March 23, 1917. 
Dr. Marshall Fabyan has bought from Arthur Little 
the so-called Burnham house at Beverly Farms, together 
with several acres of land. This is the place occupied 
for several years past by Reynolds Hitt and family. Dr. 
Fabyan will occupy the property himself, the coming 
summer. The sale was made through the office of T. 
Dennie Boardman, Reginald and R. deB. Boardman. 
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Former Senator Albert J. Beveridge of Indianapolis 
and Beverly Farms, delivered an address on “American 
Nationalism vs. Foreign Alliances” before the Knife and 
Work club of South Bend, Ind., Tuesday night at the 
Oliver hotel. ; 
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Mrs. Reynolds Hitt of Washington will have her 
mother, Mrs. John Clinton Gray of Newport, with her 
for a spring visit of some length. 
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Mrs. W. J. Boardman and Miss Boardman enter- 
tained guests in their box at the Belasco in Washington 
at the military benefit for the United Service, Women’s 
Branch of the Red Cross. 
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Miss Gladys Safford of Manchester was among the 
‘guests at a luncheon at the Shoreham in Washington 
which Mrs. Devereaux Lippitt gave for Mrs. Daniels, 
wife of the Secretary of the Navy. 
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Mrs. Monroe D. Robinson (Dorothy Jordan) is a 
patroness of the lecture course being given in the Museum 
of French Art in New York. 
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The Robert EF. Livingstons of Bronxville, N. Y., are 
entertaining their daughter, Mrs. E. Prescott Rowe of 
Brookline. 
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Mrs. Charles P. Searle and son, John Endicott Searle, 
have been recent visitors in Newport. 
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A Chicago-Harvard ambulance is being arranged for 
by prominent Chicagoans. George Higginson, Jr., 1s 
among those getting the funds necessary. Roland Tree, 
grandson of ‘Mrs. Marshall Field, has been driving an 
English ambulance. He is now on his way to this country. 
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Mrs. Joseph Leiter and her mother, Mrs. John R. 
Williams, have left Washington for a short stay in Vir- 
ginia. 
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The Society of Ancient Instruments, which has given 
some unusual concerts in our eastern cities this winter, 
will give a benefit for the Chicago Day nurseries, Mar. 28, 
at the Blackstone hotel. Mrs. Russell Tyson is largely 
interested in the nurseries and the concert. The evening 
previous, the Arthur Meekers will give a musicale at their 
home, the music being furnished by the French artists and 
their quaint instruments. This company also appeared in 
the Washington home of Mrs. Marshall Field this winter. 
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Palm Beach has enjoyed to the fullest extent this 
winter the hydroaeroplane. Among those who have been 
scouting the air in that delightful region were Miss Rosa- 
mond Lancaster, Ector O. Munn, Mrs. Gurnee Munn, 
Mrs. Arturo de Heeren, Mrs. Frank Duff Frazier and 
Mrs. W. Barklie Henry. 
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Reginald de Koven’s ‘“English-spoken” opera, “The 
Canterbury Pilgrims,” has been the most commented up- 
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on generally of the recent ventures in the musical world. 
It was performed at the Metropolitan in New York last 
week. 
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Mrs. Elliot C. Bacon and Miss Nina Ryan were 
among the assistants in the Red Cross tea room at the 
fifth annual International Flower Show in New York 
the past week. Mrs. J. P. Morgan was on the committee 
of arrangements for one day. The Red Cross and other 
relief organizations benefited. A pleasing feature this 
year was the miniature gardens shown, including walks, 
sundials, fountains, seats, etc.,—a little yellow garden com- 
ing in for a first prize. These little color gardens were 
noted last year upon the North Shore. The “white” gar- 
den of a most formal design at “Rockmarge,” the Pride’s 
Crossing home of ‘Mr. and Mrs. William H. Moore of 
New York, was unusually interesting with its pure white 
masses offset by much green foliage. The “red” garden 
at “Swiftmoor,” Pride’s Crossing, the home of Mr. and 
Mrs. Aksel Wichfeld of Washington, was a bright and 
striking affair whose chief planting was red begonias. 
The “blue” garden, that rarest of all in the color scheme 
of gardens, was started at “Uplands,” the West Manches- 
ter home of the Frank Pierce Fraziers of New York. 
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The Manchester Yacht club is doing its part in the 
Naval Coast Defense Reserve movement. Commodore 
Charles K. Cummings of Pride’s Crossing and Boston has 
sent out to members the following communication: “At 
a special meeting of the Executive committee of the Man- 
chester Yacht club held on March 9, 1917, for the purpose 
of discussing and taking such action as may be proper in 
preparation for war, it was voted that a notice be sent to 
the members of the club, calling their attention to the 
work that is being done by the Naval Sub-Committee of 
the Massachusetts Committee on Public Safety, and urg- 
ing them to render, as a patriotic duty to the country, 
such service as they can and are willing to give. Enroll- 
ment of men and of boats is desired in the Naval Coast 
Defense Reserve, and a pamphlet which has just been 
issued by the Naval Training association, is enclosed here- 
with, for the information of members who are interested 
in this subject. For any further information, apply at 
the Navy Yard, Boston, or at the Naval Training Asso- 
ciation, 42 Water street, Boston (Telephone Fort Hill 
470). 
CONVENTION QUESTIONS 
carefully : 
SoME OF THE PROBLEMS WHICH THE 
CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION 
May CONSIDER. 
are worth reading and considering 
Electoral 
Shall provision be made for the 
initiative and referendum ? 
Shall the State assume all election 
expenses, with provision for all legi- 
timate means of informing the elec- 
torate as to candidates and issues, at 
the same time prohibiting all individ- 
There are so many problems which 
will come before the Mass. Constitu- 
tional convention next summer that 
it will be impossible to properly weigh 
them in advance. The following 
questions are taken from the list pre- 
pared by the National economic 
league and many of them are sure to 
come before the convention. They 
Shall provision be made for bien- 
nial elections ? 
Shall senators or representatives 
or both be elected by a process that 
shall give to each party or group of 
voters representation in proportion to 
their numbers ? 
Shall equal suffrage for men and 
women be granted? 
ual expenditures? 
Legislative 
Shall provision be made for: bien- 
tial sessions of the general court? 
Shall the general court be given 
power to impose a progressive income 
tax on all incomes from whatever 
source derived and to tax income 
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