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TELEPHONE22 - 5 Wel lesley

A Literary N ightmare

By Robert M elvi l le Baker

Wi thin a l ibrary’s volumedwal ls,

I pondered, late one night,To throw upon an essay deepOne ray of reason

’s l ight .

Without , the summer’s breezes p layed,

A soothing lul laby,Ti l l soon the typebegan to fadeBeforeeach droop ingeye.

Then from the shelves, methought I sawThe volumes raredescend

Andflap their covers from thedust ,As fow ls from roost unbend.

French novels, l ight and airy things,Wi ldcancans then did dance,Whi leWorks on Romance tourneys heldAnd sought to break a lance.

The books of Science kept their setAnd opened updebates,Whi le each did try to provehimsel fMuchwiser than hismates.

TheDict ionaries refereedA thri l l ingwar of words,

And“Webster” got upon his earWhenWorcesterwas preferred.

And now a frightful din arose,As Shakespeare took thefield,

Andarmed his hostswi th proofsgaloreTomake fat Bacon yield.

SaidBacon '“Hamlet, 1 didwri te.

SaidShakespeare: “That’s a roast .

And Hamlet was so sorely triedHeneargaveuptheGhost .

Encyclopedias received“At tea”

out in thehal l ,And boredand b lasé they appearedBecause they knew i t all .WeirdFab le, wi th her giants grim,

Ran upagainst a snag;

DameFact disclosedheras a fake,Bent on some fairy gag.

The poets, on their wingéd steeds,Cal led on their fick leMuse,

Resolved, that cl imb ingsuch a heightTheir “ feet ” theywould not use.

Dul l Essays pricked their dog-ears up,

Attracted by thedin,But straightway shut up l i kea clamThey could not raisea grin.

Theworks of Travel gotmixed up

FarNorth to thaw began ;A heatedargument i t heldWi th Asia's broi l ingsun.

Psychology, perched onmy head,Turned X - raysonmy brain,

And such a monkeymadeof meThat 1 seemed near insane.

Then chimed theclock thehour of twelve;What could this scamperingbe?

The t i t led revel lerswi thdrewAnd turned their backs onme.

i woke. What caused this nightmaregrim?i had no need toguess ;

itwas theessay onmy lap,Which I could not digest .

Washin gton Stree t Trees

ByJ oseph w. Peabody

DISTINCT service has been rendered by the gent lemen whogave, at the last meet ingof theWel lesley C lub, a report ofthei r invest igat ion of what, in their judgment, should be doneto improve the appea rance of the trees onWashington st reet.The report emphasizestheneedof immediate but judicioust reatment of these t rees, for the purpose of obta iningbettereffects. That thoroughfa rewas selectedas a matter of course,because of its magnitude and the greater growth of treesthereon. As the tree wa rden, who was an interested l istenerto the report, rema rked, it requi red some cou rage to recom

mend the remova l oi eighty odd addit iona l trees, whi le the echo of a veryposi t ive remonstrance to the tak ing out of trees caused by the wideningof Washington street was st i l l in the air. But it is to be assumed, ifindeed it was not stated by the member reading the report, that thesegent lemen do not advocate the remova l of trees because of a lack ofappreciat ion of their beauty and usefulness, but because, through a cu lt ivated acqua intance with the natu re of tree l i fe, they have lea rned that bygiving themproper environment they may be made st i l l more beaut ifuland att ract ive.

Those of uswho havegiven but l i tt le studied attent ion to “Nature’s

nob lest adornments, are beginningto learn that a tree has individua l ityand cha racterist ics pecul iarly its own, but that it needs room and sun

l ight and condit ions of soi l for its best development. Some of the treeson or nea r theWashington street boundaries are fine i l lustrat ions of thisfact, notab ly the elms in the vicini ty of the Unita rian church and the

enclosu re of the Elm Pa rk property. The great major ity of the treesf rom this point to the Fa l ls hill are hardly more than fifty years old,

accordingto the report of the committee, in which case many yea rs of

growth yet rema in, and Nature should be a ided by judicious treatment inher work of givingpicturesque adornment to our travel ledways.

The tree warden, who has shown both interest and intel l igent discriminat ion in his work of caring for the trees, should be given, the com.

ing season, an appropriat ion sufficient to enab le him to make a goodbeginning in the remova l and plant ing of trees substant ia l ly, as recommended ln the report a l luded to, with which recommendat ions, it is

assumed from his remarks at the same meet ing, he is in accord. Of

course the treewa rden would have to observe the prel iminary proceedings which the law requires, but i t is unl ikely there would be muchopposit ion to the remova l of such trees aswould contr ibute to the growthand beauty of those i t is desired sha l l permanent ly rema in.

As we come into a more intel l igent appreciat ion of what our t reesmay become as a picturesque feature in the beaut ifyingof our streets, wesha l l join sensewith sent iment, rea l iz ing that to obta in the best effects itis qu ite as necessary at t imes to remove a tree as to plant one.

There is a generous love of nature and natura l ist ic effects among our

people; the care and cost expended upon private grounds throughout thetown are the substant ia l expressions of that love, but we have to learnsomet imes through a cost ly experience that the best andmost attract iveeffects, those that comb ine taste and a measure of refinement, are

ob ta ined only by the appl icat ion of recognized standards of landscapetreatment. it is to be hoped that i f the tree wa rden is supported bypub l ic sent iment and suppl iedwith a requisite appropriat ion to enab le himto makemore effect ive the adornment of our principa l thoroughfare, thatother streets a lso wi l l sha re in the improvement, so that in t ime a uni ty oftreatment may be observed in a l l pa rts of the town. Pr ivate enterpriseshould assist in this work, and by co- operat ion with the town officia ls themore qu ick ly bringabout the improvement needed in somany sect ions of

our highways and adjacent grounds.

Educa tion Associa tionBy thePress Committee

HROUGH the courtesy of theWoman’s C lub a joint meet ing

was arrangedwi th the Educat ion Associat ion for Decemberfifth, and a rare treat was prov ided. The rapidly increasinginterest in the Educat ion Associat ion was evidenced by thela rge and representative audiencewhich convened at MaugusHa l l to l isten to an address by Professor Luther Gul ick uponthe educat iona l va lue of motor tra ining.

Mr. Gul ick was known to bean advocate of manua l tra ining, or, as hemore broadly terms it, motor tra ining. But itwas a lso known that he had come to his conclusion at the

most pat ient and thorough invest igat ion of a l l phases of the

Mr. Gul ick is connected with the Pratt Inst itute of Brook lyn, whichmeansmuch of i tself, for the Pratt school occupies a unique place amongeducat iona l inst itut ions. Cha rles Pratt, its founder, helddefinite opinionsof his own about the educat ion of boys and girls. Whi le hewas a mostconsistent bel iever in the educat iona l va lue of mathemat ics, history,l iteratu re, science and art, he a lso appreciated in an unusua l degree thegreat va lue to chi ldren of forminghab its of thrift and indust ry, developingsel f rel iance and self control, devot ion to duty and respect for the r ightsof others. He bel ieved strongly in teaching the d-ignity of product ivelabor, the dishc'mesty of tak ing that which is not fa irly earned, and theimportance of meet ing engagements and ob l igat ions prompt ly. Afteryears of invest igat ion and experience, he concluded that a l l branches of

lea rningaremore rapidly, thoroughly and effect ively acquired by chi ldrenwho are r ight ly; trained in the use of hand and eye; that such tra iningmakes substant ia l ly for the norma l growth of the b ra in, and that intellectua l power and~ ~moral fiber are direct ly produced and organized bywisely guidedmotor tra ining.

Pratt inst itute provides such tra iningas a basis for the symmetr ica l ,ha rmonious, sane development of the chi ld. The resu lts acqu ired havefu l ly just ified the course pursued. The inst itut ion has producedhundredsof r ight -mindedmen and women of sterl ing character, broadly educatedand wel l equipped for wise l iving and goodc it izenship.

Mr. Gul ick went to Pratt inst itute after he had become convinced ,

that the educat iona l principles employed there are right, but he becameconvinced of this only by a most rigorous judicia l invest igat ion of boththeory and facts. He stout ly set aside prejudice, tradi t ion and a l l simi la rhandicaps, and considered only the actualf avaiiab le facts which throwl ight upon the educat iona l va lue of motor tra ining. At the end of his

invest igat ion he was permanent ly convinced of the t ruth and great importance of the theory.

in his address before the Educat ion Associat ion, Professor Gul ickout l ined in a most interest ingway the cou rse pursued by him in a rrivingat his convict ion, and ful ly sat isfied his audience that he had left no stoneunturned.

Fi rst, he notedwith the greatest ca re the effect of manua l tra iningupon his own chi ldren, and spoke enthusiast ica l ly of the resul ts. He

ex tended his observat ion to the homes of his neighbors and then to awider field. He studied the l ives of inventors, a rt ists, writers, successfulbusiness and professiona l men, and found a la rge majority were sk i l ledhand laborers. With the assistance of those who became interested in

hiswork, he pat ient ly invest igated the l ives of upwa rds of six hundredeminentmen and found clea r evidence that at least two- thirds had beentra ined as chi ldren to work with thei r hands. Then he turned to history,and it very soon became evident to him that the races which have produced history makers have beenmost sk i l led in a var iety of handicraft.

St i l l cu r ious, he tu rned to the anima l world, and there he foundintel l igence graded according to motor development—orders of anima lspossessedof the greatest sk i l l in use of wingand l imb , he foundpossesseda lso of the la rgest b ra in and b rightest intel l igence.

The b readth of the speaker’s argument may be judged bythe above.

He has sounded everything ava i lab le to him, which has a bea r ing uponthe quest ion, “What does manua l or motor tra ining do for the intelligence, character and capacity of the race ? ”

and he has found enough init to lead him to most hea rt i ly endorse it as a legit imate andmost important phase of pub l ic school work .

He referred touchingly to the effect upon a “hardened boy of mak

ingwith his hands a thing at once usefu l and beaut ifu l . He cou ld see,he sa id, the boy’

s soul open and his nature soften as his hand sk i l ldeveloped.

When asked in private what studies he wou ld recommend droppingto make t ime for motor tra ining, Mr. Gul ick sa id emphat ica l ly,

“None,

none whatever . Introduce manua l tra ining and you w i l l have t ime formore studies than you now have, and wi l l get vast ly better results froma l l of them. Motor tra ining develops bra in power, and t ime thus used

judiciously wi l l find ample compensation in increased study capacity.

E l e c t r i c L i g h t sBy I . H . Farnham

T may not be amiss, now that the Electric Light Committeehas closed its work and been discha rged, for its Cha irman tooffer to the cit izens, through the unprejudiced columns of

OURTOWN, a few “ l ight ” suggest ions as fol lowsThe printed report recent ly distr ibuted to every residence,

and cost ingabout 500, conta ins va luab le informat ion whichwi l l be useful for future reference as wel l as for presentca refu l study.

The report conta ins a copy of the electric l ight contracts,( three in number) , under which we are now operat ing, and

must cont inue to Operate for one yea r, andmay at the opt ion of theTown

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extend for an addit iona l per iod of two or fou r years (pages 7 , 9,Not ice the pena l t ies in case of fa i l u re by the Electr ic Light Company

to furnish sufficient current for street l ights (page a lso not ice theclause providingfor a recordingvoltmeter (page bywhich a constantrecord of service is obta ined andmust be accepted as fina l in sett lements;that instrument is now insta l led, and themonthly b i l ls wi l l bemodified byits records.

Do not omit a ca reful reading of the report of Stone Webster, theelectrica l engineers and experts of very high standing, employed by theCommittee to give careful and unb iasedest imates upon the cost of insta l ling a su itab le generat ing plant and its yearly cost of operat ing. Thisreport is found on pages 20 to 30.

Not ice that according to the figures given therein, it wi l l cost theTown very muchmore to generate its cu rrent than to purchase as i t isnow doing (page this for the very simple reason that the cost ofgenerat ing electrici ty on a la rge sca le or by la rge power units, is verymuch less than by generat ing it in sma l l quant it ies by sma l l uni ts.

Please note a lso the statements on pages 51 and 52, relat ingto thepossib i l i t ies of l ight ingby theWelsbach system.

In addit ion to the facts given in the printed report, please considerthe fol lowing letter which was obta ined after the report went to press

BOSTON ELECTRIC LIGHT CO . ,

Ames Bui lding, Court andWashington Sts. , Boston, Dec. 1 8, 1 900 .

MR. I. H. FARNHAM , 1 2; Mi l k St. , Boston,Dear Sir:— In rep ly to your inquiry as towhether i t was feasib le for the Bos

ton ElectricLight Company to furnish current for the Town of Wel lesley, wouldsay i t would be perfect l y feasib le and pract ical for us to do so i f wehad the rightsfor our wires through Brook l ine or Newton. This I presume could be arranged

wi th the companies holding rights in those towns. At present we have givenprices to three towns adjoiningBoston for supp lyingcurrent to companies al readyex ist ingand doing business, and undoubtedly shall contract w i th some of them, as

l am informed that our price is lower than what they can produce electrici ty for,the reason being that we produce in large quant i ty. If i t is possib le foryou to getalonga year or two, I think by that t ime we shall have our l ines connected intothese towns and furnishing current , so that an addi t ion to reach you would be lessexpensive, and thecurrent could be furnished you cheaper at such a t ime than i tcould beconsidered today . Wewould l i ke to do anything to help you out in the

matter i f possib le, but the above suggest ions are the ones that I bel ieve themostfeasib leat the present t ime.

Very truly yours,F. A. GILBERT,

President andGeneral Manager.

The Boston Electric Light Company is one of the la rgest companies,if not the la rgest, in the State, with ample equ ipment to l ight GreaterBoston, and to ex tend current or power for fifty (50) mi les in eitherdirect ion should i t choose to do so, and there is probab ly no company inthis v icinity which can competewith it today in producingelectr icity at alow cost.

In view of these facts, and the possib i l it ies of securing sat isfactoryl ights, both street and commercia l , at a cost much less than will bepossib le by a municipa l plant, all this, too, without giving a pr ivate com

pany a franchise, or otherwise emba rrassingour streets or givingva luab lerights therein, wi l l our cit izens rashly close their eyes, stop thei r ea rs andplunge into a schemewhich wi l l add a large and unnecessa ry burden to

the Town, and one from which, once entangled, it wi l l be pract ica l lyimpossib le to recede?

Let the cit izens show thei r good sense in this, as they so often havedone in other important town projects.

We llesley Bo y in Pek in

By Roscoe Buck

[Last year we pub l ished a letter from A Yankee in Cav i te.

” The wri terwas RoscoeBuck of Wel lesley Farms, who had enl isted in theMarines, and of hisown choicewas sent to thePhi l ipp ines. Duringthecampaign in China, last summer, hewas one of the number who hastened from Mani la to the rel ief of theforeigners in Pek in. He took part in the capture of Tien-Tsin, and later in thev ictoryat Pekin. We pub l ish below a composi te art icleof extracts fromseveralbrief notes recent ly received inWel lesley Hi l ls. ]

E left Mani la harbor on the U. S. Batt leship Brook lyn on the

night of the 26th of June, leaving but one company of

ma rines to do duty at Cavite, and put in at Hong Kong, atNagasak i, then at Cheefoo and at Taku. At that t ime i twas perhaps the most interest ing sight that the world eversaw. Herewas a fleet composed of nea r ly every nat ion intheworld, anchored youmight say at sea, for in no direct ionwas land in sight. And here a lso we experienced a novel4th of July (a l though it was theoth) , for nearly every shipthere had to sa lute Admi ra l Remey, who was then thi rd in

command and on the Brook lyn. O n the l oth, we went on boa rd theMonocacy, a side-wheeled gunboat, then lying at anchor about three

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mi les aboveTaku on the Pei- Ho r iver. The ru ins of Taku, captured afew days before,were st i l l smouldering. The next morning we weret ransferred to a l ighter, andmade a fifty- two mi le journey up the Pei- Ho

in a l i tt le less than si xteen hours, a rr ivingat Tien-Tsin about midnight.The night of the 1 2th, H Co. was sent to the ra i lroad stat ion toholdit duringthe attack on the wa l led city. Every nat ion except Germanywas well represented here. Wewere nea rly in the centre, with Frenchand Japs on our left and about three regiments of Russians on our r ight.On the morning of the 1 3th, the a l l ies opened fire, and for thi rty- six

hours shot and shel l fel l l ike ra in. About noon, when we had become so

accustomed to the sound of b u l lets that we did not duck , we were a l lstanding in the stat ion, eat ing a l itt le ha rdtack and bacon, when a shel lexploded amongus k i l l ingfivemen and woundingeighteen. I received asl ight bruise, but not enough to do any harm. We did not love the manwho worked that gun. A l itt le later he k i l led three more of our numberand wounded seven.

On the morning of the 14th, we left the trenches and entered thecity behind the Japs, who b lew upthe gate. For the next few days wedidnothing, and then on the I st of August we began ourmarch for Pek in,but only went to the wa l led city of Tien-Tsin. On the4th, weadvancedaga in and ran into a fight at Pi Sang arsena l, inwhich the Japs lost nea rlya regiment of cava l ry. It had ra ined hard a l l the previous night, andoh,how cold it was ! But it was hot enough the next day whenwemarchedfrom 1 0 A. M. to P. M. under a constant fire of shrapnel ] and sma l la rms. At last the Chinos took to thei r heels. That night by the campfire I had some serious thoughts. Here we were 1 00 mi les f romPek in,and a l ready inmy company a lone were seven dead and twelve wounded.

After that, however, there was very l i tt le fight ing unt i l we reachedPek in, and by the t ime I saw the terr ib le wa l ls I didn’t ca re whether Iwas k i l led or not. I ha rdly knew my own name. As soon as I got

a chance Imade for a well to get a dr ink . Therewas a deadChino in i t.O thers, however, drank of the water and I fol lowed suit. But I think Isha l l never be ab le to forget i t. The outer wa l ls of the ci ty are si xtyfeet high and forty in b readth, made out of granite. We lay on thewa l lone night fi r ing cont inua l ly at the enemy over the Chinese city. Wel lyou know f rom the papers how the city was taken.

We rema ined in Pek in about two months. On the 9th of October,we sta rted back , marchingabout a hundredmi les in four days over the

former batt lefields. The bodies of the dead Chinos st i l l lay where theyfel l in batt le. On the 20th, I reached Cavite and found that it had beenI I

rumored that Iwas k i l led. But thank God I am a l ive andwel l . But I

have heard a l l the bul lets sing that I care to. We arr ived here on the

28th of October, and I h0pe that in a few days wemay be cominghome,though if it were not for you and the others I think I cou ld l ive here forthe rest of my days.

New M e thods in Ar ithmeticBy M arshal l L. Perrin

SIDE from those few schola rs to be found in every school towhom mathemat ics of any k ind are a bugbea r, the study of

a r ithmet ic seems, in the past, to have consumed an unwar

rantable amount of t ime in the school curriculumof even the

most apt pupi ls. Especia l ly is this t rue when we considerthe exceedinglysma l l resul ts from a l l this work . It certa inlyhas been discouragingto observe the inaccuracy andb lundering of graduates from grammar schools. Educators havetheorized and written learned theses on the principles of

mathemat ica l study, but apparent ly in va in. There has

been a fearful loss of t ime andmisappl icat ion of energy somewhere.

To thosewhosechi ldren are in the pub l ic schools, our own experienceand present methods cannot fai l to be of interest, as arithmet ic tradit iona l ly holds such a prominent place in school work . In common with progressive schools, we longsince abandoned the subjects of Al l igat ion, Part ia l Payments, Cube Root, and other very unpract ica l matters. Greatthings were expected from this pruning; but they did not fol low it.Scholars merely knew less than ever and became less sk i lful .

O ur own methods of meet ingthe quest ion, which so fa r as I knoware pecul ia r to the schools of Wel lesley, have been discussed in severa lAnnua l Reports. The resu lts, as advancing classes demonstrate them,

are favorab le; and the diagnosis seems reasonab le. It is bel ieved thatchi ldrenmust not be requi red to attend to too many things at once; thatit is not pedagogic in early grades to expect them, as in so- ca l ledWrittenArithmet ic, tomanage la rge numbers accuratelyanddea l with compl icatedprocesses at the same t ime. The one is PureMathemat ics : the other isAppl ied Mathemat ics. These are kept dist inct in col lege, and muchmore should they be in elementary work . In every teacher’s ears thereechoes the quest ion frompupi ls that may cipher accurately “What doyou do, mu l t iply? - andon the other hand the cases are legion, where aprob lem is reasoned out correct ly and the answer is wrong. Now these

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involve two qu i te dist inct b ra in processes; and not ea r l ier than the si xthor seventh year of school tra ining should they be united. They shouldboth be begun early, but be kept ent irely sepa rate inmethod and t ime of

recitat ion. The prob lemWork before these yea rs shou ld be whol ly ora l ,involvingonly sma l l figu res that can be easi ly ca rr ied in the head; and inthat case a l l ari thmet ica l relat ions can be readi ly grasped and pract ised,with an interminab le amount of rapid oral dr i l l . Fract ions andpercentagelose thei r horror when second and thi rdyea r chi ldren, with thei r dissecteddiscs, enjoy work ingso fast that an adu l t can hardly fol low them. Sideby sidewi th the concrete ora l work in reasoning, but at another recitat ion, thepupi l should every day be requ i red to do abstract sums in addit ion, in subtract ion, in mu l t ipl icat ion, and division, to tra in him to carefulwork in meremechanica l “cipher ing.

”As these sums grow b igger, heloses his fear of la rge numbers ; and this dr ill in accu racy shou ld be con

stant, exact ing, andmerci less. But upto the t imement ioned, it is worsethan fol ly to plunge a schola r into wr i tten arithmet ic, ” where the sizeof the numbers confuses the chi ld so that he loses sight of the process, orwhere in grappl ingwith the thought he becomes inaccurate. It is worsethan fol ly; since it not onlywastes five or tenminutes over each prob lemwith only moderate chances of success, but it confirms thepupi l in hab i tsof inaccuracy and wrong think ing, so that the longer he studies arithmet icthemorehopeless he becomes. Now when we consider that the actua lnumber of processes to be understood and subjects to be expla ined, asa rithmet ic is now taught, is not over a couple of dozen, and that anaverage chi ld can with numbers under 1 00 be made to see through a l lthese in the course of a few months, it would seem needful only to dr i l lhim in the va r ious presentat ions of these subjects, w ith count less ha lfminute i l lustrat ions, unt i l he is fami l ia r w ith a l l desi rab le processes andnumerica l relat ions, and then—not unt i l then— introduce him gradua l lyinto the art of doing this think ingwith a penci l in hand. He is now tojot

down numbers too large to ca rry inhishead, andwith these thento performtheoperat ions necessary to the carryingoutof the process he has inmind.

If, now, in previous yea rs he has been a l ready dr i l led to accuracy and

faci l ity in these four fundamenta l Operat ions, he wi l l not be distracted bythemechanica l work, nor frightened by the size of the numbers, from hisconnected course of reasoning.

Adherence to these evident ly sound psychologica l pr inciples b idsfa i r to insure a greater degree of accuracy and mathemat ica l acumen, tosave an enormous waste of t ime and energy, and witha l to stra ighten out

arithmet ica l processes in theminds of those towhom they have former lybeen a bugbea r.

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O U R T O W NJ anuary 1901

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BLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EACH M ONTH BY C. M . EATON

MANAGING EDITO‘

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P . T. FARWELL, WELLESLEYHILLSA

‘D‘UERTISING MANAGER, j. G . SHEA, NATICK

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Entered at thepost ofliceatWellesley Hills as second- classmatter.

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The readers of OUR TOWN are requested to note the advert isingpages. As our space for this depa rtment is l imited, wehave taken advertisements only from part ies that are considered rel iab le and are sure to

mer it your patronage.

The i l lustrat ions in this number are an evidence of the zea l of ourPub l isher and promise of more to fol low. It is the Pub l isher’s purpose tomake OUR TOWN in its dress and genera l appearance a credit to the

community and a pleasure to our readers.

One of themost important changes which we contemplate is thepub l ishingeachmonth of a Calendar of coming loca l events, inwhich wewou ld place every lecture, enterta inment, concert or pub l ic meet ing forwhich a future date has been arranged. To this endwe invite secreta riesof all organizations to provide us with the needed informat ion as far in

advance as is possib le. It is a lso proposed to devote a page or two, infuture numbers, to the chi ldren, andwe are happy to announce that Mrs.

E. M. O verholser has k indlyconsentedto take cha rge of this Chi ldren’s

Department.Weca l l specia l attention to this issue as a promise of what is to come.

We havehere a rt icles fromtheWoman’s C lub , TheEducat ionAssociat ion,

Park Commission and the Superintendent of Schools, which should interest a very wide range of readers. No quest ion excites more genera linterest, at present, than that of the l ight ing of our streets. Mr. Farnham,

cha irman of the recent Committee on a Municipa l Light ingPlant,contributes his own v iew of the subject. Concerningthe letter which hepub l ishes from the Boston Electric Light Company, inqu i ry has been

made of the commi ttee appointed at the last Town Meet ing and it islearned that they are in conferencewith that company andwi th others ofa simi lar natu re. In due t ime, undoub tedly, the town wi l l learn theresult of these conferences, andmeanwhi le it is well for us to rememberthat the committee in quest ion are interested as deeply as any one in

ob ta ining that endwhich is best for the town.

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We llesley H illsWoman’

s C lub

HEWel lesley Hi l lsWoman’s C lub is enjoying, this winter, a

series of afternoons of an unusua l ly attract ive cha racter. A

new method of prov iding for these meet ings has been

adopted. Theprogram is under thegenera l Oversight of theBoa rd of Di rectors, and by them each afternoon is given, incharge of a committee represent ingsome depa rtment of workin which the C lub is interested. That the plan works wel lhas a lready been proved by the interest taken in the meetings which have been held, and there is every reason to

suppose that the good things yet in store wi l l susta in thisopinion.

The season Openedwith a recept iongiven by the C lub to the President and officers. This recept ionwas held November second, in MaugusHa l l, which was beaut iful ly decorated with cut flowers and potted plants,the latter being k indly provided by Mrs. J . Frank l inWight. After thetransact ion of necessary business, a most enjoyab le musical program was

given by Miss Aiken, pianist, ofWel lesley Farms, andMissMaudeBlackmer, soprano, of Dorchester. Mrs. Robson gave an enthusiast ic and

inspiring ta l k, touchingb r iefly upon thework of the C lub , what its idealsshould be, and what it ought to accompl ish for the good of its membersand of the town. Fol lowing this was a socia l hour, duringwhich tea wasserved, and an Opportunity was given of meet ingthe fol lowing Officers of

the C lub President, Mrs. W. O . Robson; fi rst vice- president, Mrs.

George F. Richa rdson secondvice- president, Mrs. Ca lvin Smi th; recording secretary, Mrs. John D. Hardy ; corresponding secretary, Mrs.

Wi l lard F. Di l laway treasurer, Mrs. George A. Sweetser ; and the

directors, Mrs. Charles Spr ing, Mrs. El i j ah T. Weatherbee, Mrs. EdwinM. Overholser, Mrs. John E. O ldham, Miss El len W. Fiske and Mrs.

Seldon Brown.

At its secondmeet ing, held November si xteenth, the C lub l istenedto a most interest ing lecture by Prof. Katha rine Lee Bates of Wel lesleyCol lege, under the di rect ion of the Arts and C rafts Committee, Of whichMrs. G i lbert N. Jones is cha irman. Miss Bates spoke upon Wi l l iamMorris and his work for “Household Beauty. She gave a very enterta iningsketch of the l ife Of Mor ris, tel l ing how he not only gave to theworld a higher concept ion of the a rt ist ic in the household, but a lso showed

how common a rt icles, which a l l must have, may be made beaut iful and,1 6

at the same t ime, nottooexpensive to bewithin reach of a l l . Morris gaveus that Often quotedmax im,

“have nothing in your home which you donot know to be useful or bel ieve to be beaut iful , ” and, in the bui ldingand furnishing of his own house, he adhered steadfast ly to this rule.

MissBates brought with her severa l books i l lustrat ingthe work ofWi l l iamMorris, and some specimens of fab r ic of his designing.

The lecture by Prof. Luther Gul ick of Pratt Inst itute, Brook lyn, onMotorTra iningin Relat ion to Educat iona lWork , an account of which is

given on another page of this issue, was arranged by the Educat ionAssociat ion, and was both interest ing and profitab le to a l l who had thepleasure of a ttendingthemeet ing.

The Educa t ion Associat ion, which has been recent ly formed, is an

outgrowth of the Educa t iona l Commi t tee of the Woman’s C lub, and it

seemedmost fi t t ing that this meet ingshould be given under the auspicesof the C lub . Themeet ingwas free to a l l , and was held in the evening,in order tha t the men of the town might have opportunity to attend.

Gent lemen’sNight, ”

in Spi te of an unfortunate ci rcumstancewhichmade this designat ion wel l nigh amisnomer, was a del ightful occasion and

very wel l attended, considering the counter- attract ion. After a pianosolo, given by Mr. Dak in of Na t ick , Mrs. Robson welcomed the guests ofthe C lub , and introduced Mr. Leland Powers, impersonator, who gave, inhis inimitab le manner, a recita l of “ David Copperfield.

”Mrs. Hetcher

ofWel lesley Hi l ls sang a groupof songs most acceptab ly.

On Wednesday afternoon, January 2d, Dean Hodges of Cambridgeaddressed the C lub a t the invita t ion of the Friendly Aid Committee.

His subject was “Aims and the Man,”and he gave a very instruct ive

and interest ing ta lk on the right exhib it ion of pub l ic and private chari ty.

He sa id that the best way in which the pub l ic can use its money for thehelpof the poor is by the support of schools, play grounds, pub l ic l ibraries, exhib i t ions of pictures, free lecture courses, pub l ic concerts and such

influences for the educat ion and cul t ivat ion of a l l the people. Never

should pub l ic funds be employed in out- door rel ief. O f private charityhe sa id, that the helpgiven to the trampclass is an insult to the laborerand an injury to the tramp. He denied the ex istence of tha t “ hundredthman”

who is supposed to be the one worthy ob ject among the ninetynine unworthy. DeanHodges highly commends such work as is under

taken by the Friendly Aid Commi ttee, and urged the use of such a bodyin a l l cases where aid is needed.

The program for coming meet ings, so far as i t is announced, is asfol lows: Wednesday, January six teenth, P. M Musica l , MissBasset and the Van Vl iet String Q uartette ; Feb rua ry oth, P. M. ,

Miscel laneous Readings, Rev. John Snyder ; February 20th, 2. 30 P. M. ,

O ursels as Ithers See Us, i l lustrated, Mrs. Marie A. Moore. Laterin theseason Prof . John Fiske wi l l lecture before the C lub .

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Wellesley C lub

T the December meet ingOf theWel lesleyC lub, the chief topicfor discussion was the treatment of trees on Washingtonstreet. A commi ttee consist ing of F. H. G i lson, IsaacSprague and Arthur R. Jones, appointed by the Directors of

theC lub , examined each tree between the Nat ick and Newton l ines, and Mr. G i lson read a careful ly prepared report,ment ioningeach tree or vacant Space requiringattent ion. In

the opinion of these tree lovers, best results Of tree growthon this street require the intel l igent remova l of a number of

t rees, as wel l as the plant ing of new ones. Tree WardenGeorge N. Smith spoke on proper methods of pruning, and exhib itedspecimens of disastrous pruningcut on this street.

The same committee has been cont inued and asked to go Over eachroad in town, and report on treatment of roadside growth on a l l our roadsand streets. It is hoped this coming report, together with that a l readymade, may, in print, be put in the hands of each cit izen, and that pub l icsent iment may secure and ma inta in such a ttent ion for our roadsides as

wi l l preserve and create a beauty which both cont inua l ly wi l l del ight thesenses and increase themateria l va lues of our town.

0 0 0

Pleasan tr ie sHelp ! Hel p ! ” In a panicthe passengers rushed to the side of the ship and

gazed help lessly at those struggl ing in the waves. It was, indeed, a peri loussi tuat ion. What was to bedone? There seemed to be no rope at hand, and therewas troub le in loweringthe l i feboat , and, as is usual ly the case, none of the sa i lorscould swim. At this instant , a man of commanding presence pushed through thefrenz ied crowd and struck an att i tude, close to the rail . The drowning ones recognized himas a famous political orator. and their sp iri ts rose.

“Fel low ci t i zens,”

he began,“we facea crisis ! The next moment a cry of joywent up. For thepeop le in thewaterwere han

ging on his words, in which posi t ion they cont inuedt i l l theboats were lowered. hegi ft of oratory is truly b lessed. Harper

’s Bay er.

What is the difference between a manwho has intermi ttent rheumat ism andonewho iswel l all the t ime, and lives at homewi th his mother? One is wel l apart of the t imeand has rheumat ismothers, and theother is wel l al l the t ime andhas a room at hismother’

s. Youth'

s Companion.

Thomas K. Beecher, who recent l y died, once prefaceda sermon at Plymouth,for his brother, wi th the startling int imat ion “

Al l thosewho have come here toworship HenryWardBeecherwi l l now have a chance to ret ire; al l thosewho havecome toworship Godwi l l remain.

”Argonaut.

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AGermantown girl, who usual ly gets thingsmixed, was the v ict imof a hoaxoneevening last week. Here

’s a puzz le for you to work out,” said a friend Of

hers, handingover a sl ip of paper on which appeared the fol lowing, which she saidmight be translated into acomp lete sentence:

B. B. B. B. B. B.

DEWEY6249 1 8

348632

973 650

LIMBURGER CHEESE

TheGermantown girl puzz led over i t for some t ime, and final ly gave i t up.

Why, it’s easy ,” said her friend.

“It reads :

‘

Sigsbee sent Dewey some Limburger Yes,

”said the v ict im, as she scanned the l ines again, “

but

where’s the

“In the Limburger cheese,” was the rep ly. Then every

body Iaughed, and thegirl who had been caught determined to have her revenge.

Thenext eveningat the dinner tab lesheworked i t on her brother. “Igive i t up,”

he said.

“What’s the answer ? ”“Oh, it

’s eas said the girl . “

It reads‘Sigsbee gave Dewey some Limburger Where’

s the‘

gave?’ askedthe brother. In the Limburger cheese,” she shrieked, and then wonderedwhynobody saw the joke. Pi n

'

ladeIp/u’

a Record.

Farmer A How much did you get fer yer’taters ? Farmer

‘

B Wal, Ididn’t get asmuch as I expected; and I didn’t calc’iate l would.

”—Exchange.

A Scotchman was describ ing to a fel low countryman the w i ld extravaganceattendinghis first V isi t to London I had na been therea week when bang wentsaxpence Exchange.

A grand Old bootmaker of HawardenUsed to spend thewholeday in his gawarden ;When his friends askt himwhyHe lookt up at the sky,

But only rep l ied, Begyourpawarden.

It is said that Nathaniel FfiennesLivedwhol ly on bread and broad bbiennes ;When inv i ted to eatBut amorsel of meat ,

He answered, Just think what i t mmiennesA sai lor, who Sported a queue,Was civ i l to all that heknueue;If hecameunder fireHe usedto ret ire

And say, wi th a bow’After yueue.

Hewas very deferent ial , but he was a deacon in the church, and he fel t thathehad a right to cri t icise.

“I hopeyou’l l pardonme,” he said.

“ i f I suggest thatyour sermons are—at“Too prosy , I suppose, " suggested the minister.

“Oh, no: not that . But too long.

” “But you mustn’t b lame me for that,

returned theminister, p leasant ly. If you knew a l i tt lemore I wou ldn’t have totell you 50 much.

” —Exchange.

The London Church Times tel ls the story of a Protestant minister who,.

on

going to a new parish, inquired i f there were any Puseyi tes in the community.

Naw, sir,”said the clerk : there used to be some, but for the last two years the

boys have took all their eggs.

” This is on a par wi th the answer of.

the Georgia

cracker” who rep l ied to a Sunday school missionary that he did not knowwhether therewereany Presbyterians in the neighborhood or not, but there was

,

somevarmint aroundwhichwas catchingthechickens and lambs.

”Exchange.

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We llesley Church New s

St. A n drew’

s C h u rch

Theannual meet ingOf St. Andrew’s corporat ion for thehearingof reports, the

elect ion of offi cers, and the transact ion of any other business that may properlycome 1before the meet ing, was held in St. Andrew

’s church, Monday evening, at 8

O’

c occ.

