NORTH SHORE BREEZE 35 
RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
By D. F. Lamson. 
NO. LVI. 
Two men may do precisely the same thing from en- 
tirely different motives, and it is the motive that gives 
character to the act; one man saves a quarter that he 
may have to give to him that needeth, another saves a 
quarter to add to his carefully treasured hoard; the one 
is self-denial, the other avarice, two things as wide as 
the equinoxes apart; and yet the act was the same in 
both cases. 
Position is generally attained by slow degrees, step 
by step, and not by sudden flight; but it may be lost by 
a single mistake or mishap; an oak is the slow product 
of centuries, but it may be prostrated in an hour; a 
building may be great and imposing and may be de- 
molished in a moment as the result of a defective pillar 
or a sandy foundation. 
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There are persons who have credit for great control 
of their feeling, simply because they have little feeling 
to control, their impassiveness is counted to them for 
strength; there may be calmness on the surface when 
the feelings are stirred to their depth, so there may be 
because there is no depth to be stirred; human judg- 
ments must always be more or less fallible because more 
vr less superficial. 
There may possibly be room for doubt whether the 
vast increase in the number of college graduates is alto- 
gether a hopeful indication; it may be feared that many 
are being educated above the sphere where they must 
find their employment, and that a dislike for homely 
tasks and plain living is often bred in college halls 
that will be a poor preparation for the prosaic and com- 
monplace realities of life. 
* * * * * 
There are two classes of things that are not greatly 
worth while to worry about, the things that can be 
helped and the things th that can Mt be helped, and most of 
the things that people worry about belong to one or the 
other of these classes. This, perhaps, has been said be- 
fore, but it will bear saying again. 
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There are many districts in New England, once a 
name significant of intelligence and order, that are fast 
becoming seed-beds of ignorance and crime; and these 
same decadent communities are largely without church 
attendance, without Sunday-schools, without the Bible; 
is there any connection between these things? How 
long can civilization endure without the old safeguards? 
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A distinguished philosopher has written a suggestive 
book on ‘‘ Varieties of Religious Experience’’; it is some- 
thing for a modern philosopher to admit that there is 
such a thing as religious experience worth writing 
about; not merely an opinion, or a speculation, or a 
fancy, but actually an experience, something that may be 
known, that reveals itself to the consciousness and is a 
living and potent force in the determining of character 
and life. Prof. James is a long way ahead of some of 
his race. 
There is a joy that differs from mere happiness, light- 
heartedness, merriment, that does not depend on cir- 
cumstances but is deep and abiding; but in the best and 
strongest characters there is often a strain of sadness; 
it must be so in a world like this, though where there 
is Shadow there must also be sunshine. 
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After several attempts to read ‘‘The French Revolu- 
tion’’—hardly intelligible sometimes, dogmatic often, 
always volcanic: but were it otherwise, it would 
not be—Carlyle. The style is perhaps, however, suited 
to the subject, the frenzied temper of the times, the 
jumbled, hurly-burly, anarchical scenes which he at- 
tempts with lurid colors to portray. As a literary artist, 
Carlyle is an impressionist—or he is nothing. Yet inter- 
esting always, sometimes fascinating, and if not fasci- 
tating, compelling; he will be read under protest, but 
he will be read. 
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5 News Notes About the 
... Stores... 
And other Business Enterprises 
LAN OIA POI A I A A IA 
The ‘‘Gallery of Foreign Arts” of 
Boston, is advertising a public auc- 
tion of a $50,000 collection of art 
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North Shore branch of M. Davey & 
Co., in the Donchian building, Mag- 
| nolia, where they will find a choice 
collection of imported street and 
evening gowns, automobile coats and 
materials of various kinds. 
cern is closing out their French mo- 
dels at half the Paris cost. 
fer, the New York and Palm Beach 
photographer, who has a studio in 
the North Shore Grill buildings in 
Magnolia. Mr. Puffer, besides his 
studio sittings and interior portrait 
work, is making a specialty of di- 
rect color photography of gardens, 
exteriors and interiors of summer es- 
tates. He was very successful in this 
The con- 
treasures, under the large canvas on 
the grounds where the new Mag- 
nolia hotel formerly stood at Mag- 
nolia. 
continue at 10.30 a. m. and 3 p. m. 
daily until the entire collection is 
sold. The assortment consists of 
European and Colonial furniture, 
selected oriental rugs, solid and 
_ Sheffield silver, old china, bric-a- 
 brae, ete. 
North Shore ladies who are look- 
- ing for the latest in fashion without 
- waiting until the fall season arrives, 
would do well to pay a visit to the 
The sale is now on, and will 
Ella Harding of Lexington ave- 
nue, Magnolia, will have a very in- 
teresting exhibition on Saturday, 
August 6, at The New Ocean House, 
Swampscott. Miss Harding will re- 
present the Mme. Campbell corset 
in advanced fall models, which set 
the fashion, and.an attractive dis- 
play of gowns and waists with ad- 
vanced Paris models from J. Fields, 
aes 
Persons along the North Shore 
and especially at Magnolia are very 
much interested in the photographic 
work being done by B, Frank Puf- 
line of work at Palm Beach and al- 
ready has executed orders on thé 
North Shore. During the week, he 
has made some excellent views of the 
tennis players and the gallery at the 
Oceanside, including several pano- 
rami¢c views which take in the crowds 
on the lawn and in the balconies of 
the hotel. These include excellent 
action pictures of the players. The 
pictures he has on sale at his studio. 
Emerson and Queen Quality Ox: 
fords at Bell’s. 
Get your watches repaired a 
Loomis’, 
