April 7, 1916. 
' Tue’ Facr TuHar Justice Hucues has not made a 
statement within a few weeks, declining absolutely to be 
a candidate, is significant. He has refused to allow his 
name to be used upon the ballots. ‘This does not eliminate 
him as the choice-of the nation at the convention. There 
$ a growing unanimity of feeling that Hughes is the man 
to lead the republican party to victory. "That no denial 
of his has been renewed as the day approaches for the 
convention would seem to indicate that if nominated 
Hughes would resign from the Supreme bench and make 
enthusiastic campaign fight for election. Despite the 
atter heard from Oyster “Bay and from other sources 
es ughes is in the lead. 
a Lovers of Nature have been reading the signs of the 
1e and are rejoicing. The robins have come in flocks. 
hey frequently remain.about throughout the winter, but 
_ they have not been seen this winter. The blue bird has 
. een seen by many. A report comes of a stray purple 
finch alighting on the topmost branches of a garden 
shrub. ‘The cheery, though unmusical peep of the frog 
has been heard and the wild geese have been heard in 
“flight going over, northward bound. 
| THe Curistran ENprAvor Societis along the 
North Shore are making extensive preparations to enter- 
tain all of the Endeavor societies in the State in Salem in 
the fall. These societies of young people are doing excel- 
“lent work and the fall convention will prove a stimulus 
j - to all. 
Mr. THEODORE OS and Mr. Root have come 
to an understanding; they have forgotten the past and 
begun aoain, 2) It is ain opportune time for Mr. Roosevelt 
to meet Mr. Taft upon the same ground. It will be a 
good thing for all when that episode is ended. 
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Tur GeRMAN Army has been making undoubted ad- 
vances around Verdun. The gains from day to day have 
been small, as the Prussian generals have abandoned any 
idea of making swift and strategic advances, but these 
small gains are counting. Ver dun has not been encircled, 
but undoubtedly encroachments have been made east and 
west. The expenditures in life and treasure have been 
terrible to consider. Is it worth while? The German 
war office must have plans. The attack upon Verdun 
made with such persistance and loss cannot be an idle 
plan. If Verdun be taken the way is not open to Paris! 
It cannot be that Germany thinks that! The persistance 
and cost of the attack must have been carefully consider- 
ed and after counting the cost and the aim that Germany 
has in mind it has made the venture. What is the reason 
for the Verdun drive? 
Tue Natronar, Carsoric Society has declared itself 
in favor of a national censorship of the moving picture 
films manufactured or exposed in America. The protest 
is well taken and the deterioration which has been notice- 
able in the moving picture business is lamentable. It 1s 
a pity that such ‘an effective educational and recreative 
enterprise should so quickly fall into disrepute. 
TorpEDOING of the Sussex and the Englishman 
the President new anxiety. It is at least 
await Germany’s answer. 
AMens 
have caused 
honorable to. 
Tue New Masonic Buripinc in Salem is nearing 
conpletion. It is a model building and a creditable home 
for the influential lodges of that city. 
SPRING IS IN THE AiR! It is nearly time to see a 
first bunch of Mayflowers from the Cape; then the signs 
cf coming days will be complete. 
~THE NORTH SHORE was represented in the pictorial 
ee section of the New York Swn last Sunday with a 
_ page of North Shore Verandas, by Mary H. Northend of 
Salem, who also had in the same issue a page of College 
| Girls’ rooms. The Sunday before Miss Northend had 
oa page of North Shore Guest Houses in the same paper. 
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It is tentatively decided that the wedding of Bayard 
© Tuckerman, Jr., and Miss Phyllis Sears will take place at 
A Farms the first part of July. 
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The wedding of Miss Rosamond Eliot and Frederick 
| May 20. The ceremony, at Emmanuel church, Masco- 
- nomo street, will be followed by a reception at the home 
_ of Miss Eliot’ s parents, at Old Neck. Owing to the poor 
~ health of Mrs. Eliot the affair will be on a smaller scale 
~ than it would otherwise be. 
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Col. and Mrs. H. E. Russell 
_ Boston residence after a three weeks’ visit with 
' Mrs. Andrew Carnegie, 2d, at their winter hone 
berland Island, Fernandina, Fla. 
1 have returned to their 
Mr. and 
on Cum- 
Nature teaches us to love our friends, but religion to 
love our enemies, which is why some of’us find it hard 
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to be religious. 
CHICAGO society is interested in the announce'vent of 
the engagement by Mr. and Mrs. Russell G. Fessenden 
of Boston and Marblehead of Miss Christine Snelling. a 
daughter by a former marriage of Mrs. Fessenden. who 
was Christine L. Williams Shelling, to Loring Wilkins 
~ M. Burnham will take place in Manchester on Saturday, — 
and Mrs. Joseph G. Coleman of 
Mr. Coleman is a Harvard grad- 
Coleman, son of Mr. 
Rush street, Chicago. 
uate. 
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Mis and. Mrs: Richard “I. -Crane have -lett- Jekyll 
island, and after a brief sojourn at Atlantic City, Mrs. 
Crane left for a trip to New York and Mr. Crane re- 
turned to Chicago with the children. 
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The sale of toy dolls, brought to the:city from France 
by Mrs. John Alden Carpenter and “Mme. Le Verrier, 
opened April 1 in an old mansion house on the north side. 
The toy shop campaign is to raise funds for disabled 
soldiers and destitute widows in France and help to estab- 
lish a permanent occupation as toy makers for such peo- 
pie 1. On Monday va Toy Dance was given, the guests 
dressed as toys or soldiers. Tuesday afternoon Mrs. 
Edward S. Moore and Mrs. Honoré Palmer served tea. 
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Mrs. Russell Tyson is a patroness 
salons held at the Blackstone hotel by 
Educational Dramatic league. Mrs. Tyson is actively 
interested in the Easter flower sale, a home charity bene- 
fit held at the Congress hotel, and will have charge of one 
of the tables. 
of “the Lenten 
the recently formed 
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Under the patronage of the Parents’ League Thomas 
Whitney Surette of Boston will give four lectures in 
Chicaco on music at the homes of Mrs. Cyrus Hall Mc- 
Cermick, Mrs. James B. Waller, Mrs. Arthur Ryerson 
and Mrs. George Higginson, Jr. His first talk will be on 
“Children and Music,” about which he has some verv 
original ideas. 
