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ing to their city homes to continue the good work. As 
organizers of war shops; as students in the stiff courses 
in Red Cross first aid training; as workers in the making 
of surgical supplies, society has not had much time for 
idleness and leisure in the generally accepted meaning of 
the terms. Since the war has taught us that woman is 
the backbone of the human race, necessary as its creator, 
its nurse, its guardian,—perhaps, as some one has sug- 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
gested, we are all unconsciously training for some su- 
preme national test which lies behind the veil of the im- 
mediate future. 
Nevertheless, the debutantes have not suffered, but 
have been launched as gaily as ever this winter, and, after 
the rest which the Lenten season brought, will be ready to — 
renew their activities along the Shore with the coming of — 
the season of 1916. 
Some Weddings of the Past Year 
O, rank is good, and gold is fair, 
And high and low mate ill; 
But love has never known a law 
Beyond its own sweet will! 
HE, year’s round of weddings in North Shore society 
circles is an interesting chronicle of social functions. 
Last season was really ushered-in by one of the larg- 
est.and most notable weddings in the history of the Shore. 
This was at “Bee Rock,” the Beverly Cove home of Mr. 
and Mrs. Guy Norman, when their only daughter, Miss 
Hope Norman, became the bride of Elliot Cowdin Bacon, 
son.of Robert Bacon, former ambassador to France, and 
Mrs. Bacon. The ceremony was performed in St. Peter’s 
Episcopal Church in Beverly, and was followed by the 
partly al fresco reception at “Bee Rock.” 
The next wedding took place over at “Derry Bush” 
in Philadelphia, when Miss Katharine Harte became the 
bride of George Putnam, oldest son of Mr. and Mrs. 
William Lowell Putnam of Manchester. 
June closed with another notable wedding in Phil- 
adelphia when Miss Marie Louise Wanamaker was mar- 
ried to Gurnee Munn, son of Mrs. Charles A. Munn of 
Washington and Manchester. 
Nearly a month passed before North Shore society 
gathered in Ipswich at the picturesque Episcopal church 
which has been the scene of many prominent weddings of 
the summer colony. The July wedding was that of Miss 
Constance Gardner, daughter of Congressman and Mrs. 
A. P. Gardner, and granddaughter of Senator Henry 
Cabot Lodge of Nahant, and Grafton Winthrop Minot, 
attaché of the United States embassy at Berlin. Never 
could a bride dream of a more beautiful and lavish color 
scheme of flowers than that which was carried out in the 
little church and at Sagamore Farm, the Hamilton home 
cf the Gardners, 
August passed without a wedding. Then came the 
early September marriage in the little Wenham Neck 
Meeting House of Miss Eleanor Cole, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Edward B. Cole of Wenham, and William H. 
Coolidge, Jr.,.son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. 
Coolidge of Blynman Farm, Manchester. This was a 
charming affair in the late afternoon. The bridal party 
following the old custom of walking to the church, which 
is but a short distance from Brookby Farm, the home of 
Mr. and Mrs. Cole. 
The next wedding having North Shore affiliations 
took place in Chicago in one of the wealthiest homes, and 
Miss Katherine Meeker, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur Meeker, became the bride of Dr. Horace Gray of 
Nahant and Boston. 
In New York Miss Katherine Jones of Pride’s Cross- 
ing and William Jennings Ormonde were married, Sep- 
tember 25th, and spent their honeymoon at the White 
Sulphur Springs, W. Va. 
Miss. Elizabeth Wilder of Lowell and the Ocean- 
side, Magnolia, and Clement Denny Sargent of Swamp- 
scott, were married in Lowell, October 3oth. . 
The New York wedding of Miss Eleanor Bartlett 
and Carter Phelps was of interest because the bride’s 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Bartlett, have long been mem- _ 
bers of the Annisquam colony. 
In Philadelphia the wedding of Miss Hope T. Beale 
and Oliver FE. Cromwell was of interest from the fact — 
that the Cromwell family has passed several seasons at 
Magnolia, and that Mr. Cromwell is the son of Mrs. E. 
I’. Stotesbury by a former marriage. Mr. Stotesbury is 
the father of Mrs. Sydney E. Hutchinson of Beverly 
Farms. 
November brought two weddings of interest in Mag- 
nolia, Miss Eleanor Bradley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George E. Carter of Brookline, and Alexander Rex Flinn 
of Pittsburg were married at the Old South | Church, 
Boston. The church was profusely decked with the chrys- 
anthemum, the typical November flower. The other wed- 
ding, which took place the same day, was that of Miss 
Mary Warner Penhallow, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles S. Penhallow, Jamaica Plain, and Gardner Swan, _ 
of Boston. 
at Magnolia. 
Richard Lawrence of Nahant and Groton, and Miss 
Margery Prescott, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. George J. 
Prescott of Boston, were married about this time. 
The crowning event of the Thanksgiving week was 
the beautiful wedding in the Old South Church, Sf Miss 
Eleanor Fabyan, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Francis Wright 
Fabyan of Boston and West Manchester, and ‘I‘heodore 
Frothingham, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Froth- 
ingham of Philadelphia. 
With December came the pretty wedding in Hamilton 
of Miss Clara L. Merrill, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al- 
bert R. Merrill of “The Hamlet” and Dr. Allen’ W. 
Holmes of Dansville, N. Y. 
Cornelius Ayer Wood, son of Mr. and Mrs. William 
M. Wood of Pride’s Crossing was married, Dec. 15th, to 
Miss Muriel Prindle of Duluth, Minn. | 
Miss Rawson Prentiss Kay, daughter of Mrs, James 
Murray Kay of Eastern Point and Brookline was matried, 
December 3oth, to Alvin V. Baird of Delaplane, Va. 
The first wedding of the New Year was that of Miss 
Ann Wentworth Sheafe, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin 
Sheafe of Chestnut Hill, and Benjamin E. Cole, 2d, son 
of Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Cole of Wenham. 
On February 1st, Miss Ruth Anthony, daughter of 
Mrs. 5. Reed Anthony of Beverly Farms and Boston, and 
Lyon Weyburn of Scranton, Pa., were married in Em- 
manuel Church. Their honeymoon was spent on the 
Pacific coast. . 
Francis Wigglesworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. George 
Wigglesworth of Manchester and Milton, was married to 
Miss Isabella C. Councilman, daughter of Dr. Wm. T. 
Councilman of Boston, February Sthyae . 
February 1oth was the date of the marriage of Wil- 
liam Madison Wood, Jr., of Pride’s Crossing and Boston, 
to Miss Edith G. Robinson of Louisville, Ky. 
Detroit furnished two weddings of the winter of 
Both the brides had been popular in the life 
April 14, 1916. 
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