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Miss Marcia Taylor will sing a group of French 
Provengal songs this Friday afternoon at the French 
Bazar in Horticultural Hall, Boston. Her numbers will 
include “Trois Jours de Vendange,” by Octave Fouque, 
and “Ah, la Belle Menotte.” Miss Taylor and her par- 
ents will spend the summer at Manchester as usual. 
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Miss Grace Monks of Manchester and Boston, was 
ir charge of the exhibition of some of Mrs. Fiske War- 
ren’s posters, which have recently arrived here, at the talk 
on “Women’s' Work in the War,” given by Miss Kath- 
leen Burke at the Hotel Charlesgate Monday afternoon. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Bryce J. Allan of Beverly Cove, were 
recent entertainers at Aiken, their guests including Henry 
Clay Frick, Mr. and Mrs. Josiah C. Thaw and G. Garvis 
Pech. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leland are spending a month 
in California. They will come directly to West Man- 
chester on their return. 
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Mr. and Mrs. H. D. Higinbotham of Joliet, Ill., who 
“summer at Ipswich in a cottage at Castle Hill, the home 
of the R. T. Crane, Jr’s., of Chicago, will not spend the 
summer here, as they are engaged in the building of a 
new home at “Harlowarden,” their beautiful western 
estate. Their home is the birthplace of H. N. Higin- 
botham, who makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. R. 
T. Crane. Here is located the noted “Forest of Arden,” 
a wonderful growth of native forestry to which has been 
added trees of nearly every known species suitable to the 
climate. Hickory Creek winds through the forest and 
the Lincoln Highway is the chief roadway past it. Mrs. 
Higinbotham has been actively engaged in the First Aid 
classes which have been so prominent in the west. this 
winter and spring. 
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Rear Admiral Harrison G. O: Colby, U. S. N. (re- 
tired), and Mrs. Colby of Boston and West Manchester, 
who are still in England, where they went last October, 
will return to spend the summer on the North Shore. 
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The British embassy will not be located on the North 
Shore this season, as they have leased an estate at Woods 
Hole, on the shore of Vineyard Sound. Sir Cecil Arthur 
Spring-Rice, the ambassador has returned from Mrs. H. 
H. Fay, the estate known as the Rose cottage, near 
Nobska light. 
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The performances of “Hello, Frisco,” the Vincent 
club show, the opening performance of which will be 
given at the Wilbur Theatre, May 1, will be the last of 
the social affairs in Boston for the season. 
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Mrs. Maynard Ladd of 270 Clarendon st., Boston, 
and Manchester, will exhibit her new fountain piece, 
“The Sail,” at the outdoor sculpture exhibit in New York. 
It represents the Old Man of the Sea holding in his up- 
turned hands a fragile shallop. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Rodman Paul Snelling and their daugh- 
ter, Miss Ella de Treville Snelling of Needham, are at 
the Hot Springs of Virginia for a sojourn. They will 
trove to Beverly Farms in June. 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles M. Bohlen and children are 
now settled in their Ipswich home after a winter spent in 
Aiken, S.C. Mrs. Bohlen’s sister, Mrs. Josef Hofmann, 
accompanied them north as far as New York. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
April 14, 1916. 
Mr. and Mrs. William M. Wood of 21 Fairfield 
street, and Pride’s Crossing, are giving a small datice at 
the Tuileries next Friday evening, April 28. The guests 
will include the younger set only, as the affair is given 
to introduce their new daughtersin-law, Mrs. W. M. 
Wood, Jr. (Edith Robinson) and Mrs. Cornelius Ayer 
Wood (Muriel Prindle). 
If you wish to inspire a man’s active interest and 
enthusiasm give him a chance to get even with somebody. 
WASHINGTON society is interested in the National 
Service School for women which opens in May. 
Mrs. Larz Anderson and Miss Francise Williams, sister 
to Mrs. Joseph Leiter, have registered. 
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The Ambassador of Italy and Contessa DiCellere, 
have gone to Hot Springs, for several weeks. 
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Mr. and Mrs. George von lL. Meyer will close their 
Aiken cottage April 15 and start for Washington. Mr. 
and Mrs. Meyer recently gave a dinner for Mrs. Meyer’s 
birthday anniversary. Miss Julia Meyer gave a “dove 
luncheon” followed by auction bridge. 
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The Count and Countess James Minotto (Ida May 
Swift), who were married in Chicago this winter, were 
hosts at a dinner in Buenos Aires in honor of thé Secre- 
tary of the Treasury and Mrs. McAdoo and the Amer- 
ican delegation to the Pan-American conferencé. Mr. 
and Mrs. Andrew J. Peters are of the party. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles Crane of New York have 
been visiting their son and daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. 
Richard Crane, in Washington. Another son-in-law and 
family, the Robert Leatherbees of Lake Forest, Ill., were 
also in Washington. . 
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Mrs. Ernest W. Roberts assisted at the Congressional 
Club when a delightful program was given by a class in 
rythmic dancing. Soop 5 
Most people turn over a new leaf just to see what is 
on the other side. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Robinson gave a dinner for 
twenty guests in honor of their son and daughter-in-law, 
Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Douglas Robinson (Dorothy Jor- 
dan) last Thursday. : oe . 
Mrs. John Hays Hammond enteretained a chapter of 
the United Daughters of the Confederacy last Friday. | 
Mrs. J. Hood Wright, mother of Mrs. John Markle 
of West Manchester, won a prize on her palms-and foli- 
age plants in the recent HOW ete aor in New York. 
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Miss Elizabeth Wood, daughter of Mr. and Mrs, 
Henry A. Wise Wood of the Annisquam colony, will be 
married to John Cyrus Distler, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. 
John C. Distler of Baltimore, on April 29 at St. Thomas’ 
Church. Miss Wood will give a luncheon for the bridal 
attendants at Sherry’s, April 27. . 
If a man empties his purse into his head no man can 
take it from him. 5 
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be: feared than: 
a thousand bayonets—Napoleon. 
