14 NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 
The Wm. A. Slaters have left Washington and have 
gone to France for the summer. ‘They have leased their 
house at Beverly. 
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Mrs. A. Lithgow Devens of Boston is spending a 
few days at the Essex County club, Manchester, this 
week. 
CoMMENTING EprrorraLLy. on, Col. W. R. Nelson 
of Kansas City, a former summer resident of Magnolia, 
the Bosron H&RALD says: “It is a commonplace observa- 
tion that the days of the great editor—like Greeley and 
Dana and the elder Bowles—are gone, and that news- 
papers now lack personality, and to a certain extent in- 
dividuality. This theory encounters one conspicuous ex- 
ception in the case of William R. Nelson, proprietor of 
the Kansas City Star, who died yesterday at the age of 
74. Born in Indiana, in turn a bridge builder and coi- 
ton planter, at the age of 40 he somewhat accidentally 
fell into the newspaper business for which he proved 
April 23, 1915 
in a western community, where standards of journalism 
are supposedly lurid, he dressed his sheet so conserva- 
tively that any one-cent evening newspaper in New York 
thus garbed would ‘create a sensation. Col. Nelson would 
rarely allow the name of an author or the source of in- 
formation—like the Associated Press—to go into his 
paper. He would permit no pictures other than line 
drawings. He stuffed the Srar with ‘good reading,’ 
adapted to a wide family circle. In personal expendi- 
tures he was most lavish. Not liking the highway which 
the municipality provided out to his country residence, 
he built one of his own for several miles. His other 
gifts to the city were many and varied. His influence 
in its affairs, both personal and through his newspaper, 
have rarely been equalled.” 
The summer residence of Leon Strauss of Brookline 
at Clifton has been renovated and new baths added 
since last season. 
W. G. Lees of Brookline will occupy the Grout cot- 
tage at Clifton this summer. 
to have a decided capacity. A hard-and-fast Democrat, 
Published 
he made his paper thoroughly independent. 
EQUAL SUFFRAGE NOTES 
The Manchester Equal Suffrage 
League had a delightfully interest- 
ing meeting and tea at Mrs. Leach’s 
Tea Room, on Wednesday afternoon. 
Mrs. William Codman Sturgis came 
out from Boston, with Mrs. H. E. 
Russell; to give the League a talk on 
Woman Suffrage from the point of 
view of one who has voted for years 
in Colorado and knows the value of 
the ballot. In beginning her talk, 
Mrs. Sturgis mentioned that one of 
her maternal ancestors was a Leach 
of- Manchester; and in speaking of 
Massachusetts she said that she be- 
lieves this state will win equal suf- 
frage next Novenber,—but even it 
that it was plain that she thinks us 
shockingly behind-hand in this mat- 
ter! Mrs. Sturgis is gracious and 
kind in all that she says and does, 
but she makes plain statement of 
facts. She had never heard of the 
“failure’ of Woman Suffrage in 
Colorado until she came to Boston, 
and she is rather amused at the atti- 
tude of those who prefer to listen to 
indirect reports of conditions in 
Colorado and other Western states, 
and to repeat these wild tales among 
themselves, rather than to come. to 
one who knows by direct experience 
and talk it over with her freely, face 
to face with facts! Mrs. Sturgis 
thought that in spite of our many 
advantages in Massachusetts the 
need of justice and freedom is just 
as great here as anywhere, and that 
the really unwomanly thing is the op- 
position to the great wonan move- 
ment which stands for the sisterhood 
of all women. Then she told of some 
of the things the women voters of 
Colorado have been able to accom- 
plish, such as the 8-hour law for wo- 
men, the prevention of child labor, 
the regulation of the public dance- 
hall evils with the. aid of women 
policemen, the improvement of liquor 
conditions, and so on. At the ques- 
tion as to whether equal suffrage had 
broken up home life in Colorado she 
laughed as at a good joke, then add- 
ed seriously that with the Australian 
ballot system such fears were absurd, 
and that if only in the cause of peace 
and quiet and an end to the everlast- 
ing arguments, the men ought to 
enfranchise the women as soon as 
possible ! Mrs. Sturgis is_ herself 
the best possible answer to the argu- 
ment that women will lose their wo- 
manly charm when they become en- 
franchised. And it is not a very 
convincing answer to the flippant 
charge that “restless women only 
want the ballot because they haven’t 
got it,” that so many of these enfran- 
chised women think it worth while 
to help us win our vote here though 
they themselves (really because they 
themselves) have had it and tested it 
for years? 
Mrs. and Miss Leach served their 
famous tea and coffee, muffins and 
cakes, and after this there was a 
work conference of the League 
members, 
Essex County Work Confer- 
ence will be held in Newburyport on 
Saturday of this week, morning, af- 
ternoon and evening, to which ail 
Suffragists are invited. The busi- 
ness sessions will be held in the City 
Hall at 10.30 a. m. and at 2.30 p. m. 
and there will be lunch at the Wolfe 
Tavern. at ,12.30. The’-afternoon 
session will be open to the public, 
and in the evening at 7.30 there wi!l 
be an open-air meeting in Market 
square, The speakers will be Mrs. 
Yearly subscription to North Shore Breeze, $2.00. 
ANTI-SUFFRAGE NOTES 
Mrs. Harry W. Purington will 
open her home, corner Lincoin and 
School sts., Manchester, Tuesday af- 
ternoon, May 4,-at 3.30, for an anti- 
suffrage afternoon and tea. There 
will be two speakers from Boston. 
All interested are cordially invited to 
attend. 
Mary Kenney O'Sullivan of the 
Dept. of Labor and Industries, Mrs. 
ae Bradley Mahony of Lawrence 
(the County chairman), Mrs. Susan 
FitzGerald, pres. of the Political 
Equality Union, Mr. Roger Sherman 
Hoar, and others. 
April 27th, 
Hale will 
Next Tuesday evening, 
Mrs. Forbes-Robertson 
speak in Huntington hall, Boston, 
under the auspices of the Equal 
Franchise Comm. (Mrs. Robert 
Gould Shaw, chairman). ‘This meet- 
ing will be at 8 o’clock and will be 
free to all. 
The Equal Franchise Comm. also 
announces that they have taken an 
office at 75 State street, Boston, for 
the month of May, where there will 
be daily speaking at the noon hour, 
with a variety of good speakers, and 
with two or three of the Committee 
on hand every day to answer ques- 
tions, etc. This same group of Suf- 
fragists had a similar shop in Fed- 
eral st. last June, which was a great 
success. ‘The new location is even 
more. auspicious,. and all business 
men and women are invited to drop 
in, after May Ist. 
—L. R.S 
It is difficult for a man to love his 
neighbor as himself and come out on 
top in every business deal. 
