transportation and good lighting, but 
were “long” on those means of physi- 
cal exercise and physical cleanliness 
which tend to put a sound mind in a 
sound body.—Boston Herald. 
The Manchester Woman’s club is 
fortunate in being able to obtain the 
services of Mrs. Clara B. Beatley at 
their meeting next week. Mrs. Beat- 
ley has a rare gift and is able to speak 
with plainness, tactfulness and_per- 
suasion on the topic she presents. The 
success of Mr. and Mrs. Beatley in 
their own home with their own beau- 
tiful family affords an effective sup- 
port to Mrs. Beatley’s views on “Boys 
and Girls in the Home.” 
“The waiter, the janitor, the boys 
of the butcher, baker and candlestick 
maker, the man who delivers the mail, 
the type-writer lady, the tan who 
rushes the furnace in mild weather 
and neglects it in cold and every Tom, 
Dick and Harry in town are getting 
ready to hold out a strong firm hand 
for their annual subsidy.”—Boston 
Herald. 
Why need this be? 
The Beverly Hospital should be a 
beneficiary of every North Shore res- 
ident, rich or poor. Everyone on the 
Shore, rich and poor should make it 
an annual subscription. Here is 
mercy, sympathy, good judgment, ex- 
cellent service and patient nursing at 
our very doors. Before the books 
close the contributions should rain in- 
to the treasury to avoid a deficit. 
Natick is paying a just tribute to 
its veteran teachers, Miss Emma F. 
Chater and Miss Eliza W. Hathaway 
for their forty years of service to three 
generations of children. No honors 
are too great nor words of praise ex- 
pression enough to repay the debt any 
community owes to its faithful teach- 
ers who have grown old in service. 
The Independence Hall in Philadel- 
phia belongs to America and the or- 
ganized efforts consummated by the 
city, under the direction of a compe- 
tent architect, to improve the physical 
condition of the old historic structure 
without destroying its historical lines 
is good news to all America. Too 
good care cannot be taken of our old 
buildings. 
If a million signatures will do it the 
citizens of California wish the Liberty 
Bell to take a trip across the continent 
for a season. It remains to be seen 
whether the city of Philadelphia will 
establish this precedent. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
One of the valuable agencies of the 
-North Shore is the Horticultural So- 
‘ciety. The enterprise it has shown is 
commendible, and the semi-monthly 
lecture course which has been arrang- 
ed will contribute much to the social 
and educational side of its activities. 
’ The early Christmas shopping habit 
is a compound satisfaction for it af- 
fords the purchaser a better choice 
and does not afflict the merchants and 
salesmen with unnecessary labor. 
Shop early and put Christmas into 
your buying as well as giving. 
There appears to be strong opposi- 
tion among the women of America 
to women’s suffrage, but one who 
reads the signs of the times cannot fail 
to dectect the increasing public senti- 
ment in favor of women’s suffrage. 
Christmas generosity ought not to 
make January Ist collections slow. 
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guarantee of good faith. 
Dr. BLAISDELL WARNS AGAINST 
WHoopInc-CoucH. 
Editor, The Breeze: 
We are passing through at the pres- 
ent time an epidemic of whooping- 
cough. I thought it might be well 
to present a few facts about this dis- 
ease which does not seem to be gen- 
erally understood. _Whooping-cough 
is not the simple disease that many 
people consider it; on the contrary 
it is one of the most severe diseases of 
childhood, not that many die of it, but 
from what it leaves behind. It is a 
disease considered to be dangerous to 
the public health by the State Board 
of Health, and so comes under that 
list of diseases which have to be re- 
ported to the local Board of Health by 
the parents of the child or the physi- 
tian in charge under a penalty of $50 
or more for each case not reported. 
For parents to take no care in pre- 
venting a child from catching the cough 
is little less than a crime. In the year 
torr there were 183 deaths from 
whooping-cough in this state, while 
scarlet fever and measles contributed 
about 250 each. So in its death re- 
cord whooping-cough takes rank with 
other children’s’ diseases. Now the 
state wisely orders us to prevent the 
spread of this disease by keeping the 
child at home and out of school and 
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the local Board of Health as soon as 
it receives notice of a case, at once 
notifies the Schoo! Board and _ that 
child is forbidden to return to school 
until the physician in attendance shall 
give it a certificate that danger of 
conveying such disease has passed. 
Whooping-cough lasts a long time; it 
is most catching in the first few weeks 
and probably slightly so throughout 
the whole course of the disease. The 
length of time a child should remain 
out of school will depend much on the 
severity of the case. Most cases are 
over the worst of it in seven or eight 
weeks and many cities and towns 
make this the limit of time, but it is 
left to the physician in charge to de- 
cide whether a longer period is neces- 
sary or not. 
The sense of the law is that not only 
must proper care be given to the child 
to save its life, but the community in 
general must be safe-guarded from the 
disease. 
Children with this disease should be 
kept at home, they should not be al- 
lowed to play with other children and 
every 1-eans should be taken by their 
parents to prevent its spreading. “An 
ounce of prevention is worth a pound 
of; cures 
Very truly, 
George W. Blaisdell, M. D. 
Manchester, Mass., Dec. I0 1912. 
PCY De oe Vn Ba CoN 
Editor, North Shore Breeze, 
Dear Sir: 
I should like to have you correct the 
erroneous statement published in your 
last issue concerning the proposed 
Athletic Association. While the item 
contained most of the essential facts 
of the movement it gave your readers 
the ivpression that the Association 
was a branch of, or was connected 
with a Young Men’s Christian Asso- 
ciation. For many reasons it has been 
deemed advisable not to be affiliated 
with this organization, but to make 
the Association purely a local affair 
for the mental and physical betterment 
of the young men of the town. 
The prospectus of the Association 
is being prepared and will undoubted- 
ly be taken up at the next meeting, 
when we shall be pleased to have a 
representative of your paper present. 
Thanking you for the courtesy of 
this publication, I am, sir, 
Very respectfully, 
Frederick L. Smith. 
Chairman Organization Committee. 
Manchester, Mass., Dec. 12, IQI2. 
Sorosis shoes in Fall styles at Bell’s 
Central square store. * 