A concert , consist ing mainly of the composi t ions of Mrs. H. H. A. Beach, isbeing p lanned for Thursday evening, January 1 7 , at the Rectory . The performerw i l l be the p ianola, a wonderful instrument that p lays the p iano almost as wel l asfh

gman performer. The proceeds from theconcert wi l l begiven to the p ipe- organ

un

A conference for churchwomen w i th theclergymen of thediocesewil l beheldin the chapel of Trini ty church, Boston, Friday , Jan. 1 1 , 1 90 1 . The top ics for theconferencewi l l be Women’

sWork for theChurch in the roth Century ,” Outlook for the 20thCentury ,” Relat ions of the Parish to theHome andSocial Li fe.

”

it is hoped that therewi l l bea large representat ion from this parish.

We l lesl ey H i l l s U n ita r ian So c ie ty

The quarterl y communion serv ice was held on Jan. oth at the close of theordinary serv ice.

Jan. 8. Wel lesley Hi l ls Branch Al l iance. Joy or Responsib i l i ty. Mrs.

C lara B. Beattey.

Jan. 22. Wel lesley Hi l ls Branch Al l iance. Our Responsib i l i t ies TowardstheLower Animals.

” Mrs. E. N. L. Wal ton.

Beginningtheafternoon of Jan. 20th, theAmerican Uni tarian Associat ionwi l lhold a series of six serv ices in the Town Hall in Wel lesley . Serv ices at 4 P. M .

The other dateswi l l beJan. 27 , Feb . 3, 1 0 , 1 7 , 24.

The pastor Spoke to the Uni tarian C lub at Leominster, Dec. 3d, preached thesermon at the instal lat ion at Hingham of Rev . Edward Park on Dec. 14, andlectured for theUni tarian Society at HydePark on Dec. 1 7 .

Mr. Snyderwil l begin a short series of sermons on TheGreat Figures of the

Bib le,” on Sunday , Jan. 1 3th. Jan. 1 3, The Unique Place the Bib le Holds inRel igion and Literature; Jan. 20 , Ab raham, The Light Bearer ; Jan. 27 , ThePastorwill exchange w i th Rev . Mr. Gou ld of Leominster: Feb . 3, Jacob , The Two Menin One; Feb . 1 0, Joseph, Israel in Egypt ; Feb . 1 7 , Moses, TheBui lder of a Nat ion.

O n the last night of the year and the century the peop le of the Societymettogether at Maugus Hal l to fittingly celeb rate the b irthday of the new.

century .Theyoungest chi ldren of the church held their New Year’

s party from4 t i l l 6 P. M .

Thei r elders came together at 8 and danced t i l l 1 2 . Then the solemn trumpetsounded thedeath of the Old year and the b irth of the new. All the peop le sangAmerica”

and Auld LangSyne and joyouslywished each other a happy newcentury.

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We l lesl ey C o ngregation a l C h u rch

Jan. 2 1 st, probab l y , annual meet ingof the church for the elect ion of officersand commi ttees and readingof reports, P. M .

On Monday evening, about 1 50 personswere present at the watch meet ingto see the old year and century out and to welcome in the new. The serv ice wasmost impressive, and the new centurywas ushered in by a song Of triumph on theorgan, the ringingOf thechurch bel ls and the b lowingof the bugle.

Therewere large audiences present both at the morning and evening serv iceson Dec. 30 , to hearMr. Chandler on his last Sunday as pastor of thechurch. Thesub ject of his morning sermon was,

“The C ontribut ion of the 1 9th Century to

Rel igious Faith,” and Of his eveningtalk “TheCall of theNew Century,” that its

watchwordwou ld be voluntary co- operat ion.

A special Opportuni ty was given at the morning serv ice for uni t ingwi th thechurch, i t being especial l y a propriate as being the last Sunday Of Mr. Chandler’

spastorate and the closing unday of the century. Five took advantage of thisopportuni ty: Miss Evelyn G . Ford, Mr. Elmer L. Ford, Miss Al iceD. Sanborn andMiss ElsieSeagrave, on confession Of fai th, andMrs.Wm. Humberstone, by letter,from the Highlandv i l leM. E. church of Needham.

We l lesl ey H i l l s C o ngregation a l C hu rch

Sewing meetings will be held at Mrs. Robson’s Tuesday, Jan. 1 5, at 2 P. M . ,

and Jan. 22, at 1 0 A. M .

Therewi l l bea reading fromMonsieur Beaucaire, given by Mr. Arthur HazenChase, and i l lustrated wi th tab leaux , on Tuesday evening, Jan. 1 5, at MaugusHal l . Tickets, cost ing 50 cents, may be obtained of members of the commi ttee.

M iss FlorenceEmerson and friends have charge of the product ion, and all proceedswill go toward the new church fund. The l ist of

(gatronesses is as fol lows: Mrs.

Gamal iel Bradford,Mrs. S. S. Bart lett , Mrs. P. M. rehore,Mrs. JonathanEdwards,Mrs. E. D. Emerson, Mrs. John Edmunds, Mrs. P. T. Farwel l , Mrs. C . C . Henry,Mrs. Arthur R. Jones, Mrs. G i lbert N. Jones, Mrs. Edward Lawrence, Mrs. VictorJ . Loring, Mrs. W. W. McLeod, Mrs. J . E. O ldham, Mrs. E. M. O verholser, Mrs.

H. M. Putney, Mrs. S. Irv ing Richardson, Mrs. W. O . Robson, Mrs. Charles G .

Schirmer, Mrs. C . A. Sib ley , Mrs. J . B. Seabury , Mrs. N. H. Swi ft , Mrs. FletcherTorrey, Mrs. G . R. Whi te, Mrs. J . F.Wight .

Theannual church supper and business meet ingwas held on the evening of

January 1 st. A largenumberwere present . Al l the organi zat ions of the church

made reports of progress. Theclerk reported a net gain on the church rol l of eightmembers. The treasurer reported a considerab le increase in the benevolences of

theyear over preceding years. At the businessmeet ingthe fol lowing officers werechosen : C lerk , Mr. T.W. Trav is ; treasurer and col lector, Mr. Jos. W. Peabody ;Sunday school superintendent , Mr. T. W. Trav is: deaconess for four years, Mrs.

M. L. Thomas ; Prudential Commi ttee, Mr. Geo. D.Ware, Mr. C . C . Thomas, Mr.

Andrew Lees; Music Commi ttee, Mr. T. W. Trav is, Mr. Victor J Loring, MissO l iv ia Hazel ton, Miss Kimbal l , Miss Mary Ai ken. Then the meet ing adjournedunt i l Tuesday evening. Jan. 22d. At the adjourned meet ing, in addi t ion to theunfinished business. the church will be asked to amend its by- laws so that theannual meet ingmay be heldon the Thursday after the last Sunday in December,insteadof Tuesday .

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09 Wel lesleyCourses Preparatory to Col lege

G en era l C ou r se fo r N on - C o l l egi a n sSpecial Advantages in Engl ish Li terature, Art , H istory of Art

and M usic

M iss H elen Temple Cooke, Pr incipa lM rs. H arr iet t E . Page, M iss Jeannie Evans , Associate Pr incipa l s

FRED . n. YOUNG M ISS MAY 5 COULTER

Teacher ofTeacher of P i anoforte

P iano , O rgan and H armony Day or even ingWel lesley H il ls

M ass . Opp. E lm Park H otelWorcester Sr. ,

Wel lesley H il ls

Rock Ridge Hal l

A SCH OOL FOR BOYS

A new b u i ld ing H igh and Dry Loca t ionPrepara t ion for Co l lege , Sc ien t i f ic S choo l

and Bus iness .

A home f or b oys f rom a d istance .

Schoo l l i fe f o r b oys whose homes a re nea r .

George Ran tou l Wh i te, Ph .D . ,

Principal

Wel lesley H i l ls , M assachuset ts

Dana Ha l l A New Department

A boa rdingand day school for girls fromfive to fourteen years of age wi l l beOpened inWel lesley, O ctober second, 1 900 .

This school wi l l be under the management of the Dana Hall School, and incha rge of resident teachers of longand successful experiencewith chi ldren of primaryand intermediate grades. Boys wi l l be admi tted to the day school .

in addi t ion to the usua l English b ranches, French and German, voca l music,and drawingwi l l be taught, and especia l emphasis wi l l be la id on nature study and

manual tra ining.

For further part iculars apply to the Principa l,HELENTEMPLE COOKE, Dana Ha l l, Wel lesley, Mass.

i’

l lSS SUS IE B. GRAYTEACHER OF PIANOFORTE

Ref ers b y perm iss ion toM r . Chas . P . Sco t t . 6 7 3 Boy lston St Bos ton

instruct ion g iven at pup i l ’sres idence i f des i red

1 3 1 $0 . MAIN ST . , NATICK

Pup i ls secured in surround ing towns

F . DIEALL ABOARD

H I“ 8‘ SON

Thos. B. Griffin (for fourteenyears driverof the Col lege coach) may be found near the Dea lers mWe'leS'ey Pos t O ffi ce on arrival of all trains.

A lumnae carr ied a t sameCOAL" WOOD: HAY and GRA IN

rates as undergraduatesWe l les ley, Mass .

B. A. trip t ickets to Boston, 20 cents eachO rder box at north door of Col lege Hal l

P. 0 . Address, Box 1 32,Wel lesley, Mass.Te lephone No . 1 6 - 2

THE ANTIQUE ODDlTY PARLORS

REED’S

Corner Forest andWashington St

Wel lesley Hil ls

F. A . Coo l idge O . E. S tevensF . A . COOLIDGE co .

DENTIST

Dea lers in E0 E. HENRY, Do “a Do

Choi ce M eats and Provi sionsShattuck’

s Block,

Wel lesley,Haas.

Fresh Fru i ts , Vegetab les.Canned Goods , etc .

Wash ington St. , Wel lesleyHours

, 9 a. m. to 5 p. m.

M.G . SHAW

Opt ic ian and Jewe l lerWel les ley Hil ls Pharmacy

PHYSICIANS’ PRESCRIPTIONS

CAREFULLY PREPARED

Wel lesley Hi l ls, Fl ass.

MRS. E. W. ILSLEY

DRY AND FANCY GOODSMAGAZINES

Ladies'Gent

’s and Children

’s

RUBBERS

BUTTRICK PATTERNS

WellesleyHills Square

Special attent ion given toWatch, C lock andJewelry Repa iring. Eyes examined and care

ful ly fi ttedwi th EyeG lasses.

Ocul ists’Prescript ions Fi l led

Wash ington St. We l les ley

ELM PARK HOTEL,Wel lesley Hi l ls

E xcept iona l ly spacious , steam heated rooms, unexcel led tab leSpecial rates for winter months , $5 to $8 per week

Transient rates , $2 per day. Stab le in connection

Z . T. HARRINGTON, Manager

ar y

Artist ic F loral Des ignsLinden St. , opp.

Wel lesley, M ass. “ass.

Te lephone Connect ion

you want Clean hands?

Do you wantWhite hands?Do you want Soft hands?

For the FACE, the HANDS and the FULL BATH

Removes INK STAINS , Pa int , Grime, and everyth ing tha t SO ILS or

STAINS the h ands . LEAVES THE SK IN “ SOFT AS SATIN

FOR SALE lN WELLESLEY BY

CALL FORFREESAMPLEE . C . STEVENS and H . E . CURRIER

Kendal l - Dav is Co Boston

F. H . PORTER

PlumberHot Water and S team Fi tter

Dea ler in S toves , Ranges ,H ardware,

Pa in ts, O i l s, etc.

Wel lesley,Telephone 44- 3

lilis

ledtableek

l cmumdhn

amFitterges,llardware,

etc.

“as.

lhands?

BATH

hatSOILSorisSATIN

FillSllPLl

;on

Wel lesleyCourses Preparatory to Co l lege

G en e ra l C o u r se fo r N on - C o l l egi an s

Spec ial Advan tages in Engl ish L i terature, Art, H istory of Art

and M us icM iss Helen Temple Cooke, Pr incipa l

M rs . H arr iet t E . Page, M iss Jeannie Ev ans , Associate Pr inc ipals

FRED . n. YOUNG M iss MAY E. COULTER

Teacher of Teacher of P ianoforteP iano,O rgan and Harmony

Wel lesley H i l lsMass .

Day or even ing

Opp. E lm Park H o telPos t 0m“ B°x 2 0 7 Worcester St Wel lesley H il ls

Rock Ridge Hal l

A SCHOOL FOR BOYS

A new b u i ld ing H igh and Dry Locat ionPrepara t ion f or Co l lege. Sc ient i f ic Schoo l ,

and Bus iness .

A home f or b oys f rom a d istance .

S choo l l i fe f or b oys whose homes are near .

George Ran toul Wh i te, Ph .D . ,

Principal

Wel lesley H i l ls, M assachuset ts

Dana Ha l l A New Department

A boardingand day school forgirls from five to fourteen yea rs of age wi l l beopened inWel lesley, O ctober second, 1 900.

This school will be under the management of the Dana Ha l l School, and incharge of resident teachers of longand successful experiencewi th chiidren of prima ryand intermediategrades. Boys wi l l be admi tted to the day School

In addi t ion to the usua l Engl ish b ranches, French and German, vocal music,and

‘

drawingwi l l be taught, and especia l emphasis wi l l be la id on natu re study and

manua l tra ining.

For fu rther part icula rs apply to the Principa l,HELENTEMPLE COO KE, Dana Ha ll, Wel lesley, Mass.

l‘

IISS SUS IE B. GRAYTEACHER OF PIANOFORTE

Refers b y perm iss ion toM r. Chas . P . Sco t t . 6 7 3 Boy ls ton St Boston

Inst ruct ion g iven at pup i l ‘sres idence if des i red

1 3 1 SO . MAIN ST NATICK

Pup i ls secu red in su rround ing towns

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Carter andPeabodyN ego ti a tor s of M or tgages

M ortgages pl aced on sub unb an and ci ty propert iesprompt ly and at lowest rates of interest

Insurance in b es t stock and mu tua l compan ies . Se l l ing agents for Be lvedere lots , the

most rap id ly grow ing and at t ract ive sect ion o f We l les ley .

S . B . CARTERJ . W. PEABODY

Res idence Ab b ot t Road , Be lvedere

ABELL PHOTOGRAPHSWELLESLEY AND NEEDHAM

fi fl’

Pr int ing and developingfor Ama teursM onday, Wednesday and Fr iday un t i l M arch 1 , after

Open da i lyfrom gA . M . t il l 5 P. M .

A . S . BOLLES

Dea ler inFURN ITURE , CARPETS AND

RANGES

Iron Beds, M a t tresses, Couches,Tab les and Sideb oardsSew ingM ach ines

Part icular attent ion is cal led to ourUpholsteryDepartment

Work done in first- classmannerUpholsteringgoods for sale

ELM PARK HOTEL, Wel lesley Hi l ls

E xcept iona l ly spac ious , steam hea ted rooms, unexcel led t ab leSpecial rates for w inter months , $5 to $8 per week

Transient rates , $2 per day. Stab le in connection

Z . T. HARRINGTON, Manager

MRS . R. A . CALLAHAN

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Eare gladto present to the readers of OURTOWN the portraitof the former wel l - beloved pastor of the Congregat iona lchurch inWel lesley Hi l ls, and a pa rt of an interest ing art icle,wr itten by him some yea rs ago, on the

“Rel igious Development of Wel lesley.

”By all of the older residents of the

town, the facts Of his eventful l ife are well remembered.

That those who have come among us more recent ly mayknow him better, we submi t the fol lowing b r ief b iographica lsketch

Mr. Edwards was born in Andover, July 1 7 , 1 820, and

was the son of Rev. Just in Edwa rds, D.D. , president of the Theologica lSemina ry, and a leader in a l l good works. Jona than Edwards graduatedat Ya le Col lege in 1 840 and Andover Seminary in 1 847 . He was pastoratWoburn from 1 848

—56 ; Rochester, N. Y.

, 1 856—62 ; Dedham, Mass ,

1 863—74. He was act ing president of Colorado Col lege f rom 1 874

—75.

In 1 876 he came to the church in Wel lesley Hi l ls, where he rema inedunt i l his death, July 1 6, 1 894. He was a loya l cit izen, and a courteousChrist ian gent leman, un1versally loved and revered. The influence of

his wise and gracious spirit is an imperishab le part Of all that is best andpurest in the l i fe of our community.

[Part III. of a poem in“Success for Dec. .

And now thePowers ofWater, Fire, andAir,And that dreadThing behind the l ightning’

s l ight,C ry, Master us, 0 man, for thou art fairTo serve thee is our freedomand ourmight .We love thecraft that found our hidden p laceThe beauty of thecunningof thy hands;We love the shining quiet of thy face:Hook uswi th steel and harnessuswi th bands !Make us theGenius of the crooked p low ;TheSp iri t in thewhisper of thewheels;

Theunseen Presence si tt ingat the prow,

To'

urge thewandering, huge, sea- cleav ingkeels.

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Heflung bright harness on them, and theyoke,And new joys shook the bri l l iant firmaments ;

Thedim, dead p laces of theworld awoke,

St irred by the new pulse of thecont inents.

Bearing the scepters of themystery,Man rides at elbow wi th thefly inggale,

Shrinks uptheancient Spaces : land and seaDisputehis wingedwaywi thout avai lAl l but theArct ic si lences, wherestandsTheSp iri t of theWinters, and denies,

Wi th incontestab legesture of whi te hands,And lure of baleful beauty in her eyes.

It is the hour of Man: new Purposes,Broad- shouldered, press against theworld’

s slow gateAnd voices from the vast Eterni't iesSt i l l preach the soul ’s austere apostolate.

Always therewi l l be v ision for theheart,The press of endless passion : every goal

A travelers’ tavern, whence theymust departO n new div ine adventures of the soul.”

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[Extracts froma paper read toWel lesley C lub in U. 5 . Hotel Dec. .

N the year 1 636, the church at Watertown, one of the Oldestchurches in the Bay Colony, sent severa l of its membersacross the Charles river to begin the new town of Dedham,

whose church thus became the fourteenth in New England.

The terri tory of that ancient township of Dedham covered

the ground now occupied by the town of Wel lesley, whichthus cont inued to be a part of Dedham for about 60 years, orunt i l the new town of Needham, to whose terri toryWel lesleybelonged for the nex t 1 83 years, or thereabouts, was formed.

What is nowWel lesleywas thus within the church l imitsof anecclesiast ica l body that extended far, as the original town of Ded

ham compr ised what are now the towns of Bel l ingham, Dover, Frank l in,Medfield, Medway, Mi l l is, Nat ick , Needham, Sherborn, Wa lpole, Wel lesley andWrentham, or about one- ha l f of the present county of Norfolk ,which was estab l ished as a county in 1 796 .

As the lands were gradua l ly occupied, the householders found i t toodistant and i rksome to attend church and town meet ings a t the original

centre. Hence the daughter communit ies, drawing off from the parenta labode one after another, set up housekeeping for themselves, first in“precincts, ” then in what became adj acent parishes and fina l ly new

townships.

In this way, after the usua l struggle aga inst the inevitab le, the new

parish and town of Needhamwas formed. This was named, I take itfor granted, after the ancient parish of Needham in England, in the countyof Suffol k , which is but a few mi les north of the Engl ish Dedham thatl ies on the border of Suffol k and Essex . From tha t local i ty undoubtedlycame many of the early sett lers, and i t is very homel i ke to Open a mapof England and observe how many of the names in those two or threeeasternmost Engl ish count ies of Norfol k , Suffol k and Essex are counterparts of our own Massachusetts names.

From the va luab leDedham records, we learn that the earl iest ministerof this terri tory of ours, Jona than Allin, was born probab ly in 1 597 , a t

Colby, a vi l lage in Norfol k Co. , England. His father was what wewould ca l l a r ich farmer. Jonathan was the eighth of fifteen chi ldren(for in those days farmers did rear chi ldren) . He appears to have beenthe only one who received a university educat ion, graduat ing at C a iusCol lege, Cambridge, in 1 6 1 2. In 1 637 , he sett led in our own Dedham,

and in 1 638 wasmade the pastor Of the one church in all this wide territory, and rema ined the pastor for thirty- three years, till his death in 1 68 1 .

Mr. Al l in, our first minister, appears to have been one of the mostact ive and respected of the ministers of the prov ince; was an earnestpastor, an overseer of Ha rva rd Col lege, and a strong though not voluminous writer. Among these writ ings, suggest ive of the interest shown bythe early ministers in pub l ic affa i rs, was a paper mark ing “The just l imitations of colonia l a l legiance and imperia l rights, ” or

“The voice of the

Colony vs. Parl iament. ” Mr. Al l in’s second wife, married in 1 653, was

the widow of Governor Dudley of Massachusetts Bay Colony.

His rema ins rest in the ancient cemetery of his parish, in companywith those of six pastors who fol lowed him andwho occupied the pu lpitin Dedham from 1 637 to 1 860.

Mr. Al l in’s successor on this wide parochia l doma in was Rev. Wm.

Adams, orda ined in 1 67 3, who died but twelve years later, in 1 685, and

Rev. Joseph Belcher who died in 1 723, after a ministry of 30 years.

DuringMr. Belcher’s pastorate, the town of Needhamwas set off byi tself and received as its fi rst pastor over the parish, includingwhat is now

Wel lesley, the Rev. Jonathan Townsend. Mr. Townsend was born in

Lynn, educa ted at Harva rd and sett led pastor inNeedham in 1 7 20, where

he cont inued unt i l his death in 1 762. The next pastor was Rev. SamuelWest, during whose pastorate the second church Of Needham was

founded, beingwhat is now the church at Wel lesley. Over this second,

orpresentWel lesley church, Rev. Thomas Noyes became pastor the yea rthat Washington died, 1 799 . There he cont inued to minister for 34years. Mr. Noyes connects our own t imewith his, as he was the grandfather of thewife of our own highly esteemedJudgeWhi te (Mrs. FrancesNoyes White) . The homestead grounds of Rev. Mr. Noyes are now

occupied by the park of our handsome pub l ic l ibrary and town hall. The

parsonage itself was unfortunately burned to the ground. His cont inued,through his l ife, to be the only church in what is now our town, and I

have heard an elder Of the place reca l l the scene when Rev. Mr. Noyes

wou ld assemb le a l l the chi ldren of the parish in the church that he mighthear them recite the catechism and then with his own hand confer somebook as a memento. Rev. Thos. Noyes died in 1 837 . In 1 847 , was

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Islands. Since last Ma rch no one has occupied i t, and now it is onemassOf ruins and decay. The weeds and sma l l b rush are as high as your

head, and what was once an Open pla in is now a tangled thicket.I think you have heard that I had a horsewhich I captured from the

“ insur rectos, and that in one of their night assaul ts on our camphe wask i l led. He was buried in the trenches and a headboard put up. Aftermuch ramb l ing around I found it, and honest ly there is a bamboo thicketgrowingthere nearly as ta l l as I am.

From the outpost, on my return, Iwent to Caucas, the place where Iwas stat ioned before I went to China, but notmany changes have takenplace there, as i t has been inhab ited nearly all of the t ime. From thereback through San Roque, the ci ty Aguina ldo burned, to Cavite, and at

P. M. I was in ranks drawn up in regimenta l parade, for we have i tevery afternoon now. We expect to go to the north l ine soon and theresee somemore hard t imes, but I amgett ing used to it now. This wi l l bemy last letter for some t ime I think .

[Part of an address del ivered in the Unitarian Church. Jan. 6 .

HE best life of the 1 8th century came to flowerage and fruitin the l ife of GeorgeWashington. Hewas the incarna t ion of

its highest impulses ; his was its completest and best roundedcharacter. He died upon the threshold of the 1 9th century,and when that new century was but nine years old it gaveb irth to its own greatest man; Ab raham Lincoln. The i 8th

century was a t ime of revolut ion, when old ideas and institut ions were torn up by the roots. The 1 9th century was tobe the plant ing season of great idea ls. The revol ted American colonies had gi ven to their mother across the sea the

better concept ion of pol i t ica l freedom they had framed into the Declarat ion of Independence, and every longing lover of l iberty turned his eyes

to this new cont inent . But in this land the whea t and tares had beensowed in the same field.

The yea r in which the Mayflower touched Plymouth, a Dutch shiplanded in Virginia a cargo of slaves. Very few, except the loft iest minds,condemned slavery a t that day, and a hundredandfiftyyears later, whenour revolt aga inst England b roke out and the word “ l iberty”

was on

every lip, i t was only a few pickedmen l ikeThomas Jefferson andThomasPa ine who saw the inconsistency of fight ing for freedom w ith one handand holdingslaves w ith the other.

Lincoln had just reached manhood when England emancipated herslaves and labored to put upon the slave trade the b rand of piracy. A

few years more would pass and then would come the fi rst symptoms ofthegreat ant i - slavery storm that swept our own land. The Garr isonianswere frank ly revolut ionists. Seeing that slavery was intrenched in theConst itut ion, they favored the destruct ion of the government and thesecession of the North, if slaverycou ldnot otherwise be torn from the soi l .Lincoln was one of thosew iser men who saw that the ex istence of the

Const i tut ion was of pa ramount importance both to ourselves and the

world. Better tha t slavery should ex ist than that the union shou ld bedestroyed. The agitat ion of slaverydrove the South to desperate lengthsof tyrannous legisla t ion.

In some sta tes the prima l rights of a free press, a free pu lpit, a freeplatformwere denied. Kansas wasmade the scene of b loody war in theeffort to force slavery upon a reluctant commonwea l th. In the elect ionof Mr. Buchanan, in 1 856, it was shown that a largemajorityof the peopleapproved the Slave- holders demands. St i l l Mr. Lincoln never lost hisfa i th in those prima l laws of r ighteousness which he knew would bea rfrui t in season. He stood ready to obey the laws, tyrannous as theywere. He knew that we must pay the pena lty— if pena l ty i t was—of

l iving in a land in which the people were masters. A fewgrea t men can

not create an era, or save a state, or enforce new idea ls of government.The people must be educated to want the newer t ime. And now the

solemn words of Chr ist came to the people’s minds “As it was in the

days of Noah, the people ate and drank unt i l the day when Noah enteredinto the a rk andthe floodcame.

”The conscienceandtheshameandman

hood of the land were at last aroused. They wou ld not destroy theConst itut ion. They would use the Const itut ion so that i t would hemslavery into its origina l l imitat ions, give it no new terr itory, and watch itslowly die in its fru i t less struggles with civi l izat ion.

The new party won the elect ion of 1 860, not because it yet commanded a major ity of the people, but because the bu i lders of the babel ofslavery divided into separate camps and fought among themselves. Then

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came the deluge, and when the flood of war subsided slavery had disappeared.

Now in a l l the preparat ion for and the surv iva l of this terrib le civ i lstrife, I think themartyred President showed himself the “ foremost manOf a l l the world.

”First, because of themagnitude of the drama in which

he played the chiefest part. Surely the l gth century did not see a conflict in which the principles involved were of so great importance and

Significance, and in which the issue was fraught with such grave con

sequences. The Ii fe and future of popula r government were on tria l .The wonder ing nat ions looked on w ith mingled fear and hope at theTi tanic battle. Historians l i ke Freeman saw in our ant icipa ted defeat thefa i lure of free governments. Statesmen l ike Bright looked to see the

principles of Democracymade imper ishab le. G reat men aremadegreaterby grea t events and great environment ; andLincoln had the good fortuneto have a pla tform of the grandest principles and themost inspiring occasion upon which to revea l the giant power he possessed. Antagonist icpassions and warr ing counsels raged around him, but every firm stepforward he took, the futuremarked w i th the Signet of the highest wisdom. The Older abol it ionists gnashed their teeth and declared that hebetrayed the cause of human l iberty. All the infa l l ib le people, whosespecia l funct ion i t is to declare the certa int ies of the divine purposes,

surged about him. Mr. Lincoln met thei r sha l low wisdom with qua intparab le and pregnant story andmoved on unshaken from his course.

England and France sought for occasions of quarrel . The formerdemanded the return of two agents from the rebels tha t had beencaptured from under her flag. Applauding mul t i tudes urged the grea tPresident to fight rather thanmakeconcessions. Mr. Lincoln stoodca lmamidst the storm Of passion, andgave to England the ful l measure Of herdemand. Wi th great clearness of vision he put a l l enemies of his countryin the wrongand kept them there. He belonged to tha t supreme order

of intel l igence of which somet imes a century wi l l pass wi thout a singlerepresentat ive, of which Socrates, Epictetus and Shakespeare are greatexamples. Tha t he could b loom into great eloquence and poetry is witnessed by that Gettysburg address which is l i ke a gem cut from the

diadem of Bib le wisdom or Shakespeare’s drama . He would have been

amongthe suprememen who have wrought in any field of labor. C ir

cumstance and envi ronment made him a statesman and his country’s

saviour.

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Second. He was the typica l man of his century in that incomparab lemagnanimity Of soul which is so rare in the anna ls of the world'

s statecraft. Few of the youngermen can comprehend the hel l of persona l animosity, as wel l as of pol i t ica l rancor, which the ant i - slavery fight engendered. Every evi l passion entered into the equat ion. The South hadbeen ca l led monstrous and ba rba r ic. The North had been assa i led byevery form of v ituperat ion which human hate could invent . Its peopledenounced as “mudsi l ls, ” thieves, hucksters and hypocr ites.

Mr. Lincoln subscribed and pa id for a b i tter pro- slavery paper, andweek after week pat ient ly read all its venomous abuse of the ant i - slaveryforces. At last the awful fight was on and ended. The whole Southlay prostrate before a v ictorious people. It wou ld have seemed as if thevery safety of the future, the wounded sense of just ice, the awful majestyof an outraged nat ion demanded tha t the scaffold should have finished theleaders who escaped death upon the field. All the precedents of historyfavored such b loody retribut ion. But the great chief magistrate droppedfrom his nob le hea rt a l l memory of private wrongand pub l ic crime, evenbefore indictment pardoned the men who had struck at his country'

s l ife,and l ike an evangel of peace hastened to carry to the prostrate capita l ofthe confederacy the great assurance that the past was a lready forgotten.

Instant ly the divine work of hea l ing began. Had Mr. Lincoln l ived,his splendidgenerosi ty would have been as potent in conquering the hateof the South as his armies were in physica l subjugat ion, and this magnanimity was only one side of his majest ic wisdom. He knew the tenacioushate that sprang from pol it ica l persecut ions ; and he knew tha t if thiscountry was to rema in one nat ion its unity could only be based upon

mutua l forgiveness and forgetfu lness of the past, mutua l trust and confidence for the future.

G reat and majest ic figure; great in intel lect ; greater even in soul ,andyet his soul

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s grea tness made more vast by the intel l igence that madeit helpful and tha t made i t sane. Like the great mounta ins of our western land, the nearer we approach himwith intel l igent insight the greaterhe becomes. As the 20th century marches down the lengthening a isle of

the Hall Of Fame, and looks back upon the receding figures Of greatAmericans, whatever other figures may grow dim or sma l ler in the grea teningvista , two majest ic shapes wi l l loom ever into increasing grandeur—GeorgeWashington and Abraham Lincoln.

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[Extracts froma paper read before theWel lesley C lub Jan. 2L ]

ASTSunday I took a wa lk through the Blue Hi l l reservat ionby way of Rosl inda le. Right in the centre of the town, onWashington street, I not iced a couple of pecu l ia r housesstandingside by side on an embankment ten feet above thestreet . This embankment was protected by a reta iningwa l ldirect ly on the street l ine. The rest of the houses in the

v icinity stood wel l back from the street wi th the lawns run

ningdown to the wa l l . These two, with thei r project ions,l itera l ly overhung the wa l l . A friend who was with meremarked, “ Oh, those are the ‘

spi te houses, andgave thefol lowingaccount of themA few years ago the owner of house No. I bui lt on the l ine of the

other houses about thirty feet back . By and by the owner of No. 2

comes a long, and, think ing he would improve his v iew a l itt le, sets hishouse five feet nearer the sidewa l k . No. I is disgusted, and, in order to

show No. 2 that hewould “ fix him, he bui lds out anell, carrying it fivefeet beyond No. 2. Then No. 2 takes a hand aga in, and bui lds a highboard fence carrying it out beyond No. 1

’s ell. Then No. I

’s b lood is up,

and he bui lds a higher and longer fence reaching a lmost to the sidewa l k .No. 2 was mad, and sa id, “Now, I

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ll sett le him,

”and so at the end of

his stripof fence he bui lds a summer house, standing it right on thewa l l .No. I was in despa ir as to how to beat this last move, but he hit i t.He bui lt a larger and ta l ler summer house, somethingof a cross betweena Chinese pagoda and a l ighthouse, and not only carried it to the very

outside edge of the wa l l , but planted b ranching vines on i t so tha t inpassingon the sidewa l k you wal k under them. Then they rested fromtheir labors. Each place had been spoi led, the street disfigured, andmorethan a l l, each owner fi l led w ith hat red and spi te for his neighbor .

ln order to prevent just such exhib it ions and to protect a l l propertyowners, the Legisla ture has passed an act which some of our townsmenwere wise enough to induce us to adopt. All that is needed now is for

the Selectmen to lay out a l ine and have the town approve.

It is simply a quest ion as to whether wewant i t. The cit izens who1 2

brought the act before the town, and had i t favorab ly acted upon, did

wel l . They did their share of the work, and when i t was done theywere ab le to say,

“Now you can ava i l yourselves of this priv i lege whenever you wish to. If you do not see the va lue of i t now perhaps you

wi l l la ter, but the longer you delay i t the more it w i l l cost you to adopt it.UnlessWel lesley is finished, unless you have done a l l you wish to do inimproving i t, unless you are wi l l ingto see its principa l streets disfigured,

you wi l l see the va lue of this act and insist on sharing its benefi ts. We

do not, however, propose to force i t upon you if you do not appreciate i t . ”

Wel l , l ike many other new things, it was not appreciated; hence thedelay of five years. But now the t ime has come when those who triedto help us w i l l find we are wi l l ing to try and help ourselves, and arebeginningto recognize the va lue of their work . In wha t I sha l l say on

the advisab i l ity of estab l ishing a bui lding l ine, as provided by this act, 1sha l l speak not only as a member of this C lub , or as a resident of thetown, but as an owner of property on the principa l street which would bethe first affected by this law. Let us look a t the matter from severa lstandpoints as fol lows : First, a business v iew of i t ; second, a lega l view ;third, the art ist ic side; and fourth, thematter of ethics.

I suppose themost sensit ive nerve is the pocket nerve. Probab lythe first quest ion which w i l l come into a man’

s mind when he decides tobui ld is, “How can 1 do i t to the best advantage ? How w i l l it pay ?

Not only today but for any t ime in the future, when I may decide to sel lout?

”If hewere bui ldinga business b lock in Boston, hewou ld have one

set of prob lems ; if a dwel l ingor business b lock inWel lesley, it would bequi te a different matter. O ne quest ion which would come up inWel lesley,if we adopted a bui lding l ine, would be, “How would i t affect the

va lue of a bui ldingto be restricted to a certa in distance from the street,and to be used either for business or dwel l ing? I submit tha t in eithercase the va lue would be increased, that stores or dwel l ings on Washington street , for instance, set back a uniform distance from the street, wouldmake a l l the property more va luab le than to have some twenty, some

fifty, some five feet, and some r ight on the sidewa l k .ln support of this proposit ion, 1 would ca l l a t tent ion to the fol lowingfacts : When the first bui ldingwas set on the street l ine in this v i l lage,

i t was immediately recogni zed as a nuisance, and the nex t neighbor, aman of large means, was so disgusted that he left the place for good.

The town lost one of its best taxpayers, and the property on which the

bui ldingwas placed was seriously injured in looks and va lue.

1 have inquired of only two tenants occupying stores on sidewa l k1 3

l ine, and both tel l me that they wou ld rather be back— less dust anddirt and noise, and just as much'

business. I bel ieve that inqui ries madeof a l l the others would developthe fact that a broad, fine street would bea better place on which to do business than an ugly one, and an investment under such restrict ions would pay better.

In support of this proposit ion, I ca l l your attent ion to the fact thatevery Land Company considers that i t is of the first importance to establ ish a bui lding l ine on developing property, and they are in the businessfor money and not for sent iment. They find it pays, and so I repea t thati t is good business.

Just here I w ish to relate another instance in our own town of the

effect of putt inga bui ldingout nex t to the sidewa l k . A resident of thev i l lage bui l t a house on Washington street a number of years ago, andhad the good j udgment to set i t back from the l ine; as the other bu i ldingsin the vicini tywere a l l wel l back from the street, he had an uninterruptedv iew. About five years ago, on wak ingupone morning, he found some

bui ldingstakes set up r ight on his side l ine close to the sidewa l k . He

was of course great ly disturbed and, proceeding to look into the matter,found that a bui ldingwas to be erected, and that instead of his pleasantv iew out over the squa re, he was to have the rear of a market before hisparlor windows. it made him sick to think of his a ttract ive home beingspoi led in this way, and he determined to prevent it if possib le. He triedto persuade his neighbor to set his bui lding back on a l ine w i th his, buthe insisted that he had a right to bui ld where he chose, and he chose to

bui ld di rect ly on the sidewa l k . The owner of the Spoi led place wouldhave sold if he could, but he was ob l iged to stay there and have the

offence cont inual ly before him,and a l l this for what ? For money ? No.

