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side of the house. The left wing contains a living-room 
and hall on the first floor and a bed-room, dressing-room, 
linen-room and hall on the second floor. The right wing 
contains a maids’ dining-room and porch on the first floor 
and two bed rooms and bath on the second floor, for 
maids. The exterior of the house is changed to old Eng- 
lish design, half timber and stucco. Jabish Stone of 
Marblehead is the builder and Ezra L. Phillips, of Glou- 
cester, the architect. ‘The house will be ready in June. 
Josephine—I believe John is provoked at my extrava- 
gance. He didn’t even smile when he saw my dress! 
Hortense—Some men, my dear, have no sénse of 
nhumor.—Stray Stories. 
LANS have been completed for the nine new stores to 
be erected on the lot formerly occupied by the New 
Magnolia Hotel, situated between the Colonnade and the 
Oceanside Hotel, at Magnolia. The owner of the prop- 
erty and the proposed new stores, work on which is well 
- underway, is Mrs. Annie M. Ryan of Boston. The struc- 
ture will be a one-story stucco colonial design, of white 
Atlas cement. There will be three double stores, 35x40 
feet, and six single stores 20x40 feet in dimension. A 
promenade 15 feet wide and 225 feet long, will be built 
on the front, thus adding greatly to the already effective 
promenade. It is understood that all the stores will have 
been leased after completion. The dimensions of the 
new structure are 50x225 feet. EE. L. Phillips of Glou- 
cester drew the plans which were recently completed. 
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Stedman Hanks is on the committee of the Friday 
Evening Dancing Class, a smart affair in Washington 
which is held at the Willard ballroom during the mid- 
winter season. The first meeting was a week ago. 
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For the benefit of the American Ambulance Hospital 
in Paris Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt opened her New 
York house for the performance of the French play, 
“Son Homme.” 
Ambassador to France, made an address on the present 
condition abroad. Among those present were Mr. and 
Mrs. Robert Graves, Miss Anne Morgan, Mrs. Gerald LL. 
Fioyt and Mr. and Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. 
“What would your mother say if she saw you doing 
that, little boy?” 
“How’s any man going to tell in advance what a 
woman’s going to say ?”’—Detroit Free Press. 
pALM BEACH.—Mr. and Mrs. Gurnee Munn _ have 
chosen a villa on the ocean front for the winter sea- 
son. Mrs. Munn will be near her aunt, Mrs. Barclay H. 
Warburton. Last winter, Mrs. Munn, who was Miss 
Marie Louise Wanamaker, spent with Mrs. Warburton 
and daughter, Miss Mary Brown Warburton. Mrs. Wal- 
ter Jackson Freeman of the Swampscott colony and her 
father, Dr. Wm. W. Keen are spending two weeks at St. 
Augustine. Mrs: Delos Blodgett of Washington will open 
the Blodgett home at Daytona during February. 
Tue Great Wronc in modern life on earth is a des- 
perate struggle for a four-cornered contentment. It leads 
even the wise to a huge misshapen discontent which con- 
sumes millions and millions of lives. Teach those w'io 
come your way that it is not a formal peace which is 
worth having in life; it is the deep consciousness of pow- 
er to create and progress, to create new in life, and to live 
for wide, free, unsullied things, which never fail and 
never can decay.—From William James (?), 
_try place at Fitzwilliam, in southern New Hampshire, — 
Before the play, Robert Bacon, .ex- . 
Jan. 28, 1916, 
OSTON and the North Shore is greatly interested in — 
the engagement, announced last week, of Miss Eliza- 
beth P. Bigelow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Prescott Bige- — 
low of 16 Marlboro street, to Dr. Frank Martin of Balti-_ 
more, Md. Miss Bigelow, who long has been prominent — 
in social life in Boston, has an extensive acquaintance in — 
society in many other cities. She has been exceedingly 
popular among her intimates. Her parents, in addition 
to their residence in Marlboro street, have an attractive 
place on the North Shore, called “Fox Hill Lodge,” on © 
the Magnolia road, in Manchester, and they have a coun- — 
where they spend considerable time. They have spent 
the last two summers there instead of coming to Manches- 
ter. Miss Bigelow is a sister of Prescott Bigelow, Jr., ~ 
Harvard, ‘08, who married Miss Marion Burdett. An- 
other brother is David N. Bigelow, who several years ago — 
married Miss Florence Rawn of Lake Forest, Ill., where — 
they have made their home. Mr. and Mrs. David Bige- — 
iow are now living on their farm at Fitzwilliam, where 
Mr. Bigelow is convalescing from a trouble which affected — 
his eyes. He has a cottage near the house of his parents — 
on the farm. ae 
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The Hunt ball next Friday night—Feb. 4—at the % 
Hotel Somerset, will be the big social event of the week in — 
Boston. Many dinners will be given that night. Among — 
those who will entertain are Mr. and ‘Mrs. John S. Ames, 
who will give a Norfolk hunt dinner at their home, 306 © 
Dartmouth st.; Mr. and Mrs. George $. Mandell and Mr. ~ 
and Mrs. Oliver Ames of the North Shore colony will also | 
entertain. Other hosts will be heard from before the — 
atfair takes place, and altogether the occasion is looked 
forward to as the gayest event, not only of the present 
winter, but of any season since the Hunt ball of nine 
years ago. There will be two suppers—the first at mid- — 
night and the other at 4 o’clock. A large number of 
out-of-town guests have been invited, cards having been 
sent to the masters and their wives of the Hunt clubs of — 
Philadelphia, New York, Cleveland, Detroit and Virginia. 
For brilliancy, the ball will be unsurpassed in the annals 
of dancing in Boston, for the members, not only of the — 
Myopia, Norfolk and Middlesex Hunts, under whose © 
combined auspices it is given, but those of the out-of-town — 
clubs, will wear their red coats and display their club’s — 
colors. As the cotillon, once the favorite feature of a — 
ball, has lapsed into desuetude, it will not be danced on — 
this occasion. Conrad’s orchestra of 30 pieces is coming — 
over from New York to furnish the music. 
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The 24th anniversary horse show of the New Riding — 
club, at the corner of Norway and Hemenway sts., Bos- — 
ton, offered many fine horses and much fine horsemanship — 
by the drivers, last Saturday afternoon. The meeting was — 
Member’s Day for members only or those entitled to the — 
privileges of members. On Feb. 12 a second meeting will — 
be held, an invitation show, at which nine classes will be — 
judged. All the classes last Saturday were well repre-_ 
sented and were popular. Baychester, a black gelding 
exhibited and driven by Miss Frances Bradley, carried — 
off most ribbons. Miss Edith Fabyan’s chestnut gelding — 
Cheer-O captured two seconds, and many other fine — 
horses made the contests close. Two children created — 
what sensation there was during the afternoon. In the © 
combination pony class, division B, for ponies more than 
i3 hands high, not exceeding 14.3, to be exhibited by 
children under 17, Miss Theodora Ayer, aged 10, and — 
Miss Anne Beekman Ayer, aged 7, displayed exceptional — 
horsemanship. Other popular drivers who appeared in — 
the ring were Miss Amy Peabody, Richard Saltonstall, — 
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