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Marr, Orper Housks AND PARCEL 
Post. 
While commercial reports are to 
the effect that the parcel post has not 
materially ‘hurt the small stores, yet 
it seems to be agreed that the mail 
order houses are doing a bigger busi- 
ness than ever. In one town of sev- 
eral thousand people, Fairfield Me., 
it is claimed that $50,000 is sent out 
annually to mail order houses. 
Possibly there may be some special 
reason for this particular case. But, 
anyway, if the mail order houses are 
getting away trade that ought to stay 
at home, it is because they are better 
advertisers. 
Their ads contain little cuts of arti- 
cles for sale, brief descriptions, and 
statement of prices. Some news- 
paper advertisers think all they need 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
to do is to put in the name of their 
company, and a hackneyed claim that 
they have the best goods, without 
proof or details. | Wherever retail 
stores plan their advertising cam- 
paigns* with, system and_ persistence 
the mail order houses rarely get a 
serious hold. 
N. Y. Hippodrome. 
The stupendous success scored by 
the spectacular revival of Gilbert & 
Sullivan’s ‘‘H. M. S. Pinafore’’ at 
the New York Hippodrome has 
overshadowed all amusement offer- 
ings of the current season in the 
gay Metropolis. Little or nothing 
else is heard of in the clubs, cafes 
and other rendezvous of the amuse- 
ment ‘‘fans’’ save the antique maj- 
esty of the weather beaten frigate 
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6) 0 OO eh SOS EMOTO TE 
that monopolizes the stage at the 
New York Hippodrome. 
High of mast, mighty of bulk, 
smelly of tar and incrusted salt, the 
ancient craft rides the placid swell 
of the huge Hippodrome tank with 
the pride that might be expected of 
Drake’s or Nelson’s flagship. Pie- 
ture, if you can, the sailors manning 
the old square yard-arms, and rail; 
the detail of red-coated marines; 
the drummers and their historic 
roll; the bowswains and their pipes 
and the roeck-ribbed harbor of Ports- 
mouth in the hazy distance, with 
eutters, tenders and ‘‘bumboats’’ 
dancing over the waves to reach the 
ship, and you have a mental photo- 
graph of ‘‘Pinafore’’ as given at the 
Hippodrome. 
ANTI-SUFFRAGE MEETING. 
Big Demonstration at Faneuil Hall, 
April 28. 
The biggest public demonstration 
against woman suffrage ever held 
in this state will be the monster 
anti-suffrage mass meeting in his- 
torical Faneuil hall, Boston, on 
Tuesday night, April 28. 
A delegation from the Manches- 
ter branch, of which Mrs. J. C. 
Mackin is chairman, will be on 
hand in Boston that night to signify 
its disapproval of woman suffrage. 
From every part of Massachusetts 
word has come of enthusiastic plans 
for attendance at the meeting. Pro- 
vision is being made for an over- 
flow meeting. 
Ion. Curtis Guild, former govy- 
ernor, late Ambassador to Russia, 
and a speaker of national promin- 
ence, will preside at the meeting. 
Mr. Guild is an ardent anti-suffra- 
gist, and has never hesitated to go 
on record as such. 
Mr. Guild, during the recent 
State House hearings on suffrage, 
sent a letter to be read which was 
read before the committee by Miss 
Mary Shreve Ames, and which crea- 
ted a profound impression. As an 
arraignment of the popular delu- 
sion called ‘‘woman suffrage.’’ Mr. 
Guild’s statement was considered a 
masterpiece, and has sinee been 
printed for public circulation. 
There is no admission to the rally, 
nor will there be any. collection of 
any sort. 
Aren’t the latest ties they have 
turned out for us men folks the hot- 
test bits of dry goods you ever gaz- 
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