SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Adele Lingard and Miss Ol- 
ga Lingard removed to their winter 
home 267 Beacon street, Boston, 
early this week, bringing their 
North Shore season at Annisquam, 
““The Pines’’ to a close. 
Charles W. Small and family have 
concluded their long sojourn at 
their Land’s End, Rockport, estate, 
‘‘Shore Acres’’, They left late last 
week for their winter home in Mal- 
den. 
Rey. Charles G. Ames, D. D., the 
venerable and noted Unitarian min- 
ister of Boston and East Gloucester, 
is back in Boston again after a long 
absence from that city. Dr. Ames 
returns greatly improved in health. 
D. Appleton & Co., have issued 
two boys’ books by Ralph Henry 
Barbour of Camrbidge and Manches- 
ter, ‘‘Winning His Y’’ and ‘‘The 
New Boy at Hill Top’’. 
W. Harry Brown of Pittsburg 
and Burgess Point, Beverly, a 
member of the New York Yacht 
club, in his yacht Visitor II, 
which graced North Shore waters 
the past season, went up the Pana- 
ma canal on Nov. 23. Mr. Brown 
had the honor of being the first to 
go up the canal. With him were a 
party of prominent business men, 
Colonel Goethals, Ex-Mayor Diehl, 
Capt. Scott of the U. S. Steel Com- 
pany, Congressman Barchfeld and 
his son Elmer and daughters, Helen 
and Bessie. Mr. Brown is a member 
of the Merchant Marine Company. 
He was enthusiastic over the trip. 
The formal debut of Miss Helen 
Taft was one of the most brilliant 
receptions ever held at the White 
House. President and Mrs. Taft for- 
mally received with their daughter 
and greeted 1200 guests who were 
presented by Capt. Archibald Butt. 
The Marine Band played in the out- 
er corridor for two hours. The 
White House was decorated with 
the choicest roses and chrysanthe- 
mums from the White House con- 
servatory while Miss Taft received 
hundreds of bouquets and baskets of 
flowers. Miss Taft’s presentation 
gown was of pink chiffon over white 
satin, while Mrs. Taft was attired 
in blue chiffon cloth over satin 
adorned with bands of black fur. 
Refreshments were served in the 
State dining room where thousands 
of pink roses were used for decora- 
tions. Mrs. Beekman Winthrop, 
Miss Mabel Boardman, Miss Colton 
and Miss Mary Southerland served 
tea and chocolate, 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Mrs. Larz Anderson will give a 
Christmas tree party at her home in 
Brookline, Saturday, the 24th. Her 
guests will be largely blind children 
in whose welfare she is so actively 
interested. 
The latest at the Ipswich aviation 
field is a mile and a half at a height 
of 100 feet recently made by Wm. 
M. Hilliard with the big Burgess- 
Curtiss biplane. . 
The critical illness in Washington 
of former Justice William H. Moody, 
who spent last summer at Magnolia, 
is learned with regret. 
Master Charlie Taft, the Presi- 
dent’s youngest son was recently 
confirmed to the Episcopal faith by 
Rt. Rev. Benjamin Brecoster in 
Christ Episcopal church, - Water- 
town, Conn. Master Taft’s mother 
and sister are Episcopalians also. 
North Shore society matrons and 
young women in evidence at last 
Friday’s Symphony rehearsal to 
greet Madame Melba were Mrs. Gor- 
don Abbott, Mrs. J. M. Longyear, 
Mrs. Barrett Wendell, Jr., Mrs 
Neal Rantoul, Mrs. Wm. Hooper, 
Mrs. John C. Phillips and Miss Mary 
Curtis. 
The Peabody Academy of Science 
has received for its collection many 
new additions. Among the contri- 
butors have been Dr. John C. Phil- 
lips, who gave to the bird collection 
a chewink. A song sparrow was the 
gift of John L. Saltonstall. 
Mr. and Mrs. Harold D. Mason 
(nee Junia K. Russell) of Cambridge 
have returned from their bridal tour 
and are established in their new 
home on Commonwealth avenue. 
At the debutante tea of Mrs 
Thomas C. Thatcher for her daugh- 
ter, Miss Dorothy Thatcher, at the 
family residence, Beacon street, Bos- 
ton, late last week, among those pre- 
siding at the tea table were the Miss- 
es Helen Hooper and Elise Ames. 
A notable wedding in Washington 
or recent society and diplomatic in- 
terest was that of Miss Eleanor 
Terry, daughter of Rear Admiral Si- 
las W. Terry, retired, and Lieut. Fil- 
ippo Camperio of the Italian Royal 
Navy formerly naval attache of the 
Italian embassy. Among the ushers 
at the wedding which was held in 
St. Thomas’s Episcopal church were 
Capt. Butt, the various attaches of 
the Italian Embassy and Brigadier 
General Clarence Edwards. The 
wedding breakfast was served at 
Rauscher’s. They will sail for Ven- 
ice Dec. 10, after a honeymoon trip 
outside of Washington. 
to be longer lived than the Turkes- 
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Our IMferkly Letter From | 
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By F. J. Dyrr. 
(Special to the North Shore Breeze.) 
Washington, Dee. 8 
An agricultural explorer of the 
Department of Agriculture has 
spent the year exploring the plant 
resources of southwestern Asia, 
Among the large number of interest- 
ing things he has secured is a variety 
of alfalfa from Erivan, which is said 
tan; a species of Medicago from an 
altitude of over 4,000 feet, which is 
already being utilized in the work 
of creating new hybrid alfafa for 
the Northwest; a wild almond from 
the Zarafshan Valley, found grow- 
ing on the dry mountain sides at an_ 
altitude of 6,000 feet; a drought-re- 
sistant cherry for home gardens in— 
the Northwest; and a collection of 
apricots with sweet kernels from 
Samarkand; the Afghasian apple 
and special varieties of pears for 
trial in the Gulf States; some re- 
markable olives, which have with-— 
stood zero temperatures and_ still — 
borne good crops of fruit; late and 3 
early varieties of Caucasian peaches — 
for trial in the Southwest; seeds col- 
lected in the Caucasus from wild — 
plants of the true Paradise apple, — 
which is used as a dwarf stock for 
the purpose of obtaining seedlings — 
not infected with crown gall; scions 
of a newly produced crab apple, re-_ 
ported to be a better keeper than 
American crab apples; the Slew Ab- 
rikos, a variety of apricot with a 
skin as smooth as that of a nectar-— 
ine; a remarkable drought-resistant — 
popular for the Middle West; and a — 
wild strawberry, fruiting at the end 
of February on the dry caleareous— 
cliffs of the Caueasus. 
Irrigation Investigations. 
The Office of Experiment Stations. 
has endeavored to enlarge its plans. 
to meet the demands for informa- 
tion. In the past, water for irriga- 
tion purposes was plentiful, and in 
the old-school method of use great — 
quantities were wasted. In many. 
parts of the West this old method 
still prevails, but the improved prin-_ 
ciple of irrigation advocated by the 
Department is rapidly displacing 
those of former days and good re- 
sults are noticeable. When the ir- 
rigators of the San Joaquin Vallev 
first began irrigation they used over 
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