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SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Jane Fairfield, daughter of 
Mrs. James Barr, who is attending 
school in Virginia, is spending the 
Thanksgiving holiday at her old 
home in Washington, D. C., where 
she is the guest of her grandmother, 
Mrs. Fairfield, wife of the late sci- 
entist, George A. Fairfield of the 
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. 
Miss Fairfield will spend a part of 
the holiday at the home of Gen. 
John C. Wilson. Miss Fairfield was 
very popular among the younger set 
at Beverly Farms last season. 
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Arthur M. Merriam, who is still at 
his cottage at West Manchester, had 
the misfortune to break several 
bones in his right hand Thursday 
week. He was cranking his auto 
when it ‘‘back fired.”’ 
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Miss Helen Taft was in Cambridge 
last Saturday, the guest of her 
brother, Robert Taft, with whom 
she witnessed the MHarvard-Yale 
football game. She returned to the 
capital Monday. 
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At the first meeting, December 8, 
of the associate members of the Sew- 
ing Cirele League of Boston, at the 
Tuileries, Dr. Richard Cabot will 
talk on ‘‘Social Service at the 
Massachusetts General MHospital.’’ 
Serving on the committee are Miss 
Alice Thorndike of West Manches- 
ter and Miss: Margaret Thomas of 
the Pride’s Crossing colony. 
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There was a large company at 
Mrs. William B. Kehew’s home on 
Chestnut street, Boston, last Thurs- 
day afternoon for the benefit of the 
South End Musie School. The pa- 
tronesses included Mrs. Robert S. 
Bradley, Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane, 
Miss Louisa P. Loring and Mrs. 
Alexander Steinert. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Rantoul, 
with Miss Margaret and Miss Hen- 
rietta Rantoul of Salem and Beverly 
Farms, were of those arriving on the 
Tvernia after several months’ ab- 
sence. 
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Mesdames Gordon Abbott, Ru- 
dolphe L. Agassiz, Bryce J. Allan, 
Oliver Ames, 2d, William Appleton, 
Edward D. Brandegee, Henry D. 
Burnham, Charles P. Curtis, Jr., 
William C. Endicott, Jr., George R. 
Fearing, Jr.. F. L. Higginson, Geo. 
(. Lee, Jr., Dudley L. Pickman, Geo. 
T. Rice, F. L. W. Richardson, Philip 
TL. Saltonstall, Winthrop Sargent, 
Philip S. Sears, Barrett Wendell and 
Roger Wolcott are the patronesses 
for the two assemblies this winter, 
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Stl One vear 
BREEZE 
January 5 and February 9, in the 
ballroom of the Somerset. Mrs. 
Kdward Brandegee’s name has been 
added to the committee, Mrs. Na- 
thaniel Thayer not serving this 
year. Mr. Minot’s name, too, is off 
from that list, where it has stood so 
many seasons, both absent through 
mourning. The important rule has 
been made this year for the first 
time that from now on no debu- 
tante’s name shall be added to the 
invitation list. They will have to 
wait for the honor until their sec- 
ond season. This decision naturally 
will cause some disappointment and 
probably diminish the undergradu- 
ate list at Harvard; otherwise the 
assemblies will be the same as in 
former years, except for the music, 
which will be supplied by Berger’s 
Hungarian orchestra from New 
York and Newport, which made 
such a success at two of the debu- 
tante balls last year at the Somer- 
set. 
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The annual Christmas celebration 
at the Industrial School for Crippled 
and Deformed Children, 241 Bo- 
tolph street, Boston, will take place 
on Friday, December 22d. Dona- 
tions of money to help procure gifts 
to gladden the hearts of those un- 
fortunate children will be gratefully 
received by Francis J. Cotting at 
his home, 249 Commonwealth ave- 
nue, Boston. Mr. Cotting has a 
summer home at Pride’s. The 
school conducts a summer store at 
Manchester each season. 
