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MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB 
VisitinG Nurse AssociATION MAKES 
ReEporRT; INTERESTING TALK BY 
Miss KNIGHT 
At the meeting of the Manchester 
Woman’s club Tuesday afternoon, 
the yearly report of the Visiting Dis- 
trict Nurse association was read by 
the chairman, Mrs. Caroline Knight 
in the absence of the secretary, Miss 
Ellen Clarke, and the report of the 
treasurer, Mrs. Ethel Valentine was 
read and accepted. Judging from 
the report of. the association, the 
work has been highly successful in a 
financial and philanthropic way and 
there is a very satisfactory balance 
in the treasury. Mrs. Annie Sinnicks 
and Mrs. Caroline Knight have been 
elected for another term of three 
years. 
The question of having the Man- 
chester Woman’s club represented 
officially at the community Christmas 
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tree on the village green Christmas 
eve was put to vote and it was de- 
cided that the club should take part 
in the observance and that a banner 
should be procured to be carried dur- 
ing the marching. It is interesting 
to note how readily the Manchester 
organizations are to do their part this 
year towards the celebration, which 
last year was so much of a novelty. 
The opening number of the pro- 
gram Tuesday afternoon was a selec- 
tion by the Glee club, composed of 
Mmes. Carolyn Allen, Henrietta 
Calderwood, Flora Hersey, Harriet 
Baker, Ruth Blaisdell Hoare, Annie 
Knight, Eva Rand, Mary Deane, 
Emma Knight and Marianna Chee- 
ver, with Mrs. Edith Williams as 
accompanist. The song was ‘Happy 
Birds” and was very well rendered. 
The speaker of the afternoon was 
Miss Mabel Frances Knight, who 
gave a fascinating talk on ‘Romances 
and Legends of Touraine and Brit- 
tany,” embracing mostly the histories 
of the storied chateaux on the Loire. 
The lives of the Duchess Anne and 
Duke Louis, afterwards Louis XII, 
and Charles VIII at Amboise wee 
made vivid in a dramatic mannex. 
Louis fell in love with Ann when she 
was but a girl and she told him that 
she would never marry any one but 
a king, which was the cause of 
Louis’ attempt to gain the throne of 
France. When he was in prison, 
Ann became betrothed to Maximilian 
of Austria. Charles VIII, unwilling 
that the fair province of Brittany 
should pass into the hands of Aus- 
tria, protested and waged war upon 
his fair subject, falling in love with 
her himself and finally making her 
queen of France, thus carrying out 
her own prophecy. Anne’s almost 
motherlike affection for her boyish 
husband is now a matter of history 
and they loved best. of all to live at 
one of their beautiful chateaux and 
aruse each other. It was during 
one of these happy periods in their 
lives that Charles fell in one of the 
beautiful old gardens of the. place, 
striking his head a blow which re- 
sulted in his death. Anne, a widow, 
retired to Brittany and when the 
gentle Charles’ will was read, it was 
found that his earnest wish was that 
Duke Louis, who through the death 
of Charles, become Louis XII of 
France, should marry Anne. Louis 
sought her there and in the beautiful 
surroundings made love to her again 
as he had in the old days when they 
were almost boy and girl together. 
Thus it ‘was that Anne was twice 
queen of, France. 
It was to Amboise, too, that Fran- 
cis II, son of Catherine de Medici, 
brought his bride, Mary Stuart, who 
was so lovely that she charmed the 
people. While Francis and Mary 
were leading lives of amusement and 
pleasure, the people of France were 
suffering from the terrible cruelties of 
Catherine de Medici and when Fran- 
cis died, Mary was obliged to return 
to her Scottish home. 
One of the most distinctive as well 
as the most interesting of the chateaux 
in Brittany is the chateau at Loche 
where is found the beautifully exe- 
cuted statue of Lady Agnes Surrell, 
who died on the ninth of February 
in 1449. When Lady Agnes was but 
a girl in her picturesque home in the 
Breton woods, King Charles XI’s 
horse became hurt in the hunt and the 
party stopped at her chateau for an- 
other mount for the King, who was 
then the prince. The only horse pro- 
curable was Lady Agnes’ own pal- 
frey, which, unused to the noise and 
confusion of the hunt refused to be 
