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+ ¢ Suoriety Notes + ¢ 
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The Hon. Whitelaw Reid, our am- 
bassador to the court of St. James, arrived 
at Manchester Thursday for a short visit 
with the W. J. Boardmans. 
Miss Ida Vose of East Walpole has 
been a guest this week of Mr. and Mrs. 
S. Parker Bremer, Smith’s Point. 
Miss Gladys Bogert of Flushing, L. 
I., has been a house guest of Mr. and 
Mrs. E. C. Fitch, Manchester, the last 
-week. The marriage of Conover Fitch 
and Miss Bogert takes place next month. 
Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Frick enter- 
tained a party of twenty at dinner at their 
beautiful summer home at Pride’s last 
Friday night. Among their guests were 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft. 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles P. Taft and ° 
daughter, Miss Louise Taft, who have 
been visiting the W. J. Boardmans, left 
Monday for Murray Bay, Can., stopping 
at several points on the way for short 
visits with friends. 
Mr. and Mrs. Sidney E. Hutchinson. 
of Philadelphia have been entertaining 
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Reeves of Phila- 
delphia at their new home, near West 
Beach, Beverly Farms. They are plan- 
ning to take several short trips on their 
yacht Dawn II, which anchored off the 
beach Tuesday night. Mrs. Hutchin- 
son’s father, E. T. Stotesbury, will be up 
from Philadelphia a little later for a visit, 
and her sister, Mrs. John K. Mitchell, 
3d, and Mr. Mitchell will probably pay 
them ‘a visit from Bar Harbor, later. The 
Hutchinsons have remodelled the old 
Preston house into a model summer 
home. The place is the picture of cozi- 
ness and comfort from the outside. 
Mr. and Mrs. Walton Cook, who 
are spending the summer with Mr. 
Cook’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. ‘Thomas 
Cook, corner Proctor and Masconomo 
streets, Manchester, left Thursday morn- 
ing for a short visit with friends at Ken- 
nebunk, Me. : 
Harry Knight of St. Louis has been a 
guest of Mr. and Mrs. Clay Arthur. 
Pierce at Beverly Cove, the last week. 
There is to bea splendid: pony and 
horse show for the children next Wed- 
nesday, Sept. 1, at the Proctor field, at 
Myopia. The first number will be 
started off at 9.30 o'clock. 
Charles Crane, the newly appointed 
minister to China, was up from his sum- 
mer home at Marion, the last week pay- 
ing his respects to President Taft. He 
was a guest while here of his_ brother, 
R. T. Crane, jr., and family, at Pride’s. 
H. M. Sears and two daughters, 
Misses Lily and Phyllis, have returned 
to Pride’s Crossing from a visit to Iles- 
boro, Me. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
August 27th, 
Liprary Haru, Maenoria 
(Opposite the North Shore Grill) | 
FRIDAY AFTERNOONS © 
AT. 4 O'CLOCK 
September 3rd and roth 
Ava. 27 7H. 
Sept. 3eD. 
Sept. 1Ovn. 
Mr. JOHN CoLBy ABBOTT'S 
ILLUSTRATED CAUSERIES — 
ON THE 
“Fotbles and Furbelows of the Past”’ 
“The Women of Versailles.” 
Illustrated by ‘‘ La Grande -Pandore”’ 
“The Men of Versailles.” 
Illustrated by ‘‘ Monsieur le Marquis’’ 
‘Colonial Dressing in America.” 
Illustrated by ‘‘ Caroline of the Colonies ’’ 
(XVIII Century) 
(XVIII Century) 
cally correct in every detail. 
Sincite Tickers, $2.00 
Miss Marcella Craft, the opera singer, 
and well-known to many North Shore 
summer people as the gifted soprano in 
the choir of the First Church of Christ, 
Scientist; Boston, several years ago, gave 
a delightful recital at the Hawthorne Inn 
last evening, attracting to East Glouces- 
ter, many of the North Shore elite, 
among them, many of her friends. 
Miss Craft was assisted by Miss Anne 
Abbott of Boston and Magnolia, whose 
sweet-toned violin has attracted much at- 
tention at a number of private recitals 
along the Shore this summer. © Miss 
-Craft?’s numbers included the Traviata 
Aria, Elsa’s Dream, from Lohengrin; 
Ave Maria, by Bach-Gounod and a 
group of Mrs. Beaches’ songs. _ Most 
of Miss Abbott’s numbers were from 
Liszt and Chopin. ‘The patronesses for 
§ The method of illustration is by means of life-sized paper dolls, invented, designed and 
executed by Mr. Appott, who has taken great care that their varied wardrobes shall be histor- 
{| During the past year these Causeries have been given before 
Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt and the ladies of the Cabinet, at the 
White House; the Colony Club, New York; Mrs. John L. Gard-: 
ner, Fenway Court; Her Excellency, Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, Dor- 
chester House, London; Her Excellency, Madame Kato, of the Jap- 
anese Embassy, London; Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and 
Duchess of Connaught, and the Princess Petricia; The Princess 
Christian; the Crown Prince and Princess of Sweden; Mrs. George 
Cornwallis West; Lord and Lady Sackville, at Knole; Monsieur | 
Pierre de Nolhac insthe Palace of Versailies, and many others: — 
May be had at NorrH SHorE Grit, Magnolia, or at the Door. 
Course Trokers, $5.00 
the recital were Mrs. George von L. 
Meyer, Mrs. William H. Moore, ‘Mrs. 
John M. Longyear, Mrs. Godfrey L. 
Cabot, Mrs. George Lee, Mrs. F. L. 
Higginson, Mrs. H.-A. Bull, Mrs. Rob- 
ert Treat Paine, 2d, and others. ‘Miss 
Craft will sail for Europe, Thursday, 
September 2, being under contract: to 
sing with the Royal Opera of Munich, 
and will not be heard again in this coun- 
try for several years. 
At the Oceanside, Magnolia, from 
Aug. 26 to 31, Mrs. Frohman will: dis- 
play an exclusive line of hand-embroid- 
ered cotton crepe, silk and linen dresses 
and waists, mandarines and kimonos. 
See announcement on page 4. 
David Loring of Boston entertained 
Walter Yates of Boston at dinner at the 
Oceanside Saturday evening. 
