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SOCIETY NOTES 
President Taft presided for a few 
minutes at the seventh annual con- 
vention of the National Red Cross 
in Washington Tuesday of last 
week, and later made a brief address 
praising the society for efficient 
work during the past year. Mr. 
Taft was re-elected president, and 
the other officers weré continued in 
office, among them Miss Mabel T. 
Boardman, national chairman, and 
a summer resident of Manchester. 
At the request of the management 
of the Panama-Pacifiec exposition, it 
was voted to invite foreign Red 
Cross societies to hold an interna- 
tional Red Cross congress at San 
Francisco in 1915. The report of 
the treasurer showed that $300,000 
was expended during the past year 
and that $900,000 of the proposed 
$1,000,000 endowment fund has been 
raised. The Red Cross movement 
afforded a notable society event for 
the North Shore last season, when 
the Manchester Red Cross society 
held its first annual sale in August, 
sponsored and patronized by a most 
representative Sy ape of people. 
Important among last Friday’s so- 
cial events was the reception and tea 
at the Tuileries, Commonwealth 
avenue, Boston, given by Mrs. Ar- 
thur Stuart Eldredge for her daugh- 
ters, Miss Ellen Williams Eldredge 
and Miss Ida Bigelow Eldredge. 
The reception was given in the 
Napoleonic ball room. The young 
women who assisted included many 
of the debutantes of the North 
Shore coterie, who went on to the 
Bancroft dance at Copley Hall in 
the evening in honor of Miss Eleanor 
Bancroft of the Beverly colony. 
The Eldredge family live in South 
Lincoln and have a ranch in Texas. 
William A. Wood of the Pride’s 
Crossing colony, contributed $1000 
for the campaign this fall as re- 
ported by the Republican state cen- 
tral committee. William Endicott, 
Jr., contributed $1000, George von 
L. Meyer, $500; Col. Cranmore N. 
Wallace, $300; Congressman A. P. 
Gardner, $250; Dudley L. Pickman, 
$100; Col. W. D. Sohier, $100; Wm. 
Caleb Loring, $100; Alexander 
Cochrane, $100; Gordon Dexter, 
$100; R. L. Agassiz, $100; Maxwell 
Norman, $100; Charles P. Curtis, 
$100, and Harcourt Amory, $100. 
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Mrs. David H. Brewer of Brook- 
line and Pigeon Cove, entertained at 
luncheon Tuesday for Mrs. Francis 
Augustus Brewer, her daughter-in- 
law and a recent bride. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Invitations have been issued by 
Mr. and Mrs. Francis L. Higginson 
of Beacon street, Boston, and 
Pride’s, for a dinner at the Somer- 
set club on the evening of Monday, 
December 18th. The affair is in 
honor of Miss Edith Wendell, the 
debutante daughter of Professor 
and Mrs. Barrett Wendell, for whom 
a suecession of pleasant things are 
being done. Mr. and Mrs. Higgin- 
son’s dinner will be in the large pri- 
vate dining room and will be for 
upwards of twenty guests. 
Eric Pape, who has his home at 
Manchester, ‘‘The Plains,’’ adjoin- 
ing the Essex County Club grounds, 
has returned from New York, where 
he has been visiting at the home of 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rann Ken- 
nedy. Mr. Kennedy, who is the fa- 
mous playwright (author of ‘‘The 
Servant in the House’’), has just fin- 
ished a remarkable play which will 
be produced in March. Mrs. Ken- 
nedy (Edith Wynne Matthison) is 
now touring the country in ‘‘The 
Piper.’’ Mr. Pape painted Miss 
Matthison life size in the character 
of Hermione in the ‘‘ Winter’s 
Tale.’’ This play was produced at 
the New Theatre in New York a 
year ago and was later brought to 
Boston. 
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Mr. and Mrs. John Hayes Ham- 
mond have closed their home at 
Gloucester and will take up their 
residence in Washington for the 
winter. Mrs. Hammond spent two 
weeks in Boston before going to 
Washington. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Amory Eliot of the 
Manchester colony, who have an 
apartment in the Puritan, Common- 
wealth avenue, Boston, for the win- 
ter, have returned from Washington 
where they occupied a suite at the 
Grafton for some days. 
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Dr. and Mrs. Reginald H. Fitz 
brought their long season at West 
Manchester to a close Monday and 
opened their Boston residence, 18 
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A large ptetineoen of the White 
House, a gift from Mrs. Taft, was a 
notable feature of the fair held in 
the parish rooms of St. Paul’s 
Church, Boston, Monday. Attached 
to the picture was a card bearing a 
message of greeting. The fair was 
under the auspices of the Woman’s 
Guild, and the proceeds are to be 
used for the benefit of the summer 
rest home at Point Allerton. 
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SOCIETY NOTES . 
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt ar- 
rived in Boston Tuesday for a brief 
visit. He attended the meeting of 
the Travelers’ club in the evening, 
and a meeting of the Board of Over- 
seers of Harvard college, Wednes- 
day. During his stay Colonel Roose- 
velt was the guest of Professor 
John T. Rhodes. 
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The Secretary of the Navy and 
Mrs. George von L. Meyer will give 
a dinner and dance this evening at 
Washington for Miss Mary Souther- 
land and Louis Bacon of Boston, 
who are to be married next month. 
Mrs. Richard H. Dana and her 
sister, Mrs. Joseph G. Thorp, were 
among the patronesses of the song 
recital Tuesday evening given by M. 
Henry Varillot, tenor, at the Cam- 
bridge residence of Mrs. John Fiske. 
The will of the late Marian C. Up- 
ton, formerly of Peabody and more 
lately of Marblehead and Boston 
has been probated. She lived in 
Marblehead in summer and in Bos- 
ton in winter and died in the latter 
place a few weeks ago. She leaves 
a will and four ecodicils. Most of 
her estate goes to her sons, Roger 
and King Upton, either directly or 
as trustees. There is a bequest of 
$5000 to the Salem hospital to be 
known as the ‘‘George Upton fund’’ 
to provide and maintain a bed in 
the hospital. 
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Master William Burden, the little 
son of Mrs. Wm. A. M. Burden of 
New York, who occupied the Stey- 
ens cottage, Summer street, Man- 
chester, the past season, acted as a 
page at the wedding of Miss Gwen- 
dolyn Burden, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. I. Townsend Burden of New 
York and Newport, and David Dows 
of New York at Grace Church, Tues- 
day. The other page was Master 
Tracy Dows. The two pages and the 
best man were the only attendants 
in the bridal party. Mrs. W. A. M. 
Burden, the mother of Master Wm. 
Burden, is an attractive young wid- 
ow. Prior to her marriage she was 
Florence Vanderbilt Twombly, her 
mother being Florence A. Vander- 
bilt before her marriage to Hamilton 
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Miss Holmes Meyer has come 
down from Lenox for a short visit 
with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bemis of 
Beacon street, Boston, and Beverly 
Farms. Mrs. Bemis made an early 
autumn visit with Miss Meyer at 
Lenox. 
