eases for winter use. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XIII 
SOCIETY NOTES 
E holiday Monday brought many people down the 
North Shore for the week-end or to spend the day. 
It was a beautiful day, and but for the patches of 
snow and ice here and there one might easily have 
thought it the 19th of April. Many owners of houses 
motored down from town to make their preliminary 
plans on spring work, looking toward opening their 
estates the last of next month or early in April. It 
is generally understood this year that the estates along 
the North Shore will be opened and occupied earlier 
than usual. Carpenters and painters and workman in 
other lines are starting on their spring work earlier 
than customary, which is one reason for supposing 
cottagers plan to arrive earlier; and the fact that so 
many of the cottages are already leased for the sea- 
son is another reason for this activity among the 
artisans. Still another evidence of the lengthening 
out of the season along the North Shore is the fact that 
in no less than half a dozen instances called to our 
attention this winter, heating systems are being in- 
stalled, presumably for spring and fall, and in some 
Not a few families keep their 
houses open until the holidays are over when they go 
south to remain until Haster; and there are others 
who keep their house ‘‘half open,’’ coming down from 
town for the week-end and to enjoy the winter sports 
when the opportunity presents itself. All in all the 
summer season on the North Shore is gradually giving 
way to a year-round season. And we venture to say 
that whereas there are now from forty to fifty cot- 
tages of the fashionable set open the year round in the 
‘territory between Beverly and Magnolia—including be- 
sides these places, Manchester, Beverly Farms, Pride’s 
Crossing, Hamilton, Wenham and Topsfield—there will 
be a hundred five years hence; surely so if the increase 
keeps on as in the last fire or six years. 
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A brilliant wedding will be that of Miss Esther 
Slater and B. Sumner Wells, the date for which has 
been set for April 14. Miss Slater has been one of the 
most sought after girls in her set and will make a 
lovely bride. 
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Many who spend the summer months on the Shore, 
are taking a prominent part in the gaiety of Aiken this 
winter. Misses Elise and Olivia Ames are receiving 
much attention during their visit there. Mrs. George 
yon L. Meyer was hostess at the Saturday afternoon 
tea at the Palmetto Golf club last week. Mr. and 
Mrs. Guy Norman and Miss Hope Norman and Frances 
Appleton were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hitch- 
¢@ock at the dove drive, which they gave at Aiken last 
week. Before the vent a delightful basket luncheon 
Was served in the woods. 
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Mrs. Lester Leland opened her town house on Bea- 
con street Tuesday for the fourth in a series of French 
readings given by Mme. Jeanne Pavey. The reading 
was repeated Wednesday at the home of Mrs. Robert 
Treat Paine. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, eee 26, 
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_at Coolidge’s Point, Manchester, several seasons. 
SOCIETY NOTES - 
(ort: AGE rentals along the North Shore are increas- 
ing in number as the days go by. The cottage at 
Manchester owned by Mrs. F. T. Bradbury and com- 
monly known as the Draper cottage because it was 
occupied for so many years by Mrs. Wm. F. Draper, 
has been leased for the summer to a Western family. 
Wm. A. Slater of Washington has leased ‘‘ Willow 
Bank,’’ at Beverly Cove to Martin Erdman of New 
York. The Slaters have a place at Lenox and it is 
presumed they will spend the summer there. Wm. A. 
Slater, Jr., and Mrs. Slater (Madeline H. Allen) spent 
last summer at Lenox. The Erdmans had a cottage 
The 
Gerald Livingston Hoyts of New York, who were at 
the Pickman grey house, Beverly Cove, last season, 
will have the Wm. Endicott house in the same locality 
this year. The James Breckenridge Wallers of Chiec- 
ago, will come to Coolidge’s Point, Manchester, again 
this year, having leased the cottage owned by Reginald 
Foster which they have occupied for two seasons. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, 2d, are to spend 
the summer at their estate at Manchester Cove, it is 
said. If so, of course, they will not lease their place 
for the mid-summer as in the last few years. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bigelow and their daughter, 
Miss Elizabeth Bigelow, of Boston and Manchester-by- 
the-Sea, spent the holiday at their country place at 
Fitzwilliam, N. H. Miss Bigelow has recently return- 
ed from a visit with Miss Hope Malcolm at New York. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Minot Amory and the form- 
er’s father, Francis I. Amory of Boston and Pride’s 
Crossing are expected to return from Palm Beach, 
where they have been making a visit of several weeks, 
early next month. 
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The play, “‘S. 8. Romantic, or, Count of No Ac- 
count,’’ which was written for the Vincent club annual 
entertainment by Miss Alice Thorndike ad Miss Bar- 
bara Burr, will be given April 27, 29 and 30 at the new 
Cort theatre, instead of at Jordan hall. The innovation 
will be an advantage as the Cort will give the actors 
more room and a much better chance for scenie and 
lighting effects. It has not been definitely decided 
whether the usual dress rehearsal will be given. 
Rehearsals are to start early next month. 
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There is a long list of patronesses for the Fashion 
Fete, which is to be given at the Toy Theatre, Boston, 
Tuesday afternoon, March 16, at 3 o’clock, in aid of 
the Public Interests League and of the Boston com- 
mittee of the Massachusetts Society Opposed to the 
Further Extension of Suffrage to Women, and in it is 
included many prominent women of the North Shore. 
The tickets for the Fete are in charge of Mrs. Robert 
F. Clark of 29A Chestnut street, Boston, and may be 
procured from her by mail only until March 8, after 
which they will be on sale at Herrick’s, 
