MAGNOLIA 
Gilbert Crispin spent Sunday in 
Boston with Mr. and Mrs. William 
B, Smith. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Lycett 
have been entertaining Mrs. Lycett’s 
parents, Mr, and Mrs. Philemon San- 
born of Acton, this week, 
Mr. and Mts, Harry Foster en- 
tertained their niece, Miss Alice 
Wonson, of East Gloucester, at the 
Green Party Tuesday evening. 
Charles Hunt came home from 
Cambridge, where he is employed at 
the market of his brother, Lafayette 
Hunt, of this village, to spend the 
week-end with his family, Raymond 
street. 
Mr. and Mrs. Carol Webber of 
Gloucester and Mr, and Mrs. John 
H. Robinson (nee Clara Butler), of 
Beverly spent Sunday in Magnolia as 
the guests of Mr. and Mrs, Henry 
W. Butler of Magnolia avenue. 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Davis of 
Magnolia avenue had as guests at 
their home Sunday, Mr. Davis’ par- 
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Gorham Davis, 
and Mrs. Annie Carter of Glouces- 
ter. 
Ralph Gardiner went to Boston 
Sunday to visit his little daughter, 
Helen, who is at the Massachusetts 
General hospital for an operation 
and found her quite as comfortable 
as possible under the circumstances. 
There were many Magnolia peo- 
ple among those who attended the 
Teachers’ lecture at Gloucester last 
Friday afternoon and the Blynman 
grammar school was closed for the 
afternoon session. The subject was 
“Ben Hur.” 
THE MODERN OHURCH. 
Dr. ATKINSON Lectures AT MAG- 
NOLIA ON PRESENT Day TASKS. 
Dr. A. H, Atkinson delivered one 
of the finest lectures of the season 
at the Village church last Sunday 
evening on “The Task of the Mod- 
ern Church.” The church has three 
important tasks in present day life, 
he said. They are (1) the mainten- 
ance of a standard of morality, 
which includes placing a_ restraint 
upon the actions of the community ; 
(2) the salvation of the individual, 
and (3) the salvation of the com- 
munity, for we are after all just as 
good or just as bad as the commun- 
ity in which we live; we are what 
our community forces us to be. 
In studying the community from 
all standpoints, Dr. Atkinson made 
use of stereopticon views which ser- 
ved very well to bring out the force 
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of his remarks. The business sec- 
tion of the city or town was first 
considered as holding the first place 
in the community life of today. 
Business is the keynote of our life; 
if business is good people are happy 
and smiling, if business is poor, such 
conditions as have arisen in our 
great cities this winter are the re- 
sult. 
The homes of the community was 
the next topic of Dr. Atkinson’s talk 
and they furnished a wealth of in- 
formation. The best homes were 
shown and, also, the poorest. 
Crowded, ill-kept tenement districts 
are a menace not only to the dwel- 
lers of such places but also to the 
better classes of people. The speaker 
told of an interesting case in one 
city with which he was acquainted 
where a terrible epidemic of typhoid 
fever brought the death rate up to 
about 30 per thousand. One man 
in the city speaking of the state of 
affairs in the negro quarters, said: 
“Oh, we’d be all right if it weren't 
for the niggers. They are the ones 
who start such diseases.” As Dr. 
Atkinson pointed out, however, ty- 
phoid has no respect for a color line 
and we must make it our responsi- 
bility to see that such districts are 
kept in a sanitary condition. 
Dr. Atkinson quoted to the effect 
that a man must have three things: 
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bread, beauty and brotherhood. In 
the community of which he used as 
his example the bread was furnished 
by the great mill industry there. The 
speaker dwelt at some length on the 
great and increasing number of peo- 
ple who work just for bread their 
whole lives. | 
It was, perhaps, concerning the 
amusements which a city or town 
provides for its young people that 
Dr, Atkinson made his most pointed 
remarks. Dancing came in for its 
share of attention and Dr, Atkinson 
expressed himself as being in favor 
of dancing under proper conditions. 
It is, he declared, one of the most 
beneficial exercises known as well 
as one of the most natural and most 
primitive forms of expression. The 
danger lies in lack of proper safe- 
guards and chaperonage. Dancing 
has great potentialities for good or 
for evil, though, as the speaker ex- 
pressed it, dancing should be no 
more dangerous than going to 
church. Dr. Atkinson made some 
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