NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
PARENT-TEACHER MEETING. 
In spite of the bad weather of 
Wednesday there was a_ goodly 
number at the meeting of the Parent- 
Teacher association at the Price 
school, Manchester. The speaker of 
the evening was Mr, Edwin Mul- 
ready of Rockland, superintendent of 
the probation officers of the state, 
who is well remembered in Man- 
chester, having been here last year 
for the same association. 
Last fall Mr. Mulready was ap- 
pointed by the President a delegate 
to the Anti-Alcoholic Conference at 
Milan, representing New England. 
His talk was of this trip and was 
very informal, being liberally sprink- 
led with humorous incidents. After 
leaving Boston the first land sighted 
was the Azores where all landed and 
many stayed, While there they were 
‘much amused by the dress of the 
women, which after all was not so 
bad. The natives enjoyed the looks 
of the foreigners in their slit and 
narrow skirts quite as much. 
The churches there had no pews or 
seats and men were noticed hang- 
ing their large straw hats on their 
heels as they knelt At Gibralter 
was discovered an honest man, ‘The 
boat having been delayed for repairs 
in mid-ocean was five days late. 
Thinking it quicker to travel to Mi- 
lan by rail through Spain and France 
Mr. Mulready applied for tickets, 
only to be told he would probably be 
out of commission if he lived at ail 
to travel so far. It was here that a 
bell is rung at a certain time every 
night for all strangers to leave town. 
They are arrested on sight after that 
time. The boat reached the bay of 
Naples at sunset and there he found 
out that his Italian friend ‘had spoken 
truly when hhe said that the sun was 
brighter, the sky bluer and the water 
more beautiful than any where else. 
After leaving the boat at Naples 
they proceded to Rome and on to 
Milan by train. 
At the conference were 1097 dele- 
gates from thirty-two governments, 
eleven of them Americans. While 
Massachusetts has the least possible 
trouble from the uses of liquor last 
year 105,000 arrests were made and 
7,000 of them were women. We 
have the problem as well as others. 
The most beautiful thing he saw 
in Milan was Leonardo da Vinci's 
painting of the “Last Supper.” Al- 
though Paris appeals to almost every- 
one Mr. Mulready was not very 
much impressed except that the 
three stores worth while were shoe 
stores of Keith and Hanan, In 
Paris everyone was drinking, the 
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sidwalks were wide to accommodate 
tables. In Italy where grapes are 
_the only reventte no drunkenness was 
seen. In Paris there were very few, 
while in London there were many. 
There women stand at the bar as 
men do here. 
Mr. Mulready was one of the in- 
vestigators in the white slave ques- 
tion in the state. It has been found 
that the condition is increased greatly 
by the neglect of children. In Lon- 
don he again saw but much more 
clearly how parents were at fault. 
After months abroad Boston light 
was an emblem of hope and thanks- 
giving, for the trip showed him more 
than anything else the advantages of 
America. 
The music of the evening was fur- 
nished by a trio: Miss Porter, vio- 
lin, Mr. Stebbins, violin and Mr. 
Munroe, piano. After the meeting 
the social hour was enjoyed by all. 
Your ability—your courage—as a 
salesman is pretty much a question 
of whether you seek to do your cus- 
tomers good, or to do them good. 
During a health talk Sunday a 
3oston doctor declared that there is 
no such thing as rheumatism. What! 
Well, if that man will just step 
around the corner where the ladies 
cannot hear I'll tell him exactly 
what I think he is. No rheumatism! 
Wow! Wow! Wow! 
