NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XV 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Corlies was among the many on the North 
Shore who gave a week-end party to see the old year out, 
at her estate, Att-Lea House, Magnolia. 
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Mrs. Lester Leland ie Mrs. Timothee Adamowski 
are in charge of the fair to be given at the Copley-Plaza, 
Boston, in aid of the School for Crippled Children, on 
Feb. 27. They are arranging a bridge whist tournament 
for the afternoon and a dance in the evening. 
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Mr. and Mrs. John Wood Blodgett of New York, 
who pass the summer at Pride’s Crossing, gave a dinner 
and dance at Sherry’s, Friday night of last week, for 
their debutante daughter, Miss Katherine Cumnock Blod- 
gett. The decorations included orange trees, pink azaleas 
and vines. Among the Boston guests were Miss Agnes 
Grew, Miss Alice Allan Seabury, Miss Jessie Means, 
Miss Harriet Amory, Miss Fessenden, Miss Harriet Fes- 
senden, Miss Eleanor Cabot, Miss Martha Millett, also 
Francis Amory, John Caswell, Jr., Manlius Sargent, 
A nory Coolidge and Thomas Cabot, all well known North 
Shore young men and women. 
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Washington’s smartest charity ball of the season took 
place during the holiday week. It was the annual ball 
for the Children’s Country Home, of which Mrs. Joseph 
Leiter is president of the board of managers. She re- 
ceived the guests dressed in the richest of American 
Beauty velvet and wore a string of pearls and a diamond 
coronet. Among the box holders and guests were Mrs. 
Marshall Field, Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds Hitt, Mrs. James 
McMillan, Sir John and Lady Harrington, Mrs. Prestoa 
Gibson, Col and Mrs. John R. Williams and Mr. and Mrs. 
John B. Pitney. 
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Mrs. Marshall Field of Washington spent Christmas 
in Indianapolis, Ind., with former Senator and Mrs. 
Albert J.. Beveridge ‘and children. Mrs. Beveridge, it 
will be remembered, is Mrs. Field’s niece, the daughter of 
the late Mrs. Augustus Eddy. The Beveridge children 
are frequent little visitors in Mrs. Field’s home in Wash- 
eco Mrs. Field plans to spend most of the winter in 
hington and New York, 
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Mrs. Joseph Leiter and children of Washington had 
planned to join Mr. Leiter at their hunting lodge on 
Marsh Island, Louisiana, situated near New fay Pons on 
Jan. 6, but their plans have been somewhat changed 
owing to an accident which Mr. Leiter met with while 
down there in December. A branch snapped back and 
struck his eye so seriously that he returned to Washing- 
ton for treatment. While the eye is improving he may 
have to stay in Washington for a while longer. 
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It is reported that Mary Pickford, the moving pic- 
ture actress, has purchased the “Sky High” estate at 
Marblehead Neck. This estate is located on the high 
bluff adjoining the Castle Rock property, where Miss 
Pickford recently produced the picture, “The Pride of 
the Clan.” The residence was built 10 years ago by H. F. 
Rowden and is one of the most beautiful estates on the 
entire neck. 
Greater than anger 
Is love, that subdueth. 
—LONGFELLOW. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, January 5, 1917 
No. 1 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Daniel Ahl has gone to Palm Beach for the 
winter. 
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Mrs. L. Carteret Fenno entertained a party of young 
people over the week-end and holiday at her home in 
Rowley. 
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A marriage that unites the branches of the Appleton 
family of Boston and New York took place in the latter 
city Thursday, Dec. 21, but was not announced until 
Christmas. It was that of Miss Caroline Dawes Apple- 
ton of Paris and Washington, D. ‘C., and Lt. Daniel 
Sidney Appleton, U. 5. N. It was solemnized in Dr. 
Charles H. Parkhurst’s church in Madison square, in the 
chancel, where the bride, when a baby, was christened. 
Dr. Parkhurst, a friend of her parents, officiated. Lt. 
and Mrs. Appleton are both descendants of the founder 
of the Appleton family in America, Nathaniel Appleton, 
who landed at Ipswich, in 1635, and later became 
dean of Harvard university. Appleton Chapel at Har- 
vard is named in his memory. Lt. Appleton and _ his 
bride are guests of his mother, Mrs. Sidney Appleton, 
who with her daughters, Miss Mildred Appleton and Miss 
Sylvia Appleton, maintain a home at 1715 N street, Wash- 
ington. They left on Monday for Fort Leavenworth. 
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Mrs. Randolph Frothingham of Beverly Farms and 
Boston has purchased for her daughter, Mrs. Lyon Wey- 
burn (Ruth Anthony) an estate in Dover, near the Nor- 
folk Hunt club, of 120 acres, extending from Centre to 
Pine streets and including the well known Pine Rock 
Hill. Mr. and Mrs. Weyburn are contemplating building 
an all-year-round house there. 
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At the Allied bazaar in Chicago Mrs. Russell Tyson 
will have a novelty for the French relief booth in the 
form of a real postoffice. There will be a_ postboy, 
stamps, and allied bazaar post-cards for sale. At regular 
hours a postman will call for ie mails. 
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North Shore friends’ will i interested in the wed- 
ding of Donald Markle, son of Mr. and Mrs. Alvan 
Markle of Hazelton, Pa., and a nephew of John Markle 
of New York and West Manchester. On Feb. roth he 
will marry Miss Mary Orme, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 
Gordon S. Orme of New Orleans. The engagement was 
announced last spring. The Ormes and young Mr. 
Markle spent a few weeks at the Oceanside hotel the past 
season. He is a Yale man of the class of ’14. On Jan. 
20th his brother Alvan will marry Miss Gladys Jones of 
Hazelton, - Pa. 
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Lieutenant John Ballentine Pitney, U. S. A., and 
Mrs. Pitney (Francise Williams) were much entertained 
during their stay in Washington previous to their de- 
parture for Fort Riley, Kan. Mrs. Pitney’s parents, 
Col. and Mrs. John R. Williams, entertained with a din- 
ner the night of a large dinner-dance at the Joseph Leiter 
home, later taking their guests to the dance. 
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Although the engagement of Miss Linda Scarritt 
and Leverett Tuckerman, 2d, has not been formally an- 
nounced, it has been known by their friends for some 
time. Miss Scarritt is the daughter of the Rev. Dr. and 
Mrs. Scarritt, the former at one time at the Church of 
the Advent. Mr. Tuckerman is a son of Mrs. Charles S. 
Tuckerman (Ruth Appleton) of Bay State road, Boston. 
