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noon oft vus weekc Th-e lecture planneci f or this December meeting was one of special interest to the members in re- lation to their famnilies. Mrs. Kart Buehr spoke on "Miniatures." Time did slot permit her to speak but casually of> the beautiful examples of this art whièh she and Mrs. Oliver Barrett had brougbt as illustrations. Mrs. Buielr had several pieces of the paintings by Mrs. Emma Hess Ingersoli,, whose work stood out1 supretrely' at. the recent exhibit given at the Shawnee club. Mrs. Ingeri-so'il paints children with grace and skill. Mrs. Oliver Barrett brouglit several trays containing priceless. miniatures, originals of the most f amous of minia- t ure artists and it was a regret that the a Iternooôn was ail too"short tohearlber. iefI of thiem. She could easily 611l a pro- gram îith her, fund of information, telling about these choice collections it lier simple and naive waY. Nirs, Bueir dvelt particularly on the1 history of miniature painting, goingi back to -the earlyv efforts to Po .r tray ni- dividuals. and personalities. She brouglit * -pictures of the early enarneis and * miniatures, Persian mosaics, and il- Iumined religious texts f rom Ireland, * each one showing the. stcady growth in the small painting of a real person. * Italy was the originator of the minia- tu.rc. Early ones ere painted on parch- ment .and sometimes. on the backs of' plaving cards. * She led bier hearers through the cru-, sade period, on up to the f amous school in Flaniders i which boasted such gréat artists as Sinmon Benning, Hubert and-« Jan van Ecck, Rogier van der Weyden, Van Dyck, Holbein and other Flemish -court painters. It was, a most interesting review .of these beginnings and is ail excellent prelude to an aiternoon about modern iii iniatures, bea.utiful exampes of whiicli * we have inKenilworth. Mrs.. Buelir sneaks. with easc and 'di- rectnless., She isý an instructor for.- the chi ldren at the Art institute o f Chicago, in 'Art Appreciatioti." The Home and* Garden club, which lias heretofore met every other Monday of the nionth the year round, liasI changed its schedule andwill meet onlyI once on the first Monday of each month. Besides being the second presiclent of the Illinois League of Women Voters Miss Lathrop lias made a special study of juvenile protective work and bas rep- resented this country abroad in the in- vestigation, of f oreign-juvenile court laws. and protectivenieasures., She is now chief of the Children's bureau, de- partment.of'labor, Washington. Mrs. Clyde Ross will be hostess f or, the af ternoon. Hungry Five" O ptimist Swell Legion's. Coffers Peter J. Huerter, Post No. 669, Amer- ican Legion. held its regular meeting 111 Hoffmani hall Monday eveni.ng ,of- this. week. Following a brief business ses- sion the members were entertained by the "Jlungry Five" froni the Wilmette Optimist club with a prograin combih- ing music and comnedy features. Fuiids derived f rom the enitértainîtienit erc directed into the service ftind of thec -Huerter Post. Auxiliary to lie. -tilized ini welf are work -at the Great 1,akes hospital. ENGAG EMENT ANNOUNCED Dr. and Mrs. Arthur Shierrill,- of Evanston,' have announiced the en- gagement of their daugbiter, Celia, to John R. Roberts, Jr., son of '.,I. and Mrs. John R. Roberts of Chicago.. Miss- Sherrili attended Royceinorc. and the University of Wisconsin, wvhere she is a mnember of Kappa Alpha Thieta sororitv. Mr. Roberts is a graduate of Wisconsin and a member of Phi Kappa Signia fra- ternity.- ON AL. AMERICAN THIRD Alvini Culver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvin H. Culv'er of 103 Broadway ave- nue, lias been selected by the fou.- leading football coaches of the country to play Ieft tackle on the ahl-Amei-. can., third 'string',team. Alvin is. a student at Notre Dame and bas been playing good' football for the ps two years. In the morning, Laura Hughes. Lunde, speaker of international renown, con- ducted the school on Cook County af- f airs. It was a revelation to those of us who live in that county to - larn of the unbelievable complexity of its Sov- Mrnent f romi its 416 taxing bodies, its nlack of legislative power (wve'had to have a, permit f rom the ýState, legisiature to sell peanuts on the municipal pier), and itsdomination by the State in mat- ters -pertaining> solely 10o its own affairs. As means to improvement of its graf t,ý tax, racketeering and laxness. Mrs., Lunde had, seven suggestions: A board to supervise taxing bodies; enforcemnt of and improvement in.civil service;, ne* and less complex assessment machinery; buqdgets for every iaxing and spending. body;- central. purçbasing agenc y .