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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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VOLUME 5. NUMBER 32 
SATURDAY, AUG. 10, 1907. 
The foghorn is a foregone con- 
clusion. 
Speaking of the voice of the siren’ 
we might add that there are other 
voices from the water which prove 
somewhat disturbing at night to one 
who is near the water front. We 
refer to the motor boats which we 
hear running about the harbor at all 
hours of the night without any muf- 
fler. We have heard many com- 
plaints on this score from those who 
have homes near the water, and one 
summer resident has even gone so far 
as to say that if there is any motor 
boat owner who cannot afford a mul- 
fler for his engine, he would gladly 
pay for one himself. There are a 
number of these boats along the 
shore between Beverly and Magnolia 
and their continual noise in the still- 
ness of th night makes the water 
front anything but a desirable place 
to sleep. It is up to the launch own- 
ers to consider the feelings of others. 
The automobile is king on the 
North Shore. Motoring parties are 
all the rage, and in the evening about 
the hotel lobbies and verandas one 
hears continual talk about the respec- 
tive merits and speed of the different 
machines. Under the circumstances 
it would seem that nothing would be 
more popular, if it could be arranged, 
than a series of automobile races in 
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some suitable place. There is no 
beach where races of any great length 
could be held, but one might have 
some good sport in short straight- 
away dashes of a mile anda half at 
Coffin’s beach if it could be secured 
for that purpose. The beach is about 
two and a half miles long, and the 
sand is firm and well packed. The 
beach is convenient to Manchester 
and Magnolia and would be an ideal 
place for short dashes, if the right 
parties would take hold of the matter. 
We would suggest that the North 
Shore Automobile. club take the 
matter’ under consideration. The 
Gloucester city government would no 
doubt permit the use of the beach for 
this purpose if it was approached in 
the proper way by the proper persons, 
who would see that suitable precau- 
tions were taken for safety and that 
the rights of other users of the beach 
were safeguarded. 
While we are speaking of automo- 
biles, why not have an automobile 
parade this year? The old time 
coaching parades in the White Moun- 
tains were among the most popular 
features of summer life there. Today, 
when the motor car holds first place 
in the affections of the North Shore 
resident, and when practically every 
summer visitor here has one or more 
cars with him, nothing should excite 
greater interest than a big parade of 
decorated cars. Between Beverly 
and Gloucester there are ‘probably 
fully 500 cars. Magnolia is a spot 
central to all points on the shore and 
its roads and streets are so arranged 
as to make it an ideal place for a 
parade. Here, also, incoming motor- 
ists could find ample accommodations 
at the hotels during the day. When 
the North Shore is automobile crazy, 
why not have a parade? Surely it 
would not take much to arouse en- 
thusiasm on this point, and there 
could be no better feature to the sum- 
mer life on the North Shore than 
such an event. Why not have an 
automobile carnival the latter part of 
the month ! 
A special sale of Indian goods at 
The Old Corner Store; Indian bas- 
kets, novelties, etc. Come in and see 
the variety. Geo. F. Allen.. i 
THOUGHTS HERE AND THERE 
By D. F. Lamson. 
One of George Eliot’s characters in 
Adam Bede hits the nail on the head 
rather neatly in speaking of a loqua- 
Clous “ protessor,’’ one of her neigh- 
bors: ‘‘I was in the other day when 
she was dishin’ up poor Mr. Tryson’s 
dinner, and I could see the potatoes 
was watery as watery; now I’ve 
nothin’ agin religion, my dear, but I, 
likes my potatoes mealy.” Alas, that 
piety and mealy potatoes do not 
always go together. 
We can admire heroism and martyr- 
like devotion in a bad cause, without 
seeming to fraternize with untruth or 
disloyalty ; we can give even the 
devil his due for his energy, his, perse- 
verence, his shrewdness, without go- 
ing the length of the old Scotch min- 
ister in his prayer for “the puir de’il.”” 
It is often observed that children 
who are under some wholesome re- 
straint are happier than those who are 
left to do as they please; the com- 
mands and prohibitions—the “Thou 
shalts” and “Thou shalt nots’’—in 
every domain of life, when rightly 
viewed, are among the greatest bless- 
ings of our mortal existence, they 
hedge us round and often save us 
from our own folly and wilfulness. 
Money may do a great deal to bene- 
fit a community, may give it better 
roads, better schools, and in man 
ways advance it materially and idee 
Jectually ; and money may do a great 
dal to debase a community as well as 
an individual ; it all depends upon the 
use or the misuse. In our day, great _ 
wealth is becoming a menace to much 
that is best in our institutions and 
our life. 
Here and there some men become 
lifted by. genius or circumstances 
above the general level ; but the earth 
is made up not of mountain peaks, 
but of plains and plateaus and valleys 
very largely; the commonalty _ is, 
after all, the great power in human 
history; the untitled and obscure 
make up a very important and re- 
spcctable contingent of society; we 
can’t all be corporals. 
Change is not always for the better, 
it may be for the worse; Solomon 
said, ‘A contented mind is a con- 
tinual feast’’; Dickens seems to have 
thought to improve upon this, and 
wrote, “A contented spirlt is the — 
sweetness of existence ;” but how flat 
compared with the original; Brown- 
ing borrows much from the Bible, Lut. 
what hard work he often makes of 
saying it; how orphic and bluid his — 
dicta often are compared with the 
simplicity and transparency of his 
models. It is fortunate for us that 
