and that his assistants, Herbert and Glen Fisher of Des Plaines, were hard at ·work gathering material. "In a lumber camp twelve miles east of Daggett, Mich., I found that everything we needed to make our. flower show beautiful could be salvaged from trees which had already been felled for lumber and paper pulp," he said. "We found splendid trees of spruce, balsam, hemlock and white cedar which were vVhen the Neighbors club of Ket.til worth holds its next regular meettr:g Tuesday, March 4, its members wtll hear a woman renowned for her spl~n did ability and inspiring . personalt.ty, Miss Jane A. Neil, distnct supenntendent of the Chicago schools, and head of the Spaulding School for Crippled Childrefi. Miss Neil h~s just recently returned from Washmgton where she went as representative from Chicago to the \Vhite House C.on~er C'nce on Education called at the mvttation of President Herbert Hoover, who is per sonally to administer a large fund. left for education purpose s. Elmer L. Nygaard, supenntendent of the ] oseph Sears school, who has personal knowledge of Miss Neil's work and ability, will introduce the speaker. The art and literature department of the Neighbors. of which Mrs . Walttr D. Launder is chairman, is meeting at the home of Mrs. Grant Ridgway, 207 Cumberland avenue,. Kenilworth Tuesdav, February 25, to hear Miss Helen Gunsaulus of the Art institute speak on '·J apane se Art and Crafts." The meeting conYene s at 10:30 o'clock. Woman's Club Is Having Musicale Robbins Trio Presenting Afternoon Program Feb. 26: A't and Drama in Morning Session The club program for Wednesday, February 26, at the Woman's club of \Vilmette is pertaining to the fine arts. At 10:30 o'clock in the morning Miss Lucie Hartrath will give a review of the Chicago Artists exhibition at the Art institute. A program on drama has been arranged. for 12 o'clock, and bllowing the one o'clock luncheon, the Robbins trio will give a musicale. The program has been planned under the direct:on of Annabel Robbins, piantst (Mrs. Howard R. Schroyer of Evanston) who wi!I present the trio, Karl Schulte, violinist; Walter Brauer, 'eel. list; Annabel Robbins, pianist; and Olin Bower, well known baritone. Miss Robbins is appearing for the fifth consecutive season as soloist at tbe Allerton house in Chicago. She recei,·ed her musical education under the able instruction of Edward Collins. In February of this season Miss Robhins appeared on the program as soloist with the Whitney trio in Chicago and in January of this year she gave a joint recital with Alvene Resseguie and Harold Van Horne. On March 12, Miss Robbins will present her trio at the Evanston Woman's club, and on March 28, at the Arche cJuh. Miss Robbins, who is appearing as soloist ior the Auburn Park Thirty club on I\farch 21, has had as some o.f her outstanding engagements, those at the Lake View Woman's club, the Evanston Woman's club, the Beverly Hills \Voman's club, the Morgan Park Womat!'s club, the Daughters of Indiana, the Rogers Park Woman's club, the Fnglewood V\' oman's dub, the Edgewater Catholic \Voman's club, the Evanston Catholic Woman's club, the Iitinois \\'omen's Athletic club, Les Cheneaux club in Michigan, the Garden club of Evanston, and the Austin 1\orth End club. Mr. Brauer was for eight years a member of the Chicago Symphony orchestra and Mr. Schulte was a member of the same organization for fiveyears. Miss Robbim has arranged. the following program = Allegra con brio from Trio in B major Aria~f!gs t~ .P~t~.r~~o· ·. ·. ·. I' ·ves.prioB~~~ffi~ ani . ... · ... · . · . · . · · · . · . · · · · · · · · Verdi · · · · · · · · · ·.·.·.·.·.·.· ·.·.... · · Popper Caccinl Amarillt · · Rhapsody Hungarian Grand Pas des Fiances from Ballet Ruses d'Armour . ......... Glazounow Serenade · · · · · ·... · · ·.·.·.·.·.· · · · · · · · Herbert Samson et· · Da1lla arrangement by Adler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Saint-Saens Caprice EE>pagnol . . . . . . . . . . Moszkowskl 'Ihe Cave ..... .. .... .. . .. .. . . .. Schnider 1'he Fiddler of Dooney . .. ... .. Andrews The Pirate Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Gilbert Neighbors Club Has Birthday Luncheon Thirty,..fifth Anniversary Celebration Is Gala Event in Historv of Ker.ilworth Woman's Club By G. H. One of the most attracti,·e affa ; r:ever held in Kenilworth was the r~ n nual luncheon of the Neighbors at th e Kenilworth club on Tuesday, Februar ~· 18. It was a real homecoming which tclebrated the thirty- fifth annin' r sa r ~· <.~ f the club. The long tables were arranged in P ~hape facing the stage ·and wt re decorated with baskets of -spring Aow e r ~ as center pieces. At one end of t 1H ' room was a table where the form er pre s ident.