92 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and. Reminder a a 
Ye Old Burnham house 
“The Quaintest Place In All New England” 
Linebrook Road 
Ipswich, Massachusetts 
Now open for the season, 
WEN HAM-HAMILTON summer colonies were out in 
large numbers to the opening of the new tea house, 
“Sign of the Tabby Cat and the Tea Kettle,” located in 
Wenham village. The informal opening for members 
was last Saturday. ‘The house committee .of the Wen- 
ham Village Improvement society were the. hostesses. 
Dainty refreshments were served to the fifty: or more 
guests. Aside from the members the invited guests 1n- 
cluded the selectmen of Wenham, Arthur Prince, Elmer 
Clark and Charles McQueeney; the architect, Arthur 
Richardson of Boston and Salem; and the builder of the 
house, Herbert Porter of Wenham. Although the day 
was rainy the guests came early and lingered to inspect 
and enjoy the hospitalities of the place. On Monday the tea 
house was opened to the publicand many of the North Shore 
contingent were there taking tea. Among them were Mrs. 
John A. Burnham and her daughters, the Misses Mary C. 
and Helen Burnham of Wenham; Mrs. John C, Phillips, 
Mrs. B. W.:Currier, Mrs. Richard Palmer Waters, Mrs. 
Henry Pratt McKean, Jr., all of the Wenham colony; 
Mrs. Robert C. Winthrop of West Manchester, and a rong 
the Ipswich people were Mrs. Chas. P. Searle and Miss 
Corinna Searle. Mrs. Wolcott Howe Johnson of Ham1l- 
ton had a table and Mrs. Houston A. Thomas of Hamil- 
ton entertained a party of eight in honor of Mrs. A. W. 
Rollins of Washington. 
“Heaven did, my dear,” said a placid matron, “an: 
you'll find him some day, and then all this new thought 
nonsense of yours will cease forever.” 
EK BurnuAM Housk Tea Room on the Linebrook road. 
Ipswich, was ‘opened last night with a jolly banquet 
and dance given by the graduating class of the Ipswich 
high school. The affair was in honor of Miss Emma G. 
Gardner, who is now retiring after teaching twenty-two 
years in the Ipswich high school. She was a greatly be- 
loved teacher and highly honored and respected by the 
townspeople. The young folk danced on the new screeneil 
porch which is one of the many additions to the tea house 
this season. The class includes Ruth E. Bishop, Edna ‘. 
Bailey, Susie S. Buzzell, Louis M. Fewkes, Winfield J. 
Haley, Lincoln E. Hudgens, Francis B. Jewett, Beatrice 
Johnson, Edith H. Joyce, Eva M. Kellick. Helen B. Kelly, 
Karl Lange, Harold F. Lord, Annie M. McDonald. Mary 
K. Matheson, Caroline E. Mayes, Ruth F. Mehaffey, 
Clara M. Millard, Marjorie G. Morris, Myron Nason, 
Rebecca S. Robinson, Gertrude R. Sheppard, Maude [.,. 
Sheppard, Frank S. Todd, Everett R. Tucker, Alfred E. 
Wade, Roger K. Winch. 
The less security you have the more casily you caa 
borrow trouble. 
De Rogers Manse 
Ipswich = = Massachusetts 
Special Dinners A la Carte Service 
Afternoon Tea served on spacious lawn 
Delightful Rooms 
Tel. 85-M 
JOS. H. BURNHAM, Prop. 
June 16,1916, 
Che Martha Anu Cra Shop 
300 Essex Street 
A year-round branch of Ye Old Burnham House also 
Salem, Massachusetts 
solicits your patronage, 
HE week’s engagement of interest to the North Shore 
is that of Miss Margaret Converse, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Harry E. Converse, to John Meigs Butler, son 
of Mr. and Mrs. Morton Butler of Evanston, Ill. Myr. 
Butler graduates from Yale this year. Miss Converse 
comes from a family long prominent in the history of 
Malden, where her grandparents, Hon. and Mrs. Elisha 
Slade Converse, were benefactors of the place in many 
ways. Her aunts are Mrs. Costello C. Converse (Ida 
Converse of Boston and Magnolia, Mrs. Lester Leland 
(Frances Converse) of Boston and West Manchester, 
and Mrs. Willis C. Goss (Mabel Parker) of Melrose. 
Oo ; 
Miss Katherine P. Loring of Pride’s Crossing, who | 
‘has taken such an active interest in the welfare of the 
public libraries at Beverly and Beverly Farms, was elected 
president of the Massachusetts Library club, a state-wide 
organization, at the annual meeting held Saturday morn- 
ing at the Unitarian parish house Beverly. The session 
Saturday was the last of the three days’ program, with 
the other meetings held at Marblehead. More than 150 
members attended the meeting Satuday and the program 
was as interesting as it was varied in its scope. 
SP OSG 
Dr. Francis G. Peabody of Harvard University will 
preach at the Unitarian church, Masconomo st., Manches- 
ter, Sunday. 
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At the Myopia Hunt club last Friday evening a bach- 
elor dinner was given Bayard Tuckerman, Jr., by forty 
of his men friends. The wedding of Mr. Tuckerman 
and Miss Phyllis Sears will take place next Tuesday. 
Harry Worcester Smith has sent out invitations to a 
luncheon in honor of Mr. Tuckerman, who is chairman 
of the race stewards of the Brookline Country club, an‘I 
to the visiting sportsmen attending the 35th annual Brook- 
line meeting on the 17th, the luncheon to be given the 
Grafton Country club on Friday, June 16, at & o'clock. 
Following the luncheon Mr. Smith, ex-master of the 
Westmeath club, will give an illustrated talk on hunting 
in Ireland, England and France. He will show pictures 
of the grand national of 1913; the Westmeath, “Point ro 
Point” for the Barbour cup, and Punchestown. The 
Grafton Kennels will be inspected, and at 4 o’clock there 
will be an exhibition of the Grafton hunters at Lordvale. 
With the invitations is an engraved card with a cut of 
some of Mr. Smith’s winners and a list of some of Mr. 
Tuckerman’s victories as a gentleman rider on “Strip- 
ling.” 
“My dear, | never saw you looking so well.” 
“That is a very unkind remark, Mazie, when I am 
on my way to the doctor’s to get him to prescribe a trip 
to the seashore.” 
: Paritan Tea Room 
Montserrat 
A charming place to entertain your friends 
Mrs. E. A. Manning 
Tel. Beverly 782-W 
