December WepDING of interest to many North Shore 
~~ residents will be that of Miss Mary Vaughan, daugh- 
_ ter of the William Vaughans of Boston, and a sister of 
Samuel Vaughan of Beverly Farms, to Langdon Parker 
_ Marvin of Albany. The wedding occurs Dec. 9, at King’s 
Chapel. 
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— Samuel A. Welldon, Francis R. Appleton, Jr., Har- 
_ rison Tweed and Dudley L. Pickman, Jr., are among the 
North Shore attendants at the wedding in New York, 
_ Dee. 7, of Miss Harriet Alexander and Winthrop W. 
~~ Aldrich. 
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Amy Hutton, a noted horsewoman, of Pau, France, are 
guests at “Princemere,” of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick H. 
Prince. 
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Philadelphia society is planning a big bazaar and ball 
for the Emergency Aid, opening Dec. 11. The ball will 
be a great masked affair, the evening of Dec. 13, at the 
Jellevue-Stratford, for which thousands of invitations 
have been issued. Among those in charge are Edward 
T. Stotesbury and Charles A. Munn. 
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Mr. and Mrs. E. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia have 
been equipping and maintaining a trade school for muti- 
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from which to choose their gifts; the 
‘Mrs. William J. Boardman of Washington and Man- 
chester will spend the winter in Georgia. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Barron and the latter’s sister, Miss 
URGE EARLY SHIPPING 
Express CompANtgs CALL ATTENTION 
to UNusSUAL VOLUME OF TRAFFIC 
For Tuis CHRIstTMAs. 
Owing to the unprecedented vol- 
ume of express traffic, and conscious 
of the steadily increasing demand up- 
on the express facilities of the coun- 
try, the American Express Company 
is instructing its employes throughout 
the country to codperate with the de- 
partment stores and other merchants 
in a systematic campaign to lessen the 
Christmas congestion. Although this 
crisis arises every year as regularly 
as the holidays come around, the 
extraordinary conditions of trans- 
portation prevailing at the present 
time accentuate the need for early 
shipping this year. The railroads are 
already working under high pressure, 
but it is believed that with the holiday 
shipping season stretched over the en- 
tire month of December, more ade- 
quate service can be given than if 
the entire Christmas movement 1s 
jammed into the week immediately 
preceding Christmas. 
In spite of the fact that the 
eleventh-hour shippers themselves are 
the worst sufferers, the early shop- 
ping agitation advanced during the 
past few years by department and 
other stores has done much to allevi- 
ate the hardships of those whose 
duties is to serve the Christmas pub- 
lic. 
“Early shopping,’ states  Agt. 
Peckham of the American Express 
Company at Manchester, in his plea 
for early action’ on the part of the 
public, “gives everybody an advan- 
tage. . . 
“Salesmen have more time to give 
to each customer; the customers 
themselves have a greater variety 
rig-e “anagement able to are 
promnter and more reliable deliveries, 
and there are fewer tired girls at the 
end of the day. 
“Early shipping has the same points 
in its favor. Our Company alone is 
called upon to handle nearly 100,000,- 
000 shipments a year. Our equip- 
ment is adequate and is keeping pace 
with the demands made upon it. In 
fact, during the past year we have 
added 342 motor vehicles to the 951 
which we already operate. This, in 
addition to the 5,000 horse drawn 
vehicles in constant use. 
“Tt is the man element which must 
be considered in the propaganda for 
early Christmas shopping. The man 
on the express wagon at Christmas 
time is in the same position exactly 
as the girl behind the Christmas 
counter. He must serve while others 
are at their pleasure, and he can serve 
Tavior Fioliice cid Ilercice Shirley 
in “His Majesty Bunker Bean,” 
Majestic Theatre, Boston. 
lated soldiers in France during the past year. 
recent showing in Philadelphia of films depicting “Our 
American Boys in the European War,” Mrs. Stotesbury 
made a generous donation of $1000 to the cause. 
At the 
cnly up to his physical capacity. 
“It is our purpose to co-operate as 
extensively as possible with the mer- 
chants in this movement. As a pre- 
liminary aid we have printed for dis- 
tribution throughout the country over 
a million pamphlets on ‘““How to Ship 
Christmas Packages,” and are making 
an early distribution of three million 
especially printed Christmas labels. 
“Each year many thousands of 
shipments are made early, and when 
they bear the label ‘Don’t Open Until 
Christmas,’ the result is the same as if 
they were not purchased until the 
night before Christmas. 
“The general prosperity of the 
country promises to make the coming 
Christmas the most commercially ac- 
tive the country has ever known. 
Hence the timeliness of the public 
and its servants joining to make it 
mutually the pleasantest Christmas 
on record.” 
A rather critical old lady once said 
to Crawford, “Have you ever written 
anything, Mr. Crawford, that will live 
after you are gone?” “Madame,” 
Crawford replied politely, “what [ 
am trying to do is to write something 
that will enable me to live while I am 
here.”—-E.xchange. 
The sewing machine agent rang the 
bell. A particularly noisy and vi- 
cious looking bulldog assisted in open- 
ing the door. | The dog stood his 
ground. The agent retreated slightly. 
“Will that dog bite?” he asked. 
“We don’t quite know yet,” the 
lady said. “We have only just got 
him. But we are trying him with 
strangers. Won’t you come in?’— 
Tit-Bits. 
Teacher: “If a man gets four dol- 
lars for working eight hours a day, 
voy ba ev t creat if ha worked ten 
sees lta tad 
hours a day?” Johnny: “Ten hours 
a day? He’d get a call-down from 
de union.”—Century. 
