NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
Vol. XI 
SOCIETY NOTES 
It will be a welcome item of news 
to learn that the Payne Whitneys of 
New York are to return to the North 
Shore again this season. ‘I'wo years 
ago they had the Charles Head house, 
so-called, at Manchester, on the ex- 
treme northerly end of Dana’s Beach. 
Last year they went abroad. This 
year they will again occupy the Head 
house. 
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Mrs. John T. Willetts and family, 
of New York, will return to the North 
Shore again this season. Last year 
they had the R. H. Dana house at 
Manchester. This year they will 
have. Miss Payson’s cottage at Man- 
chester Cove. Mr. Willetts died dur- 
ing the winter. 
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An interesting engagement of the 
week was that announced Tuesday of 
Dr. Mortimer Phillips Mason of Bos- 
ton ,and Miss Gertrud Helene Na- 
torp of Germany. The marriage will 
take place the coming summer in 
Germany. Dr. Mason is one of the 
sons of the late Mr. and Mrs. Morti- 
mer B. Mason, who had a beautiful 
summer estate at Manchester. 
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Mrs. H. L. Mason of Boston and 
Beverly Farms, arranged the pro- 
gram for the March meeting in the 
music and lecture course at the Bever- 
ly Farms school house. Mr. Mason 
delivered his lecture on the construct- 
ion of the modern pianoforte, and 
Miss Beatrice Holbrook, a pupil of 
Gebhard played wih rare expression 
and skill an accepable program of mu- 
cis for the pianoforte. 
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Another family to return to the 
North Shore this season will be the 
Hitts of Washington. Two seasons 
aoe Wins.. Hitt, sr, had the R. C. 
Hooper house at West Manchester. 
This season her son R. S. Reynolds 
Hitt, who has been a minister to one 
_ of the South American countries, has 
leased the Wilkins house, “Pump 
Cottage,” so-called, at Beverly Farms. 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
Mrs. Daniel Ahl and Mr. and Mrs. 
Leonard D. Ahl, who have had a cot- 
tage at Palm Beach during the winter, 
have returned to the North Shore and 
are again at their cottage at Hamilton. 
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Tuesday, April 15, has been set as 
the date of the marriage of Miss 
Helen Louise Fitch, daughter of Mr. 
and Mrs. FE. C. Fitch, and Julian 
Fairchild. The marriage will take 
place at the Fitch home, 246 Beacon 
street, Boston. 
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Mrs. Chester Guild,, Misses Mary 
C. and Caroline Guild, who spend their 
summers at The Oceanside, Magnolia, 
were of the Bostonians sailing Thurs- 
day from New York on the Grosser 
Kurfuerst, for Havana, Jamaica and 
the Panama canal zone. 
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No definite plans have yet been for- 
mulated for providing a headquarters 
for the Essex County club, whose club- 
house at Manchester was destroyed 
by fire two weeks ago today. The 
committee, however, are at work and 
as soon as the insurance is adjusted 
they will go ahead. 
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Bayard Warren and his bride-to- 
be, Miss Lilly Sears, are to have a 
cottage on the Shore for the summer, 
near Miss Sears’ home at Pride’s 
Crossing, as Mr. Warren has leased 
the Palfrey house, owned by Mrs. 
Preble Motley, and occupied last sea- 
son by Alfred Dabney. 
More or less interest locally was 
taken in the marriage Wednesday at 
Colorado Springs, Col., of Miss Mar- 
garet. Sturgis to John Wallace Suter, 
Jr. The bride is the daughter of 
Prof. and Mrs. Wm. C. Sturgis, the 
former a son of Mrs. Russell Sturgis 
of Boston and Manchester. She came 
East in the winter of 1911 to make 
her debut, and spend the following 
summer here, being at Manchester 
with her grandmother much of the 
time. 
D. D. Carey 
56 Ames Bldg., Boston 
Telephone 1792 Main 
(With the Boardman Real Est. Agy.) 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Congratulations are being shower- 
ed upon Mr. and Mrs. William Stuart 
Spaulding of “Sunset Rock,” Pride’s 
Crossing, upon the birth of a daugh- 
ter at their Boston home, 99 Beacon 
street. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank B. Bemis of 
128 Beacon street, Boston, are to spend 
the next three months abroad. They 
will return the last of June and will 
spend the summer and autumn at their 
beutiful estate at Beverly Farms as 
usual. 
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Washington society is looking for- 
ward to the breakfast to be given Sat- 
urday, April 5, in honor of Mrs. Wil- 
son, Mrs. Marshall and Mrs. Clark, 
the wives of the President, Vice-Pres- 
ident and Speaker of the House, re- 
spectively, and to the wives of the 
cabinet officers. The function is ar- 
ranged to give the Washington offi- 
cial and unofficial circels an oppor- 
tunity to meet the new “ladies in 
court.” The guest list has been lim- 
ited to 350 persons. Mrs. John Hays 
Hammond of the Freshwater Cove 
colony is one of the committee. 
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Mrs. Clarence Moore and her moth- 
er, Mrs. E. C. Swift were over to 
Pride’s Crossing the first of the week 
to look over the extensive alterations 
and improvements being made at their 
summer home, “Swiftmore.” 
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Miss Elizabeth P. Lee of Brookline, 
was a guest of Mrs. H. P. McKean at 
Pride’s over the last week-end. Miss 
Marie Lee was one of a party enter- 
tained by Miss Elizabeth Bigelow at 
the Bigelow country estate at Fitzwil- 
lian, N. H., over the week-end. 
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Geo. M. Morgan’s fancy dress ball 
at the Brookline Country club Thurs- 
day evening was one of the social 
events of the week in Boston and 
Brookline. The party was given for 
Miss Dorothy Morgan, one of the sea- 
son’s debutantes. 
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