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NORTIT SHORE BREEZE 
MANCHESTER WOMAN’S CLUB. 
Annual Meeting Held Tuesday Af- 
ternoon; Officers Elected; Some 
Interesting Reports. 
The Manchester Woman’s club 
held its annual business meeting 
Tuesday afternoon and elected the 
following officers: Mrs. Emma Rick- 
etson Tenney, president; Mrs. Km- 
ma E. Stanley and Mrs. Grace 
Beaton, vice-presidents; Mrs. Nellie 
Rogers, recording secretary; Miss 
Annie L. Lane, corresponding sec- 
retary; Mrs. Eva Rand, treasurer ; 
Mrs. Alice Joseph, auditor; Mrs. 
Elizabeth Johnson, Mrs. Mary Blais- 
dell and Mrs. Charlotte Brown, di- 
rectors. 
Some very interesting reports 
were made by the various officers 
and committees, one of which was 
the report of the Outlook committee, 
of which Miss Anne Clark was chair- 
man. The report is as follows 
Madame President—Members of 
the Manchester Woman’s club: 
The outlook for the coming year 
seems a very bright one to your com- 
mittee. Our club is now well estab- 
lished, with a membership of 125 
and the prospect of several new 
members. 
The ‘‘Arts and Crafts’’ and the 
‘Current Events’’ classes have been 
successfully launehed, and the musi- 
eal tastes of the members have been 
thoroughly satisfied by the excellent 
concerts given during the year. 
The Outlook Committee had inves- 
tigated the subject of ‘‘District 
Nursing,’’ and intended to present 
it to you for your consideration. 
Happily you have already consid- 
ered it, and have voted to set aside 
a sum to be used as a nucleus of a 
fund for this purpose. 
One member of your committee, 
who has been, for several years, a di- 
rector in the ‘‘Nursing Association”’ 
of another town, has this to say of 
the work: 
‘“When finally secuplished and un- 
derstood, the work of a district 
nurse in a community can only mean 
infinite good and comfort to its peo- 
ple. There is always the difficulty 
at first of thinking her work is 
wholly charitable, and only for the 
-poor who eannot pay for her ser- 
vices. While the nurse gladly at- 
tends any such eases, still she is in- 
structed always to collect her fees 
where they can be paid. These fees 
of twenty-five cents an hour, very 
soon go far toward the support of the 
association, and, on the other hand, 
are a very light burden for the splen- 
did service received. 
‘“There are always numberless 
cases where the constant service of 
a nurse would be unnecessary, and 
where a district nurse can do all that 
is needed in a few hours each day. 
‘She is not only a powerful factor 
in the village for the teaching of in- 
teligent and hygienic care of the 
sick, but also for the comfort and 
consolation her very presence 
brings.’”’ 
The subject of ‘‘ Home Economics”’ 
is one very dear to the heart of your 
committee ; and by this we_do not 
mean to use the term as a high 
sounding name for cooking and 
serving, but in the broader sense of 
everything that makes for ‘‘right 
living.’”’ 
We are a elub of home-makers, 
and anything that tends to improve 
the artistic, hygienic, and economic 
welfare of the home, must interest 
us all. 
Why could not one number of the 
coming year’s program be devoted 
to some phase of ‘‘ Tousehold Eeono- 
my,’ and why, too, could “not a 
special class for the consideration of 
this subject be organized? 
The question of sewerage, one of 
vital importance to our town, has al- 
ready been ably presonted to us, but 
your committee feels that the mem- 
bers of the Woman’s club should 
constantly emphasize the need of 
such a system being established. 
These few things your committee 
respectfully ptesent to you 
your consideration. 
Respectfully submitted, 
Anne Clarke, Chairman. 
The history of the club was very 
ably presented by Miss Martha 
Knight. We are with-holding this 
for our next week’s issue. 
The address by Mrs. Johnson, the 
retiring president, will also be print- 
ed next week. 
It was voted to give $25 towards 
the support of the North Shore 
Babies’ Hospital at Salem. : 
Mrs. F. M. Johnson and Mrs. Ten- 
ney, the new president, were elected ° 
delegates to the Federation meeting 
to be held in Lynn in June. It is 
planned to hold a Federation confer- 
ence in Manchester early in the fall. 
Arrangements are already being 
made for this. 
The retiring president was _ pre- 
sented with a very pretty bouquet 
of pink carnations, the club flower. 
It is interesting to note that the 
membership of-the club is now full, 
there being 125 members, which is 
the limit. : 
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preferred to a runabout wife. 
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3° 95 
No Aivonit Aectinn was raised 
- Monday afternoon at the hearing on _ 
the petition to the selectmen to lay — 
out a street between Beach and Sea 
streets. Mrs. 
James T. Field was— 
represented by Attorney Guy Mur-— 
ehie of Boston. 
for the most part that of sentiment, 
Many of the citizens spoke in favor. 
hir. Raymond, who has recently pur- 
chased the Lewis Tappan property, 
said the new street would material- 
Her objection was — 
ly injure his property, though the— 
deeds had not yet been passed in the © 
transaction. If the seleetmen decide 
lo lay out the new street it will later 
be brought before the town, and if — 
money is 
street will be built. 
Jobn W. Marshall is very low at 
his home on Central street. 
then appropriated the — 
‘“‘The Hero- of the Gridiron,’’ a~ 
college eomedy in five acts, is to be- 
presented in the Town hall, Manches- — 
ter, Monday evening, May 9, undeas : 
the auspices of the Gloucester Y. Mz 
C. A. The play has been preven 
in Gloucester. and Rockport and_ 
much favorable comment has been 
heard in connection with it. 
are for sale at Allen’s drug store. 
All seats are 35 cents. 
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Breeze Subscription $2.00 a vear 
Swett-Stanley. 
A very pretty home wedding was — 
solemnized Tuesday evening when 
Hlerman Choate Swett and Miss — 
Hthel Chase Stanley, daughter of — 
Mrs. Mary Stanley, were united in ~ 
marriage at their attractive new 
home on Friend’s court, Manchester, 
by Rev. Theodore L. Frost, pastor of | 
the Baptist church. The ceremony ‘. 
place at 8 o’clock, only the im-— 
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mediate family connections being — 
present. The double ring ceremony — 
was used, The bride was gowned in 
white batiste with allover 
broidery and valenciennes lace, and — 
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carried a shower bouquet of white | 
sweet peas. She -was given in mar- 
riage by her brother-in-law, Roder- — 
ick Maedonald of Chelsea. 
attendants were the two 
nieces of the bride, 
little 
Maedonald and Ruth Munson Bell, 
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rooms were tastily decorated, ‘ the — 
bridal couple standing in front of a_ 
bank of ferns and other potted — 
plants.. A short reception followed. 
Mr. and Mrs. Swett will be at home § 
Wednesdays in May. No eards, 
