Dee. 22, 1916. 
men in certain districts provided 
Is. Under the old system the 
‘education was very impractical and 
nsisted chiefly of memorizing the 
Chinese classics. A student was as- 
signed a lesson and returned to his 
desk to memorize it by reading it 
aloud. Imagine a school with 300 
puvils all studying aloud. You could 
‘tell a school 3 miles off by the noise. 
_ “Today we are dismantling our 
‘temples and the relics of centuries 
are being removed to give way to the 
charts and modern paraphernalia of 
the school room. 
“Parents in China do all the hard 
work of matchmaking. The vitality 
of the race is due to that custom. 
“Marriage is the most serious step of 
life and the Chinese feel that it should 
not be left to the whims, caprice or 
emotions of youth. The parents have 
been through the mill and can choose 
better mates for their children. Love 
begins with marriage in China and 
does not end with marriage as in 
many lands. The marriages are not 
among strangers, but among young 
people of the same circle. Trust a 
Chinese young man to know of every 
eligible girl in his circle. 
“You have been told that Chinese 
mothers kill all their baby girls. 
Cases of infanticide are very rare. 
although there are cases in times of 
famine when the mothers prefer to 
drown their young to letting them 
starve. Every person who spends 
three weeks in China has to write a 
book about it and they enlarge upon 
the unusual to get an audience. 
When you stop and think that of all 
the marriages in China fully one-half 
the participants are women you 
must wonder where the girls come 
from.” 
The speaker read a number of 
Chinese poems written in the first and 
second century. One, an humorous 
poem, he had been told, was abomin- 
able verse. “Some people expect a 
college yell to be set to Milton's - 
‘Paradise Lost,’” he said. 
In conclusion he read a number of 
centuries-old proverbs taken at ran- 
dom from inscriptions upon articles 
about the house: 
“Riches adorn a house, virtue a 
_person”—taken from a gate. 
“Gold is tested by fire, man by 
gold.” 
“One more good man on earth is 
worth more than another angel in 
Heaven.” 
“A little study shows the need of 
more”—from an inkstand. 
“May these two great lands on 
either side of the Pacific,’ he con- 
cluded, benefit mutually by interna- 
tional trade and may they ever be at 
peace. May their friendly relations 
NORTH SHORE BREEZE 
lead to an understanding that we all 
belong to the great Brotherhood of 
Man. Hasten the day ‘when man to 
man the world o’er will brithers be!’ ” 
Mrs. George S. Sinnicks read the 
report of Miss Ellen Clarke, secretary 
of the Visiting Nurse association for 
the past year. The establishment of 
the emergency room on Beach st. up- 
on recommendation of the association 
was the great achievement of the 
year. The report commented upon 
the fact that there was not a case of 
pulmonary tuberculosis in the limits 
of Manchester at the present time. 
Miss Long, the visiting nurse, made 
1508 visits during the past year of 
which 1051 were nursing visits. Mrs. 
E. L. Valentine reported receipts and 
a balance totaling $2329.43 for the 
year with expenditures of $1101.99. 
7 
The invitation of the Arbella club to 
march in the Christmas parade on 
Saturday, Dec. 23, was accepted by 
the club. 
It was voted to cooperate with the 
state federation in holding a bazaar 
in November 1917 for the benefit of 
the work of the state body. 
“The Butterfly . Song’ and a 
“Christmas Carol” were sung - by 
Misses Emily  Ferriera, Pauline 
Semons and Helen Cheever. Miss 
Helen Knight accompanied them. 
Mrs. Alexander Robertson was_ hos- 
tess for the social hour. 
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ot Tappan, 17 Bridge st., Manches- 
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Taxi—Phone Manchester 290. adv. 
This advertisement is one of a series designed to effect closer co-operation 
between the company and its subscribers. 
telephone call—the person calling, the person called, and the operator who 
The quality of service rendered is determined by the spirit 
in which all three work together rather than by the individual effort of any 
We shall gladly send complete sets of the 
connects them. 
one or two of these three persons. 
series to those desiring them. 
“Tine Busy” Reports 
A “Line Busy” report is an exasperation to the subscriber. 
the subscriber and the operator, as a rule, it means delay and 
duplicated effort. 
Our operating methods require the operator to “test” the line, in 
order to find out whether or not it is being used, before making 
a connection. 
‘‘Line Busy’”’ reports are given when the operator has 
tested the line and 
(1) 
line, or 
are in use, or 
in use. 
individual lines. 
conversations. 
A person at the called station is already talking on the 
The person called is on a party line and a subscriber at one 
of the other stations is using the line, or 
When all lines of a private branch exchange subscriber 
When a call is made for a telephone, at which there is no 
one to answer, at the moment when someone else is also 
calling that telephone, or 
A subscriber on the called line has passed a toll call and 
the line is being held awaiting its completion, or 
Through an error by the subscriber in giving, or the 
operator in repeating, a wrong number is tested and found 
“Line Busy” reports are not so frequent on calls to stations served by 
“Line Busy” reports on calls to party 
lines can be reduced if the joint subscribers to such lines 
will refrain from unnecessarily long and inconsequential 
NEW ENGLAND TELEPHONE 
AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY 
There are three parties to a 
To both 
I. W. Rolfe, Manager 
