6 NORTH SHORE: BREEZE 
HE Wm. H. Coolidge estate—Blynman Farm—in the 
Magnolia section of Manchester shows more signs of 
life and activity this winter than any other on the North 
Shore. The original Coolidge cottage has been moved tv 
enother part of the extensive estate—on the Kettle Cove 
Golf club grounds, and is being established as a summer 
home for the daughter, Mrs. Samuel Stevens (Isabel 
Coolidge). On the wooded hill standing well back from 
the highway, a large house will be built for the son, Wm. 
H. Coolidge, Jr., who was married in the early fall to 
Miss Eleanor Cole of Wenham. ‘This is reached by a 
long winding avenue now almost completed. And on the 
site of the old Blynman hotel, where the Coolidge house 
bas been standing, a magnificent new house is now under 
construction for Mr. and Mrs. Coolidge, Sr. It 1s under- 
stood the three families will spend the greater part of the 
year at their respective seashore homes, which will be 
ready for occupancy next season. 
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Mrs. Robert D. Evans has returned to her home at 
17 Gloucester street, Boston, after a trip to California 
where she visited the San Francisco Exhibition. 
Love that only which happens to thee, and is spun 
with the thread of thy destiny—Marcus Aurelius. 
D*: RICHARD C. CABOT of Boston and the South 
Shore has some interesting points in his recent book 
on “What Men Live By: Work, Play, Love, Worship.” 
Since pleasure is the sense of getting what we want, and 
play is one of the things we want, the chapter on play is 
particularly interesting to devotees of all kinds of sports. 
He says: “Of course nobody wants to fail in a game 
or anything else; but when one loses one wants to be a 
good loser, and this art of being a good loser is half the 
battle both in good play and in good living. We want to 
win fairly and in a contest that puts us on our mettle. 
To win easily is not much fun. To win by cheating 
leaves us aware that, in fact, we did not win at all.” 
His list of games which are fascinating from their va- 
riety of “give and take” include* football, tennis, bil- 
liards, shooting, fishing, boxing, wrestling, fencing, chess, 
whist, hide-and-seek and leap-frog. In his claim that the 
’ drama, baseball and dancing are the only popular arts 
of Amercia today he urges that we “realize that they are 
vevertheless genuine arts, and plant them close beside 
niusic, literature, painting, and sculpture. Such a real- 
ization will help to keep vulgarity out of popular art, and 
to save the fine arts from degenerating into fastidious-~ 
ness or dying of superrefinement..... Anybody can 
see without an opera glass that dancing is at once play, 
art, and athletics. Art and play are essentially one, and 
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they are both their own excuse for being.” 
From this philosophical discussion of play one turns 
to Outing, the magazine which mirrors the life of the 
tines in all angles of organized sport, as,—tennis, golf, 
baseball, football, rowing, skating, etc. A writer in the 
December number says: “The character of outdoor 
sports and games changes from year to year with chang- 
ing tastes and conditions. Not so long ago tennis and 
golf were regarded as rich men’s games and polo was a 
fad of the millionaires. Such an outpouring of interest 
as was witnessed at the international polo matches at 
Meadowbrook in recent years would have been impos- 
sible a decade or two ago. Another new factor is the 
entrance of women into outdoor life. The generation be- 
fcre the present one played very little tennis or golf and 
knew practically nothing of canoeing, camping or sailing. 
Now all that is changed and women are demanding their 
share of instruction and entertainment in outdoor mat- 
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And so we hear that the women racketers of the 
country, following the custom inaugurated two years ago, 
will have a ranking list compiled with all the care and 
effort which is put into the list of the men. Mrs. William 
Ti, Ponch, who as Miss H. Hellwig won the national 
championship for women many years ago, is the chair- 
nian of this committee. Outside of the first placé the 
task of arranging such a list is no easy one, though the 
piay of the leading women is, as’ a rule, more consistent 
than that of the men. Followers of the game believe that 
Miss Molla Bjurstedt, the Norwegian player, will hoid 
first place this year. She holds all the national single 
championships on grass, on clay courts and on board 
courts and has played consistently throughout the sea- 
son in nearly every tournament of note. In the list of 
those who will probably be placed in the first ten is 
noted the names of Miss Eleanora Sears and Miss Ann 
Sheafe of Boston, the latter the fiancee of B. L. Cole, 2d., 
of Wenham. In view of the winter’s activities and the 
inany branches of sport looming up ahead it is of in-: 
terest to note the various pastimes of the summer col- 
oes. 
Miss Eleanora Sears, a member of the North Shore 
colony and of one of the oldest and wealthiest families of 
Boston has added to her list of accomplishments, She 
has successfully imitated the Vernon Castles. It was 
at the hotel where all the smart Boston functions take 
place that Miss Sears performed what she might call 
the “stunt,” and it gave her society friends an oppor- 
_ tunity to know just what she was able to do in the up-to- 
date terpsichorean art. Miss Sears sat with the Castles 
between dances, wearing that snappy, cool little smile that 
has baffled a lot of the youth of the day, and presently 
everybody gasped to see her usurping the position of 
Mrs. Castle, gliding about on the cleared floor—the epi- 
tome of litheness and grace, and every quality that makes 
for the personification of beauty of expression and beauty 
of motion. Miss Sears, in a few short minutes, added 
dancing as an expert accomplishment to the already in- 
credibly long repertoire of pastimes in which she more 
than excels. 
The Bachelor—I wonder why the average married 
woman is always so anxious to be seen with her husband 
in public? 
The Spinster—I don’t know, of course, but I imagine 
it’s because a public place is the only one in which a 
woman can induce her husband to treat her with due: 
consideration. 
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