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Tel. 1290 Fort Hill 
HE Women’s National Agricultural and Horticultural 
association, with its headquarters in New York, has 
many big things in view. “Thrift and Beauty” is the 
motto of this three-year-old association which has more 
than 1,000 members. 
“In the last ten years of American agriculture and 
horticulture there has been no more interesting phase 
than the general awakening of women to a vivid interest 
in gardening and farming, both as a recreation and as a 
practical, delightful and perfectly possible means of live- 
lihood,” the program of the association sets forth. “It 
is chiefly women who are making a success of the school 
garden movement, who are alive to the usefulness of 
gardening in the training of defectives, the care of in- 
sane, in social and in settlement work; while as for the 
individual enterprises it would be hard to find a form of 
horticulture or agriculture in which women, of late years 
have not made signal successes. And yet, along with the 
successes, with the great eagerness and interest of women 
have been numberless disheartening failures—failures of 
small enterprises which could have been averted and 
brought to success had the individual gardener been blest 
with a little advice or assistance at the critical time; of 
collective enterprises where school gardens or settlement 
gardens have languished or missed their aim because of 
the lack of codperation between the schools and_ local 
gardeners of practical experience; there have also been 
many women longing to enter into the joyousness and 
freedom of living on the land and yet fearful to make 
the venture.” 
The association has for its objects: | Codperation 
arong women engaged in garden work or farming; the 
interchange of local branches which are to hold local ex- 
hibitions and aid in the sale of produce from those on the 
farm to those members in town; the increase in the knowl- 
edge and use of existing institutions; the encouraging of 
school gardening and vacant lot gardening ; establishing a 
standard for diplomas in practical gardening; the bring- 
ing together of supply and demand, producer and con- 
sumer, employer and employee and gardener and land. 
Many of the foreign ambassadors will remain in 
Washington this season almost entirely. Contessa Macchi 
di Cellere, wife of the Italian Ambassador, has decided 
that in order to be near her husband, who must remain in 
Washington, she and her children will pass the summer 
in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Pennslyvania, instead of 
at Beverly Farms, where the summer embassy heretofore 
has been established. 
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Samuel Appleton and daughter, Miss Maud E. Apple- 
ton, of 275 Marlboro street, Boston, have already opened 
their cottage at 44 Atlantic avenue, Swampscott. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
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May 18, 1917. 
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Advertising 
is the foundation of all 
successful enterprises. If 
your advertisement were 
here, it would be read by 
hundreds of visitors to 
the North Shore the 
coming summer. 
Gen. 
Joffre was warmly welcomed on his visit to 
Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Crane, Jr., were hotel guests 
for two days of festivities and receptions and allowed 
the noted visitors the use of their home on Lake Shore 
drive. Mr. Crane assisted in the ushering at the reception 
held at the Blackstone. Mrs. Russell Tyson was chairman 
of the representatives of the various war relief societies. 
The chairman of the American Ambulance organization 
was Mrs. James T. Harahan. Mrs. Tyson was, of course, 
the special hostess of the American Fund for French 
wounded. The French war shop in Chicago, of which 
she is in charge, has sent $100,000 worth of supplies to 
French relief: At first twenty boxes of supplies were 
considered a good shipping, now two hundred are sent. 
Mr. and Mrs. Crane entertained at supper in their home 
for Gen. Joffre at the close of the big reception he was 
tendered at the Auditorium in Chicago. The great Tudor 
house, where the general was so hospitably entertained 
while in ‘Chicago, was profusely decorated in the appro- 
priate colors. “Mrs. Crane’s sister, Mrs. Joseph M. Pat- 
terson, and the members of the receiving committee were 
the supper guests. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry A. Morss and family of 463 
Commonwealth ave., Boston, have opened their attractive 
summer home at Marblehead Neck for the season, and 
plan to remain until the middle of October as usual. 
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Courtenay Guild of 26 Mt. Vernon st., Boston, has 
again leased ““The Orchard,” the cottage on Norman ave., 
Magnolia, owned by Mrs. B. M. Thornberg. Mr. Guild 
is a brother of the late Governor Guild. His two sisters, 
Misses Sarah L. and Marianna C. Guild, who make their 
home at 26 Mt. Vernon st., will also return to “The 
Orchard” for the summer. Mrs. Chester Guild wil 
spend the summer at The Oceanside, Magnolia. 
A visit to the property of the North Shore Nursery 
& Florist Co. off Hart street, Beverly Farms, will reveal 
some surprises as to what can be done in the line of grow- 
ing choice nursery stock, hothouse flowers, vegetables, 
and the like. F. E. Cole, the proprietor, has moved his 
plant from the Spaulding Gardens, since last season, and 
the new headquarters are farther along Hart street, to- 
ward Wenham, on land under Mr. Cole’s cultivation for 
some years. The intimate knowledge which Mr. Cole has 
of conditions in this climate, places him in a position to 
give owners of large or small estates the best of service 
when it comes to laying out new places, or in the land- 
scape garden work. 
If you are taking things easy you are taking some- 
thing else—your employer’s time.—Ford Times, 
