SOCIETY NOTES 
The North Shore people who de- 
light in a day’s outing here during 
the winter, and who have made the 
Essex County club their rendezvous 
on such occasions, will be pleased to 
learn that Mrs. Leach’s tea rooms at 
41 Central street, Manchester, are to 
be kept open all winter and may be 
used by visitors. Lunch and dinners 
will be served on order. Mrs. Lester 
Leland was of those stopping at the 
tea room last week. Mrs. Amory 
Eliot is another constant patron of 
the place. 
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R. L. Agassiz of the Myopia Hunt 
club and Joshua Crane of the Ded- 
ham Polo club, both Boston men, 
have been asked to serve with Harry 
Payne Whitney, Foxhall Keene and a 
few other noted polo players as the 
advisory committee in connection 
with the big polo tournament that is 
to be held in San Francisco at the 
time of the Pacific-Panama exposi- 
tion in IQI5. 
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John H. Storer of Manchester, 
Waltham and Boston, father of Cap- 
tain Robert T. P. Storer of this 
year’s Harvard varsity football team, 
tendered a complimentary banquet to 
the 18 men who won their letters in 
the Yale game at the Somerset Mon- 
day night. The dinner was informal 
and was followed by short talks by 
the graduates. 
BOSTON OPERA HOUSE 
The Boston Opera Company will 
begin the third week of the season 
with the first performance this win- 
ter of Puccini’s ever popular opera 
“Madame Butterfly,’ on Monday, 
Dec. 8th. 
On Wednesday evening will occur 
the second performance of Fevrier’s 
“Monna Vanna,” which will probably 
be the last until the latter part of the 
season. 
Friday night will be notable for the 
season’s premiere of Verdi’s “Aida,” 
presented by an exceptionally _ bril- 
liant cast. 
The Saturday afternoon perform- 
ance will likewise be a notable one, 
when “Thais” will be presented for 
the first time this season. Mary 
Garden will appear in the name part. 
On Saturday night, “The Barber of 
Seville” will be presented. The 
Rosina will be Irene Jonani, a charm- 
ing young American singer, who will 
make her debut. The Figare will be 
Rodolfe Fornari; Luigi Tavecchia 
will sing Bartolo. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Babson Talks to Manchester Brotherhood on 
Standard of 50 Years Hence. 
Righteousness, not Money, will be the Password. 
ROGER W, 
That righteousness and character, 
instead of money will be standard by 
which men and nations ate judged 50 
years hence was the subject of a very 
interesting talk by Roger W. Babson, 
of Wellesley, the well known expert 
and statistician, before the Manches- 
ter Brotherhood last Monday night. 
Mr. Babson is a vice-president of the 
Manchester Trust Co. The © an- 
nouncement that he was to speak 
here brought out the largest gather- 
ing of the Brotherhood this year. 
Secretary Preston announced that 
the membership is now 146 and that 
there were present at the meeting 
last Monday night 121. Refresh- 
ments were served at the close of the 
meeting. 
BABSON 
Said Mr. Babson,— Now it needs 
no arguing to convince you that na- 
tions are judged today by their finan- 
cial strength, that is, by their ability 
to build battleships, erect fortifica- 
tions and maintain armies, and that 
this same money standard of meas- 
urement has sifted down throughout 
all the people. The password today 
is ‘Money.’ ‘The questions which de- 
mand the attention of our Congress 
and Legislatures are questions relat- 
ing to money, such as banking, tariffs, 
taxes, ship-subsidizing, etc. Bills are 
introduced relating to men, women 
and children, but how much attention 
do they receive? The business man is 
rated by his money. Dunn or Brad- 
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