6 NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
sombrero and bolero, long earrings of jade and carried a 
huge black fan. Edward S. Moore was a Scotch high- 
iander, Arthur Meeker was a “Palm Beach Kid” 1n 
white flannels, white hat and white shoes. Mrs. Meeker 
wore an evening gown of old rose velvet. This ball and 
the second Assembly ball which is taking place tonight at 
the Blackstone and one week of opera yet will about. close 
Chicago’s social winter season. Already many are de- 
papune for the sunny south or for California resorts. 
Some Chicagoans, who were habitues of the smartest of 
the beautiful resorts of Europe, have become so delighted 
with southern California that they spent not only last 
vinter there but part of the summer also, 
OES aO 
Society in Chicago and Lake Forest has been inter- 
ested the past week in the announcement of the engage- 
ment ot Miss Dorothy Jordan to Monroe Douglas Robin- 
son of New York. Mr. Robinson lived for a year or more 
in Chicago and last summer played on the Lake Forest 
po lo team, taking a more or less active part in the social 
doings of the summer colony. 
ODEO 
The announcement of the engagement of Miss Grace 
Meeker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Meeker of 
Chicago, to Ambrose Cramer of Chicago and Lake Forest 
is of interest to many of the North Shore colony where 
the Meekers have spent several summers, Miss Meeker 
is a debutante of the winter. Mr. Cramer is building a 
new house in Chicago which will be ready for his bride in 
the spring when the wedding will take place. This will 
be the second marriage in the Meeker family within a few 
months, the older daughter, Miss Katherine Meeker, 
whose marriage to Dr. Horace Gray of Boston and Na- 
hant last fall, was the first to break the family ties . By 
the approaching marriage Miss Meeker will be connected 
with several of the old and prominent families in Chicago. 
The Meekers formerly lived on the South Side of the city. 
Last year they moved into their new home far out on the 
the North Side and now, “just as the big new house in- 
vites the family to partake of its space, the two daughters 
repeat history and leave to find homes of their own. This 
mixing of families is an interesting study with every sea- 
son. It is a wise person who knows under whose family 
rooftree he will be found at the close of a year.” 
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Mrs. Hendricks H. Whitman of North Beverly was 
accompanied home by her brother, Wayne Chatfield- 
Taylor, from her holiday visit in Lake Forest. Her 
brother has resumed his studies at Yale. Mr. Whitman 
returned to Boston a week or more before Mrs. Whitman 
ieft for the east. 
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Shop, a hospital service room 
completely equipped and “manned” by a large corps of 
society women—yet 5000 miles from the actual hospital 
cots which it is to serve with supplies, was opened last 
Wednesday in Chicago under the auspices of the Amer- 
ican Fund for French Wounded. Mrs. Henry S. Robbins 
is chairman and Mrs. Russell Tyson, vice chairman. Mrs. 
Wilham Hubbard, the mother of Mrs. Robert W. Means 
of Beverly Farms, is on the committee in charge. Gar- 
rent waking, cutting and fitting and the making of surgi- 
cal dressings under the direction of Red Cross nurses will 
ne carried on and the supplies will be for sale, 
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Miss Dorothy Fulton, who has spent the summers in 
Fast Gloucester with her parents, Mr, and Mrs. James P. 
Fulton was married to Milton Compton, Jan. 3. The 
church wedding was followed by a reception at the home 
of the bride’s parents, 
The French War 
“Spring flowers were used for decorations. 
Jan. 14, 1916. 
T TUXEDO PARK Mr. and Mrs. Eben Richards, 
Mr. and Mrs. R. Fulton Cutting and Mr. and Mrs. 
Faul Tuckerman were among those opening their cottage 
for New Year’s festivities. Mr. and Mrs. Lydig Hoyt of 
Beverly Cove were among the guests at the costume ball 
at the Club to which the cottagers and their guests went 
after enjoying dinners in their homes. At the Club a din- 
ber for 30 guests was given by Pierre Lorillard, Jr. Mr. 
and Mrs. Charles C. Auchincloss were among his guests. 
Miss Florence Rhett of the Brownlands and Miss 
Louise Ward McAllister were among those present at 
Bagby’s musical morning at the Waldorf-Astoria last 
week. 
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Sherry’s, in New York, has been the scene of many 
cinner-dances the past week, and in these merry gather- 
ings many of the North Shore summer folk have been noted. 
At the large one at which Dr. and Mrs. Ernest Fahnestock 
entertained for Mrs. Fahnestock’s daughter, Miss Marion 
H. Perry, the young people gathered at small tables in | 
the tapestry rooms where dancing was afterward enjoyed. 
Among the 
guests were the Misses Katherine Van Renssalaer Crosby 
of New York, Doris Taylor, Irene Gibson and Isabel-Yeo- 
mans, and Geo. T. Brokaw and E. Moore Robinson, a 
nephew of Mrs. John Markle. The debutantes were much 
in evidence, Mrs. William H. Porter gave a dinner- 
dance the same evening for her debutante daughter, Miss 
Elelen Porter, at which there were 400 guests. © The 
Misses Jane Morgan, Helen Morgan Hamilton and Esther 
Auchincloss were among the guests. That night Miss 
Doris Ryer was at the dance at the home of Mrs. Melvin 
A. Bronson where the guests were the debutantes of this 
year, last year and some of next year. Spring flowers 
were used effectively as decorations. 
“My ancestors,” haughty little Heloise Aldyne toid 
her nine-year-old playmate Hermione McGuire, ‘‘came 
over before yours did. They came.over in the first boat, 
the Mayflower.” “Well, mine came over,” Hermione said 
stoutly, her blue Irish eyes flashing with spirit, “in the 
very next boat, the Juneflower.”—Judge. 
HITTING the ball hard is the key to the success of Molla 
Bjurstedt, the women’s national tennis champion. Miss 
jurstedt probably hits the canvas-coated spheroid harder 
than any woman player in the world today. She hits the 
ball harder than many men. 
“T find that the American girls do not hit the ball as 
hard as they should,’ Miss Bjurstedt said. 
“T believe in alway s hitting the ball with all my might. 
Many. of the girls I have played with or against just be-_ 
lieve in getting the ball over the net. This is very bad, 
for the opposing player can place the ball any place, she 
wishes and the point is lost. 
“Hard hitting is not so much a matter of strength as 
it is of taking the ball at the proper point and putting 
cne’s body behind the stroke. The strongest women will. 
not put much speed on the ball with only the stroke of _ 
the arm.’ 
Miss Bjurstedt will. speak little of her own success. 
She has three rules which she always follows, and be- 
lieves that these three rules are responsible for her sue- 
cess on the courts. ; 
“First, I make it a point to hit the ball hard,” Miss 
Biurstedt said. “I then try to hit the ball to the part of 
the court hardest for my opponent to hit, and. thingy I 
always keep my temper.” 
