AND REMINDER 
~ Vol. XII 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, April 2, 
No. 14 
The Charm of the North Shore 
By HELENE SHERMAN 
FRoM woodsy, windswept Nahant to the northeastern 
tip of Cape Ann is the most varied and most beauti- 
ful bit of coast on the footstool. The North Shore of 
Massachusetts Bay is far-famed for its wonderful com- 
mingling of ocean, woods and country, which give it an 
irresistible appeal all its own. The whole world has 
heard of the charm of this shore, has come to see and 
has stayed to worship. 
. Undoubtedly the scenery is the foremost of the 
North Shore’s attraction, and this was the inspiration, 
not so many years ago, for the pioneer summer resorts, 
which sprang up and grew with amazing swiftness. 
Almost over night, scrubby truck farms, which had 
doled out meager livings to their hardworking owners, 
became summer homes of great beauty and value. Land 
which sold at Manchester, Beverly Farms or Swamp- 
scott for three dollars an acre, is now worth that 
amount a foot. Yes, it was without doubt the scenery 
which lured the Westerner and the Southerner, east 
and north, and the New Yorker and the. Bostonian 
from their well-beloved homes. They were one in their 
appreciation of and admiration for a new playground, 
where the rest and peace of the woods could be ex- 
changed at will for the ever-impressive surf-bound 
rocks, and they in turn for the inviting white beaches 
or for superb drives along sheltered roads. 
The great Atlantic, which pounded at their very 
doors, was then, as now, the most appealing of the won- 
ders of the Shore. There is something about the sea, 
its bigness, its grandeur, that enters every heart, com- 
pelling worship, if not understanding. This is because 
we can never smile at the sea, never pity it. We smile 
at the meadow brook playing at life, we look with pity 
upon the gnarled, twisted limbs of some _half-dead, 
remorseful old tree, but—the ocean, never! We fear it 
or glory in it, according to our natures, when the wind 
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lashing it into fury, drives it against the cold, unpity- 
ing stones; we hate it for its menacing, leaden sullen- 
ness when the storm approaches; we rejoice in it when 
the morning sun sets it agleam with a million points of 
light, calling to us; we love it when the evening sun 
turns the great white combers. pink and makes the sea a 
miracle of tender beauty ;.but smile at it or pity it? 
Impossible! That is the secret of the sea, which ‘philos- 
ophers and poéts have sought adown the ages. 
The ocean. and its beaches furnish North Shore 
sojourners with one of the foremost sports of this 
section: surf bathing. The water along the Shore is 
recreative. and health giving, with the temperature 
seldom above 70. degrees, and there are no finer beaches 
anywhere along the Atlantic seaboard, and few as 
good as those at Swampscott, Marblehead, Manchester, 
Magnolia or Gloucester. The bathing hour at nearly 
all of these is a scene of life and color, which is not sur- 
passed at Newport and hardly so at the famous 
Biarritz. There are other sports which play an im- 
portant part in the gaiety of the North Shore, such as 
sailing at Eastern Point, Marblehead and Swampscott, 
polo at Myopia, river-boating at Ipswich, golf and 
tennis at Manchester, and so on until it seems that each 
colony has its sports, brought together and inter- 
mingled by motoring, ‘‘ which sets the miles at naught.’ 
Last, but not least, of the attractions of. this 
pleasant section is the gathering of so many delightful 
people, who flock from all parts of the globe to the 
hotels and cottages along the Shore from June . to 
October. Much has been said and much remains to be 
said about the delightfully cosmopolitan character of 
these colonies, and surely no season has ever brought 
more interesting people to these resorts than the 
present one, when there are so many reasons to seek 
these shores. Young college men and debutantes from 
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THE MANCHESTER SHORE, AS VIEWED FROM COOLIDGE’S POINT, 
