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Mrs. Alexander Hamilton Rice of Boston and Phila- 
delphia, who was Mrs, George D. Widener, has purchased 
a magnificent Ispahan rug, which once adorned the palace 
of the grand mogul at Delhi, India. It is considered one 
of the finest specimens of its kind in the world and had 
been in the palace for generations. It is now in her New- 
port villa. 
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Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Meeker (Lois Dempster 
Field), who are spending their honeymoon in Canada, 
will visit in Chicago in January with Mr. Meeker’s 
mother, Mrs. George Meeker, and Mrs. Meeker’s aunt, 
Mrs. C. W. Dempster. Mrs. Meeker is the daughter of 
Mr. and Mrs. Wm. M. Field of Haverford, Pa. 
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The Main Line Branch of the emergency aid com- 
mittee of Philadelphia met Tuesday in the Merion Cricket 
club to plan for more effective work in the aid of soldiers 
in, the European armies. The branch has 130 members 
who have turned out more than 25,000 garments and a 
large amount of surgical supplies the past month. 
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The musicale for the benefit of the Foreign Relief 
of the Emergency Aid which is to be given in the bail- 
room of the Bellevue-Stratford, Dec. 20, by the Orpheu:n 
Quartet promises to be a social and musical affair of un- 
usual interest as well as profitable for the Allies. Some 
of the boxholders and patronesses are Mrs. Charles A. 
Munn, Mrs. Edward T. Stotesbury and Mrs. Clarence M. 
Clark. 
Mrs. Harold S. McNeil and Mrs. Walter A. Carle of 
Boston and Bass Rocks, the latter the sister-in-law of 
Miss Eleanora Carle, will spend the holidays with their 
mother, Mrs. Samuel B. Bowen in Germantown. Mrs. 
Powen will entertain at bridge for them Dec. 21. 
Help thou thy brother’s boat across, and lo, thine own 
has reached the shore.—Persian Proverb. 
(CHICAGO is having its greatest charity ball tonight. 
The affair is taking place at the First Regiment 
armory building and 500 men, women and strange ani- 
mals are taking part in the Spanish pageant. Among the 
participants are Mr. and Mrs. Edward S. Moore and Mr. 
and Mrs. Watson Armour in the “Bull Fight Cortege.” 
In this large group under Mrs. Honore Palmer, the men 
will appear in bright colored bull-fighters’ costumes, 
matador hats and will ride horses. The women will be 
in Carmencita costumes with lace mantillas or small black 
velvet hats. Mrs. H. C. Chatfield-Taylor will have a 
group of 30 or more, Mrs. Joseph Medill Patterson, a 
_ sister to Mrs. R. T. Crane, Jr., is in this group which will 
head the pageant, representing the Moorish invasion. 
Mrs. Chatfield-Taylor will be carried in a golden chair by 
eght gorgeously costumed men of her group and her 
costume will be blue and ivory satin veiled in billows of 
tulles and laces. A striking aigrette will surmount her 
jeweled turban. Mrs. Carter Harrison’s group will con- 
sist of a bevy of debutantes and will be one of the most. 
effective elements in the procession. 
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Arthur Meeker, Jr., only son of Mr. and Mrs. 
Arthur Meeker of the North Shore colony, though only 
about 12 years old has a wonderful fund of information 
about the grand opera artists now playing in Chicago. 
This young patron and destined future promoter of the 
opera is on friendly terms with a few and knows the 
real names of all, their principal roles, where they have 
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sung, where they studied, where they were born and 
even thinks he knows how old they are! 
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Mr. and Mrs. Earl Reynolds (Mary Scudder) of 
Astor street, will spend the holidays with the latter’s par- 
erits, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Scudder of St. Louis, who 
aiso have Magnolia connections. 
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Mr. and Mrs, James B. Waller gave a small dinner 
ard theatre party last Tuesday at their Lincoln parkway 
heme in honor of Mrs. Potter Palmer. 
Take life like a man. Take it as though it was—as 
iiuis anew earnest, Vital, essential afiair. Take it just as 
though you were born to the task of performing a merry 
part in it, as though the world had waited your coming. 
Take it as though it were a grand opportunity to achieve, 
to carry forward great and good schemes, to hold and to 
cheer a suffering, weary, it may be heart-broken brother. 
-~Charles H. Spurgeon. 
LARGE number of citizens of Boston and Essex 
county assembled at “White Commons,” the resi- 
dence of Willard Emery, Wednesday, Dec. 8, and or- 
ganized an Essex County Rifle club to be under the 
auspices of the National Rifle association. Males over 
16 years of age are eligible for membership with annual 
fee of $3. Charles W. Taintor, banker, of 149 Beacon 
street, presided. 
These officers were elected: Bayard Tuckerman, 
Ipswich, president; James H. Proctor, Ipswich, vice- 
president; Rev. Emery L. Bradford, Boxford, secretary ; 
Frederick A: Alley, Hamilton, treasurer. These, with 
Charles W. Taintor, will constitute the executive com- 
mittee. 
The following were elected honorary vice-presidents : 
Francis Appleton of Ipswich, George Burroughs of Ham- 
iltton, William Hooper of Manchester, George E. Coates 
of Lynn, George S$. Mandell of Hamilton, Raymond C. 
Allen of Manchester, Edmund W. Longley, Lieut. Na- 
thaniel P. Very and Col. Charles F. Ropes, all of Salem; 
George H. Gibney of Hamilton, Bartlett H. Hayes and 
Alfred Ripley both of Andover; Dudley B. Rogers of 
Danvers, Edward J. Prest, Thomas W. Peirce, both of 
Topsfield; Dr. Peer P. Johnson of Beverly, Capt. Frank 
S. Perkins of Middleton, Charles B. Bailey of West New- 
bury, Francis L. Higginson, Jr., and John C. Phillips, 
both of Wenham. 
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Mrs. Horace Gray, formerly Miss Katharine Meek- 
er of Chicago, has been the guest of honor at a series of 
receptions given by Mrs. Russell Gray at her Marlboro 
street home for her Boston friends to meet her daughter- 
in-law. The Russell Grays are of the Nahant colony. 
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Mrs. Gardiner M. Lane and daughter are to go from 
Boston to spend the holidays in Baltimore with the form- 
ci’s parents, Prof. and Mrs. Basil Gildersleeve. 
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Miss Mabel Boardman was in Boston Wednesday to 
speak before the Sewing Circle League on the subject, 
“The Past Work and Future Preparedness of the Amer- 
iran Red Cross,” which is about the same talk Miss 
Boardman gave in Manchester Town hall this fall. — 
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Mrs. Henry P. King of 118 Beacon st., Boston, is 
giving a small dance at her home on Jan. 5, in honor of 
Miss Isabella Mumford, debutante daughter of Mr. and 
Mrs. George S. Mumford of 99 Bay State road, 
