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NORTH SHORE BREEZE. 
Thanksgiving Offering of Manchester 
School Children Brought Cheer to 
Many of Boston's Poor. 
The Thanksgiving offering of fruit 
and vegetables and other niceties, made 
by the Manchester School children, 
brought cheer into many a Boston home, 
where the families were so poor that 
their Thanksgiving dinner this year 
would have been scant but for the kind 
acts of the boys and girls here. 
Letters have been received this week 
from those who had charge of the dis- 
tribution of baskets of food at the Deni- 
son House, 93 ‘Tyler street, Boston, 
where the barrels were shipped. ‘They 
have been readto thechildren. Follow- 
ing are afew extracts from the letters: 
John C. Mackin, 
Supt. of Schools. 
My Dear Mr. Mackin: Will you 
please thank all the teachers and pupils 
who sent the barrels for Thanksgiving. 
We sent out some 25 dinners to those 
most in need of help and I am sure the 
gratitude was most sincere. 
Herena S. Dup_ey. 
Dear Children: Perhaps you would 
like to know that five big baskets of ap- 
ples and vegetables went to Italian fam- 
ilies, to help those boys and girls from 
another land to share in our —Thanksgiv- 
ing gladness. ‘There are three children 
in the D’ Andrea family-—and_ how their 
faces did shine when I brought in the 
big basket for them! I asked the little 
boy, Pietro, what Thanksgiving Day was 
for and he answered with the widest of 
grins ‘“T’eat!’” And he looked as if 
he intended to eat, too. The little 
Polaro children, all six of them, were 
just as happy, from 11-year-old Mary 
down to the baby; and so were all the 
other children who shared in the good 
things. I know you would have all en- 
joyed going around with me, when I 
took the baskets, but as long as you 
couldn’t do that you will just have to im- 
agine how much happiness the barrels of 
good things which you sent were able to 
bring. 
Marion D. SavaGe. 
My Dear Mr. Mackin: I want to 
tell you about one family who had a 
bright Thanksgiving because of the 
things that you sentto us. Mrs. Murphy, 
one of the best women in the _neighbor- 
hood, has two little girls. Last summer 
her only boy was run over by an auto- 
mobile and lived only four or five hours 
after being taken to the hospital. His 
father and mother were both away work- 
ing atthe time. * * * They have 
had a terribly hard time. I suspect they 
would have had hardly any dinner on 
Thanksgiving had we not been able to 
send them a good basket from the settle- 
ment. ‘Their faces lighted up so hap- 
pily when they spoke of the surprise it 
was. Iam sure it will be a pleasure to 
some one to know of the brightness that 
came to a sad little family. 
Yours truly, etc. 
My Dear Mr. Mackin: I wish to 
join in thanking you for the joys and 
cheer your generous contributions brought 
to our neighbors Thanksgiving day. It 
was my privilege to make up some of the 
baskets to take out and I wish your 
school might know how much their giv- 
ing helped to make the day areal Thanks- 
giving to many. 
Marie E. GuILter. 
American Colleges in Asia. 
A man who is ambitious for a life of 
exceptional usefulness may find a sugges- 
tion in the careers of two American 
educators who have returned home after 
approximately half a century of epoch- 
making service in Western Asia—Dr. 
George Washburn, of Robert College, 
Constantinople, and Dr. Daniel Bliss, of 
the American Protestant College, Beirut, 
Syria. Dr. Washburn has just told his 
story in his ‘‘ Fifty Years in Constanti- 
nople,’’ but neither man has ever made 
efforts to attract the attention of his 
countrymen. 
Robert College, to which Dr. Wash- 
burn devoted his life, was founded by 
Cyrus Hamlin, but was named after Mr. 
Robert (without his consent), a New 
York merchant who gave $400,000 for 
its founding. It occupies a beautiful site 
of twenty-three acres overlooking the 
Bosphorus, is near the bridge over which 
Darius led the Persians into Scythia, and 
faces a castle built by Mohammed the 
Conqueror in the year that Columbus 
discovered America. At the time of its 
,ounding, 1863, there was no other col- 
lege in the Turkish Empire. 
Its wholesome and enlightened influ-- 
ence has been stamped upon at least 
3,000 young men of the Levant, chiefly 
Greeks, Armenians, and Bulgarians, and 
its graduates have, generally, been a 
credit to the institution. For instance, 
it educated the men whose leadership 
made it possible for the Bulgarians to es- 
tablish a free state in the Balkans. 
The American Protestant College, in 
Beirut, has had evena wider influence. 
It also is out-and-out American in its 
spiritand methods; the late Morris K. 
Jesup was president of its board of 
trustees. It has about nine hundred 
students a year in its seven departments 
and requires a teaching force of about 
seventy instructors. [The graduates of 
this college occupy positions of influence 
in many lands. For example, an editor 
cv. this magazine discovered one at Tang- 
ier editing the most influential Arabic 
newspaper in Morocco Lord Cromer 
employed many of the Beirut men dur- 
ing his twenty years’ work of rebuilding 
Egypt. 
Not the least among the results achieved 
by Drs. Washburn and Bliss is the stim- 
ulus to Oriental education in general. 
The conspicuous success has encouraged 
the establishment of hundreds of others 
schools in the Levant. There are now 
at least a dozen American colleges and 
more than a hundred other important 
mission schools. The example of 
Robert College, in particular, led the 
Turkish Government into an epoch of 
college-building—and this has doubtless 
had much to do with ““‘the young Turk’’ 
movement that deposed Sultan Atdul 
Hamid. 
There is more than national pride in 
the prophecy that the graduates of Amer- 
ican schools will be the chief factors in 
the real upbuilding of that part of the old 
world which for the time being is called 
the Turkish Empire.—World’s Work. 
[Dr. George Washburn is well known 
to NorthShore people. He isthe father 
of Dr. Geo. H. Washburn and has 
spent much time the last few years with 
his son at Manchester. —Ed. | 
Grand Opportunity to Buy Clothes at 
Great Reduction. 
One step of the Naumkeag Trust Co. 
as a result of the big bank combine in 
Salem will mean muchto people in this 
vicinity inasmuch as the bank has decided 
to move into new quarters and for that 
purpose have purchased the Hoyt block 
on Essex street, now occupied by the 
W. E. Hoyt Co., clothiers. The ben- 
efit comes from the great reduction at 
which goods may be bought from this 
concern. ‘They must vacate by the first 
of February and as they have been unable 
to find another suitable location in the 
city, their entire clothing and furnishing 
stock will be disposed of. Probably 
never before in the history of Salem have 
the owners of a stock such as this well- 
known firm carries, been forced to close 
it outin this short space of time. 
Don't Try to Write Messages on Your 
Christmas Parcels. 
It has been decided by the classifica- 
tion committee of the postoffice depart- 
ment that the words ‘‘ not to be opened 
until Christmas Day,’’ or similar inscrip- 
tions may be writen only on such parcels 
as bear postage at first class rates, but 
packages that are rated at third or fourth 
class rates may bear the same inscription, 
providing that it is printed or stamped on 
them. When written on the parcel 
with pen or pencil, the words are held 
to be a personal communication from the 
sender to the addressed, thus making the 
matter subject to first class rates. 
I have just put in a stock of mail boxes 
and letter plates. D.T. Beaton. adv. 
