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It is seldom that a week-end or 
holiday finds so many of the North 
Shore colonists at their summer resi- 
dences as Washington’s Birthday 
and week-end preceding it. At 
Magnolia were the William Cool- 
idges, who came down Saturday to 
Blynman Farm. aMr.. and ~Mrs. 
Jesse Knowlton of Chelsea paid a 
visit to their cottage: at Magnolia, 
Saturday, and the Williams family 
came down from town to spend the 
holiday period at their attractive 
cottage on Magnolia avenue. 
Oo & 
Miss Marcia Taylor, who has been 
enjoying a gay season in Boston, 
where she has been staying at the 
srunswick, this winter, was at Man- 
chester for over the week-end with 
Mrs. John C. Howe. 
‘‘Prosit’’ Sold 
The Hollis Burgess Yacht Agency 
has sold the 90-foot motor yacht 
‘“Prosit’’? owned by John B. Schof- 
fel of Boston and Manchester to the 
Boston Storage Co. ‘‘Prosit’’ is 
the most powerful motor yacht of 
ber size on the Atlantic coast and 
is 16 feet wide with two 60 H.:P. 
Murray and Tregurtha motors. She 
will be used by her new owners for 
service along the New England 
coast. 
The same agency has sold the 
35-foot water line auxiliary yawl 
‘““Tlaleyon’’ owned by W. D. Baker 
of New York to James F. Jackson 
of Brookline, Mass., for use at West- 
port Harbor, Buzzards Bay; the 40- 
foot motor boat ‘‘ Dotsie’’? owned by 
Dr. Henry Van Dyke, U.S. minister 
to the Netherlands to a well known 
Boston yachtsman; and the 45-foot 
power cruiser ‘“‘ Aries’? owned by 
Alexander Forbes of Milton, Mass., 
to a member of the Quincy Yacht 
club. 
Extermination of Rats 
A lecture will be given under the 
auspices of the Woman’s Municipal 
League of Boston, at Jordan Hall, on 
Wednesday, Marelt 3, at \ four 
o’clock, by Mr. Phillip Haller of 
London, and Mr. Ronan of New 
York, explaining the use of the 
Danysz Virus. Admission free. 
Mrs. Robert S. Bradley, chairman of 
the Committee on Rats and Flies, 
‘arranged the lecture. This prepar- 
ation, discovered by Dr. Jean Danysz 
of the Pasteur Institute, Paris, is 
said to be one of the best and most 
successful means of sucessfully solv- 
ing the vexing problem of extermin- 
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ation of rats and mice. The virus 
is harmless to other animals and 
human beings, and there is no in- 
convenience from dead rates. 
‘‘Good-Night, Nurse!’’ 
Manager A. H. Woods after read- 
ing the manuscript of ‘‘Good-Night, 
Nurse!’’ the new three act farce 
comedy by Ethel Watts Mumford, 
that he will present at the Tremont 
Theatre for a limited engagement, 
beginning on March Ist, happily 
designated it. as ‘‘A fever of fun, 
finance and_ flirtation in three 
stages’’ for this rollicking play 
brimful of fun and love making 
deals with the heretofore unsuspect- 
ed romantic side of Big Money. The 
facts in ‘‘Good-Night, Nurse!’’ were 
taken from real life, though’ of 
course, Miss Mumford, the author, 
does not dare to use the real names. 
Many of the comedy situations with 
which this play is filled were taken 
from direct observation in a real 
sickroom where Miss Mumford stud- 
ied the fads and foibles of profes- 
sional nurses and of the medical 
men. Indeed the play teems with 
delicious, good-natured, raillery at 
the doctors and their assistants as 
well as at High Finance, Journalism 
and other pertinent subjects. 
Shubert Theatre 
There remains but one week more 
of the engagement of Pauline Fred- 
erick at the Shubert Theatre, whom 
A. Hl. Woods presents in the sensa- 
tional success of the season ‘‘Inno- 
cent,’’ the remarkable play that ran 
for six months at the Eltinge Thea- 
tre, New York. Miss Frederick 
comes to us with the same splendid 
supporting company that  contri- 
buted to the enormous success 
scored by this remarkable play and 
Mr. Woods has sent also the origi- 
nal superb stage settings. Miss 
Frederick has long been recognized 
as one of the most beautiful women 
on the English speaking stage today 
and both superlative charm and 
great artistry are demanded in the 
title role, for Innocent is one of the 
most alluring of stage heroines who 
is deseribed as being ‘‘as beautiful 
as an orchid.’’ 
It is estimated that the govern- 
ment’s Grand Canyon game refuge, 
in Arizona, now contains about ten 
thousand deer. 
More than nine million young 
trees and ten thousand pounds of 
seed were planted on the national 
forests in 1914. 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES 
There will be frequent committee 
meetings of the Manchester Suf- 
fragists from now on, and a meet- 
ing of the League early in March. 
All this is in line with the new 
activity of a ‘‘campaign state. 
The Manchester Town Meeting on 
March 1st, reminds us that before 
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very long the women of Manchester — 
will be voting on these occasions. 
We see no reason why they should 
not. do as well as the women of 
Chicago, ~vho at the recent primaries — 
elections (for Mayor, ete.) turned 
out in great numbers and proved 
once more—as in California—that 
the new voters do take hold of the — 
thing promptly and intelligently. 
In Boston, the Writers Equal Suf- 
frage League will hold a meeting 
and tea at the house of Miss 
Eugenia Frothingham, on March Ist, 
at which the guest of honor will be — 
Miss Alice Brown. Miss Brown ‘s 
the author of the play ‘‘ Children of 
Earth,’’ which won Mr. Winthrop 
Ames’ $10,000 prize, and which is a 
story of New England life. It is 
good news that the play may yet be 
produced in Boston this spring. It 
is not a Suffrage play but it goes — 
without saying that its famous 
author is a Suffragist. 
Another important literary light 
who recently visited Boston and 
made a tremendous impression at 
the Authors’ club and at Wellesley 
College, ete.,—the ‘‘new American 
Poet,’’ Vachell Lindsay,—is for equal 
suffrage. And he came from Lin- 
coln’s town, Springfield, [1].—L.R.S. ~ 
‘‘Nearly Married’’ 
It is seldom the dramatic critics 
of Boston agree unanimously in~ 
their verdict of the merits of a play, 
but, in the case of ‘‘Nearly Mar- 
ried,’’ a faree by Edgar Selwyn, in 
which * Richard Bennett comes to 
Boston as a star for an indefinite 
run at the Cort Theatre, there was 
not a dissenting voice—or pen— in 
publishing the enjoyment offered in ~ 
this laugh-provoking series of com- 
plications that attend the elopement 
of a man with his own wife. 
That’s what the story of the play 
is about, and, while the characters 
in the play are extremely serious in 
their working out of the plot the 
audience is kept in constant roars 
of laughter throughout the three 
acts. 
When you think of painting think — 
of Tappan, 17 Bridge street, Man- 
chester. adv. 