~, twelve in number, sat in dd. fashioned costumes. A nosegay wac:; laid at each place as a token of a ppreciation from the members of club Mrs. Vibe Spicer, Mrs. Ellsworth . Mrs. Henry Taylor, Mrs. \Villiam Taylor, Mrs. Warren Pease. Mr s. Rufu s Stolp, and Mrs. George Keehn were present in costume. They have be en members of the Neighbors for more than thirty years. Mr s. Ellsworth, Mrs. Charles \Var e. and Mr3. Joseph Sears are chan er members. Mrs . Ware is in Florida. so could not be there. Miss Dorothy ~ e ars represented her mother who wa ~ unable to leave her home. Before luncheon Mrs. Osterman pl~y ed selections on the piano while thirt y d the members, dressed in costume s of the gay nineties, walked down from the stage and took their places at the table. After the guests were seated. Mrs . Spicer read a one-act play that she had written, entitled "Where Have the Gav Nineties Gone?" Mrs. Spicer has always been very popular and inHuential in the club and was a former presid.ent~ Other presidents, who were r.resent, included Mrs. Homer Taylor who now resides in the east and who '~as the first president of Neighbors Mrs. Bronson Peck, Mrs. Calvin Case. Mrs. Mark Cresap, Mrs. ]. Howard ] ones, and Mrs. Kelso Farley. After luncheon Mrs. Lorenzo Dilks played a group of piano numbers which were followed bv a lecture recital on AfroAmerican folk songs by Mrs. CollingMrs. wood Tucker of New York. Tucker is a native southerner and learned Lhe songs from the negroes themselves. She knows hundreds of spiritual and plantation melodies. Mrs. E. John Hicks, chairman of the social committee, and Mrs. Clyde Ross had charge of luncheon arrangements. Mrs. C. Howard Bent, president of Neighbors presided. There were 175 guests present. Catholic Club Program Is Dedication to Patriotism Guests at Luncheon Mrs. C. P. Evans, 616 Gregory aver.ue, chairman of the membership committee of the Wil·11.!tte League of Women Voters, entertamed the members of her committee at luncheon and a business meeting yesterday at Shawnee Country ciub. The guests were Mrs. J. W. Behr, \'ice-chairman of the committee, Mrs. William C. Buethe, Mrs. Robert S Swaim, Mrs. Albert N. Page, Mrs. Edward ,V, Eaton, Mrs. Samuel E. Minor, Mrs. Miles H. McDonald. Mrs.' Albert L. GrinneJt, and Mrs. Ira Reynolds, president of the League, and Mrs. Earle D. Lyon. treasurer. "A Dedication to Patriotism" will be the theme of the next program of the Woman's Catholic club, Tuesdav afternoon, February 25, a~ the Woman's club of Wilmette. Mrs. Mary De Vearny of the Crane School of J~urnalism !Vill give a talk on the "Joy of Self Expression." Rev. J. Shevlin of St. Francis Xavie.r school will discusss the "Catholic Press." And Mrs. P. J. Kirwan, a member of the club, will give a r~ading of Lincoln's farewell speech to the people of Springfield. Mrs. · Kirwan's grandfather, James Hunter Knox, was a neighbor of the Lincolns in Springfield. A group of piario selections will be played by Miss Harriet Soot of the American Conservatory of Music, Hostesses for the afternoon will be Mrs. John J. Stanton. _ M rs. E. A. Cassin, Miss Genevieve Lagen, Mrs. B. ]. Kavanagh, Mrs. Arthur F. Sullivan, the green tops of larger trees cut and Miss Alice Keefe. for lumber. These tops, just the size needed for the show, were regarded as / nvite Wilmette women waste, and if we did not take them they would be left to decay." to Sew for Arden Shore It will take eight men several weeks Mothers and. children who are to gather the show material, Mr. Kors- brought frorri Gadshill settlement in gard said, as it must be carefully se- Chicago for their outirtg at Ard~n lected and hauled from widely separh · d Shore will benefit by the sewing done ated points. However, e promtse at the Woman's club of Wilmette tothat it would be on hand in plenty of day under the auspices of its philctDtime for the work of installing the thropy department. Sewing, which is J!arden exhibits which wit1 begin open to all women of the village whether or not they are members of March 1. the club, .commences at 10 in the morning and continues until about 4 or 4:30 Walpole to Give Lecture in the afternoon. A lull in the sewing Hugh Walpole, English novelist, will comes at 12:30 when luncheon is served make his onlv appearance this year in and a short talk is given concerning Chicago on Friday morning, February the philanthropy for which the day's 28, at 11 o'clock, in the ballroom of sewing is done. Mrs. D. L. Taylor is chairman for the the Blackstone hotel. He will lecture under the auspices of the Cordon club. day, and Mrs. Leslie F. Gates is lunchNorth shore residents who wish tickets eon chairman. mav secure them throu~h Mrs. Henry J. Smith of Glencoe,_ GJ~ncoe 148?. To Entertain B. P. W. C. Miss Minnie Hughes, 1006 Central HEAR READING OF POEM avenue, will be hostess 'to the members The monthly meeting of The Women of the Business and Professional Womof the Rotary club of Chicago was held. en's club of Wilmette on the occasion at noon on Wednesday at the Hotel of its annual Valentine party next MonSherman. The poem "Tristram" by day evening. Miss Myrtle Sorenson of Edwin Arlington Robinson, which won Winnetka is the assisting hostess for the Pulitzer prize in 1927, was reviewed the affatr which will commence at by Mrs. F. Jefferson Redfield. 'l :45 o'coJck. Plan Art Tout, Matinee The Friends in Council of Evanston will have an Art Institute tour Friday. Febr~ary 21, commencing at 12:45 o'clock, under the chairmanship of Mrs. F. E. Mitchell, art chairman. At 2 :30 members will attend a matinee performance of "Holiday" at the Goodman theater. Wellesley Group Hostess Mrs. Ralph E. Church, 300 Church street, Evanston will open her home to members of the North Shore Wellesley circle Tuesday, February 25, at 2 :30 o'clock. The president of the Chicago Wellesley club, Mrs. Francis Broomell,. will tell of the recent graduate council meeting.