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MAGNOLIA 
One of the most delightful events 
in the early history of the Foster 
Club was the party given by Mrs. 
H. C. Foster at her home on Western 
ave. last Friday evening in obser-- 
ance of her birthday. The affair was 
in the form of a Valentine party and 
many interesting new games were 
introduced. Cookies, cakes and ‘ices 
were served. The club holds its reg- 
ular meeting this evening. 
The Ladies’ Whist club will meet 
Tuesday afternoon, Feb. 23, at the 
home of Mrs. D. C. Ballou, Magnolia 
ave, 
Mrs. Orrin Sawger of Hudson was 
a week-end guest of her brother- 
in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Fred- 
erick Lycett at their home on Fuller 
street. 
Hdward Davis was the victim of a 
painful accident while cutting wood 
at Fernwood, Thursday week and 
has been confined to his home on 
Western avenue with a_ crushed 
ankle. 
The young men of the village are 
planning for a minstrel show to be 
presented to the public sometime in 
March. A minstrel show is always 
a popular form of entertainment and 
this particular one bids fair to be 
very successful. 
D. C. Ballou spent this week-end 
at Clinton, visiting his sister, Miss 
K. C. Ballou. 
Mr. and Mrs. James French of 
Medford and their daughter Mrs. 
Frank Louis of Everett have been 
the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Fred 
Staples the past week, at their home 
on Raymond st. 
Illustrated Lecture on the War, at 
Magnolia. 
The Village church, Magnolia, was 
crowded Sunday evening when the 
Rev. Peter MacQueen, minister, es- 
sayist, author and lecturer, deliver- 
ed an illustrated address on the 
things he had seen in the present 
great war in Europe. Mr. Mac- 
Queen, who is the war correspon- 
dent for Leslie’s and for other mag- 
azines, has had many interesting and 
thrilling experiences in many lands, 
he has never seen sights so terrible 
as those which met his eyes during 
the ten weeks of his life with the 
armies of the allies in Belgium. He 
has made a thorough study of the 
racial and economie conditions in 
the European countries and is en- 
abled to speak with confidence up- 
on disputed questions and his vivid 
and picturesque style of delivery de- 
lighted his audience. 
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The speaker dealt with the war as 
a general subject without reference 
to persons ‘or nations, describing it 
as ‘‘brute force thrust into the deli- 
cate machinery of modern civiliza- 
tion’’ and of the great losses the 
countries involved must stand for 
years to come because of the killing 
off of millions of men, the flower of 
their countries, the razing and burn- 
ing of villages and towns, the de- 
struction of beautiful old buildings 
and works of art, which can never 
be replaced, and the disastrous in- 
terruptions in finance and trade. 
After showing a war map of KEu- 
rope distinguishing the allies and 
the countries of the Teutonic Alli- 
ance, the speaker proceeded to give 
a little of the history and condition 
of each country. The stereopticon 
pictures, which accompanied this part 
of the lecture were taken in Hurop- 
ean towns and eities and, many 
of them, in the battlefields, which 
will go down in history as the great- 
est of the world’s records. Those 
of Russia were especially interest- 
ing as Russia is the largest country 
of the whole world, having an im- 
mense soldiery and population. The 
basie question of the war, the 
speaker said, is: Can Russia get con- 
trol of Constantinople and the Bos- 
phorus? Mr. MacQueen believes 
that Russia needs and has a right to 
that waterway. 
Mr. MacQueen’s remarks cast con- 
siderable light on the Servian and 
Balkan problems and upon the con- 
ditions in those countries, where 
trade reasons demand a just peace. 
The principal crops of Servia, he 
said, are pigs and prunes and if the 
people cannot get their pigs and 
prunes to market, they cannot sell 
them. They must have a waterway. 
The speaker’s remarks about Ger- 
many and the Kaiser were notable 
principally for their absolute fair- 
ness to a nation and a country, 
which he personally had found de- 
lightful, and to the ruler, whose 
clean life and high ideals were ir- 
reproachable, but whose military 
spirit has plunged his people into 
such depths of suffering. Mr. Mac- 
Queen said: ‘‘If I were asked to sum 
up in one sentence my opinion of 
the Kaiser, I would say, ‘He has 
studied war too much’,”’ 
Kngland’s only chance for safety 
and protection lies in her control of 
the water—and the air. That is why 
she has made such wonderful strides 
in aviation and why in three years 
she will have five aeroplanes to one 
Zeppelin. The army of the British 
Kimpire is unsurpassed for bravery 
and some interesting views to illus- 
trate the cosmopolitan makeup of 
the forces were shown. 
Perhaps, the most beautiful of all 
the 200 pictures, which illustrated 
Mr. MacQueen’s lecture were those 
of Paris, the loveliest city of the 
world. Mr. MacQueen paid a high 
tribute to the women of France, 
whom he said were the bravest in 
the world. 
The speaker had a very sympath- 
etic audience, particularly during 
his remarks upon Belgium, the in- 
nocent bystander, who was dragged 
into the conflict before she knew 
that there was an arch-duke in Ser- 
via, much less that he had been kill- 
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