SOCIETY NOTES 
iss Helen Hooper is resting at her 
West Manchester estate prior to her 
approaching wedding. She is driving 
n and excursions to the Singing 
Beach, to watch some of the recent 
fine surf displays, are part of her sim- 
ple recreations. Her fiance, Lothrop 
Bown, of New York, is a member of 
> Harvard class of ’04. 
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Pit. and Mrs. Oliver Ames and 
iH erbert M. Sears, have enlarged the 
North Shore contingent in the south 
‘at Palm Beach. 
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4 p Miss Mabel Boardman of Wash- 
on and Manchester has joined 
her parents at their southern estate 
a for a Lenten sojourn. 
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f the Navy and Mrs. Meyer of 
Boston and Washington, is to be one 
the bridesmaids for the Countess 
se Von Bernstorff when she weds 
a nt Raymond Pourtales March 27. 
- will be at 4 o’clock in Concordia 
Church, Washington, followed by a 
1eception at the German embassy. 
he pride will be given in marriage 
y her father, Ambassador von 
Bernstorff. Other maids will be Elsie 
Aldrich, daughter of the former 
hode Island senator; Mary South- 
nd, daughter of Rear Admiral 
utherland, U. S. N., and Cecilia 
ny the fiancee of Robert Bacon, 
son of Ambassador Bacon. 
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Be toxincement is made of the en- 
gagement of John Appleton Burnham, 
of 57 Commonwealth avenue, Boston, 
to Miss Grace A. Luther, of New 
‘York. Mr. Burnham, who is a Har- 
vard man, a graduate in the class of 
%. is the son of Mrs. and the late 
n Appleton Burnham. His father 
died early in November last, at the 
ee summer residence in Wen- 
His mother was, before her 
rriage, Miss Clark of Philadelphia. 
a Burnham is a member of the 
‘Somerset and the Tennis and Racquet 
‘clubs and the Boston Athletic Asso- 
ciation, and belongs also to the East- 
‘ern Yacht Club of Marblehead, the 
New York Yacht club and the Har- 
vard of New York and other clubs. 
‘Mr. Burnham makes his home with 
his mother and his two sisters, the 
Misses Helen C., and May C. Burn- 
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> Alys Meyer, daughter of Secretary © 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Dorothy Jordan, whose danc- 
ing often has been a feature of the 
Vincent Club entertainments, will 
have an important part in the enter- 
tainment to be given for the benefit of 
the Sharon Sanatorium at the Boston 
Opera House on the afternoon of 
Thursday, March 23. Miss Jordan’s 
dance, better described as a musical 
love scene, will have the accompani- 
ment of special music written by Mr. 
Caplet, leader of the Boston Opera 
House orchestra. 
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Miss Dorothy Hancock, of Austin, 
Texas, and Hamilton, has been spend- 
ing the winter abroad. She will con- 
tinue her sojourn there during the 
spring. 
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Mrs. George Lee and her daughters 
of Chestnut Hill and Beverly Farms, 
are having a splendid winter abroad. 
Mrs. Lee and her daughters Marie 
and Elizabeth, have concluded their 
stay at St. Moritz, where they have 
been enjoying the winter sports, and 
are now at Naples. From there thev 
will proceed to Capri, Sorrento and 
various other cities. Later on in the 
spring the Lees will journey on to 
Paris to join the Misses Marjory and 
Florence Lee, who are at _ school 
there. The party will return home 
some time in June. Henry Lee, son 
of Mrs. George Lee, has recently re-. 
turned from the West. 
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Asst. Secy. of the Treasury A. Piatt 
Andrew, who is at his East Gloucester 
summer home this week for a brief 
vacation, was tendered a_ reception 
Wednesday afternoon by the Master 
Mariner’s Association of Gloucester. 
This was a return courtesy for the 
attentions Hon. Mr. Andrew showed 
the representatives of the association 
during their visit to Washington in 
connection with the reciprocity con- 
ference. 
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Among the recent social functions 
given by Mr. and Mrs. Walter J. 
Mitchell of Manchester, at their 
Washington residence, was a_ bril- 
liant dinner. Among the guests pres- 
ent were the Spanish minister and 
Mme. Riano, Mr. and Mrs. Preston 
Gibson and others. Mrs. Quincy A. 
Shaw 2nd, their daughter, will visit 
them on her way north from Palm 
Beach, 
ORTH SHORE BREEZE 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Lathrop Brown of Boston will give 
his farewell bachelor dinner at Del- 
monico’s in New York Friday night 
of this week. His wedding to Miss 
Hooper will take place at the Episco- 
pal church in Beverly, Wednesday, 
April 5. Only the families will be 
invited to the ceremony, but a special 
train will take a large number of 
guests down from Boston for the re- 
ception later at the Hooper villa at 
West Manchester. The young people 
will sail shortly after for Furope, 
where they are planning to stay until 
june. Upon their return they will he 
in Manchester for a while before 
leaving for the Canadian woods on 2 
camping trip. Later they will go to 
Long Island, where Mr. Brown has 
a country house and where all the 
furnishings of the Beacon street 
house have been sent. 
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Henry Clay Frick is reported about 
to recire from business’ to devote 
himself to the cc''ection of rare 
works of art. It is said that. Mr. 
Frick cherishes an ambition to have 
an art gallery that rivals that of J. 
Pierpont Morgan, and which he will 
bequeath to the city of Pittsburg, 
making the Smoky City a formidable 
rival of the metropolis as an art 
centre in the United States. 
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Among the Boston arrivals on the 
Caronia fron Mediterranean ports 
were Mr. and Mrs. S._ Parker 
Bremer of Smith’s Point, Manchester. 
They were abroad six weeks. 
Curtis Guild Sr., aged 84, died at 
his residence, 26 Mt. Vernon street, 
Boston, last Sunday night. As a 
summer resident of Magnolia, he was 
particularly well known on the North 
Shore. The deceased made ‘The 
Oceanside hotel his summer home. 
He was the founder of the Boston 
Commercial Bulletin. Mr. Guild in- 
troduced the display bulletin board 
into Boston journalism. He was 
prominently connected with the liter- 
ary, civic, financial and_ fraternal 
circles of Boston. He is survived by 
two sons and a daughter, Ex. Gov. 
Curtis Guild Jr., Courtenay Guild, 
Miss Sarah L. Guild and a sister, 
Miss Marianna C. Guild. The fu- 
neral was held Wednesday afternoon 
from the Arlington street church, 
Boston. 
