58 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
CONOMO POINT, ESSEX 
Mrs. H. E. Crocker and Mrs. H. 
lL, Cooke of East Boston are guests 
of Mr. and Mrs. C’ W. Crocker at 
the “Rock Lawn.” 
Miss Irene Maguire and Fred C. 
Hersom were week-end guests of Mr. 
and Mrs. Frank Hersom. 
Mrs. James Fraser and daughter, 
of Chicago and New York, who are 
summering at the ‘Sunset,’ are en- 
tertaining Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ger- 
rish of Winchester and Mrs. Malcolm 
Fraser of White Plains, N. Y. 
Miss Alice P. Burnham of Essex 
is the guest of Miss Ruth Adams. 
Among those registered at the Co- 
nomo hotel this week were the fol- 
lowing: Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Smith, 
Mrs. E. W. Manhard, Mr. and Mrs. 
G. Fisher and L. J. Piston, of Glou- 
cester; Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Lee, 
Washington; Mr. and Mrs. Harry 
Woodman, New York; A. Wilbert 
Starratt, Boston. 
Mr. and Mrs. EF. K. White, Mr. 
and Mrs. S. Gervais of Belmont and 
Mr. and Mrs. Frank E. Harvey of 
Cambridge have taken the Alden 
Burnham cottage for a month. 
Guests at the “Restawyle” this week 
are Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Munroe and 
Miss Doris Munroe of Arlington and 
Billerica. 
Miss Mabelle F. Ramsay is 
guest of Mrs. H. J. Ricketson. 
Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Knowlton of 
Hamilton are at Octagon cottage for 
a few days. 
Mr. and Mrs. Fickett have as their 
ain Warren G. Wiso of Leadville, 
ol. 
J. Shurtleff had as week-end guests 
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shurtleff of Lex- 
ington, Mrs. Eaton of Winchester, 
Mr. and Mrs. J. Shurtleff. Jr., of 
Revere and Miss Tilson of Plymouth. 
the 
LUFKIN POINT 
Mr. and Mrs. Perkins have as 
guests this week F. P. Trussell and 
family of Hamilton. 
Mr. and Mrs. David B. Henney are 
entertaining Miss Jeanie Cameron of 
Torrington, Conn. 
Mr. and Mrs. Martin N. Brown of 
New York city are guests of Mr. and 
Mrs. Whidden. 
ESSEX 
Things have commenced to look up 
a little in the ship building line at 
Essex, at the present time there be- 
ing three crafts on the stocks which 
are being pushed to completion. 
Why not patronize a local institu- 
tion with your printing? 
August gets its name from August- 
us- Caeser, who invented watchful 
waiting. He was a great-nephew of 
Julius Caesar, and came to the throne 
at a time when the situation in Egypt 
was about as delicate as any in Ro- 
man history. Mark Antony, the Gov- 
ernor of that province, was dancing 
the tango every night with Cleopatra 
in the royal palm garden, and the af- 
fairs of Rome on that side of the 
Mediterranean were fast going to 
pot. The Senate wanted to fire Mark, 
but Augustus knew better. It was the 
height of the Chautauqua season, and 
Mark was the best orator in Rome. 
Augustus knew very well that if he 
were deposed he would take to the 
circuit and plunge the entire empire 
into civil war. He advised watchful 
waiting. A keen student of human 
nature, he knew it would not be long 
until Cleopatra would ask Mark to 
give up Rome for her, and that there 
would then be a fight in which the 
Egyptians, who smoked cigarettes, 
would be opposed by the Romans, 
who smoked cigars. It turned out 
exactly as he thought, and after los- 
ing the battle of Actium, in which 
their flat-chested cohorts were easily 
defeated by the legions of Rome, An- 
tony and Cleopatra leaped from one 
of the pyramids into the River Nile. 
Rome, always grateful to those who 
preserved peace after the long series 
of wars which led to the assassination 
of Julius Caesar by Brutus and other 
peace advocates, changed the name of 
the sixth month in the Roman calen- 
dar, Sixtilis, to August. Thus two 
Caesers have their names perpetuated 
in the months of the year, the one 
addicted to conquest and controversy, 
and the other quietly sipping his grape 
juice. 
The busy Congress shall desist 
From work and worriment at last, 
And file a tabulated list 
Of all the legislation passed. 
The Congressman who never rose 
To say a word shall do the rest, 
And rapt chautauquas at the close 
Shall pin a medal on his breast. 
The way was long for those re- 
forms in which the party calls us 
blest, and many evil-looking storms 
have rendered perilous the quest; but 
having anchored at the last where all 
is quiet and content, we shall not turn 
to look aghast upon the way the mat- 
ter went. It is enough that we should 
know how watchful waiting won the 
day, how Huerta quitted Mexico, and 
what the other powers say; that cur- 
rency has been reformed and never 
shall be scarce again; that all the 
trusts are being stormed by Prudence 
and her merry men; that evildoing 
is controlled, the giant Privilege is . 
dead, and all remains for us is 
~ hold on tight and catapult ahead. 
The Palm Beach suit will grace the 
scene 
Where summer fashion turkey trots 
And rivulets of gasoline 
Will watch for blemishes and spots. 
The love that changeth with the moon 
Will bloom again ‘by bights and bays, 
The spinster will achieve the boon 
Of being loved for seven days, 
The summer man will softly urge 
His ring around from peach to 
plum, 
And some grass widow will emerge 
Displaying it upon her thumb. 
The festive calf will wrap his tail 
around his withers swatting flies, and 
nothing cooling shall avail against the 
fury of the skies. The swimming hole 
will get so green the boys will have 
to skim the scum, the fragile flowers 
en the scene will sadly curtsey and 
succumb, the ambulance will dash 
about for folks who monkeyed with 
the sun, the weary hired man witl 
shout for gladness when. the day 1s 
done, the soda fountain clerk will | 
shove the more impatient off the bar, 
and men will get some notion of ex- 
actly where the wicked are. 
It was on Aug. 3d that Columbus 
set sail from Spain to discover Am- 
erica for Mr. Rockefeller, and the 
Standard Oil magnate will therefore 
observe the day with an extra round 
of golf. He can do this inexpensive- 
ly, and get a little exercise out of it 
as well. Mr. Rockefeller likes to get 
a little something out of whatever he 
does. After the game he will try to 
make the day of advantage to every- 
body by giving out an altogether new 
statement with respect to what we 
should do with our pennies. This will 
not conflict with either of the two 
statements already issued, and will be 
his final conclusion as to what we 
should do with them. 
And then September’s oriflamme 
Shall go sedately up, 
And old John Bull and Uncle Sam 
Shall wrestle for the cup. 
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ing your printing done at this office. 