- for supplies, more local control.of Our o*n affirs; a chance toa change Chicago to city manager plan. Two bis coming up at this next ses- sioný of the: legislature have impotant bearing on these, points. . irst, the bill to change the assessinent niachiner Y to have one county assessor with .a body of trained men under him. This wonuld help to fix the responsibility on one person. As it stands now the tax racket is the biggest source of graft in the county. The second bill is that permfit- ting cities of over 5,000 to have a city' manager plan if they want it. In the afternoon, William~ A. Durgini gave a very fine illustrated lecture to "Know, Illinois." He showed the beau- ties and the great strides in agriculture, industry and education in this proud state of ours. He urged that we tell peo- péof these things as we travel about instead of - the AI Cpne stories that now. seem to be the leading topics of conversation, .Mrs. Burnside, the new president, presided over a short business meeting i wliich it was decided to - raise the annualdues to two dollars to more nearly meet the expenses of, the League. M4rs.. H'., T.. Reilinig, as chairmain of theday, outlined the work of lier 'de- partmnent and introduced thie speakers. RUMMAGE SALE DEC. il, 1 . . i K.enilwortn as mong as 1weIIL7Y Yea ago. An old-fasliioned turkey dinner was served at 7 o'clock Covers were laid f or 128. Following the dinner Mrs. V. K. Spicer acted as toastmaistress for the program. Mrs.. J., K. Farley, Mrs. Eraànk Young, and Mis. Otis Heath comiposed the coin- mittee in charge of. arrangements for the dinner. Miss.Isabell Lovedale, Mrs.' Ward Starrett and Huge Foresumn made up. the entertanmnent committee. Toasts were given by HarrY Taylor on 6"OldKenilworth" and. by Warren Pease on, "The Old' Gardening. Days." Mrs. Victor Sanborn of ake Ft)rest presented a toast ini rhymie in which she mentioned'the various Kenilworth clubs. Miss Isabélt -Loyedal, a memnber. of the society,1 and a. group of students f rom.the Northwestern university pre- sented three skits, "Behind the Scenes," "Strange Interview," and "If, Men Played Cards as Womnen Do." Miss Isabel Cline sang three numbers. 1Mrs. V. K. Spicer is the retiring pres- ident of the society, and Bently Mc- Cloud, who served as vice-president during the past year, was elected pres- ident. Mrs. Mark Cresap is the new vice-president. Ogden Cook replaces John Coolidge as secretary-treasurer.. CONTAGION LOW HERE Five new cases of contagious diseases were reported in Wilinette for the week ending Wednesday, De- cember 3. This is some improvemept over the report of the Wilniette *Health departnient for the previous week, which. showed a total of nine- new cases. The five new cases of communicable disease- reported during the past week include three of whooping cougli, one of scarlet fever and one of rnumps. There are the other cases- of scarlet fever still in quarantine. PRESNT MASPLAY The Christmas play, "Why the Iimes Rang," will be- presented ice, by seventh and eighth grade uaDil of the Stolinandi *Howard paseonvied a ismall-,fe fr-hi-e- ie.Mrs. John B.iBoddie ot, 'àX) ue- t poie ialfefrti evc.Wood circle. Clyde T. Hays, .519 Laurel avenue. the hearthstone of the Smith '~clan, -o- Wilmette, was elected1 président of witli four. of the five cousins frein Mrs. Josephi Miller of the Library school te complete the festivities. Plaza hotel, Evanston, is giving a Miss Anne Matson of 616 Fifteenth thîe jllinois Athietie club at its an luncheon and bridge on De-cefiber street, who spent the Thanksgiving nual meeting Friday, November 28. - 30, at 307 Melrose avenue, Kenilwortli. lolidays.at home, entertained a group John F. Cushing is vice-president. Lee F. Engliali, 1007 Greenwood Mrs. Miller is the former Clarabelle- of north shore and Chicago girls* at Cassius F.; Biggert is the retiring avenue, is Ieaving -for Texas totuor- RsofKenilwot.bigFrdyvnng Noveniber 28. president. row on an exten ded bus$iness t*p ý in thr- 1 ' e sale. will bc