- STHAT THE NortH SHorE BREEZE must be widely read 
=. is evidenced by the questions regarding the little 
article on Paul Revere Pottery in last week’s issue,” said 
one of the pottery people. Whereupon I suggested 
_ answering some of those that had been asked and some 
_ that had not, but might be. 
: The person with an investigating turn of mind who 
~ yisits the Magnolia shop notices that on the base of each 
“piece are certain markings; the one | have before me has 
*S. E. G. toro. L. S.”—translated, “Saturday Evening 
® Girls, October, 1910.” “L. S.” are the initials of the 
painter. 
. “Saturday Evening Girls” is the name of a club, 
whose members were “girls” when they began to meet 
_ some sixteen years ago in the North Bennet street Read- 
_ ing Room; now that they are young women they cannot 
change the name because of the pottery. 
The club started as a story hour for the purpose of 
_ interesting children of the neighboring Public School in - 
good reading. At first very few girls came, but soon the 
average attendance was about fifty. As the months went 
_ by the librarian observed that the same girls were coming 
week after week. The meetings were as open and free 
as any story hour ever was, but the story teller insisted 
that those who attended should not waste her time by 
simply listening and doing nothing to help themselves; 
the injunction of Mr. Carnegie was to be followed, name- 
ly: “The Public Library free to all the people gives noth- 
ing for nothing; the reader must himself climb the ladder 
and in climbing gain knowledge how to live this life well.” 
This attitude brought the result that only ambitious, 
self-respecting, self-reliant girls “belonged” to the story 
hour as members of this class use their minds it was soon 
decreed that talks should not be on widely divergent topics 
or about books entirely unrelated to one another, but 
that courses should be outlined year by year. Such 
‘courses were outlined and are still being followed from 
myths and folk lore for the fourth grade groups to topics 
_ of general and current interest for the S. E. G. meetings. 
After the S. E. G. group had been meeting several 
years it became a club and other groups were formed for 
children of grammar and high school. There were 
fourth and fifth grade children in one group, sixth and 
seventh in another, eighth in another and so on, eight 
groups in all. 
Nine years ago the S. E. G. camp at West Gloucester 
came into existence where now little prospective S$. E. G.’s 
of six and a half and “big, old” married S. E. G.’s with 
the “nicest babies in the world” carry on a little democracy 
for two happy. months. 
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NORTH SHORE BREEZE and Reminder 27 
The Paul Revere Pottery 
Why S. E. G.? 
Eight years ago this summer the second year of the 
camp, a vacation industry was talked of and pottery work 
was commenced in the cellar of a little house near Boston 
by three women, interested in a co-operative industry, and 
four or five S. E. G.’s. At the end of a few months the 
experiment had grown so interesting that the lower floors 
of a house on Hull street in the North End were lent to 
be used for pottery purposes and there S. E. G.’s and 
their pottery director worked at this delightful industry 
which turned out to be an all the year round affair till 
a year ago when they moved to Nottingham Hill. 
“Two criticisms I frequently hear,” I said to one of 
the pottery people, ‘‘are as follows: ‘but there are so few 
people employed by the pottery and the prices of the ware 
are so exorbitant.’” “You will agree,” replied the pot- 
tery person, “that one of the reasons for the present 
state of things in Europe was the desire on the part of 
the larger belligerent nations for commercial supremacy. 
The men who do the actual work of producing the com- 
modities we must have, would never have chosen to fight 
yet they are the ones who are fighting. If people worked 
in small units, community and humanity of feeling would 
be developed to the end that each man would have to live 
by simple work and not by intricate paper calculations 
and daring deals and if all men were to live by actual! 
labor when that labor ceased, as in case of war, as a 
svall club member would say ‘there would’nt be no eats 
for nobody’ and the war would have to stop.” 
“As for our prices we do not think them exorbitant. 
Please don’t think me rude, but so many people save five 
cents to ten dollars on what they buy and give to ‘charity’ 
while they grudge the fair price we charge in order that 
our people may live while they work and in order that 
they may do the kind of work it is a joy to do, that is, the 
kind that has individuality. Wouldn’t you rather have a 
breakfast set or a vase or a lamp that has given joy to its 
maker than one made under conditions which kill individ- 
uality and create envy, greed and finally strife?” 
“Don’t talk in that fierce way to me please, I really 
agree with you,” I said trembling, “and you know my 
table as well as my room is entirely furnished with Paul 
Revere Pottery though I am myself a working woman.” 
“Forgive me,” said the pottery person with delightful 
hit ility, “I know we are trying to do an old, old thing in 
an old, old way, but we’d rather fail utterly than not dare 
to try to prove that work and life and love can be part- 
ners. But we cannot fail,” she added, as we walked down 
the path under the oaks, “for in any event we shall have 
proved something and proofs rather than theories give 
knowledge necessary for progress.” 
Tradesman (who has been at the telephone for a 
quarter of an hour, to his apprentice)—Here, William, 
take the receiver, as long as my wife is talking to me. 
You don’t need to make any reply; only when she asks, 
“Are you still there, James?” say, “Yes, Amelia, dear.” 
—Liverpool Globe. 
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