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TWO DOLrS A ÀTYU Nom niu.tlél muaM .Aedia.>, by Tsesdaynn. Coufflbatiom t honuglbuaiar mor's nae, reaed I#r roi ri e m mot reeawily tor publication. JULY 20,1939 Homecominga Such, celebrations as are being held in somne New Trier villages"this month, and by adjacent villages -at later dates, are well worth while, and the, organizations that sponsor and promnote them are to be com- mnended. "Winnetka Day" oûr "Wilmette Day" Mayflot mean much to a lot of peo- pie, but-they certainly are events antici- pated with.pleasure bylarg .e numbers who find, them opportunities- for getting, to- gether with .oldfriends and neighbors and the enjoyment of renewing associations that have possibi1y been broken by rernoval or a change of employment which has made more frequent contacts difficult. Especially is this true in the cases of those who have taken Up residence in dis- tant communities. While frequent return journeys to the old home town may be made, the stays are usually of short dura- tion; flot sufficlent to make individual calîs upon ail of Iltbeold friends. It is in this re- spect that the "homecornin;z" ucelebration "Date" your friends for homecoming da 1y (Wilmette's was held this week) and a good, old fashioned visit. Highway of P calh "What is to be done ab, yard?" asked one North. Skokie boule- re officiai of n the subject FMV CENTS A COPY of any relative or representative of a de- ceased world war veteran, a fiat stone marker, a standard bronze marker or an upright headstone or marker. The bronze marker is 12x24, east of bronze from three sixteenths to one quarter o! an inch in. thickness and weighs about 20 pounds. The fat stone markers are of white marbie. About 30,000 markers are provided annual- ly by the War departinant to mark the *Bea uty is one of the essentiel -4hings of life, and to thus remove or bide these blotches on the face of an otherwise pretty village is a work to be commended. Besidés, thereis sheer joy in replacing weeds with blooms that- add color to the landscape. Ask. any member :of thet various. garden clubswhich participated in the planting of iris along Green. Bay road from Wilmette to Glencoe, and you4wiil betold that while the, labor- entailed -wa s of littie consequence, the -fact that the highwaY has been made more attractive amply compensates. for' the. effort required. There are stili numerous spots awaiting the - magic touchý of the gardener, profès- sional or amateur. Grave II'arkers The following information relative to griave ùiarkers 'supplied by the War de. partment will be of interest to families of veterans: "Many veterans are interred in new memorial cemeteries which prohibit the use of the regular upright marker or head- stone which the Secretary of War is author- ized to furnish for the marking of veterans' graves. "Consequently, many of the graves of a'dainty morsel before her child she meý,ans that the morsel is to be eaten, and no fooling. A case. in point: A mother robin, feeding a fledgling on the lawn, gave it a luscious cherry, which the- fledgling dropped. Again it was offered and again rejected. Picking up the cherry, the mther raised herseif to greatest possible height, then with ail the power at ber command, jammed the cherry down the youngster's throat, with an ex- pression that said, as plainly as words: "Now you eat that and like it." That's discipline, 10 The Nazis, according to 'a German authorityR are aiming to rule the, whole world. A certain gentleinan now resident at Doorn, Hofland, once had the saine idea, but it dldni't seem to work out. uti, liue oul and water, they wýon't mix. One can't say niuch in a line. TRiE PHANTom REPORTE A Nebraska farmer, ail of whose horses but one had died, hitched hirnself to a wagon with the remaining Dobbin and hauled hay. Proving that the farmer -can solve his own problerns when dire necessity arises..But why doesn't tbe1 AAA give hlm some more horses? Why rake this up? Cornes the, following coni- tribution: "Perhapà this ought to be in another column, 'but although, you are a phantom you are obviously interested in fact, and this is no ghost story. At a North Shore beach one after- noon last week while one of the boys was idly playing. in the sand, he dug up a . Reader's Di- gest' of February, 1936. And we thought the beach was..raked each morning!- Beachcomber."I1 Muckraker? A Chicago lady, age 72, started Monday on the first leg of an airpiane trip around the world, cheduled to arrive home thirty-three days hence. The trip wiIl cost ber $1,969,36. S'he said one reason for the stunt' is "'to prove that the average person can travel without spending ex- orbitant amounts of money." What does she mean, "average?" One is clead, but the old maxim that one is born every minute still holds good. Two Indiana men set out to prove, by a 25-mile race on a highway, which 'owned the faster automobile. Reported speed,. 95 miles per hour. Reported dead, one.. Reported near death, one, Reported cracked skulls, two. "What fools we mortals be."