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belie art, now more or less systematized under, the sci- 
ence of heraldry had its beginnings in a chaotic condi- 
tion. 
The designs of so many barbaric cheiftains, dupli- 
cated in the European coat of arms, in which it is 
claimed heraldry had its birth, could hardly have been 
due to countless co-incidences. Even ancient symbols 
have been retained in the systematized science. ‘‘The 
“White Horse’ of the Saxons and the ‘Palm Tree and 
Crocodile’ of the city of Nismes anterior to the period 
generally recorded as the genesis of heraldry is a case in 
point.”’ 
Armorial bearings may have come and gone as other 
arts leaving behind for centuries only unauthenticated 
traces. The fault of these inaccuracies may be account- 
el for by the carelessness and ignorance of officers and 
custodians as is often the case in every community in 
our modern affairs. And such errors must have been 
numerous and glaring in the times and under the condi- 
tions that did not lend themselves to the scientific ac- 
curacy practiced today. Much therefore that is true in 
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everything ancient has therefore been confounded with 
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the false as is the case with much critical research, and ¥ 
not enough due regard is given to many things, that al- 
though unauthenticated, have, however, about them 
certain strong probabilities. apn t' 
Heraldry has no doubt been a process of evolution 
and is most interesting in its study, until it assumes a 
place in history and society both important and dis- 
tinctive above many other arts and promises to remain 
So. . 
To the 12th century must be conceded it seems the 
orderly array and marshalling of the art. Contrary to 
a generally accepted idea of its antiquity the modern 
phase of the art as a social insignia is in its infancy. It 
is not ‘‘anciens régime,’’ but in a sense most modern 
and is not a worn out medieval eccentricity of the no- 
bility as some contend. Especially is this true of armo- 
rial bearings as an hereditary distinction which dates 
from the times of the tournaments which contribute a 
most romantic chapter in the tale of heraldry. 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
Mrs. Louis A. Shaw (Miss Joan Bird), who is one of 
the very few North Shore society women to hold a gun- 
ner’s license, accompanied her husband to New York for 
the Cutler-Fish nuptials. Mr. Shaw served as an usher. 
Frederick Ayer and family of Boston and Pride’s, 
who are at the Virginia Hot Springs, recently gave an 
automobile party follewed by dinner at Fassifern farm. 
Returning and sojourning North Shore summer resi- 
dents were largely in evidence at the Boston symphony 
rehearsal last Friday afternoon: Major and Mrs. Henry 
L. Higginson, Miss Faith Simpkins, Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, 
Mrs. John Lawrence, Mrs. 8. V. R. Crosby, Mrs. Charles 
W. Taintor, Mrs. Neal Rantoul and daughter, Josephine 
and many others. 
Last Friday evening President Taft gave a dinner at 
the White House in honor of the Mayor of Tokio, Ja- 
pan. Mrs. Taft and her sister, Miss Herron, did the 
honors with the President, Miss Taft not having re- 
turned to Washington. Chrysanthemums, Japan’s na- 
tional flower, were used in profusion. The Marine Or- 
chestra played during the dinner. The mayors of New 
York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Richmond, Va., were 
among the guests bidden. There were covers for some 
fifty-four guests. 
George Lee Peabody has fully recovered from his ill- 
ness and is expected in Newport this month with his 
fiancee, Miss Edith Deacon, for a visit with the latter’s 
grandmother, Mrs. C. H. Baldwin. 
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George E. Cabot and family preceded Mrs. Chas. P. 
Hemenway to Boston on Monday of this week. Mrs. 
Hemenway closed her estate at Manchester on Wednes- 
day. 
Miss Elizabeth C. Wood of Cobb avenue, Manchester, 
entertained a party of Boston and Providence friends 
Tuesday of this week, with an auto pienie party along 
the North Shore drives. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Francis R. Allen brought their sojourn — 
at “Old Corner House,’’ Sea and Bridge streets, West 
Manchester, to a close Tuesday of this week and opened 
their residence: on Fairfield street, Boston. 
Miss Adele G. Thayer’s household servants completed 
the closing of the ‘‘Uplands,’? her West Manchester 
estate, on Tuesday. Miss Thayer preceded them to Bos- 
ten a few days before. 
Miss Eleanora Sears is in New York and has been an ~ 
interested spectator at the aviation meet at Belmont 
Park. She also made a flight with Grahame-White. 
The William L. Putnams were among the Boston fam- 
ilies, who opened their town houses, Boston, this week. 
Their summer residence on Smith’s Point, Manchester, 
will be kept open for week-ends most of the fall and 
winter. 
Edmund K. Arnold and family departed from the 
Tappan cottage, Sea street, Manchester, Monday. Their 
winter residence is in Gloucester street, Boston. 
Mr. and Mrs. Lester Leland of West Manchester are 
spending the week in New York. They will go to 
Europe later to spend most of the winter. 
Manchester, Mass. 
