House and Garden 
SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES 
Quincy 
Mansion School 
FOR GIRLS 
Wollaston, Quincy, Mass. 
Beautiful location, six miles south of Boston. 
Eight acres of grounds with fine old trees. 
Athletic fields, artificial lake. Three handsome 
buildings, large library, Assembly Hall, seating 
250. Art room, laboratory, gymnasium, ten 
music rooms. Large corps of teachers. Excel¬ 
lent courses for graduation. Advanced work in 
Music, Language and Art. Numerous electives. 
Certificates for college. Address 
HORACE M. WILLARD, A.M., ScD., Principal. 
r The Gilman School ^ 
for Girls CA ™ CE 
Corporation, controlled by Harvard professors 
who instruct in Itadcliffe College. Many teach¬ 
ers, mostly Itadcliffe graduates. Classes, small. 
Courses of study, planned for each pupil. Pri¬ 
mary, Intermediate. Academic, and College Pre¬ 
paratory departments. Teaching thorough. Ex¬ 
aminations required only of girls going to col¬ 
lege. School-house and residence separate, built 
to be full of sunshine and good air. Basket-ball, 
tennis, Itadcliffe gymnasium and swimming pool. 
Harvard museums and Boston afford great fa¬ 
cilities and peculiar attractions. Address 
MISS BAIRD’S 
Home School for Girls 
NORWALK, CONN. 
One hour from New York city and 
five hours from Boston, via N. Y., N. 
H. and Hartford It. R. Country air. 
Ideal environment for study 
and recreation. Broad cul¬ 
ture. Real training of body, 
mind and manners. The 
homelife is replete with inspi¬ 
ration, tending to develop each 
girl into a useful and attractive 
member of the family and of so¬ 
ciety. Separate house for girls un¬ 
der 15. Intermediate, Academic 
and College-Preparatory classes. Su¬ 
perior advantages in Music, Art and 
the Languages. 
MISS CORNELIA F. BAIRD, Principal 
I The Stearns School) 
FOR SMALL BOYS - 
A sub-fitting school, preparing boys for Phil¬ 
lips Academy and other leading schools. Course 
of study includes the first two years’ work of 
the usual high school. The home life is cheer¬ 
ful and sympathetic, boys living in cottages 
with the principal and masters, and constantly 
under their watchful care and supervision. The 
school is beautifully located in a small country 
town, where the climate is delightful and bene¬ 
ficial to health. All outdoor sports—golf 
course, tennis court and baseball field. Gym¬ 
nasium. For further information, address 
V, 
Miss RUTH COIT, Head Mistress. 
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Mrs . Mead's School 
for Girls Hillside, Norwalk, Conn. 
Beautifully situated in charming suburban 
town one hour from New York. College 
Course admits by certificate to leading col¬ 
leges. 
Attractive General Courses for girls who 
do not enter College. 
Musical and Art instruction. Complete 
equipment for Library, Laboratory and 
Studio Work. 
Pleasant home and school life. 
For Circulars address 
Mrs. M. E. MEAD. 
HOWARD SEMINARY 
For Girls and Young Ladies West Bridgewater, Mass. 
ARTHUR F. STEARNS, A.B., 
Mount Vernon, New Hampshire. 
Hummer 
Anthrttuj 
SOUTH BYFIELD, MASS. 
(Near Newburyport) 
One of the most beautifully located schools in 
New England. 330 acres. Fine opportunity for 
physical training, horseback riding, golf, boat¬ 
ing and swimming. Prepares boys for any col¬ 
lege, scientific school or business. Individual 
attention is provided for by an able corps of 
teachers. The aim of the school is to develop 
in each boy a high moral standard, a healthy 
body and a well-balanced mind. For illustrated 
catalogue, address Head Master. 
Wellesley School for Boys 
Wellesley, Massachusetts. 
A unique school. Catalogue and illustrated 
books sent on request. 
In a healthy and beautiful location, 25 miles 
from Boston. Home building remodeled in sum¬ 
mer of 1905, at a large expense. Academic, Col¬ 
lege Preparatory and Special Courses. Two 
years' course for High School graduates. Art 
and Music studios. For catalogue, address 
Miss Sarah E. Laughton, A.M., Principal. 