The tenant toldme he would ra ther be back from the sidewa l k . For

looks ? Hardly. Why then ? lt was simply a short - sightedmistake,and the town permi tted it. It is to prevent more of thesemistakes tha t Iwould have this l ine estab l ished. As a town we make b lunders enough,

and bad ones, but we can wel l feel proud of the Wel lesley C lub if wecan in any way awaken interest enough to put in Opera t ion this act and

ra ise the standard of the town. Another matter suggests i tsel f : Sup

posing this l ine is adopted, and in course of t ime i t was found necessaryto widen the street. Think of how much simpler and less expensive i twould be. Some one may say,

“Oh, wel l, my lot is so sha l low 1 couldnot afford to restrict the front . I think I am safe in saying that in a l lWashington street we could not find three such cases—possib ly not one.

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There has been the usua l act ivity in music at Wel lesley Col lege thisw inter. The vesper services a t Houghton Memoria l Chapel occur on thesecond and fourth Sundays in themonth ; there are concerts in Col legeHa l l Chapel the first and third Mondays ; the G lee C lub , the Semibreve,the Banjo and Mandol in C lubs are steadi ly at work . Mr. Macdouga l l ,the newly appointed Professor of Music, has organized a choir of twentyfour voices, eight first sopranos, eight second sopranos and eight a l tos.

Through the generosity of President Haza rd, who has t ime and aga inshown her interest in themusic at the Col lege, the choir have been provided wi th gowns. The choir sing at morningchapel as wel l as on Sun

days. At the vesper serv ices thus far the assist ing art ists, ma inly fromBoston, have been Miss Edi th Torrey, Mrs. May Sleeper Ruggles, Mr.Sul l i van A. Sargent, Mr. Wul f Fries, Mr. Fred Mart in, Mr. Ray Pinel ,Mr. D. M. Babcock, Mr. J . C . Bart lett, Mr. T. E. Johnson, Mr. G . H.

Remele, Miss Kellev, Miss Jennie Preston Daniel ], Miss Jennie M. Car

penter.

There have been two memoria l serv ices, —for Arthur Sul l ivan and

Q ueenVictor ia . The concerts in Col lege Ha l l Chapel have been devotedto theexemplification of the different schools of musica l composit ion : TheHoffmann String Q uartette of Boston (Messrs. Hoffman, Theodorewicz,Zahn and Barth) have given two programmes devoted to the ( 1 ) EarlyC lassica l Per iod and the (2 ) C lassica l Period; the Adamowsk i Q uartette(Messrs. T. Adamowsk i , Moldauer, Zach, and J . Adamowsk i ) have givena concert of Modern Music. At this concert Mr. Arthur Foote, who isvery much respected and beloved by a l l American musicians, introducedhis pianoforte quartette in E fla t major. A remarkab le concert, whetherone considers the programme only or the ta lent and execut ive sk i l l of theperformers, was the Historica l SongReci ta l by Miss Edi th Torrey and Mr.

Melvi l le Horner, assisted by Mr. Wul f Fries, ’cel l ist. The programmeincluded some thi rty songs, i l lustrat ingthe progress of voca l art duringthe

past two hundred and fifty years. I have seldom heard as good per

formances as these two art ists gave— intonat ion, pronunciat ion, style,voice, a l l up to a very high standard. Al though the concert was long(much too long if one leaves its ob ject out of considerat ion) , the audiencerema ined to the last note. Mr. Wul f Fries, whose whi teha ir and k indlyface are an open sesame to the hearts of a l l Wel lesley students, playedcharmingly, andMr. GeorgeTurner Phelps was an efficient accompanist .

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At the meet ing of theWel lesley C lub , held Jan. zl st, Mr. J . J . E.

Rothery spoke to the seventy- two members present on the “ Estab l ishingof bui lding l ines by the Town, ” and the Park Commissioners and the

Board of Hea l th gave reports of their work .Mr. J . W. Peabody, for the Commission, spoke of the resul ts thus

far reached in the construct ion of a dra inage and parkway betweenAbbott Road and the Charles river, and Mr. G. G . S. Perk ins and Dr.

Bancroft gave an interest ing and deta i led account of what the Boa rd ofHealth had found to do and had done.

The report of Mr. Perk ins was presented in the deta i l which too oftenseems of smal l account to those thoroughly fami l iar wi th work aecomplished or in progress, but which a lways is highly interest ing to the

unini t ia ted. Few of the hearers rea l ized the many things such a boardwould find to do inWel lesley, and most, i f not a l l , carried away a clearerpercept ion of what a fai thful commi ttee on pub l ic hea l th cando to remove

and prevent possib i l it ies for disease for both chi ldren and adults. The

summary of the repl ies received in response to the recent circular sentout by the Board, as given by Dr. Bancroft, showed a strong sent imentin favor of immediate act ion in the prel iminary steps needed before con

struct ion of a wel l - advised system of pub l ic sewers can be begun. Mostof those who repl ied to the circular sa id that, whi le their cesspools gavel i t t le or no troub le now, the town should not delay the planningfor a safeand permanent disposi t ion of dangerous waste unt i l the need should beurgent. The fact was clearly b rought out tha t the da i ly flow of waterfrom our reservoir through each house connected wi th the water ma insmust find its way aga in to the lowest wa ter level , and that in our rapidlygrow ing town dependence on cesspools not only b rings annoyance butinjurious, i f not fata l , resul ts may be expected from too long rel iance on

our present methods of disposingof house dra inage and sewage.

The substance of Mr. Rother'

y’

s remarks may be found elsewhere inthis issue.

There lS a story of a Sunday school teacher who remonstratedwi th one of theboys in her class whom she had discovered in the act of tak ing the eggs from a

b ird’5 nest Think how the poormother b i rd w i l l feel ,” she said.

Huh . rep l ied the boy. You’vegot themother b i rd on your hat. l guess

Shewon I feel very bad You/11’s Compamon.

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Gent lemen, you do not use your facul t ies of observat ion, said an old pro

fessor, addressinghis class. Herehe pushed forwarda gal l ipot containinga chemical of exceedingl y offensive smel l . “When I was a student ," he cont inued,

“I

usedmy senseof taste,” andwi th that hedipped his finger in thegal l ipot and thenput his

finger in his mouth.

“Taste i t , gent lemen, taste i t ,” said the professor,

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and exercise your percept ive facul t ies.

”The gal l ipot was pushed toward the

reluctant class, one by one. The students resolutely dipped their fingers into theconcoct ion and, w i thmany a wry face, sucked the abominat ion from their fingers.

“Gent lemen, gent lemen,

”said the professor, “

Imust repeat that you do not useyour facul t ies of observat ion, for hadyou lookedmoreclosely atwhat Iwas doingyouwou ld have seen that thefingerwhich I put inmymouthwas not the finger ldipped in thegal l ipot . —

.fl rgonaut.

“Frances,

”said that l i tt legirl’s mamma, who was entertaining cal lers in theparlor, you camedown stairs so noisi ly that you cou ld beheardal l overthehouse.

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gv how to do i t better than that . Now go back andcome down the stairs

Ii ea a y .Frances ret ired, and after the lapse of a few minutes re- entered the parlor.

Did you hearme comedown stairs this t ime, mammaNo, dear. I amglad you camedown quiet l y . Now, don

’t let me ever haveto tel l you again not to comedown noisi l y , for l see that you can come qu iet ly i fyou wi l l . Now,

tel l these ladies how you managed to come down l i ke a lady thesecond t ime, whi le the first t ime you made somuch noise.

”

The last t ime 1 sl iddownthebanisters,” exp lainedFrances. Harper’

s Bagdar .

A doctor finds i t difficu l t somet imes to secure for the pat ient the quiet necessaryfor his recovery . Onedoctor, however, was equal to the emergency . The fussy,worry ingwi fe of a manwhowas i l l came up to him as he was leav ing the house,ask ing “

Oh, doctor, how is he? How is he today ? ”

“Above everything, he must posi t ivel y have qu iet , so I have wri tten out aprescript ion here for a coup le of op ium powders,” rep l ied thedoctor.

“When shal l he take them? When shal l l give themto him? "Him said the doctor. l

’ve prescribed them for you.

—Exchange.Why is a smal l quant i ty of v inegar l i ke a l i tt ledarky baby ?They are both a l i tt le b it of v inegar.

ONEWEEKThisweek hadgloomi ly begunForWi l l ieWeeks, a poorman’

s

Hewas beset wi th b ill and dunAnd hehad very l i tt leThis cash,” said he, won

’t paymy dues ;l’

ve nothinghere but ones andA bright thought struck him, and he said,“The rich Miss Goldrocks Iwi l lButwhen he paid his court to her,She l isped, but firml y said, No,Alas,” said he, “ then 1 must die!

Al though hereafter ImayThey found his gloves and coat andhat,The coroner upon them

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O U R T O W NFeb ruary 1 901

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BLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EACH M ONTH BY C. M . EATON

MANAGING EDITOR,

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D . ADAMS, WELLESLEY HILLS

Entered at thepost ofliceatWellesley Hills as second- classmatter.

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Ed ito r ia l

The energet ic and pub l ic- spiri ted President of the Woman’s C lub

made a suggest ion the other day which should command immediate andthoughtful a ttent ion. She sa id : “Wel lesley Hi l ls should have a regularly sa laried district nurse.

”These be w ise and t imely words. There

are in every town in Massachusetts a number of poor fami l ies, or fami l iesin modera te ci rcumstances, who, under ordinary condit ions, can take careof themselves in sel f - respect ing fashion. They cannot afford luxuries of

any k ind, yet they pay their way and ask no favors. But their incomesleave no margins. Serious sickness or death w i l l somet imes burden such

a fami ly wi th years of debt. In a town l ike ours every legi t imate effortshouldbemade to prevent any sel f - respect ingfami ly fromsl ipping by slowdegrees into an abyss of chronic pauperism. The churches of Wel lesley Hi l ls may w isely take upon themselves the support of a sensib le and

properly educated woman, whose business it sha l l be to enter the house of

any person who cannot a fford the expensive serv ices of a tra ined nurse,and minister to its sick . We sincerely hope the k indly President of theWoman’

s C lub wi l l take the lead and wi l l take i t soon.

The Q ueen— for the whole Engl ish- speak ing world there was butone; and she was so pure in heart and w ise in conduct, so anx ious to promote honorab le peace in a l l the world, tha t her death is an internat iona lsorrow. England never did a w iser thing than when, in the early part ofthe i 8th century, she divorced herself forever from the bri l l iant butsha l low - hearted Stuarts and sett led the Protestant house of Hanover uponher throne. But in Victoria only did England find a sovereign in whomthe sol id vi rtues of Hanover were modified by none of its vices, and butfew of its least conspicuous faul ts. She was as loyal to the domest icv irtues as her sincere and stubborn grandfather ; as graciously urbane as

her disreputab le uncle George lV. , and added to these she possessed awea l th of rare unselfishness and even rarer sense to which none of heri l lustrious fami ly could ever lay just cla im. The chiva l rous loya l ty of her

people was mingled with the golden strands of affect ionate admira t ion fora wife’

s devot ion and a mother’s tenderness.

“ It is the cu rse of k ingsto be at tended with slaves, and flatterers who poison the sweet air wi th

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ma larious adulat ion and fol low themw i th insincere and nausea t ing pra iseeven into the solemn chamber of death. No poet laureate or sa lariedpriest need stra in the truth to trumpet forth her pra ise. Her pure and

sta inless l i fe w i l l far outstrip in beauty the poem or sermon that shal lva inly strive to make her fame more last ing, or touch her sorrow ingpeople to a deeper sense of their unriva l led loss.

The reference in Mr. Edwards" a rt icle to the fact tha t Moses Grant,who gave to the Congregat iona l church the bel l w ith which it summonsits members to worship, was a Uni tarian is worthy of specia l not ice. Iti l lustra tes the unusual ly friendly relat ions which have ex isted betweenthe members of these two rel igious bodies in Wel lesley Hi l ls from the

beginning. For a score of years Unitarians here were few in numbers,and they worshipped and labored in peace and fraterni ty with the“O rthodox ” people. When they had increased sufficient ly to warrantthe forma t ion of a separate society, they did so wi th the best w ishes oftheir friends. In due t ime they desired to bui ld a church on the si te of

their older edifice, and during the period of bui lding they were inv i tedto use the Congrega t iona l house of worship, and accepted the invi tat ion.

And now that the older society is considering its prob lem of erect ing anew church the Uni tarians have most courteously and cordia l ly offeredtheir beaut i ful edifice to be used during the interval . That inv i tat ion a lsohas been received in the fraterna l spirit inwhich i t is offeredwi th gratefulappreciat ion. Such an interchange of courtesies is worthy of emphasis.

May i t never cease. The cordialc

relat ions which have been ma inta inedbetween the pastors and the people of these two bodies have not been

accompanied by any surrender of the fundamenta l principles of eitherdenominat ion. Butwi th absolute loya l ty to the truth as they each under

stand it, they have wa lked together in Christ ian friendl iness. It is apract ical example of rea l Christ ian unity.

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A chi ldren’s choir is in process of train ing to lead the music at the evening

serv ices. Chi ldren wi th good voices, and a reasonab le knowledge of music, areinv i ted to join. The rehearsals are held on Friday afternoons after school , in thegui ld room.

Lent begins wi th Ash Wednesday, February 20 . On that day there w i l l beserv ices at A. M . and P. M . During the season the Sunday serv ices w i l lbe the same as usual . The serv ices on week days w i l l be on Tuesdays,Wednes

days, Thursdays, at P. M . ,and Fridays at . 1 5P. M . O nWednesdays, there

w i l l be a series of addresses on Some Modern aints,”by the Rev . G . W. Shinn

of Newton. Therewi l l be special preachers for Fridays, of whom the fo l low inghave al ready consented to come: February 22 , Rev . J . P. Hawkes of Dedham:

March 1 5, Archdeacon Babcock of Hyde Park ; March 22 , Rev . J . M. McGann of

Mattapan.

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We l lesl ey C ongregatio n a l C h u rch

Thechurchhas received8500 andtheChurch Extension Fundthesameamountfromthe lateMr. Edwin L. Rol l ins.

Duringthe past month, on Jan. 27 , one member of the church, Mrs. HenryA.

Chi lds, hasdied.

Thenew officers of theChrist ian Endeavor Society for thecoming year are asfol lows: President , M iss C . Evel yn Robb ins ; v ice- president, Miss EvaW. C rowel l ; secretary, MissGraceGoodnow ; treasurer, Mr.Wm. L. Russel l , Jr.

At the annual businessmeet ingof theSunday school , held on Jan. 25th, Mr. I.H. Farnham was chosen superintendent and Mr. Wm. L. Russel l , Jr. , assistantsuperintendent .

On Jan. 30, Mrs. Samuel Seagraves celebratedher goth b irthday. Mrs. Sea

graves is the oldest resident member of the church, andas a p leasant memory forher a bunch of carnat ionswas sent her by the church, anda vote of congratulat ions,togetherwi th a potted p lant , fromtheWoman’

s Union.

H a rv a rd C am era C lu b

TheC lub ’s annual exhib ltion and contest will be open to the pub l ic on Feb .

1 8 to 23d inclusive, from 9 A. M . to 9 P. M . , in Brooks’house, Cambridge. C lub

members aim to gain the power of mak ing art ist ic photographs, and the exhib i ti l lustrates themeasure that this ideal has been attained. O ver attended theexhib i t last year.

On the evening of Feb . 1 8, at 8 P. M Fogg lecture room, Cambridge, Dr.Edmund vonMach lectures to the C lub on Greek Art Greek Pose, a GestureLanguage.

” Dr. von Mach has been an extensive student of art in Greece. Thelecture is to be i l lustratedwi th the stereopt icon, and is open to the pub l ic. Seatsreservedformembers and their friends til l

WALTER B. SWIFT, Pres.

Th e C o n test o f th e Tw e lv e

Thegreat event of themonthwi l l bea jolnt debate on Equal Suffrage. Six of

the best speakers obtainab le in the town wi l l speak on each side. Each speakerwi l l select a single top ic, andwi l l present the strongest arguments to be found onthat one point . No one on ei ther sidewi l l knowwhat points are selected by thoseon the Opposi te side.

Duenot icewill begiven of the t imeand p lace of the meet ing. Watch for i t ,as i t promises to beone of the very interest ing events of the year. The meet ingwi l l be free to all . Comeand hear both sides of thisgreat quest ion.

MRs.

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J . R. GARRETT,MR. RICHARD CUNNINGHAM ,

MR.WARREN A. RODMAN.

Commfttee.

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Feb . 4.

M o n thly C a len darLakeWaban. IceCarnival . 7 to P. M . Weather permi tt ing.

Readings. Rev. John Snyder. P. M .

AtMrs. Albert Jennings. Whist C lub . P. M .

Col legeChapel . “TheTempest ,” byMr.WaIterBradleyTripp . P.M.

Gol f Tea. OddFel lows’ Hal l . Afternoon and evening.

Wel lesley Congregat ional Church Christ ian Endeavor Conference.

Speakers for theafternoon areDr. F. E. Emrich andDr. F. E. Sturgis.

Mr. N. Vander Pyl afternoon and evening. Supper served to v isi t ingsociet ies.

Thursday afternoons at P. M ., meet ing of Woman’s Aux i l iary at

thehouses of di fferent members.

Tuesday afternoons at P. M . , in the parlor of Wel lesley Congregational Church, meet ings ofWoman’

sUnion.

Maugus C lub . Chi ldren’s Party.

Maugus C lub . Ladies’Whist .Oursels as IthersSeeUs. Miss MarieMoore. P. M .

Maugus C lub . Assemb ly.

Maugus C lub . Mat ineewhist .Mr. Ross Turner. Under the direct ion of the Educat ion Associatlon.

P. M .

In Cathay. Miss LouiseManningHodgk ins. P. M .

Mrs. Hart ley Dennett . Under the direct ion of the Arts and C raftsCommi ttee. P. M .

John Fiske. P. M .

Annual Meet ing. P. M .

Afternoon teas for theCongregat ional SocietyWednesdays, 4to 6.

Mrs. S. Irv ingRichardson, Li vermoreRoad.

Mrs. G . N. Jones,Worcester street .Mrs. J .W. Peabody , Abbott Road.

Mrs. E. M. O verholser, Chestnut street .Mrs. GertrudePl ympton, LivermoreRoad.

COLLEGE CALENDAR FOR FEBRUARY

Adamowsk i Quartette Concert . Mr. Arthur Foote, p ianist, andMr. T.

Adamowsk i , v iol in soloist .O rgan Reci tal . Houghton Memorial Chapel . By Mr. Macdougal l .Vesper Serv ice. Mr. C . B. Shirley, tenor, assist ing. Houghton Memo

rial Chapel . 7 . P. M .

G leeC lub Concert .MAUGUS CLUB

Ladies’Night at theMaugus C lub ls being made much of this winter. The

attendancewas unusual ly large at the January one, and preparat ions have beenmade for an equal ly successful one Feb . 4. The C lub ls steadi ly Increasing Inmembership, and p lanningnumerous entertainments for thewinter.

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AT or Sc ien t i f ic S choo lsSpec ia l advantages o ffered to you ng b oys

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New canse for l ove w i thinour hearts to glow.

Ever new reasons for our pr ide to grow.

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G en er a l C o u r se fo r N on - C o l l egi an sSpecia l Advan tages in Engl ish L i tera ture, Art , H istory of Art

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Dana Ha l l A New Department

A boardingand day school for girls from five to fourteen years of age will beOpened inWel lesley, October second, 1 900 .

This school w i l l be under the management of the Dana Ha l l School, and in

charge of resident teachers of longand successful experiencew ith chi ldren of primaryand intermediate grades. Boys wi l l be admi tted to the day school .

in addi t ion to the usua l Engl ish branches, French and German, voca l music,and drawingw i l l be taught, and especia l emphasis w i l l be la id on nature study and

manual tra ining.

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ley in Maugus Hal l,on the evening of March 6

,on “The

Decorat ion of Pub l ic Schoo ls.

”

M r. Turner, who is a nat ive of New York state,has

for the last twenty years made his home in Massachuset tsand iswel l known among us as a leading art ist in waterco lors. In 1 876 he went ab road and for seven years studiedin Mun ich

,Ven ice, F lorence and Rome. Since 1 885 his

home has b een in Salem,where his influence is seen in the

beauti fying of the pub l ic school rooms. H is studio has,however, b een

in Boston,and every year his works of art are seen

,especial ly in the

gal ler ies of Do l l dz R i chards,on Park street . H is work covers a wide

range of mar ine,landscape, arch i tectural and idea l sub jects. He had a

large marine V iew,in oi l co lors, on exhib i t ion at the Ch icago Exposition. Mr. Turner has b een for some years an instructor in water co lor

at the Inst i tute of Techno logy. He is a member of the Boston Art

C lub , of which he is one of the b oard of managers, asal so of the BostonArt Students’

Assoc iat ion . In 1 886, he pub l ished a valuab le work on“The Use of Water Co l ors for Beginners.

” He has a l so been a mem

b er of theBoard of A lderm en in Salem. The addresswh ichMr. Turner

is to del iver before theWoman’s C lub , under the auspices of theWel les

ley Educat ion Associat i on, is of the greatest val ue, and the pub l ic ingeneral , especial ly teachers and al l interested in educational mat ters,are inv i ted to at tend.

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I have a castle I should l ikeTo find a tenan t for ;

’Tis roomy, a i ry, fu l l of l ight,Far from the ci ty’

s roar.

It has a v iew that’s unsurpassed,There

’s nothing to repai r

And no expense to keep it up;My cast le’

s in the air .

Th e T ree

BY ISABELLA HOWE FISKE

I covet not to journeyWho ho ld far lands in fee

,

For where I stand,unmoving,

The b road wor ld comes to me.

Wide wanderers, the b reezes,And storms from over sea,

Repeat their quick - vo iced stories,

And set me fancy free.

The b i rds that haun t my leisureBringNorth and Sou th anear

,

And al l man’s purest th ink ing

Is done where I can hear.

Below the earth my fib resDr ink sea- h ints, crystal - clear,And swayingmid my b ranchesNew wor lds of stars appear.

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M o re Ab out th e Study o f

Ar ithme ticBy M arsha l l L. Perrin

EFERRING to the dist inct ion emphasi zed in the art iclewhich appeared in the January issue, between “

pure”or

ab stract m athemat ics and “appl ied”or concrete prob lem

work , i t is to be remembered that they invo l ve two very

different b rain processes, and must not be un i ted too ear lyin the work requ i red of youngchi ldren. The old- fashioned“Wr i tten A r i thmet ic” is much worse than a waste of t imefor pupi ls b elow the si x th grade; and shou ld then b e in troduced on lyafter mechan ical accuracy in the four fundamental operat ions: Addi t ion

, Sub tract ion, Mul t ipl ication, andD i v ision has been secured, and a fu l l comprehension of the relations ofconcrete magn i tudes and measurements

,as i l l ustrated in the endless

var iety of l i t t le,short prob lems

,employed in the previous years of ora l

pract ice w i th smal l numb ers.

A sim i lar Psycho logical prob lem has troub led educators in the

mat ter of number - work in the lowest grades. Many of the towns and

ci t ies about us have gi ven up the case al together, and b anished number

Work from the first one or two grades, dec lar ing for thei r just i ficat ion,that l i t t le chi ldren have no real idea of number. But the psycho logist ,who takes away k i t tens from their mother to determ ine just at whatpo int the cat’s concept ion of numbermakes her apprec iate the loss of

one more k i t ten,shou ld try restr ict ing the number of cook ies a five

year- old may eat

,and declare the resu l ts of the exper iment to these

discouraged educators. The prob lem of number work w i th l i ttle chi ldren hasnot been proper ly analyzed. The so l ut ion, however, seems so

simple that, as in the case of the upper grades, we can on lywonder thatothers have not hit upon it. The oral number work certain ly succeeds

as wel l w i th the l i tt le chi ldren as anything else that requ ires attent ion .

I t must, however, b e concrete at first,consisting of ever so many l i t t le

“stor ies abou t st icks, and bal ls, and apples, and b locks wh ich they can

seeandmeasure and count . It must appeal to the chi ldren’s exper ience

and observat ions. So far as th is is oral it is al l r ight, even wi th smal lab stract numb ers. But in the l i t t le wr i t ten stor ies, wh ich they copyfrom the b lackb oard and do on their paper or slates, theydo confessedly

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go al l to pieces. Why ? The reason is not far to seek . The l itt leb ra ins are so busymak ing the figures

—and they are assured that theteacher w i l l not accept the work un less i t is neat and the figures wel lmade— that the l i ttle scrap of concentra ted at tent ion of which the smal lch i ld is capab le, is all used up before the figure comes that is to repre

sen t the answer to the story. Careful watch ing of a chi ld at work w i l lconv ince an ob server that th is is the reason for the inaccuracy com

plained of,and not the ch i ld’

s inab i l i ty to grasp the relation of the

magni tudes or measuremen ts.

What is to b e done ? Shal l the pract ice in wr i t ing numb er stor iesbe gi ven up? Not at al l . But the storymust be Copied many, manyt imes from the b lackboard

,answer and al l . There shou ld b e no ques

tioning in themind of the chi ld to interrupt his at tention to themak ingof the figures ; b ut the repet i t ion of the l i t t le number- story presses ithome upon his b rain, and helps him to remember the truth of what i tsays. A very forcefu l pedagogic pr inc iple supports this plan, namely,that a learner mu st never be a l lowed to do anythi ngwr ong. Thi s doctr ine was first promu lgated by the Port- Royal ists, and ardent ly; but ithas been sad ly neglected, and in th is country hardly ever mentioned .

The resu l ts of an effort, correct or incorrect, stamp themsel ves ineffaceab ly upon the b rain. This law,

l i ke that of hab i t,may b e the means of

great good or of great harm. A teacher of the last generation spent

most of his t ime undo ing and correct ing the work done at the seat or athome. Th is was not on ly a great consumer of t ime and strength, b utit is often nex t to impossib le to efface from the b rain of the pupi l theimpress ion left by his wrong reason ing and incorrect conc lusi ons. Two

or three weeks af terwards, he has a very decided conv iction that ei therone way or the other was the r ight one, b ut j ust wh ich he has forgotten .

Then must come another s iege of undo ing. How many of us are

troub l ed more by wrong not ions wh i ch we cannot get out of our heads,than by the room we gi ve in our b rains to true concepts ! It is bad

theory and worse pract ice to send a pupi l to his seat to work out anyth ing that is not who l ly based on pr inc iples and relat ions fu l ly under

stood ; he is sure to receive or evo l ve some false impression . The rel iab leness of a German scho lar’

s knowledge is not so much due to the

thoroughness of the dri l l which he has had in schoo l, as to the method

of study- reci tat ion so general ly fo l lowed in Germany. By the s ide of

th is system,the a l ternate study-

per iods and reci tat ion-

per iods.

of England and Amer ica cannot produce comparab le resu l ts. The teacher inthe study- reci tation goes over al l the new sub ject mat ter with the

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as not to injure his neighbors, not only the street l ine but the sky l ineand the general stylemust be approved before hecan go ahead. (See

Shaw’s mun icipal governmen t of Europe to ver i fy. ) When you come

to think of i t a man does not rea l ly own any real estate. He rents it ofthe State and pays his ren t in the way of taxes

,and when he cannot

pay th is ren t the State takes i t and sel ls it to the highest b idder. So

you see the State real ly owns it,and such being the case the State con

siders that it is ent i tled toavo ice in its management and is ent i tled topass laws in reference to i t . The older and more civ i l i zed the State thegreater the.

restr ict ion . K ankekee or Hang Man’s Gu lch are not

b othered much by bu i lding restr ictions. Commonweal th Avenue, Boston, and Pennsylvan iaAvenue, Wash ington, stand for somethingdifferent, and a man who thinks that b ecause he owns a piece of land on

these streets he can do as he pleases w i th it w i l l find tha t he hasmade a decided m istake.

Then we have the ar t ist ic element to consider. Think for amoment of al l the beau t i ful ci t ies you have seen, al l the beau t i ful towns,ei ther in th i s coun try or ab road, and you w i l l rememb er that the pr incipal element of beauty was a w ide space between the b u i ldings and thestreets. Marb lehead

,w i th its crooked streets and bu i ldings at al l angles,

wi th each b u i lding look ing as i f it had b een stuck up by the owner

wi thou t regard to his neighb ors, may be interest ing and quain t but i t isnot beau t i fu l . The lawns

,the plan ted spaces and even the b road side

wa lks of al l beaut i fu l streets and roads cer tain ly give a much more

pleasingresu l t . Try for a momen t to think i f you ever saw a real lybeaut i fu l street w i thout this b road, spacious effect . Look at Wi l l iams

town, Northfield, Greenfield,M iddletown, Lancaster and other New

England towns; look at some of the best Western c i t ies and see i fth i s is not true.

And so I repeat in summ ing up

F i rst,i t is good business and pays to estab l i sh a town l ine.

Second, the act under which we can do i t at any t ime is a fai r and

just one.

Th i rd,there can be no quest ion of the improvemen t i t wou ld make

in the looks of the street. Every ci ty and town of course has to lay

out a bu i lding l ine somewhere, otherwise some enterpr i sing fel lowwou ld place his store in the m iddle of the street . The on ly quest ion iswhether in a town l i keWel les ley it is not best to restrict the b u i ldings,especial ly on the main thoroughfares, to a certain di stance from the

sidewal ks.

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In closing let us look at the ethica l side of the ma t ter for a momen t .\Vhat r ight have I to injure my neighb or who has set his house backtwenty feet from the street by put t ing m ine on the street l ine, shu tt ingout his v iew and spoi l ing his grounds ? A fter al l th i s is the h ighestlaw

, to“do as you wou ld be done b y .

” Whatever you do to injureyour neighbor reacts on you and i njures you the more. If the

t ime comes when we shal l a l l b e fo l low ing c losely in the footsteps of

One who taught that we must love our neighb or as oursel ves we w i l lnot have to argue such quest ions as these. When each in honor prefers the other

,when your r ights are as sacred to me as m ine

, when in

al l that we do as a town and as a people the r ight th ing, the true thing,the thing wh i ch makes for beauty, is what we are al l str i v ing for,then I say i t w i l l not be necessary to be rem inded of such sel f - ev iden tduty as th i s. Then anything we can do for the improvement of the

town, for the best good of our neighbor, w i l l be a joy and a pr iv i lege.

in No r th Luzo nBy Roscoe Buck

LANGAPO Stat ion,from wh ich I am wr i t ing, is one of the

heal thiest places in the i sland of Luzon . Mosqu i toes hereare unknown, and the heat at m idday never exceeds eightydegrees. We are si x ty- eight mi les northwest of Man i la

,

on an is land,back of which is a range of very high moun

tains w i th thei r tops rarely bel ow the c louds. There is a

town and an arsenal,laid out verymuch l i ke the town and

arsenal of C-av i te. Of course thi s region is not so denselypopu lated as Cav i te, as i t has been the hot- bed of insur

rect ion for the past ten years.

Under the Span i sh ru le the arsenal was garr isoned by three regiments of mar ine i nfantry , and the town by one regimen t of caval ryand one mountain arti l lery, and even then i t was al l they cou ld do to

ho ld their own .

To descr ibe the bay in whi ch we are located I wou ld cal l it theshape of a large, wel l - formed Bartlet t pear . The entrance is on one

s ide and the island w i th its arsenal and the town of Olangapo is d iagonally across on the opposi te side. A t the b ot tom is a r i ver runn ingtoCalpecawan ,

the “Pr imero Pueb lo”of th is prov ince, whi le at the stem

is Sub ig, the nex t largest Pueb lo. Sub ig is a Tagal og name and means

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“water,

” for at high t idemanyof its streets are flooded andmanyhousesare surrounded by water . It is for thi s reason that al l nat i ve huts hereare b ui l t from four to eight feet from the ground, as i f on st i l ts.

A fter we came back from China, Col . C lay Cochran, hav ingb roughtthe 5th Bat tal ion to Chinaandthen jo inedwithusand returned to Cavi te,was desi rous of keepinghis pet b at ta l ion w i th him. So when orders

came that theMar ines must proceed at once to re- enforce Olangapo and

rel ieve one company of the 25th infantry (co lored) at Sub ig, compan iesH and D were sent to the former place and C to the lat ter . Com

panies A ,F and E had gone to Jo l o, Isabel la and Guam respect i vely.

I was among the men who had to go first to Olangapo and then to

Sab ig. We were conveyed to the latter place in one of the gunboatsthat were taken from the Span ish, about the si ze of a smal l harb or tug.

On landing, we took up our quarters in the town church, where we

spent the n ight. The bu i ldingwas constructed of stone and gal van i zedtin for the roof

,w i th bamboo for the framework , and i t was the home

of cent ipedes, tarantu las, scorpions and a kind of l i zard (guama l i zard)which

, when smal l , is the size of a bul l frog. E i ther one of the abovement ioned creatures is

, you may imagine, rather d isagreeab le and dis

turb ing to your dreams, shou ld i t craw l across your face or over yourb ody whi le you are trying to sleep. Another disturber of the peace

was rats. In the morn ing, when I took my hat up from the floor, one

scampered away, after hav ing eaten a large port ion of the swea t band.

O ther than that my n ight’s rest was not disturbed, though some were

not so l ucky. In the morn ing, we were assigned to quarters in the

nat ive houses and I remained in Sub ig two weeks, eat ingmy Chr istmasd inner from a mess- k i t, of “cannedWi l l ie

,

” “cobb le- stones,” “sweat

punk ” and pure old “b ootleg,” mean ing by that canned corned beef,

bean soup, b read and government coff ee. But let me tel l you that itcer ta in ly tasted good, for we had been on a “hyke” that morn ing, overa road cut through the moun tains by the Span ish for the purpose of

conveying rat ions to thei r di fferen t posts. Today i t is guarded and

used for the same purpose by the defenders of “Old G lory”and the

supporters of B i l l McK inley. Another th ingwor th men tion inghere isthat among those sincere supporters are the greater port ion of the Ph i lippine army. Had Bryan been elected, i t was the intent ion of the

insurgents to make one grande combate and then ask Bryan for thei rindependence, which they expected surely to ob tain.

New Year’s eve I was on guard from ten to twel ve o

’clock

,and so

,

when I was rel ieved from post, mysel f and fr iends smoked the old year1 0

out and the new one in, the same as many of our fr iends did in the

Un i ted States,no doub t .

We llesley C o l legeThe President

’

s Report for the Year 1 900

ISS HAZARD’S first annual report is interest ing reading,

encouraging to al l who have at hear t not on ly the wel fareof Wel lesley Co l lege but also heal thful concept ions of the

higher train ing for women. We bel ieve that thi s col lege isenter ing upon a careerwhich wi l l reveal a wiser effort thanis inspired bythemereamb i t ionto im i tate inst i tu t ionswhichhave been organ i zed and developed for the train ing of men.

The ideal co l lege for women w i l l formulate its own curric

u lum for its own specific purpose, and none other is of suchsurpassing importance— the development of al l that is

most woman ly.

We not ice three i tems in the report which are of especial interestin this respect : First

,andmost impor tan t, is what we understand to be

a greater emphasis upon the value of good heal th, and wise efforts topromote i t . “At the beginning of the col lege year, a set of common

sense ru les of heal th was shown al l the freshmen. These ru les includeproper bathing, not eat ing between meals, l imi t ing the amount ofsweets, and other ordinary precaut ions for the preservat ion of heal th.

Almost the whole body of freshmen signed these ru les,vo l untar i lyputt ing themsel ves under this regimen, w i th resu l ts that have been

markedly benefic ial . This is good. Graduates of men’s co l leges may

wel l w ish that some such prov ision had been made for them when theyentered upon thei r co l lege career. It is a pi ty that in the same reportwe have to be to ld thatWel lesley Co l lege is by no means prov ided w i thadequate faci l i t ies for phys ical exercise. Some good friend shou ldmake himsel f forever a benefactor of mank ind by prov iding a su i tab legymnas ium here, w i th endowmen t for the best of instruct ion ,

Not muscu lar developmen t is des i red, not a train ingschoo l for Amazons;b ut every thing that is necessary to a symmet r ical phys ical developmentshou ld beprov ided. The importance of this prov is ion for youngwomenwho are tempted to take too l i tt le exercise cannot be over emphasi zed.

