chapel, Manchester, 
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Arbella Clud of Manchester Listens to Talk 
by Miss Hitchcock of Welcome House, Boston 
The regular meeting of the Arbella 
club was held in the Congregational 
Tuesday after- 
noon with the usual large atten- 
dance. After the meeting had 
been opened by the president, Miss 
Mildred Peart, Miss Abbie Hitch- 
cock was introduced as the speaker 
of the day. Her theme was the club 
motto, “Simple, Happy, Useful 
Lives.” Miss Hitchcock is well 
known in Manchester and is a fre- 
quent visitor here. She is engaged 
in settlement work in Boston and is 
well known in connection with the 
Welcome House on Florence street 
in that city. 
At the outset, Miss Hitchcock spoke 
of the club as offering a great oppor- 
tunity to its members of living finer 
lives. Simplicity in dress, she said, 
gives a girl or woman a greater dis- 
tinction of bearing than most of us 
are aware of. Miss Hitchcock spoke 
of two instances that came to her no- 
tice the other day. In the course of 
her day’s work, she came in contact 
with two women. The first, a wo- 
man who had been arrested for being 
out of work, was dressed in a hand- 
some suit with a plumed hat and her 
clothes showed money value rather 
than the value of good teste. ‘The 
second, the wife of a prominent phy- 
sician, and herself one of the greatest 
essayists of to-day, was dressed very 
simply in a brown tweed suit aud a 
plain brown hat. ‘Thus does true sim- 
plicity denote culture, said Miss 
Hitchcock, and she went on to speak 
of simplicity in regard to speech and 
manners. Greatness, simplicity and 
naturalness go hand in hand and the 
Arbella club will help the girls to gain 
these things. 
Manchester girls have a great deal 
to be thankful for, said the speaker, 
and by example of her experiences 
with the girls, with whom she is con- 
stantly coming in contact, she impress- 
ed every giri present »ith the sense 
of her cwn advantages. She men- 
tioned one fifteen year old girl, who 
had been sentenced to a year in the 
Industrial Home in Dorchester. The 
child had been arrested 15 times and 
had spent last Christmas in jail, had 
never had any training to help her 
to direct her energy in the right chan- 
nels. Her father, having deserted his 
family, it became a necessity for the 
girl to steal. Besides the necessity, 
the girl hardly knew that it was wrong 
but, as she was encouraged in it, 
looked upon it as perfectly legitimate. 
Miss Hitchcock closed her address 
with an earnest appeal to the girls of 
the Arbella club to make the most of 
their possibilities of help te others. 
Prevention rather than cure should 
be the rule and Miss Hitchcock asked 
that help. be given to any girl in 
trouble or need. She added a word in 
behalf of her own Welcome House in 
Boston and asked that at Thanks- 
giving time the club give some aid, 
if possible. 
“Tur Riva, CuHorrs.” 
A farce entitled “The Rival Choirs” 
will be given at the Chapel, next 
Thursday evening, Nov. 21, in which 
the august committee composed of 
“Royal Hayrick,” “Hiram” and Horus 
Hawkins,” will decide on the merits 
of the old and new choirs. The en- 
tertainment will be given under the 
auspices of the Ladies Social Cir- 
cle; tickets 20 cents. 
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