Vol. XIV 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Mr. and Mrs. Chas. C. Auchincloss of New York, 
who are frequent visitors on the North Shore, Mrs. 
Auchincloss being a sister of Mrs. Neal Rantoul of Bev- 
erly Farms, are to have a new country home at Wheatley 
Hills, Long Island, N. Y. The farm which they have 
just bought adjoins the estate of Mr. and Mrs. H. Payne 
Whitney. 
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Major and Mrs. Henry L. Higginson gave a small 
reception at their Commonwealth avenue home, Boston, 
last Sunday afternoon, in honor of Mme. Sonja Simitch, 
a niece by marriage of King Peter of Serbia. The guest 
of honor sang a group of songs by Brahms, for which 
she had the reputation in Vienna of singing better than 
anyone else there. She spoke briefly of her experiences 
and impressions. Mme. Simitch underwent a bombard- 
ent in.the palace of Prince Paul at Belgrade and when 
the city fell she barely escaped in the motor car of Prince 
George to Nish, where the king was. After many tribu- 
lations she and other Serbians of distinction found a 
haven in France, at Nice. Mme. Simitch had large estates, 
which have been ruined by the war. 
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Miss Rosamond Bradley, seeites of Mr. and Mrs. 
Robert S. Bradley of Boston and Pride’s Crossing, sailed 
on Thursday from New York on the Finland for France, 
where she will engage in work in the military hospitals 
for the wounded soldiers. 
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Mrs. Gardiner Martin Lane and her daughter, Miss 
Katherine Lane, of Boston and Manchester, left during 
the week for ‘Baltimore, where they are guests over the 
holidays of Mrs. Lane’s parents, Prof. and Mrs. Basil 
Gildersleeve. 
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The Italian Ambassador and Countess di Cellere 
visited the recent bazaar in Philadelphia on Italian day. 
It is the first Allied bazaar that the Ambassador has 
attended. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Charles A. Munn, Jr., of Woodcrest, 
Radnor, Pa., gave a dinner before the tableaux which 
“losed the bazaar at the Ritz-Carlton, Philadelphia, last 
Saturday. The guests included the thirty or more par- 
ticipants in the groups. 
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Miss Alice Traver ait give her original dramatic 
sketches of Everyday People at the Copley- Plaza, Bos- 
ton, on Thursday, Jan. 4, at four o’clock. Tickets may 
be had at Herricks:and at Mrs. G. T. Francis, 56 Com- 
monwealth ave. It will be a wonderful treat to hear 
Miss Traver. One admirer in writing to her says: “1 
can’t tell you how delighted I was with your fascinating 
performance the other day. Your sketches are a joy 
so well written and acted.” The list of patronesses in- 
clude Mesdames Wm. Lowell Putnam, J. Randolph Cool- 
idge, Jr.. Henry L. Higginson, Dudley L. _Pickman, 
Robert S. Bradley, M. Graeme Haughton, George T. 
Rice, Alexander Cochrane, Henry Parkman, Edward 
Reynolds, Jasper Whiting, J. D. Barney, John 5. Cod- 
man, G. T. Francis, G. S. Goulston, John A. Jeffries, 
Reuben Bakenhus, John Arnold Rockwell, Charles C. 
Wheelwright, Godfrey L. Cabot, John Bartol, H. H. 
Bundy, Edwin S. Webster, Richards M. Bradley, George 
W. Vaillant, T. J. Bowlker and W. W. Vaughan, and 
Misses Catherine E. Russell and Evelyn Sears, and 
others. 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, December 22, 1916 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
No. 51 
SOCIETY NOTES 
Miss Agnes Grew, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry 
S. Grew of Boston and West Manchester, is one of the 
nost admired débutantes of the Boston season. The day 
after Christmas she goes to New York for a visit of a 
couple of weeks with her aunt, Mrs. J. Pierpont Morgan 
and family. 
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In Montreal, Canada, jase Thursday afternoon, a 
prominent wedding of interest to the North Shore took 
pace. Miss Brenda Germain Williams-Taylor, only 
-aughter of Sir Frederick and Lady Williams-Taylor, of 
Montreal, was married to Frank Duff Frazier, only son 
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pierce Frazier of New York and 
West Manchester. The wedding took place at the home 
e bride’s father, general manager of the Bank of 
Montreal. Many guests were present from New York, 
Ottawa and other places. The bridesmaids were Miss 
.vinifred Taite, daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Taite, 
end the bride’s cousin, Miss Margaret Henshaw. The 
Fraziers have one of the most beautiful gardens on their 
summer estate to be found on the North Shore. 
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The engagement of Miss Mary Riker Haskell, 
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Amory Haskell, to Joel 
Ellis Fisher, Yale ’11, both of New York, has been noted 
among recent announcements. Miss Haskell is related 
to the Amory families of Boston and the North Shore. 
is a niece of Mrs. James Howe Proctor of Ipswich 
and Boston. 
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A ten-thousand dollar pearl necklace has been con- 
tributed by Dreicer & Co. of New York and Magnolia to 
the Chicago Allied bazaar. Mrs. James T. Harahan, 
who summered in Manchester, and Mrs. Geo. M. Pull- 
man of Chicago, solicited the gift. It is a duplicate of 
the one given to the New York Allied bazaar. 
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Mrs. James T. Harahan gave a dinner-dance in her 
Chicago home last week for ninety of the younger set 
as a farewell for two of the season’s débutantes who have 
sailed for England to do hospital work. 
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Arthur Meeker of Chicago is chairman of a com- 
mittee planning a junior Plattsburg camp for the middle 
west. It will be similar to the one established by Major 
General Leonard Wood on Plum Island, N. Y., last 
summer, which was attended by 1200 boys and for which 
gooo applications have already been made. 
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That Boston is second in the lead in the proportion 
of its prominent families who select the country as their 
residence is indicated by a comparison of the Boston, 
Philadelphia and New York Social Registers just issued 
with those of 1001, fifteen years ago. In Boston 40% of 
its families reside in the country as compared with 33% 
fifteen years ago; in Philadelphia a little over 
compared with 44% fifteen years ago, and in New York 
25% as compared with 15%, in 1QOT. 
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Q. A. Shaw McKean’s Kismay of Chuffs (wire 
haired fox terrier) was a winner in the recent New 
Haven dog show. Mr. McKean has an interesting string 
of dogs. 
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Mary, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Philip 
Stockton of Boston and Manchester. was the winner of 
the beautiful bracelet at the Allied Bazaar, the prize be- 
ing awarded Wednesday afternoon. 
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