14 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
May 11,1917. 
A Review of the Social Calendar 
Weddings of the Last Year—Engagements 
and Debuts of Interest to North Shore Folk 
LILLIAN McCANN 
EBUTS, engagements, weddings, births, deaths—all 
these make up the cycle of social history—the re- 
corded social history of the land. 
The first North Shore wedding of the past year took 
place in May in the Emmanual Episcopal church in Man- 
chester, when Miss Rosamond Eliot became the bride of 
Frederick M. Burnham. Her single attendant was Mrs. 
Henry St. John Smith (Constance Wharton). The 
young couple have been of the year-round colony in 
Manchester where they occupy the pretty little white 
cottage on Sea street, close to Mrs. Burnham’s parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. Amory Eliot of “Wildwood.” 
May closed with a wedding of wide interest in North 
Shore circles, when, in St. John’s church, Beverly Farms, 
Miss Josephine Rantoul, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Neal 
Rantoul, was married to Henry Alexander Murray, Jr., 
of New York. Miss Harriet Dexter was maid of honor. 
The young people made their home in New York. 
Another May wedding which took place on. the last 
day was that of Miss Ruth Harrington, daughter of Mrs. 
Francis B. Harrington of Ipswich and Boston, and 
Robert Haydock of Milton, 
JuNE WEDDINGS. 
June, that rare month of the year when weddings 
are uppermost, was ushered in with that of Miss Eliza- 
beth Hope Bancroft, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert 
Hale Bancroft of Beverly, and Alexander Winsor, son 
of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Winsor of Boston and Cataumet. 
The young people are making their home in Weston. 
Perhaps the wedding which took the North Shore 
by the most complete stirprise of the season was that of 
Mrs. S. Reed Anthony of Beverly Farms, who was mar- 
mied to Randolph Frothingham of Boston. The wed- 
ding ceremony was quietly performed in St. John’s 
church, and the summer was spent at “Rose Ledge’ in 
Beverly Farms. 
Next came that week of weddings when Miss Helen 
Lancashire, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. Henry Lan- 
cashire of Boston and New York, was married to 
Umberto M. Coletti of New York. 
performed in the beautiful summer home, ‘“Graftonwood,” 
in Manchester. , Miss Lila Lancashire was her sister’s 
only attendant. The young people are living in New 
York. 
Over in Ipswich on the following day the wedding of 
Miss Miriam Mason and Franklin Hunt Tumbull was 
solemnized in the Ascension Memorial church, and was 
followed by a reception at Candlewood Farm, the sum- 
mer home of the bride’s brother’s family, the Herbert 
Masons. Mr. Trumbull and his bride are living in Way- 
land. This was one of the distinguished weddings for 
which Ipswich is noted in the social world. 
June 20th marked the day of the largest wedding on 
the Shore. This was the notable wedding in St. John’s 
church at Beverly Farms of Miss Phyllis Sears, daughter 
of Herbert M. Sears of Boston and “Wood Rock,” 
Pride’s Crossing, to Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Bayard Tuckerman of Ipswich. Never did 
the little church look more beautiful than it did that day 
in its transformation into a pink and blue paradise of 
flowers. And never did a. wedding breakfast for nearly 
eight hundred guests have a more perfect setting than 
The ceremony was 
this one on the lawns of the bride’s home, where the 
rhododendrons made such a rare background of color. 
The bride’s only sister, Mrs. Bayard Warren, was the 
matron of honor. They have spent most of the winter 
at Pride’s Crossing. 
SEPTEMBER WEDDINGS. 
Wedding bells did not ring again until in September, 
when the first autumn event took place at ‘“Netherfield,” 
the home of Mr. and Mrs. Washington B. Thomas at 
Pride’s Crossing. Their daughter, Miss Margaret Thomas, 
became the bride of William Tudor Gardiner, son of Mr. 
and Mrs. Robert H. Gardiner of Boston and Gardiner, 
Me. The bride was attended by only her little nieces, 
Helen and Anne Warren, daughters of Mr. and Mrs. 
Samuel D. Warren. 
Following this was that notably large wedding in 
Hamilton when Miss Maria Dallas Agassiz and Cornelius 
Conway Felton were married at “Homewood,” 
mer residence of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. 
Rodolphe Louis Agassiz. This was a wedding for which 
nearly three thousand invitations were sent out, and every- 
thing was carred out on an extensive plan upon the beau- 
tiful grounds. The maid of honor was Miss Anna Agas- 
siz, a younger sister, and eight intimate friends were 
attendants. Mr. Felton, who is the son of the Edgar 
Conway Feltons of Haverford, Pa., and his bride are 
living in Calumet, Mich. 
Just one hour before the Hamilton wedding, “Edge- 
water House,” at Beverly Farms was the scene of a pretty 
wedding. Miss Francise Williams, daughter of Col. and 
Mrs. John R. Williams of Washington, was married to 
John Ballantine Pitney of Morristown, N. J., at the home 
of the bride’s brother-in-law and sister, Mr. and Mrs. 
Joseph Leiter. The al fresco breakfast had a charming 
setting at this beautiful seaside home. 
The same week Miss Helen Strauss, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Louis Strauss of Manchester and Boston, was 
married to Lee Simonson of New York, at the Kernwood 
Country club in Salem. 
Miss Juliet B. Higginson, daughter of Francis Lee 
Higginson of Pride’s Crossing, had about the simplest 
wedding of the season when she was married to Frederic 
Sprague Goodwin of Boston at the summer home of her 
father, with only relatives as guests. 
In Swampscott a pretty wedding was solemnized 
when Miss Elizabeth Febiger Sargent, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Addis M. Whitney was married to John Lodge 
of New York. Her sister, Mrs. James S. Wiley (Matilda 
Denny Sargent) was matron of honor. Mr. and Mrs. 
Lodge are living in Flushing, N. Y. 
September closed with the wedding in Ipswich of 
Miss Corinna Searle and Harold Damrell Walker at 
“TInglisby,” the beautiful country home of the bride’s par- 
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Searle. This was one of 
those notably delightful weddings followed by an al fresco 
reception which is such an important adjunct to a country 
wedding. Mrs. William H. Coolidge (Eleanor Cole) was 
the matron of honor. Mr. Walker, who is the son of Mr. 
and Mrs. ‘C. Howard Walker of Boston, and his bride 
have made their winter home in Boston. 
OcrosER WEDDINGS. 
In St, John’s Episcopal church at Beverly Farms, 
the sum- ~~ 
