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Mary CATHERINE PARSONS, READER, 
who will appear in Woman’s 
club Entertainment, 
The July cups, which were award- 
ed for the highest individual scores 
in team bowling were given out as fol- 
lows: Carl Seaburg, M. Kehoe, T. 
McCarthy, F. Smith, Axel Nelson. 
Cups for August have been offered 
in the same way, and new contes- 
tants will probably enter. The Aug- 
ust tournaments which have been so 
popular in the last few seasons will 
open Monday and entries are being 
made now. ‘These will be in bowl. 
ing, pool and checkers. All the 
rooms at the club have been occupied 
at the club this week and the 
restaurant has been doing a rushing 
business, serving 45 at dinner last 
Sunday. 
Miss Elizabeth Brown has_ been 
confined to the house this week with 
blood poisoning in the foot. 
MAGNOLIA WOMEN’S CLUB. 
The Boston Evening Record of 
Aug. 4 had a special feature article on 
the Magnolia Women’s Club, written 
by Katherine Brooks, which was in 
part as follows: 
Women’s clubs, as a rule, close their 
season when summer comes; the city 
clubrooms are deserted, and the mem- 
bers ‘scattered to the four corners of 
country, mountains, seashore and 
fashionable resorts. There is, how- 
ever, a woman’s club, not far from 
Boston, which is in full swing at this 
season; which opens it doors just at 
the time other club doors are closing ; 
and has for members many who rank 
as clubwomen only in the summer 
months.’ 
This is the Women’s Club at Mag- 
nolia. 
Magnolia—the name conjures up 
for most of us a vision of luxurious 
SPRAYING AND 
INSECT WORK 
summer villas; of wooded private es- 
tates and trim boulevards; of a vaca- 
tion paradise having all the charms of 
the country and the sea, together witi 
ail the conveniences and luxuries of 
the metropolis; of idle days and gay 
diversions for people who are care- 
free and who number their vacations 
by the month, not by the humble two 
weeks of the toiler—in short, of a 
playground for Wealth and its com- 
panions, Ease and Pleasure. 
All this we see as we «.otor through 
the Spotless Town of the North 
Shore, or stroll along its shaded roads. 
there is another side, however, 
that we do not see—the side that 
caters to all this ease, convenience 
and pleasure; that runs the motor 
cars, serves the luncheons and _ the 
dinners, fashions the fine gowns and 
picture hats, keeps the shops going 
and the villas clean. It is the side of 
service—that admirable service, so 
smooth that it effaces itself, and pre- 
sents to the eyes of the visitor only 
the aspect of a community running 
noiselessly by clockwork. | What of 
those who render this service, and 
ho are the most vital part of this, .s 
of all communities? ‘They have lives 
tc live, rest to take and hours in whi 4 
to snatch occasional diversion. 
It is for the women of this type— 
the type that works, not idles—that 
the Magnolia Women’s Club exists. 
It was founded some eight years 
ago, in response to an urgent need. 
With all the resources for the 
wealthy, Magnolia offered few if any 
resources for the employee. In the 
long evening after a hot day’s work, 
when the mistress or the customer 
was dancing, listening to music or 
taking a moonlight sail, there was 
nothing for the maid or the little busi- 
‘ess woman to do but loiter along the 
shore or the shaded streets and listen 
to the waves. 
The suggestion for a club for these 
young women came from a clergyman 
of the town, and the employer class 
iiself became interested and took up 
the idea. The meetings were at first 
held in a room over the public library 
until the present clubhouse was built. 
It is run by a corporation. At first in 
debt, it has more than paid expenses, 
and is now in a most flourishing con- 
dition, free of encumbrance and seltf- 
supporting. 
The clubhouse is situated on Lob- 
ster Lane, next door to the little white 
house used as a tea house and hand- 
work shop by the Women’s Educa- 
tional and Industrial Union. In 
R.E. Henderson 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 63 
front—just across the 
fact—sparkle the biue waters. of 
Kettle Cove, divided from the pic- 
turesque old roadway by a stretch ot 
shore and a low sea wall. ‘lhe club- 
house is a pretty buiiding, singled, 
with a piazza that is to all intents and 
purposes an outdoors sitting room. 
Beautifully shaded by willow trees, 
adorned by growing things in garden 
and window box, it is a building that 
you would naturally look at twice, and 
street, in 
one that would probably make you 
stop and inquire, “‘What place is 
that ?” 
Miss Helene Phillips Sherman, « 
-anchester girl, is the manager. Al- 
though barely out of school, Miss 
Sherman is very much of a business 
maid. She has done newspaper work, 
id knows the whole North Shore 
district like tne palm of her hand. 
It was she who showed me_ about 
the clubhouse, for which she apoto- 
gized, as it was being made ready for 
« dance in the evening. She herself 
recalled irresistibly to mind the lines, 
‘She is pretty to walk with, 
And witty to talk with, 
And pleasant, too, to think on”; 
for Miss Sherman is as full of sound 
sense as she is deliciously ornament.il 
tc the eye. 
She took me through an entrance 
hall and a big living-room, good for 
dancing, into a second. and similar 
room, separated from the first only by 
a wide arch. In the arcu was a piano, 
and in the further wall a fireplace, 
over which is inscribed the words oi 
A ashington ; 
“[ have always labored to keep 
alive that little spark of Celestial fire 
called Conscience.” 
The hardwood floors are covered 
with rugs when not used for dancin~; 
there are plenty of chairs around the 
walls, and a lovely “cosy corner” up- 
holstered in an old blue shade and 
‘uipped with cushions. 
Upstairs there is a_ pretty ‘ sewing 
room, facing the bay well lighted by 
several windows, and furnished with 
three sewing machines, which mem- 
hers are at liberty to use for their owa 
work. 
There are at present more than 200 
members and sixteen residents, who 
pay $5 a week, or $50 a season, for 
single rooms. Just now the season is 
so busy that some of the rooms have 
two girls in them. 
“T say, why did you name that dog 
of yours Gossip ?” 
secause he’s such a backbiter.” 
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