Nov. 26, 1915. 
VIRGINIA HOT SPRINGS is the mecca at this season 
of the year of many people from all sections of the 
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} country, who are habitues of the North Shore in summer. 
3 The bright, bracing weather of the last week has made 
; the open-air diversions very popular and the entire colony 
i has engaged in golfing, riding, driving or walking. Among 
. the prominent people enjoying the links was Mrs. Everett 
: Colby, who played with Robert Stow Bradley the day he- 
fore she left for her home in New York, She was also 
e a dinner guest that night of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rocke- 
feller, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Bradley, Justice and 
Mrs. William C. Loring and Miss Elizabeth O. Spooner 
were entertained at luncheon at Fassifern farm by Mr. 
: and Mrs. Henry Howard Fay. Miss Spooner is a niece 
of the Fays. Beach Bluff colony is represented among 
the new arrivals by William A. Paine, his son, F. Ward 
’ Paine and John H. Blodgett of Boston, Mr. and Mrs. 
° Ernest Longfellow have returned to their home in New 
York. 
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“Awful situation at the jail.” 
“Dear me! What is it?” 
“They have the measles there, and all the prisoners 
have broken out.” 
T DETROIT, Mich., last week, the most fashionable 
Bs social event of the week was, the dinner-dance given 
by Miss Annette Shelden, who was on the North Shore 
last summer, a guest of her aunt, Mrs. Chas. B. Pike, at 
; West Manchester. The party was given at Miss Shelden’s 
4 home. Among the guests were Miss Mary Margaret Wal- 
_ ker and her fiance, Sidney Small, Miss Josephine Alger, 
x Miss Mary Coates of Philadelphia and Miss Hammond of 
Pittsburg. Mr. and Mrs. J. Harrington Walker and 
: daughter, Miss Mary Margaret, are now occupying thr 
: Garden Court apartments for the winter since closing 
: their Magnolia home. 
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5 They are fortunate who in the contest with men and 
things can keep the balance even between duty and _per- 
formance; but much more to be envied are they who 
; can give royally out of overflowing goodness with no 
thought of recompense. 
PHILADELPHIA society is looking forward to the wed- 
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f ding on December 11th, of Miss Katherine Herman 
Kremer and Louis Rodman Page, Jr. Mrs. Gurnee Munn 
: (Marie Louise Wanamaker), who was a June bride, wiil 
q be one of the attendants—returning from her honeymoon 
trip to Scotland and in France just about in time for the 
affair. An interesting group of young married women 
will be among Miss Kremer’s bridal party. Mrs. J. Mare- 
{ chal Brown, Jr., a sister of the bridegroom, will be ma- 
. tron of honor. Other attendants besides Mrs. Munn wiil 
; be Mrs. Robert Sturgis Ingersoll, Mrs. Sydney Errington 
| Martin and Mrs, A. Heckscher Wetherill, two October 
brides; Mrs. John Shipley Dixon, Miss Susan Lynah 
Rruce, Miss Cecil Fitler Howell and Miss Charlotte M. 
| Bain. 
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| Mrs. John Kearsley Mitchell, who visits her siste, 
; Mrs. Sydney E. Hutchinson of Beverly Farms, each year, 
was one of the group of matrons who assisted Mrs. |}. 
Alexander Randall when Miss Francis A. Randall was 
presented at a large tea at the home of her parents in 
Fhiladelphia last week. Among others who assisted were 
Mrs. George W. Norris, Mrs. Samuel Fox, Mrs. Howard 
Wurts Page, Mrs. Langdon Williams and Mrs. J. P. 
Crozer Griffiths. 
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Miss Corinne Borden Freeman, daughter of Dr. and 
Mrs. Walter Jackson Freeman of the Swampscott colony, 
has been presented at a tea and dance which her parents 
gave in Philadelphia at the Bellevue-Stratford. Among 
those who assisted Mrs. Freeman in receiving were her 
sisters, the Misses Florence and Dora Keen and Mrs. 
Howard Butcher, Jr.; her sisters-in-law, Miss Alice Mor- 
gan Freeman and Mrs. William S$. Freeman. Miss Free- 
man selected a large group of the season’s debutantes “s 
her assistants. Her brothers, William Kenn Freeman and 
Walter Jackson Freeman, Jr., also assisted in receiving. 
Dr, Freeman’s family has also spent seasons at other 
places along the Shore. 
COPY of the Social Register of Boston for the present 
season has just reached our desk. Comparison with 
that of last year indicates that during the past year 213 
persons have married as compared with 153 last year, 
quite a startling increase of one-third, and there are noted 
the deaths of 60 women and 69 men as compared with 50 
v omen and 60 men last year. As usual the members of 
prominent families, whether residing in the city, in the 
country or abroad, are grouped under the one address, 
with the maiden and Christian names of the married wom- 
en, the names of the daughters and sons in the order of 
their age, and the younger children, from 12 to 20, appear- 
ing under the title of “Juniors.” The key to the present 
married names of women is still provided through the in- 
strumentality of the “Married Maidens,” and under this 
hcad also appear the names of Boston women who have 
married into families of other cities, so that their present 
name and the Social Register of the city where they may 
be found may be obtainable. 
OME, of the newspapers have been discussing the ques- 
tion of the worst and most prevailing sin. If there 
could be general agreement on this subject, the world 
would come near being perfect, for no one would practice 
what by common consent had been pronounced the most 
dangerous and reprehensible wrong. The trouble is that 
the worst and most universal sin is at the same time the 
n-ost subtle and elusive sin. It is not any of the wrongs 
which come most easily to mind, and front us most dis- 
tinctly. It lies at the root of action, and conceals itself 
so cleverly that those who commit it are often unconscious 
that they do so. Lying is the fundamental sin. It vitiates 
reality, corrupts the heart of living, undermines every 
virtue so that it rests on quicksands. It is the treachery 
of the whole moral government. It makes its world as 1t 
goes,—a world in which no one can live, whose maker 
perishes in his own device. The thing about this sin 
werse than its subtlety is that its most manifest forms 
may be excused and defended. It is never so plain but 
that there can be a working arrangement for its employ- 
nent, and sometimes the whole world seems to be in a 
conspiracy to protect it. An expediency justifies what 
counteracts all expediency. An end justifies a means 
which defeats its ends. The practical man constructs 
what makes all construction absurd.—The Christian Reg- 
ister. 
Mr. Bryan says his next statement will be divided into 
three narts. Instinctively we recall the announcement cf 
a mountaineer preacher who said to his flock: 
“Brethren, I hev decided t’ divide my sermon in three 
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parts. Th’ fust part I'll understand and you won't. 1 
second part you’ll understond an’ I won’t. Th’ third part 
nobody’ll understand.” —Montgomery Advertiser, 
