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EVELYN'’'S DIARY. 
D. F. LAMSON. 
Bartobl: 
Evelyn was born Oct. 31, 1620, 
while the little Mayflower was making its 
slow and perilous way over the stormy 
Atlantic. He lived in the stirring times of 
Charles I., Cromwell, Charles II., James 
II, and William III. It was an age when 
the people were learning their rights and 
beginning to assert them, and royalty 
was being taught some needed lessons. 
Evelyn’s sympathies were wholly with 
the royal party in church and state, but 
he was abroad and fair-minded man, and 
disposed to do justice to all. His Diary 
holds up the mirror to the times in which 
he lived, and gives us many glimpses be- 
hind the scenes. He was an intelligent 
observer, and made careful note of all 
that interested him both in public and 
private life. 
Evelyn went abroad in his twenty-first 
year, as was the custom with young men 
of family and education at the time, es- 
pecially if they had aspirations to a public 
career. Nothing seems to have escaped 
his eye. and he shows a remarkably ma- 
ture mind in matters of politics, history, 
art and antiquities, altogether beyond 
what was to be expected of so youthful a 
tourist. On his return to England, he 
found the controversy between King and 
Parliament raging which resulted in the 
deposition and death of Charles six years, 
later. In 1642, he set forth again on 
his travels, and became a full and most 
delightful narrator, describing with a 
facile pen the cities, palaces, churches, 
ruins and works of art with which 
Europe was then filled. The continent 
was at that time a vast treasure house of 
ancient and medieval architecture, sculp- 
ture and painting, the richness and mag- 
nificence of which almost bewilder the 
imagination. ‘The wars of the following 
centuries destroyed many of the monu- 
ments of the old world on which Evelyn 
gazed with admiration. 
In Oct. 1647, after an absence of four 
years, our traveller landed at Dover, hav- 
ing visited the chief cities of southern 
Europe, returning over the Alps 
“through strange, horrid, and fearful 
crags and tracts, abounding in pine trees, 
and only inhabited by bears, wolves, and 
wild goats.’” The people were “‘of 
great stature, extremely fierce and rude, 
yet very honest and trusty ;’’ he describes 
. them as living in a semi-barbarous fashion 
and greatly afflicted by the goitre. Alto- 
gether, Switzerland was not much to _ his 
mind; in fact, it seems to have changed 
but little from the times of the Helvetii. 
As a land whose majestic scenery was to 
allure and fascinate artists, poets and 
tourists, its time was not yet. 
Travel in Evelyn’s day involved many 
- inconveniences, hardships and even 
dangers, of which in this age of steam- 
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discussion of any relevant subject, we do not 
necessarily indorse the opinions of con- 
tributors. 
Correspondents will please give their names 
—not necessarily fur publication, but as a 
guarantee of good faith. 
MancuHesTer, Mass., Nov. 17, ’09. 
Editor North Shore Breeze, 
Dear Sir:—With your kind permis- 
sion I will take just a little of your valu- 
able space and add my mite onthe sub- 
ject of water supply. 
Drinking water has always been called 
a very commendable habit. It has never 
been the means of landing its consumers 
inthe Insane Asylum nor the vehicle 
that has carried them to jail. 
It has never attempted to compete with 
the breweries in furnishing patients for 
the doctors by planting the germs of 
Bright’s disease or diabetes in the systems 
of its trusting but thirsty participants, but 
according to recent obsesvations the wa- 
ter that we are using in Manchester at 
this time bids fair to rival even these in- 
stitutions in keeping our doctors from 
privation and destitution. 
Many of our citizens are hobbling 
about with rheumatism and lumbago on 
account of the change in the water sup- 
ply and are asking ‘“‘ Why we go back 
to the wells in the winter time when 
Gravelly Pond water is so much better.’’ 
The only complaint anvone made of it 
was that it was somewhat warmer than 
the well water; surely this objection is 
eliminated in the winter time, and with- 
out persuming to dictate to the ‘* Water 
Commissioners ’’ we would like to know 
why we can’t have Gravelly Pond water 
in the winter and water from the well 
(if we must have it) in the summer. 
ALKALI. 
ships, express trains, palace cars and tele- 
graphs we are wholly ignorant. But our 
diarist bore them bravely, made little 
complaint and always seemed to find 
something to commend. He was a 
model tourist; he was evidently happy, 
however, to find himself domesticated 
again among old scenes and old friends. 
But he found England in the throes of 
revolution, and “* great confusion every- 
where in expectation of what would be 
next.”’ 
(To be continued. ) 
No Poultry Show This Year. 
At a special meeting of the Essex 
County Poultry association held last 
week it was voted not to hold an exhibi- 
tion this year. Arthur Elliot of Peabody 
was elected secretary. 
Writing paper at E, A, Lethbridge’s 
adv, 
DIVERS GOOD CAUSES. 
Miss Mabel T. Boardman Writes of Red Cross 
Work in Eastern Turkey 
The pitiful conditions of affairs in 
Eastern Turkey, and the opportunity for 
help in carrying on the beneficient work 
of the Red Cross is set forth in the fol- 
lowing communication sent to the Boston 
Transcript recently by Miss Mabel T. 
Boardman of Washington and Man- 
chester: 
“The pitiful condition of the thous- 
ands of women and little children whose 
husbands and fathers were massacred in 
Eastern Turkey last April must appeal to 
our American people. Our ambassador 
to Constantinople, Mr. Straus, cables: 
“With the approach of winter fully sixty 
thousand women and children in Cicilia, 
whose husbands and fathers were mas- 
sacred in April, are in need of shelter 
and the necessaries of life.’ 
“In a letter received lately by the Red 
Cross from the consul general at Beirut, 
Syria, he says: ‘The approaching win- 
ter will cause such widespread and har- 
rowing distress in the mountain villages 
of Armenia and northern Syria that the 
benevolent people of Europe and Ameri- 
ca will feel in duty bound once more to 
succor these stricken people. Yesterday 
morning your committee received an ur- 
gent telegraphic appeal from Dr. Lee 
(American) at Marash for $1000, of 
which $440 was needed at once. On 
the previous day we had shipped about 
$1000 worth of winter jackets for the 
women and girls of Kessab, besides blan- 
kets, and our cash balance was at a low 
ebb. A week ago we rather stripped 
ourselves by furnishing $2000 worth of 
supplies to Alexandretta for Dorlgol, 
Beilan, etc. For the time being receipts 
had ceased to come in and. the future 
looked rather gloomy, when another 
telegram arrived yesterday morning—a 
telegram from Hon. Huntington Wilson, 
authorizing me to draw at sight for 
American Red Cross $500 additional 
contribution. It was a strong and signi- 
ficent coincidence. When a consular 
dragoman exclaimed, ‘Long live the 
American Red Cross!’ I joined in the 
sentiment with a full heart. 
““The American Red Cross appeals to 
our people for further help for these 
suffering women and _ little children. 
Every little helps. Contributions can be 
sentto Mr. H. S. Reeside, American 
Security and Trust Company, Pennsy]l- 
vania avenue and Fifteenth street, or the 
American Red Cross, War Department, 
Washington, D. C. 
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Your truly, 
Maser T. BoARDMAN.”’ 
Contributions may be sent to Mr. W. 
O. Chapman, Salem, Mass., treasurer 
for Essex Division. 
Louisa P, Lorina, Sec’y. 
