NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
The untiring service of Miss 
Katherine P. Loring and the other 
commissioners, W. A. Gallope, S. 
Harvey Dow, have matured in new 
plans for the library at Beverly. 
The contract has been signed and 
the sound of hammer and drill will 
be heard on the Burnham lot. Bey- 
erly has needed a new library badly 
and suecess has crowned the efforts 
of the trustees to obtain funds for 
a new building. 
The gift by Francis Bartlett of 
Boston and Pride’s of a valuable 
real estate investment in the City of 
Chicago to the art museum in the 
City of Boston, was characteristic 
and gave a tangible expression to 
the public spirit and generous im- 
pulses of the donor. 
There are *compensations in the 
dampness of this spring. The fires 
in brush and woods have been nil. 
The State Forester has sent out his 
annual word of warning. The ef- 
forts to avoid the damages to stand- 
ing timber are well made. 
Another offers his body and life 
‘as a possible sacrifice to the lust 
of fame and notoriety, tomorrow, by 
leaping from an aeroplane at Mar- 
blehead. 
The small pox seare never touched 
the healthful North Shore. 
_ Seeds, seed catalogues, roots and 
bulbs and plough. 
Bluebirds—Spring happiness—At 
ast. 
¥ Now for the green grass. 
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By April 30—Taft’s Day. 
{ He may be a fool who speaks well 
who speaks ill of himself, for ever 
will he find ready listeners. There- 
Bere, insinuate much good, though 
thy words, perforce, be guarded. 
About Good Cheer Camp. 
_ One of the most successful feat- 
ures of the International Sunshine 
Society’s Massachusetts work is the 
Good Cheer camp for girls whose 
pocketbooks will not allow vacation 
trips. Last summer the camp 
mother, Mrs. E. F. Bennett of 241 
Lebanon street, Malden, secured the 
home of a North Woburn school 
teacher for use for the camp. It 
proved such an ideal situation that 
; 
plans have been made for next sum- 
mer in the same place. The house is 
a roomy, two-story building, prettily 
furnished ; there is a good piano and 
a library of standard works, which 
the owner very kindly permitted the 
girls to use. There is a fine garden, 
fruit and shade trees, and a circular 
grape arbor, with room for a dozen 
hammocks. During the fearful heat 
of last summer supper was served in 
this arbor, and a delightful place it 
made. — 
Games of all sorts have been pre- 
sented by people interested in the 
camp. On donation day last sum- 
mer a small boy appeared in the — 
early evening. He held up a box 
and stammered ‘‘He-’ere’s s-some- 
thing for c-camp.’’ Mrs. Bennett 
asked him to thank his mother for 
it, and he rephed ‘‘My mother did- 
n’t send it. I earned it myself 
p-pickin’ huckleberries.’’ 
Now, as no boys are allowed at 
camp, and as most of the girls are 
many years older than this little 
chap, Mrs. Bennett thought that 
about the best present she had. 
Three successful seasons have 
given Mrs. Bennett experience and 
an insight into the immense oppor- 
tunity for good along this line. Most 
of the girls come from homes where 
care sits heavily upon each member 
of the household. Many are mother- 
less, some are entirely alone in the 
world, working bravely to support 
themselves. One of Mrs. Bennett’s 
constant duties is to see that they are 
happy while in camp. To this end, 
she provides a novel entertainment 
each week. 
A camp newspaper is ‘‘published”’ 
weekly, one of the most interesting 
items being the ‘‘Lost’’ .and 
‘*Found’’ column. 
Mrs. Bennett does not lose sight 
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of her girls when August is over 
She continues to be ‘‘Mamsie Ben- 
nett’’ all the year around, and exerts 
a splendid influence over her 
‘‘daughters.’’ 
It is hoped that the summer of 
1912 will make it possible to extend 
the work and entertain a larger 
number of girls than during any 
previous season. 
A sale for the benefit of the camp 
will be held in Gilbert hall, Tremont 
temple, Boston, on Saturday, April 
13, and anyone wishing to make a 
donation for the sale or to otherwise 
assist the project may communicate 
with Miss Ella M. Merritt, 22 Cla- 
flin place, Newtonville, Massachu- 
setts. The Good Cheer camp is 
connected with the Massachusetts 
‘Division of the International Sun- 
shine society. 
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April With the Poets. 
Showers and sunshine bring, | 
Slowly, the deepening verdure o’er the 
earth; 
To put their foliage out the woods are 
slack; 
And one by one the singing birds come 
back. 
—Bryant. 
It is as if the pine-trees called me 
From ceiled room and silent books, 
T'o see the dance ot woodland shadows, 
And hear the song of April brooks. 
—Whittier. 
There is a blessing in the air, 
Which seems a sense of joy to yield 
Tro the bare trees, and mountains bare, 
And grass in the green field. 
—Wadsworth. 
‘‘Whatever the weather may be,’’ says 
he— 
‘Whatever the weather may be, 
It’s the songs ye sing and the smiles ye 
wear 
That’s a-making the sunshine’ every- 
where.’’ 
—Riley. 
The birds made 
Melody on branch and melody in mid-air, 
The damp hill slopes were quicken’d into 
ereen, 
And the live 
flowers, 
For it was past the time of Easter day. 
—Tennyson. 
green had _ gindled_ into 
O the wealth of pearly blossoms, O the 
woodland’s emerald green! 
O the welcome, welcome sunshine of the 
diamond sparkling stream! 
O the carol from the hawthorne, and the 
trill from dazzling blue! 
O the glory of the springtime, making all 
things bright and new! 
Though we know there may be tempests, 
and we know there will be showers, 
Yet we know they only hasten summer’s 
richer crown of flowers, 
Blossom leads to golden fruitage, bursting 
bud to foliage soon; 
April’s pleasant gleam shall strengthen 
to the glorious glow of June. 
—Havergal. 
Character is not ready-made, but 
is created bit by bit and day by 
day.—Edna Lyall. 
The only 
pointment is to 
pected. 
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