NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
VOL. X. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Lancashire and 
Miss Lancashire are concluding their 
stay in New York this week, where 
they have been registered at the Ritz- 
Carlton, since leaving Boston a fort- 
night or so ago. Mrs. Lancashire and 
Miss Lancashire remained over 
Thanksgiving so as to be with the 
youngest of the daughters who is in 
boarding school there. The Doctor 
reached Detroit in time to spend thé 
holiday with his son Ammi. The 
family will spend the winter at the 
Hotel Pontchartrain, the most fash- 
ionable hotel in Detroit, and one of 
the swellest hotels of the Middle West. 
They have not yet decided definitely 
on a house at Manchester for next 
season. 
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Mrs. H. P. McKean gave a dinner 
for Miss Louise McAllister Thursday 
of last week. Miss McAllister is one 
of the most attractive debutantes of 
the season and will be extensively 
entertained. 
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Mr. and Mrs. John Babson Thomas 
of West Manchester have moved to 
Boston for the winter. They are 
established at the Copley-Plaza in- 
stead of at a Back Bay residence as 
in former seasons. Mr. and Mrs. 
Henry S. Grew, also of the North 
Shore coterie, are to be at the Copley- 
Plaza for the coming months. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry E. Russell of 
Boston and Magnolia entertained at 
dinner Thursday week at the Copley- 
Plaza in honor of their niece, Miss 
Margaret Russell, who later went to 
Miss Constance Gardner’s ball. 
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Miss Lucy Aspinwall will be given 
a dinner to-night by Mrs. James Ar- 
nold Lowell of Chestnut Hill after 
which hostess and guests will attend 
the ball at the Copley-Plaza in honor 
of Miss Elizabeth Silsbee. 
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One of the prettiest entertainments 
of last week was the dance given at 
the Chilton club, Boston, in honor of 
Miss Amy Bradley by her mother, 
Mrs. Richards M. Bradley. There 
were about sixty couples present. 
- Rodolphe Agassiz, 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, November 29, 1912. 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The first ball of the season at Bos- 
ton was held at the Copley-Plaza last 
Thursday when Senator Henry Cabot 
Lodge entertained for his  grand- 
daughter, Miss Constance Gardner, 
daughter of Hon. and Mrs. Augustus 
P. Gardner of Hamilton and Boston. 
The ball room was effectively decor- 
ated with masses of flowers and south- 
ern smilax was used to drape the win- 
dows. Mrs. Gardner received with 
her daughter and was beautifully 
gowned in pale blue satin with a 
flounce of blue tulle and pannier 
drapery of blue satin. Miss Gardner 
wore a dress of ivory satin and white 
tulle, ornamented with tiny pink rose- 
buds. Many of the North Shore 
girls were included among the guests. 
Miss Eleanor Fabyan wore white 
satin and white tulle with a poinsettia 
at the corsage; Miss Olivia Ames, 
deep blue satin with a pointed tunic 
of white lace caught at the side of the 
skirt with pink ribbon; Miss Eliza- 
beth Cabot, scarlet satin brocaded 
in silver and the corsage draped with 
point lace; Miss Anne Means, white 
satin and white lace; Miss Louise 
McAllister, blue satin veiled with 
net; Miss Josephine Rantoul, pink 
satin draped with chiffon to match; 
and Miss Margaret Russel in blue 
satin. Mrs. Bryce J. Allan was pres- 
ent, wearing a tiara of diamonds 
and pearls; Mrs. Gordon Abbott wore 
blue and gold brocade; Mrs. Guy 
Lowell, black and white embroidered 
satin; Mrs. Oliver Ames, 2d, white 
satin embroidered in pearls; Mrs. 
pink and_ gold 
brocaded satin; Mrs. Philip Dexter, 
yellow tulle over yellow satin; Mrs. 
Francis L. Higginson, Jr., black vel- 
vet and white lace; and Mrs. Philip 
Sears, white brocaded satin. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane 
came to their summer home at Man- 
chester for the cea ; 
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leland closed 
their West Manchester cottage Sat- 
urday after a long season spent on 
the Shore and returned to Boston 
to spend the coming months. They 
will come down for thé week-end 
frequently throughout the winter. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. John A. Burnham and daugh- 
ters, ‘Misses Helen C. and Mary C., 
after a long season at “Overlook,” 
their country estate at Wenham, over- 
looking Wenham. lake, are returning 
to their town house at 57 Common- 
wealth avenue, Boston, the first of 
next week. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Louis Chapin (Julia 
Tuckerman), who reside just outside 
of New York City, are receiving con- 
gratulations on the birth of a second 
child, a son, the past week. Their first 
child, also a boy, was born in London. 
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At the dinner which Mrs. George S. 
Silsbee is giving for her daughter, 
Miss Elizabeth Silsbee, at the Copley- 
Plaza, tonight, covers will be laid for 
50 guests. After the dinner Katha- 
rine FE), Silsbee’s ball for Miss Silsbee 
will call out a large number of guests 
to the same hotel. 
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Miss Alice and Miss Rosamond 
Fay of Boston and Nahant are to 
spend the winter in Europe. They sail- 
ed Wednesday week from New York 
on the “Vaterland” for Antwerp. 
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Sec. of the Navy and Mrs. George 
Von L. Meyer gave a dinner at their 
Washington home last Saturday even- 
ing in honor of Miss Laura Merriam, 
the Washington society girl, whose 
marriage to James F. Curtis of Bos- 
ton and Manchester was solemnized 
Tuesday at Washington. 
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Several of Judge Moore’s horses 
were favorites at the New York horse 
show last week. The most brilliant 
gatherings of the season were seen 
there, and among them were many 
North Shore people. Miss Eleanor 
Sears was one of the most constant 
attendants, usually in the Payne- 
Whitneys’ box. 
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Miss Alice Cotting of Boston and 
Pride’s was hostess at her Boston 
home Friday at a luncheon for de- 
butantes, who afterwards attended the 
tea‘aa the Somerset which Mrs. 
Frances Cabot gave for her daughter, 
Miss Margery Cabot one of the most 
attractive debutantes of the season. 
