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AND REMINDER 
Vol. XIII 
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Manchester, Mass., Friday, May 22 
No. 28 
Society’s Real Summer Capital—The North Shore 
More People will be Here This Season Than Ever Before 
LIVINGSTON WRIGHT 
66Q)H, Jack, do stop a minute! You're hugging me to 
pieces!” exclaimed Valma,-her cheek-roses deep as 
(But she liked it. Sly thing!) “I want you to he 
”’ | made another lunge and helped my- 
self to some more. ‘“Please—oh please—silly boy—l, 
I do positively want you to listen to me. [——.” 
“TIs’nt that just what I’ve rashly bound myself to do? 
—And for a life job?” 1 reminded My Pretty Young 
Dowager. 
“Tm advocating a Publicity and Promotion Cam- 
paign for the North Shore! | . 
“What?’ And I sat bolt up. 
“There now! Did’nt I try to tell you I had some- 
thing? But you wouldn’t give me breath to tell. Nin- 
compoop !” 
I confess I was ready now to listen; for when Valma 
calls me “Nincompoop,” I know something interesting is 
due. 
“You see, it’s just this way,’ and her plump, dainty 
little hands plumped themselves down on her plump lap. 
“There is a rare opening for the North Shore this sum- 
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sensible. | 
“Valma, have you been studying the ways of those 
ir-repressible Press Agents?” | asked in alarm. “So-0 7” 
I recalled that, the other evening, she had been in what 
seemed to me a slightly prolonged, in fact, unnecessarily 
elongated conference with Ruthven, the Standard Oil 
Publicity Department man after the bridge broke up. 
“Tt is such opportunity that there’s no knowing when 
we'll have the like again,” continued Valma. For when 
she wants to, you can depend upon it, Valma can “stick 
to her subject” like Gloucester glue. (1 have informed 
you previously, I believe, that My Pretty Young Dowager 
really is a most remarkably accomplished woman. Not 
at all like some women whom I’ve met!) 
“In the first place, people just cannot mosey about 
on the ocean if they want to. It’s not only over-exciting, 
but it’s positively unhealthful!” 
“Actually septic,” I grinned 
back at her. 
“And anti-septics are not & 
so popular that one cares to 
provide more than the orderel % 
Guota.— You are a vicious 
wretch, Jack, but, my goodness, 3% 
I couldn’t get along without 
you!—There’d be no one to tie 
my oxfords!” she made haste 
to add. 
“Thus, why not let us try 
to make the most of the pro- 
found attractions and delights 
of our own country "i 
“Thunderation, Valma ! 
Where—where did you get it? 
You beat a Cook-ist drafting a 
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quarter-page ady. for the Panama Fair excursions!” 
‘Now, there is no place in America that for an 
ideal summer headquarters equals the North Shore! To 
begin with, we not only have the grandeur for stately 
summer palaces, but we have the nooks for bungalows 
and above all—that grade of society which befits the true 
Summer Capitol. ‘The foreign ambassadors, attachés and 
those who are capable of judging the summer havens of 
the world, come to the North Shore because they aptly 
consider that the society atmosphere to be found here 
more thoroughly comports with the proper combination 
of dignified gayety, real relaxation and yet, absence of 
utter mental torpor than any other portion of America! 
They 
“Arise, my soul and shine, and shine! 
Let all Na-a-ations pay a heed!” 
—I began in the nasal twang of revivalism. 
Valma gave me such a sudden and vigorous pinch 
that I jumped, but before I could even say “Ouch!” she 
was riding right along: 
“They select this region for their summer embassies 
because they are expert judges of what. their summer- 
office locations should be! 
“Now, these people make a small colony in them- 
selves and become one of the foremost factors, together 
with the numerous notables of American industrial, com- 
mercial, legal and scientific life, in creating a Summer 
Capitol that cannot be approached anywhere else on this 
continent! It “4 
“Gosh, Valma! I didn’t think you had it m you !— 
I can readily believe that your grandfather was some 
preacher ! I bet you he could preach ‘till the cows 
came home,’ all right, all right!” 
But she merely gave me another vicious dig and 
rode onward, ever onward: 
“l’m coming now to the point of my discourse, 
which is: We have, in the North Shore, the scenery, the 
air, the innumerable ‘places to go,’ (and you well ‘know 
ewes that is the one fatality of many, 
“% otherwise charming — resorts: 
$ Once there, you seem to have 
% ‘no place to go to’); while on 
the North Shore, you have the 
New Hampshire: hills -and 
mountains, the Maine’. woods, 
Boston, Portland—Ferncroft—” 
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3$ ‘well; you can get almost any 
Species of revelry or deviltry you 
seek to inspect- or enjoy if you 
motor out fromthe North Shore 
country to some of: ‘the 
urbs’!”” she added. ingeniously. 
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