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Over the beautiful cenotaphs to Shah 
_ Jehan and his spouse in the Indian Taj 
Mahal, near Agra, India, the most beau- 
tiful building in the world, in the soft 
light hangs a great bronze lamp inlaid 
with silver and gold. ‘This was the gift 
several months ago of Lord Curzon, 
Viceroy of India, in memory of his wife, 
the former Miss Mary Leiter, daughter 
of Mrs. Levi Z. Leiter, of the Beverly 
Cove summer colony. Their marriage 
_ was solemnized in 1895 and Lady Cur- 
zon died three years ago. | Onvisit after 
Visit to the Taj Mahal, Lord Curzon 
was struck by the apparent absence of a 
lamp over the crypt. The tomb, in 
marble of rare design and artistic work- 
manship wanted only a lamp as artistic 
as itself’ Lord Curzon found only two 
men in all the Far East were capable of 
making a work of such wonder, and the 
Egyptian, Todros Badri was selected. 
For two years he labored on the Jamp. 
Around its belt Lord Curzon wished a 
simple inscription, “‘ Presented to the 
tomb of Mamtaz Mahal by Lord Cur- 
zon, Viceroy of India, 1906.’? This 
inscription was first turned into Persian 
and then converted by a native caligraph- 
ist at Agra into one of the Scripts that 
are employed upon the tombs of Shah 
Jehan and his spouse. Thus, in the 
_ August Cosmopolitan, Ella Wheeler Wil- 
cox, describes the effect of the gift on 
after centuries: ‘‘ Unborn. generations 
who pass up the marble stairway, and 
under the lighted lamp, will breathe a 
prayer for the soul of the fair American, 
together with that of Delhi’s youthful 
empress; foralways the mind of romance 
must associate the names of these two 
young beings, who were absorbed into 
the life absolute, crowned with youth, 
beauty and enduring love.’’ 
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Miss Barbara Higginson left Pride’s 
Crossing yesterday morning for a visit 
with Mr. and Mrs. Livingston Davis at 
Gardner, Me. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Henry Parsons King 
of the Pride’s colony are cruising down 
the Maine coast in the Isis. 
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Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Stanton left Mag- 
nolia early in the week ona ten-days’ auto- 
mobile trip to Niagara Falls. They are 
accompanied by Mrs. Charles R. Hay- 
den, Mrs, Stanton’s mother, 
Scores of guests at the Oceanside, 
Magnolia, and hundreds of summer resi- 
dents along the North Shore will be more 
than glad to learn that Messrs. Phenix 
and Green, managers of The Oceanside, 
have decided to extend the hotel’s sea- 
son and keep open until Oct. +. This 
is something unprecedented on the North 
Shore and has already caused much com- 
ment. The novel step was dictated both 
by the exceptional success which the 
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The third and last of Mrs. Hall Mc- 
Allister’s musicales will be given atthe 
house of Mrs. Frederick [.. Ayer, 
Pride’s Crossing, on the afternoon of 
August 25th. Mrs. Ayer has an ex- 
ceptionally fine music room and is build- 
ing a stage, so that the artists will be 
both seen and heard to great advantage. 
Mme. Olga Samaroff and Cecil Fan- 
ning have made up a program of great 
interest. 
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SUMMER HOME OFS. V. R. CROSBY AND FAMILY, West MaNcHESTER 
Oceanside has had this season, and the 
continued demand for rooms later than 
Sept. 15, the date set for the formal close 
of the season. Still the step is taken 
largely as an experiment and, if success- 
ful, will be continued in coming years. 
The demand for rooms after the 15th 
of September, bespeaks the increasing 
popularity of Magnolia as a summer re- 
sort. September is alwaysa_ beautiful 
month on the North Shore, to many the 
most beautiful of the year, and the deter- 
mination of the hotel management to ex- 
tend the season, —thus permitting its 
patrons to enjoy the delightful Indian 
Summer on the Shores,—will be re- 
ceived on every hand with commenda-~ 
tion and applause. 
Mr.-and-Mrs. H. D. Bushnell of 
Pittsburg are at the Oceanside for a 
month’s stay. They are with Mrs. 
Bushnell’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil- 
liam Martin of Plainfield, N. ly 
Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Hazardand Mr. 
and Mrs. G. B. Matthews of Buffalo, 
N. Y., are touring through New Eng- 
land in a big motor car and stopped over 
at Magnolia for a few days at the Ocean- 
side, beginning Tuesday, 
Of the many tea and shopping parties 
at the North Shore Grill, Magnolia, 
yesterday afternoon, one was made up 
of Miss Helen Taft and her aunt, Mrs. 
Louis More, and Prof. More, and an- 
other companion, who motored over 
from Beverly. They were at the Grill 
club and then went on a shopping tour 
through the Colonnade. 
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North Shore people who attended the 
weekly band concert at the Essex Coun- 
ty club Wednesday had the privilege of 
being in touch, in a small measure, with 
' the war game, as the Eighth Regiment 
band, which plays at the club, came 
that morning from the “ battlefields ’’ 
clad in their fighting clothes. Their 
khaki suits, blue capes, gray hats, with 
bands of blue, added a novel touch to 
the occasion. The boys played at the 
Tedesco club in the evening and returned 
to camp next morning. 
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The Count de Chambrun, of the French 
legation, son-in-law of Mrs. N. Long- 
worth, has been one of the interested 
followers of the war game centering 
about Middleboro the last week. 
