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NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Electric Transform (h) er 
Performs Wonders 
The Manchester Town hall was 
crowded Wednesday evening for the 
sale and entertainment under the aus- 
pices of the Farther Lights’ society 
and marvelled (?) at the wonders per- 
formed by the “most illustrious dis- 
covery of the age,”’ the electric trans- 
form(h)er. The Professor (E. P. 
Stanley) had brought his great magic 
worker before the ‘‘ Old Maid’s Matri- 
monial club,’ of which Mrs. Brown 
was president, Mrs. Wm. Follett, sec- 
retary, and Mrs. M. C. Horton, treas- 
urer. The meeting was opened and 
after a few preliminary numbers, in- 
cluding solo by Mrs. J. W. Lee and 
recitation by George Fleming, the 
“Professor”? was introduced. Heex- 
plained the greatness of his invention 
and its place among the discoveries of 
the age. When he called for subjects 
to work upon, one of the old maids 
(Mrs. Horton) stepped forward and 
wanted to be transformed into a fair 
maiden, fairer than was Priscilla, and 
to sing like a nightingale. She was 
given the mixture, entered the trans- 
form(h)er, the power turned on, and 
as the door was opened out stepped a 
fair maiden (Miss Olive Cook) who 
sang. Mrs. Cook wanted to be pretty 
and.to play on some musical instru- 
ment, and a few turns of the crank 
brought out a pretty maiden in the 
personage of Miss Ethel Stanley, who 
played on the piano; Mrs. Perkins 
wanted to have black eyes, black hair 
and sing and play. This was a big 
undertaking for the Professor, who 
evidently gave her the wrong elixir, 
as a colored girl was turned out with 
atambo in her hands. He tried it 
again and this time Miss Emma Prest 
stepped out of the machine and sang 
with Miss Grace Prest, accompanist. 
Mrs. E. W. Baker insisted on taking 
her dog with her and the operation 
brought forth Miss Elsie Dow, with a 
‘string of sausages in her hands. 
Bullock wanted to be a young school 
girl and speak pretty pieces. Miss 
Brewster was brought out of the ma- 
chine this time and entertained with 
one of her readings. Mrs. H. H. 
Preston wanted to play sweet music, 
and the transform(h)er turned out 
Miss Ethel McDiarmid, who sang 
with a guitar accompaniment. Mrs. 
Eliza Crombie put the Professor out 
of business as she wanted to be trans- 
formed intoa man. Despite the pro- 
testations of the Professor and the 
rest of the old maids she went into 
the machine, but she never came out 
and the noise told the story of the 
ending. 
This part of the program was fol- 
lowed by a farce “The train to 
Mauro,” in which Mrs. Brown took 
Mrs... 
the part of Mrs. Buttermilk, Herman 
Swett the clerk at the station, and 
Archie Cool the ‘terrible child.” 
One of the features of the meeting 
of the club was the report of “ Sarah 
Jane Springster,” (Mrs. Hattie Per- 
kins), chairman of the Lookout com- 
mittee, who read a very interesting 
report, giving the condition of the 
market as regards marriageable per- 
sons, concluding with saying that the 
‘‘ Happiest life that is ever led, is al- 
ways to court and never to wed.” 
The tables were in charge of the 
following : Candy table, Mrs. Brew- 
ster, Miss Brewster, Miss Ethel Stan- 
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