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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
Dr. Leon H. Vincent Lectures on 
‘‘Nathaniel Hawthorne’’ 
The semi-monthly meeting of the 
Manchester Woman’s Club was held 
Tuesday afternoon at the chapel, 
President Mrs. Emma LE. Stanley, 
presiding. 
The announcements during the 
business meeting were as follows: 
Arts and Crafts class has changed 
its name to Home Economics; civics 
committee to be given annual fund 
of $25; convention at Mattapannock 
club, South Boston, October 28th at 
two o’clock, official delegate, Mrs. 
Grace Beaton, unofficial, Mrs. Carrie 
Knight. Tuesday afternoon, Octo- 
ber 24th, at 3.80 o’clock, Mrs. Rob- 
ert S. Bradley of Boston and Pride’s, 
will speak at the chapel on ‘‘The 
Fly.’’ Parents and the older chil- 
dren in the schools are urged to be 
present. Public evening stereopti- 
con lecture Wednesday evening, No- 
vember Ist, ‘‘ With Longfellow in 
Evangeline Land,’’ by Rev. Henry 
R. Rose, in the Town hall; current 
events class, October 31st, at 2.30 
o’clock, with Mrs. Beaton, for or- 
ganization. 
At the close of the business ses- 
sion, the musical and literary pro- 
gram was inaugurated by very 
pleasing vocal solos by Mrs. Alice 
Lee, who rendered two songs by 
Longfellow, ‘‘ Awake! It Is the Day”’ 
and ‘‘Star of the Summer Night,”’’ 
musical scores by Florence Newell 
Barbour. Mrs. Edith L. Williams 
served as accompanist. Dr. Leon H. 
Vincent was then introduced as lec- 
turer of the afternoon. 
Dr. Vincent came secure in his 
prestige and popularity as an enter- 
tainer. He had a very cordial re- 
ception. His subject was ‘‘Nathan- 
iel Hawthorne.”’ 
The subject was treated from the 
analytical and critical standpoint. 
He prefaced his address with an ex- 
position of genius. Hawthorne was 
an ‘‘American man of genius.’’ Ge- 
nius is a creative power, a gift: of 
God. A genius is not in the least 
responsible for what he does. He 
never works for money. He is ab- 
sorbed in himself. 
In describing Hawthorne’s person- 
ality he spoke of his childlike dis-' 
position, tendency to melancholy 
and visionary and_ trancendental 
moods. He earried his listeners 
through the various phases of his 
life, his bellicose youth when he 
liked baseball and a wide-awake 
life. At eleven years of age he had 
literary ambitions. He introduced 
him as the day laborer at the Salem 
Customs House. 
CHRYSANTHEMUM. EXHIBITION 
North Shore Horticultural Society 
Will Hold Flower Show in 
Manchester Town Hall Next Wednesday and Thursday 
The North Shore Horticultural 
Society will hold its only exhibition 
of the present year, in the Manches- 
ter Town hall, gn Wednesday and 
Thursday of next week. The flower 
shows are usually very popular fea- 
tures of the year on the North 
Shore, but this year the June and 
the mid-summer exhibitions of the 
society had to be omitted because of 
the drought the first of the summer. 
And now comes the Chrysanthemum 
exhibition. 
It is expected the exhibition will 
Be a very interesting one and that 
there will be a goodly number of 
exhibits. 
Besides chrysanthemums, there 
will be a display of other flowers, 
and carnations, fruits and vegeta- 
bles. 
It is earnestly hoped that the 
townspeople will patronize this exhi- 
bition. The admission will be 25 
cents during the day— Wednesday 
and Thursday—and 10 cents during 
the evening. The show will open at 
2 o’clock Wednesday. 
Hawthorne was noted physically 
as a very handsome man. His eyes 
were particularly beautiful ‘‘eyes 
that flashed fire.’’ He was brought 
up in the presence of an unconsola- 
ble grief. His mother became a con- 
firmed recluse at the sudden death 
of her husband at sea on a Surinam 
voyage. She shut herself in her 
room and never left it. Since Haw- 
thorne was deeply affected by per- 
sonalities this episode in his family 
life left a deep impression on him. 
‘‘My cursed habits of  solitude.’’ 
His authorship’s desires and ambi- 
tions came early and were prophetic. 
He was a poet in prose. - 
His married life was romantic and 
beautiful, in which he showed the 
spiritual and practical side of his 
life in his marital relations with his 
devoted wife, who was Miss Sophia 
Peabody of Salem. It was an ideal 
union of absolute comradeship and 
co-operation. 
‘“‘The Searlet Letter,’’ his great 
romance published in 1850 by the 
late James T. Fields, was particu- 
larly reviewed by Dr. Vincent and 
criticised as ‘‘Shakespearian in 
power.’’ That story alone made 
Hawthorne one of the great masters 
of story writing. He was contem- 
porary with Irving and Poe in that 
literary respect. 
He spoke of Hawthorne’s life at 
Concord and in Europe. 
Hawthorne’s . best biographers 
were announced as Prof. George Ed- 
ward Woodbury, Henry James and 
his son, Julian Hawthorne. 
At the close of the lecture, a so- 
cial period was enjoyed. There was 
an informal reception for the eleven 
new club members. In the tea room 
Mrs. Sarah Crowell presided as hos- 
tess. At the tea table Mrs. Alex- 
ander Robertson and Mrs. George 
Allen poured. At the next regular 
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club meeting, November 7th, a very 
novel and interesting lecture has 
been provided, ‘‘ Aerial Voyaging,’’ 
by Mrs. Mabel Loomis Todd. Mrs. 
Annie M. Sinnicks will be hostess 
of the day. 
There are times when 
words cannot express your 
mood. ‘Then what a valued 
friend is a sympathetic in- 
strument. You can show 
joy, love, tenderness, sad- 
ness, on the 
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