26 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Ov 200000 
WHISPERINGS Si 
of THE BREEZES $ 
0000000000000000000000000000 
One of 
The greatest 
Menaces to the 
Every-man- to-plant- a-garden 
Movement is the chickens of his 
neighbor. 
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Usually when there is a fire people 
remove their furniture from the 
house, but*last Friday morning, when 
the Manchester firemen were fighting 
the fire at the Morgan cottage on 
Proctor street, quite the reverse con- 
dition existed: they were moving in 
furniture. A big van of household 
goods belonging to the tenant who is 
occuping the cottage had arrived from 
Boston and the work of unloading had 
started just as the chimney fire: was 
discovered. 
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The Boston & Maine complains of 
hard times, Shortage of funds pre- 
vents them from repairing the road- 
way about the Manchester station,— 
one of the worst pieces of road in the 
country. And yet!—Last Friday we 
noticed two workmen and a foreman 
a whole day cutting the few square 
feet of lawn about the station, If one 
boy couldn’t do the whole job in two 
hours he ought to be ashamed of him- 
self. All et summer, and the sum- 
mer before, we observed the same 
thing. At times we have seen three 
or four men, and a boss, at the job. 
They arrive on a morning train, hang 
around all day, and leave in the late 
afternoon. What one man does with 
his lawnmower in one day could be 
done by any high school boy in one 
hour. At times we have seen them 
return a second day to finish the job 
—always with a foreman to look af- 
ter the other two, or three, or four 
men. No wonder the B. & M. is 
bankrupt! We konw what we are 
talking about as regards the number 
of men, the amount of work done and 
the time it takes to do it, for the 
BREEzE office is across the street from 
the railroad, 
BG DS 
You don’t have to be a professional 
“Ad” writer to produce good adver- 
tising copy. Brains and a belief in 
what you are writing are all that is 
necessary. One of the best adver- 
tisements of the Liberty Bond we 
have read was that of the Manches- 
Trust Co., which appeared in last 
week’s Breeze. It was written by a 
very busy man and every word meant 
something. The introduction was 
what it should be—read it: “$100 
equips a soldier for the trenches. 
Equip our soldier boys and give them 
a fighting chance. Your duty: Fight 
—or—Buy a Liberty Bond.” The 
bonds and the terms of purchase were 
described in the body of the advertise- 
ment. For a closing line with a 
“punch,” we recommend this to your 
attention: “Come across! If you 
don't the Germans will.” 
P Gana Coad 
Within the sound of the wrathy 
thunderings at the unrighteous by the 
Rev. Billy Sunday in his recent Bos- 
campaign against the Devil, et al, 
stood a little portable office erected - 
by the builders of the tabernacle. The » 
contractor built it for his own use 
during the construction of the big 
“salvation shed,” but it is said to have 
been occupied more than once by the 
Rev. “Billy” himself as an emergency 
office. However, although it has as- 
sociation strong enough to warrant 
some admirer of the athletic preacher 
in treasuring it as a relic of the cam- 
paign in Boston, it has found its way 
to Manchester for decided utilitarian 
purposes, It is now being used as 
part of the H. M. Bater garage at the 
corner of Pine, Bennett and Bridge 
sts. The pungent odor, which eman- 
ates from its doorway, is neither the 
remains of the “gas” which flowed so 
freely in the vicinity of the “taber- 
nacle” nor fumes from the sulphurous 
regions where Billy says the sinners 
are going. It is only the fragrant odor 
of g gasoline, for that precious fluid is 
now stored there.. Another odor is 
faintly recognizable, it is said by 
those whose sense of smell is keen 
enough, and that is the “smell”. of - 
sawdust. 
Pe OG 
Hollis Roberts had occasion to 
a huge grandfather’s clock 
day and it made rather an 
package to handle in the 
back of an automobile. At least that 
is what George E. Willmonton 
thought about it. He sighted Hollis 
attempting to negotiate one of Man- 
chester’s corner with one hand on the 
steering wheel of the auto and the 
other on the clock. “Why don’t you 
buy a wrist watch, Hollis?” he shout- 
ed, “Its a lot more convenient.” 
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“Did I leave my kimona in here?” 
is the question which startled the oc- 
cupants of the Manchester selectmen’s 
office the other day. When Town 
Accountant Austin C. Jones graci- 
ously responded to the young lady in 
the doorway that her kimona was safe 
and sound in the cloak room off the 
office and produced the article, the 
people in the office were still more 
transport 
the other 
unweildly 
June 1, 1917 
astounded. The young lady was de- 
cidedly embarrassed and her blushes 
would have matched the color in the 
flag the town accountant wears in his 
buttonhole. Mr. Jones, is a self pos- 
sessed young man, however, and 
didn’t get fussed when the rest of the 
occupants of the office looked askance. 
He did have the grace to turn a deli- 
cate pink, but declined to make any 
explanation. It remained for the 
young lady to explain that the ki- 
mono was part of her costume in the 
recent High school entertainment and 
had been left in the selectmen’s office, 
which had served as a dressing room 
that night. 
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A Beverly real estate man told us 
the other day that he didn’t know of 
an available house for rent during 
the summer upon the North Shore. 
“Tt looks like a big year for our end 
of the shore,” was the way he put it. 
Incidentally he remarked that some 
people from just .a short distance 
have a: strange conception of what 
the North Shore is like. He had a 
telephone call from a Boston woman 
the other day who wanted to rent a 
house for the summer. | She said she 
wanted a cottage on the ocean, rougn- 
ly finished, and the price she was 
willing to pay made our real estate 
friend smile. And the smile did not 
fade after he heard her gasp when he 
said that houses on the North Shore 
rented anywhere from $2500 to: 
$5,000 or $6,000 for the season. And 
to comfort her he added that he was 
unable to let her have one even at 
those prices. : 
Dee? ae?“ : 
“Food Gardens! This is the ap- 
propriate term introduced in today’s 
BreEEzE by Miss Lillian McCann in 
her article bearing on this subject— 
the sequel to her interesting chil- 
dren’s article on flower gardens a few 
week’s ago. Miss McCann is a school 
teacher in South Bend, Ind. From 
South Bend as a center she keeps her 
fingers on the pulse of society the 
country over—as regards their con- 
nection with the North Shore—and 
sends her items to the BRrEEzE every 
week. She returns to her more ac- 
tive duties on the North Shore this 
month to remain until September, as 
usual. Miss McCann has _ written 
several very interesting articles dur- 
ing the past winter for publication 
during the summer, and these will ap- 
pear in due time. 
Try one of our Leatherex soles the 
next time you have your shoes re- 
paired. No rubber; will keep out 
dampness. Whole sole and _ heel 
$1.75; half-sole and heel, $1.35— 
J. A. Culbert, Beverly Farms. adv. 