The Commonwealth Avenue School for Girls 
(THE MISSES GILMAN’S SCHOOL) 
General and College-I’reparatory Courses. Resident 
and day pupils. 
Miss Gilman, Miss Guild, Principals, 
324 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston. 
The Laurens School 
FOR GIRLS 
107 Audubon Road, Boston, Mass. 
Beautifully located, overlooking the Fen¬ 
way Park. New building specially designed 
for the purpose. Rooms large and cheerful, 
open fireplaces, and at least two windows in 
each. Outdoor sports, under trained di¬ 
rector, on private playground. Best of in¬ 
struction. College preparatory and finish¬ 
ing courses. 
Miss Elisabeth Bailey Hardee, B.S. 
Miss Sarah Chamberlin Weed, B.A. 
Concord, Mass. 
Concord School for Boys 
Prepares boys not only to enter hut to go through 
college. Special preparation for scientific schools. Ex¬ 
cellent business course. 
Athletic field, golf, canoeing, and all sports. 
Address, Leon J5dwin Rvther, Prin. 
Lawrence 
Gr r, Academy 
Founded 1793 . Prepares boys for universities, col¬ 
leges and scientific schools; also a thorough 
academic course for those not going to college. 
Unusually efficient corps of teachers enables the 
school to give each boy careful and individual 
attention. Beautifully located in an attractive 
New England village, widely known for its 
healthful climate. Splendid opportunities for 
outdoor sports—football, baseball and track 
work, hare and hound chases, cross-country run¬ 
ning, skating, coasting, etc. 
Year opens Sept. 19, 1907. For catalogue, address 
WILLIAM STEEN GAUD, Head Master. 
New York, New York, 6-8 East 46th St. 
S. Mary’s School (Episcopal). Founded 1869 
Boarding and day school for girls. Two courses or- 
fered—College Preparatory and Higher English. Spe¬ 
cial attention given to individual pupils. Address 
Sister Superior. 
Denderah, dating about 2440 B. c., is as 
delicate a bit of workmanship in the 
same stone as could ever be produced. 
Professor Petrie found an ordinary coat- 
button, too, carved roughly in bone, that 
opens up quite novel problems of attire 
before the days of “double-breasted 
vests. ” The land of slaves and warriors 
and priests has always been the same 
in its essentials. T he beauty of its art 
alone has perished. — St. James’s Ga¬ 
zette. 
MOVING A RUSSIAN TOWN ON 
SLEIGHS 
nPHE moving of an entire city to 
* another point, which offers strate¬ 
gic and commercial advantages superior 
to its present location, is being proposed 
in the far north of Russia. The City of 
Kola, on the peninsula of the same name, 
is now situated at the confluence of two 
rivers, the Luttojoki and the Notosero, 
forming the Kola River, about fifty miles 
from the Arctic Ocean. While the 
rivers and the bay below are navigable 
for even large vessels, Kola is situated 
so far inland that it is shut off from the 
sea by ice much longer than other sea¬ 
ports situated even farther north, like 
Vardoe, in Norwegian Lapland. The 
Governor of the province Archangelsk, 
Baron Engelhardt, to whose jurisdiction 
the district of Kola belongs, has pro¬ 
posed to transfer the city to a better port 
nearer the mouth of Kola River into the 
Arctic Ocean. Imperial and ministerial 
consent having been given, active prep¬ 
arations are now being made to trans¬ 
port Kola, house by house, by sleighs 
on the river, to a spot forty-three miles 
below. The new location affords great 
advantages to navigation, and since it is 
surrounded by hills which it will take 
but little expense to strongly fortify, it 
will certainly become a point of great 
strategic importance. — Phil ad el phi a 
Record. 
STOWE HOUSE 
O 1 OWE House, long the home of the 
^ ducal house of Buckingham, has 
been placed in the hands of agents to be 
let or sold. Many readers will remember 
the place from Pope’s often-quoted line — 
“A work to wonder at — perhaps a 
Stowe.” Others will recollect refer¬ 
ences to its glories in the writings of 
Horace Walpole, Congreve and others, 
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