The fr iends of the Col legew i l l al so beglad to learn of the increased

opportun i ties prov ided in the departmen ts of music and art. Prof.1 1

Hami l ton C. Macdougal l , “a member by examination of the Royal Uollege of Organ ists in London and a founder of the Amer ican Gu i ld of

O rgan ists,” has been appointed head of the music department, and giveslectures on the theory and history of music. He pres ides at the organ

for al l serv i ces, and leads a cho i r which is a del ight to al l who have thepr i v i lege of hear ing it. C i ti zens of Wel lesley are al ready b egi nn ing toreal i ze a new reason for affect ion for the Co l lege, as they gather w i ththe students

,from t ime to time

,in the beaut i ful chape l at some vesper

serv ice or organ reci tal to l isten to the cho icest music. Thecordial hospital ity which the Co l lege ex tends on these occasions is heart i ly appre

ciated.

Of the art department the Presiden t ’s report speaks as fol lowsThe developmen t of th i s depar tmen t has been one of the most inter

est ing and valuab le features in the Col lege curr icu lum in recent years.

Th i s year two studen ts took their Master’s Degree in the sub ject

,and

the elect ions thi s year are larger than ever before, one hundred and

seven ty- one being chosen in the departmen t . Severa l pastgraduates w i l l be work ing for their degrees in the com ingyear, andgraduates from other col leges are finding that some of the best art workin the country is done at Wel les ley.

”

In add i t ion to th is there is much of interest in the report which wemust pass over

,and simplymen t ion in closing that dur ing the vear a

b eaut i fu l and wel l - equ ipped observatory has been bu i lded and the new

dormi tory, Wi lder Hal l,the gi ft of a former c i t i zen of Wel lesley H i l ls.

The great needs for the fu ture are,

first, adequate endowmen ts for present professorsh ips; and then two b u i ldings, one for science ( the present chem i stry b u i ld ing and science rooms are ab surdly inadequate)and the other for physical cu l ture. That generous fr iends of educat ionwi l l prov ide for these needs is the earnest hope and expectat ion of al l

who b el ieve in the great future beforeWel lesley Co l lege.

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Stereoptic o n Lec tu re

Prof. Perr in w i l l del i ver three lectures in Shaw Hal l dur ingMarch,

the proceeds to be div ided among the H igh Schoo l A lumn i Assoc iat ionand theWel lesley H i l l s ReadingRoom. Adm i ssion twen ty- five cents,or fi fty cen ts for the course. Dates and topics as fo l lows : March 1 2,“Germany and the Rh ine.

” March 1 9,“Par is and the Exposi t i on.

”

March 26,“Swi tzer land.

”

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Y oun g Peopl e'

s Depar tmen t[Quest ions and contr ib ut ions to th i s department

, accompan ied by fu l lname and address, may be sent to Box 62,Wel les ley H i l ls Post - office ]

OLD SOUTH H ISTORICAL SOCIETY

NCREASING interest in histor ical study and research has

lead to the format ion and rapid growth of histor ical societies throughout the country, but there is probab ly none

more un ique than the organ i zat ion of youngpeople whichis an outgrowth of the Old South work in Boston .

It was in 1 881 that, through the k indness of the lateMrs. Mary Hemenway, pr i zes were first offered to gradu

ates of the Boston h igh schoo l s of the two preced ingyearsfor the b est essays on sub jects in Amer ican history. Sincethen two sub jects have b een proposed each year and two

pr i zes awarded on each sub ject,the first prize being$40and the second

$25. Several years ago, those who have competed for the pr i zes organized the Old South H istor ical Soc iety, to which on ly essayists in the

pr i ze compet i t ion are el igib le, and a course of act i ve histor ical studyhas been pursued wh ich m ight be taken upw i th profit bymanyyoungpeople’

s societ ies throughou t the coun try.

Each summer the Society conducts a pi lgr image to some histor icplace, havingv isi ted old Rut land ( theWhi tt ier country) , K ingPhi l ip’

s

land (near Br isto l , R . P lymou th andNewburypor t ; and upwards of

five hundred people avai l themselves each year of the special faci l i t iesoffered by these excursion

A new feature of the Soc iety’s work

, wh ich prom i ses to meet w i ththe marked success which has at tended the pi lgr images, is the production each w inter of some histor ical drama of mer i t . The first play tobe given by the Society was “G i les Corey, a tragedy of the SalemWi tchcraft days, wr i t ten byLongfel low, wh ich was performed for the

first t ime on any stage by these youngpeople. It is by the proceeds of

these enterprises that the members expect to perpetuate the Old Southpr i zes, when the fund left byM rs. Hemenway is exhausted; and this isa plan which might b e emu lated by young people everywhere, who,

through thei r own efforts, might offer in thei r own towns such pr i zes ashave proved so successfu l in exci t ing in the youth of Boston an interestin h istor ical study.

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Education a l Asso ciationBy the Press Comm ittee

T a meet ing of the Educat ional Associat ion,held at the resi

dence of Mr. J . J . E. Rothery, on Tuesdayeven ing, Jan . 29,

J udge Littlefield, of Winchester, gave an accoun t of the

growth of industrial training in the schoo l s ofWinchester,whi le hewas a member of its schoo l comm i t tee and since,hav ing been upon that comm i t tee twenty- three years, w i ththe except ion of four years in the sevent ies, ten of which hewas chai rman. He said in part :

“The introduction of sew ingwas the first of the so

ca l led changes toward industr ia l train ing. For severa lyears a pr ivate class in sewingwas maintained by lad ies, who gavethei r serv ices and donated the mater ials used. At first thi s class was ina pr i vate house, later in a smal l b al l . So great was its success

,and so

good the resul t in an educat i onal sense, that it was gradual ly introducedinto al l the schools of the town .

Certain ladies of our town, ab out two hundred in number,had

formed a l i terary cl ub cal led the ‘Fortn ight ly,’ and, b esides their regu

lar work,had maintained a free carpentry schoo l for any chi ldren who

des i red to attend. A fter two years, they pet i t ioned the school commi ttee to i ntroduce inst ruct ion in carpen try into the schoo ls, and offered a

gi ft of the too ls whi ch they had purchased. The offer was accepted,and w i th twelve sets of too ls the teaching of carpentry was in troducedin to the schoo l s of Winchester, and has rema ined a part of the system.

Later on cook ing classes were main tained by these same ladies,

and af terwards the study of cook i ngwas adopted by the schoo l comm i ttee

,for the schoo ls.

The considerat ion by educat ion associat ions of the so- cal led enr ichmen t of the grammar school program came to the atten t i on of our com

mittee about the t ime that the comm i t tee of fi fteen made its report .Some t ime prev iously, algeb ra and geometry had been made regularstudies in the grammar school , in place of a certain amount of arithme

tic prev iously requ i red. The commi t tee found the verdict of those whohad considered the mat ter to be that ordinar i ly the acqu i r ing of a newlanguage is easier the ear l ier i t is undertaken . Further i t was foundthat many pupi ls of the upper grammar grades cou ld easi ly accompl ish

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Being asked whether he considered an Educational Associ at ionhost i le to the school comm ittee and super intendent, Judge Littlefieldrepl ied: “By no means.

”

He wen t on to say that an Educat ional Association shou ld inspireits members to invest igate educational quest ions and exci te pub l ic interest in same. If an educat ional mat ter is decided on a ful l vote, i t doesnot mat ter whether myown ideas are fol lowed or not. Thegreat safetyis in the deve lopment of pub l ic interest and invest igat ion. In the end

the r ight wi l l preva i l .We l lesl ey H i l lsWoman

’

s C lub

UCH C l ub women as were ab le to attend the meet ings of

the Massachuset ts State Federa t ion at Boston, Fr iday, Feb .

1 5,were surelymore than repaid for the effort . The day

was perfect, and though the crowd was large and the cars

more than fu l l,st i l l i t was such a happy, good

- natured com

pany that even stand ingdur ing al l or a par t of the journeydid not seem a verygreat hardship. The large audi tor iumof the Porter Church had very few vacant seats af ter the

crowd was wel l in place, and the qu iet, earnest attent ion of

the great audience test ified to the interest in the sub jectA Symposium on Boys.

”

Dr. G. Stan leyHal l,of C lark Un iversi ty, was the pr incipal speaker

of the morn i ng session . He began by begging leave to change his sub

ject from “Boyhood”in genera l to one not qu i te so vast ; via ,

“Boysfrom Eight to Twelve.

”A fter some general i zations, he touched upon

nutr i t ion . There weremany chi ldren in a state of sem i - starvat ion,fed

wi th food too r ich rather than that adapted to the proper nu tr i tion of

b ody and b rain. Parents needed accurate knowledge j ust here. Some

fau l ts of the present schoo l system and its tex t - b ooks were held up to

v iew, geograph ies com ing in for qu i te a severe handl ing. Nature lessons and oral lessons shou ld prevai l largely. This was a good age to

turn a boy out doors and to refrain from much interference, a good age

for dr i l l work and the learn ing of unquest ion ing obedience. Dr. Hal lwas kept b usy for ha l f an hour after his address in answer ingquestions;one of these

,as to whether boys kept out of school t i l l eight years old

,

or later,wou ld be ready for co l lege as ear ly as others

,el ici ted the replythat he thought they surely wou ld be, and several in terest ing facts of

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personal exper ience were b rought forward in proof .A fter luncheon the sub ject was resumed

,and a carefu l lyprepared

paper was read by M rs. Beat ley, of Roxbury, on “How to Make the

Boy a Good Man,

”emphasiz ing the home train ingand the influence of

mothers.

This was fol lowed by Rev. Wi l l i am B. Forb ush, of Char lestown,

who said that he, too, used to del iver addresses on the sub ject of “Boys

in the Home,

”b ut, s i nce he had had three b oys of hi s own

,he had

ceased to do so. H is b ranch of the sub ject he was pleased to cal l the“Educat ion of Pr inces.

” He gave interesting accounts of educationaland phi lanthropic work among b oys, ment ion ing some new and effectivemethods of church work in this direction . The basis iswork. He had

in one case,secured unbound B ib les

,which were cut in sect ions; the

covers and t i t le pages were designed and made by the b oys, who, in

s'

ome way, very soon found out what was inside the covers. The cry of

the new century he b el ievedwou ld be, “Redeem human i tywhile it is inits chi ldhood.

” To accompl ish this no effort is too great, too good or

too w ise.

“In humb le d issatisfact ion wi th our own ach ievemen ts,let

us see to i t tha t the b oy gets the best .”

Music atWe llesley C o llegeThe concer t Feb ruary 4, by the Adamowsk i Quartet te and Arthur

Foote, gave the Col lege an opportun i ty of welcom ing one of our most

di st ingu ished Amer ican music ians. Mr. T. Adamowsk i gave some solos

in his own unapproachab le manner, and Mr . Foote led his piano quartet te in C. The concert was uncommonly successfu l . Feb ruary 1 1 ,

Mr. Macdougal l gave an historical organ programme in the Memor ialChapel , wi th M iss Kather ine Ricker as contral to so l o ist . M iss R ickerhas a very smooth

,round vo ice and gave much pleasure; her select ions

were not hackneyed. At the vesper serv ice, Feb ruary 1 0, M rs. B lancheK i lduff, seprano, sangmost sympathet ical ly; she has a voice of excellent qua l i ty and ample power. Sunday even ing, Feb ruary 1 7 , the

Wel lesleyCho ir gave a memor ial serv ice for Queen Victor ia; M iss Haz

ard gave an address,and the music was taken from Gounod

’s

“More et

Vi ta”and Sul l ivan’

s“Go lden Legend.

”

All these events, however, fade into insignificance when compared

wi th the Glee C lub concert on Feb ruary 22; here enthusiasm ran r iot,and the rea l ly excel lent singing of the C lub , under M iss L. Evelyn

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Bates’ spir i ted di rect ion, won encore after encore. Many col lege menat tended the affai r, and the audience il l ustrated to the ful l the charms

of youth and beauty. So many were unab le to at tend the concert thatthe programme was repeated the next even ing to a large audience.

The Glee C lub have every reason to feel sat isfied w i th their work .The Semib revemet Feb . 26.

Pl ea san tr iesShe rose in scorn and cal led him Mr .

And al l b ecause he merely K r,And so in sp iteThe fo l low ingn i teThe naughty M r. K r Sr .

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MEDICUS If your b ab y does not thr ive on fresh m i lk , bo i l i t . ”YOUNG MOTHER

“ Oh , doctor , you are too severe. Why not spank it ?UNCLE JACK

’S PLEA

IT was POWERFUL ENOUGH TO SAVE ms BAD CA SE

When I was in North Caro l ina a fr iend to ld me ab out an old darky who wason tr i al for steal ing a turkey and the proof was posi t ive, and yet he did not

seem to b e alarmed. H is lawyer was di scouraged, and sa id Uncle J ack , i tlooks l ike they have got you .

”NO , dey ain ’t , Mas J ohn ; dey a in’t got me

yet and dey a in’t agwine to get me. Tel l you how i t is, Mas John . De Jedgeseten up dar was my young master when de war b roke out and not gw ine to

send me to de pen . No, sir ; he ain’t , he a in’t done forget wha I know.

” But

Mas J ohn had lost confidence, f or he knew that the J udge wou ld do h is dutyand execute the law. In a short t ime the tr i a l was over and the J udge askedUncle Jack i f he had anyth ing to say in extenuat ion of his cr ime. The old

gray - headedman got upwith a grunt, and l ook ing around upon the Spectatorsand then at the J udge, said : Nufli n

’much,Mas J edge, nufii n

’ much . On lydis, you know al l ab out dat old war wh ich we al l got whopped, and you hain’tforgot how I went out wid you to de army , for you was a cappen , and old masterto ld me to go

’l ong and take keer of you , and you knows I did de very b es’ I

cou ld for four m ighty long years, and how one t ime you got wounded and I

stayed by you ontel l you was wel l again , and how anoder t ime you took themeasles and me, too, and I stayed by you and nus

’

you , and how anoder t ime

dem Yankees cotch me and I got away in de n ight and come back to you and

how somet imes you get out of money and out of sumfen to eat al l at the samet ime and you cal l me up and say, Jack , you mus’

go ou t a foragiu’and get us

sumfin’

, and I go out late in de n ight and b r ing you ch ickens and roastin’ears,

and one t ime I b r ingyou a turkey , and you neb er ax me nuflin’ab ou t whar I

got him and you never giv’me anymoney to buy h im , did you , Mas J edge ?

You cal l i t foragiu ’den

,didn’t you ,

Mas J edge, and i f i t was foragin’den how

cum i t to b e steal in’now

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By th i s t ime the court room was convul sed w i th laughter , and the J udgecou ld not concea l h is emot ions, for his reco l lect ion of the old darky’s fai thfu lness was rev ived afresh . He w i ped h is b row and h is eyes, and sa id : “M r .

Sher i ff , adjourn court . Uncle J ack , I w i l l pay for that turkey , b ut you mustnot do so anymore. When you need anyth ingyou must cometome. I haven’tforgotten you .

” —A tlanta Consti tution.

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Entered at thepostofficeatWellesley Hills as second—classmatter.

shamEd ito r ia l

The YoungPeople’s Departmen t in OUR TOWN ,

under the efficien tmanagement of Mrs. E. M . Overho lser is

,we bel ieve

,one of the pleas

amtest features of the paper . Its select ions,thus far

,have been almost

who l ly local contr i but ions of the thoughts and sayings of our young

people. We inv i te more of such mater ial for these pages.

The ear ly h i story of a town is a lways of interest to its c i ti zens.

We hope to be ab le to presen t, in future numbers, art icles of this natureab ou t Wel lesley. One has been prom ised us upon the great var iety of

Indian re l ics which have b een d iscovered here. There must be,al so

,a

store of tradi t ions and rem in i scences in the possession of the o lder ci tizens, wh ich shou ld be recorded before they are forgot ten . We wou ldb e glad to recei ve suggest ions that wi l l enab le us to develop this important par t of our paper .

A queer instance of newspaper misrepresentat ion, wh i ch may be

of interest toWel lesley c i t i zens,appeared in several issues of theBoston

Transcr ipt not l ong s ince. A fter referr ing to the appo intment of Mr .

‘

St a‘

nd ler to his present posi t ion in the Twen t ieth Century C l ub,it

dec l ared that he had graduated from Yale Un i versi ty in 1 865,and that

later he became “the pastor of the Un i tar ian Congregat ional C l ub .

”

Of course one of these statemen ts is as ab surd and as false as the other.

The fi rst was prob ab ly a m ispr int, and the second was an at tempt tosay that at one t ime Mr. Chandler was pastor of the Un ion Congrega

tional Church in Taun ton . On thi s k ind of newspaper ev idence is

based an assert ion , which has been ci rcu l ated recen t ly, that Mr. Chand

ler has becomea Un i tar ian since leav ing Wel lesley. It is surpr i singthat a paper l i ke the Transcr ipt should perm i t such distort ion of facts,known to severa l of the edi tor ial staff, to appear twodays in succession .

A good novel , clean and st i rr i ng, hopeful and inspi r ing, is a b lessing to the readingpub l ic. Such a b ook is “Eben Ho lden,” from wh i cha man r ises refreshed for hav i ng read i t . As a piece of l i terature, i t isa work of art

,a masterpiece of prose. I t is unfortunate that i t shou ld

b e classed, in the thought of the pub l ic, w i th “Dav id Harnm.

”The

two b ooks do not bel ong to the same order . There is rich humor in

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both,but the one differs from the other as the humor of Lowel l didfrom that of ArtemasWard. The characters of “Eb en Holden are

strong, genuine men and women, whom we wou ld be glad to know,the

best types of the country people in the days before the Civ i l War.

Thei r struggles, thei r hero ism,their ideal ism is refreshing. A par t of

the story is laid in New York C i ty and centers abou t Horace Greeley,tha t un ique character in our Amer ican history, who is presen ted in a

v iv id and entertain ingmanner. It is a good sign that such a b ook isgrowing in popu larity.

A few complete fi les of OUR TOWN, for the years 1 899 and 1 900,

are in the possession of the Edi tors,and can be ob ta ined now for fi fty

cents for each year. For 1 898 there is but one set for sale at one dol

lar. I t is ev ident that the value of these papers, present ing as they doa graphic record of the socia l , po l i t ical and rel igious l i fe of the townfor these years, wi l l increase w i th time. Such a record for one look ingup the h istory of a hal f century ago wou ld be a m ine of val uab le information. The histor ian of Wel lesley in the future wi l l be in a more

env iab le posi t ion.

chub

We l l esley Church New s

We l lesl ey C o ngr egatio n a l C h u rch

The Sou th Middlesex Chr i stian Endeavor Conference was held in the

Wel les ley Congregat ional church on the afternoon and even ing of Feb . 1 3 .

There were a fa ir numb er present at b oth sessions, b ut many were detained at

home on account of the severe co ld and w indy weather .

Letters of di sm i ssi on haveb een granted to Rev . and M rs. EdwardH . Chandler to the Sou th Congregat i onal Church of Salem, Mass.

Mr . I . H . Farnham has entered u pon his new dut ies as super intendent ofthe Sunday schoo l w i th much enthus iasm . It i s hoped that many w i l l comeinto the Sunday schoo l , e i ther as teachers or scho lars, and un i te wi th others inmak ing i t an interest ing and hel p fu l part of the church services. A class hasjust b een promoted from the pr imary departmen t to the main schoo l . Each

memb er of the class was presented w i th a l i tt le Gospel of John by the superintendent .Five b i rthday offer ings were given last Sunday . Th i s is a p leasant custom

wh ich has recentl y been estab l i shed, and i t is hoped that every memb er of theschoo l w i l l hel p to keep it al ive by remembering h is b irthday , and giv ing to

the Sunday schoo l at least as many penn ies as he is years old.

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We l l esl ey H i l l s C o ngrega tio n a l C h u rch

Ladies’meet ings. March 6, 4 to 6 , afternoon tea at Mrs. Gertrude Plympton’s . March 1 2, 9 to 1 , sew ing at M rs. Southers. March 1 3 , 4 to 6 , afternoon

tea at M i ss Bacheldcr’s . March 1 9 , 10 A . M .

, w i th lunch , sewing atM rs. J ames’

,

Off Wood lawn Ave. March 27 , par lor sale at Mrs. Rob son’s, Open ing at 3 P . M .

,

and cont inu ing through the even ing. Usefu l and fancy art icles, also p ictures

and rugs, souven i rs Of the O ld church, w i l l be on sale. L ight refreshments w i l l

b e served. Adm i ssion free.

The young peop le w i l l ho ld thei r Sunday even ing meet ings in the par lorsof the Un i tar ian Church . As i t has b een thought b est to give up the second

evening serv ice for the present , a general inv i tat ion is extended to al l , O ld and

young, to attend these youngpeo p le’s meet ings. The hour is

The month l y un ion prai se serv ice wi l l b e held on Feb . 3 , in the Un i tar ianChurch , at P . M . Address by Rev. J ohn Snyder .

Morn ing serv ices wi l l b e held for the present in Maugus Hal l , at A . M .

The Pastor is preach ing a ser ies of sermons u pon “The Beati tudes.

”The Sun

day schoo l meets ih the same room at the close of the morn ing serv ice. An

increas ingnumb er of ch i ldren and young peop le are com ing to the morn ingserv ice. The Pastor wou ld b e glad to have al l the Sunday schoo l in his audience. The Su per intendent has asked that the ch i ldren in each class dev i sesomemethod Of earn ingmoney for the new church fund.

Rev. J ohn Snyder has k ind l y agreed to give a lecture for the b enefit Of thenew church fund. H is top ic w i l l b e “The Evo lut ion of Amer ican H umor .

”

The lecture w i l l b e given in Maugus Hal l , on Thursday even ing, March 7 , at

Tickets fi fty cent-s ; ch i ldren half pr ice.

On Tuesday , March 5, the annua l meet ing of the Suffo lk b ranch of the

Woman ’s Board Of M i ss i ons w i l l b e held in Mansfield. There w i l l b e addresses

by M i ss Burrage of Cesarea, M i ss Pr ice Of the Zu lu m i ssion , and M i ss Chap in of

North Ch ina. Trains leave the South Stat i on on the Prov idence D iv i s ion for

Mansfield at and A . M . Return ing leave Mansfield at and

P . M . It is hoped there w i l l be a good delegat ion from th i s aux i l iary. The

u sual loca l m i ssionary meet ingw i l l therefore b e omi tted on March 5.

We l l e s l ey H i l ls Un ita r ian So c iety

The ladi es of the church furn i shed a sump tuous New England su pper on

Feb . 1 , wh ich was largely attended.

OnWednesday even ing, Feb . 1 3 , the younger ch i ldren Of the Sunday schoo lentertained thei r fr iends w i th a charming cob - web party , in honor Of St. Val

entine.

Feb . 1 6 , the young ladies of M r . Crosski l l’s class gave a del ight fu l enter

tainment . The i r teacher lectured entertainingl y upon the sub ject. Of his recenttravels ab road, and the c lass, in the var ious costumes of the countr ies he visited, sang the nat i ona l songs.

Mrs. Ab igai l B . Young, one of the O ldest memb ers of the church ,died on

Feb . 22d.

The Pastor w i l l lecture at Maugus Hal l , on March 7 , for the b enefit of theCongregat iona l church . Sub ject : “

The Evo lut i on of American Humor .

”

The gent lemen of the church wi l l meet together on the even ing Of March

1 1 to organ i ze a Un i tar ian C lub .

On Feb . 28, a debate was held in the church on the sub ject of Woman’s

Su ffrage.

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The ser ies of afternoon serv ices, held in the Town Hal l , atWel lesley, cameto a cl ose on Sunday,

Feb . 24. Rev. M r . Greenman , of Watertown,preached

an adm i rab le sermon on the“Eternal Li fe.

”These serv ices have b een largel y

attended and have attracted much attent ion .

St. A n d rew'

s C h u r ch

Dai ly serv ice dur ingLent at P . M ., excep t Fr idays. Fr idays at P . M .

The resignat ion Of the Rector has been unan imous lyaccep ted b y the vestry .He w i l l leave after Easter to accept the curacy of St. Luke’

s church , San Fran

ci sco, Cal .TheWoman’

s Aux i l iary w i l l meet dur ing March at the fol low ing housesMarch 7 , M rs . Faxon ; March 1 4, Mrs. E. T. Sm i th ; March 21 , M i ss Mab e l Hal l ;March 28, M rs. Lauderb urn .

The fo l low ing are the special preachers for the remainder of Lent : Mar . 8

Rev . George J . Prescott , rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, BostonMar . 1 5

,Rev . Samuel J . Babcock , rector Of Chr i st Church , H yde Park , and arch

deacon of New Bedford ; Mar . 1 7 , Rev. S. H . H i l l i ard, secretary of the ChurchTemperance Associ at ion , Boston ; Mar . 22, Rev . J ohn M . McGann , rector Of theChurch Of the H o ly Sp i r i t , Mattapan ; Mar . 26 , Rev. J ames P. Hawkes, rector OfSt. Pau l ’s Church , Dedham ; Mar . 29 , Rev. C l i fford Gray Twomb ley , rector of

St . Pau l ’s church , Newton H igh lands ; Mar . 81 , Rev. J ohn Matteson ,rector of

Church Of the Messiah , Aub urndale.

In addi t i on to the regu lar Sunday serv ices dur ing Lent , there i s a choralserv ice every Sunday afternoon at hal f- past four , w i th a b r ief address on thepract ical du t ies Of the Chr i st ian l i fe. Themu sic is led by a cho i r of ch i ldi en

who have b een under tra in ingby the Rector for some t ime. As the serv i ce isof a popu lar nature, i t is hoped that there may b e a large attendance. Everyone is welcome.

Rev. Dr . G.W. Sh inn , Of Newton , is giv inga course Of addresses onWednes

day afternoons On the sub ject “SomeModern Saints.

” The serv ice is at hal fpast four .

fi n‘

M o n thly C a l en da r

Maugus C lub . Ladies’Night .Woman

’

s C lub . Mr. Ross Turner. Maugus Hal l ,Afternoon Tea. Mrs. Gertrude Pl ympton, Livermore Road; 4to 6.

Lectureon “TheEvolut ion of American Humor.

” Rev . John Snyder.

Maugus Hal l ; P. M .

Whist C lub . At Mrs. Pooler’s,WashingtonSt. ,Wel lesley; P. M .

Stereopt icon Lecture. Professor Perrin, Shaw Hal l .Afternoon Tea. Miss Bachelder,Wasliington St : 4to 6.

Educat ion Associat ion. Professor Perrin. At House of Mr. C . A.

Sib ley ; 7 . 45P. M .

Town Meet ing.

Stereopt icon Lecture. Professor Perrin. Shaw Hal l .Wel lesley C lub .

G ibsonPictures. Wel lesleyCongregat ional ChurchChapel , 7 .45P. M .

Afternoon Tea. Mrs. J . W. Peabody , Abbott Road ; 4to 6 P. M .

Woman’s C lub . In Cathay.

” Miss Louise Manning Hodgk ins ;P. M .

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John FiskeHATEVER his topic may be it is a lways a del ight and apr iv i lege to l isten to Prof . Fiske or to read his wr i tings.

No one has done so much as he to promote interest inUni ted States hi story. He enters so heart i ly into the

sceneswhich he describes, his imaginat i ve power issogrea t,his sympathy so complete, his judgment so sane and his

style so c lear and beaut i ful that he has gained a host ofreaders

,to whom the history of our coun try had hi therto

seemed a rather dreary theme. Mr. F iske is one of thosegeniuses, the story of whose ear ly l i fe is the despa i r of

ord inarymen. H is career as a studen t of h istory began when he was

six years old, when he read Ro l l in, Josephus and Go ldsmi th’s Greece.

At seven he was reading Caesar. Before he was eight he had read al l

of Shakespeare, much of M i l ton, Bunyan and Pope. He began Greekat n ine. By eleven he knew his G ibbon

,Robertson, Prescott and most

of Froissaut. At thi rteen he read V irgi l , Sal lust , Livy and a host ofother Lat in authors; and so on , No wonder he is a great hi stor ian.

But he has b een a leader in scient ific thought a l so, recogn ized as the

leadingAmer ican expounder of the teachings of Herb ert Spencer, andby v irtue of his own original discover ies acknow ledged as an independent author i ty. The re l igious world owes him a deb t of grat itude

,for no wr i ter in thi s country has done so much as he to dis

sipate the senseless antagon ism wh ich once ex isted between rel igiousteachers and students of sc ience. He is a rareman who has thus placedunder ob l igat ion to h imsel f three such groups of people, lovers of history, lovers of nature and lovers of rel igion.

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H o r izo n s

BY 15.A'

BELL.A HOWE FISKE

Beneath the dul l eaves of a tenemen tMy w indow crouches ; your commanding towersLook out on fields aglow w i th streams and flowers;If thou on deeds of l ight, I of the dark am bent

,

Let God be judge, who chose our firmament ;

Yours sunl i t,m ine beset w i th smi t ing showers,

M ine b id wi th roofs and yours star- ev ident,

To judge a l ike such a l ien l i ves as ours,

No creed persuades me can b e God’s inten t .

C apr ice

BY FREDERIC ./l . WHITIzNG

When Apr i l woke one morn ing,She sm i led and danced w i th glee.

Her eyes were b lue,The sk ies were

,too

,

As b lue as b l ue cou ld be.

The sunshine soft caressed herWh i le Apr il sm i led again,

As who wou ld say:

“Trust me todayIt shal l not be in vain.

Yet Apr i l proved capr icious,J ust when my trust was won ;

Wi th frown and poutShe turned ab ou t

,

And clouded was the sun.

Her smi les were changed to frownings;

She wept wi th sudden fears,

Ti l l through the air

And everywhereWere scattered countless tears.

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its influence. The Sunday serv ices w i th the d ist ingu ished preachers,who come from a d istance

,and the inspi r ingmusic are open to al l our

townspeople. Many of the lectures the Co l lege is gl ad to make publ ic

,l imi tat ion of space permi t t ing. There are graduate students in

a lmost al l departments, and in some of the sem inar ies special work ispursued bypersons outside the Co l lege. The charm ing festivals of midw inter and summer b r ingpoetryand grace to many w i thout the Col legel im i ts. The youth and gaiety and enthusiasm of the studen ts overflowsin a hundred ways, so that the town is a happier place to l i ve in by

reason of the Co l lege.

The h igh ideals, the scho lar ly at tainments, the desi re to prepare

for a useful l i fe,the examples of r ight l i v ingwhich a co l lege communi ty

sets,these are after al l the real th ings of value, intangib le, it is true,

b ut surely find ing the i r way from every true centre of learn ing to everyone w i thi n reach of its influence.

The Edi tor of OUR TO\VN w ishes to place b efore his readers some

aspects of di ff eren t work carr ied on atWel lesley, wi th a v iew to fostering the connect ion wh ich shou ld ex ist b etween every co l lege and the

commun i ty whi ch surrounds it. For our modern co l lege is not a thi ngapart by i tsel f, the scho lar no longer seeks a c lo istered seclus ion .

Learn ing is st i l l l i v ing; and though some of the best years of our

youth are gi ven to acqu i rement,that must pass into l i fe before i t

becomes avai l ab le. It is therefore that I welcome the inv i tat ion to

say a word in these col umns,b el iev ing as I do that we have common

a ims for the good of all, and that the Co l lege must make its contr ib ut ionto the wel fare of the commun i ty in the most generous spi r i t poss ib le.

El io t'

s Pr ayin g In dian sBy Prof. Jarah F. Whiting

N the l ib rary of a fr iend in New York,who has made a

special ty of co l lect ingAmer icana,I discovereda b ook , now

most rare,which is of local h istor ic interest .

The date of the b ook is 1 653,and its t i t le page, volumi

nous af ter the manner of the t ime,reads as fo l lows: “Tears

of repentance, or a narrat i ve of the progress of the gospelamong the Indians, sett ing forth not only thei r presen tstate and condi t ion, but sundry confess ions of sin by d iversof the said Indians, wrought upon by the saving power of

the gospel . Related byM r. E l iot and M r. Mahew.

”The

is of the nature of a report from itsm iss ionar ies to the “Society6

for the Propagat ion of the Gospel among the Indians in England.

The contents of the b ook consists first of a dedicat ion to Cromwel lby the President of the Corporat ion in London, fo l lowed by the reportof Mr. Mahew of his work in Martha

’s Vineyard; then fo l lows E l iot’s

dedicat ion of his part of the document to the“Lord General Cromwel l

raised up to overthrow Ant i - Chr ist,

”wh ich he begins by saying “I

know thy sou l longeth to hear t idings of God’s grace poured out uponthese go ings down (if the sun .

”The min ister from Boston

, who was

head of the Commi ttee to exam ine E l i ot’s converts, in troduces the finalreport which contains verb a t im confessions of the Indians wi th com

men ts thereon.

The m ission had begun in 1 646. In 1 651 there were many praying Indians, as they were ca l led, who asked to be formed into a church

,

and to “ob serve the ordinances of God in the ob serva t ion whereof they

see the godly Engl i sh wal k .”M r . E l io t put them off unt i l they had “

come up in to civ i l ordinances

,and the fix ing of themselves in hab i tat ions and labor.

”So a

si te was selected on the b ank of the Char les at a place cal led Natick,

the foundations of a town were la id, a b r idge was b ui l t, three streetswere flanked w i th w igwams, and a capacious meet ing- house and school

house after the Engl ish style was bui l t, wi th a prophet’s chamber for

the m issionary when he came out. Al l the sawing for th is was done bythemselves; a lso they had clawed and b roken up the ground, so thatthey more appl ied themsel ves to labor than former ly and treated thei rsquaws bet ter .

In 1 652, the t ime was thought to be r ipe for a comm i t tee of min

isters and magistrates to come out from Bostom and Roxb ury to -

pro

nounce upon thegenu ineness of thi s work of grace. We can picturethe scene on a spot certain ly near where the E l iot Oak now stands at

South Nat ick . The horses of the delegation, who hadmade their toilsome journey in to the w i lds

,tethered beneath the trees which were

clothed in al l thei r autumn glory, for i t was October ; the assemb ly of

red men in the rude meeting- house,the grave magistrates and elders

l i ke a Sanhedr im to judge each case,and the eager sympathet ic E l iottak ingdown every word and encouraging the t im id, for these ch i ldren

in the fai th were “much daun ted to speak before so great and grave an

assemb ly.

One by one the Indians related thei r experience, and a memb er of

the delegation sa id,“to see and hear these Indians opening their mouths

and l i f t ing up thei r hands and eyes in so lemn prayer to the l iv ingGod,

and confessing the name of the Lord Jesus is more than usual . They

performed the dut ies wi th such grave and sober countenances and wi thsuch comely reverence in gesture and carr iage and such plenty of tearsas did argue that they spoke with some good affect ion .

” Then fo l lowthe confessions of Totherswamp, andWaban

,and Nonequassum

’

,thei r

schoo lmaster,and Magus and a dozen others

,which are a cur ious com

b inat ion of ch i ldl i ke simpl ici ty and theo logical expressions which theycou ld not possib ly understand.

E l iot’s first sermon among them had been from the tex t in Ezekiel,

where the prophet cal l s the b reath of God from the four winds of

heaven to gi ve l i fe to the dryb ones around. It was v iewed as an omen

that thei r word for spi r it or Wind wasWaban,the name of their ch ief .

He was one of the converts,and his confession reads in part : “Before

I heard of God many ev i l things my heart did work . I w i shed forr iches

,I w ished to be a w i tch, I wished to be a sachem. When the

Engl ish taught me I was angry. A fter the great sickness I consideredwhat the Engl ish do and des i red to pray to God. I thought, could Godunderstand? When I asked they answered God doth understand al l

languages upon earth. I do not know how to confess and I fear I shal lbel ieve slowly, but al l is the t rue heart and this day I do not so much

desi re good words as thoroughly to open my heart.

”

This confession seemed to the elders too simple to be sat isfactory.

Waban had not discoursed on the first man,and how in Adam

’s fal l we

sinned all as some of the others did. Mr. E l iot was ev ident ly disappo inted in thi s judgment, and final ly they received test imony that“among the Indians his wal k was exemplar, that his gi f t was not so

much in expressing himsel f as in ru l ing and judgi ng of cases wherei nhe is pat ient and pruden t ; also he was a great drawer- ou to rel igion.

”

So the elders concluded to accept him rather for his works than his

fa i th.

Some of them,especial ly the schoo lmaster, were “very longsom,

cons ider ing the en largement of spi r i t God gave them.

” The e ldersbecame impat ient lest the sun set before they fin i shed the solemn work,

and the pl ace being very remote in the woods, the n ights longand co ld,they left after hav i ng spoken words of comfort and acceptance of his

“poor labor”

to E l iot .kg a?

Have you heard of the new di sease that has b roken out among the 400?

No ; what is i t Automob i l iousness.—Brooklyn Lif e.

