NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., SATURDAY, JULY 4, 1908. 
RANDOM THOUGHTS. 
BY D. F. LAMSON. 
ING a 
Thoughts may be random thoughts 
‘and disconnected, following no observ- 
‘able order unless it be the subtle one of 
association, and perhaps not even that, 
and yet not be altogether worthless ; the 
burly, dozing bumble-bee’’ wings its 
flight from Hower to Hower in a seeming- 
ly aimless way, but this © “‘ zig-zag 
steerer ’’ comes home at last laden’ with 
sweets. 
The ‘‘ Guesses at Truth’’ of two 
gifted brothers of a former literary gene- 
ration contained more food for thought 
than the labored folios of many a_ scrip- 
torium. ‘The seeds of time which we 
lightly scatter may hold a harvest that 
shall come both late and long. 
A kindly word to a servant, a courte- 
ous recognition of a laborer, these are 
little things, “‘trifles light as air;’’ but 
they may help if only by a feather’s 
weight to lessen the distrust, jealousy 
and dislike between the masses and the 
classes, which is so potent a- 
among the causes that threaten the very 
existence of society itself. 
There is an order in the moral as well 
as the physical world, in mind, as_ well 
as matter, in ethics as well as the seasons ; 
June always comes before September, 
the sowing before the harvest, the good 
before the beautiful; as the individual is 
made better, the mass is made better; as 
men are lifted out of their selfishness, 
society is reformed; we do not reach the 
real root of the trouble, by working 
simply at social reconstruction; this is 
beginning at the top rather than the 
foundation; here is something for social- 
ists to fthink of. No mere eight-hour 
law, or economic legislation, or sanitary 
engineering, will bring in the universal 
and longed-for reign of righteousness, so 
long as human hearts are not made 
better. 
A small man may’ give himself out, 
like Simon Magus, to be some great one 
and deceive many, and after a brief reign 
of popularity, like a certain king of Isra- 
el depart without being desired; while 
another who owes nothing to newspaper 
puffs and self advertising, and receives no 
ovations in his lifetime, is remembered 
with respect and affection after he is gone 
and builds himself ‘‘a livelong monu- 
ment,”’ 
factor 
A HANDICRAFT SHOP FOR THE BLIND 
First of its Kind in America Established at Manchester-by-the- 
Sea. 
Miss Helen Keller and Other Distinguished Guests to be Present at the Opening 
Ceremonies Next Tuesday. 
A novel enterprise, a Handicraft Shop 
for the Blind, so far as we know, the 
first of its kind in America, has been es- 
tablished on the village green at Man- 
roe, and Miss Annette P. Rogers of the 
State Commission; Supt. Edward E. 
Allen of the Perkins Institution, Supt. 
Charles F. F. Campbell of the Industrial 
oe 
mae a. 
Handicraft Shop for the Blind at Manchester-by-the-Sea 
chester and at 3.15 next Tuesday after- 
noon the public is to have an opportu- 
nity of passing judgment upon it. ‘The 
establishment of the Handicraft Shop 1s 
largely due to the generosity and_ kindly 
interest of one of Manchester’s most es- 
teemed residents, Mrs. William Hooper, 
and the opening promises to be a_ highly 
interesting occasion. 
Among those who are expected to 
play a prominent part in introducing the 
Handicraft Shop to the North Shore are: 
Miss Helen Keller, one of the original 
members of the State Commission for 
the Blind, who will be accompanied by 
her former teacher Mrs. Annie Sullivan 
Macy and Mr. Macy; Chairman Edward 
M. Hartwell, Secretary James P. Mun- 
Well said the great master of the 
pruned and artifical style, 
‘“True wit is nature to advantage dressed, 
What oft was thought, but, ne’er so well ex- 
pressed ;”” 
it requires a peculiar genius to put a 
common-place into such.words as will be 
remembered and quoted for their apposit- 
Department, State Commission, and 
Miss Rand who recently left Lynn to en- 
ter the services of the Commission and 
who will have general oversight of the 
Handicraft Shop during the summer. 
It is most gratifying to state that both 
the official and business interests of the 
town have cooperated in launching the 
enterprise and undoubtedly scores will 
avail themselves of the opportunity to in- 
spect the work which it embraces. 
Two blind Manchester girls will be 
constantly employed at the shop and will 
give practical demonstrations of hand 
weaving, machine sewing, basket mak- 
ing and typewriting. ‘There will be 
also a large and interesting exhibit of 
handiwork of the blind. 
eness and force; this, even more than its 
humorous dialect, is the merit of the 
‘© Biglow Papers,’’ which had such a 
quaint literary flavor and did such _ politi- 
cal execution a half-century ago; the 
same may be said, despite its coarseness, 
of Butler’s ‘‘ Hudibras,’? and without 
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