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Vol. XII 
SOCIETY NOTES 
The new club-house of the Essex County club will 
be informally opened Saturday night when a dinner- 
dance will be given by the members of the North Shore 
winter colony. It is expected seventy or more people 
will be there and it will be a sort of Christmas party. 
The new building is now fast nearing completion. The 
office was moved from the Red Barn some weeks ago. 
The new club-house is built more for winter use than 
the old one and winter sports will henceforth prove a big 
attraction for those who have returned to town as weil 
as those living here the year. round. The Winter Sports 
committee have arranged for skating and coasting, a 
skating pond having been formed by damming the brook. 
A limited number of skis, sleds and toboggans have been 
provided. Members are advised to inquire by telephone 
as to the conditions of the ice and snow before coming 
down from town. 
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Mrs. Chas. §. Hanks and daughter, Miss Clarina 
Hanks, who have spent the autumn and winter thus far 
at their West Manchester estate, are remaining there 
over the holidays. They plan to close the house about 
the fifth of January. 
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Mrs. Gardiner Martin Lane of Boston and Man- 
chester, and her young daughter, Miss Katherine Lane, 
are spending the Christmas holidays in Baltimore, with 
Mrs. Lane’s parents, Prof. and Mrs. Basil Gildersleeve, 
at. their residence on North Calvert st. 
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Mrs. Chas. H. Tweed gave a reception for Miss 
Mary Tweed at the Colony club in New York, Friday 
of last week. The Tweeds have a summer home at 
Beverly Farms which they keep open for week-ends 
throughout the winter. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ayer left Boston last week 
for California to remain until early spring, when after a 
short stay in Boston, they will come to their Pride's 
Crossing home, Avalon. Miss Katherine Ayer was al- 
ready in California with her aunt, Miss Banning. 
Capt. E. H. Pentecost of the Topsfield year-around 
colony was a passenger on the Orduna, on its last sailing 
from New York for Liverpool. Capt. Pentecost 1s a 
member of the navy reserve, which he has gone over to 
join. 
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Mrs. William F. Draper, who has many friends in 
Boston and on the North Shore, is to give a New Year’s 
Five dinner and dance on Dec. 31, at her home in Wash- 
ington, for Miss Beatrice Clover, the débutante daughter 
of Rear Admiral Richardson Clover, U. S. N., retired, 
and Mrs. Clover. Early in January, Mrs. Draper will 
entertain at dinner for the ambassador of Italy and 
Contessa Macchi di Cellere, and on Jan. 21, she will en- 
tertain at dinner, with Cardinal Gibbons as the guest of 
honor. Mrs. Draper and her daughter, Miss Margaret 
Preston Draper have spent much of their time in Italy 
for the past five or six years. They plan to come to the 
North Shore next year again. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, December 25, 1914 
BREEZE 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
__Dr. and Mrs. J. H. Lancashire, who have been 
dividing their time since closing their residence at Man- 
chester in November, at the Ritz-Carlton in New York 
and the Copley-Plaza, Boston, are spending Christmas 
at Augusta, Ga., and have with them for the holidays 
their son Ammi, and their daughters, Misses Helen and 
Lila Lancashire. The Lancashires have taken a cottage, 
“Territt,” at Augusta for the winter. 
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Dr. and Mrs. Burnett are spending Christmas with 
the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. A. Read, Read’s 
Island, Manchester. Miss Charlotte Read is expected 
home from New York Thursday night for Christmas 
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An association to give aid to French soldiers in the 
trenches has been organized in New York with head- 
quarters at the Hotel Vanderbilt. To stimulate inter- 
est in this relief and to secure funds therefor in New 
England, a committee has been organized in Boston 
which has issued a circular which makes the following 
appeal to the public: ‘This winter onsthe Aisne, along 
a battle line extending a hundred miles, in trenches of 
frozen earth, the men of France and of her allies, cov- 
ered with ice and driven by hail and sleet, are fighting 
for the ideals of democracy. It is not only shells that 
kill, but there is the suffering from cold and exposure. 
Will you help to relieve that suffering? When in the 
snows of Valley Forge your ancestors struggled to create 
this Republic, the strangers who came to their aid were 
La Fayette and the people of France. Let us now mani- 
fest our sympathy by efforts to relieve the suffering of 
her soldiers.” The prime object of the fund is to pro- 
vide an outfit of necessities known as the La Fayette Kit 
to be devoted to the immediate relief of the unavoidable 
suffering‘ of the men in the trenches. The kits contain 
the following American-made articles: Fleece-lined 
shirt, fleece-lined drawers, 2 pair woolen socks, I pair 
woolen gloves, abdominal belt (with six safety pins), 
dark muffler, colored handkerchiefs and small cake soap. 
Two dollars will provide one kit which will have en- 
closed the name of the contributor. It has been arranged 
with the French authorities for the immediate free trans- 
portation from New York to Havre of all package re- 
ceived by them and for the delivery of these packages 
to the soldiers in the trenches within twenty-four hours 
after arrival in France. It is expected that weeklv shiv- 
ments will be made, the first for Xmas delivery having 
left on December 12th, 1914. To become a contributor 
send $2.00 or more; to become a subscriber send $20.00 ; 
to become a sustainer send $100.00; to become a founder 
send $500,00. ‘The whole of each contribution goes to 
the soldiers in the field, and the executive committee in 
New York undertakes to pay all expenses. Cheques and 
money orders should be made payable to La Fayette Fund 
and mailed to the Old Colony Trust Company, 17 Court 
street, Boston. Members of the La Fayette Fund Boston 
committee are: Mrs. Russell Codman, Mrs. Allen Cur- 
tis, Mrs. William C. Endicott, Jr., Mrs. John Chipman 
Gray, Miss Alice M. Longfellow, Mrs. F. H. Prince, 
Mrs. Wolcott, Mrs. Francis S. Watson, Herbert Browne, 
Henley Luce, W. K. Richardson, Barrett Wendell, Tem- 
pleman Coolidge and Robert M. Winthrop, chairman. 