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thi s knowledge to forms seen in nature, in the human form,and in the

handiwork of man . We not on ly l ive in a natural un iverse,but are

surrounded by an art ific ial env i ronmen t as wel l , so that the power to

ob serve is not confined to nature study al one, b ut to the study of

pictures, bu i ldings and the more fam i l iar products of appl ied or con

struct i ve art.

The power of ob servat ion is st imu lated also by the study of co lor,b ased upon an understand ing of the devel opmen t of co lor from its

simplest elements, not on ly to create,if need be

,a “co lor sense

”so

cal led, b ut to Open the ch i ld’s eyes to the var iety and harmony of co l or

in the wor ld about him. When a studen t real i zes that from three tonesof green, dark , l ight and a tone between, there are thi rty- three comb inationspossib le, he begins to be ab le to apprec iate the sub t le propert iesof a s imple pigment and the man i fold var iety presented in nature and

in art. To this end exercises are given in color class ificat ion, leadingup to the study of more complex relations of co lor and tone, and theappl icat ion of these theor ies to the use of co lor in paint ing. We hear

of persons hav ing a natural “co lor sense,

”and it is true that some

m inds are more sensi t i ve to gradat i ons of co lor than others, b ut un lessthis sense becomeswel l - formu lated know ledge, ei ther through a study of

theory or through long exper ience in the use of pigments, it is of l i t t lepract ical use to its possessor.

The power to ob serve is on ly part ial ly developed, un less i t is sup

plemented by the ab i l i ty to rememb er,and to form a mental picture of

the observat ions made. In order to b r ing ab ou t th is, pract ice in drawing from memory wi thout a model isgiven, leading to the d i rect use of

the imaginat ion and creative facu l t ies. So important is this last - mentioned phase of the work considered

,that i t is appl ied to near ly all

depar tmen ts, from s imple arrangements of natural mater ials w i thinprescr ibed spaces to ab stract des ign, which is pure invent ion.

In an artic le of this length and scope it is impossib le to gi vedeta ilswhichwou ld i l l ustrate thispart of the sub ject. Itmust besufficientto say that al l the b est intel lectual powers are most act ively cal led intopl ay when i nventing or creating something al ready thought out.

Thus far we have b een consider ing draw ing as one study amongothers for the promot ion of intel lectual l i fe a long certain l ines

,but it is

also character i zed by a distinct ly different purpose, in that i t a ims tocal l out express ion of thought in v is ib le forms

,or in other words to

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give so- cal led “motor - tra in ing.

”The ab i l i ty to make the hand the

servant of the m ind is becom ing more and more recogn i zed as a v i talpart of educat ion. It is the aim of the drawing courses to make thistra in ing as thorough and comprehensive as poss ib le in the t ime tha t isgiven in the schoo ls. I t takes var ied forms; in free and exact performamos, in the mak ing of s imple art icles in S loyd paper, as wel l as inthe more fam i l iar work of draw ing and paint ing. I t is the aim of

di rectors of drawing to have such too ls and mater ia ls used as have been

proved by exper ience to be most natural to the ch i ld at certa in stagesof his developmen t . For this reason the b rush is now put in the hand

of young chi ldren and exact, fine work is no longer expected of them.

Wi th o lder pupi ls more difiicult mediums are given and more defin i teand prec ise resu l ts are requ i red. To contro l the motor impu lse is the

end sought ; and the simplest mater ial s which may b r ing about thisresu l t are gi ven, that the chi ld may b e assisted ra ther than hamperedby the too l w i th which he tr ies to express his thought .

A l though the last phase of the sub ject, draw ing as an aesthet ictra in ingdoes not proper ly come under considerat ion at this time, I feelcompel led, in closing, to ment ion it

,as it is the underlying mot ive

which welds the var ious depar tments into one consistent who le.

The format ion of taste,the development of an appreciat ion of

b eauty in nature and in art is a slow and gradual process, dependingupon the personal ity of the teacher and the env i ronment of the stu

dent . It is accompl ished by ways and means so sub t le that they defydescr ipt ion in words. Wi th o lder m inds the con templation of beautyin art can be st imu lated by d i rect, intel lectual study of the works of

masters and the pr inc iples therein d isplayed, but w i th younger m indsthe power of the “fine arts” must be fel t through natura l and not

forced contact w i th products of that art. The people of Wel lesleyappreciate this in beau tifying the schoo l yards, and in assist ing the

teachers in mak ing the schoo l rooms at tract ive.

“It is in the power of every one w ith care and t ime to form a justjudgment of the relative mer i ts of works of art. To arr ive at thi s no

pecu l iar powers of m ind are requ i red, no sympathy with part icu larfeel ings, nothingwhich every one of ordinary intel lect does not in some

degree possess, powers, namely of observat ion and intel l igence, wh ichby cul tivat ion may be b rought to a high degree of perfect ion and acuteness.

”

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Wellesley H i l ls Woman’

s C lubUITE a good audience was present at theWoman’

s C lub onthe afternoon of March 20 to hear M i ss Louise Mann ingHodgk ins, who has recent ly returned from a tr ip around

thewor ld, including a longv is i t in China . Her accoun t ofWhat she had seen

,th ings she had actual ly eaten a t feasts

of ceremony, her observations of schoo l s and systems of

study, and the painfu l and trying exam inat ions necessary

for office or promot ion, was most interest ing. Very entertain ing, a lso, was her descr ipt ion of a nat ive mi l i tary dr i l l ,the home l i fe, the inter ior of an elegant Chinese home

whose mistress was agraduate of Lasel le Sem inary. She had a number

of dain ty l i tt le carved wooden images wh ich were distr ibu ted amongthe audience for inspect ion. A f ter the lecture coffee and sandw icheshelped to pass a very pleasant social hour.

An importan t reso lut ion was offered a t the business meet ingbeforethe lecture. This was to the effect that the Wel lesley H i l ls Woman’

s

C lub w i thdraw from theNat ional Federat ion, therebyprotest ing againstthe act ion taken at M i lwaukee last June in regard to the admission of

theWoman’s Era C lub of Boston to membership in the nat iona l b ody,

The reso lution was admirab ly worded, b oth firm and cour teous in its

expression, and in the discussion which fo l lowed seemed to be general lyapproved. The reso lut ion w i l l be acted upon a t the nex t meet ing.

The nex t meet ingwi l l be heldApr i l th i rd, at P. M .,in Maugus

Hal l , andw i l l beaddressed byMrs.Hart leyDennet t under the auspices oftheA rtsandCraftsCommi t teeon the sub ject of “ArtsandCraftsas relatedto Consumer and Producer.

” Mrs. Dennet t is a recogn i zed authorityin her departmen t and thoroughly wel l equ ipped for her work . She is

especia l lywel l known in Boston art c i rcles, through her eff orts in repro

ducing and rev i v i ng the interest in the wonderfu l and beaut i fu l gi ldedleather,which b rought such weal th and fame to Cordova and other

Span ish c i t ies as ear ly as the fourteen th and fif teenth cen tur ies. A fterlong study and pat ient exper iment, the or iginal process used in th isalmost lost art has been di scovered and worked out byMrs. Dennet tand her si ster. The resu l ts are most beaut i fu l . The fab r ic produced

possesses wonderfu l qual i t ies of endurance,and lends i tsel f readi ly to

the aid of art ist and archi tect in furn ishing the r ichest and choicestin ter ior decorat ion.

Mrs. Dennet t had prev iously estab l ished the departmen t of designat Drexel Inst i tu te, Phi ladelphia, b ut after a few years resigned herposi tion there for the sake of prosecu t ing her study of Cordovanleather in Europe.

For reference to lecture by Prof . F iske on Apr i l 1 7 see edi tor ialnot ice.

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p . T. FARWELL, WELLESLEYHILLSA

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UERTISING MANAGER, j. c. SHEA, NATiCK

ADV. J IGENT, ADAMS, WELLESLEYHILLS

Entered at thepostofficeatWellesley Hills as second- classmatter.

was»?

Ed ito r ia l

TheWoman’s C lub confers a favor upon the commun i ty by invit

ingProf. F iske to lecture here on the even ing of Apr i l 1 7 . H is topicis to be “Char les Lee

,the So ldier of Fortune

,

”one of the most cecen

tr ic, picturesque and perplex ing personal it ies in the h istory of our

coun try. Th is lecture is to b e given in the even ing in order that al lmay have an oppor tun i ty of at tendi ng. The adm ission for those not

members of the Club w i l l be fi fty cents.

Wi th this number we open a new department on “Books WorthReading,” in which we expect to giveb r ief not ices of some of the best

current l i terature. Whi le not in tending to exercise any rigid censor

ship, it is hoped tha t the b ooks to which we refer wi l l always provewor thy of commendat ion .

The art icle on “The Col lege and the Communi ty,” by Presiden tHazard

,is thefirst of a ser ies wh ichweexpect to pr int on l i fe inWel les

ley Co l lege. The fo l low ing are some of the tOpics:“Advantages of

‘Vel lesley Co l lege for Nature Study,” “Po l i t ica l and Social Science atWel lesley,” “Music at Wel lesley,” “The Study of A rt at Wel lesley,”“Ancient and Modern Languages,

” “Engl ish at Wel lesley,” “Soc ialLi fe Among the Wel lesley Students,” and “Rel igious Li fe at Wel lesley.

” These art icles w i l l be author i tat ive and va luab le both to studen tsand townspeople.

In the in terest of integr i ty, we cal l at ten t ion to an encouragingart icle ent i tled “A Borrower as a Banker Sees H im

,

” in “TheWor ld’s

Work ” for March. It presents a statement of the principle by whichbanks are gu ided in mak ing loans, and demonstrates that as a pract icalbusiness pr inciple “a good name is rather to be chosen than gi l t - edgedco l lateral .” These are the closingwords “The man who says that hecannot succeed in bus iness b ecause he is too honest is a whiner and acoward, and dares not face his own real fau l ts. Business today ishonesty.

”The magaz ine in wh ich this ar t icle appeared is new and

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worthy of not ice. If we were “doomed to l ive a lone upon a desertisland”and somehow perm i t ted one per iodical as a source of informat ion ab out l i fe in the outer wor ld, we wou ld choose “The Wor ld’

s

Work .” For w i thou t any depreciat ion of the more purely l i terarymagaz ines, thi s is themost l iv ingper iodical of wh ich we know. It tel lsof men and nat ions that do th ings and what they are do ing. It is of

necessi ty opt imi stic, for i t is a monthly report of progress. And it is

i tsel f, in at tractive appearance, abundan t i l lustrat ion, wor ld- wide reach

for informat ion,in b readth of interest

,in alert and enthusiast ic spi r i t,a splendid represen tat i ve of al l that is best and foremost in “thewor ld’

s

work .”Our Pub l i sher, Mr. Char les M . Eaton, deserves especial ment ion

for the reputat ion he is mak ing for the Maugus Press. The art i st icappearance of OUR TOWN for this year has won considerab le not ice andis a cred i t to the office that issues i t . We doub t i f another local magaz ine for a town l i ke W’

el lesley can be found to equal it in at tract i veappearance. And this mon th Mr. Eaton has al so pub l ished the spr ingnumber of “The Crescent,” a quar ter ly magaz ine of the Gamma Phi

Beta Society. It is a beaut i fu l specimen of press work . The com

mun i ty maywel l feel a sense of local pr ide in such art istic product ions.

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BO OKS Wo r th Readin gTheNew Epochf or Fai th. By GeorgeA . Gordon, D.D . (Houghton , M itfl in

Co . An interpretat ion and a prophecy. A rev iew of the theo logicalrevo lut ion of the N ineteenth Century, “

greater than that under Lu ther ,” and al ight on the way ahead. The sub stance of ab out one- hal f of th i s b ook was a

course of Lowel l Inst i tute lectures. It is not, therefore, addressed so lely to thescholast ic m ind. The weal th of its thought is encycIOpaedic. Science, ph i losophy and h i story, ancient and modern , are drawn u pon to enf orce the desi redlesson . For many a day readers of the b ook w i l l turn back to its pages to find

aga in the ep igrammat ic interpretat i ons of the great Masters. P lato, Kant ,H egel , Car l y le, Thomson ,Tennyson ,Browning, Darw in ,Wal lace, Spencer , Fiske,are drawn upon and character i zed in del ightfu l fash ion . The chap ter on

doub t is one of themost important in the b ook . The sect i on given to humor,inseparab l e from true rel igion ,

” is un i que and deep ly sign ificant. Dr . Gordon

ho lds one theory wh ich he defends w i th an aggressi veness that suggests theone logical flaw in his th ink ing. He smashes al l b arr i ers that stand in its

way. But when he says that “ if the pure exegesi s of the teach ings of J esus”

confl ict w ith his theory he wou ld deny the genu ineness of the teach ing, he

seems to b e b l ind to the fact that b y the samemethod another m ight refute hisown h ighest au thor ity for the un i que personal i ty of J esus. And yet we knowof no Amer ican wr i ter who presents so c lear l y and rat ional l y the b est con

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ceptions of the great themes of E lect i on ,the Atonement

,theTr in i ty , the Ho ly

Sp i r i t , the Incarnat ion , the person of Chr ist, the Sacraments, the author i ty of

the Scr i p tures. Noth ing is b etter than his b r ief interpretat ions of J onah and

J ob . Amongthemu l t i tude of ep igrammatic utterances are these “Material ism is the degradat ion of m ind and the consecrat ion of mud.

" Evo lut ionthat thought to cast man down to hel l has ra i sed him up to heaven .

” “The

gospel of the Incarnat i on of the Son of God in J esus Chr i st confronts a largeropportun i ty than it has ever yet confronted.

” Law is the si lent argumentat ion of God wi th men .

”

B ird Homes. By A . Radcl i ffe Dugmore. (Doub leday , Page& Co .

Here is a treat for the “ordinary unsci ent ific person ,

”the l over of nature for

her own sake. B i rds “in thei r roles as heads of fam i l ies,” this is the di st in

gu ishing theme of the b ook . And b ecause the b ook is un i que and the wr iterone of those raremen to whom b i rds and w i ld creatures confidingl y tel l thei rsecrets, what he says w i l l be eager ly read even b y those who are deep ly versedin the sub ject . Here are some of the top ics presented : B i rds’

Nests,” “Egg

Col lect ing,

” Photograph ing Nests and Young B i rds,” “The Rear ing and

Keep ing of B irds.

”But the larger part of the b ook is taken up w i th a classi

fication according to var ious methods of nest - bu i lding. The descr i pt ion wh ichaccompan i es th is classificat ion introduces u s to the character and hab i ts ofthese shy feathered folk in a del ightfu l manner . H ere are a few l ines f rom the

sect ion on the b lue- b i rd “ He is my favor i te ; and wh i le I am wr i t ing of him

a pet b lue- b i rd, b ut three months old, is si tt ing on my paper, seem ing to

wonder what I am do ing and why I do not p lay w i th him. He n i ps my penci l ,b ut I pay no attent ion to him ; then he tr i es to creep up my s leeve, and st i l l Ipay no attent ion . So, di sgusted, he fl ies off to search for ants or other smal li nsects. Af ter a t ime I raise my hand and cal l . Back he comes l ike a flash ,

and, hover ingmore l ike a large moth than a b i rd, he perches on my fingers,

singing at the same t ime a soft l i tt le song that is a method of speech .

”Th i s is

a suggest ion of the int imacy of the wr i ter w i th the creatures he descr i b es. Thei l lu strat ions of the book are b eaut i fu l photographs from nature, many of themco lored w i th remarkab le accuracy , p lacing the work in l ine w i th “

The Butterfly Book ,” “

B i rd Neighbors”and the other wonderfu l Nature b ooks pub l i shed

b yMessrs. Doub l eday and Page.

School Sani tation and Decoration. By Severance Burrage and Henry T.

Ba i ley. (D . C . Heath Co. I l lus. Th i s is an important and attract iveb ook wh ich shou ld b e in the hands not on ly of al l schoo l offic ial s and teachers,b ut al so of parents and al l others who are interested in the pub l ic schoo l s. M r .

Ba i leycontr ib utes three chapters upon theart i st ic treatment of the schoo l roomand one on beauty in schoo l work . Al l of th i s is profusel y i l lustrated, andmuch of i t is as app l icab le to the home as to the schoo l . There is a ser ies of

beau t i fu l photogravu res of typical works of art, w i th b r i ef comments u ponthe i r decorat ive val ue. Another ser ies of p lates presents examp les of art i st icschoo l work w i th suggest ions, and there are class ified l i sts of works of art

su i ted to the di fferent schoo l grades. The rest of the b ook , equal ly interest ingand even more important , treats of the si te of the b u i lding, its construct i on ,furn i sh ing, vent i lat ion ,

heat and l ight ing, san i tary prob lems, contagious

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to a Lenten sermon in musical tones. At the Sen ior concer t,March 1 1

,the pr incipal at tract ion was M iss MaudPowel l

,the Amer ican

v io l in ist . M iss Powel l played magnificent ly, and w i l l successfu l ly bearcompar ison w i th any of the v io l in ists that are heard in SymphonyHal l .Her tone is fu l l , free and a lmost human in qual i ty; her enthusiasm is

un l im i ted; she plays a lways in tune. Her program was verygood,

b oth in qual i ty and in range.

The Lenten - Easter vespers, March 24, was d ivided into two par ts.

The first present ing the death of Chr ist on the cross; the second, H is

resurrect ion. For the former the music was the Bach chorale, “O

sacred Head now wounded,

”and select ions from T. Dubo is’s “The

Seven LastWords of Chr ist .” For the lat ter,“Ego sum resurrectio

”

and “Fel i x cu lpa” from Gounod’s

“Mors et V i ta,” fo l lowed by “Be

thou faithfu l unto death” from Mendelssohn’s

“Saint Pau l,

”an anthem

“Break forth into J oy (Barnby) and“Onward, Chr ist ian So ldiers”

(Macdougal l . ) The A lb ion Quartet te (Messrs. T. E. Johnson, C . B .

Shirley, .

G. H . Reme le,G. R . C lark ) , M iss Edi th Torrey, soprano, the

Wel les ley Co l lege cho i r and Associate Professor Macdougal l renderedthemusic. The aim was to make the serv ice a sympathet ic, devot ionalpresentat ion of the sub ject largely through musical channels. These

vesper serv ices are in no sense concerts.

March 25, M iss Anna M i l ler Wood,mezzo- contral to

,and M i ss

Caro lyn Belcher, v io l in i st, M issB lanche Tib b i t ts and M iss GertrudeBe lcher, accompan ists, gave a vo ice and v io l in reci ta l in Co l lege Ha l lchapel . M iss Wood is a very capab le art i st

,wi th a charm ing stage

presence; her vo ice is of good range, and she has the power of co lor ingit so that she seems to have several vo ices. M issWood

’s program was

of unusual range; her enunc iat ion is verygood, and the qual i ty of her

voice very pleasing. A l together she is as versati le and interest ing a

s inger as we have in Boston. M issWood is a San Franc isco gi r l ands ings in Arthur Foote’

s cho ir . M iss Belcher is hardly out of her

“teens,

”b ut has had a long course of study in Boston and at the Hoch

schu le. She has a wel l - deve loped execut ion, plays in tune, and hasmuch enthusiasm. Her tone is fu l l , and she has unusual energy for so

young a pub l ic player.

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We llesley C l ubThe last business meet ing of the C lub year, postponed from the

1 8th because of the town meetiug, was held at the Brunswick onWednesday, the 20th. I ts sub ject was the possib i l i t ies for a sewerage

system for Wel lesley, and the guest of the even ing was M r. X . H .

Goodenough, ch ief engineer of the State Board of Heal th. Mr. George

A . K imb a l l,member of the Metropo l i tan Sewerage Commission, al so

was present .Mr. Goodenough

’s talk was the r ight k ind from the r ight man. It

is doub t fu l i f any other man cou ld have presented what the C lubwan ted to know in as complete and accurate a manner . Stereopt icanpictures were shown of fi l ter beds in use and in process of construct ionin several Massachuset ts towns. The speaker gave the cost of the d ifferent beds and systems, explained their operat ion and resul ts, and

answered many quest ions, b oth dur ing the exhib i t ion of the v iews and

afterward. In his opin ion, whi le it wou ld b e possib le for the who letown to drain into a projected metropol i tan sewer which may be con

structed to some nearby part of Newton, the expense of so do ingwou ldb e ab out per year greater than turn ing the sewage from tha tpar t of the town near the Fal ls in to the present Newton sewer, and

d isposing of sewage from the remainder of the town on sewage beds.

There are in town two areas su i tab le for this purpose. One near

the junct ion of Wab an b rook and the Char les r iver,to which sewage

wou ld flow by grav i ty, and one near B lossom street, whose use wou ldrequ i re pumping. When this proposed high level metropol i tan sewer

w i l l be b u i l t is uncertain, and whi le the Newton sewer from the Fal lsand its connect ions are now worked nearly to thei r fu l l capaci ty, theyw i l l be rel ieved by a metropol i tan sewer now under construct ion to an

ex tent which w i l l enab le them to take a par t of the Wel lesley sewage

for the nex t seventeen years.

In Mr. Goodenough’s opin ion there was l i t tle or no possib i l i ty that

the scheme of a metropo l i tan sewer from Worcester to the sea everwou ld b ecome a rea l i ty. The sewage beds of b oth Framingham and

Nat ick are si tuated on the Worcester turnpike, ab out four m i les fromWel lesley, and the pract ical work ings of th is method, therefore, mayeasi ly b e seen .

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Y oun g People’

s Depar tmen t[Ch i ldren ’

s b r ight sayi ngs, h i therto unpub l i shed, are so l ici ted for th i sdepartment .]

A five year old b oy at Harvard, Mass.,hav ing heard of the

Queen’s death, asked his mother i f there wou ld be another queen now.

She repl ied that there wou ld be a k ing nex t, whereupon he prompt ly

inqu ired,“And when the k ingdies wi l l there be an ace?

”

Li t tle Fred was tyingpaper boots on the k i tten’s paws when hi s

aunt remonstrated with him, saying,

“Why, Fred, I thought youbel onged to the Band of Mercy!

” “So I do, said Fred

,“b ut

,

” he

added, apologet ica l ly, “you see

,my badge is on my other coat .

If Y ou Lo v e M e , Say 50

(Wr i t ten as a schoo l exerci se by a pup i l in theWel les ley H igh Schoo l . )Your eyes are l ike the sun l ight’s gleam,

Ful l radian t and glowing,And mirrored in thei r depths, I deemThere is a love- knot growing,Which looks at me from out those orb s

And’round my heart entw ines so,

That,though I love you dearly,

I don’t qu i te dare to say so.

Your saucy, pout ing l ips I weenHo ld sweetness from the morn ing;

And oft sweet smi les reveal betweenTwo rows of pearl adorn ing;

Butwhen those si l ken locks hangdown,And o

’er your shoulders play so

,

It seems as if I wou ld go w i ldThat I can’t

,though I loveyou, sayso.

When you are near does nature b lushFrom jea lousy, I know ;

The b i rds around the foun tain’s gush

Sing love songs to you low.

Enamored by your Wi tching eyes

I wi l l no more delay so,

I love you dar l ingA l ice,Then if you love me, say so.

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We l l esley Chur ch New s

We l l esl ey C ongregatio n a l C h u rch

On March 9 . Mrs. Sau l Seagraves died. M rs. Seagraves was the o ldest resident memb er of the church .

M r . Wh i tman T. Winsor is st i l l very i l l .On March 27 , the

“Gib son P ictures ” were held in the chapel under theausp ices of the Chr i st ian Endeavor Society. There was a large audience, andover twenty do l lars was real i zed.

On Apr i l 14, M r . D . W. Waldron , of the Boston C i tyM issions, speaks b eforethe Chr ist ian Endeavor Society , at 6 P . M .

, on his work .The church has b een undergo ing some repai rs, and i t is hoped that i t wi l l

soon b e new l y pa inted.

The Sunday schoo l is to give a concert on Easter Sunday at 6 P . M . ,in the

church .

Apr i l 28, meet ing of officers and teachers of the Sunday schoo l atMr . I . H .

Farnham’s house, at P . M .

We l lesl ey H i l l s C ongr ega tio n a l C h u rch

Ladies’ meet ings. Apr i l 2, address by M rs. Wh i te, of Seaman ’s Fr i end

Society, 3 P . M . , at Mrs. Peck’s ; Apr i l 1 6, sew ing al l day; at 3 P . M . , annual b usiness meet ing at Mrs. Wm . H . Vaughn

’s.

Easter serv ice w i th specia l music on Sunday mow ing,Apr i l 7 , and a collect ion for theWel les ley f ree b ed at the Newt on hosp i ta l .

“An hour w i th Uncle Remus and others,” for ch i ldren of al l ages, the

gr own- up ch i ldren inc l uded, by M i ss Newman of Wel lesley Co l lege, Shaw Hal l ,

on the afternoon of A pr i l 26, after schoo l . T ickets for ch i ldren ten cents.

Adu l ts, fifteen cents. Not ice of further detai l s later .

The sem i - annual conference of churches w i l l be held Apr i l 10 w i th the

Leyden church , Brook l ine, on Beacon street , opposi te Englewood Avenue.

Theme :“TheRedempt ive Forces in the Church .

”Af ternoon session b egins

at even ing sessi on at Address in the even ingat byDr . A lexanderMcKenzieon

“ Jesus Chr i st the Redeemer . A l l are inv i ted.

U n ita r ia n So c iety

On March 5, the Pastor spoke to the Woman’s A l l iance at Roxb ury on the

sub ject of “The S ign ificance of Chr i st ian Science.

”

The first meet ing of the Un i tar ian C l ub was held Monday even ing, March

1 1 . A l though the weather was extremely bad, there were near ly th i rty of thegent lemen of the church in attendance. M r . Isaac Sprague was elected President of the C lub .

Rev. M r . Jaynes, of West Newton , gave an adm i rab le and hel pfu l paperb efore theWoman

‘

s A l l iance, on March 1 2, on“What to do w i th the Boys.

”

M i ss E l i zab eth Snyder , the Pastor’s second daughter , was marr ied at theparsonageMarch 1 9 , to Mr . Lew i s Prosper Delano of St . Lou is.

Mr . Snyder gavea lecture, at the inv i tat ion of the Congregat ional Society of

Wel lesley H i l ls, on March 7 , on“TheEvolut ion of Amer ican H umor ,

”and spoke

to the Un i tar ian C lub of Weston on March 21 .

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Jo int serv ice of the church and Sunday schoo l wi l l b e held at 4 P . M . EasterSunday.

Steps are b eing taken to give another Coffee Paity at Maugus Hal l soonafter Easter .

The South M iddlesex Un i tar ian Conferencewi l l meet at West Newton on

Wednesday , Apr i l 3 .

Un ion Vesper serv ice was held in the church at 5 P . M ., March 1 7 . The

mu sic was in charge of Mr . George Dud ley . Both pastors were present .St. A n drew

’

s C h u r ch

The Easter serv ices at St. Andrew’s church w i l l b e as fo l lows : Ho ly Com

mun i on at 7 .30 A . M . ; morn ing prayer , Ho l y Commun ion and sermon at 1 1 .00

A . M . ; ch i ldren’ss vespers at 4.00 P . M . The program of music for the morn ing

se1 vice w i l l include Te Deum and J ub i late in B flat by C . Vi l l iei s Stanfor ;d

Anthem ,

“I know that my Redeemei l i ves,” Char les V incent , Commun i on servi ce in E flat by A l fred J . Eyre; Anthem,

“They have taken awaymy Lord,

”

Sir J ohn Stainer .

PM"

M on thly C a len da r

Woman’C l ub . Art in its Relat ion to Producer and Consumer .

Mrs. H art leyDennett ; P . M .

Af ternoon Tea. Mrs. J ohn E . O ldham , Ab bott Road; 4 to 6 .

Wh i st C lub at M rs. F . H . Stevens,Wel les ley ; P . M .

CostumeWh ist , in aid of theNewEnglandPeabody Home for cr i pp ledch i ldren , at 2 o

’clock , at M rs. H . A . J osl in

’s,Wash ington street ,

Wel lesley. Non - p layers inv i ted. Costumes : Baby under five

years, nu rse or grandmother . A fine of fifty cents wi thout costume. Tickets fifty cents.

Afternoon Tea . M rs . George F . Reed, Livermore Road ; 4 to 6 .

Wel lesley C lub .

Afternoon Tea. M rs. J . W. Peab ody , Ab b ot t Road ; 4 to 6 .

Woman’s C lub . Prof . J ohn F i ske on Char les Lee, the So ldier of

Fortune”; P . M .

Maugus C l ub . Wh i st ; P . M .

Afternoon Tea. M rs. C . C . H enry,Wash ington street ; 4 to 6 .

Maugus C lub . Mat inee wh i st .“Uncle Remus .

”Shaw Ha l l ; 4. P . M .

Harvard G lee, Banjo and Mando l in C lub . Town Ha l l ; P . M .

lVoman’s C lub . Annual meet ing. Tea ; P . M

Maugus C lub M instrel s ; 8 .00 P . M .

8 .00 P . M .

COLLEGE CALENDAR FOR APRIL.

Term opens.

P ianofort e and v io l in reci tal . M i ss Mary A . Stowel l , p ian ist ; Mr .

Kar l Ondricek , of the Kn ei sel Quart ette, v io l in i st .Prof . Brown preaches ; A . M .

Dr . Donald preaches ; A . M .

M r . Wi l l iam C . Hammond, organ i st of Mount Holyoke, wi l l give an

organ reci tal in The Memor ial Chapel at P . M . To th is reci ta lal l townspeop le are invi ted.

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The Broken Pitcher JOSEPH E. DewITTdoes not pay to

mend now = a= days

We have them for lOcts.

High priced ones too

8L2“AIN 5T. ,

To whom itmay concern

I had suffered for many years from in

growing toe nai ls ; l consulted Doctors and

Chiropodists. ski lful and unskilful , but Ifound only temporary rel ief . At last I foundDr. Rudolph Mertin. who in a few weekseffected a radical and permanent cure.

From the first hour I placed myself inDr. Mertin

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Isa iah H en ry Fa rnhamBy Edward H . Chandler

HEN a man of strong personal character, and of unusualstab i l i ty of moral purpose, is suddenly taken out of the com

mun i tyin wh ich he has made his home, a certain amount ofv i tal i tygoesw i th him. Whether the indi v idualswho com

pose such a commun i ty are aware of it or not,there is a

common l i fe which b inds them together and gives them a

un i ted power. Whatever makes for strength in th i s com

mon l i fe is for the good of al l ; and whatever is weak is tothe detr iment of a l l . Good men cannot l i ve un to themselves. Every one about them shares the influence of their

goodness and is so much the poorer when that influence ceases.

So it is that Wel lesleymay tru ly feel the poorer for the loss of Mr.

Farnham’s bod i ly presence as a residen t of the town. It is upon char

acter such as his that the best achievments of th is earth ly l i fe are based.

Quiet, fai thfu l , accustomed to at tend scrupu lously to the proper conductof his b usiness, eminent ly fai r in his dea l ings, a lways ready to be helpful

,always even - tempered, andw i th a simple fai th in the rel igious truths

in which hehad been reared from chi ldhood,he added to the commun i ty

of Wel lesley an e lement of l i fewhich i t can less afford to lose than anything el se it possesses.

Death a lways comes as a shock,even when i t is ant icipated. But

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a death so sudden and caused so wi thout reason is a stunningb low. It

is idle to draw conclusions from i t . Let i t be enough to say that whenaman dies in the midst of his work , w i th the frui ts of his l ifeeffort visib le ab out him

,and wi th the respect and confidence Of those who have

worked w i th him,he leaves no uncer tain memory beh ind. Poster i ty

wi l l never have to apologi ze for him. Perhaps his v i tal influence isactua l ly the stronger because Of the verymanner Of his tak ing Off.

The story of Mr. Farnham’s l i fe of near ly fi ftyyears is one more

i l lustration Of New England character work ing alongitsmost effect i vel ine Of development . A country b oy, b orn in the l i tt le v il lage Of Woo lw i ch

,Maine, he was ear ly in l i fe thrown on his own resources of inven

tiveness. In his earlyb oyhood the fam i lymoved to Sabat tus, where thefather had charge Of the general store and the telegraph Office. Here

the son ga ined his first acquain tancew i th the electr ical science in whichhe later became so proficient . When he was seventeen, the fam i lyreturned toWoo lwich and his father took charge of the new ly- establ ished ra i l road station . By th is t ime he had developed much ingenu i tyin electr ica l dev ices

,and inWoo lwich he constructed one of the first

two telephones in the state Of Ma ine. H is l ine connected the stationw i th his home. The telephone was fastened in the tal l back of a bed

stead, al l the par ts bei nghome- made. In later years this telephone hasbeen exhib i ted as one Of . the remarkab le t r iumphs of inven t ive gen ius.

It was not manymonths before the first telephone exchange was establ ished in Port l and

,w i th Mr . Farnham and a boy as the sole Operators.

From that day to the presen t t ime he has advanced in his ab i l i ty as an

electr i c ian wi th the rapid development Of the science. Many of the

most effect i ve appl iances in connect ion wi th the centra l telephoneexchanges are the resu l ts of his constant study Of the prob lems as theyhave b een presen ted. Very few men have b een so ident ified wi th the

telephone science and have fo l lowed i t so c losely from its first beginp ings. For this reason very few men are ab le to fi l l the office now leftvacant .

In Wel lesley, Mr. Farnham has always b een a good ci t i zen .

A l though trained in a different rel igious denom inat ion from that of thechurch near his home, be waived his personal prejudices and en teredgladly into the local church work, doinghis part w i thout complaint andw i th an unfai l ing cordial i ty. For the past fewmonths, in an Officialpos i t ion, he has shown how readi lyhe cou ld lead others to fo l low him in

defin i te rel igious work . In his home he has been unt iring in his devot ion, and his chi ldren feel the loss of a genu ine Compan ion as wel l as Of6

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Chinese disease—arrested development . Undoub tedly, twenty- five or

thirty years ago French manufactures were far b etter than ours and

shone resplendent by compar ison, but, except in a l imi ted sense, it is no

longer so.

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Onem ight instancemany examples of the superior i ty of Amer icanover French products and operat ions, from the smal l wares of a lady

’s

work basket to garden too ls and farm implements. In the parks of

Par ismen are st i l l seen cl ipping the grass, not w i th modern mowers,

butwith ancien t—very ancient, straight - swathed - scythes. Thework,notwi thstanding the clumsy look of the implemen ts, is performed wi tha sk i l l that is character ist ic of the slow and painstak ing French workman

,leav ing a smoother surface than that which fol lows the more rapid

Amer ican cl ipper. The “Fa i ry step- ladder,dear to the hearts of

Amer ican housekeepers, is unknown ; a heavy, and pr im i t ive look ingaffai r, consist ing of two hand- made ladders, h inged at thei r tops and

opening in the form of a b igA,is un iversal ly used in its place.

Notwi thstanding the wel l - earned fame of the sewers of Par is,there

are parts of the ci ty where sewer connect ion has not yet been enforcedupon householders, and the court—and somet imes the house i tsel freeks of the ob ject ionab le cesspool , the occas iona l emptying of wh ichcont inues to be one of them idnight horrors of thepo l i te ci ty. Satisfac

tory'

san i tary arrangemen ts, somet imes incl ud ing even bath tub s, are

genera l ly found new in the bet ter class of hotels and pensions, as wel las in the residences of the weal thy. In the homes of the lower m iddleclasses and the dwel l ings of the poor, however, the san i tary arrange

ments are general ly of a pr imi t ive, often of a rude, nature, qu i te shocking to Amer ican sensib i l i ties

,whi le the bath tub is a thing unknown.

The casual sojourner in one of the ordinary pensions, who finds thisconven ience among the missingquant i t ies at his caravanserie, has, however

,one un i que resource in Par i s: Several b ath supply estab l ishmen ts

stand ready upon not ificat ion to send an ou tfi t to his room w i th l i t t ledelay, two men appear ingwi th a smal l truck

,of pecu l iar construct ion

,

upon which are borne a b ig copper bath tub and tanks of water . The

first is placed in his room,and

,being qu ick ly fi l led w i th water of what

ever temperature he may require,he finds i t poss ib le thus to “take his

ease in his inn” for a moderate considerat ion .

