SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XIII 
anchester, Mass., Friday, March 12, 
SOCIETY NOTES 
THE cottage owned by Mrs. F. T. Bradbury, Manches- 
q ter, and often spoken of as the Dexter cottage, 
has been leased to Pay Director Chas. W. Littlefield, U. 
S. Navy, for the season. Captain and Mrs. Littlefield 
are at present at the New Greenbrier, White Sulphur 
Springs, but, as usual, will spend the Haster holidays 
at the Plaza, New York. It is thought they will come to 
Manchester from their home in Kansas City early in 
June. ; 
A change for the better in the condition of W. R. 
Nelson, editor of the Kansas City Star, who is critically 
ill at his home at Kansas City, was announced by his 
physician Wednesday. One of the attending physicians 
summarized the change by asserting there had been ‘‘a 
considerable rally, the mental condition is clear, but Mr. 
Nelson is still in quite a critical state.’’ Mr. Nelson has 
a summer home at Magnolia. 
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Miss Evelyn Curtis, fiancée of Harry J. Byng, an 
electricalengineer of London, whose wedding was to have 
taken place at Beverly Farms in April, has sailed for 
England and will join Mr. Byng at the front, where he 
is a member of the Artists’ Rifle Scouts. Miss Curtis is 
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Curtis, of 191 
Beacon street, Boston, who have a summer place at 
Beverly Farms. Miss Curtis will be a Red Cross nurse. 
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Dr. and Mrs. Francis Lowell Burnett are observing 
the second anniversary of their marriage today at their 
Beacon street home. Mrs. Burnett was formerly Miss 
Helen Read, the elder daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles 
Read, of Manchester-by-the-Sea, where the wedding was 
solemnized at the Episcopal church at Smith’s Point. 
The dance at the Hasty Pudding club, last Friday 
evening, was one of the prettiest and jolliest affairs that 
Boston society has enjoyed this winter. The club colors, 
white and gold, were used for decorations and, with the 
greenery, made a stunning effect. The stage was lighted 
with Japanese lanterns and the receiving line stood 
there. Huropa’s orchestra played. Mrs. Robert Treat 
Paine, 2d. was one of the patronesses, and many others 
North Shore girls and matrons were seen on the floor. 
Among these were included Miss Hope Malcolm, daugh- 
ter of Mrs. G.I.Malcolm; Mrs. George von L. Meyer, who 
had just returned from Aiken, and who was very stun- 
ning in cerise chiffon over white satin with a wide girdle 
of white satin; Miss Caroline Fessenden, buttercup 
taffeta with white spangled tulle and daring touches of 
purple; Miss Elise Ames, who wore a most becoming 
gown of coral pink taffeta, embroidered in pale blue; 
Miss Olivia Ames, a fashionable pale blue satin and 
mauve chiffon frock with a girdle of shaded pink satin; 
‘Miss Rosamond Eliot, antique blue and silver brocade 
‘with silver lace; Miss Josephine Rantoul, white silk, 
flowered in pink; Miss Edith Sigourney, pink taffeta 
with roses; Miss Pauline Pollard, an effective combina- 
tion of pearl gray satin and chiffon with a bodice of 
solid jet. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
MAGNOLIA cottage rentals are being reported, though 
there is no unusual demand, says Jonathan May, 
the well-known real estate man, who handles most ail 
the property in that section of the North Shore. Busy 
or not busy as the season may be, Magnolia cottages 
usually go up to the last one—and this season will be no 
exception to the rule. Among the cottages rented 
through Mr. May’s: office are the following: The Story 
eottage, Summer st., to Edward H. Graham, of Boston ; 
the H. H. Newton cottage, Summer st., to Arthur M. 
Jones, of Boston (renewal) ; the Fuller cottage, Norman 
ave., to F. §. Chick, of Boston (renewal) ; the Dickinson 
cottage, Raymond st., to G. W. Bill (renewal); the 
Butler cottage, Summer st., to Henry D. Schmidt, of 
Washington, five years’ lease. 
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The engagement is announced of Miss Claire Eliza- 
beth Phillips, of Catonsville, Md., and Reginald Parry 
Kennard, of Brookline. Mr. Kennard is popular with the 
Magnolia set, as he comes to the Oceanside hotel every 
summer for a short stay. 
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Mr. and Mrs. James A. Lowell Blake, who spent 
last season at Pride’s Crossing, will join the Beverly 
Farms colony this year. Mr. Blake has bought the Morse 
property on Malt Hill and it is now undergoing renova- 
tions so that, when the improvements are complete, Mr. 
and Mrs. Blake will move in for a long season. The 
house is situated near the C. H. Tweed estate, and quite 
near the Manchester line. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Preston Gibson will not come to the 
‘ Uorth Shore this summer, but will spend the season at 
Newport, where they have leased a house. Mr. Gibson 
returned recently from the west, where he went in 
eonnection with some mining property. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Bayard Tuckerman are at the Copley- 
Plaza at Boston after spending the winter at New York. 
They will open their Ipswich home early next month. 
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Many prominent Boston women were identified 
with the Fashion Fete at the Toy Theatre Tuesday and 
Wednesday of this week, the matinee Tuesday being 
an extra, because of the theatre being sold out before 
all the appheations could be filled. The affair was the 
most original and most elaborate of its kind, given in 
Boston this winter and was in aid of the Publie Inter- 
ests League and the Boston committee of the Mass- 
achusetts Association Opposed to the Further Exten- 
sion of Suffrage to Women. Among those appearing in 
the entertainment were Miss Ilarriett Dexter, Misses 
Pauline and Katherine Pollard, Miss Mary Greenough, 
Mrs. Dudley Howe, Miss Rosamond Eliot, Mrs. Neal 
Rantoul, Mrs. Robert 8. Bradley, who was chairman of 
the eard party committee; Mrs. Samuel J. Mixter, chair- 
man of the afternoon tea party; Mrs. I. Tucker Burr, 
head of the dressmaking department; Mrs. S. Reed 
Anthony, chairman of the ‘‘gowns of today,’’ a garden 
party scene, 
