Vol. XIII 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The dinner dance at the Essex County club last Sat- 
urday night, marking the opening of the new club house, 
delightfiuily informal in every particular, was a most en- 
joyable atfair. There were about eighty-five present, 
mostly members of the year-round colony at Manchester 
and Beverly Farms, though many had holiday guests 
down. It was one of the coldest nights of the winter, 
which made the skating and other out-door sports the 
more enjoyable and took the participants back to the new 
club. house on the knoll above the pond to be “warmed 
up” the more often. Dancing was enjoyed all the even- 
ing by those who did not take part in the out-door sports, 
and continued until mid-night. The new club-house 
though not yet completed, proved most attractive and 
cozy. The dancing was in the large dining room, the 
regular dancing floor not being ready. It is quite evident 
that the club is to be the center of attraction the year 
round from now on, as the possibilities for skating ponds, 
tobogganing, skiing and all the winter sports are at their 
best on the extensive .grounds. 
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Mrs. Henry W. Peabody entertained six Chinese 
girls, students at colleges in Massachusetts, at her home 
at Montserrat, over Christmas. It was the first Christ- 
mas the girls had experienced in this country and they 
were delighted. They had a hearty Christmas dinner and 
received many gifts. Mrs. Peabody is much interested 
in missionary work and has traveled extensively through 
China. 
The usual holiday cheer and merriment prevailed at 
Miss Clara Winthrop’s bungalow, West Manchester. 
Miss Winthrop gave a party for the choir boys from St. 
Paul’s, Boston, Saturday, and on Monday she had the choir 
boys from St. John’s Episcopal church, Beverly Farms, 
together with the pastor Rev. Neilson Poe Carey down 
for the afternoon. te 
Herbert M. Sears and Miss Phyllis Sears, who have 
been at Pride’s Crossing all the fall, moved to their town 
house, 287 Commonwealth ave., Boston, Monday. The 
family denies emphatically the report in one of the Bos- 
ton papers yesterday morning of the engagement of Miss 
Sears. Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Warren (Elizabeth Sears) 
are to remain at their Pride’s Crossing home all winter. 
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The many friends of Percy Lee Atherton, the well- 
known composer, are rejoicing with him over the recovery 
of his mother, Mrs. William Atherton of 144 Common- 
wealth ave., Boston, who is convalescing from a very 
severe illness. Mrs. Atherton’s son and daughter-in-law, 
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Atherton have returned to their home 
in Washington. The Athertons summer in Magnolia. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Tweed (Eleanor Roelker) 
and Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Curtis, Jr., (Edith Roelker) 
were of the week-end Christmas family party Mr. and 
Mrs. William Roelker entertained at Greene Farm, Fast 
Greenwich, Rhode Island. Mrs. Tweed and Mrs. Curtis 
were married at East Greenwich, the first late in June, 
and Mrs, Curtis, July 17. 
Manchester, Mass., 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Friday, January 1, 1915 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Members of the summer colony have been much in 
evidence along the Shore the past week, at Manchester, 
Beverly Farms, and all along the line. The Essex County 
club has been the Mecca for many young people, and old 
as well, for the tobogganing and skating, which has been 
in excellent condition part of the holiday season. Mrs. 
5S. V. R. Crosby and Mrs. Gordon Abbott gave a little 
party of a most informal nature on Tuesday evening, the 
intention being. to have skating, tobogganing, skiing, etc., 
by the moonlight, but the rain prevented the skating and 
after getting what fun they could, under the conditions, 
out of the sliding, the sixteen young people adjourned to 
the new club house for dancing and games. Dinner was 
served at the club. 
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Mrs. Charles A. Munn left Manchester Wednesday 
for the South. She will first visit her son, Charles A. 
Munn, Jr., and family at Radnor, Pa., and then go on to 
Palm Beach, where she has taken a house for the sea- 
son. Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Boardman (Carrie Munn) 
will spend January with Mrs. Munn, and the other mar- 
ried daughter Mrs. Charles M. Amory and Mr. Amory 
will spend a month with her later in the winter. 
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Mr. and Mrs. George S. Mandell and their family, 
who have been spending tthe fall at their country place in 
Hamilton, are to occupy their house on Commonwealth 
ave., Boston, for the remainder of the winter. 
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Mrs. S. Parker Bremer of 33 Marlboro st., Boston, 
is giving a small house dance on Jan. 4, for Miss Esther 
Hosmer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Hosmer of 
Bay State road. Before the dance, Mrs. Frederick Hood 
of Brookline will give a dinner, at which Miss Hosmer 
will be the guest of honor. Afterward, the young people 
will go to Mrs. Bremer’s house for the dance. 
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The Twelfth Night Ball and dramatic entertainment 
for the benefit of the Women’s Emergency Corps of Eng- 
land, which is being given by the Equal Franchise Com- 
mittee of Boston at the new Toy Theatre, Boston, on the 
night of Jan. 6th (‘‘Twelfth Night”), promises to be a 
brilliant social and financial success. Mr. Cyril Maude 
and other English players will take part in the play, a 
crowd of debutantes and Harvard men will make the ball 
“go,” and many prominent Boston and North Shore wo- 
men are among the patronesses and box-holders. The 
Equal Franchise Committee comprises:—Mrs. Robert 
Gould Shaw, chairman; Mrs. H. FE. Russell, treasurer; 
and Mrs. Wirt Dexter, Mrs. Wm. Baltzell, Mrs. George 
Gove, Mrs. George R. Fearing, Jr.. Mrs. James Parker, 
Mrs. Samuel Carr, Mrs. R. D. Evans, Mrs. Langdon 
Forthingham, Mrs. Bayard Thayer, Mrs. Joseph Fay, 
Mrs. John Homans, Mrs. Harold Movius, Mrs. Francis 
Peabody Magoun, Mrs. Grahame Haughton, Mrs. Wm. 
Sturgis, Mrs. Louis Agassiz Shaw and Miss Louie R. 
Stanwood. Others interested in the affair are:—Dr. and 
Mrs. Samuel McComb, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Revere Forth- 
ingham, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Grant, Mrs. Larz Ander- 
son, and so on. ‘Tickets may be obtained now from any 
of the Committee, or at Herrick’s next week, 