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On Tuesday afternoon, December 
5, a matinee performance of the 
‘‘Blue Bird’’ is to be given at the 
Shubert Theatre for the benefit of 
Hale House, 6 Garland street, a so- 
cial settlement in the south end of 
Boston. The special committee for 
the directors includes Mrs. 8. Park- 
man Blake; of Boston and West 
Manchester. Among the patronesses 
are Mrs. S. Reed Anthony, Mrs. 
Robert S. Bradley and Mrs. W. 
Seott Fitz. 
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Edward S. Curtis, author of ‘‘The 
North American [Indian,’’ is to 
give his musical lecture, ‘‘The 
Story. of a Vanishing Race,’’ in 
Jordan Hall, Boston, on December 
8th, at 2.30 o’clock, and the follow- 
ing evening at 8.15. Among the pa- 
trons and patronesses are Mr. and 
Mrs. Rudolphe Agassiz, Mr. and 
Mrs. Bryce Allan,- Mr. and Mrs. 
Thomas Aspinwall, Mr. and Mrs. 
Frank B. Bemis. Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
L. Higginson, Mr. and Mrs. F. L. 
Higginson and Mr. and Mrs. Eben 
D. Jordan. 
Mrs. George 
von lL. Meyer and 
Samuel Eliot, son of Mr. and Mrs, 
Amory Eliot of Boston and Man: 
chester, attended Mr. and Mrs. Pres... 
ton Gibson’ s recent dinner party at~ 
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the capital in honor of Miss Mary. - 
Southerland of Washington, fiancee. 
of Louis Bacon of Boston. 
A FEW CHESTNUTS 
Many near relatives are very distant. 
We have lots of young ladies and lots 
of pert misses but the sweet, old-fashioned 
girls of ever so long ago have vanished. 
along with the poke bonnet and cinnamon 
cookies. . 
Appearances are not always deceiving. 
Many teachers imagine that their appear- 
ance does not indicate their profession but 
the following story has a tendency to 
prove that they are mistaken. A little 
boy and his sister who had always at- 
tended school with their parents and were 
on their way to the public school building 
to enroll. The superintendent was also on 
_his way to school and overtook the little 
ones. As was his custom whenever he 
saw school children he bade them good 
morning and after returning his greeting 
the little boy asked: 
school, too?’’?’ The superintendent 
swered ‘‘ Yes. Why do you ask?’’ 
little girl meanwhile 
brother, 
‘“He is the professor.’’? So the 
little lad said, ‘‘Oh, I know now, you are 
a teacher.’’ The man acknowledged the 
truth of the accusation but asked: ‘‘Do 
I look like a teacher?’’ The boy said yes, 
so the man asked him, ‘‘How do teachers 
look?’’ The reply was, ‘‘Just like you 
look.’’ ae 
Mr. Jones went into a photographer’s 
studio to see the proofs of some photo- 
graphs which his son was having made. 
He seemed much pleased and picked out 
one which he said was an excellent like- 
ness very much like the son. 
He said to the photographer, ‘‘ And has 
the young man paid for the pictures?’’ 
The answer came, ‘‘No, not yet.’’ 
The father said, ‘‘Very like him in- 
deed.’’ ; 
Guest: ‘Landlord, “you may bring me 
a sirloin steak. Let it be fresh and juicy, 
broiled half through, but not too rare, 
very tender, and be sure that you use real 
fresh butter.’’ 
Landlord: ‘‘Why, if I had such a fine 
thing as that I’d eat it myself. 
They were Quakers, brother and sister, 
and had lived together many years, but 
Reuben was now a very sick man. His 
time had come, and he moaned and tossed 
on his pillow. 
““Reuben,’’ said his sister consolingly, 
‘(why dost thee fear death. Thee hast 
been a good brother, paid thy debts and 
given to the poor.’’ 
‘‘Trne, true, Penelope, but,’’ lowering 
his voice, ‘‘I have been a bit ‘sly.”? 
Two very nice little girls had a quarrel 
one day. 
‘« Anyhow,’’ said one to the other, who 
was an adopted child, ‘‘your parents. are 
not teal.’? 
Whereupon the other little git re- 
torted, ‘‘I don’t care, my pap and mamma 
nicked me out. Yours had to take ae 
just as you came,’’ 
““Are you going to. 
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whispered to her 
