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PTHE FLOWER SHOW on Wednesday and Thursday 
of next week ,on the estate of Mrs. R. C. Winthrop 
at West Manchester, is sure to be one of the leading 
events of the waning month. ‘The exhibition is held un- 
der the auspices of the North Shore Horticultural society 
and many of the estates all along the North Shore will 
have exhibitions of flowers, fruit and vegetables. ‘The 
advisory committee of the society is composed of Mrs. 
W. Scott Fitz, Mrs. George E. Cabot and Miss Mary 
Bartlett. These ladies will have exhibits. Others will in- 
clude Mrs. Lester Leland, Mrs, H. L. Higginson, Mrs. 
Gardiner M. Lane, Mrs. Philip Dexter, Mrs. F. P. Frazer, 
Mrs. James McMillan, Mrs. Gordon Abbott, Mrs. E. S. 
Crew, Mrs. W. B. Walker, Mrs. B. A. Beal, Mrs. A. I. 
Croll, Mrs. S. V. R. Crosby, Mrs. Wallace Goodrich, Hon. 
T. Jefferson Coolidge. Mrs. Andrew W. Preston of the 
Swampscott colony will be one of the new exhibitors this 
year. The show will open Wednesday at'2 o’clock and will 
continue open until ten o’clock. It will be open Thursday 
from ten to ten. The proceeds of the exhibition, outside 
expenses, will be denoted to the Beverly Hospital. A 
feature of the show this year will be the display of flow- 
ers and vegetables by the school children of the North 
Shore, who have been affiliated with the school garden 
movement in the various poets and cities. 
Miss Margaret Preston Draper was hostess for a lit- 
tle luncheon ‘Tuesday at the cottage which she and her 
mother have on Smith’s Point, Manchester. Miss Draper 
expects her friend, Miss Whiting of Washington here 
next Wednesday for a visit of several weeks, and a num- 
ber of delightful functions will be given in her honor. 
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Professor John Wittemore, who recently returned 
from exploration work in Egypt, is a guest of Mrs. J. T. 
Fields, Thunderbolt Hill, Manchester. 
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With the coming of the big races at Marblehead the 
Nanapashemet on the Nack promises to be the vantage 
. point of those who wish to witness the contests from the 
land. From the verandas of this hotel a sweeping view 
can be had of the entire course and with the aid of field 
glasses and telescopes one can plainly discern even the 
movements of those manning the racing boats. Many 
reservations have been made at this hotel for those who 
plan to come to Marblehead to attend the races. Recent 
arrivals at this hotel include Miss M. S. Waters of Cam- 
bridge; Mrs. M. G. White of Morristown, N. J.; Mrs. 
F. S. Cowan of New York city; Mr..and Mrs. H. L,. P. 
Hillyer of Topeka, Kan.; H. A. Frost of Cambridge and 
Mrs. W. A. Frost of Fitchburg; N. A. Choate of the 
Siamese legation at Washington, D. C.; and Hendricks 
A. Hallett, a well-known Boston artist, on the shore for 
his twenty-fifth season. 
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THe ESSEX COUNTY club at Manchester was the 
scene of another of the popular dinner-dances Satur- 
day ‘Though only thirty attended the dinner in the lim- 
ited quarters in the little bungalow, nearly 150 came for 
the dance. The new floor had been laid in the locker build- 
ing and the evening was one of much enjoyment. 
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Miss Elizabeth Rogers of Washington and Richard 
Emmett of New York have been house guests of Mrs. 
Haratio N. Slater and family at Manchester Cove this 
week, and a number of very pleasant little affairs have been 
given in their honor. Dancing at the Slater cottage is a 
daily occurence, the scores of young people always being 
in and out all the time. This week Miss Rogers’s many 
friends on the North Shore have occasioned a houseful of 
young people all the time. Last week-end the Slaters mo- 
tored to York Beach, Me., for the Will Slater wedding. 
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One of the very delightful affairs of the late month 
will be a barn dance at Highwood, the estate of the Wm. 
B. Walkers at West Manchester. Forty or fifty couples ~ 
will be there coming from a series of little dinners which 
will be given that night along the shore. ‘The affair will 
be of a most informal nature. 
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The Thé Dansant continues the whim for Friday af- 
ternoons at the Oceanside, when cottagers all along the 
North Shore as well as hotel guests are in attendance. 
Artists will be brought on from New York again this 
week, and tables will undoubtedly be taken by the morn- 
ing of the affair. 
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An event which is enlisting the interest of many 
prominent residents of the North Shore is the benefit en- 
tertainment to be given at the New Ocean House, Swamp- 
scott, on Thursday morning, August 21, at eleven o’clock 
in the ball room in behalf of the Hillside farm school 
for orphans of Greenwich and Boston. ‘The affair is 
patronized by summer residents of Manchester, Pride’s 
Crossing, Beverly Farms, Marblehead Neck, Clifton, 
Swampscott and Nahant. The program will be in two 
parts, part one including Scotch music and dancing in 
costume by real Scotch lassies. Part two will consist of 
classical vocal and instrumental music and dancing. Mrs. 
Mary Beckford Wetton is one of the vocal soloists. Ra- 
mond Lester Havens, a concert pianist of rare artistic 
merit, a graduate pupil of the eminent Carl Baerman, and 
for the past two years professor of the pianoforte depart- 
ment of Albion College, Mich., and Mrs. Margaruite 
Pearson Moss, violinist, are included in the program. 
Tickets for the benefit may be obtained at the Ocean House 
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Marriage is a lottery in which men stake their liberty, 
and women their happiness—Mme, de Rieux, 
