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a lecturer of 
WEDNESDAY EVENING CLUB 
Very Interesting Program Carried out This 
Week at the March Meeting —George W. 
Cooke of Wakefield the Speaker 
George Willis Cooke of Wakefield, 
some note, was the 
speaker of the evening at the March 
meeting of the Wednesday Evening 
club in Manchester this week. Mr. 
Cooke is a good speaker, and_ his 
GEORGE WILLIS COX 
of Wakefield, who spoke before the Wednes- 
day Evening Club, Manchester, this 
week on “ The Training of Boys.” 
lecture on “The Training of Boys” 
contained much food for thought. 
The program, in charge of a com- 
mittee of which Howard M. Stanley 
was chairman, was musical through- 
out, including mandolin duets by 
Frank Fleming and Bert Floyd, vocal 
solos by Misses Annie McMillan 
and May Strong of Gloucester, with 
Miss May Wells Smith as accom- 
panist, and solo by Chester H. Nye 
of Somerville, well known in Man- 
chester, made up a very interesting 
program. Miss Strong’s rendition of 
her various numbers was especially 
well liked. 
The speaker of the evening took for 
his subject “The Training of Boys,”’ 
and said by way of introduction that 
the best way to train a boy was to 
permit him to bea boy. “You can’t 
very well make anything else out of 
him,” he said. ‘‘And that would be 
equally true of girls.” 
He spoke in a general way of the 
consideration of children to youth. 
“Perhaps the idea that lies on the 
foundation of our education,” said he, 
“is the conception that every child 
repeats the history of the human race. 
He recapitulates the whole history of 
mankind. Unless all other genera- 
tions of men had gone before us, we 
could not think and act as we do 
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today. This idea of evolution has as 
its basis the fact that the child is born 
in the world utterly helpless. 
“This is a young people’s age. The 
spirit of 50 years ago was that a ‘child 
should be seen and not heard.’ The 
young men and women of today are 
not relevant. A child learns more the 
first six years than in all the rest of 
his life. He learns almost entirely by 
imitation. 
‘The great essential of education is 
not to acquire knowledge alone, but 
that you should have character. The 
character of every person, I think, is 
established in these first six years 
before a child gets any education at 
all.” 
The speaker spoke of the need of 
manual training in schools, and ad- 
vised getting out of the old idea of 
Greek and Latin. 
“The education we all need is the 
getting of the capacity to live, of 
seeing life as it is, and of being able 
to master it. The education we need 
has not yet come. That education is 
life—that fits boys to live for the 
business of life. In toi] or in leisure 
we should be men first, second and 
last ; men all the way through.” 
Following is the program : 
Mandolin Duet 
Messrs. Bert Floyd and Frank Fleming 
Vocal Solo, “Irish Folk Song” Foote 
Miss McMillan 
Vocal Solo, ‘‘The Yoeman’s Wedding Song” 
“A Year Ago” Lloyd 
Chester H. Nye 
Vocal Solo, “Sing On” Denza 
“Le pala tid’Armor” Gounod 
Miss May Strong 
Address by George Willis Cooke 
Intermission 
Mandolin Duet 
Messrs. Floyd and Fleming 
Vocal Solo, ‘White Rose” Whelpley 
Miss McMillan 
Vocal Solo, “The Slave Song” 
Mr. Nye 
Vocal Solo, “Serenade to Juainta” Jouberti 
“At Parting” Rogers 
Miss Strong 
One of the interesting features at 
the auto and power boat show in Bos- 
ton this week was a sectional boat— 
something that can be taken apart and 
carried in a very compact manner, 
and which can easily be “hooked,” to- 
gether. This boat is an invention of 
Mr. Skene, a Boston man, and it is 
being made at White’s boat yard in 
Manchester. Mr. White was at the 
show part of the week demonstrating. 
It sells for $25. 
Have you patronized A. Carter, the 
oil man, yet? The Lenox kerosene 
oil which he carries is better and 
cheaper than you now buy at the 
stores. : 
TOWN NOTICES, 
MANCHESTER. 
Bs (Safa Od BE a 
All bills and claims against the Town 
should be presented to the Selectmen on or 
before Wednesday of each week. After ap- 
proval the bills will be paid by the Town 
Treasurer, at his office, on the following Sat- 
urday. The regular business meeting of the 
Board, will be held on Thursday evening of 
each week at seven o’clock, also on ‘the last 
Saturday afternoon of each month from one 
to four o’clock. 
FRED K. SWETT, 
WM. E. KITFIELD, 
EDWARD S. KNIGHT, 
Selectmen of Manchester. 
Water Board Notice. 
The regular meeting of the WATER 
BOARD will be held at their office, in the 
Town Hall Building, on the last WEDNEs- 
DAY OF EACH MONTH, from 2 to 5 o’clock, 
p.M. All orders for shutting off or letting on 
of water, reports of leaks, and all business 
of the department under the Superintenden- 
should be reported at his office at the Pump 
ing Station. 
Per order, 
MANCHESTER WATER BOARD: 
Town Treasurer's Notice, 
The TOWN TREASURER will be at 
his office in the Town Hall Building, on Sat- 
urdays, for the payment of bills, from 1 
o’clock to 5 and from 7 to 8 o’clock P.M. 
When a holiday comes on Saturday the pay 
fea will be Friday previous at the same 
ours. 
EDWINSPS]S TAN BEY: 
Treasurer, 
Notice. 
The regular meetings of the SCHOOL 
COMMITTEE will be held the first Mon- 
day evening of each month at which time all 
bills against the school department of the 
town should be presented for approval. 
ALFRED C. NEEDHAM, 
Secretary. 
Notice. 
For the convenience of any person having 
business with the School Committee or Supt. 
of Schools, Mr. CHARLES E. FIsu, the Sup- 
erintendent, will be at the office of the 
School Committee, in the Town Hall Build- 
ing, Thursday afternoon of each week, from 
3.30 to 4.30 o’clock. 
SCHOOL COMMITTEE 