One of the first things to catch the wonder ing eye of the Amer icanand provoke exc lamat ions of surpr i se in this beautful ci ty, is the

c l umsy and mi rth-

provok ing (un t i l he has to use it) system of streetcars

,or trams

,

”wh ich lumber slowly and painfu l ly through its mag

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nificent b oulevards, puffing and jerk ing thei r double- decked enormi t iesalong l i ke some r idicu lous dry- land relat i ves of the Chinese junk . To

r ide in one is to b e wel l shaken up, wh ich, however, l ike horseback riding, may have a hygien ic v a l ue. There are certain indicat ions thateven Frenchmen desi re to see improvemen ts in this di rect ion . A l ine

of electr ic cars,model led somewhat upon the Amer ican idea, has lately

begun to operate in a single quarter of the ci ty, which, though hampered by ofli cial restr ict ions, offers comfor tab le transportat ion to al l

who can ob ta in seats. An underground road is also in process of con

struct ion, and has al ready in operation a l ine across the ci ty near ly paral lel w i th the Seine. Th is is qu i te up to da te in appearance and equ ipment, and seems open to no other ser ious ob ject ion than that they donot yet appear to have mastered the prob lem of how to operate so mod

ern a system w i thou t vexat ious delays and rather frequent acciden ts.

Aside from these,the ci ty is dependent upon methods of street trans

portation of most an t i quated types, hardly adequate to the demands of

travel in ord i nary t imes, and fai l ing utter ly under the pressure of

crowds. The “numero”system and the i ron - c lad ru le of carrying in

each car or “bus”on ly the number who can be seated, proves but an

irr i tat i ng rest r ict ion in such congested t imes as those of the Expos i t ion,when i t was no uncommon thing to see thousands of people ob l iged tostand an hour or more

,often in the rain

,too

,awai t ing the slow process

of being taken up, forty or fi f tyat a t ime, bythe occasional and leisurelyomn ibus or tram.

One is always runn ing up against red- tapism and arb i trary rules in

Par i s. There is,in the east end of the c i ty, s i tuated in the midst of a

densely popu lated quarter, a veryb eaut i fu l and picturesque park , ingeniously cont rived out of the remains of an old quarry—Pare des But tesChaumont is its name— which reflects great credi t upon the or iginal i ty,good taste and sk i l l of the French as landscape gardeners. It is not

often found,I fancy, by transient v isi tors, though wel l worth some

troub le and t ime. Tak ingmy wi fe and a fr iend there one day, espe

cial ly that theym ight ascend a rather romant ic path to a l i t t le templeplaced upon a rocky em inence

,affording a fine and ex tensive v iew over

Par i s and a part of the surrounding coun try, I was surpr ised to find the

path roped off and a po l iceman on guard. He was pol i te but inexorab le. On account of a band concert below,

the way was barred and

th is del ight fu l b it temporar i ly closed to the pub l ic. The restr ict ionwas a typica l one, qu i te arb i trary and senseless, but one gets accus

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tomed to such th ings in Par is, where the popu lace are un iversal lytreated l ike chi ldren and the author i t ies fear to al low them the smal lestunrestr icted l iberty. Gens d

’armes are thick ly spr ink led through al l

audiences; at theatres, operas, concerts, etc.,they watch you to see that

you do not fa l l over the balcony into the orchestra, and I have seenthem ofier such interference w i th members of the audience as wou ld bethought insufferab le impert inence among Engl ish- speaking people,though French audiences and crowds are not on ly docile but wel lbehaved.

But Par is is not France, and these observat ions are less true in

some parts of France than in Par is. I t remains to be said,however,that

,muchmore than the Engl ish or Amer icans

,the French are prov in

cial . They are homeloving and patr iot ic to the ex ten t of b eing suspi

cions and host i le towards al l inven t ions and innovat ions not thei r own.

They are al so sel f sat isfied; the story has passed in to a proverb of the

Frenchman who, being asked why his compatr iots did not travel more,

repl ied, “Why shou ld they? Have theynot everythinghere in Par is? ”

Music Study in We l lesleyC o llege

By H . C. M acdouga l l

HE ideas underlying the studyof music inWel lesleyCo l legeare that i t is a valuab le form of mental discipl ine; thatmusic is a language wi th a l i terature, its ser ious studyb r inging ample reward; that the departmen t of musicshou ld concern i tsel f w i th the who le body of students and

not make plans for the few who have hadmusical exper ienceor who desi re professional t ra in ing.

There are three three—hour courses in the theory of

music at Wel lesley Open to al l students except freshmen.

These are elect i ve courses,and stand on the same foot ing

as the elect i ves in any department. A studen t tak ing these courses in

the proper sequence ought to be ab le to judge intel l igen t ly of musicalcomposi t ions and performances. The courses also furn ish a substant ialfoundat ion for specia l study a t professional schoo ls, whi le in certa inaspects they are b roader than str ict ly professiona l courses.

A fter the estab l ishment of the departmen t of music,theWel lesley

Col lege music school occupied a somewhat anomalous posi t ion. Its

pract ical impor tance, however, just ifies its ex istence. Music Hal l is a

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Th e C o n v a lescen t Home

By a Friend

E al l know that the people who l i ve in a place are often lessfam il iar w i th its sights and inst i tutions than those who are

its occasional v isi tors. Th is may accoun t for the fact thatso few apparen t ly of the townspeople of Wel lesley are

fam i l iar w i th the work of the Convalescent Home of the

Chi ldren’s Hospi tal—which is in thei r m idst—which may

wel l en l i st the i r deepest sympathy and develop thei r truestChr i st ian spir i t . The Convalescent Home is aux i l iary tothe Chi ldren’

s Hospi tal , and, as its name suggests, it wasstarted wi th the ob ject of b r inging out from the hospi ta l those ch i ldrenwho

,hav ing sufficient ly recovered to leave the larger estab l ishmen t,

are yet not fit to return to thei r own homes,and to whom the advan

tage of thorough recuperat ion in the coun trymust be an inest imab leb oon.

About twenty years ago, a smal l house was secured at Wel lesley,into which a few l i t tle pat ien ts at a t ime cou ld be sent from the hospi ~tal , and the exper iment thus made a t once proved that the thought ofthose who were at the helm had been true and necessary. In 1 892

, the

presen t b u i ldi ng was opened by the Rt. Rev . Dr. Brooks,Bishop of

Massachuset ts, the ground on which it stands— th i rty acres in ex tenthav i ngbeen gi ven byMr. H . H . Hunnewel l . There were at that t imetwenty- eight b eds, and 1 20 ch i ldren were treated in that and the fo l lowingyear. In 1 894, so great had b ecome the advantages of the Home

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in relat ion to the Hospi tal , the Hospi tal staff earnestlv w ished to havethei r aux i l iary inst i tut ion kept open dur ing the w in ter months. S incethat year the latter has never b een c losed. There are now fi fty permanent beds and several emergency cots, and i t goes w i thout sayingthat this increase of accommodat ion has en tai led a large added expenditure

,and much more work .The coming out from the Hospi tal into the pure, b racing air of the

country, instead of return ing on ly hal f wel l to close, crowded homes,

the influences of the large surroundings, the con tact w i th the earth and

flowers and grass, the constant care and watchfu lness are beyond

expression necessary to the complete recovery of the chi ldren and

to their possib le future usefu lness in l i fe. A room has recent lyb een fi tted upwi th a l l themodern appl iances for surgical dressings, and

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Third An nua l R epo r t o f th e

Fr ien d l y A id C ommittee

URING the past year twenty- one cases have been reportedto the Commi t tee. E ighteen are new this year. Two

cases requ ired on ly hospi tal treatmen t, which they receivedin the Free Bed. Four wan ted employment and decl inedother aid. One fam i ly recei ves aid from the town by our

recommendat ion. Three fam i l ies have been wel l cared forby the churches to which they belong. The churches are

also generous w i th aid to fami l ies other than their own.

Three fami l ies have lef t town . NO part of our work hasbeen more satisfactory than assist ing such fami l ies to go from a placewhere a var iety of work is hard to find to towns where they can hope

to have regu lar employmen t.Every case reported to us has been invest igated w i th the earnest

effort to be tact ful and sympathet ic, and at the same t ime judicious;that is, reasonab ly judicious. We do not stop to studysociology whenwe find amother hopelessly i l l , or chi ldren th in ly clad in co ld weather,or people out of work and suffer ing from hunger. The Commi t teeex ists to find out the truth as to such needs

,to discover the proper

sources of helpand to give temporaryaidwhi le these inqu i ries are b eingmade. As far as possib le we try to be s imply a medium of communica

t ion . It is a pleasure to test i fy to the readinessw i th which our appeals

for defin i te cases are met. There aremanygood deeds set down in our

records which we are not at l ib erty to acknowledge pub l icly. Money,

cloth ing and nour ish ing food have been l iberal ly prov ided. Coal wasgiven to a man who had never appl ied to the town

,and shrank from

do ing so wi th pra i seworthy pr ide. Neighborly v isi ts and a l i t t le private help are the most common needs

,b ut once in awhi le a v isi tor finds

a piece of “the submerged truth,” poverty and degradat ion broughtfrom Central Europe to our very doors.

The v isi t ing has been done chiefly byM rs. Jenn ings, Mrs. Carretand Mrs. Norcross, who are our regular v isi tors.

The summer k indergartens atWel lesley and in Cedar street weresuccessfuly carr ied on and were fu l ly reported in the autumn . The

ew ing school in Cedar street numbers fi fteen regu lar members, and has1 4

had a prosperous year under the management of M iss Robson and Mrs.

EdwardW. Perk ins. About 1 1 2 ar t ic les of clothing have been gi ven,many of them in excel len t condi t ion, ready for use. We try to prov idegarments prompt ly at the request of the teachers. We feel that this isan important part of our work . We regret that cal ls for infants’ clothing often finds the matern i ty trunk empty, and Mrs. Brown would be

glad of more contr ibut ions for that .The K ing’

s Daughters have rendered valuab le assistance and haveprov ided thi rty new garments, besides do ing considerab le mending.

It w i l l be remembered that our chai rman was appo in ted a memb erof the Town Commi t tee on the Poor Farm. This report was presentedand accepted at theMarch town meet ing, but no act ion was taken on

the recommenda t ions.

Members of Commi tteef or year 1 900- 1 901

M rs. W. O . Rob son, Chai rman Mrs. Margaret C . Farwel l , SecretaryMrs. A . E. Brown , Treasurer

Mrs. Hannah T. Carret Mrs. Helen M . Norcross

Mrs. A lb ert J enn ings M i ssMary C . Sawyer

Mrs. Margaret A . J ones M iss Theresa M . Lal lyMrs. Del ia E. Lauderburn *Mrs. E l i zab eth T. Ingraham

Mrs. Ann ie M . Morse *M iss Mary C. BachelderResigned during theyear.

H . M . Brown, Treas.,in accountwi th Friendly Aid Commi ttee.

Apri l 25, 1 9 00, toApri l 25, 1 901 .

GENERAL FUND

Balance from last year,Contr ib u t ions from C lub members,Interest ,

EX PENSES

Pr int ing and postageK indergartensRel iev ing cases of distressBalance on hand 47 08

Interest on Hosp i tal Fund 3 68

Balance of Hosp i tal Fund 1 87 60

Total money on hand $238 36

There has been no cal l for the Hosp i tal Fund th i s year .

Hannah M . Brown, Treasurer.

Wel lesleyH i l ls, Apr i l 25, 1 901 .

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Some G ood Bo oks

A DVA NC ING TH EO LO G Y

There is such a thing, in spi te of the musty specimens of ant iqueprej udicewhich the newspapers discover here and there about the t imewhen theTheo logical sem inar ies send forth thei r young. The instancesthat the papers placard, however, are as un l ike to the major i ty as the

six - fingered man is to the race. Here and there is a student who, inthe name of science

,makes a foo l of h imsel f and of the reporters. Here

and there is an examin ing b oard that st i l l l i ves in theM idd le Ages, butthe great rel igious body in the East certain ly is al i ve, thought ful, joyfu land advancing.

A demonstrat ion of this fact is to be found in the nature of fourbooks recent ly received from four di fferent pub l ish ing houses. Of Dr.

Gordon’s lectures on “The New Epoch for Fai th” we have al ready

spoken. Equal ly remarkab le is “The Rel igion of To- morrow,

” wh ichw i l l be reviewed more fu l ly in a later issue of OUR TOWN . A thi rdbook is *“The Influence of Chr ist in Modern Li fe”

byNewel l DwightH i l l is

,and the fourth is T“Back to Chr i st” byWal ter Spence.

Does any one desi re to know the advancing thought of the greatb ody Of Protestant Christendom today? He w i l l find i t set for th mostdel ightfu l ly byDr . H i l l is, wi th a weal th of i l lustra t ion and in charm ingEngl ish. He describes, for example, the true place given to man bymodern science and rel igion .

“A pseudo- science and a pseudo

- theo logyare do ing al l they can to cheapen man .

”But in the thought of Chr i st

human l ife “is shot through and through wi th sacredness.

” Speak ingof the beginn i ng, Dr . H i l l i s says

“That was a great day for our earthwhen th is fragmentary God stepped into the scene. Immediatelymanbegan his creative work , as did the great God b efore him.

”Of course

Dr. H i l l is bel ieves in evo lut ion, wh ich he cal l s “the doctr ine of creat ionbygradual ism rather than by instantaneous flat,

” b ut he adds,

“ there isno theory of evo l ut ion that does not demand a God to make i t workab le.

” One of the most valuab le chapters in the b ook is that on “The

Sw ing of the Pendu lum from Skept icism to Fa i th.

”Indeed the who le

work was wr i tten especial ly for thoughtfu l young men “who aretroub led by the skept icism of the t imes.

”And an answer is given to

near ly every quest ion which ar i ses in the quest ion ing m ind of today,an answer sympathetic and sane.

“Back to Chr ist ” is less rhetor ical and more condensed, more evi

dentlymethodical , but its spi r it and its conclusions are the same wi ththose of H i l l i s and Gordon. It can b e read more qu ick ly, and w i l l beespecial ly valuab le to teachers and as a handbook for classes of young

people. It devotes a chapter each to such sub jects as “The Scr iptures,“The Trin i ty,” “The A tonement,” “Sin and Salvation

,

” “Judgmen t,“The Larger Hope, etc. It is neither destruct i ve nor dogmat ic, butconstruct i ve, progressive and inspi r ing.

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SO M ETH ING EDU C A T IO NA L

HOME AND SCHOOL CLASSICS

(D. 0. H eath Co . 1 0 and 1 5 cents, paper ; 25 cents cloth .) One of thequest ions wh ich wi semothers and teachers are always ask ing is What shal l Igive the ch i ldren to read ? In these vo lumes M r . H eath has gone far towardanswer ing the quest ion . Here is

“good reading for ch i ldren of every age”

at apr ice so moderate that every onemay purchase i t . Rob inson Crusoe and Mun

ohausen , edi ted by Edward Everett Hale, Gu l l iver's Travels, ed i ted b y Supt .Bal l i et , Martineau

’s The Crofton Boys, edi ted b yW. El l iot Grifii s, and other

b ooks ranging from “Nursery C lassics ”

to Hamerton , Irving and Shakespeare.

Send for the pub l i shers’ l i st giv ing classificat ion according to schoo l grades.

AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS

By J ohn Swett . (American Book Company , N. Y . 12ino. Thepresent struggles of a few educated Russians for l i berty , and the awfu l examp leof the Span i sh - Amer ican countr ies wh ich have l ib erty and no education ,

makethe fi rst part of th is b ook seem espec ial l y va luab le just now. The h i story of

the growth of ou r free schoo l system throughout the Un i ted States, is sk i l fu l lycompacted i nto hal f th i s sma l l vo lume. Massachusetts, of course,

makes thebest showing from the days when Co l . Endecot cal led “

a who l e towne meet i ngabout the {fences and a ffree skocle, to the present day when the averagech i ld of Massachusetts has twice as much school ing as the average ch i ld of the

nat ion . Dr . W. T. Harris ca l ls attent ion to the fact that the weal th- producingpower of th is state stands in ab out the same rat io. The second part of the

b ook , on Pedagogics is intended. we suppose, to be used as a manual b yteachers. It w i l l b e even more u sefu l to b ewi ldered modern parents, b ecausei t shows b r iefly and s imp ly what have b een the changes in methods. In manycases reasons aregiven for mak ing these changes. The v i ews presented on the

sub ject of ar i thmet i c and of Manua l Tra in ing are especia l l y to be commended.

CONCERNING CH ILDREN

By Char l otte Perk ins G i lman . (Smal l , Maynard Co . 1 2mo . The

first chapter on“The Precious Ten ,

”emphas i z ing the importance of the decade

of youth fo l l ow ing the fifteenth year , conta ins the most important lessons of

the b ook . The sow ing of w i ld oats wou ld b e far less harmf u l if sowed in the

au tumn instead of in the Spr ing.

”Th i s is a good tex t . We w i sh Mrs . G i lman

had spent more t ime on i t. But the b ook is most ly concerned wi th youngerch i ldren , and w i tti l y scores many defects of parenta l treatment . A chapter on“Too much consideration ”

is especial ly good, and r ight l y condemns the con

stant consu l t ing of ch i ldi sh preferences, as for examp l e at meal s .

“Teachab le

Eth ics”lays w i se stress on the mother ’

s duty to tra in the ch i ld in eth i calthought and act ion . The wr i ter’s ph i losophy o f pun i shment may be surm i sedfrom the t i t le “The b urnt ch i ld dreads the s l i pper .

”Concern ing the educat ion

of the ch i ld we do not b el ieve, as the au thor seems to . that it shou ld always b emade interest ing. We do not know any field of lab or in wh ich the averagestudent must not arr ive at the joy of profici ency by a more or less lengthyexper i ence of drudgery . The larger part of th i s b ook , however , is an appealfor a

“ bab y—garden ”to precede the k indergart en . Th is for a twofo ld reason :that the infant may b e under the care of experts

,and that the mother may b efree to devote hersel f to some chosen occupat ion . Doub tless the creche is b etterthan the gutter for the ch i ldren of the poor , and good for the ch i ldren of the

mother who turns her bab ies over to the ignorant nu rse in answer to the

demands of society and selfishness. The chapter on the nurse maid prov idesfood for reflect ion . St i l l the poorest home w i th mother love is b etter than the

most r ich l y endowed b ab y - garden . We doub t i f M rs. G i lman w i l l persuademany mothers b y her w i tty speech, and indeed she seems to feel that she isleading a forlorn hope. The mothers who most need her adv ise w i l l not b e

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given of h i s da i l y suffe r ings . Now a genu ine l y h umane fe e l ing w ou ldseem in s uch a case to sugge s t the pi Op1 iety of al l ow ing h im to qui e tl ypass away . But the u tmos t 1 esou 1 ces of s c i ence we r e emp l oyed to pi ol ong a w r e tched , p a infu l l i fe 1 11 o r de r th at i t might be samificed in thechai r of the exe cuti one 1 . The anc i ent Gl e e k s we r e wisei than we.

W' hen a c r im ina l w as condemne d to de ath they s imp ly supp l i ed h imw ith po is on,and he was fo und d ead in h i s ce l l . But we use a r tific i a l

means to keep a w r e tched c r im ina l a l i v e , and in case of se r i o u s i l lne sspostpone th e execut ion of the d r eadfu l sen tence in o r d e r to es cape theod i um of kilhng a si ck man . Since we must k i l l our c r im ina l s, whysho ul d not the State do its si ck en ingwo r k w i th th e l ea st c r ue l ty ?A ve r y inte res ting l e tte r h as been r e ce ived f r om Rev . Mr . Haye s in

San Francis co , gi v ing h is imp r e ss i ons of th e ci ty . Un fo r tunate l y , th el e tter h as re a ched us to o l ate fo r the p r e sent i s sue of OUR TOWN, bu t ina fu tu r e numbe r i t wi l l be p r inted . Wi th a l l h i s f r i ends, the edi to r s ofth i s pape r j o in in wi sh ing M r. Haye s abundant p r o spe r i ty and h app ine s s and hea l th in h i s new home . We mi ss h i s kind ly p r e sence and h i ssympathe t i c aid . Of co u r se Ca l ifo r n i a i s fu r the r away f r om the Hub

,bu t a l l th e mo r e need of good men th e r e , and whe r eve r h e i s Mr .

Haye s w i l l d o good wo r k .The June numbe r of OUR TOWN w i l l be e spe ci a l ly devo te d to

We l l e s l ey Co l l ege . We h av e the p r omi se of fou r a r ti c l e s wh i ch w e a r econfident w i l l be of inte r e st to a l l our c i t i zens, and e spe ci a l l y to tho sewho a r e inte r e s ted in th e Co l l ege a s facu l ty, student s or al umnae . We

hope to i l l us t r a te the numbe r wi th p i ctu r e s of pe rm anent v al ue .1 9

Do the subsc r ibe r s to OUR TOWN wish to fo r wa r d i ts p r ospe r i ty ?If s o w e ea rnes t ly inv i te them to use the i r influence in i t s behal f

,and tohe l p ex tend i ts c i r cu l at ion as they have o ppo r tun i ty . Eve r y pape rde pends l a rge ly upon i t s f r i ends fo r the extens ion of i ts influen ce . The

Ed i to r s of the pape r do not he s i tate to Speak in i ts beha l f . Inasmu cha s the i r own se r v ice s a r e f r ee ly gi ven, they fee l at l ibe r ty to en l i s t thegoodwi l l of a l l publ i c - sp i r i ted ci t izens to the same end. M r . Eaton andh i s ab l e a ss i s tants a r e do ing a se r v i ce to the commun i ty, and they tak ep r id e in the i r w o rk. The co r d ia l r e sponse to ou r inv i tati ons for l i te r a r ycont r ibu ti ons exp l ains the s tanda r d wh ich the pape r has obtained . We

a r e not ash amed of i t . We w i sh i t cou l d go into eve r y home in thecommuni ty . We wish i t cou l d be en l a rged o r publ i shed mo r e frequent l y . But even as i t i s may we not ask for the su ppo r t of everVpubl ic - sp i r i ted ci ti zen ? Let our f r iend s he l p .

Mu sic atWe llesley C o llege

ERM d id not open unti l Ap r i l 9,and the r e i s consequentl yl i tt l e to r e po r t for the month . On the 1 5th

,M i s s Ma r y A .

Stowe l l and Mr. K a r l Ondr icek gav e a r ec i ta l in Co l l egeHa l l Chape l . M i ss Stowe l l p l ayed some pianofo r te p ie ce sby Goda r d , Scha r wenk a and Saint Saens de l ightfu l l y . M i s sStowe l l i s a p ianofo r te te ache r a t th e Co l l ege, and was theacting he ad of the depa r tment for the thr e e yea r s end ingJune

,1 900. Mr . Ondricek i s se cond v i o l in in th e Kne i se l

Q ua r te tte, and has a faci l e exe cution and a fine, fu l l tone .He j o ined M i s s Stowel l in a G r i eg and Dvo r ak Sonata and

pl ayed a gr o up of v io l in so l o s . In The Memo r i a l Chape l , Ap r i l 29, Mr .

Wi l l i am Chu r ch i l l H ammond , P r o fe s so r at Mount Ho l yo ke Co l l ege ,gave an o rgan r e ci ta l . M r . Hammond i s one of the best o rgani s ts ofNew Engl and, a most enth usia sti c s tudent of h i s inst r ument and a gr e atfav o r i te . At the ve spe r se r v i ce in The Memo r ia l Chape l

,Ap r i l 1 4

,the

cho i r gav e al l th e musi c . On the evening of the 21 st,Dr. B r own

,of

the Uni on Theo l ogi ca l Sem ina r y, gav e an add r e s s w i th pe r sona l recoll e cti ons of Sir John Sta ine r , who d ied a few week s ago in I taly . Muchof the mus i c was f r om Staine r ’s pen.

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Du r ing the past month , on Ap r i l 1 4, onemembe r of the chu r ch ,Mr .Wi l l iamH . Fl agg, has died .

On Ap r i l 24, Mr . I . H . Fa rnham , the supe r intendent of the Sunday school ,was shot and instant l y k i l l ed in Po r tl and , Me. On Satu rday , Ap r i l 27 , thefune r a l was he ld in the chu r ch . A ve ry l a rge numbe r of r e lat ives and f r iendswe r e p r esent at the exe r c ises , wh ich we r e conducted by Rev . E. A . Benne r andRev. A . W. Goodnow . The Sunday school , wh ich he cl ea r l y loved and fo rwh i ch he wo rked unceas ingly , was p r esent in a body . On Sunday even ing,May 4, at P . M .

, the r e wi l l b e a se rvi ce in h i s memo r y in the chu r ch , wh ichal l are co rdial ly invi ted to attend .Th r ee membe r s of the chu r ch have been mar r ied du r ing the past month .

On Ap r i l 8, M i ss H att ie Wi swal l was mar r ied to Mr . R .Winsfo r d Denton . Theyare l iving on Wash ington st r eet ,Wel lesl ey . On Ap r i l 8 , Mr . Robe r t E. Ande rson was ma r r ied to M i ss El sa R. Wi l l iamson , of New Yo r k . Mr . and Mrs.

Ande r son are l iv ing in Newton Cent r e . On A p r i l 30, M i ss Ethe l M . Ful l e r wasma r r ied to M r . Lo ren F . Fl etche r of Boston . They wi l l l ive in El iot .On Sunday , May 4, the fo l low ing pe r sons are to un ite wi th the chu rch

By l ette r , f r om the Second Congr egat iona l Chu r ch , East A l stead , N . H ., Rev.

and Mrs . W. E . Locke . On confession of fa i th , M i ss Ruth C . Wiswal l .We l lesl ey H i l l s C ongrega tion a l C hu r ch

TheWoman’s Soc iety held i ts annual meeting at the house of Mrs. Wm . H .

Vaughn , Ap r i l 1 6 . Repo rts showed a membe r sh ip of fif ty , and inc r eas ingact ivi ty along al l l ines of wo rk . The fo l low ing oflicers we re elected fo r theensu ing yea r : P r esident , Mrs. E . M . Ove rhol se r ; v ice - p r es idents , Mrs. S. F.

Leach , M rs. W. F. Shattuck , Mrs. H . P. Sm ith , Mrs. F. L. To r rey and M rs. L. K .

Putney ; sec r eta ry , M rs. W. Parr itt ; t r easu r e r , Mrs. N . W. Sanbo rn ; audi to r ,M i ss S. E . Dw ight . The Soc iety i s p r epa r ing fo r a sal e in the fal l

,by means ofwh i ch i t i s hoped to r a ise the r ema inde r of i ts sub sc r ipt ion to the Chu rch

Bu i ldingFund .The youngwomen of the pa r i sh have assumed the expense of fu rni sh ing

the new chu rch pa r lo r , and they have cc- ope rated hea rt i ly in al l the effo rts oftheWoman’s Soc iety the past season .

At the sem i - annual meet ing of the Young Peop l e’s Soc iety of Ch r i st ianEndeavo r , the fo l low ing ofiicers we r e chosen ( only the cha i rman of the committee i s inc l uded) : P r es ident, Roge r W. Babson ; vice - p r esident , RalphH avens ; r eco rd ing sec r eta ry , Edwa rd W. Shattuck ; t r easu r e r , Robe r t G. Bol l es ;co r r espond ing sec r eta ry , Wi l l iam H . Shattuck ; Pr aye r Meet ing Comm ittee ,G r ace G . Hen ry ; Lookout Comm i ttee , M rs. N . W. Sanbo rn ; M issiona ry Committee, Mrs. R . W. Babson ; Sunday School Comm ittee , Ca r olyn J . Peck ; Mus i cComm ittee , Geo rge A . Sweetse r ; Whatsoeve r Comm i ttee , Ruth H odgk ins ;Soc ial Commi ttee , Ap r i l , G r ace G . Hen ry ; May, Ma r ion L. Peabody ; June , Mr .Jacob Gal e .

For not i ce of Afte rnoon Teas and ente rtainments see the Cal enda r .Un ita r ian Soc iety

The meet ing of the South M iddlesex Un i ta r ian Confe r ence was he ld atWest Newton , Ap r i l 3 . Rev. Cha r l es St . John, sec r eta ry of the Ame r i can Uni

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ta r ian Assoc iat ion ,spoke on “The needs of the unchu r ched count ry fol k

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”and

Rev . Pau l Reve r e F r oth ingham , Pasto r of the A r l ington St r eet Chu r ch , r ead ane l oquent pape r on “Th r ee A spects of Wo r sh ip .

On Wednesday even ing, Ap r i l 10, the Un i ta r ian C l ub of We l l esl ey H i l l she ld i ts second r egula r meet ing. The membe r s d ined togethe r at the ElmPa r k Hotel at 6 P . M . , and then l i stened to an admi r ab l e pape r by Rev. Jul ianC . Jaynes , ofWest Newton , on the inte r est ing subject , “What shall we do w iththe boys ? ”

The pape r was ab ly di scussed by M ess r s . H a rdy , G i l son , Pe r r in ,

Cunn ingham and othe r s .Rev . Cha r l es F. Dol e , of Jama ica Pl a in , exchanged w i th the Pasto r on

Ap r i l 14.

The annual ch u rch meet ing was h eld on Tuesday evening, Ap r i l 1 6 . Thel adies of the pa r ish supp l ied a sumptuous suppe r at 6 P . M .

The Pasto r Spoke to the Chann ing C l ub of Boston , on Monday even ing,Ap r i l 22.

Two death s occu r r ed in the Soc iety du r ing the month . Mr . B . H . Spau lding, who had been i l l fo r many month s , was r e l ieved of pain on Ap r i l 1 9 . M r .

Spau lding’s death had been l ong expected , b ut youngHen r y Coffin Adams wasi l l but a few hou r s , and h i s many f r iends had sca r ce ly hea r d of h i s s i cknessbefo r e they we r e shocked and gr ieved by the news of h i s death .

Th e We l l e sl ey H i l l s Wom an’

s Cl u bLi s t of office r s e l e cte d fo r 1 901 - 1 902: P r e s iden t

,Mrs. Ma r y W.

Ove r h o l se r ; fi r s t v i ce - p r e s id ent,Mrs. He l en M . No r c r os s ; se cond v i cep r e s id ent

,M rs. A . Jose ph ine Sp r ing; r e co r d ing se c r e ta r y,Mrs. Sad i e E.

Ha r dy ; co r r e spond ing se c r e ta r y, M i s s Ca r o lyn J . Peck ; t r eas u r e r , Mrs.

Annie M . Mo r se ; aud i to r , M i s s Eva G. Wi swa l l ; d i r e cto r s, Mrs. HannahT . Ca r r e t, M rs. M . O . Seabu r y,M rs. Ha r r i e t B . Cunn ingham , Mrs. Ma r y

H . Jaqui th,Mrs. El l a L. Peabody, Mrs. El l a L. To r r ey .

M o n thl y C a len darMay 8 . Afte rnoon Tea. Mrs. Davi d Southe r , Chu r ch Pl ace ; 4 to 6 .

1 5. Af te rnoon Tea. M rs. J . B . Seabu ry , co rne rWalnut st r eet andFl o r enceAvenue ; 4 to 6 .

22. Afte rnoon Tea. Mrs. Victo r J . Lo r ing, Fl o r ence Avenue ; 4 to 6 .

29 . Afte rnoon Tea. Mrs. Pa r r is T. Fa rwe l l ,Wash ington st r eet ; 4 to 6 .June 5. Wi th Mrs. N . W. Sanbo rn , at 4 P . M ., an i l l ust r ated tal k by M r . N. P.

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Th e G l ac ier

BY ISJ BELLJ HOWE FISKE ’96

M idst ea rth’s wh ite py r am ids secu r ely set ,I , natu r e’s Sph inx , supe r io r to t ime’s stings ,Am p r i son of c r eat ion’s h idden th ings

That cannot fo r th to l igh t fo r ages yet ;Time’s sec r ets on l y I can knowWho saw unfold ea rth ’s emb ryo ,

A s i l ent k eepe r who cannot fo rget .M an’s day shal l pass a qu ick - c l osing doo r ,Whose fo r ty centu r ies are to me no mor e

Than i s h i s own epheme r al v iolet .G r eat fo r ces battl e , hea rt - deep , in my b r east ,Whe r e arew i th in me cha ined the sou l s of st r eamsThat st r uggl e sunward w ith p r i smati c gl eams

Of b l ues and r eds and colo r s yet unguessed ;My deep ice-molecul es , bound each to each ,Whose my r iad pass ions l ong fo r Speech ,

Hold al l the sun - flames of the east and west,And these are kin to that day , centu r ies sl ow,When God spoke m ight i l y , and i t was so,

And the wo r ld moved f rom chaos into r est .Into earth - ana rchy these st r ive again ,

But only sunsh ine can unl ock the gatesWhe r e the ice- to r r ent , eve r - b affl ed, wa its

In the Sp r ing’s l eash , and f r ets h is st r a ining cha in.

Down in the val e the peasants ca re to knowNot i f the sun b e sh ining h igh o r low,

But tel l the hou r by the st r eam’s wax o r wane ,And see ingme, whose p r esence cannot fa i l ,The i r gr eat , sta ined , sun l i t gl o ry of the vale

They p r a i se God’s house fo r such a w indow- pane .Who deems man’s fash ion can sup r emely hateQui ck - sinewed, time - untaught to che r ish ha rms,H is deed must out befo r e h i s pass ion calms ;

I,ice- endu r ing, centu r ies can wa i tIn hate’s wh ite essence , though I seem to sm i l eOn l ove , unu rgentl y , an aeon’s wh i l e .

I could teach man to b e al l - pass ionate .And it may b e, when the sun’s heat bu rn s low

,

That men shal l warm them at my deep - set gl owOf ice- fires that shal l not, l ike suns , abate .

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Na tu r e Stu dy at We llesl eyC o llege

By Prof. M . 49 . watcox , Ph. D .

AM asked to te l l th e r eade r s of OUR TOWN what a r e th eoppo r tuni t i e s for natu r e s tudy at We l l e s l ey Co l l ege . Thefi r s t and gr e ate st doe s not need to be to l d . Al l out- of

do o r s i s th e gu id e and insp i r a t i on of th e gi r l who come s toour beaut ifu l v i l l age . The se ason of he r com ing— th e t imewhen many of th e bi r d s a r e ga th e r ing for th e i r w inte rj o u rney sou thwa rd— i s a l so the t ime when tho se s ingingwings, tha t l end the pe cul i a r au tumna l ch a rm s to our New

Wo r l d meadow s and h i l l s i d e s,a r e s ti l l fi l l ing th e m iddayw i th the i r th in

,sh r i l l musi c . The a i r i s fu l l of inv i tat i ons ;

the v a r ied s t r e tch of count r y a l l abo u t us,l ake

,r iv e r and b r ook

,l edgyh i l l s id e

,dee p wood

,open fie l d and swampy mead ow

,b r im s w i th v a r i e d

l ife ; and ev e r y new home i s a new sec r e t to be d i scove r ed , a new de l igh tto be enj oyed . Few indeed a r e th e town s wh o se out- of—doo r l abo r ator i e s for na tu r e s tudy a r e so l a rge and so r i ch as a r e th o seof We l l e s l ey .

But i f the s tudent wi sh e s to giv e mo r e than he r scan t co l l egel e i su r e to the s tudy of na tu r e,sh e i s adv i sed to ente r a c l ass wh i ch

make s s uch w o rk i ts fi r s t a im . She w i l l w a tch inse c ts of d i ffe r entkinds

,l e a rn what they eat

,how they mov e , b r ea the and commun i catew i th one ano the r . She w i l l d i s se ct th em and se e h ow they a r e fi t te d

fo r the i r difierent mode s of l i fe . She wi l l gath e r ga l l s, th o se nu r se r i e sin whi ch inse ct mothe r s tu ck aw ay th e i r bab ie s for a l ong mino r i ty ;she w i l l t r ace th e o the r ways in whi ch p l ant a s w e l l a s an im a l m oth e r sp r ov ide fo r the i r l i tt l e ones ; she w i l l fo l l o w th e s te ps by wh i ch th eyo ung one

,often at fi r s t un r e cogni zabl e by even the tende r e s t eye ,comes s l ow ly or sudden l y into the fo r m of the pa r ent . She w i l l l e a rn

s ome of th e sec r e ts of co l o r and be ab l e to giv e at l e as t a guess as towhy a spa r r ow i s b r own and an ind igo bi r d bl ue . She wi l l compa r ep l ant s w i th an ima l s and find th e fundamenta l l i k enes s beneath a l l th esupe r fici al d i ffe r ence s . In the sp r ing sh e w i l l com e to know the bi rdsand, bes id e a bow ing acquaintance w i th many, w i l l b e l ed to fo r m ar e a l f r i end sh i p w i th some one— to l e a rn i t s h aunts , i ts food , i t s temperament, i ts r e l a ti ons w i th i ts mate and w i th i ts young, i t s ski l l a s an

ar ch i te ct and its wisdom in choosinga place for its home ; eve r y th ing,in sho r t, whi ch ma rks i t off f r om o the r s of its kind as a d i s tinct pe r s on.

