NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XV 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Wenham folk are all actively engaged today prepar- 
ing for the Valentine Food Sale to be held tomorrow— 
Saturday—at the Tea House, for the benefit of the Wen- 
ham Village Improvement society and Surgical Dress- 
ings. Members of the year-round colony—an increasing- 
ly large number of whom are in evidence in the Wenham- 
Hamilton section this winter—are in charge of the sale, 
for the most part. The articles for sale will include 
salads, preserves, fruits, farm products, and—what food 
sale in the country would be complete, especially on a 
Saturday, without the ubiquitous Boston baked beans and 
brown bread. And in addition to all these there will be 
some bulbs for sale. Saturday, Feb. 10, from 2 to 5.30 
o'clock ! 
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Dr. and Mrs. William E. Baxter of “Breezy Knoll,” 
Topsfield, are now in St. Petersburg, Fla., after an ex- 
tended stay in Washington with their son, Dr. Clarence 
P. Baxter, U. S. A. The latter has been ordered to Pan- 
ama, and sailed from New York Jan. 20. 
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Barrett Wendell, Jr., and Mrs. George C. Lee will 
lead the cotillon at the second of the mid-winter assem- 
blies which will take place this Friday night, at the Copley- 
Plaza, Boston.. Before the ball Mr. and Mrs. Wendell 
will give a small dinner at their home, 248 Marlboro st. 
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Miss Mabel Boardman was among the guests at the 
large dinner which President and Mrs. Mrs. Wilson gave 
last week in honor of Chief Justice White and the mem- 
bers of the Supreme Court and their wives. 
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Mrs. Marshall Field has as her guests at her home 
in Washington Mr. and Mrs. Marshall Field, 3d, of 
Chicago, in whose honor she gave a dinner for seventy- 
eight guests:last week. The dinner was followed by mu- 
sic, a dance, and the ene oe with a supper. 
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Joseph Leiter has been elected president of the Army 
League of the U. S. This league was perhaps the first 
preparedness organization to advocate universal military 
service. Mr. Leiter says the League stands committed 
to an absolute democratic policy by which the obligations 
of serving the country shall be placed upon the shoulders 
of all, and that the rich and poor boys shall be trained 
under the same conditions and pees the same tents. 
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Mrs. John Blodgett was among the guests at a dinner 
in New York last week given in honor of Miss Kathleen 
Burke. In Chicago Miss Burke, the organizing secretary 
of the Scottish Women’s hospital in France and Serbia, 
gave a lecture last Saturday in the home of Mrs. Arthur 
Meeker, 3030 Lake Shore drive. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Elbridge R. Anderson, of Boston and 
Wenham, have announced the engagement of their daugh- 
ter, Miss Mary Frances, to Arthur Fielden Luscomb, of 
Salem. Mrs. Anderson and her daughter are prominent 
in the work of the Wenham Tea House during the sum- 
mer season. 
William Wendell, son of Professor and Mrs. Barrett 
Wendell of Boston, has left for volunteer work in 
Europe. Mrs. Wendell (Ruth Appleton) may join him 
later and do hospital work. The Wendells spent the 
greater part of last summer in Ipswich, at ‘Appleton 
Farms,” the home of Mrs. Wendell’s parents, the Francis 
i. Appletons, 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, February 9, 1917 
No. 6 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Sears Lovering are receiving 
congratulations on the birth of a daughter at their home 
in Manchester early Wednesday morning. This is their 
fourth child, the two older being girls and the third a boy. 
Mrs. Lovering was Miss Mary Eliot, a daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. Amory Eliot, who also make their year-round 
home in Manchester. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Burnham 
(Rosamond Eliot) also make their home in Manchester, 
and live on Sea street, quite near the other members of 
the family. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Reginald Boardman are leaving West 
Manchester the latter part of next week for the South. 
They will stop off in Washington for a short while before 
continuing on to Palm Beach, where they will be with 
Mrs. Boardman’s mother, Mrs. ‘Chas. A. Munn, for the 
balance of February and part of March. 
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The David Lorings, of Boston and Magnolia, have 
been guests at the Ponce de Leon at Daytona, Fla., for a 
short stay en route for a few months’ stay at Palm Beach. 
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Mrs. Jonathan Brown of the Swampscott colony 
has purchased the Erregger cottage located on Ocean 
Boulevard, near the Hotel Clarendon, Seabreeze, Florida. 
Mrs. Brown has taken up her residence at the pretty 
villa and has as her guests for the winter Mr. and Mrs 
C. T. Ripley of Watch Hill, R. I., where Mr. Ripley is 
resident manager of the Watch Hill hotel. 
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3oston and Chicago are closely allied in marriages. 
The newest bride to arrive in the western city is Mrs. 
Albert Day Farwell, who was ‘Miss Edith H. Foster of 
the Marblehead Neck colony. The young people were 
married in Dover early in January and have just returned 
from their honeymoon. They are at present visiting Mr. 
Farwell’s parents, the Francis Farwells, before settling 
down in their own home in Hubbard Woods. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Russell Fessenden and the latter’s 
daughter, Miss Christine Snelling, of Boston and Marble- 
head, are in Chicago. The Fessendens are the guests of 
their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Russell Tyson, who have 
given dinners for them the past week. Miss Snelling is 
visiting her fiancé, Loring Coleman’s parents, Mr. and 
Mrs. Joseph Coleman. Miss Snelling, who is not yet in 
her twenties, will become a permanent resident of Chic- 
ago next summer after her wedding in June. Teas and 
many functions are being arranged for her by her future 
relatives in order that she may meet the younger set, 
who will be her colleagues. 
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Mrs. James T. Harahan left Chicago this week for 
Palm Beach. 
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Mrs. William Phillips has been elected third vice 
president of the association opposed to woman suffrage 
‘1 Washington. She is also arranging a tea for the so- 
ciety, Feb. 24. Mrs. Augustus P. Gardner is on the 
executive board. 
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Mrs. Henry Cleveland Perkins is at the head of a 
-ommittee in Washington preparing for the filring of 
“Joan the Woman,” the historical production to be 
brought from New York, and given in the Edson Bradley 
home, Feb. 13. The affair will benefit settlement work 
Among the patronesses are Mrs. Larz Anderson, Mrs. 
Marshall Field and Mrs. James McMillan, 
