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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
“Tare NEWER HEROISM,’ SUBJECT OF 
ADDRESS 
The last meeting of the Manches- 
ter Woman’s club before Christmas 
was held on Tuesday, as Peace Day. 
Kathleen Slade, Helen Knight and 
Helen Cheever sang a trio entitled 
“Silent Night.” 
Mrs. Anna S. Duryea of Boston, 
representative of the World Peace 
Foundation, was the speaker of the 
afternoon with “The Newer Hero- 
ism” as her subject. Describing the 
meaning of the newer heroism “Mrs. 
Duryea told of how all nations sing 
of “Peace on Earth! Good will to 
Men,” and then at the least provoca- 
tion go to kill these same men. “The 
progress of civilization has made us 
neighbors,” she said, “therefore 
friends. Why should there be killing 
among friends? Why not a peacetul 
settlement : ? Itcanbe done, and since 
the first Hague conference twelve 
important questions have been settled 
by treaty. In the last fifty years of 
the 19th century 25 international 
questions were settled peacefully. 
In ten years of this 20th cen- 
tury 100 international questions 
have been settled and twenty-nine 
are now pending. It has been said 
that the two Hague conferences have 
done more for the world than the fa- 
mous fifteen decisive battles. 
“Norman Angel an English news- 
paperman, has published a _ small 
book called, in the first edition, 
‘Europe’s Optical Hlusion.’ This has 
been translated into ten languages 
and is being translated into six more. 
When Count Tolstoy died at five 
o’clock in the morning we read of it 
at the breakfast table. The question 
between Russia and Japan was set- 
tled in Kittery navy yard and in three 
minutes the bells in St, Petersburg 
were ringing to announce peace. In 
Cornell college a Boer is president of 
the Cosmopolitan clube There. ‘are 
sixty members with twelve national- 
ities represented, all living under one 
roof. All of these incidents show 
the growth of civilization and the 
es of the world. We are 
G. E. WILLMONTON 
“Attorney and 
Counselor at Law 
Friday, December 19, 1913. 
nearer together than ever before, 
truly neighbors and if so, friends. We 
are minimizing the differences and 
magnifing the likenesses, The peace 
movement is simply the Golden Rule 
worked out in a practical way. 
“Tf this be not a practical method 
of reasoning, is it practical for a na- 
tion to spend 67.4 percent. of its to- 
tal expenditures, or 62.8 percent. of 
its income for war? ‘This was done 
in the United States during the fiscal 
year ending June 30th, 1911. About 
$2,250,000,000 is spent for war, The 
cheapest warship costs about $5,000,- 
ooo and there are not many of the 
cheapest made. 
“Not long ago a bullet was used in 
warfare with a long, soft lead nose. 
When these were used orders were 
to aim at the right arm, not to fire 
to kill. This has been changed. Now 
a small, short nosed, hard bullet has 
taken its place. The first wound 
could not be dressed by the best of 
surgeons, it was so ragged, the sec- 
ond one a small neat hole is much 
easier dressed. Many have said it 
was foolish and a waste of time to 
make laws regulating warfare, but 
improvements have been made, in 
these bullets, in more humane ways 
of treating prisoners and through the 
Red Cross nursing. 
“A hero is not necessarily one who 
goes to war and does great or smal! 
service to his country. The young 
man who stops a runaway horse bas 
as much courage and perhaps more. 
He is not urged on by drum and fife 
or by a bright uniform. The Boy 
Scouts and the World Scouts and the 
Camp-fire Girls are all being trained 
through experience in the art of be- 
ing heroic.” 
Mrs. Duryea passed pamphlets for 
home reading to all present, “The 
Forces Warring Against War” and 
“Club Women and the Peace Move- 
ment.” 
Mrs. Beaton, the president, read 
an invitation extended from the Ar- 
bella club for co-operation with them 
in the celebration at the Christmas 
tree on the town common on Christ- 
mas Eve. 
The social hour was seis by 
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Daisy E. Kitfield was 
all. -aMirs: , 
hostess, serving tea with cake and — 
cookies, F 
Miss Mary Manion has a position 
in a private school in Norfolk, Va. 
Mrs, L. A. Killam and daughter 
Violet of Needham were in town last 
Saturday and were guests of Miss 
Mabel Walen, Pleasant street. 
‘Misses Dorothy Blaisdell, Helen 
Wing and Gwendolen Glendenning 
are home from. their respective col- 
leges for the Christmas holidays. 
Stationery, jewelry and novelties, 
very useful for Christmas gifts, at 
Haraden & Stone’s. adv. 
The Arbella club will meet in the 
Chapel, Tuesday, Dec. 23, at 4 o’clock. 
It is very important that each mem- 
ber be present, bringing with her, 
scissors, needle and thimble. 
The selectmen will meet next week 
on Monday instead of Tuesday and 
pay day will be Tuesday instead of 
Wednesday, 
falling on Thursday. 
Miss Abbie Floyd went to Hamp- 
ton Falls, N. Y., last Saturday to give 
a demonstrating lecture before the 
Woman’s club of that place on cook- 
ing. She was assisted by Mrs. Fred- 
erick Smith of this town. 
At Walt Bell’s, Central Square, 
may be found a complete line of use- 
ful Christmas gifts such as slippers 
of all kinds, fancy mneckwear,  sus- 
penders, handkerchiefs, garters, arm 
bands, all in fancy holiday boxes, adv. 
Thin ice and the desire of the 
because of Christmas 
a 
young people to skate resulted in two © 
accidents at the Channel Wednesday. 
Chief of Police Sullivan has posted 
signs to the effect that skating is not — 
allowed. As soon as the thickness of 
the ice warrants these signs will be 
substituted by others 
skating is now 
these signs. 
Useful gifts—Silk Stockings for — : 
ladies, kid gloves, neckwear, etc., at 
adv. ‘ q 
Haraden & Stone’s, 
Dolls, writing paper, aprons, needle — 
books, neckties, sleeve elastics, etc 
etc, —something for everybody—for — 
Xmas, at HA. mae adv. 
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