8 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
Last season the North Shore women made a great 
success of their work in the coach-house at the home of 
Mrs. Walter D. Denégre in West Manchester, later mov- 
ing the work-room to Mrs. Grew’s place. The committee 
was reorganized this season and includes Mrs. Russeil 
Codman, chairman; Mrs. M. Graeme Haughton, secre- 
tary; Miss Harriet Rantoul, treasurer; Mrs. Robert 5. 
Bradley, Mrs. Lester Leland, Mrs. Henry S. Grew, 2d, 
Mrs. George Lyman and Miss Alice Thorndike. About 
50 workers are often present, including some of tne 
young folk and children of the community. The Misses 
Harriet and Mabel Rantoul, Frances Hutchinson, Jane 
Tucker, Agnes and Ethel Grew and Master Jimmy Grew 
make themselves generally useful in making pillows, 
ravelling, etc. Much can be accomplished by spending a1 
hour in earnest work. Sandwiches and crackers are for 
sale to tide over the long morning. An enormous amourt 
of work was done in June, when not all of the summer 
colony had come. The work included 1,335 bandages, 
9,740 sponges (ten to a package), 142 coussinets, 249 
3-metre gauze, 174 I-metre gauze, 166 fly cloths, 438 knit 
sponges, 12 shirts, 37 socks, 4 sweaters and several othe 
kinds of work. 
The latest bulletin from the Paris depot asks for 
mosquito netting, covers to keep flies out of cups, cheap 
fans, etc. It speaks of the distress of the bandaged pa- 
tients with the flies attacking their unprotected faces. [i 
tells of the ambulances at the front which are kept sup- 
plied with the surgical dressings. Each woman manag- 
ing these has received her “citation” to appear for the 
Decoration. After a fierce attack they often operate it 
the rate of 15 an hour. Times like these require an 
enormous amount of dressings. The blindness from 
liquid fire is frightful, and the bulletin closes by saying, 
“we must beg, beg, beg,—in fact, keep it up until the 
terrible struggle is over.” 
Great interest is manifested by the ladies of Mag- 
nolia in the Magnolia Surgical Dressings work which is 
being done every day, except Saturday, fram 9 until 2, i 
the Oceanside Annex. The work is under the directioa 
of Miss Elizabeth Page, from the Surgical Dressings 
Department of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at Brook- 
line. The bandages were originally intended for the 
wounded of the Allies, but the dressings will be sent for 
the use of our American soldiers if necessary, resulting 
from the Mexican crisis. About 20 workers are present 
each day from the Magnolia colony. To suit the coa- 
venience of the ladies the work has been arranged so thut 
the workers may come on the day best suited for their 
convenience. Everyone is welcome to come and help in 
this most worthy cause. The dressings materials is paid 
for by voluntary donations, which have so far been very 
generous. The officers of the Magnolia branch are Mrs. 
W. H. Coolidge, president; Mrs. EF. M. Binney, vice-presi- 
dent; Mrs. George F. Willett, treasurer, and Mrs. E. PB. 
Richardson, secretary. 
In Wenham the Special Aid Society for American 
Preparedness is doing a wonderful amount of work at its 
meetings. The work-room for surgical dressings is in 
the S. Dacre Bush house near the town hall. Fifty en- 
thusiastic members are now enrolled. Mrs. John ¢. 
Phillips is president, Mrs. Alanson L,. Daniels, treasurer, 
Mrs. Charles T. Parker, secretary. Miss Helen Burnham 
is vice-chairman and Mrs. E. B. Cole heads the lecture 
committee. The work includes Hamilton as well as Wen- 
ham. Mrs. John C. Phillips was at the head of a parade 
committee, but the parade has been abandoned since the 
Mexican trouble arose. Interested workers from Ham- 
ilton are Mrs. George von L, Meyer, Mrs. John Tucker- 
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man, Mrs. Houtson Thomas, Mrs. Chas. 
Thayer and 
Mrs. Jack Brown. 
_ In Ipswich the women are working each Tuesday 
and Friday at Candlewood Farm, the home of the Herbert 
W. Masons. Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Roger S- 
Warner (Mary Hooper) the good work has been in prog- 
ress over a month. ‘The Argilla road colony is well repre- 
sented among the workers, Mrs. R. T. Crane being one 
of the number. The Appleton Farms colony make up a 
good share of the helpers, and Mrs. N. S. Simpkins and 
Mrs. Joseph F. Woods of the Manse have recently joined 
in the work as the other summer residents will probably 
do as they arrive. The work is for the French wounded. 
Mrs. Robert P. Parker also carried on an interesting 
work all winter, in the Rectory, for Belgian refugees. 
This she hopes to continue in the fall upon her return 
from the west. Mrs. Parker furnished the materials and 
her friends assisted in making the surgical supplies. 
In Topsfield the women are meeting in the Town 
hall under the supervision of Mrs. ‘‘homas W. Peirce 
and Miss Margaret Cummings. They have a strong 
branch working for the French wounded. <A class in 
First Aid is also meeting in the old Capen house, with 
Dr. Peer Johnson of Beverly in charge. Mrs. Willard 
Emery and Mrs. Ernest Pentacost are enthusiastic mem- 
bers in the class, as are also many of the summer colony. 
At Phillips Beach the Friday morning Surgical 
Dressings meetings which are being held in the Neighbor- 
hood clubhouse are very well attended and much useful 
work is being done under the supervision of Mrs. Stanley 
D. Forbes, Mrs. J. W. Tapley and Mrs. W. A. Hayford, 
as well as the other ladies of the club. The club extends 
a cordial welcome to any ladies who would like to assist 
in this splendid work. The meetings are held from 10 to 
1 o’clock on Friday mornings and is the branch of the 
Surgical Dressings Work which was carried on in Lynn 
during the winter. It is supervised by the Surgical Dress- 
ings Department of the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital at 
Brookline. The Neighborhood club branch is under the 
direction of Miss Carroll Tapley of Lynn. The dressings, 
which include wickes, bandages, surgical pads and com- 
presses are all sent to the Peter Bent Brigham hospital to 
be sterilized and will be kept for our own soldiers if neces- 
sary, or sent to the Allies. 
At Nahant a Red Cross station has been opened to 
receive supplies for our soldiers, with Miss Lillie Fay and 
Mrs. Charles T. Lovering at the head. They are making 
all kinds of garments. ‘The French wounded work is 
done in the Nahant Town hall, Wednesday and Friday 
mornings, under the supervision of Mrs. Thomas S. 
Bradlee. The entire colony is at work. 
Marblehead has a Surgical Dressings work-room in 
the Marblehead Academy, meeting each Firday, with 
Mrs. W. R. Castle as chairman. A trained worker from 
the Peter Bent Brigham hospital is in charge of the work. 
Part of the supplies are for the Allies and part for our 
own men if needed. Prominent summer residents are 
helping in the work. 
Mrs. W. Castle is in charge of the Red Cross station 
at Marblehead; at Salem, Mrs. W. Haggett; Swampscott 
has joined with Lynn under Mrs. Gordon Campbell; 
Newburyport, Miss Marjorie Bernheimer, who is today 
giving a fair on her handsome estate benefiting the Red 
Cross and French wounded. 
_ In Gloucester work for the French wounded is ear- 
ried on at the Cape Ann Literary and Scientific Associa- 
tion building on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Mrs. Isaac 
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