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the amusement of their guests. 
Vol. XIll 
SOCIETY NOTES. 
THE North Shore will be the Mecca for many Boston- 
ians over the holiday season. Houses that are kept 
partially open all winter will be open for house parties 
the coming week and those who are here all winter will 
entertain. Altogether the North Shore will be a jolly 
good place to be for the holidays, especially if the season 
is propitious and a little snow—not too much—is sent to 
give a real touch of winter to the landscape. The Essex 
County club at Manchester will be the center of life. 
There may be found all the attractions for the full en- 
joyment of out-door sports. The skating pond is already 
frozen and in use (Wednesday) and the skiing and tobog- 
ganing will be the popular diversion as soon as the snow 
comes. ‘The clubhouse will be full all through the holi- 
day. season, every room being engaged for some time. 
Mrs. B. A. Beal will give a young people’s dance at the 
club some night next week. 
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HE winter sport season, for which society has made 
elaborate arrangements, was opened formerly at 
Tuxedo Park last Saturday. Ice skating was a principal 
eature and brought out a large crowd of spectators and 
participants. A new rink has been built in front of tne 
ciubhouse on which an exhibition of fancy skating took 
place. A novelty of the day’s sport was the taking of 
motion pictures of the skaters dancing. These will ve 
shown later to aid beginners in the art of fancy skating. 
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence C. Pell and Mr. and Mrs. J. Ed- 
ward Davis delighted all by their skating dance. Mr. and 
Mrs. Charles C. Auchincloss, frequenters of the Beverly 
Farms colony, Edward Kent, Robert Goelet, Griswold 
Lorillard and his fiancee, Miss Mary Victoria Green of 
Philadelphia were of the many who enjoyed the day. 
Many of the less expert skaters find Wee Wah lake more 
to their liking than the popular rink. Skating can be en- 
joyed at the Tuxedo rink at night with the aid of the 
electric light system which has been installed. 
Ice skating in and out of doors is becoming so popt- 
Jar that owners of several country places have taken. ad- 
vantage of the first “freeze” to make outdoor rinks for 
One of these rinks is at 
Georgian Court, Mr. and Mrs. George J. Gould’s place at 
Lakewood, N. J., where they often give skating parties. 
Another has been opened by Mr. and Mrs. Irving Brokaw, 
both of whom are expert skaters and well-known to North 
Shore people, at their country home at Mill Neck, L. /. 
Mr. and Mrs. Brokaw have issued invitations to their 
friends to use their rinks the entire winter. Country life 
promises with this new rage for skating to continue 
through the winter. House parties are being planned for 
january and it is predicted that, by Christmas, there will 
be few of the devotees classed as amateurs, for the Amer- 
can gir} shows her usual adaptability in no better way 
than in the swiftness with which she learns to skate—and 
incidently perform the same feats as her brothers. Ex- 
perts are telling beginners to be persistently patient and 
not try to learn in a minute, but to go forth with firm 
shoes, good skates, warm clothes and that, by the time 
one can waltz and dance the hesitation on skates, he may 
congratulate himself that the hardest part of the task is 
completed. The two-step, one-step, fox trot, tango and 
other pretty and attractive movements follow without 
much instruction , 
Manchester, Mass., Friday, December 24 
BREEZE 
No. 52 
SOCLE TRYaN GO LECS 
ROSTON society is looking forward with keen antici- 
pation to the two assemblies. The first Friday in 
January and the second Friday in February have been 
ciosen by the committee for this season’s events, which, 
as usual, will take place at the Copley-Plaza, and for 
vhich invitations have gone out. It may be recalled that 
lust year only one ball took place, instead of the usual 
two of previous years. Samuel Hooper Hooper, Joseph 
Grafton Minot and Barrett Wendell, Jr., form the com- 
mittee, which this year lacks the name of Philip S. Sears, 
wlio for a long time served with the others named. Mrs. 
Bryce J. Allan, Mrs. Edward D. Brandegee and Mrs. 
Nathaniel Thayer make up the reception committee, and 
the group of patronesses includes several who have been 
actively interested in previous seasons, together with some 
of the younger matrons, The list is as follows: Mrs. 
Gordon Abbott, Mrs. Rodolphe L. Agassiz, Mrs. Oliver 
Ames, Mrs. Henry D. Burnham, Mrs. 8. Van Rensselaer 
Crosby, Mrs. Fulton Cutting, Mrs. William C. Endicott, 
Ty., Mrs. F. Murray Forbes, Mrs. Francis L. Higginson, 
Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell, Mrs. George °C. Lee, Mrs. 
- George von L. Meyer, Mrs. J. Grafton Minot, Mrs. A. 
Lawrence Rotch, Mrs. Charles S$. Sargent, Mrs. Henry 
F, Sears, Mrs. J. Montgomery Sears, Mrs. Eugene V. R. 
Thayer, Mrs. Barrett Wendell, Jr., and Mrs. Roger Wol- 
cott. 
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Mrs. James Murray Kay of Brookline, who has an- 
nounced the engagement of her daughter, Miss Rawson 
Prentiss Kay, to Alvin V. Baird of Delaplane, Va., has 
four other daughters, Mrs. Herbert R. Burgess of Cleve- 
lead, O.; Mrs. John Wing Prentiss and Mrs. Rutherford 
M. Shepard of New York, and Miss Mary Murray Kay. 
A son is James Murray Kay, Harvard ’11. The wedding 
of Miss Kay and Mr. Baird will take place on Thursday, 
Dec. 30, at the family home on Rawson road in Brook- 
line, and will be quiet, as the family is in mourning for 
Mr. Kay, whose death occurred the middle of August at 
the summer home on Eastern Point, Gloucester. 
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Miss Eleonora Sears, of the Beverly Farms colony, 
is planning to spend the winter in California. Last year 
she was there, but in mourning, and so accepted no formal 
invitations. This winter her father, Frederick R. Sears, 
and her brother, F. R. Sears, Jr., are to go with her. Miss 
Sears’ visit always gives an impetus to outdoor sports for 
the women of Burlingame. 
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From Paris comes the announcement that Russell H. 
Greeley of Boston, director of the American distributing 
service of Paris, who recently was injured in the motor 
car accident in which Dr. C. R. Cross of Brookline, was 
killed, and who is now convalescent, was formally pre- 
sented Sunday with the decoration of the Cross of the 
Legion of Honor. ‘The emblem was pinned on his breast 
by Justin Godart, Under Secretary of State for sanitary 
service. In the name of the French Government M. 
Godart thanked Mr. Greeley for the noble humanitarian 
work which he and a goodly number of his fellow coun- 
trymen have done since the beginning of the war. Mr. 
Greeley is a member of the Harvard ’or class, and is a 
son of Mrs. Rufus F. Greeley of the Hotel Victoria, 
Baston, and of the Brownlands,: Manchester, 
