NURTH SHORE BREEZE 
Real Estate and improvements 
... Up and Down the North Shore... 
An important real estate deal was 
put through this week when James E. 
McDonnell purchased the West street, 
Beverly Farms, estate of Mrs. Louise 
T. B. Wyatt and her daughter, Miss 
Pearl L. Wyatt. The property con- 
sists of a residence, a stable and store. 
There is over 13,000 feet of land, 
having a frontage of 130 feet on West 
street. Mr. McDonnell buys for his 
own occupancy. 
THE RAMBLER 
The Rambler has heard more or 
less about trial marriages, and even 
went so far once as to endorse them, 
but such a thing as a trial separation 
is new to him. This little story clip- 
ped from the Man About Town in 
the Salem News speaks for itself: 
“A Salem young man had been 
keeping company with a young wo- 
man from a neighboring town. For 
some time the couple were all the 
world to each other, but apparently as 
time wore on the youthful lovers hap- 
pened to hear of trial marriages or 
trial divorces or trial somethings, and 
so they decided to have a trial separa- 
tion of six months. Presents were re- 
turned, and a verbal agreement reach- 
ed whereby the two were to part com- 
pany for six months, during which 
time each was to have perfect free- 
dom to place his or her affections else- 
where. ‘The months wore on and, as 
the story goes, the mutual feelings be- 
tween the young experimenters survi- 
ved the test of time and absence and 
at the close of the period of probation 
they were happily reunited, attend the 
movies together and will in all prob- 
ability live together happily forever 
afterwards. Curtain, applause, exit.” 
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There is a rattling good show 
playing in New York now by the 
name of “The ‘Mind the Paint’ Girl,” 
which interpreted, means ‘look out for 
the chorus girl.’ Of course this warn- 
ing has no particular interest for the 
Rambler, but it brings to his mind a 
little incident which happened to a lo- 
cal young man recently when he was 
calling on a friend of his. Of course 
this friend is a young lady. The fel- 
low “in the case” is an ardent lover 
of amateur theatricals (also his lady 
friend) and of course shows frequent 
systoms of both crazes. The other 
evening said young man pulled from 
his many pockets a “liner,” used by 
the “profession” in their make-up. 
Friend girl was so interested that she 
tried to decorate herself with the 
black paint, and her really beautiful 
eyes took on a sombre and_ pensive 
look after a generous smearing of the 
cosmetic. All would have been well 
with this experiment had not the girl’s 
father appeared on the scene. Of 
course he had to accuse the fellow of 
painting his daughter and teaching 
her bad habits. 
SALEM NURSERIES 
(Branch of Highland Nurseries, 4,000 ft elevation in Carolina Mts. ) 
Beautiful Gardens and Home Grounds. 
The choicest Evergreens, Rhododendrons, Azaleas 
and Flowering 
Shrubs are always used in gardens laid out by us. 
Specimen stock that produces permanent results rather than LOW 
PRICES 
Better do a little gardening well than a big garden poorly, 
Beautiful Catalogs, or call at Nursery on Marblehead Road, or office. 
HARLAN P. KELSEY, Owner, 
287 Essex Street, 
SALEM, MASS. 
Telephone Salem 820 
The telephone company in some 
neighboring cities has sent circulars 
to its customers inviting criticism of 
the service that they may be able to 
correct faults. The Rambler wonders 
what would happen if some of the 
other public service corporations fol- 
lowed the same course. There would 
probably be suggestions enough to fill 
several books. 
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There is one Manchester young man 
who will not try to flirt with a tele- 
phone operator again. One day re- 
cently he called up one of the fair 
young ladies who presided over the 
switchboard, and said, “Miss Blank, 
I'd like to see you tonight.” “I’m 
sorry, Jack, but the line’s busy,” re- 
plied Miss Operator. Whereupon 
friend Jack was so mortified and ex- 
cited that he tried to talk through the 
receiver. It’s an awful disease! 
His ViEws 
A visitor at a seaside boarding 
house went into the local postoffice 
and, seeking to draw the postmaster 
into conversation, asked him what his 
views were as to suffragettes. 
“Hain’t got no views of that kind,” 
replied the postmaster, “but we've 
got some fine post card views of the 
new viaduct, the Baptist church and 
the new library. Want to look at 
em es a 
CoNFUSION OF TERMS 
Judge Blank, who is now on the su- 
preme court bench, was, when he first 
began his practice of law, a very blun- 
dering speaker. 
On one occasion, when he was try- 
ing a case of replevin, involving the 
right of property in a lot of hogs, he 
addressed the jury as follows: ‘“Gen- 
tlemen of the jury, there were just 
24 hogs in that drove—just 24, gen- 
tlemen—exactly twice as many as 
there are in this jury box.”—Case and 
Comment. 
Maxims oF A NoveList 
“Relations always want to know 
where you are going and what you are 
doing—there’s nothing so curious as 
relations.” “One gets to know people 
better in one’s thoughts sometimes 
than when one is with them.”— Sir 
George’s Objection,” by Mrs. W. K. 
Clifford. 
A Nice Lovasfe Grrr, 
Jack—The college girl I am engaged 
to picked me up on grammar before a 
week had passed over our heads. 
Tom—You got off light and easy. 
The college girl I knew corrected my 
English while I was proposing to her. 
