NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XV 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Boston society is much interested in the forthcoming 
marriage—Wednesday afternoon, Jan. 24, at four o’clock 
of Miss Margaret Lyman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur Lyman, and Kenneth B. S. Parson of Cambridge. 
Miss Lyman’s attendants will include Miss Catherine 
Thacher, Miss Penelope Parkman, Mrs. Cornelius Felton 
(Marie Agassiz) and her sisters, Miss Susan and Miss 
Julia Lyman. Her older sister, Miss Ella L. Lyman, will 
be the maid of honor, and Donald Parson of Youngstown, 
Ohio, will be his brother’s best man. 
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Another Boston wedding that will figure among the 
most important events of the winter will be that of Miss 
Helen Howard Draper, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
George Albert Draper of 297 Commonwealth avenue, 
who will be married to Walbridge Smith Taft, son of 
‘Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waters Taft of New York, in her 
home at noon, Feb. 10, by the Rev. Dr. Alexander Mann 
of Trinity church. Mrs. George Snowden of Sewickley, 
Pa., will be the matron of honor, and the bridesmaids are 
to be Miss Ray Slater, Miss Eleanor Sprague, Miss Ruth 
Cheney, all of Boston, and Miss Ursula Fairfax Harrison 
of Warrington, Va. William Howard Taft, 2d, is to 
act as best man. 
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The important event of the present week, in Boston, 
was the dance at the Somerset on Wednesday evening, 
given by Mrs. Lucius Manlius Sargent, of Pride’s Cross- 
ing and Boston, in honor of Miss Anita Sturgis, the 
débutante daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Roger F. Sturgis 
of 26 Commonwealth Ae 
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The 25th annual horse show for the members of the 
New Riding club will take place at the clubhouse on 
Hemenway street, Boston, on Saturday, Jan. 27. Invi- 
tation day will be observed on Feb. 17. 
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The engagement of the week of particular interest 
to the North Shore contingent, is that made by the Rev. 
Dr. and Mrs. William Russell Scarritt of 182 Bay State 
road, who have announced the betrothal of their daughter 
Linda and Leverett Saltonstall Tuckerman, 2d, of Boston 
and Ipswich. Dr. Scarritt is a retired Episcopal clergy- 
man, late.of the Church of the Advent, Boston, and is of 
rnglish lineage, descended from the Barons Pointz and 
Lord Hale of England. Mrs. Scarritt is the granddaugh- 
ter of the late Lady Symington of Scotland and is by 
birth a southerner. Mr. Tuckerman is the son of the 
late Charles Sanders Tuckerman and Mrs. Tuckerman 
(Ruth Appleton), of 201 Bay State road and “Apple- 
field,” Ipswich. The wedding will probably take place at 
Easter. 
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Miss Clara B. Winthrop of Boston and West Man- 
chester, who returned last October from her second term 
of four months nursing in a large French military hos- 
pital in the War Zone, is to give an informal talk on her 
experiences in Manchester Town hall on Friday evening, 
Feb. 2, in an effort to raise money to meet the urgent 
appeal which has come from France for a fund to pro- 
vide diet delicacies for the wounded and sick soldiers in 
the military hospitals in evacuated districts and out of 
the way places, out of reach of charitable civilians who 
bring such suppliés to Paris hospitals and those in pro-. 
vincial towns, 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, January 12, 1917 
No. 2 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. William F. McComb (Dorothy Williams) has 
returned to Beverly Farms after spending Christmas with 
her parents, Col. and Mrs. John R. Williams, and her 
sister, Mrs. Joseph Leiter, in Washington. 
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Miss Mabel T. Boardman gave a dinner in Wash- 
ington this week in honor of Mrs. William H. Taft, who 
is visiting in that city. 
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Mrs. Henry C. Frick is one of the boxholders for 
the Boston Symphony Orchestra at the .etropolitan 
Opera House, Jan. 16, when the program will be a benefit 
for the Vacation association of which Miss Anne Morgan 
is the prime organizer and interested friend. 
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Mrs. Harrison Tweed and Mrs. John Lawrence of 
the North Shore appeared in the patriotic tableaux staged 
last night at Sherry’s in New York at the annual costume 
ball given by the Ladies’ auxiliary of the Lying-in-Hos- 
pital, The groups taking part were arranged by Mrs. 
~harles C. Auchincloss, Mrs. Tweed and others. J. P. 
Morgan was among the boxholders. The society is one 
of the oldest charitable organizations in this country, 
having received its charter in 1797. In 1897 the ladies’ 
auxiliary to the hospital was formed. 
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From Newport comes the announcement of the en- 
gagement of Miss Mabel Norman, daughter of the late 
Geo. H. Norman, to Dr. George Cero of Rome. She is 
a sister ot Mrs. Frederick H. Prince of Wenham and of 
Guy Norman of Beverly Cove and of Maxwell Norman 
of Hamilton. Other brothers are Reginald Norman and 
Bradford Norman, and a sister is Mrs. Wm. R. Hunter 
of New York. ‘The wedding will take place this month. 
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Sir John and Lady Harrington were booked to sail 
from New York for Rotterdam the first of this week on 
the Nieuw Amsterdam. They have been the guests of 
Mrs. James McMillan in Washington, having spent the 
summer with Mrs. McMillan at Manchester. 
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In the Unitarian church, Dover, last Saturday after- 
noon, Miss Edith H. Foster became the bride of Albert 
Day Farwell of Chicago. Miss koster is one of the 
daughters of Mr. and Mrs. C. H. W. Foster of “Castle 
Farm” in Charles River Village, who have a summer resi- 
dence at Marblehead Neck, where their place is known as 
“Castle Hill.’ The bridgegroom, who is a Yale man, 
Class of ’og, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. krancis D. 
Farwell of Chicago. The engagement of Miss Foster to 
Mr. Farwell was announced early last August. 
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A Washington correspondent, in speaking of the 
social life of prominent officials, mentions two families 
of North Shore prominence: Mrs. William Phillips, who 
was Miss Caroline Drayton, is a daughter of Mr. J. Cole- 
man Drayton, a niece of Mrs. J. Madison Taylor and a 
connection of the Astor family. Mr. Phillips was First 
Secretary of the American Embassy in London before 
coving to Washington, so that both he and Mrs. Phillips 
have been fitted by cosmopolitan training for their present 
official connection. Mrs. Peters, who was Miss Martha 
Phillips, is Mr. Phillips’ sister. Mr. Peters and she have 
“Woodley,” a beautiful house built by Senator and Mrs. 
Francis G. Newlands on the outskirts of Wasnington, 
and their al fresco parties are noted, 
