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skilled driving, the steeplechase, pony racing and 
polo, fill the programme with interesting events. 
This kind of enterprise has spread the fame of the 
Brookline Country Club. Winter’s approach does 
not witness any decline in the gaiety and popularity 
of the club house. Sleighing parties frequent it, 
and the Country Club’s informal dances have their 
especial devotees. 
The tremendous development of the North Shore 
as a place of residence, particularly summer head¬ 
quarters for society people, has caused genuine 
enthusiasm among real estate speculators. The 
jagged and picturesque shore-line that skirts the 
coast north of Boston has attracted during the past 
few years throngs of fashionable settlers and as a 
monument to country life amid this combination of 
beauty and wealth, we find at Hamilton the famed 
Myopia Hunt Club, noted for dignity of years, as 
well as aristocracy of membership. 
At Manchester-by-the-Sea is located the Essex 
County Club. Each institution has its generous 
estate and its spacious club house. Many of the 
members make their summer residence at the club 
headquarters and thus derive the full benefit of its 
advantages. 
South of Boston, out Dedham way, are the noted 
Norfolk Hunt Club, the Dedham Country Club and 
the Dedham Polo Club. In fact, suburban to Boston, 
turn where you will you find important hunt or 
country clubs. In Watertown is the Bay State 
Driving Club, occupying a $90,000 mansion house 
on School Street, possessing a fine estate and a 
membership of seven hundred and fifty. One of 
the newest of such organizations, it is already one 
of the most popular. Westward toward Worcester 
is the Worcester County Club. Swinging into the 
northeast, we find the Middlesex Hunt Club, which 
gives successful horse shows and carnivals each year 
on the Middlesex meadows near Lincoln. 
One of the newest, the Commonwealth Country 
Club, is located at Chestnut Hill and overlooks a 
beautiful view of the Brookline “Reservoir” region. 
While the Myopia has been the pioneer in Boston 
Country Club life and has sought to most influentially 
and enthusiastically follow out the edict conveyed in 
its name, it must be confessed that Bostonians have 
actually to do most of their cross countrying in quest 
of the anise-seed-bag rather than that of the strategic 
fox. This same is true with reference to other noted 
hunt clubs of this country. 
As many of the members are busy men, it means 
much for the Boston business man to be able to re¬ 
main at his office until two o’clock and yet get his 
afternoon of cross-country riding. It is a matter 
of pride to the Bostonian that the first Country Club 
of America was established there. 
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