April 14, 1916. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 138 
Resume of Society’s Activities 
Backward Glance Over the ‘Busy Restfulness’’ Which Characterized Society on The North Shore 
Last Summer—Weddings of Last Year and of the Near Future—Engagements 
THE SEASON is at hand—upon us, in fact. It is the 
time of year when the social world is beginning to 
‘weigh the problem, “where shall we spend the summer?” 
This is not to be a dissertation upon the charm of the 
North Shore, however much this region fulfils all the 
requirements of an ideal summer resort, which, according 
to an authority, are: remoteness from cities, landscape 
beauty, delicious atmosphere, and sea-breezes, for “what 
were summer without the sea,—its purpose, its passion, 
its rapture.” 
This is rather a backward glance over the “busy 
restfulness” which characterized society last summer. 
Everyone in society was doing something worth while. 
The dancing, dining, games and usual sports of the sum- 
mer were all accompanied by the steady spirit of doing 
the worth-while thing while all the world was supposed 
to be having its playtime. So the summer went fast, 
“like youth, first love, or hot waffles.” But, “the world, 
in fact, is busy. It can row and sail, it can climb and 
stroll, it can sleep and sing, it can swim and rest, it can 
drift and dream no more.” 
In looking backward we find that the season opened 
with a call from the committee of the North Shore branch 
of the French wounded emergency fund to respond to 
the generous invitation of Mrs. Walter Denégre to use 
her coach house in West Manchester for the meetings of 
the society. The women carried on an enormous work 
in the coach house where they met faithfully twice a week 
during the season. Mrs. Frank Bemis was chairman, 
others on the committee including Miss Harriet C. Ran- 
toul, Mrs. Robert S. Bradley, Mrs. John S. Curtis, Mrs. 
Henry S. Grew, 2d., Mrs. George H. Lyman, Mrs. Lester 
Leland, Miss Margaret Thomas and Miss Alice Thorn- 
dike. In an effort to raise funds to purchase supplies 
from the Boston headquarters for work at the coach 
house, Mrs. Bradley opened her Pride’s Crossing home 
for an afternoon gathering to hear Mrs. Robert Grant of 
Nahant read letters from countries at war. The Fuller 
sisters contributed their English folk songs on war. 
The Masconomo House Casino at Manchester, was 
the scene of the biweekly meetings of the women inter- 
ested in Red Cross work: Here also a great work was 
accomplished for European needs under the leadership of 
Miss ‘Louisa Loring, chairman, Mrs. Boylston A. Beal, 
“ER and Mrs. Russell Codman, treasurer. 
ewing for the French Emergency work was ener- 
getically pursued-once a week. at the Oceanside Annex, 
Magnolia. Nearly every woman in the Oceanside hotel 
colony took part and made the work a great success. Miss 
L,. Allyn was honorary chairman. The other officers con- 
sisted of Mrs. D. C. Briggs, Mrs. A. W. Richard, Mrs. 
Edith M. Binney and Mrs. George E. Carter. 
In Ipswich there was a branch doing work for the 
French at the home of Mrs. J. B. Warner on Argilla road. 
The Gloucester colony was well organized and did 
a splendid work for the French under the leadership of 
Mrs. William Sheafe and Mrs. A. Wilder Pollard of 
Eastern Point. : | 
- Three stellar events of last summer stand out promi- 
nently as philanthropic affairs not only conspicuous for 
the prominence of the promoters, but for the records 
made in attendance and financial returns. The first was 
the Navy Y. M. C. A. festival on the Haven estate at 
By LILLIAN McCANN 
Beverly Farms. The wonderful display in the booths 
and the brilliant cabaret scene at night were the striking 
features of the affair. The second social event was the 
horse show in Hamilton at “Green Meadows,” the fine 
estate of Mr. and Mrs. George Burroughs, when nearly 
$1600 was realized for Welcome House in Boston. The 
third and crowning event of this trio was the beautiful 
Italian Festa at the Gloucester home of Mr. and Mrs. 
John Hays Hammond, under the patronage of the Italian 
Ambassador and Countess Macchi di Cellere, in behalf of 
the New England Italian reservists. 
Among the many delightful musicales of the summer, 
the one given at the Pride’s Crossing home of Mrs. Fran- 
cis L. Higginson, Jr., for Polish war sufferers stands 
out as a brilliant and financially successful event. This 
same recital of “Lohengrin” was given at Marblehead 
Neck at the home of Mrs. Frederick McQuestion. 
Homes were opened for lectures and recitals bene- 
fiting the Boston Nursery for Blind Babies, the Melise 
De Page Hospital, and the Beverly Hospital. The latter 
also benefited by the bridge and dance at the Essex County 
Club in charge of Miss Julia Meyer and the Junior Aid 
committee. 
One of the happiest and gayest of the summer days 
was when the summer parishioners turned out and made 
the fair of St. John’s Church (Episcopal) one of the red 
letter days for Beverly Farms. 
And bound up in Beverly Farms affairs is that far- 
reaching Improvement Society which gave the resume 
of the year’s work at Mrs. Robert $. Bradley’s last July. 
The efforts of a few individuals stand out promi- 
nently in the summer’s work. There was the lecture by 
John Hays Hammond, Jr., in his laboratory to raise funds 
for the North Shore ambulance gift to France; also the 
amount raised in Magnolia for a truck ambulance for 
France by Mrs. Gerald Bramwell, Mrs. Alice M. Richard 
and Miss Eleanor Bradley, now Mrs. A. Rex Flinn. 
Through the efforts of two Manchester summer residents, 
Walter D. Denégre and Frank P. Frazier, a campaign 
was effectively begun last summer for the scientific exter- 
mination’ of mosquitoes along the Shore. This will be 
one of the vital and interesting schemes of the coming 
summer,—and more of this anon. 
Another local interest which developed last summer 
centered in the building of a permanent headquarters for 
the North Shore Horticultural society at Manchester. 
The advisory committee is Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, Mrs. Wil- 
liam B. Walker, Mrs. George E. Cabot and Miss Mary L. 
Bartlett. 
So much for the principal philanthropic and general 
affairs engineered by the North Shore. social leaders. 
But do not think, that, strenuous as the summer was, 
there. was no time for the purely feminist idea to grow. 
For the season closed with an afternoon with Mrs. Beat- 
rice Forbes-Robertson Hale at the Amory Eliot house in 
Manchester, when she touchingly referred to the war 
~ and woman’s part in it, and brought out the thought that 
in war time we must think more of democracy and the 
enfranchisement of women than before. 
And so the antis and suffragists—‘‘sisters under their 
skin”—left the Shore where they had done so much dur- 
ing the summer months to alleviate war sufferers, return- 
