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Interesting Talk on Books at Arbella Club 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Meeting, by Miss Alice Jordan. 
The Arbella club held its first meet- 
ing of the new year at the Congrega- 
tional chapel Tuesday afternoon with 
a good attendance. Miss Alice Jor- 
dan of the Boston Public Library was 
the speaker and her address on 
“Books,” upon which subject she is 
exceptionally well qualified to speak, 
was one of the most valuable of the 
lectures the club has thus far heard. 
Miss Jordan took up her subject, as 
much as possible, from a girl’s view- 
point and at the outset she impressed 
upon her audience the great oppor- 
tunity that girls have to cultivate true 
appreciation of literature. To follow 
the Roman idea of reading, that is, 
to select from one’s reading that which 
is most worthy, is the better plan, said 
the speaker. 
“Books have a three-fold value: 
first is their practical side. A work- 
ingman, a teacher, or a student, finds 
in reading his greatest source of in- 
formation and instruction. Perhaps 
the greatest value of reading is the 
pleasure which may be found in it. 
Even if one’s greatest joy is in playing 
the violin or piano, or in painting, 
there are many times when one must 
be separated from one’s beloved in- 
strument. It is then that everybody 
finds enjoyment in books. The pleas- 
ure of reading is universal because it 
gives sympathy with people in parts 
of the world with which the reader 
is not familiar and it gives insight in- 
to the feelings and actions of types 
of people the reader does not know. 
Reading develops our sense of hum- 
or, pathos or any emotion. Our imag- 
ination is especially appealed to in 
poetry. The third value of reading 
is its social development. In a way, 
reading takes the place of travel with 
many of us and it enables us to discuss 
what others in different parts of the 
world are doing.” 
Miss Jordan divided books into 
three classes; the books, such as 
school stories, which we enjoy at a 
certain age but soon cultivate; those 
which we read later in life, the prob- 
lem books; the really great books 
which we enjoy when we are young 
and which have still something left 
for us when we are old. In speaking 
of the great books, Miss Jordan made 
mention of the story hour at the Bos- 
ton Public Library when about twenty 
or thirty little boys from the poorer 
parts of the city gathered every 
Saturdav afternoon and listened to the 
stories of Ulysses, Siegfried and Rob- 
in Hood. Finally the boys became so 
interested that they wanted the other 
boys in the neighborhood to hear the 
stories. A club which met once a 
week on the roof of a tenement house 
when the same stories were retold 
was the result. When the cold wea- 
ther came a club room was given over 
to their use for the afternoon 
through the influence of an interested 
party. Miss Jordan described it as 
one of the most interesting sights she 
had ever witnessed to see the boys 
gathered about a boy not much older 
who was telling one of the great 
stories of literature in boy language. 
The stories of Ulysses and Robin 
Hood grip the interest of the boys 
even in the crude form in which they 
are hearing them and the stories will 
still have a great deal of interest left 
when the same boys are older. Miss 
Jordan advised the girls to know 
Scott. For biography, she recom- 
mended the life of Louisa M. Alcott 
and “The Story of My Life,” by 
Helen Keller. Miss Jordan spoke 
very strongly on the value of reading 
and learning poetry. Helen Keller’s 
“The Stone Wall,” was one of the 
latter day poems of which she spoke 
highly. 
Miss Jordan’s address was greeted 
with applause and the president pres- 
ented her with a book in behalf of the 
club. Before the address Miss Ethel 
Townsend rendered a violin solo, 
“Melody in F,” accompained on the 
piano by Miss Hester Rust. A solo 
by Miss Townsend closed the pro- 
gram. After the entertainment, a 
pleasant social hour was spent during 
which chocolate and crackers were 
served. 
Oren To Mempers OnLY—Civups Is 
Now So. LARGE 
It has been decided that in the fu- 
ture, all regular meetings of the Arbel- 
la club will be open to members only. 
Up to this time the club has been 
pleased to entertain the guests of dif- 
ferent members, but with its increased 
numbers the society feels that it will 
be unable to extend the courtesy 
longer. 
At all open meetings, however, all 
friends of the club will be most cor- 
dially welcomed. 
“How well you are looking.” 
“Yes, I am a vegetarian.” 
“That settles it. I shall never eat 
iweat again. How long have you been 
one?” 
“I begin to morrow.”—E.«change. 
15 
MANCHESTER 
Miss Bessie Smothers, who has a 
position in Gloucester, spent Sunday 
with her mother, on Lincoln street. 
The embroidery class of the Arbella 
club is notified to meet a week from 
Saturday at the home of Mrs. Frank 
Rowe, School street at 2.30. 
L. Loring, the drawing and manual 
training instructor, of the local pub- 
lic schools met with a serious accident 
the first of the week, spraining his 
ankle. 
Sorosis shoes in Fall styles at Bell’s 
Central square store. * 
Feb. 20, 21 and 22 has been selected 
as the dates of the fair to be held in 
the town hall this winter by Liberty 
Rebekah lodge, 1.0.0.F. The com- 
mittee arranging the fair is composed 
of: Mrs. Flora Hersey, chairman; 
Miss Jennie Sargent, Mrs. Jessie 
Rust, Miss Alice Haraden, Mrs. Ma- 
bel Crombie, Mrs. Annie Rogers, Mrs. 
Edith Morgan. 
As a successful poultry man on a 
small scale, Howard M. Stanley of 
Vine street has the record, as far as 
we can learn. During 1912 Mr. 
Stanley got 3300 eggs from 22 hens,— 
an average of 150 eggs per hen for the 
year. Based on the existing market 
price of the eggs the money value of 
the 275 dozen was $75.42 or $3.44 
per hen. 
OF MANCHESTER YOUNG 
Man In Sr. Louis 
We are pleased to learn of the suc- 
cess of a former Manchester boy,— 
Arthur S. Martin—in St. Louis. In 
the St. Louts Republic of last Sun- 
day we note on the real estate page the 
announcement that “Arthur S. Mar- 
tin and Fred C. Breitt have severed 
their connection with the Holbrook- 
Blackwelder Real Estate Trust Com- 
pany and formed the Martin-Breitt 
Real Estate Company. The new firm 
will make a specialty of leasing busi- 
ness property, they having been in 
charge of the leasing department of 
the Holbrook-Blackwelder Company. 
Mr. Martin was connected with the 
trust company for seven years, com- 
ing here from Boston, Mass., and Mr. 
Breitt for ten years. They will do a 
general real estate business.” Mr. 
Martin will be well remembered by 
Manchester young people who are 
about 30 years old. Previous to go- 
ing west he took up the study of den- 
istry in Boston but had to give up the 
work because of his health. He is the 
son of the late Israel Martin, who 
run the brick yard here some _ years 
ago. Mrs. Abraham Lampron of 
Brook street is his sister. 
Success 
