WENHAM 
Wenham, is fortunate in having 
an ‘‘Improvement Society.’’ This 
organization, now several years old, 
consists of prominent summer resi- 
dents who band themselves together 
for the betterment of the town. Miss 
Helen Burnham is the honored presi- 
dent and Mrs. Adeline P. Cole her 
efficient assistant- The early active 
ities of the society were along con- 
ventional lines—hbeautifying the 
Town hall grounds, providing shrub- 
bery and landscape decoration at 
the ‘‘triangles’’ where highways in- 
tersect, of which there are seven in 
Wenham. The “‘triangles,’’ former- 
ly eye-sores are now parks of rare 
beauty. The society next proceeded 
to introduce sewing classes for the 
girls of the village and manual 
training instruction for the boys. 
So successful have these proved that 
the latter of them has already been 
taken over by the school committee. 
Believing that the older girls should 
have provision made for organized 
constructive recreational education, 
the society undertook to ‘‘mother”’ 
a girls’ club; and engaged a skilled 
teacher of physical culture to give 
instruction throughout the winter. 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
This effort, at the close of the first 
year, is universally pronounced a 
great success. Feeling that a social 
center would be beneficial to Wen- 
ham, the society occupied an old 
-harness shop, standing beside the 
Village church, for the purpose of 
establishing a tea-room. The struc- 
ture, originally far from attractive, 
has been decorated by architect and 
artist until, a veritable symphony in 
green and white, it is the gem of the 
village. Besides the customary tea- 
room a woman’s exchange depart- 
ment is in operation. Miss Gertrude 
Whitney comes from Simmons col- 
lege, after a course in ‘‘institutional 
management,’’ to assume direction 
of the new work. A line of automo- 
biles standing before the ‘‘room”’ 
each afternoon (except Sunday) is 
a true indication of the thriving 
business doing within. Officially the 
tea-room is ‘‘The Sign of the Tea- 
Kettle and the Tabby Cat.’’ When 
friends hear the tabby-cat purring 
her invitation, they know that the 
tea-kettle contains something worth 
while. Most beneficial of all the 
activities of this philanthropic so- 
ciety is the support of a district 
nurse for Hamilton and Wenham. 
Generous friends in the former town 
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co-operate to render this service 
possible. 
The Wenham church makes an 
effort to serve the summer residents 
in religious things. The church is 
Congregational in its denominational 
affiliations. But, as the only ehurch 
in the village, it keeps denomina- 
tionalism well in the rear. Under 
the leadership of the minister, Rev. 
Frederick Morse Cutler, the work is 
organized in six departments, first of 
all being the ‘‘Department of Social 
Service,’’ whose aim it is ‘‘to create 
in Wenham social conditions favor- 
able for the leading of right lives.’’ 
Then come the departments of Bible 
Study, YMCA, (which aims to help 
the town boys and girls, and has 
great success in winning athletic 
championships, and conducts a troop 
of boy scouts), Missions, Church 
Extension and Membership. The 
church is ancient in point of years 
(nearly three centuries old), but by 
the neat card of mvitation which it 
places in the hands of Wenham's 
visitors and sojourners, it reveals a 
modern spirit. 
That is the _ best 
which teaches us. to 
selves.—Goethe. 
government 
govern our- 
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