NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
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APPRECIATE KINDNESS 
Manchester Flower Mission Brings 
Happiness into Many Homes 
Two letters from among several re- 
ceived by the Manchester Flower 
Mission within the last week follow: 
Elizabeth Peabody House, 
Boston, Aug. 22, 1912. 
It is impossible to put into words 
our appreciation of the beautiful 
flowers that come to us from Man- 
chester every Thursday. They are 
always in good condition when re- 
ceived and if a bit droopy at first, 
soon revive when put in water. 
Those that we keep in the clubhouse 
make it seem a_ different place. 
Every day we cut the stems and 
ehange the water to make them last 
as long as possible and it is astonish- 
ing how long they do keep fresh. 
If the donors of the flowers could 
see the faces of some of our neigh- 
bors when we earry the flowers into 
their homes, the happiness’ the 
Flower Mission brings would be 
very evident. 
We choose as far as possible those 
who are shut in through illness or 
old age, but during the summer 
nearly every family connected with 
the house has at least one bouquet. 
Seeing the flowers is, I think, an in- 
spiration to the children who are 
working over window boxes and 
roof gardens of their own. They 
eompare the familiar flowers with 
their own and are eager to know the 
names of those that are not familiar. 
The gayer flowers are preferred 
by some while the more modest and 
the fragrant ones appeal to others. 
None ever come amiss. It seems to 
me that the Flower Mission does a 
great work in bringing color and 
beauty, a bit of God’s own out-of- 
doors into lives and places where 
there is so little beauty. 
Personally, it is a joy to handle 
the flowers every week. We thank 
the Flower Mission every time they 
come. j 
Sincerely yours, 
Harriet D. Newcombe, 
for the Elizabeth Peabody House. 
HELP THE BLIND TO 
HELP THEMSELVES 
Handicraft Shop 
- for the Blind 
9 BRIDGE ST., MAN- 
CHESTER-BY-THE-SEA 
Hand woven art fabrics and rugs in distinctive designs and colors. 
er’s supplies, braided rugs, hand knitted articles, sweaters, etc., mops, brooms; also baskets, trays and cabinet 
work. Orders taken for mattresses and chair-caning. 
ut their fellow citizens must furnish the m‘‘The State can teach the blind to work, barket for their productts.—Helen Keller. 
The Pigeon Cove Inn is going up 
rapidly. When it is completed and 
the spacious grounds laid out accord- 
ing to plans, it will be one of the 
most attractive hotels on the’ entire 
coast. The accompanying cut is a 
view from the water front, but 1s so 
Robert Gould Shaw House, 
6 Hammond Street, Boston. 
Dear Madam: 
A request comes from the Man- 
chester Flower Mission for us to 
tell you of the value of this work, 
what flowers are favorites and what 
flowers keep best. 
Our house is situated in a congest- 
ed part of the city and means ecar- 
fare every time they want to see 
trees and grass. Most of them live 
in tenement houses where they try 
to cultivate a window box. You ean 
imagine the pleasure the flowers 
bring to those people. The bouquets 
are cut until nothing but the blos- 
soms remains and then that is put 
in a bowl to float. 
The cuttings of rose geraniums 
are cherished by one dear old wo- 
man, 80 years old, who ‘‘jist pokes 
thim down in the ground and they 
jist grows honey’’, as she expresses 
it. An old man 90 years who hob- 
bles by on his cane, looks for his bou- 
quet and we find him always on the 
doorstep when he comes out to get 
the air. 
They don’t seem to have any spe- 
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small, one cannot form much of an 
idea of the beauty of the house. 
Reservations are being already en- 
gaged, and the opening of the hotel 
in June, 1913 will be a social event 
of note in Pigeon Cove. 
cial favorites, just so they are flow- 
ers, and we are getting the children 
to take out part of them. It teaches 
them to be kind, thoughtful and 
helpful. 
The rose season was a wonderful 
time for us. I cannot express to you 
the appreciation of these people and 
of the House for the cheer it brought 
to our people and the joy we experi- 
enced in giving them out. God bless 
those whom God has given largely 
of his gifts and the kind hearts that 
think of the many who know not of 
the beautiful. 
Very truly yours, 
Mrs. H. C. Smith, 
Assistant Worker. 
Plymouth Theatre | 
Next Saturday evening promises to 
be a notable event in the theatrical 
world. The oceasion being the open- 
ing of the second season of the cozy 
and homelike Plymouth Theatre, 
Boston, and the re-appearance of 
William Hodge, the most popular and 
best liked of all the many actors who 
visit this section, presenting for the 
last time in Boston ‘‘The Man From 
THome.’’ 
Machine and hand sewed housekeep- 
