NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER, MASS., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1909. 
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Des Hauses Zier ist Reinlichkeit, 
Des Hauses Ehr ist Gastfreundlichkeit, 
Des Hauses Segen ist Frommigkeit, 
Des Hauses Gluck ist Zufriedenkeit. 
This maxim after the German style 
hangs in a roomin Miss Clara Win- 
throp’s little winter cottage at West Man- 
chester, and though all who see it may 
not understand its meaning, they can 
heartily endorse its sentiment when told 
that in English it means: 
The beauty of the house is cleanliness, 
The honor of the house is hospitality, 
The blessing of the house is piety, 
The happiness of the house is contentment. 
The young boys whom Miss Winthrop 
had down to her cottage last Friday, 
members of her Sunday school class of 
boys at St. Paul’s in Boston, can appre- 
ciate the sentiment fully. Miss Win- 
throp had arranged the interior of the 
cottage with all that goes to make Christ- 
mas cheer. A largetree had been loaded 
with presents and Miss Mary Curtis had 
been asked to act as Santa. [he boys 
were being entertained in the bowling 
alley at the large barn, when ata given 
signal they gave up their play and started 
for the cottage. At the same signal 
Santa had started from the hill above, 
with pack filled with presents, and as the 
young folk with Miss Winthrop left the 
bowling alley Santa could be seen wend- 
ing his way down the slope through the 
trees. Overcome with surprise the 
boys soon collected themselves and went 
bounding like hares up the hill to meet 
Santa. Once all were inside the cottage 
the real fun started. The boys, who 
by the way are members of the vested 
choir at St. Paul’s, sang from the _bal- 
cony several Christmas selections for the 
amusement of Miss Winthrop and her 
few guests, and then Santa distributed the 
gifts. The gifts were in most cases use- 
ful, rather than orinamental. Miss 
Winthrop has been entertaining at her 
cottage more or less throughout the 
week. 
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Nelson S. Bartlett, who has remained 
at. Manchester all the autumn, living at 
his sisters’ house while improvements 
have been in progress on his own, left 
Tuesday for Boston, where he will re- 
main fora while with his sisters, the 
Misses Bartlett. He will probably go to 
Lakewood later, and will return to Man- 
chester in the early spring. 
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There is more building operations and 
improvements on all along the North 
Shore this winter than at any time within 
the last eight or ten years. “Thesplendid 
‘* open’’ winter up until the last week, 
without snow or extremely cold weather, 
has been a great help in carrying along 
the work and has been the means of 
keeping workmen and mechanics in all 
lines busily engaged all the fall. 
Among the work in hand is Philip 
Dexter's large mansion at Manchester; 
the completion of the Devens cottage at 
Manchester; the construction of stable, 
garage and gardener’s cottage, and land 
improvements at Beverly Farms for Syd- 
ney E Hutchinson; an addition to the 
Mason cottage at Smith’s Point, now 
owned by B. A. Beal; land improve- 
ments at W. A. Tucker’s, Manchester; 
extensive land improvements, garden lay- 
outyete:,» ate-Hiy+C:, *Frick’ss ‘Pride’s 
Crossing. And afew weeks ago work 
was started on the construction of a large 
summer mansion for Mrs. Lucius Man- 
lius Sargent at Pride’s Crossing. 
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One of the most important real estate 
transfers, as regards acreage, that has 
taken place on the North Shore for some 
time was put through this week, by 
which Louis A. Shaw, a Beverly Farms 
summer resident, obtains possession of 
three pieces of property, with a total of 
some forty acres of wood and tillage land, 
in that section of Beverly Farms, off the 
Wenham road, adjoining the estate of his 
brother, Quincy A. Shaw, 2d. The 
purchase includes: 
The large estate of Ebenezer K. Mor- 
rill, consisting of farm house, barn and 
other buildings, together with about 22 
acres of wood and tillage land. 
The Addison Davis estate at Preston 
Place, consisting of house, barn and other 
buildings and about nine acres of wood 
and tillage land. 
About eight acres of wood land from 
the heirs of the late Andrew Standley. 
It is understood that the purchaser will 
change the whole property over into one 
large estate later on, upon which he will 
erect a manison and other buildings for 
his own occupancy. 
Miss Pauline Luke has been spending 
part of the last week at Beverly Farms 
visiting friends, 
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The delightful sleighing of the last few 
days has brought many parties down from 
Boston to the North Shore,-—some to 
spend the day, others as house parties. 
A large crowd of boys and girls came 
down to Manchester Wednesday fore- 
noon as guests of the Eliot young people; 
another party have been down to the W. 
L. Putmans; Miss Olivia Thorndike and 
Miss Kate Tweed also came out from 
Boston on the 10.45 train Wednesday; 
Dr. Washburn’s sons have been down to 
their estate at Manchester part of the 
week, and there has been another small 
party atthe George Wigglesworth es- 
tate. Mr. and Mrs. Wigglesworth and 
two daughters and Richard, went to the 
mountains. At West Manchester Mr. 
and Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby and children 
have been spending the week. 
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Mrs. E. A. Boardman has been pay- 
ing a short visit to her son, E. A. Board- 
man, and family, at Beverly Farms. 
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After a long illness with typhoid fever 
Thomas McKee is able to get out-of- 
doors again. He was stricken over two 
months ago and has since been confined 
to his Beverly Farms home. 
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Hon. T. Jefferson Coolidge came 
down to his estate at Coolidge’s Point to- 
day tospend New Year’s. ‘T. Jefferson 
Coolidge, jr., and family have been 
spending the holidays at their estate, and 
a family gathering with Mr. Coolidge, 
sr., will mark the first day of the New 
Year tomorrow. 
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J. H. Storer and family, who have 
been at their country place in Waltham 
since leaving Manchester in the early 
autumn, are now settled at their Boston 
residence, 286 Beacon street, for the 
balance of the winter. 
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A number of invitations have been re- 
ceived by residents of the North Shore 
in Boston and elsewhere, from E. T. 
Stotesbury, of Philadelphia, for the large 
ball which he is giving in honor of his 
debutante granddaughter, Miss Cintra 
Hutchinson, for whom so many pleas- 
ant things are-being done. The date is 
Friday, January 14. The Hutchinsons 
have a beautiful estate at Beverly Farms. 