If she ca r e s for fu r the r wo rk in the same l ine s,she may spend

ano the r yea r in the s tudy of s t r uctu r e,may l ea rn the diffe r ent ways in

whi ch th e bod ie s of d iffe r ent an imals a r e bu i l t u p and se e why and how

a snai l is difierent f r om a l obste r . She may th ink th e th ough ts of Godafter H im, as sh e t r ace s how e ach is fi tted in count l e ss ways for th el ife i t h as t o l e ad

,how each evo l ves by sl ow, succe ss iv e s te ps f r om thes impl e fo r m of i t s ea r l ie s t e xi s tence to th e compl e te s t r uctu r e of its

adu l t l i fe,and how th i s ind iv id ua l p r ogr e ss i s p a r a l l e l e d by the s l ow

and often ha l t ing p r ogr e s s of the r ace f r om the s impl e st o rgani sm,wh ich i s l i tt l e mo r e than a me r e l ump of j e l l y, to th e comp l ete body ofa ho r se

_or a man.

Su ch wo rk as th i s fi ts he r for a th i r d yea r,in wh ich sh e can uti l i ze

the r e so u r ces not on l y of the fie l d s,wood s and st r e am s of We l l e s l ey,

bu t of the muse ums of Bo ston and Camb r idge and of th e be ache s andr o ck poo l s of Nahant. In th i s yea r sh e w i l l be taugh t how to find out

some th ing about any an im a l th a t may come in he r w ay . She w i l lb r ing into the l abo r ato r y th e f r u i ts of he r co l l ec t ing and lock themove r

,i f nee d be

,wi th the mi c r o scope . At fi r s t any unfami l i a r th ingw i l l be stud ied ; l ate r sh e w i l l find i t p os sib l e to c l a ss i fy and study

toge the r th ose tha t a r e r e l ated . Books w i l l be ca l l e d in to s uppl em ent obse r v at i on. An exped i ti on to th e sea w i l l giv e he r a chanceto s tudy its l iv ing beautie s . The winte r month s she w i l l empl oy inge tting fam i l i a r w i th fish e s

,bea sts and o the r animal s tha t sh e must

study l a rge ly in museums, and she w i l l l ea rn to l o o k w i th enth usiasmon an occas iona l c i r cu s a s a new and cho i ce col l e ct ing gr o und . In

sho r t,wh i l e sh e w i l l not atta in to the zoo l ogi cal p r ofi c i ency of Adam

or of Noah,sh e w i l l know some th ing about e v e r y anima l she sees andw i l l know whe r e and how she can l e a rn mo r e .

Our s tuden t,inte r e sted ch iefly in nat u r e s tudy

,has se l ec ted the se

cou r se s in p r efe r ence to othe r s wh i ch de al wi th mo r e ph i l o soph i ca l orr e cond i te q ue s ti ons of zoo l ogy . Though by so d oing sh e has mi ssedmuch

,she ca r r i e s away as she l e ave s We l l e s l ey an acquaintance w i th

the l i t tl e peop l e of the fie l d and wood wh ich w i l l mak e b r ight andchee r y many an h ou r o the r w i se emp ty, or i t may be,sad .

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I be l ieve that the gr eat body of Ame r ican peop l e are gent l emen , saysPr es ident Hadley .Our expe r ience has been that ful ly hal f of them are l ad ies—Boston Transc r ipt.

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Th e El io t Bible o f We llesley

C o l l ege

By Prof. J‘

arah F. Whiting

N th e yea r 1 897,th r o ugh th e ini ti a t iv e of Senato r Hoa r , andthe tac tfu l inte r venti on of our min i s te r at th e Cou r t of St.

James, th e “B r adfo r d Manu sc r i p t” was r e tu rne d to Ame ri ca f r om Engl and .Th i s p r e c i ou s r e l i c d i sappe a r e d d u r ing th e Rev o l u ti on ;i ts whe r e abouts we r e unknown un ti l th e m idd l e of th e l a s tcen tu ry

,when i t w as d i scove r e d in th e offi c ia l l ib r a r y of

the Bi sh op of London. At inte r v al s afte r wa r d s the r e wasagi tat i on to se cu r e i ts r e tu rn

,unt i l a t l as t th e “Epi s c opa l

Cons i s to r i a l Co u r t” r e cogn i zed tha t th e app r o p r i ate abidi ng p l ace for the o r igina l h i s to r y of th e P l ymou th Pl antati on wa samong the de scendants of the Pi lgr im Fath e r s .We l l e s l ey Co l l ege Lib r a r y was, a few ye a r s ago, the obj e c t ofa sim i l a r though l e ss consp i cuo us act of inte rnat i ona l c ou r te sy .

In a co r r e spondence w ith Dr . F. N . Peloubet on th e subj e c t of

Sund ay sch oo l w o rk, a Canad i an gen t l eman, obse r v ing th a t Dr.

Peloubet’s r e s id ence was Na t i ck , r ema r ke d th at he had l ate l y been

r eminded of that p l ace as the scene of the l abo r s of the Apos t l e El i o t,by see ing in a l ib r a r y in Gl a sgow that exceed ingl y r a r e book, El i o t’s

Bib l e fo r th e No r th Ame r i can Ind ians . He fu r the r r em a r ked th at,as

the Rev . And r ew Bona r— th e po sse sso r of th i s t r e asu r e— was qui teadvanced,pe r haps h e co u l d be ind uced to gi v e i t to Nat i ck .

Since Nat i ck posse sse s an El i o t B ib l e , th i s o ppo r t un i ty was kind lypassed on to the We l l e s l ey auth o r i t ie s . Just a t th i s tim e they we r es pec ia l ly inte r e sted in Ind ian l o r e

,fo r P r o fe s so r H o r sfo r d had p r e

sented to th e l ib r a r y of th e Co l l ege a r a r e co l l e c ti on of books on No r thAme r i can Ind i an l anguage s . The ent i r e l ingu i s ti c co l l e c ti on of Maj o rPowe l l

,l ong head of the gov e rnment Ethno l ogi ca l Bu r ea u, a co l l e ct i on

of gr amma r s, d icti ona r ie s, Bib l e s f r om oth e r p r im i t i v e l anguage s inwhich the r e i s no l i te r atu r e,r e p r e sent ing one hund r ed and ten d ial e c ts

,make s th i s ph i l o l ogi ca l l ib r a r y of the fi r s t r ank in i t s l ine .P r ofe ss o r H o r sfo r d s ta ted in h i s d e ed of gi ft tha t he fe l t p r id e inpl a cing a l ib r a r y for spec ia l s tudy of th e nativ e l anguages of Ame r i c a

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inWe l l esl ey Co l l ege, on th e sh o r es ofWaban Lake, nea r wh ich El i o thear d the Ind ians t r ansl a te for h im the Bib l e into a l anguage, the“ r o o ts of which the se peop l e had gathe r ed f r om the infini te p i cto r i a lu tte r ances go ing on in natu r e abou t them .

It was a r a r e good fo r tune that j u st a t th i s time a copy of the El i o tBib l e , which had somehow st r ayed ac r oss the wate r , shou l d be he a r df r om . In r e pl y to P r e s ident F r e eman’

s l e tte r , enc l o s ing documentswh ich showed the fi tnes s of the Co l l ege as a r e pos i to r y for th i s r e l i c,and asking i f we m ight be info r med i f i t came into the ma r k e t, Mr.

Bona r stated that i t w ou l d be h i s p l e asu r e to p r e sent the Bib l e to theCo l l ege, i f fi tting ca r r ie r s co u ld be de s ignated to b r ing i t ove r th e se a .Two of the p r ofe s so rs of the Co l l ege we r e in Engl and the fo l l ow ingsumme r , and, on the i r r e tu rn, r e ce ive d the boo k f r om a speci a l me ssenger a t th e wha r f, so that now i t i s among our most v a l ued posse ss i onsin the “Dutch Cab ine t.”

Th i s copy be l ongs to the se cond ed i t ion p r inted in th is count r y in1 680 for the “Righ t Hono r ab l e Co r po r ati on in London, for the p r opegation of the gospe l among the Ind ians of New Engl and .” It i s in theo r igina l bind ing, and pe r fe ct except th e ti t l e page to the Old Testament .The Old Testament has 425 l eave s ; the New Te stament 1 3 1 ; and th epa r aph r ase s of the psa lms and ca tech i sm 51 .

It is to be r egr e tted th at no th ing i s known of th e p r ev i ous h i sto r yof th i s book

,ex cep t tha t i t came into the hand s of Mr. Bona r in 1 840.

Its va l ue may be infer r e d f r om the fact that th e l a s t sal e of one of the seBib l e s, of wh i ch I find r e co r d , was by Quaritch of London in 1 870,

when i t b r ough t ove r twe l ve hund r ed do l l a r s ; ind eed, th i s w o r k was sor a r e tha t a few yea r s ago i t w as asse r ted th at on l y th r e e copie s ex i s ted ,but the zea l of Ame r i can bib l i oph i l i sts ha s b r ough t to l igh t about asco r e wh ich a r e p l aced in the gr e at l ib r a r ie s . I have seen at the Lenoxl ib r a r y of New Y o rk C i ty

,which has an unsu r passed co l l e cti on of

Bib l e s, cop i e s of th e fi r s t and se cond edi tions of th i s Bib l e and a copy ofEl i o t’s gr amma r of 1 666, wh i ch he concl ude s w i th the wo r d s, “P r aye rand pains, th r o ugh fai th in Ch r i st Je sus w i l l do anyth ing.

” They hav ea l so some o th e r pamph l e ts and an au togr aph l e tte r of John Eli o t.

Mr. S. Austin Al lib one, fo rme r ly of the Lenox l ib r a ry, i s a utho r i tyfor the s ta temen t that the fi r s t ed i ti on of th i s B ib l e was p r inte d in 1 663,af te r ten yea r s of l abo r i ou s to i l ; that i t w as th e fi r s t B ib l e p r inted inAme r ica ; that i t took th r ee yea r s to pass i t th r ough the p r e ss ; th a t al a rge po r ti on of the se tting up of the type of th e se cond ed i ti on wasdone by Ind ian James.

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the yea r,eve r y uppe r c l ass gi r l t ake s a f r e shman and int r oduce s h e r to

al l h e r f r i ends and acquaintance s ; th u s the f r e shman i s ini t i ated and

made to fe e l a t home the r e, and, befo r e the next r egu l a r meet ing, sh eh as a chance to s ign the const i tuti on and become a fu l l - fledged Ba rnswa l l ow,r e ady to wo rk on comm i ttee s and l end he r w i t and o r iginal i ty

to th e cause .The ente r tainments of th e Barnswal lows a r e indeed va r iou s . No

two r e sembl e each o the r du r ing th e wh o l e yea r . In fact, e ach one i sp l anned to be as o r iginal and as s ta r t l ing as pos sib l e . The se ente r ta inments a r e not extempo r aneou s, but a r e wo r k e d out weeks befo r e the i rp r e senta tion by p icked commi ttee s

,who b r ing al l th e i r o r iginal i ty andw it into the i r p l ans . One mee ting the Barnswal lows a r e t r e ated to ath r i l l ing d r ama ; the next, to a l ight ope r a in wh ich budd ing gen i u se shave a chance to show the i r powe r s . M inst r e l sh ows, tab l e aux, andun speakab l e and name l e ss th ings fo l l ow d u r ing the yea r . A fte r the

pe r fo r mance i s ove r,th e aud ience pu sh the i r ch a i r s back to the w al l s

of the h al l , somebody st r i k e s u p a l i v e ly tune, and dan c ing fi l l s up ther e s t of the evening unti l ha l f - past n ine o’cl o ck . Ex actl y at that h ou rthe e l e c t r i c l igh ts giv e a l ong bl ink , and when they come on againeve r y body sc r amb le s for w r aps and l eave s h as ti ly, for the b l ink meansth at in ten m inute s to ta l da r kne ss w i l l begin t o r e ign in the Ba rn, notto be d i s tu r bed fo r any r e ason whatev e r .

One of the most inte r e st ing pe r fo rmance s giv en in th e Ba rn du ring the yea r i s, p r obab ly, the annua l c i r c u s . Thi s i s not to be de sc r ibed .One has to se e it to app r e c iate the e xten t of i t s w onde r s . It contain sal l of the depa r tment s and pe cu l i a r i ti e s of a “

gr e ate s t sh ow on ea r th ,”f r om the saw - dust r ing, menage r i e and sid e sh ow s to the p ink l emonad eand popco rn . The ci r cu s Opens w ith a p r o cess i on of the anim al s andpe r fo r me r s

,th e fo r me r l ead ing th e way conducte d by the i r k eepe r s .

El e phants, came l s, zeb r as, os t r i che s, gi r affe s, l i on s and t ige r s, who seanatomy and s t r uctu r e i s s ta r t l ing t o beho ld, convul se the aud iencew i th l aughte r . Then fo l l ow the f r eak s, th e th r ee - headed w onde r w alking wi th d iffi cu l ty, the w i l d man of Bo rne o w i th h i s h ai r in h i s eye sand a kn i fe in h is mouth, th e snak e ch a r me r w i th co i l s of pape r se rpents about he r . The r ingpe r fo r me r s come nex t ; the expe r t h o r semenand ba r eback r ide r s on go l f s ti cks, the beaut i fu l tigh t - r ope wal k e r inta r l atan sk i r ts

,th e cha r i o tee r s and th e j uggl e r s . The Ind i ans w ind upthe p r oce ss i on ;w i th th e i r b r own s i l es i a l eggings and bl anke t s they l oo kmos t fe r o ci o u s and r ou se gr e at ant i c i pati on of th e th r i l l ing massac r ew i th wh i ch they w ind up th e ci r cus .

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The r e h ave been th r e e obj e cts in mind : to t r ain sch o l a r s andte ache r s ; to open the way in co l l ege fo r the a r ti s t i c tempe r ament ;to gi v e th e p l easu r e of a r t to the publ i c . The se aims a r e r ea l l y oneto influence l ife th r ough a r t.

It i s be l i e ved th at w e must l o ok to co l l ege s to t r a in c r i t i cs in theh i sto r y of a r t,and also that th e c r i t i c must know somewhat of th e te ch

nical p roces se s that he c r i t i c i se s,and must l o ok at na tu r e w i th an a r ti s t’s

eye s . The r e fo r e a ce r ta in amount of d r aw ing and paint ing i s r eq u i r edf r om those who take advanced h i sto r y co u r se s .The re a r e at p r e sen t five fu l l cou r se s offe r e d in the h i sto r y of a r t,

be s id es a l e ctu r e co u r se once a week and the cou r se s in p r acti ce . The

cou r ses in the h i s to r y of a r ch i te c tu r e,s cul ptu r e and painting a r e al ltaugh t by spe ci a l i s ts, and the me thod s pu r sued make i t p oss ib l e for th es tudent to unde r s tand the p r inc i p l e s unde r ly ing a r ch i te ctu r a l const r uot i on

,to app r e c i ate th e d iffe r ence s of t r e atmen t be tw een d iffe r ent stvles

of scu l p tu r e,and to assign a painting to i ts maste r on inte rna l ev idence .

The stud i o,made pa r t and pa r ce l of the pl an

,has p r oduced wo rk that

bo th in tendency and actua l qual i ty j u s tifie s i ts p l a ce . He r e s tudentsl e a rn to se e natu r e

,to unde r s tand the meaning of tone and va l ues , com

po si tion and pe r spe cti ve,so as to apply the i r know l edge to a r t criti

cism. The use of d r awing by student s in h i sto r y i s constant . Ske tche sa r e made f r om pho togr aph s bo th to fix the gene r a l l ine s of the compos i ti on in mind

,and to s tudy th e r efinements of a r t i st i c qua l i ti e s in

a ttempting to r e p r od uce them .

Th r ee s tudents,l as t yea r and th i s

,hav e tak en the i r maste r’s d egr e e

in a r t befo r e continu ing th e i r s tud i e s in Eu r ope ; and al r e ady gr ad uatesa r e find ing the i r co l l ege wo rk in a r t an adequate p r epa r a ti on for te a ching, or for ente r ing a r t sch oo l classe s . The ch o ice i s no l onge r necessa r y be tween a co l l ege educat i on and an a r t ed ucati on. The founda

ti on of a b r oad and tho r ough a r t t r a in ing may be l a id in co l l ege . But

to l im i t a r t to spec i a l i s ts wou l d be to i l l unde r stand i ts functi on.

Those wh o h av e no t ime nor inc l ina ti on for the tho r ough study thatinvo l ve s d r aw ing sti l l ente r ce r ta in l e ctu r e cou r se s th at giv e a gene r a linte l l igence on the s ubj e ct, and ce r tain cou r ses a r e op en to hea r e r s . It

i s the be l i e f of the Depa r tment tha t a r t shou l d ente r the co l l ege l i fe a sa who l e ; the r e fo r e, inst r ucto r s h ave given f r ee l y of time and adv i ce onthe occas i on of va r i ous a r ti s ti c co l l ege fete s . It i s w i th th i s in mind,al so

,tha t l oan exh ib i t i ons a r e he l d th r o ughou t the yea r in th e a r t gall e r y, and that a l o an co l l e cti on of f r amed pho tograph s i s in ci r cu l ati onamong the s tudents .

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The r e i s ano the r atti tude th a t w e be l i e ve i s fi tting in a gr e a t coll ege : We a r e l o ok ing towa r d th e d ay when the Art Bu i l d ing sh al lbe come a we l l - equi pped muse um, whi ch shal l se r v e i ts ne ighbo rhood as,on a l a rge r sca l e, the So uth K ens ington Museum does London ; a p lacefo r c l a sse s and s tudents

,su r e ly, bu t al s o a p l ace in wh i ch th e pub l i c

may l inge r and enj oy ; a p l ace to b r ing ch i l d r en, and in whi ch teache r smay study ; a mode l to eve r y ‘co l l ege s tudent of what a museum may d ofor any town in the l and .

Th e New to n H o spita lT i s a p l e asu r e to r e p o r t th a t Mrs. H . J . Jaqu i th

,d i r ec to r for

We l l es l ey of the Lad i e s’ Aid Ass oc i a ti on of th e New tonHo sp i ta l

,has r e ce iv ed th e money ne eded for the

suppo r t of the We l l e s l ey f r ee bed for the p r e sen t ye a r .Mrs. Ge r t r ude Pl ympton has a l so been e l ec te d to se r v e onthe Boa r d of Di r e cto r s . The r e w i l l be an afte rnoon te a a tthe Nu r se s’ Home on June 6

,f r om th r ee to five o’c l ock .

Al l. a r e i nv i ted and a gene r a l inspe ct i on of th e va r i o u swa r ds and ope r at ing r o om s w i l l b e pe r m i tted . The te a i sunde r the ausp ice s of the d i r e cto r s of the Lad ie s’A id A ss oci ati on

, whohope that many peop l e w i l l ava i l th emse lve s of th i s oppo r tun i ty to v i s i tthe hosp i ta l.

Donat i ons for th e f r e e bed we r e as fo l l ow sCol . N . A . Pl ymptonMr. F. H . H unnewe l lWe l l e s l ey H i l l s Congr egati onal Chu r ch

Uni ta r ian Chu r chSt. John’s Cath o l i c Chu r ch

$300 00

A l ittl e boy’s compos i tion on sal t Sal t i s a ve r y wh ite , fine sub stancethat makes you r potato taste just awfu l when you don’t put i t on .

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A ch i ld , on be ing asked to i l l ust r ate a ce rta in hymn ,d rew a woman ca r eful l y nu r s ing a l i ttl e bea r ; unde r i t he wrote

Can a woman’s tende r ca r eCease towa rds the ch i ld she- bea r ? ”

Cu r rent Li teratu re.

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Som e G ood BooksWELLESLEY : an i l l ust r ated poem . Seenot ice on page 5. 27 i l l u st r at ions .

40 pages . H alf mo r occo . $5. One hund r ed cop ies p r inted and p l ates dest r oyed .For sale at Maugus P r ess .

THE ANNALS OF MY COLLEGE LIFE. ( 1 9 designs , 96 pages . Qua rto ,c l oth . Lee Shepa rd . A handy and a r ti st i c b l ank book , a r r anged fo rnotes on col lege l ife , unde r va r ious heads, such as “MyA r r ival ,” My Sp r eads ,“My Chums ,” “Soc iet ies ,” “Vacat ions,” etc.

Fi ction

KING’S END. By A l ice B r own . (Hough ton ,M itfl in Co. 12mo .

Love r s of New Engl and r u r al l ife have sufi ered much f r om the“ r eal ist icschool . ” We account i t a p r ivi lege to read th i s sto ry , so st r ong, who lesome

and sympathet ic . A l ice B r own’s talent as a sto ry tel le r amounts to gen ius .The sel f - r est r a int w ith i ts unde rcu rr ent of pass ion , the mixtu r e of p r acti calsense and myst ic devot ion , are the ve r y essence of New Engl and cha racte r .The he r o ine of K ing’s End has a cal l ” and a love r . They cannot b e r econc i led and she has to choose between them . The old elde r , whose r el igion gr owsmo r e human w i th age and expe r ience , Luke Evans , outcast and athe i st , a recha racte r s wo rth knowing. A l togethe r the book i s an event .

THE POTTER AND THE CLAY . By Maud H owa rd Pete r son. (Loth r opPub l i sh ingCo . I l l us . 1 2mo . Who does not l ike a good - hearted, impn ls ive , pass ionate natu r e ? A lways i t i s gett ing into t r oub l e , bewi lde r ing i tsf r i ends . Somet imes i t w recks a l ife , sometimes makes a he ro . The main figure in th i s sto ry i s of such a natu r e . He i s the c l ay and the moulding andfo rm ing of the c l ay , unde r wheel and fire, i s the sto r y . Wi th h im are twoothe r s equal ly inte r esting, a fine Ame r i can gi r l and an Engl ish ofiicer , st r ong,self- cont r ol led

,unselfish . These th r ee are f r iends f r om ch i ldhood onwa rd

, and

the inte r act ion of the i r l ives makes the p l ot . The sto ry i s wel l wr itten and ahsorb ingly inte r est ing, wi th passages of gr eat powe r .

THE PUPPET CROWN . By H a r old MacGrath . (Bowen - Me r r i l l Co . 1 2mo .He r e i s ne ithe r h isto ry nor any k ind of “ p r ob l em ,

” just a un i que andenth r al l ing r omance of love and adventu r e . The book holds us by i ts goodEngl i sh , f r eshness and cha rm . The cha r acte r s are no puppets ,” but stand outc l ea r l y . The scene i s l a id in an imagina ry k ingdom wh i ch i s Aust r ia’s catspaw . The he r o i s a l ively young Amer i can , who - but we wi l l not spo i l thesto ry .

IN SEARCH OF MADEMOISELLE. By Geo rge Gibb s . (Hen ry T. Coatesand Co. 1 2mo . A sto r y of the st r uggl e between the Span ia rds and theH uguenots fo r the possess ion of Fl o r ida . The autho r i s an a r ti st who exchanged h i s b r ush fo r a pen and then i l l ust r ated h is own book . The actional te rnates between Fl o r ida and F r ance , the he ro be ing an Engl i sh sa i l o r , insea rch of a ce r ta in fa i r Huguenot ex i l e . Love r s of the sea w i l l gr eatly enjoythe voyages . Adm i r a l Col igy, Cha r l es IX . and othe r h i sto r i cal cha r acte r s arewel l p r esented . A simp le and d ign ified sty l e adds to the old- t ime eff ect .

A MARYLAND MANOR. By Fr ede r ic Emo r y . (Fr ede r i ck A . Stokes Co .

1 2mo . A good o ld- fash ioned sto ry with a nob l e he r o , a fa i r he ro ine . ap l ot and a vi l l a in . The scene i s t ide - wate r Ma ry l and and the t ime about 1 860,though we m ight th ink the pe r iod col on ial , so unchanging had been the soc iall ife of that r egion .

“Even the c l ock s had t icked just the same fo r a hund redyea r s . The most a rdent No r the rne r w i l l gr ow sympatheti c ove r the soc ialcatast r ophe wh i ch bete l ] the old r egime . The sty le i s good and the p i ctu r es of

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THE LIFE AND LITERATURE OF THE ANCIENT HEBREWS. ByLymanAbbott , D. D . (Hough ton , M iffl in Co . C r own 8vo. 408 pages . Dr .

Abbott , as p r eache r and as edi to r , has long he ld the pos it ion of mediato r between the schol astic m ind and the m ind of the gr eat , intel l igent , busy wor ld ofmen . Th is is a most impo r tant pos i t ion and in it Dr . Abbott has no equal . Hei s above al l an inte rp r ete r . Th i s book i s essent ial ly an inte rp r etat ion of theOld Testament , the best we have seen ,

and one of themost val uab le books thatDr . Abbott has eve r p r oduced . It p r esents , conse r vat ivel y , the gene r al l yaccepted conc l usions of mode rn b ib l ical schol a r sh ip . Let h im who wi shes toknow those conc l us ions r ead th i s book . H ew i l l b e abundantly r epa id , pe rhapsr e l ieved of pa infu l m i sapp r ehens ions .

THE RELIGION OF TOMORROW. By Fr ank C r ane . (He rbe r t S. StoneCo. , Ch icago . 1 2mo . 367 pages . A r emar kab l e book wh i ch we have notspace adequate l y to r eview . It p r esents the gr eat Ch r ist ian doct r ines wi th avigo r and f r eshness and o r iginal i ty that hold the attent ion . He r e are no dogmat i c petrifications but d r augh ts f r om l ivingwate r s . The cent r a l idea of thebook is that “Re l igion i s the pe r sonal influence of God,

”the powe r of the immanent God in human l ives . In the l igh t of th i s idea the Ch r ist ian r e l igion i sseen

,i ts natu re

, themean ing of the K ingdom of Heaven , of ete rnal l ife , of theC r oss , of the r esu r r ection , of he l l and heaven and al l the othe r doct r ines . Perhaps the most import ant chapte r i s that on the Inca rnat ion ; the most un iquei s that on Life i n the Heavens . The sty l e i s vigo r ou s , ep igr ammati c , appealing to mind , hea r t and consc ience . We bel ieve the autho r is r ight in cal l ingth is the “ r e l igion of tomo r row,” the goal wh i the r a l l vi tal p r esent day though ti s tending.

WITH CHRIST AT SEA. By F r ank T. Bul len . (Fr ede r i ck A . Stokes Co .

1 2mo . 325 pages . “A pe r sonal r eco rd of r e l igious expe r iences on boa rdsh ip fo r fif teen yea r s . ” They who have r ead M r . Bul l en’s book s of the sea

need not b e assu r ed that th i s i s inte r est ing. As a r eco r d of r e l igious experience unde r pecul ia r cond i t ions i t i s of unique val ue to the student of the psychology of r e l igion . We r ese r ve fu r the r not ice fo r the futu r e .

R ese rv ed fo r Fu tu re No tice

The Tower of iVye. W. H . Babcock . (Hen r y T. CoatesFi r st Studies of Plant Lif e. Atk inson . (Ginn Co .

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,10 cents) .

Poo r Boys’Chances. H abbe r ton . (A l temus 50

Di cti ona ry of Educational B i ogr aphy. (C . W. Ba rdeen) .M iss Chupes and. M iss J enny. (Bake r Tay l o r .

Mamma,i s heaven l ike a c i r cus

“Why, of cou r se not, Bobb i e 1”“We l l , I have always been af r a id I would b e d isappointed in i t . —Lif e.

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fine,inte r es ting, hea l th fu l men and women whom we mee t— save

,ofco u r se

,the occasi ona l v i l l a in— and the who l e atmosphe r e of the sto r ie si s who l e some and gene r a l ly s ti r r ing. It i s d emons t r ated tha t the r e ad

ing pub l i c p r efe r s pu r i ty and c le an l iness to immo r al i ty, ma r i tal infideli ty and th e p i ctu r e of sin, even when d r awn by the sp i cy pen of geni u s .It i s a l s o be l ieved that these c l e an and mov ing s to r i e s of l ov e and am

bi ti o u and ach ievement a r e as t r ue to natu r e as the o th e r k ind and p r e ferab le for menta l fo od . A fte r a l l

,most pe op l e do de si r e t o k eep de centcompany

,even on th e i r bo ok she l v e s and cent r e tab l e s . We congratul ate tho se who mak e f r i ends w i th the good ly young men and maidens

in “K ing’s End,” “The Po tte r and the C l ay,

”and indeed in the o the rboo k s

,th ough they dea l w i th othe r l and s or othe r times th an these .

No th ing i s h ea l th ie r for boys th an camp l ife unde r p r ope r cond it i ons . To get ba ck to natu r e,l iv e m uch in the open a i r

,exp l o r e w ood s,c l imb mountains

,r ow and fi sh on l ak e wate r s, to l ea rn to sw im and to

do enough of the p r acti ca l wo rk of a camp to gain i ts d i sci pl ine andacqui r e the knack of “ r o ugh ing i t” a l l of th i s i s good . We a r e gl adto see tha t our fe l l ow townsman, Mr. E. A . Benne r , has made suchcamping, unde r th e best supe r v i s i on, poss ib l e fo r We l l e s l ey b oys, a t amode r ate cos t. “We l l es l ey Camp,” at Lake Ossi pee, N . H . ,begins onJu ly 5th, and l a s ts seven weeks . We d oubt not that many pa r ents wi l lbe gl ad to tak e advantage of th i s oppo r tun i ty for the i r boys . Now

who wi l l open a camp for gi r l s ?

M u sic atWe llesley C o l l ege

HE l as t conce r t of the season in theWe l l e s l ey Conce r t Fundse r i e s was gi ven May 6, by th e d i s t ingui shed Ame r i canv i o l in i s t

,Le ono r a Jack son

,ass i s ted by M r. Se ld en P r a tt

,p iani s t and ac compan i s t . M i s s Ja ckson,th ough on l y twen

ty- fou r yea r s o ld

,i s a l r e ady a matu r e a r ti st

,w ith comp l ete

command of he r ins t r ument and with a sty l e of aston i sh ingv igo r and b r i l l i an cy . M i s s Jackson can we l l su stain compa r i son w ith the o the r famous v i o l ini s ts appe a r ing in the seconce r ts

,Tim oth ee Adamow sk i and Maud Powel l . M r.

P r a tt p r oved to be an inte r e sting pl aye r . He has a r ath e runcont r o l l e d enth usiasm , but w i l l , no doubt

,acqu i r e a mo r e fini shed

sty l e in a yea r or two ; he has good te chniq ue and much powe r of co l o ring. May 1 2, M r. B r uce W. Hobbs, teno r , s ang at th e vespe r se r v ice ;and on May26, Mrs. B l anche Heimburghe

- K i l du ff, Sop r ano . M r. Hobbsi s a tenor <Zi graz

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a, and sang “In Nat iv e \Ve r th ” beaut i fu l ly . M rs.

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K i l d uff sang “Wi th Ve r d u r e C l ad ” ( f r om The C r e ati on ) and “Hea rMy P r aye r ” (Mende l s sohn) . M rs. K i l d uff i s an exce l l en t a r ti st . May

1 7,M r. M acd ougal l wen t to Mount H o lyoke Co l l ege and gave a r e c i talthe r e .

Chu r ch New s

We l lesley H i l l s C ongr egation a l C h u rch

June 5, P . M ., at M rs. N. W. Sanbo rn’s , an i l l ust r ated ta lk by Mr . N. P .

Sanbo rn of Ma rb l ehead , on “Some Ame r ican Ant iqu it ies . ” Tickets , 25 cents .

June 12, 4 to 6, Piazza Pa rty at Mrs. L. V. N. Peck ’s . Chu r ch pa r l o r fund .June 22, 3 to 6 . Sal e on Mrs. Sande r son’s l awn by Este l l e Peabody

,H el en

Sib ley , Ma r ion Mo r se and H el en H a rd i son , fo r benefit of Sunday schoo l r oom .

Th e r e w i l l b e a commun ion se rvi ce on the fi r st Sunday in Ju ly . Those whow ish to un ite w i th the chu r ch at that t ime are r equested to confe r wi th thePasto r as ea r ly as poss ib l e .

Ch i ld r en’s Sunday w i l l b e ob se r ved th i s yea r on the th i r d Sunday in. June ,instead of the second Sunday . The usua l mo rn ing se r vi ce w i l l b e devotedespec ial l y to the ch i ld r en . Bib l es wi l l b e p r esented to bapt i zed ch i l d r en of thechu r ch . The r e wi l l b e spec ial mus i c and r ec i tat ions by the ch i l d r en .

Wo r k upon the new chu r ch bu i ld ing has al r eady been r esumed . A goodcont r act has been made w ith Mess r s . No r c r oss Co . of Boston, and i t is ‘

hopedthat , in sp i te of .the l oss of some weeks of wo r k , the st r uctu r e may b e compl eted about as soon as was o r iginal ly expected . Subsc r ibe r s are r equested tofo rwa rd the i r payments on the fi r st of June , August , Octobe r and Decembe r .The addi t ional expense caused by th i s change of cont r act wi l l he compa r at ivel ysmal l .

Un itar ian So c ietyThe Pasto r p r each ed at Newton on Sunday , May 1 2, Rev . Dr . Franci s Ti ffanyof Camb r idge occupying the pu lp i t h e r e , and exchanged w ith Rev . J . C .Jaynes ofWest Newton , on May 26 .

M r . Snyde r p r each ed the Open ing se rmon befo r e theWo r ceste r Uni tal ianC onfe r ence at No rthbo r o, May 1 5.

Mr . F r ank Watson , of Ph i l adelph ia , and M i ss Ethe l M el che r Col l ins, ofWel l esl ey H i l l s , wer e mar r ied on Wednesday mo rn ing, May 22, at

The l adi es of the B r anch A l l iance gave a st r awbe r r y fest ival and dance atM augus Hal l on the even ing of May 24. A h eavy r a in sto rm inte r fe r ed withthe attendance , but not wi th the enjoyment of those who we re p r esent .

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The Soc iety appo inted de legates to attend the Uni ta r ian Assoc iat ion and

Un ita r ian Sunday School Soc iety meet ings du r ing ann ive r sa ry week .The Flowe r Se rvi ce w i l l b e given on th emorn ing of Sunday , June 23rd.

Th i s i s to b e a jo int se r vice of chu r ch and Sunday school . The mus i c i s incha rge of Mr. Geo rge Dudley .

June 5.

M o n thl y C a l en dar

I l l ust r ated tal k on “Some Ame r ican Ant iqu it ies,” by Mr . N. P. Sanbo rn oi M a rb l ehead, at M rs. N .W. Sanbo rn’s ; 4P . M . Tickets 25 cents .

Piazza Part y, at Mr . L. V. N . Peck ’s . 4 to 6 .

Sal e on M rs. Sande r son’s l awn . 3 to 6 .

COLLEGE CALENDAR FOR JUN E

Rec i tal by pup i l s of theDepa rtment of M usi c .Dr . Mackenz ie , of Camb r idge , w i l l p r each in the Memo r ial Chape l ,at A . M .

Dr . Robe r t Macdonald, of B r ook lyn ,w i l l p r each in the Memo r ial

Chapel , at A . M .

Vespe r se r vice at P. M . in the Memo r ial Chape l .Semeste r exam inat ions begin .

O rgan r ec ital by pup i l s of the Depa rtment of M us ic , in theMemo r ialChapel .

Dr. Amor y B r adfo rd , of Montc l a i r , N. J wel l p r each in theM emo r ialChapel at A . M .

Dr. Lyman Abbott, of B r ook l yn , w i l l p r each the Baccal au r eate sermon in theMemo r ial Chape l at A . M .

Last vespe r se rv ice at P . M . in the Memo r ial Chape l , b y theWe l l esl ey Col l ege Cho i r , M r . B r uce Hobb s , teno r , and a mal eoctette f r om the Apol lo C l ub (Boston) . Dr . Sta ine r’s “Daughte rof Ja i r us ” w i l l be given . Th i s i s the l ast vespe r se rvice of theCol l ege yea r , and al l f r iends of theCol l ege are invited to attend .

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He sto od whe r e the maiden s tood be sideThe be auti fu l,bl ush ing r o se,

And he l ov ingl y bent h i s head and sighed,And he bu r ied h i s mou th and nose

Among the pe ta l s so swee t, so r a r e,That th e fa i r mai d’s l i p s had p r e ssed

,

And a bumbl e bee th at was r esting the r eP r o ce eded to do the r e s t.

Omaha B ee.

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PIANO TUNER CatherineF. Shea, Designer

NonantumBuildingRoom 3 Clark’

sBlockNewton

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50 Centsper Year

O u r H igh Schoo lBy Caro lyn J . Peck

HE inte r e s t wh i ch the c i ti zens of the town fe e l in the We l l e sl ey H igh Schoo l i s sh own by the l a rge aud i ence s wh i chga the r eve r y ye a r in th e We l l e s l ey Congr egat i onal chu r chto attend th e fina l e xe r ci se s of the s ch o o l ye a r . As th i s isth e on l y audi to r i um in town l a rge enough to accommodatethe aud ience

,th e gr ad ua ting e xe r c i se s h av e been he l d he r es ince 1 890.

