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| The COLONNADE 
MAGNOLIA, MASS. 
A RARE OLD PAINTING 
By one of those extraordinary 
chances, which might happen every 
day, or might not happen in a cen- 
tury, a painting of extreme rarity 
and historic interest, has recently 
been discovered, not in Europe this 
time, but right here in Massachu- 
setts, and had it not been for the ac- 
cident of the pieture -falling under 
the eye of Mr. Bernard Berenson, 
the famous art critic, it might have 
still remained in obscurity. 
The painting represents with many 
details, the pomp and ceremony at- 
tendant upon the removal of the 
image of the Holy Virgin from the 
Impruneta to Florence in A. D. 1711, 
and its installation in the famous 
Pitti Palace. A long inscription 
painted upon the panel itself in 
Italian, relates the circumstances of 
the event. It shows the grim old 
stone Pitti in the background, and 
in front of it winds the long eccles- 
iastical procession, with the sacred 
statue being borne under a canopy 
and curiously arrayed soldiers with 
their lances, keeping the crowd back. 
The incription states that the 
wooden panel on which the picture 
is painted, was the very panel up- 
on which the Virgin was carried, 
and it also gives a long list of the 
dignitaries of the Church and State, 
who took part in the ceremony. 
The painting is now owned by Mr. 
Frederick J. White of 74 Sea street, 
Manchester, who came here some 
three or four years ago to spend the 
summer, but finding Manchester so 
much to his liking, determined io 
winter here, and has since remained 
a permanent resident. 
Mr. White, who owns some very 
fine examples of the work of the old 
masters, has the true spirit of the 
collector, in as much, as it always al- 
fords him pleasure in allowing oth- 
ers to see and study the master- 
pieces in his possession. 
Miss Adele Comer, ° choiffeuse, 
formerly at The Oceanside, has 
opened a hair shop at Magnolia in 
the rear of Frank Bros.’ shoe store 
in the Colonnade. Miss Comer makes 
a specialty of the Comer lasting 
hair wave for permanently waiving 
the hair. The backward shampoo 
is another thing of which Miss 
Comer is making a specialty. Her 
telephone is 203-2 Magnolia. 
©. G. Howes Co., French cleaners, 
have opened a summer branch at 
Magnolia for the convenience of 
their North Shore patrons. They 
have part of the Frank Bros.’ shoe 
store in the Colonnade. 
Will Hold Flower Show at Mrs. 
Winthrop’s Estate. 
Mrs. R. C. Winthrop has very gen- 
erously offered the use of the field on 
her estate at West Manchester for 
the use of the North Shore Horticul- 
tural society for their flower show 
on Wednesday and Thursday, Au- 
gust 21 and 22. The exhibition 
ought to be a big success and North 
Shore people will doubtless take hold 
of it with much interest inasmuch as 
the society will give the entire re- 
ceipts of the show to the Beverly 
Hospital. 
NEW YORK 
MR. PERINE, 
Resident Partner 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Yesterday a sale was held at Al- 
lerton Point, Marblehead, for the 
benefit of the Boston Floating hos- 
pital. Among the patronesses for 
this most worthy undertaking were 
Mrs. Frank Gair Macomber of 
‘“Rockledge,’’ Marblehead, Mrs. L. 
- ©. Kimball, Mrs. Harriet B. Sprague 
of ‘‘Harbor View,’’ Mrs. Herbert E. 
Yerxa of Marblehead Neck, Miss 
Abbie R. Butman of Allerton Place, 
Marblehead, and Mrs. Thomas Hunt. 
Yesterday Mr. and Mrs. Alexan- 
der S. Porter, Jr., of Boston and 
Manchester sailed for Europe on 
the Kaiserin Auguste Victoria from 
New York. Mr. and Mrs. Porter 
have a charming home on Cobb 
avenue, Smith’s Point, Manchester- 
by-the-Sea. page 
Miss Elizabeth Boardman of Hill 
Top, West Manchester, returned 
Thursday from a week’s visit at 
Kast Jaffrey, N. H. 
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The Corinthian and Eastern 
Yacht clubs have a fine schedule of 
yachting events this season. Many 
European yachtsmen will undoubt- 
edly be in attendance. Among them 
is expected Prince Wilhelm of Ger- 
many, son of Emperor Adalbert II. 
He is now in Newport enjoying 
many fetes given in his honor. It is 
hoped the North Shore society will 
have an opportunity to give some 
delightful social functions for him 
at the many beautiful estates which 
cannot be surpassed even by New- 
port homes, 
