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_ questions or criticisms 
Foreign Missions are requested to 
bring them to the little chapel where 
able to attend the 
‘Fair at Gloucester on Tuesday and 
-the Ladies’ Aid Society, 
Next Friday evening all who have 
regarding 
they will be written on the black 
board and discussed. ‘The “World in 
Boston” is leading the thoughts of all 
to the mission fields and the papers 
are full of arguments 
The Reading Class will go to Boston 
tomorrow, if the weather permits and 
_ visit the “World in Boston” under di- 
_ rection of Rev. F. J. Libby. 
for missions. 
The ladies of Magnolia being un- 
Gilbert Hospital 
Wednesday evenings on account of 
the difficulties of transportation in 
and out of Magnolia at night, have 
been raising a sum of money to be 
sent as a Magnolia contribution. All 
who have not given and would like to 
add to this fund may hand contribu- 
tions to Mrs. Effie Foster or Mr. 
Libby. 
Mrs. Fred Davis and son, of An- 
nisquam, are the guests of Mr. and 
Mrs. Wm. Symonds this week. 
Miss Daisy Dodd of Rockport, is 
the head operator at the local tele- 
phone exchange for the summer. 
William Knowles will be night op- 
erator. 
We are sorry not to be able to 
report any improvement in the con- 
dition of Mrs. Samuel Emerson, who 
is very ill at the home of her par- 
ents, Mr. and Mrs. Jabeth Dunbar. 
Mr. and Mrs. Lafayette Hunt, Jon- 
athan May, Mr. and Mrs. Frank 
Davis, A. J. Rowe and Mrs. Effie 
Foster attended the Masons’ Ladies’ 
Night at Rockport last evening. 
Miss Gertrude Smith of Boston, 
was the guest of Miss Mary Boyd 
this week. 
The baked bean supper and dance 
held at the Men’s club house on Wed- 
nesday evening, under the auspices of 
was the 
grand event of the season. A de- 
lightful supper was served from six 
to eight o’clock with dancing from 
eight to twelve o'clock. Misses Ger- 
trude Smith, Mary and Susan Ly- 
cett, Lizzie and Jennie Brown, Mary 
Boyd and Ruth Scott acted as wait- 
resses. Mrs. Lafayette Hunt was in 
charge assisted by members of the 
Society. Music was furnished by 
Chane’s orchestra. 
weré present from out of town and a 
very delightful time was enjoyed by 
all, * . 
Things are pretty well equalized in 
this world. The homely girls are 
generally the best cooks. 
A large number _ 
The April meeting of the Manches- 
ter Parent-Teachers’ association was 
held last evening at the Price school. 
It was largely attended. Mrs. Grace 
K. Beaton, the president, presided 
very gracefully and Supt. Mackin 
was chairman of the program com- 
mittee. 
The program opened with a well- 
executed piano solo by Master Don- 
ald Height. This was followed by 
the president’s announcements in be- 
half of the purchase of pins bearing 
the emblem of the Mothers’ Congress, 
the white carnation. She also spoke 
in behalf of the Society for the Pro- 
tection of Native Flowers. She 
urged the co-operation of parents and 
children in this regard. 
The speaker of the evening, E. 
Thomas Curley of Waltham and of 
the Massachusetts Civic League, was 
next introduced. His subject was 
“On Playgrounds.” In part, he stated 
that the boy is today the great prob- 
lem. Millions are being spent for 
education to develop the boy for man- 
hood, as a fundamental medium of 
developing character. Opinions in 
this respect differ. Pres. Faunce of 
Brown University, takes a_ radical 
view. It is not through schools and 
colleges but habits which are the best 
teachers and developers of fine 
character. A boy spends more time 
uncared for than cared for. ‘That is 
the time the tendency arises to go 
wrong. 
The age of the “gang” was alluded 
to as about ten or eleven years. ‘This 
is the time the boy wants to “belong 
to a gang.” His desire then is to so- 
cialize. "Tis his budding  disposi- 
tion that demands at this time the so- 
cializing instinct, to get with his fel- 
lows. It should be encouraged or he 
will do something else worse. If he 
is a “goody-goody” get it out of him. 
The genesis of a “gang” was de- 
fined as a group of boys who get to- 
gether. They are spontaneous or- 
ganizers. They choose a leader who 
really is their supervisor. He that 
can do the most stunts and create the 
most diversions is elected. 
Boys should not be suppressed, but 
guided and directed. Boys take more 
stock in the head of their “gang” than 
in their elders. For that reason, in- 
fluence of church, home and school 
are failures oftentimes— for that 
reason, also, a very rigid rule of the 
“oang” is that you “must not snitch 
on one another.” Judge Lindsey, the 
famous juvenile judge, has made this 
rule a foundation in his dealings with 
boys. 
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MAGNOLIA. MANCHESTER PAREN'I- TEACHERS’ A boy wants a good time. Under 
ASSOCIATION. good conditions and activities good 
habits result and good habits are a 
good judge of character. Habits 
grow out of actions. 
Mr. Curley compared the condi- 
tions among boys in Waltham before 
and after the establishment of play- 
grounds. There was order out of 
chaos. Don’t judge your own boys 
until you’ve watched your neighbors’ 
boys. If a boy don’t want to play 
from 6 to 8 hours a day he needs a 
physician. A boy’s ideals are all ath- 
letic. It is a  providential instinct 
from the physical and mental stand- 
point for approaching manhood. 
The baseball period starting from 
eleven to twelve years has its signifi- 
cance and value as to the approach 
of the adolescent period. Mr. Curley 
gave a humorous description of boys 
first starting on their baseball  en- 
thusiasm. The cheating period, the 
lack of order and discipline. 
Supervised playgrounds have prov- . 
en that after all, the boys like fair 
play best. The moral code of the 
playgrounds is: play fair, tell the 
truth, no cigarette smoking, no vul- 
garity. Omission of these rules mean 
exclusion from the grounds. 
Here the best habits are formed 
and impressions during play are 
more lasting. Tis the plastic, recep- 
tive age. ‘Temperance in all respects 
is taught, co-operation, good fellow- 
ship and team work—the funda- 
mentals for the best manhood. 
Mr. Curley proved a very interest- 
ing, forceful speaker with well 
grounded principles for his notably 
successful work in this respect. He 
was heartily applauded. 
The program closed with a finely 
rendered piano duet by the Misses 
Antoinette Vidal and Ely Kinsella. 
The next meeting of the associa- 
tion was announced for the evening 
of May 24. Mrs. Milton P. Higgins, 
state vice-president of the Massachu- 
setts Parent-Teacher Associations, is 
expected to talk upon “The Boy in 
the Home.” She is now in Washing- 
ton attending the Congress of 
Mothers. 
During the social period which fol- 
lowed, Mrs. Alfred Needham, hos- 
tess, served light refreshments. She 
was assisted by Mrs. G. A. Knoerr, 
Mrs. Wilcox, Mrs. Coughlin, Mrs. 
McNeal, Mrs. Hattie F. Baker, Mrs. 
Mackin, Mrs. ‘Thomas and Miss 
Theresa Walsh. 
Conscience makes no such cowards 
of us as it would if the still small 
voice were in the way of being heard 
by the neighbors. 
