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and sin. The refusal by law to grant | 
certificates of marriage to the phy- 
sically unfit is not an infringment of 
personal liberty for the liberty of 
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the individual is limited by the good 
of the social group. 
The amateur in social study knows 
that a large per cent. of the expense 
in which the state has been involved 
for the care of the weak, poor. 
idiotic and diseased has been due to 
unwise or cruelly wrong marriage of 
physically unfit persons. May it not 
be that the dean has seen the tiny 
suffering infant destine from birth 
to the ravages of tuberculosis be- 
cause of the diseased parents? Is it 
a wonder that he has come to so 
radical a conclusion? In fact may he 
not be a John the Baptist erying in 
the wilderness? Must not the State 
eventually follow with such a rule? 
It is blindness not to see the begin- 
ning of many social wrongs in wrong 
marriages. The claim of the dean 
that it will lessen the number of di- 
vorees is well said. There is a rea- 
son why the state has hesitated to 
take the step. Perhaps this reason 
will act as a deterrent upon legis- 
lation for some years to come, but 
nevertheless, no criticism can be 
made of the dean’s attitude and ac- 
tion to purify the home and lift 
high the standards of matrimony. He 
is acting clearly within his rights. 
March Bird Life on the North Shore. 
The light fall of snow Sunday, 
continuing on the ground well into 
the week, has driven the spring birds 
out from under the cover and soli- 
tude of the woods and the seclusion 
of the Marshy wetlands and swamps 
to the open roads and fields. Hven 
the shy song sparrow and junco flit 
about the houses and bars seeking 
food. At no time of the year does 
the call of nature stir the mind so. 
There is no season when the song- 
sters’ trill notes are so pleasurable 
as ina snow storm. Yet all through 
the storm of Sunday the little song 
sparrow sang out his bold proclama- 
tion of spring in the face of the win- 
ter’s last struggle to hold nature in 
bondage. The robin has not been 
friendly this winter. Last year he 
stayed through the seasons, and at 
Manchester’s Singing Beach and 
Pride’s Crossing shores he was seen 
in flocks. At Preston Place in the 
beautiful open plain of the Shaw es- 
tate two blue jays have been regu- 
P larly leaving fas rustic lonliness of 
old Chebacco woods to satisfy their 
hunger on the tidbits left out with 
kindness aforethought by a loving 
friend. The junco has not been so 
attentive during the winter, owing 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
partly to the unusually light fall of 
snow and the long season of bare 
ground. They seek civilization most 
often when the snow covers their 
feeding grounds. His suit of slaty 
gray, with its low cut vest of white, 
is not worn by any other of our 
birds, and while some species show 
white outer tail feathers in flight, 
the junco’s seems to be more than 
usually conspicuous. In a month or 
more they will fly northward and 
make their home in nothern New 
England. He is such a joy to the eye 
on the snow covered ground! When 
seen, the bird lover feels that nature 
has not been too unkindly for a few 
of the feathered have remained to 
weather the winter. The tree spar- 
row has also been about with his 
rufus crown and his distinguishing 
spot on the breast. They, too, wiil 
remain but a short while, but they 
will not be missed for other friendly 
visitors from the south will have 
returned again to sing at the morn- 
ing hours. The rusty red fox spar- 
row has been seen, but not so num- 
erous this winter as in the year be- 
fore last. Then they were seen in 
small flocks. Now ‘they are seen 
onee in a while singly. One chicka- 
dee has pleased the ear with his 
sweet little song. But no song has 
been so cheerful as the notes of the 
song sparrow. His song is often 
heard as early as February, but this 
year he has not been heard. fad Mees 
magic of his voice bridges the cold 
months of early spring; as we lis- 
ten to him the brown fields seem 
ereen, flowers bloom, and the rare 
branches become clad with soft 
rustling leaves.’’ The sparrow will 
stay with us and bring up three 
families of little song sparrows be- 
fore the winter’s cold begins again. 
The Opening Season. 
Within ten days of the time the 
ereek was dynamited to allow the 
grand sea going barges to bring in 
their store of coal for the citizens of 
Manchester, crocuses with flowers 
abloom, and the snow drops also, 
were found poking their welcome 
petals above the cold ground upon 
an open southerly exposure. The 
hepatica may be in bloom, but who 
has found any of these harbingers 
of spring? The pussy. willow, the 
faithful early sign ‘of * the coming 
glory of nature’s awakening, has 
long been with us. Every tree is 
showing the budding of new life 
and the sap of the tree root and 
heart is beginning to flow. The 
buds of the lilac bush are pro- 
nounced and nature lovers have 
broken branches, to coax into an 
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earlier life indoors in the flower 
vase, but nothing can excel the 
forcythia for forced early house 
blooms. Nature has treated us 
severely enough this winter to send 
an early spring and no one would 
stay his hand. 
Do not neglect to sign Mr. Taft’s 
nomination papers. Remember the 
thirtieth of April. It will be a 
great day in the history of Massa- 
chusetts, for on that day for the first 
time, the citizens of Massachusetts 
will be given an opportunity to ex- 
press their preference for the nom- 
ination of President of the United 
States from their party. 
The plan of the committee in Bos- 
ton, to provide vacations for poor 
girls is commendable. Its idea does 
not provide for the pauperization of 
the girls, but gives them a stimulat- 
ing impulse to save regularly, in or- 
der to obtain a rest away from the 
city stress. 
The new Harvard-Boston subway 
is a triumph of engineering and is 
a monument to the progressive ac- 
tivities of the best ordered city 
transportation company in the world 
—the Boston Elevated railroad. 
Hollis Street Theatre. 
Robert Edeson, who is admittedly 
one of the most popular stars who 
visit Boston, has created a lot of dis- 
cussion because of his temerity in 
departing from the line of character- 
izations with which his name has 
long been associated. Yet in his 
latest stellar vehicle, ‘‘The Indisere- 
tion of Truth,’’ Mr. Edeson plays 
the character of Bruce Darrell, a 
college athlete, who has nothing to 
recommend him to public favor save 
his prowess as an athlete. The role 
is very strong in its acting capabili- 
ties, and Mr. Edeson convinces by 
his complete mastery of its difficul- 
ties that he is not a one-line actor, 
as so many become who have stayed 
for years in roles of a similar nature. 
