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SOCIETY NOTES 
President and Mrs. Taft celebrated the twenty- 
sixth anniversary of their marriage Wednesday. In con- 
trast to the silver wedding anniversary last year, when 
a brilliant reception was given on the grounds of the 
White House, the day was observed very informally, 
_ with only members of the President’s family to assist. 
Mrs. Taft is spending the first days of the summer very 
quietly in the White House, and occasionally is the guest 
at luncheon of her most intimate friends. In the eve- 
nings, when the weather is clear, the President and 
Mrs. Taft dine on one of the flowered terraces of the 
White House. The President and Mrs. Taft contemplate 
leaving Washington about July 1 for their summer 
home in Beverly. Miss Helen Taft arrived at the White 
House Saturday afternoon. During the past week she 
visited Seabright, N. J., where she attended the Com- 
mencement exercises at Bryn Mawr. She would have 
been graduated this year had not her social obligations 
intervened. 
The Quiney A. Shaws have returned from their Eu- 
ropean trip and are settled at Pride’s for the remainder 
of the summer. Arriving Wednesday as house guest of 
the Shaws was Miss Pemberton of Philadelphia, sister 
of Mrs. Shaw. 
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Preston Gibson of Washington, the playwright, 
who is at ‘‘Haglehead,’’ Manchester, with his family 
as Mrs. James MecMillan’s guests, was noted this week 
as one of the few early bathers of the season taking a 
dip in old ocean. eal 
The wedding in North Andover last Saturday aft- 
ernoon at St. Paul’s church of George William Simp- 
son and Miss Dorothy Davis of Boston and North An- 
dover was of North Shore interest. A member of the’ 
bridal party as bridesmaid was Miss Rosalind Wood 
of Boston, Andover and Pride’s. William Madison 
Wood, Jr., Miss Wood’s brother, served as an usher. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Robert Stowe Bradley of Boston and 
Pride’s and Major and Mrs. Henry Lee Higginson of 
Boston and West Manchester were booked to sail on the 
Laconia which left Liverpool last Wednesday. 
Justice and Mrs. Oliver Wendell Holmes of Wash- 
ington were distinguished arrivals this week at their 
Beverly Farms cottage on Hale street. 
The Martin Erdmans of New York, who had the 
Coolidge homestead, Coolidge Point, Manchester, last 
Season, are tenants this season of the picturesque con- 
erete Dresel villa at Beverly Cove overlooking Mingo 
Beach. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, June 21, 1912. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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SOCIETY NOTES 
The International Horse Show opened at Olympia, 
London, Monday, and will continue until June 29. Al- 
though some of the older American exhibitors are ab- 
sent, others have taken their places. Judge W. H. 
Moore, of the Pride’s contingent, Walter Winans and 
Miss Mona Dunn, a Canadian, are the leading exhibit- 
ors. Judge Moore carried over from America no fewer 
than 45 horses and will be a keen competitor in all har- 
ness classes in which Alfred G. Vanderbilt is also ex- 
hibiting. J. Sumner Draper of Boston has also carried 
over a dozen harness horses and Messrs. Gunther and 
Walker of White Plains, N. Y., have a few entries. King 
George, besides exhibiting horses from the royal stables, 
has sent the famous Hanovarian cream ponies which 
draw the State coach in royal processions and the black 
horses used on other ceremonial occasions. 
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Lieut and Mrs. George Patton sailed Thursday of 
last week on the Finland for Europe. Their little 
daughter, Beatrice, will remain at Pride’s Crossing with 
her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Ayer at 
‘*Avalon.”’ 
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The first hospitality of the season at the Frick man- 
sion at Pride’s took the form of a dinner party last 
Friday evening. There were covers for 21. 
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The members of this season’s book club from the 
Beverly Farms summer colony include Mrs. Bernard C. 
Weld, Mrs. George Lee, Mrs. Henry Dalton, Mrs. George 
Winslow, Mrs. Hall Curtis, Mrs. C. A. Porter, Mrs. J. 
W. Tewksbury, Mrs. E. C. Wheeler, Jr., Mrs. Marshall 
Fabyan, Mrs. J. M. Jackson, Mrs. J. S. Curtis, Mrs C. 
B. Porter, Mrs. Neal Rantoul and Miss Elizabeth Per- 
kins. Books are interchanged Saturday mornings. Mrs. 
C. A. Porter is supervisor of the club. 
Joanna Aspinwall Chapter D. A. R., Miss Elizabeth 
C. Wood, regent, were privileged to enjoy a delightful 
field day at Manchester Wednesday at ‘‘Elwood,’’ the 
charming estate of the Edward L. Woods of Brookline 
bordering on the Singing Beach. Some twenty mem- 
bers participated. Baskct lunch was brought. In ad- 
dition Miss Wood served ice-cream and lemonade. The 
Wood bath houses at the beach were improvised re- 
freshment rooms in charge of the maids of the Wood 
household. As lunches were eaten on the beach this ar- 
rangement completed the outdoor plan of entertain- 
ment. The national colors flew conspicuously from the 
top of the Wood cottage and gave a cordial and patriot- 
ic welcome to the arriving guests, who also derived much 
pleasure from the seashore and _ landscape beauties 
about ‘‘Elwood,’’ also the finely improved estate itself. 
Miss Wood joined her parents Tuesday for the season 
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Miss Mary Curtis, daughter of Mrs. James F, Cur- 
tis of Boston and Pride’s, has returned to the North 
Shore after a sojourn in Europe. 
