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MAGNOLIA 
Mr. and Mrs. John H. Robinson 
and baby daughter Clara, who have 
been spending the winter here with 
Mrs. Robinson’s parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Henry W. Butler, returned to 
their home at Montserrat this week. 
Mrs. Effie Foster entertained her 
friend, Miss Louise Friend, of 
Gloucester, Saturday. 
Mrs. Harry C. Foster is entertain- 
ing Mrs. Abbie Story, who has been 
spending the winter in Winchester. 
The date for the minstrel show 
that the young men of the village 
are rehearsing has been decided upon 
as Friday evening, March 12. It will 
be given at the Women’s Club house. 
Rev. Dr. Loyal Lincoln Wirt will 
speak at the People’s Forum Sun- 
day evening, and there will doubt- 
less be a record attendance to hear 
‘this speaker, who was so much in de- 
mand last winter. Dr. Wirt spoke 
here three times—on Australia, 
Alaska and Siam—and all his lec- 
tures were so far above the ordinary 
that they have never been forgotten. 
This time he is to speak on the Pan- 
ama Canal Exposition and is to 
bring his own operator and his big, 
double dissolving lantern for the il- 
lustrations, which will acocmpany 
the address. His lectures were not 
illustrated last year, and everyone 
will be doubly glad to see these pic- 
tures, which will be of a very su- 
perior order. 
Communion will be served at the 
Village Church after the morning 
service, Sunday. Rev. Dr. Walter 8S. 
Eaton will preach on ‘‘Peace.”’ 
The Foster Club will hold its 
weekly meeting at the home of Ars. 
H. C Foster this evening. Rehears- 
als are soon to commence for the 
play that the club is planning to 
give this spring for the benefit of the: 
piano fund for the Blynman Grim- 
mar School. The play will preb- 
ably 1.e given some tim: in Apri. 
The Breeze $2 a year postpaid. 
Had His Doubts 
**Won’t you be very, very happy 
when your sentence is over?’’ cheer- 
fully asked a woman of a cortvict in 
prison. 
“1erdunno,. ma aml edunno: 
gloomily answered the man. 
‘*You don’t know?’’ asked the 
woman, amazed. ‘‘Why not?”’ 
**T’m in for life.’’—Stray Stories. 
‘*T never see your husband look- 
ing at other women.’’ 
‘‘No; poor George is fearfully 
near-sighted.’’—St. Louis Post-Dis- 
patch. 
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MEXICO. 
Subject of Lecture in People’s Fo- 
rum at Magnolia. 
Thomas Wilbor of Brookline was 
the speaker at the village churel 
Sunday evening and with stereopti- 
con views and his own graphic de- 
scriptions he gave the audience a 
splendid impression of Mexico and 
the life of the people, particularly 
of the great illiterate majority, in 
that country, in which he made his 
home for twelve years, spending 
seven of these years on a large ha- 
cienda in the interior. 
The speaker told something of the 
rule of Diaz in Mexico. The coun. 
try’s greatest length is 2,000 miles 
and its greatest. width is 760 miles 
with an area of 767,000 square miles 
and about 20 inhabitants to the 
square mile. Of these inhabitants, 
the great mass, 85 per cent. in fact, 
have almost no knowledge of read- 
ing or writing and the privileges, 
like education, are given only to 
the remaining 15 per cent. Prior 
to the Diaz regime, there were no 
railroads, no telegraph system, no 
automobile roads, no government 
schools and no technical schools. Un- 
der Diaz great strides were made, 
especially in the capital of the coun- 
try, Mexico City, which now has 
splendid roads, fine public buildings 
and excellent schools. 
Mr. Wilbor spoke mostly about 
the great class of peons and told 
a great deal about the peonage sys- 
Magnolia, Massachusetts. 
tem, its evils, the possibilities of bet- 
terment there and its advantages. 
He was well qualified to speak upon 
this subject on account of his years 
among these people, who are, he 
said, stoical in appearance, but real- 
ly impressionable and emotional un- 
derneath—children, in fact. The 
hacienda, upon which he made his. 
home for seven years in Mexico. was 
several days’ journey from any rail- 
road, and this condition is charac- 
teristic of many of the Mexican 
ranches. The hacienda is divided 
into small ranches, which are let out 
to the peons, mostly by the season. 
The owner has almost absolute con- 
trol over them and thus has unlim- 
ited power for good or evil in the 
lives of these people. Some of the 
methods of agriculture were dis- 
cussed and described. 
The photographs, which were 
shown, were mostly of the more iso- 
lated parts of the country and 
showed the primitive methods of liv- 
imo among these people, who, Mr. 
Wilbor, said, seem perfectly con- 
tented to jog along in the way their 
forefathers always have and to de- 
sire nothing different. Some of the 
scenic views were beautiful and 
those of the mountainous regions 
particularly so and those pictures 
of the natives were fine examples of 
types as the speaker found them. A 
eroup picture of the family of a 
prosperous peon was among the 
most interesting. Mr. Wilbor said 
that they had been ‘‘rigged out’’ for 
the occasion and that nine-tenths of 
all the clothes that the family owned 
appeared in the picture. He also 
said that when a man of this class 
becomes so prosperous in Mexico, 
there is usually something ‘‘shady’’ 
about it; in the case of this man, ~ 
there had been suspicion, of cattle 
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