NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, OCTOBER FeLG0s: 
LETTER FROM JAPAN. 
Rev. Frank C. Briggs, Formerly of Manches- 
ter, Writes to Children of Primary S. S. 
The children of the Primary Depart- 
ment, of the Baptist Bible School, Man- 
Brester’ recently sent $10.00 tor the 
mission cause to Rev. Frank C. Briggs, 
former pastor here, now engaged in mis- 
sion work at Himiji, Japan. Mr. Briggs 
has written to the children, thanking 
them for their efforts. The letter was 
read to the children last Sunday. It is 
as follows: 
* Please thank the Primary children 
for the money and tell them that in 
Himiji we have only one Baptist church, 
but that we have eight Sunday schools. 
One is at the church Sunday mornings 
at 8 o’clock for the small children, and 
at 9 forthe larger children and the men 
and women; another is at our Girls’ 
School building in the afternoon at 1.30. 
The other five are in private houses. 
Most of these houses are the homes of 
people who are not Christians and we 
hire the rooms, paying 75 sen (37% 
cents) a month: At all the Sunday 
Schools except the one at the church 
most of the pupils are little children, — 
so they are like primary departments. 
‘The Christian girls of our school 
are the teachers at nearly all of these 
neighborhood Sunday Schools. 
** When we open a new place two or 
three of these Christians go to all the 
houses in the neighborhood and ask the 
mothers to let the children come to see 
the pictures and hear the stories, and 
they come, many times bringing a baby 
tied onto their backs. They all- sit on 
the floor (unless the baby cries, then the 
little nurse gets up and goes to ‘the back 
of the room and jogs from one foot to 
the other in a way that the baby seems 
to like it, for he soon quiets down, es- 
pecially if the sister reaches way around 
and pats him on the back.) Then the 
teacher shows the children one of the 
pictures from the Primary picture roll, 
which some good friend in America sent 
us, after having finished with it. 
‘<The children do not often see such 
a fine picture and are much pleased. 
Then the teacher tells in a very interest- 
ing way the story,—perhaps how the 
angels appeared to the shepherds when 
Christ was born, and the children learn 
to sing a hymn. When they sing 
* Jesus loves me,’ they say ‘Shu wa re 
wo aisu’ (Jesus me loves). 
“* After they have bowed their heads 
while the teacher prays, each child re- 
‘ceives a little picture card with a verse 
MANCHESTER WOMAN'S CLUB. 
Holds its First Meeting. Mrs. Caroline Stone Atherton the Speaker. 
Club starts 
with Large Membership. 
The first meeting of the Manchester 
Woman’s club, since organization, was 
held in the Congregational chapel, Tues- 
day afternoon, when Mrs. Caroline 
Stone Atherton, of Roxbury, gave a very 
interesting talk on the subject of ‘* Club 
Work.’’ 
The club organized last spring, but 
had not met, except to perfect organ- 
ization, until this week. It starts under 
most auspicious circumstances, with a 
membership of about 90. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Johnson, the 
president, presided, and promptly at 3.30 
the meeting was called to order, and 
Mrs. Johnson introduced the speaker of 
the afternoon with brief remarks. 
Mrs. Stone is a_ very interesting 
speaker and gave a brilliant informal talk 
on club work, its aims and objects. She 
congratulated the club on its number, es- 
pecially as there has never been a 
a woman’s club here before. She was 
glad to know that the club had joined 
the confederation. 
First along, she said, women’s clubs 
were looked upon as a sort of joke, and 
a great deal of fun was made of them. 
But the movement has now come to take 
on a more serious aspect. Originally 
the club stood for self-improvement, but 
but now it stands for more than that: it 
strives to serve the community. 
The State Federation is made up of 
45,000 club members, said the speaker, 
representing 240 clubs. The federation 
holds three general meetings each year. 
She urged the local club to send dele- 
gates regularly to these meetings, and 
which they are to learn for next Sun- 
day. 
“In some of these Sunday Schools 
there are not.more than 20 children, and 
in others there are over 100. In all 
there are about 500 children who learn 
something about Jesus every ‘Sunday in 
Himiiji. 
‘You may think of your money as 
helping pay the rent of the place and 
buying cards for the children. ‘There 
are many other children in the towns to 
which I go, but I’ll not tell you about 
them this time. 
“With love to all the friends and 
specially to the little friends of the Prim- 
ary Department, 
* Cordially yours, 
“FRANK C, 
Himiji, Sept, 11, 1908. 
Briccs.’’ 
not to let the same ones go each time, 
but choose different ones. The next 
meeting is at Bridgewater, when 
** Home Economics ’”’ will be the subject. 
She characterized the spirit of the State 
Federation as helpfulness. 
The local club stands for the union of 
the women of the community; you come 
together to discuss things that interest 
you all. There are many ways in which 
the club may be of service to the com- 
munity. In matters of education, for 
instance, there are many things you may 
have an opportunity of doing. If there 
is anything, let the superintendent and 
school committee know you are inter- 
ested. Let them know you are willing 
to work for the good of the cause. 
Women’s clubs in other towns have 
been known to bring about the _instal- 
lation of kindergartens, manual training 
in the schools, and the like. Perhaps 
you have these things. If so, there may 
be other ways you can work. ‘The state 
law relative to medical inspection in 
schools was originally brought about 
through the work of the Brockton 
Woman’s club. A committee to visit 
your schools from time to time may be 
of good. 
The speaker referred to the tendency 
of the times to spend too much time on 
amusements, and not enough on the 
things that are vitally worth while. She 
said the club was one means of over com- 
ing this tendency. 
“* Let harmony prevail,’’ she said in 
closing. ‘‘It is beautiful to differ, but do 
it in the right spirit; it is the spirit that 
counts. Whatever you choose to do 
think it out carefully, lay your plans, 
consult someone in authority and then 
bring a solid body ready to accomplish 
your cause with all your hearts, and you 
will find that you will accomplish 
things.’’ 
The speaker was warmly applauded at 
the conclusion of her remarks. ‘The 
president stated that the matter of choos- 
ing club color, club flower and motto 
would come before the next meeting. 
A social hour followed, tea and light re- 
freshments being ied. This was in 
charge of the directors. At the meetings 
to follow, the tea will be in charge of a 
hostess for each meeting, who will select 
her own assistants. 
The officers of the club are as follows: 
Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Johnson, 
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