4 NORDEA SHORE BRE BZE 
March 30, 1917. 
We are offering an unusual collection of 
PERENNIAL PLANTS 
And a choice lot of Conifers. 
NORTH SHORE NURSERIES & FLORIST CO., Beverly Farms 
F. E. COLE, Prop. 
Telephone, Beverly Farms 43 
We shall be better prepared than usual to store plants for the winter. 
URRAGE HOSPITAL, on Bumkin Island, in Boston 
harbor, and the magnificent steam yacht Aztec have 
been offered by Albert C. Burrage, of Boston and the 
North Shore, to the government free, in case of war, for 
the sick and wounded sailors. This generous tender is 
contained in a letter to Secretary of the Navy Daniels, 
which was dictated by Mr. Burrage, who at present is in 
Redlands, Cal., and was forwarded yesterday from his 
Boston office. Not only does Mr. Burrage extend to the 
government the free use of the hospital and the yacht, 
during the continuance of war, but he agrees to pay the 
cost of conducting the hospital up to $4000 a month for a 
period of at least four months, also to pay the cost of 
running the yacht as a hospital transport ship in the dis- 
trict from Chatham to Eastport, up to $8000 a month for 
a period of at least four months. 
The hospital which is admirably situated for naval 
purposes, being only a short distance from the entrance 
to the harbor, was built by Mr. Burrage several years ago 
for the free care and treatment of sick and crippled chil- 
dren, and has been conducted by him at his own expense. 
It has ward accommodations for two hundred beds, as 
well as small rooms for patients, and quarters for the 
staff and help. If needed, Mr. Burrage is willing to allow 
the government to erect other buildings on the island. 
His only condition as to the hospital, which applies also 
to the yacht, is that they be returned at the close of the 
war in as good order and repair as at present. 
The Aztec is the largest steam yacht in Boston waters 
and with only one or two exceptions the largest on the 
Atlantic coast. It is now being put in commission and 
will be finished shortly. The Aztec is 260 feet overall, 
216 feet waterline, and 30 feet beam, and is equipped 
throughout as a family pleasure boat. It has a steel hull 
and gross tonnage of 848, the net being 576. It was built 
in 1902 at Elizabeth, N. J., for Mr. Burrage and has been 
across the Atlantic several times. The craft carries a 
crew of forty-four and has large and beautifully equipped 
passenger accommodations, including staterooms, a deck 
dining-room and a large saloon. The Aztec has a wire- 
less. It usually flies the Eastern Yacht Club colors, but 
sometimes those of the New York or Boston clubs. 
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Mrs. John W. Blodgett assisted Lady Aberdeen in 
her sale of Irish laces in New York at the Ritz-Carlton. 
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Mr. and Mrs. John Hays Hammond are among the 
sojourners at Lakewood, N. J. 
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From Philadelphia comes the announcement of the 
engagement of ‘Miss Helen Ellis, daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. William S$. Ellis of Fox Hill Farm, Bryn Mawr, 
to George Eustis Paine, son of Mr. and Mrs. Augustus 
G. Paine, of New York. Miss Ellis, who made her début 
three seasons ago, is a talented musician and actress and 
is regarded as one of the most beautiful young women of 
Philadelphia. She is a granddaughter of the late 
Rudolphe Ellis. Her mother, who was Miss Cintra 
Hutchinson, is a sister of Sydney E. Hutchinson of Bev- 
erly Farms and Philadelphia. Mr. Paine is a graduate 
et aes university and a member of the St. Anthony 
club. 
Breuities 
The sky is very black, ’tis true, 
But just behind it shines the blue. 
All that I am my mother made me.—John Quincy 
Adams. 
How fresh, how full of possibilities, is the world to 
the people who can keep the child heart—Kate Douglas 
Wiggin. 
We ought to belong to Society, to have our place in 
it, and yet to be capable of a complete individual exis- 
tence outside of it—P. G. Hamerton. 
It is astonishing how many children work their way 
up to an honest manhood in spite of parents and friends. 
Human nature has an element of great toughness in it. 
—Henry Ward Beecher. 
Nothing makes a man strong like a call upon him to 
help—MacDonald. 
Even this shall pass away.—Oriental Maxim. 
It is a good thing to sacrifice; but it is a greater to 
consent not to sacrifice in one’s own way.—Charlotte M. 
Yonge. 
The man who learns from the mistakes of others 
stumbles over a smaller number of his own. 
If you aim at nothing, it is not difficult to hit the 
mark.—Business Chat. 
No matter how great the provocation, losing your 
temper is the surest way of losing your business. 
Many a business has grown old and rusty simply 
because it was not lubricated with the oil of courtesy. 
Every man has in himself a continent of undis- 
covered character. Happy is he who acts the Columbus 
to his own soul.—Sir J. Stevens. 
From the books we talk about, but never read; 
From the friends we always have, but never need ; 
Delwer us! 
From ambitions that we've never yet attained, 
From loquacious folk that always talk in vain, 
Deliver us! 
