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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
The Manchester Woman’s club 
meeting was held in the Congrega- 
tional chapel on Tuesday afternoon 
of this week. Roland Stebbins ren- 
dered two selections, “Legende” and 
. “Hungarian Dance” on the violin, ac- 
companied by Rev. C. A. Hatch, 
Mrs. Rachael Noah France read 
a paper on “Shakespeare’s Heroines,” 
giving many quotations showing the 
different phrases of womanhood, The 
first was from ‘“The Merchant of 
Venice,”—the dialogue between Por- 
tia and Nerissa. A description given 
by Jessica was read to show that 
everyone had praise for Portia’s 
beauty, intellect and gentle dignity. 
Two scenes were given from Romeo 
and Juliet. The first from act two, 
second scene in the Capulet’s orch- 
ard, known as the balcony scene, and 
the second, the third scene in the 
fourth act known as the potion scene. 
Juliet’s love was so complete and true 
that it was her existence; she was 
not ‘in love,” but was love. Lady 
Macbeth brings out another kind of 
love, one that was ambitious, not for 
herself, but her husband. She would 
stop at nothing to accomplish her 
ends for his advancement. She re- 
nounced all womanly feeling to help 
him and then when all was over her 
nerves gave way, proving how human 
she was. 
The last quotation was from Henry 
VIII, the second act, fourth scene,— 
the divorce trial of Queen Katherine 
and Henry VIII. The characters 
were the Queen, Cardinal Wolsey, 
her enemy, Cardinal Campenis and 
the King. The chief characteristic 
brought out by the study of Kather- 
ine is queenly dignity and virtue, 
Mrs. France is not a stranger in 
Manchester, as she gave “My Per- 
sonal Reminiscences of Actresses” 
before the Woman’s club last year. 
She was thoroughly enjoyed and 
heartily applauded. Mrs. George 
Dean was the hostess of the after- 
noon serving tea and cake. 
Notice was given of the guest 
night to be held February 4th, Joe 
Mitchell Chapple will be the speak- 
er. His subject will be “Flashlights 
of Famous Men.” 
remaining unclaimed at 
the Manchester, Mass., P. O., for 
week ending Jan. 17, 1914: Mrs. 
Ernest Adams, Mrs. Arthur Allen, 
Warren N, Bowen, Guiseppe Coputo, 
Mrs. Mary J. Coffee, Joe Hood, Ed- 
ward O. Hatch, Mrs. Wm. Huming, 
Arthur D, Potter, Capt. Leon Rob- 
bins, Bernard Wolf. 
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LEE’S BLOCK, MANCHESTER 
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Hicu ScHoo, ENTERTAINMENT NExt 
WEEK. 
An entertainment will be given in 
the Manchester Town hall, by the 
pupils of the Story High school, 
Wednesday evening January 28. It 
will include a short comedy, “A Limb 
o’ the Law,” with parts taken by the 
following: Joseph Carey, George 
Rust, Harry Baker, George Flem- 
ming, William Angus, William 
Walsh, Hester Rust, Esther North- 
rup, Gladys Semons and Antoinette 
Vidal. As the purpose of the enter- 
tainment is to procure funds to com- 
plete payment on the new school 
piano, several musical numbers on 
the program will be furnished by the 
Girls’ Glee club and an orchestra of 
twelve players: Miss Bella C. Porter, 
Mr, S. F. Monroe, Mr. Roland Steb- 
bins, Joseph Carey, Allen McKinnon, 
Ethel Townsend, Mr. Alfred C. 
Needham, Mr. Byron Bullock, Les- 
ter Paige, Mr. Joseph Allen, Frank 
Knight and Harry Baker. 
Home made candy will be on sale. 
Tickets are now on sale at Allen’s 
drug store. 
It’s all right to take things as they 
come, but it’s surer to go after them. 
O’BriEN MINSTRELS AT SALEM. 
For his second annual tour at the 
head of his own minstrel organiza- 
tion, which is again directed by Os- ~ 
car F. Hodge, Neil O’Brien who 
comes to the Empire theatre, Salem, 
next Monday, Jan. 26, with his brand 
new company of fifty people, has 
written two new “nigger acts,” which 
are said to be classics in their style 
and treatment and quite the best bit 
of authorship that this popular min- 
strel has ever turned out. One is 
called “Parcels Post” and will! be 
produced with Mr. O’Brien in the 
leading character. The other has 
been given the title of ‘““‘Who’s Boss? 
or Taming the Militant.” Those who 
have laughed themselves almost into 
convulsions at Mr. O’Brien’s numer- 
ous other sketches of “nigs” need not 
be reminded of this writer’s profi- 
ciency in this line, By the major- 
ity he is considered the past mas- 
ter of this line of writing and his 
two latest endeavors are spoken of 
by him as his best efforts of a busy 
career, 
S‘lence is the wit of fools, and 
ene of the virtues of the wise.—Bon- 
nard, 
