22 . NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
AT THE HOTELS. 
In an effort to raise a fund for the improvement of 
the walks in Magnolia, Morris Burke Parkinson, a Bos- 
ton photographer, who has a summer place in Magnolia, 
will deliver an illustrated lecture in the Oceanside Casino 
next Thursday night, on walks out-of-doors. The lecture 
will be at 8:30 o’clock, and will be illustrated with 100 
autochrome slides which will inelude beautiful color 
views from nature and portraits from life, including 
examples of color photography by Miss Murdoch, whose 
exhibition is still in the Roger Noble Burnham studio, 
exhibition hall in the library building, Magnolia. It is 
intended to have the men get to work on the building 
and improving of the walks just as soon as the money 
begins to come in on the sale of tickets so that those here 
will get the benefit of the improvements this season. The 
walk to Rafe’s Chasm which is a popular vantage point 
is badly in need of repair, as it has become so overgrown 
with vines that it is almost impossible for women to 
make the trip comfortably. This is the finest walk there 
is in Magnolia. Newport, Bar Harbor and other resorts 
have their fine ocean promenades, but Magnolia witn 
all the natural beauty to aid, has let its walks run down 
during the last two years. If money enough can be 
raised a plank walk will be built to the bathing pavilion 
and this will add much to the comfort of the many who 
v0 there every pleasant day. The committte in charge 
of this lecture which has been given in the Boston Pub- 
lic Library and before the New England Conveution of 
Photographers, by Mr. Parkinson, is very much worth 
while. The committee in charge includes the Rev. F. J. 
Libby, chairman; Mrs. Albert Apsey of the Aborn; Mrs. 
B. W. Quimby, Green Gables; Mrs. A. C Wilkins, 
Hesperus. 
"T is a great place—the spacious lounging room, lobby 
if you like, of the Oceanside—for the teller of tales, and 
the every-ready listener. Truth—and though some of 
the yarns are strange, *t were vulgar and impolite to 
hint that anything besides rubber will stretech—truth is 
stranger than fiction. Queer how a common every day 
occurence will remind a person—‘that reminds me’’ 
often is the introduction to many an odd tale. Listen: 
‘‘A short time ago when I was a younger man than I 
now am—I am 22 years—I went up into the woods of 
Maine on a camping trip with a schoolmate. We stayed 
until we were tired of the life in the open, that is, in one 
place, then decided we would walk back to Boston. Nice 
little walk, to Boston from Maine in the Spring of the 
year, and nothing much over head besides rain, and 
nothing much under foot except rain. And so, believing 
my friend could rid his system of a little touch of the 
grip, we decided on this strenuous exercise in the open. 
I didn’t believe he had the grip anyway, and when we 
got back to Boston in a matter of a few days, walking all 
the way, the doctor who was ealled, said it wasn’t the 
grip at all—yjust plain honest to heaven pneumonia.’’ 
That may sound like a fool story, but it brought this. 
Listen : 
‘““Why that’s nothing. Once when I was suffering 
from a serious attack of rheumatism, I decided to forget 
the doctors for a while and get well. So I climbed into 
a saddle and after riding 442 miles in less than no time, 
got up into the Rocky Mountains where the snow is a 
_persistent factor. I was all tired out. There was no 
place to sleep except in a bed of snow. I wrapped my- 
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