NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
VOL. IX 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The annual fair in aid of the 
Elizabeth Peabody House, Boston, 
will open tomorrow morning at ten 
| o’clock, in the parlors of Hotel Ven- 
dome, Boston. Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby 
of the West Manchester colony, will 
| pour in the tea room from 4 until 
5.30 tomorrow afternoon. Edward 
J. Holmes, son-in-law of Mrs. W. 
Seott Fitz of Boston and Manches- 
| ter, is assistant treasurer of the 
| home. Honorary vice presidents of 
this association are Mrs. James T. 
| Fields, 
| Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw. On the di- 
| rectorate are Mrs. Frank S. Chick, 
| Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby, Mrs. Greeley 
§. Curtis, Mrs. Thomas B. Gannett 
' and Mrs. Henry, S. Grew. 
: Biss Mabel Boardman of Wash- 
ington and Manchester, held a re- 
ception in the home of her parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. William J. Boardman, 
for the officers and members of the 
American National Red Cross So- 
ciety, who met in Washington Tues- 
day for their annual conference. 
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] “Miss Julia and Miss Alice Meyer, 
Miss Margaret Draper and Miss 
eee Cotton-Smith were among 
e guests at the luncheon Atty.- 
Gen. and Mrs. Wickersham gave at 
their home in Washington last Fri- 
yY in honor of Miss Martha 
Bowers. That night Secretary and 
Mrs. Meyer entertained at dinner in 
honor of Miss Mary Southerland. 
Some there, were her fiance, Louis 
3acon, the Preston Gibsons, Miss 
rgaret and John Cotton-Smith 
and Samuel Eliot, son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Amory Eliot of Boston and 
Manchester. 
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_ Mrs. Collver, who was Miss Ethel 
Blanchard, and whose clever brush 
1s well known to society people in 
any departments of art, has a very 
interesting loan exhibition at the 
ypley Gallery, which opened Mon- 
y and continues through Decem- 
ber 16th. Among the many fine 
samples shown are those loaned by 
s. Richard D. Sears, Mrs. Gardi- 
M. Lane and Mrs. S. van Ren- 
selaer Crosby, Mrs. B. Potter 
Weeks, all of which are exquisite 
wings on parchment. 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, 
Mrs. Edward S. Grew and’ 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Hale Ban- 
croft of Boston and Hale street, 
Beverly, have issued invitations for 
a dance at Copley Hall, Boston, this 
evening in honor of their debutante 
daughter, Miss Eleanor Carroll 
Bancroft. 
Miss Julia Meyer, the older of 
Secretary and Mrs. Meyer’s daugh- 
ters, and James Curtis, an assistant 
secretary of the treasury, Mrs. 
Greely Curtis’ son, were of the 
guests at Mrs. Benjamin Warder’s 
dinner in Washington Wednesday 
night of last week. It was in honor 
of her son-in-law and daughter, the 
Minister to Argentina and Mrs. 
John Garrett. i 
The Friday evening dancing 
classes in Boston are serving to 
bring the younger members of the 
North Shore contingent into most 
pleasurable intercourse. Among 
this coterie are Miss Olivia Ames, 
the younger daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. Oliver Ames of Boston and 
Pride’s; Miss Marie Agassiz, Mr. 
and Mrs. Rodolphe lL. Agassiz’s 
daughter of the Hamilton colony; 
From the Manchester cottage settle- 
ment are Miss Rosamond Eliot, Miss 
Eleanor Fabyan. Among the young 
men is Vincent Astor of New York. 
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Miss Gertrude Amory of Boston 
and Pride’s was the hostess for the 
first Sewing Circle luncheon of the 
season of the 1911-12 debutantes. 
It was given at her home on Beacon 
street, Boston. 
Mrs. Horatio N. Slater has an- 
nounced Friday, Jan. 19th, as the 
date on which she will give a ball 
at the Hotel Somerset, Boston, in 
honor of the debut of her eldest 
daughter, Miss Esther Slater. The 
ball will follow a series of dinner 
parties and a cotillon and will pre- 
cede a number of smaller dances and 
dinner parties at the Slater home at 
Pine Bank, Milton. Mrs. Slater is a 
daughter of the late famous artist, 
William Morris Hunt, who gave 
Magnolia its early distinction as a 
summer rendezvous for  distin- 
guished people. 
DECEMBER 8, 1911. 
NO. 49 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Charlotte Read, the younger 
daughter of Mr. and “Mrs. Charles 
A. Read of Manchester, has been 
visitng Miss Harriet Smith in 
Providence. 
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Among the choice and attractive 
private dancing classes for children 
this winter just formed and soon to 
begin, is that for which Mrs. Fran- 
cis Lee Higginson of Boston and 
Pride’s, is to open her house on 
Friday afternoons, under charge of 
Mrs. Wyman. Some of the members 
are the Misses Katharine Lane, Mr. 
and Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane’s daugh- 
ter; Ellen Curtis, Mr. and Mrs. 
Charles P. Curtis’ daughter; Kath- 
arine Storer, Dorothy Paine, Mr. 
and Mrs. Robert Treat Paine’s 
daughter; Eleanor Abbott, Mr. 
and Mrs. Gordon Abbott’s daughter 
and the little daughter of Mrs. Hig- 
ginson. 
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The Misses Elizabeth Bigelow and 
Eleanor Baneroft assisted at Mrs. 
C. Russell’s tea at Milton yesterday 
afternoon to introduce her daugh- 
ter, Miss Dorothy Hurd. 
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The patroness lst for the annual 
festival of the Copley Society of 
Boston, January 11th, includes Mrs. 
Bryce Allan, Mrs’ Boylston Beal, 
Mrs. Eben S. Draper, Mrs. Wm. C. 
Endicott, Mrs. Robert D. Evans, 
Mrs. W. Scott Fitz, Mrs. Francis Lee 
Higginson, Mrs. Wm. Hooper, Mrs. 
Maynard Ladd, Mrs. Gardiner M. 
Lane, Mrs. Frank Gair Macomber, 
Mrs. Henry Pratt McKean, Mrs. 
Dudley L. Pickman and Mrs. Lucius 
Manlius Sargent. 
Miss Amelia Forbes, daughter of 
Mrs. J. Maleolm Forbes of Milton, 
started for Labrador Monday, ac- 
companied by Mrs. Greeley, wife of 
Dr. Hugh P. Greeley, who entered 
the medical missionary field at 
Tilley’s island, Newfoundland, last 
summer. Miss Forbes has been tak- 
ing a course in the Waltham Train- 
ing School for Nurses, and this she 
has chosen as a part of her work. 
She went to St. John, N. B., and 
from there went to North Sydney, 
where the rest of the journey to St. 
Anthony was made by boat. 