Th i s ye a r the p r ogr am was unusu a l l y v a r i ed and inte re sting. As in past yea r s,eve r y gr ad ua te had some pa r t,th ough each was nece ssa r i l y b r i ef on account of th e si ze ofthe c l a ss . 1 901 , as befits the fi r s t c l ass of the twen ti e th centu r y, i s th el a rges t cl as s eve r sent out f r om the H igh School and numbe r s twenty

one, a l l of whom spent fou r ye a r s in the H igh Sch oo l , a s th e th r e eye a r s’ cou r se was d r o pped some yea r s ago . The c l as s of 1 901 was

d i s tingu i shed in the H igh Sch oo l for i t s unfai l ing l oyal ty to th e be s tinte r e sts of th e sch oo l and for i t s h a rm ony and s p i r i t of un i on in a l lc l as s r e l at i ons . In i t s pl ans for nex t yea r

,th e c l a s s i s ce r ta in l y ca r r y ing

out i ts m otto, “E is to pr ostken,” whi ch may be f r ee l y t r ans l a te d“Onwa r d .” N ine of the c l ass a r e p l ann ing for co l l ege w o rk th i s ye a ror nex t at H a r v a r d ,We l l e s l ey, Ins ti tu te of Techno l ogy, Co rne l l , Da r tm outh and Radcl iffe, and o th e r s w i l l s tudy at the F r am ingh am No rm a l

5

Schoo l and Tufts Med i ca l Schoo l,wh i l e the r est w i l l ca r r y out the sp i r it

of the i r c l ass mo tto w i th equal fa i thfu lne ss in th e home and soci a l l i feor in the business wo r ld .

The H igh Schoo l w i l l h av e abou t the same numbe r of pupi l s nex tyea r as i t had th i s ye a r . The ente r ing c l ass of about th i r ty i s abovethe ave r age in abi l i ty and i s pe cu l i a r in one r e s pect : th e membe r s ofthe c l ass who come f r om the Shaw G r amma r Schoo l a r e a l l boys

,a re

f r esh ing cont r as t t o the usua l s tate of affai r s .The r e w i l l be no change in the co r p s of te ach e r s next yea r , whichcons i sts of the p r inci pa l and fou r a s si s tants,bes ide s th e speci a l te ach e r s

in e l o cu t i on, d r awing, gymnas ti cs and musi c . The wo r k ca r r ied byeach teache r w i l l be as fo l l ow s : Se l d on L. B r own, A . M .

,We s l eyan,P r inci pa l, Lat in and Mathemati cs ; Cha r l o tte H . G r e enbank , B. A .,

We l l e s l ey, G r e e k and Ma themati cs ; Sa r a S. Eme r y, B. A .,We l l e s l ey,

Engl i sh and H i s to r y ; M . Lou i se Ca r r , A . B .,Radc l iffe

,Sci ence and

Mathemati cs ; Ma r i on L. Ha r r ington, A . B.,Radcl i ffe

,F r ench and Ger

man.

For se ve r a l yea r s past,th e H igh Schoo l h as done fine wo r k as a

fi ttingschoo l for v a r i o us co l lege s and univ e r s i t i e s, and now has the r igh tof ce r t ificati on a t We l l e sl ey,Smith

,Mt. H olyok e , Da r tmouth , Wes

l eyan, Univ e r si ty of M aine,Co rne l l and Bo ston Univ e r si ty . O th e r co l

l ege s wh i ch use the ce r tificate sy stem w i l l be added as fa st as the r e a r epupi l s w i sh ing to attend such ins t i tu ti ons . The s ch oo l al so fi ts for thes tate no r ma l schoo l s

,Radcl iffe

,Ha r v a r d

,and o the r insti tut ions wh i ch

r e ce i ve pup i l s on l y on the i r own examinati ons .As an i l l us t r a ti on of the h igh gr ade of th e sch oo l , one of the sch o l

a r s l as t yea r went f r om the soph omo r e cl ass to th e same c l as s in th eRoxbu r y H igh Schoo l , whi ch r ank s among the fi r s t in th e State , and atthe end of th e yea r s tood se cond in his cl ass . Ano th e r

,a gr aduate in

’96

,Compl e ted the r egu l a r co u r se a t H a r v a r d in th r ee yea r s, and th u swas abl e to spend h i s fou r th yea r in the Ha r v a rd Law Schoo l . Oth e r

instance s migh t be giv en i f space pe rm i tted .Just a wo r d sh ou l d be said he r e fo r the adm i r ab l e sp i r i t wh i ch p r ev a i l s in the H igh Sch oo l . Each scho l a r fee l s that h i s ve r y be st e ffo r ti s e xpected of h im

,and he i s thus put on h i s me ttl e to fu lfi l th ese ex

pectations. As a r e su l t, th ough the s cho l a r s v a r y w ide l y in ab i l i ty,the r e a r e few sh i r k s,and as a Who l e a l l mak e an hones t e ffo r t to con

que r th e i r s tud ie s . Thi s spi r i t makes i tse l f fe l t a l so in the gene r a l cond uct of the sch oo l . Few r u l e s are made, s ince hono r ab l e boys and gi r l sof high sch oo l age ne ed few,

and the r e su l t i s , as one enth u si asti c pupi lpu t i t

,th at “we a r e j u st l i k e a b ig fami ly .

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ab ly any o the r s im i l a r ins ti tuti on in th e w o r ld , and d u r ing th e l as t twoyea r s,in add i tion to the mi l e s of fine d r iveway s and foo tpath s wh ich

t r ave r se i t,w ide and inv i ting “

gr ass path s” hav e been Opened in manyd i r e ct i ons

,th r o ugh wh ich the publ i c a r e invi ted by signs d i r e cting tothe va r io us t r ee gr o up s and othe r p o ints of inte r e s t. Thi s a lmost su rp r i sing l ibe r a l i ty h as been but s l ow l y r e a l i zed , but i s now becomingbe tte r known and app r e ci ated

, and a tho usand v i s i to r s a d ay i s said tobe a common event. G r o ups of s tudent s f r om some sch oo l , l e d pe r h ap sby a te ache r,wi l l Often be se en mak ing the i r w ay abou t f r om point topo int

,no te books in hand and o the r ev id ence s Of inte r e s t and of s tudy

and ca r e fu l Obse r v at i on p l ain l y man i fe sted .Wi th the ex ce p ti on of su ch of th e l a rge r t r ee s—the oaks, mapl e s,e lm s, e tc .— as o r iginal l y o ccupi ed the so i l , the l a rge p l anta t ions of t r ee s

and sh r ubs which now cove r i t,numbe r ing h und r eds of th ousands of

se pa r ate p l ant s,have v e r y gene r a l ly been r a i sed he r e f r om the seedd u r ing the st i l l b r ie f l i fe time of the ins ti tu ti on. Thi s indust r y i s, in

fact, a ve r y impo r tant one he r e , and a v i s i t to th e see d boxe s and thel i t t l e nu r se r i e s whe r e the infant p l ants a r e t r a ined up to p r ope r si ze sfor t r an sp l anting outs id e, e speci a l l y unde r the gu idance of Mr. Jack sonDawson, the gen i a l supe r intendent of the A r bo r e tum, i s a mo st inte re s ting i tem in the s tudy of the ins t i tu ti on . La rge numbe r s of se ed sa r e constant ly com ing in f r om a l l ove r th e wo r l d ; he r e they a r e examined

, p l anted , watched and wate r ed— some time s for two ye a r s or mo r ebefo r e ge r minat i on e ven—and fina l ly s ta r te d upon the i r ca r ee r s as “ins t r uc ti v e examp l e s .” An inte r e sting co l l e c ti on of th e p r im iti v e fo r msof the py r us fami l y— the appl e and pea r t r ibe s—has been made thus,mostl y r a i sed f r om seed s r e ce iv ed f r om China, Sibe r ia, Ta r ta r y, e tc . ,the suppo sed o r igina l h omes of the r ace ; th i s, howeve r , i s bu t one of

many . Some ve r y u sefu l r e su l t s a r e atta ined at t im e s al so in thi s manner ; for examp le , a l ong row of ve r y fine Ind ian azal eas

,whi ch may be

found stand ing in the she l te r of H em l ock H i l l , has b l oomed the p r e sentyea r in a most de l ightfu l and sati sfa c to r y manne r , afte r succe ssfu l l yb r aving th e past unusua l l y de st r uct iv e w inte r . Thi s p r obably ma r k sth e d i scove r y Of a ha r dy st r a in of the sp l end id “Indi ca” type of azal e as

,h i the r to known he r e on l y in a tende r fo rm . The se ed s f r om wh ich

these p l ants we r e gr own we r e gathe r ed pe r s onal ly by P r o fe sso r Sargent, s ome yea r s s ince, in the h ighe r r egi ons of the Japanese mounta ins .Stand ing in the A r bo r e tum

,whe r e e ven our own o r d ina r i l y ha r dy

moun tain l au r e l was seve r e ly damaged the past se ason, these fine seedl ings h ave come th r ough w ith ou t inj u r y .

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Heml ock H i l l , r efe r r ed to abov e , i s a s ingu l a r l y w i ld and cha rm ingspo t,in whi ch one migh t e as i l y imagine h imse l f in the hea r t of th e

IVhite Mountains . Its p r e ci p i tou s, l edgy r idge i s c l o thed w i th wh athas qui te accu r ate l y been ca l l ed a “h anging fo r e s t” of old hem l ock s,wh i l e b e l ow chatte r s a l ong a bo is te r ou s l i t t l e b r o ok. The ent r ance i smasked f r om the d r i v eway by a th i cke t of sh r ubbe r ie s

,s o th a t i ts ex

istence i s r a r e l y su spected ti l l po inte d out, b ut one who acc identa l lyd i scove r s and ente r s th i s coo l r e t r e a t can ha r d l y be l ie v e his eye s wh enthey fi r s t r e s t upon the p r im i tiv e r u dene ss of the l i ttl e s cene . Seve r a lfine sp r ings bubbl e up at d i ffe r en t p o ints in th e pa r k ; the v i ew s f r omBuzzey and Pe te r ’s H i l l s a r e v a r i ed and d e l ightfu l ; and al toge the r ,wi th i ts p i ctu r e sque and d iv e r s ifie d s u r face

, and i t s exce l l en t d r iv e sand paths, the A r bore tum , s imp l y f r om th e r e c r e a ti v e po int of v i ew , i sa cha rm ing r e so r t and an impo r tant ad j unct to Bos ton’s fine pa r k system

,wh i l e i ts equi pment and fac i l i t i e s for encou raging a gene r a l s tudy

of and fami l i a r i ty w i th Natu r e a r e unsu r p assed .

THE WELLESLEY FLO A T

Ju n e 1 8 , 1 9 0 1

BY EDWARD SN . POMEROY

Swan - l ike in gr ace and rhythm ~ l ike in motion ,

The fa i ry navy sk ims the fa i ry ocean .

In shade and sheen , w i th deft manoeuve r s passThe squad r ons c r u is ing ove r c r ink l inggl ass .Like flash ingfire- fl ies, idl ing to and f r o ,The t r im canoes i l l um ined come and go.

In the d im sky the c r escent moon i s hung;Enchantment’s gl amou r o’

er the scene i s flung,

For those ent r anced who c r owd the cu rved sho r e ;Is th i s a Wi tch ing d ream Can i t b e mo r e’Tis su r el y some magi c ian ’s mocke ry ;Such l ovel iness cou ld neve r r eal l y beThe shel l s , conve rging to a cent r e now,

Assemb l e sta r—w i se , moo r ing bow to bow .

A b r igh te r l igh t’s i l l um inat ing st r eam ,

And boats and r owe r s al l transfigured seem .

The c l uste r ed c r ews a moment’s space are st i l l ;Anon the i r songs the l i stening s i l ence th r i l l .

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D r eaming of happ iness they hope to find,Singing of days and task s they l eave beh ind,They win app l ause . But ah ! they sta rt the tea r sOf some r ecal l ing the i r extat i c yea r s(Ere t r oub le came and Heaven den ied the i r p r aye r s)When youth and heal th and happ iness we r e the i r s.But now the r ush ing r ockets soa r on h igh ,And flame- l ike flowe r s b lossom in the sky ;The i r l oosened petals showe red on the ai r ,The pageant c l oses , and th e scene i s ba r e .

At th e G o lden G a teByw. E. H ayes

AN FRANCISCO migh t be ca l l ed the c i ty of b ills. It i ss i t uated on h i l l s

,i t i s su r r o unded by h i l l s . Whe r eve r youl o o k , to the count r y, to th e bay, you r eye r e sts upon r ugged

SIOpes Of gr e en and b r own,ve i l ed in soft b l ue haz e . The

h i l l s hav e a p i ctu r e sque , fo r e ign aspe ct, r em inding one of

I ta l y or Sw itze r l and,or no r the rn F r ance . I see them f r om

my w indow , as I w r i te, r i s ing up ab r up t l y f r om the sh o r e ,ac r o ss th e Go l den Gate, sh imme r ing in the afte rnoon sun .

The h i l l s out of the ci ty a r e att r a c tiv e,bu t the h i l l s in

the ci ty a r e some th ing of an e xaspe r at i on,e spec i a l ly to a

newcome r . Imagine the fo l d wh i ch a ca r pe t assumes when i t i s shaken,and you hav e some i de a of th e st r ee ts of th i s un ique ci ty . Some of theascen ts a r e so ste e p th at veh i c l e s a lmos t inva r i ab l y avo id them . Thegr ass gr ow s be tw een the cobb l e s tone s . The d iffi cu l ty of wal k ing upand d own th e se und ul ating s t r e e ts cau se s peop l e to r id e f r equent ly inthe cabl e ca r s

,wh i ch run eve r ywhe r e and a r e v e r y conveni ent . These

ca r s a r e nea r l y a lways to be found in pai r s . The f r ont one i s open and

has seats facing outwa r d, l ik e an I r i sh j aunting ca r . Ex cep t when i t i sv e r y w indy

,i t i s the popu l a r habi t to s i t in the sun in the Open ca r .

One ge ts an exh i l a r at ing r i de in th i s way for th e p r i ce Of a n i ck e l .The st r ee ts of San F r anci sc o a r e not on l y h i l l s ; they a r e wonde rfu l l y s t r a ight and l ong. The v i sta f r om the h igh points i s qu i te en

t r ancing. Washington i s cal l ed the ci ty of magn ificen t d i s tances, butth e d i stance s a r e tame be sid e th ose of San F r anc i sco . Some of the1 0

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t r y the fie ld s we r e b r igh t w i th o r ange - co l o r ed poppi e s and pu r p l e lnp ine,and f r u i ts of va r i o us k inds we r e a l r e ady r i pen ingandbe ing p icke d

for the ma r ke ts . To tak e a t r i p to any one of the att r activ e subu r b sMt. Tamal pai s

, San Rafae l, San Mateo, Be r k e l ey, Oak l and , Sansal itoi s a lmos t l ik e go ing Off for a summe r ’s ho l i day . It was d ifficu l t to r e a li ze that one was sti l l in Ap r i l

,for away f r om the w inds of San F r an

c i s co the sun i s qu i te wa rm .

The r e a r e many fe atu r e s of the c i ty that h ave not ye t been d i sc l osed to me . I giv e yo u the r efo r e on l y the supe rfici a l im p r e ss i on Of afew weeks of r e s id ence . Al l I can say i s th at so fa r I l i k e the p l aceve r y m uch

, and peop l e te l l m e th at I w i l l gr ow mo r e fond of i t thel onge r I stay . It i s ce r tain l y a sp l end id fie l d fo r a c l e rgyman, for the r ei s p l enty Of wo r k to be done .

G OD’

S G IFTS

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B YWRS. ELLEN W. VORSE

God does not ask , Have you obeyed my l aws ;Been me r c ifu l and just as b r othe r s shou ldBut w ith impa r tial hand pou r s out H is giftsA l ike “upon the evi l and the good .Let the r e b e l ight ,” H e sa id , and l igh t sp r ang fo r th ;

Unmeasu red l ight , fu l l , unconfined and f r ee .NO p r ice upon i t , r i ch and poo r al ikeSha r e in the b less ing, w ith the b i r d and b ee.

Aeons have passed ; unnumbe r ed l ives have w rough tThe i r patte rn in theweb , wh i ch jo ins in one

G r eat wo r k,the H uman r ace - and st i l l

Wi th undimin ished gl o ry sh ines the sun .

The smal l est b i t of p r otop l asm ic l ife,

K ings and the i r subjects , man and t r ee and sodAre equal sha re r s in th is p r ec ious giftF r om ou r al l - l oving and impa rt ial God.

HOW p r esses r ound us H is l ife-givi ng a i r ?No st inted measu r es , mar ked w ith name and p l ace ,But vast supp ly , r ich , inexhaust ib l e ;Enough fo r eve r y ch i l d of eve r y r ace ,For eve r y insect , b i r d , beast , fish and t r ee .F r esh eve ry mo rn ing, eve r y even ing new.

Each babe dr aws in i ts v ital qu i cken ing powe r ,Nor does i t fa i l h im al l l ife’s jou rney th r ough .

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LEA F O F RO U ND—LEAVED S U N DEW(Drosera rotundifolfa)

At the end of each hai r is a smal l amount of fluid that ent raps insects

Pbotogmplwdf rom nature especialb’

jbr Our Town

Enlarged to about twiceMe natural sire

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them unti l i t i s p l aced at the cente r of the l eaf. M eanwh i l e the tentac l e s a l l a r o und the l e af bend in a l so

,and the bl ade of the l e af doubl es

ove r the mo r se l . The l e af i s l i k e a hand w i th many finge r s w ide sp r e ad .When an inse ct i s caught on the ti p of one of th e finge r s that finge rca r r i e s i t to the pa lm of the hand ; a l l the o th e r finge r s cl o se in ove r i t,and the palm i s h o l l owed

,mak ing a cav i ty to con ta in th e v i c tim .

The flu id wh ich caugh t th e v i c tim now se r v e s a s a med ium for

d ige st i on, i t be ing s im i l a r in i ts act i on to the gast r i c j u i ce of the s tomach . When th e l e af has ass im i l ated the nut r i t i v e pa r ts,i t expand s

again, th r ow ing off the ind ige st ib l e wings and sca l e s .The r e a r e tw o speci e s of sundew to be found inWe l l e s l ey— th er o und - l e aved sundew (D rosera rotundq

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fol ia) and th e spatu l a te - l e avedsundew (D rosera intermedm ) . Bo th gr ow in hogs and we t l and .They a r e fo und in cons ide r abl e numbe r s in th e we t l and on th e l eft s id eof the B. dc A . R . R .

, go ing f r omWe l l e s l ey H i l l s towa r d Boston . Th i sspo t may be conven i ent l y and safel y r e ach ed by go ing down Ga r denst r ee t, the fi r s t s t r e e t on the r igh t l e ad ing out of Chestnu t st r ee t .The fu l l - gr own pl ants of the r o und - l e aved sundew a r e abou t th r ee

inch e s ac r o s s,and the spatul ate - l e aved about two inche s .

They th r i ve we l l unde r cu l ti va t ion. A smal l gob l e t or cup fi l l edw i th mud and wate r and p l aced in a sunny w indow i s a l l th ey need,p r ov ide d th e wate r i s not a l l owed to dry out. I have seve r a l p l ant s inone of my windows . I r e cent l y p l aced a m inu te p i e ce of r a r e s te ak on

the o u te r tentacl e s of one of th e l e ave s . In five m inute s i t h ad r e achedthe edge of the l eaf ; in fifteen minute s i t w as a t th e cente r ; in th r e eh o u r s the tentac l e s on the oppo si te s id e of the l e af we r e c l o s ing downand the b l ade was beginning to bend ; at th e end of twe l ve ho u r s al l th etentac l e s

,exce pting two or th r ee nea r th e s tem

,had c l o sed in

,the bl ad e

w as bent nea r ly doubl e, and the who l e sugge s ted a tight ly c l o se d fi s t .

Doubt l e ss many wou l d find a p lant or two an inte r e sting add i ti onto th e home . If any d iffi cu l ty i s expe r i enced in finding the p l ants, Iwi l l w i l l ingl y a ss i s t.

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Robb ie had longed l ong and ea rnestl y fo r a baby b r othe r and a pai rof. wh i te r abb its . The answe r to both wi shes came on the same mo rn ing, buti t was not qu i te sat isfacto ry , fo r the r e we re two baby b r othe r s and on l y oner abb i t . Robb ie was gr eatly disgusted at the mi stake . The next day h i s fathe rfound the fo l low ing noti ce tacked to the gate - post : For Sa i l .—0ne n ice fatbaby o r i wi l l swap h im for a wh i te Rab - Bet.

”—Tit—B i ts.

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Apes an d M o nkeys

E h ave r e centl y r e ad w i th immense p l e a su r e Mr. Ga rne r ’sApes and Monk eys,” w i th an admi r ab l e int r od ucti on byRev. E. E. Ha l e . The t i tl e sugge sts d r yne s s of sc i en t ifict r e atment

,bu t the contents d i spe l any s uch p r e concep ti on .

Th i s i s a book to make you p r oud of you r ance s to r s . You

l e a rn,po ss ib ly for th e fi r s t tim e

,th at they po sse ss h ighe rc l a ims to yo u r admi r a t ion and afiection th an many a kn igh t

and ba r on th r o ugh whom you a r e p r o ud to t r ace you r b l o od .Mr. Ga rne r h as not been conten t to s tudy th e cha r acte r ofour

“poo r r e l a t i ons — a s som e one h as ca l l ed them— in

the captiv i ty of the c i r cu s and the zoo l ogi ca l ga r den. He has gone intoth e p r im eva l fo r e s ts of Af r i c a, e r e cte d h i s stee l cage in th e j ungl e , andstud ied th e l i fe and l anguage of gigant i c ape s in th e i r na t iv e h aunts .We say “ l anguage ” adv i sed l y, for th i s ente r ta ining auth o r says th a the i s conv inced th at the ch impanze e and go r i l l a h av e a d i st inct vocabul a r y

, of which he i s s u r e he has m aste r ed at l ea s t ten wo r d s . Of cou r seth ese wo r d s r e p r e sen t th e s imp l e s t mate r i a l w ants

,but they ev ident l y

r evea l th e p r e sence of a r ud imenta r y l anguage . M r. Ga rne r s omewhatmodifie s the imp r e s s i on s of our e a r l i e r ac co unts of th e s t r ength and

fe r o ci ty of the go r i l l a . We had he l d the ente r ta iningno ti ons giv en u sby th e “Rooseve l ti an acco unt s of Du Chail lu . We p ic tu r ed th ego r i l l a a s a kind of zoo l ogi ca l Go l i a th of Ga th, who se stu pendo us v o i ceawe d ev en th e k ing of beas ts into te r r ifie d s ubmiss i on ; who did not

he s i tate to attack battal i ons of a rmed men, and who se fav o r i te amusemen t w as the c r u sh ing of gun ba r r e l s w i th h i s f r ont te e th . We s awh im

,in fancy, beat ing h i s d i aph r agm , whi ch na tu r e h ad t r ansfo r medinto a gigant ic bass d r um . But M r. Ga rne r s ays tha t th e go r i l l a i s ex

ceeding timi d and w i l l not a ttack the smal l e s t man,un l e s s the qua r r e li s fo r ce d upon him; tha t h i s bo som h ide s no bass d r um , and th at in a

“fight to a fin i sh ” between h im and the smal l e r and mo r e am i abl e ch impanzee, the l atte r , l i k e our “hone s t b l acksm i th ” of pugi l i s t i c fame ,a l ways conque r s th r o ugh fo r ce of b r a in and sk i l l . But M r. Ga rne r maybe p r ej ud i ced in th i s matte r

,be cau se the ch impanze e i s su r e l y th e obj e c t

of h i s mo st l oyal affe c t ion. And i f anybody can r e ad the s to r y of“M o se s” and “A a r on

,

” the i r l oves and s o r r ow s,and the i r e a r l i e r d e ath

,w ith out a mo i sten ing of the eye l id s, we r a th e r envy th e i r se l f c ont r o l .Apes and M onkeys : The i r Li fe and Language . ” By R. L. Ga rne r (Ginn

Company . I l l ust r ated , 1 2mo, 350 pages ,1 5

M u sic atWe llesley C o l l ege

HE annua l pup i l s’ r e c i ta l w as he l d at Co l l ege Hal l , June 1 .

E l ev en pup i l s appea r ed, and th e i r e ffo r ts r eflec ted muchc red i t on M i ss Dan i e l ], M i ss H osfo r d , M i ss H u r d and M i ss

Stow e l l wh o p r e pa r ed them .

June 9,Mr. F r e d Cu tte r

,bass a t th e El i o t Chu r ch , New

ton,was so l o i s t at th e ve spe r se r v i ce in Memo r ia l Chape l .

Mr. Cutte r s ang, f r om “The C r e a ti on,” “Ro l l ing in Foaming B i l l ows,” and a beauti fu l song by Chadwi ck.

Mr. Cu tte r i s a youngman and has a futu r e ; h i s v o i ce andmanne r a r e p l eas ing. If he continue s to study w i th e a r nestness he w i l l mak e a fine a r t i st . H is s ingingwas much enj oyed .

On June 1 3, the o rgan pup i l s gave a r e ci ta l in Memo r i a l Chape l .Two,on l y

,pl ayed—M i ss Stowe andM i ss Bowen . M i s s Stow e i s a l r eady a

capabl e o rgan i s t and, wi th M i s s Bowen, pl ayed a h igh ly inte r e s tingprogr amme . In the aud i ence we no ti ced M i s s Haza r d , Mrs. Du r ant, Mr.

S. B. Wh i tney and P r o f . J . K . Paine of H a r va r d .The Bacca l au r e ate Ve spe r s a r e eas i l y th e most impo r tant v e spe r

se r v i ce of the yea r . The Co l l ege cho i r was ass i s ted by M rs. K i l duff,sop r ano

,and by a do ub l e qua r te tte of men f r om th e Apo l l o C l ub, Bos

ton. The se r v i ce anth em was Staine r ’s “Daugh te r of Ja i r u s .” Themen sang Su l l i v an’s “The LongDay C l o se s . For the p r o ce ss ional anew “A l l e l u i a ” p r o ce ss i ona l of Staine r ’s w as u sed . The se r v i ce w asa ttended by a l a rge congr egat ion .

At the Commencement exe r ci se s,th e r e w as l i tt l e mus i c beyond

some o rgan se l e cti ons wh i le th e aud ience ga the r ed . In th e evening, asmal l o r che st r a ( st r ing qua r te tte, flute,co rne t and c l a r i one t ) gave th eannua l conce r t in Co l l ege Ha l l r o tunda ; the inst r uments we r e not pow

erful enough to make th emse l ve s hea r d above the din of the p r omenaders. Ano the r yea r

,h oweve r

,a l a rge r band w i l l be engaged .

Thi s ends the sto r y for th i s a cademi c yea r . On Thu r sday, Sep t.1 9

,at A . M .

,the chape l se r v i ce s w i l l be r e sumed .

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Book No ticesSO M E NA TU RE BO O K S

EVERYDAY BIRDS. By B r adfo r d To r r ey . (H oughton , M iflflin Co .

Squar e 1 2mo . , w ith 1 2 col o r ed p l ates f r om Audubon . We l l esl ey peop l eshould have a pecul ia r inte r est in th i s book . For , in the fi r st p l ace , i ts autho r ,M r . B r adf o rd To r r ey , though not a son ofWel l esl ey i s one of ou r hono r ed c i t izens . Indeed the me r e fact that th i s love r and inte rp r ete r of natu r e has chosento l ive in We l lesley i s no sl igh t test imon ial to the natu r a l beauty of ou r town .

Mo reove r , “Eve ryday B i r ds ” i s a cha rm ing se r i es of studies made r ight h e r e inou r own town and i ts immediate ne ighbo rhood , and i s ful l of most inte r est

ing inform at ion about those b i r ds wi th wh i ch we shou ld be fam i l ia r . Thesty l e of these sketches i s s imp le enough to b e inte l l igib l e to young peop l e ,wh i le at the same t ime it i s gr aph i c enough to cha rm olde r r eade r s . Pe rhapsthe most st r ik ing chapte r s are those on The B i tte rn , The Song Spa r r ow , andSouthward Bound . Othe r stud ies tel l us about the K ingl ets , Sca r l et Tanage r ,Bl ue Jay , H ummingB i r d and a dozen othe r va r iet ies . And in al l of th i s the r ei s a r ema r kab l e comb inat ion of sc ientific accu r acy w ith l i te r a ry sk i l l . We hopethat the book w i l l find a wa rm we lcome in many We l l es l ey homes .

THE MUSHROOM BOOK . ByNina M a r shal l . (Doub l eday , Page Co. ,

2nd edn . 24 fu l l - page co lo r ed p l ates . $3 net . ) Mycology , the study of fungi ,i s just now the p r ope r th ing in the “most se lect c i rc les . " Lite r atu r e upon thesubject i s of va ry ing bul k and qual i ty . One book r ecent ly pub l i shed i s nea r lyas l a rge as an unab r idged d ict iona ry and desc r ibes a thousand va r iet ies . Thebook befo r e us , wh i l e avowedly incomp l ete , i s comp l ete enough . In text , i l l u stration , a r r angement and cost i t would seem to b e the most adequate fo r theave r age student . H e r e are seventy - five sepa rate p ictu r es , in fo r ty - e ight p l ates ,half of them beaut iful l y colo r ed , and we are of the op in ion that no amount oftext i s as val uab l e as these i l l ust r at ions . The text i s a comp i l at ion f r om themonogr aph s of expe rts , and it has had the sc r ut iny of Pr ofesso r Unde rwood ofCol umb ia Un ive r si ty . The r e are chapte r s on the H omes and H ab its of Fungi ,the Re lat ion of Fungi to Othe r Pl ants , Fungi fo r the H e rba r ium , and Fungi fo rthe Tab l e . The body of the book , howeve r , (100 pages) i s devoted to descript ions of al l the commone r and espec ial l y the edib l e va r iet ies .

NATURE BIOGRAPH IES. By C l a r ence Moo r e Weed . (Doub l eday , PageCo . I l l ust r ated . net. )

“The l ives of some eve ry - day butte rflies ,moth s , gr asshoppe r s and fl ies . ” Eve r y one knows someth ing about The

Mak ing of a Butte rfly ,” and so fo rth , but ou r l ittl e knowledge w i l l make thesegr aph i c and wel l i l l ust r ated accounts al l the mor e inte r est ing.

“The Ame r i

can Tent Cate rp i l l a r ,” we have seen h im in ou r app l e t rees,but what can wetel l about him ? Pe rhaps if we we re wi se r we would not see h im so often .

The book i s ful l of inte r est and r el ates the l ife sto ry of c r eatu r es w ith wh ich weare al l mo r e o r l ess fam i l ia r by s ight , but of wh i ch most of us know ve ry l i tt l e .Concern ing the l ess fam i l ia r k ind , a rt i c l es ent it l ed “A Ru r al Imposte r ,” “St udies ofWal k ingSt icks,” “

An Insect Potte r,

”and

“Studies of Insect Pa ras ites ”

are except ional ly inte r est ing. The r e are a h und red and fif ty photogr aph s anda chapte r on the use of the came r a fo r th is k ind of wo r k .MR . CHUPES AND M ISS JENNY . ByEffie Bignel l . (TheBake r Tay l o r

Company . 1 2mo . i l l ust r ated . The b iogr aph y of two pet r ob ins , devotedto each othe r and to the i r cha rmingm i st r ess . Th i s i s not fiction but a na r r at ive of facts,mo r e inte r esting than fict ion . Of cou r se the cha r acte r i st i cs ofthese tame b i r ds are not p r eci sely those of the wi ld b i r ds

,but he r e i s a r evel a

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t ion of poss ib i l it ies in b i r d natu r e . The affect ion of the b i r ds fo r each oth e r ,thei r en joyment of the i r home , the i r hab its and capac i ties are del igh tful l y desc r ibed . The wr ite r i s a l ove r of b i rds and of al l natu r e . Inc idental l y she tel l sus much about othe r c r eatu r es— squ i r r e l s , Engl i sh spa r r ows , hawks , toads,r abb its and human be ings . It i s a fasc inat ing l i tt l e book wh ich no one canr ead w ithout de l ight and p r ofit .BIRDWORLD . By J . H . St i ckney and Ral ph Hoffman . (Ginn Co . 220pages . I l l ust r ated . 60 cts . ) We shou ld th ink that th i s woul d b e del ightfu lfo r supp l ementa ry school r ead ing o r fo r ch i l d r en at home . It i s sk etch y

,w i tha rt ic les va ry ing in l ength f r om a pa r agr aph to seve r al pages , and poems andapp r op r i ate quotat ions . I t i s abundant ly i l l ust r ated and p r esents a la rgeamount of info rmation about fam i l ia r and unfam i l ia r b i r ds .

FIRST STUDIES OF PLANT LIFE. By Pr of . Geo . F. Atk inson , of Corne l l Un ive r s ity . (G inn Co . , 270 pages . I l lu st r ated . 70 cents . ) How beaut ifu l these mode rn natu r e books are ! H e r e i s a l itt l e book fo r school use inwh i ch aremo r e than 300 i l l u st r at ions , most of them photogr aph i c r ep r oduct ions .And the method of study i s as new as the fo rm in wh ich the mate r ial i sp r esented . The Life Sto ry of the Moss , The Life Sto r y of M ush r oom s, TheSt r uggl es of a Wh i te Pine , Pl ant Soc iet ies , The Behav io r of Fl owe r s

,How

Pl ants Scatte r Thei r Seed, How Pl ants B r eathe— these are some of the top i cs ofth i s att r act ive book . The pup i l s are fo r tunate who can study natu re wi th agood teache r and the a id of such a book .

R EC ENT F IC T IO N

M ISS PRITCHARD’S WEDDING TRIP. By C l a r a Lou i se Bu rnham .

(Houghton , M i ifl in Co . 1 2mo . An exceed ingl y p r etty sto ry wh i chwe w i l l no t spo i l fo r the r eade r by desc r ib ing the p l ot . It w i l l be enough tosay that a cha rming r omance i s pe r fect ly inte rwoven wi th a fasc inat ing accoun tof a Eu r opean t r ip . The r e i s noth ing hackneyed in these t r ave l s . The ma indesc r ipt ion s are of out of the way r athe r than of fam i l i a r p l aces

, and peop l eand scene ry r athe r than of bu i ld ings . Conside r ab l e space i s given toWalesand Scot l and . The most inte r esting desc r ipt ions are of Cannes in Ca rn ivalt ime

,of the B l ue G r otto at Cap r i , of a vi s i t to the Catacombs , and espec ial l y of

the Pass ion Pl ay th i s l ast season at Obe r -Ammergau . The book s abound ininte r est ing cha r acte r s and effect ive s i tuat ions desc r ibed w i th a de l igh tfu l veinof qu iet humo r .THE SUCCESSORS OF MARY THE FIRST. By El i zabeth Stewa r t Phelps

Wa rd , (Hough ton ,M ifli in Co . 1 2mo . Who but M rs. Wa rd woul dth ink of weaving a sto ry out of the comedy and t r agedy of the se r vant girlp r ob l em But her e i s a sto ry wel l wo r th r eadingandmed itat ing upon . When

I cons ide r the heal thy women made inval ids , the ch i ld r en r u ined , the homesb r oken up by bad se rvi ce , I wonde r the A lm igh ty has the pat ience to see thedest r uct ion of so much nob l e mate r ial by such petty causes ,” says one of thecha r acte r s in th i s sto ry . M rs.Wa rd w r ites w ith a pu rpose as usual . The sceneof the sto ry i s in Boston and it s subu rb s . It is gr uesome and yet i t i s com ical .The r e i s w isdom fo r m i st r ess and fo r ma id . The so- cal l ed “ Intel l igenceOffices ” are desc r ibed with c l eve r sa r casm as wel l as some of the new sch emesfo r meet ing the s ituati on . Of cou r se M rs . Wa rd p r esents her own idea of thep r ope r so l ut ion .

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THE TOWER OF WYE. ByWi l l iam H en r y Babcock . (Hen ry T. CoatesCo. 1 2mo . A sto ry of ol d Ma ry l and and the st r ife between C laibo rne and Calve r t . The he r o t r avel s to the new l and wi th a sh i p l oad of p r os

pective w ives fo r theVi rgin ians . They are chased by p i r ates , beaten about bya sto rm and sh i pwrecked , wi th consequences t r agi c and com i c . A happy endi s r eached afte r pe ri l s f r om savages and ava r ic ious wh ite men , as we l l as f r omdemons and magi c . Themate r ial s of the sto ry are good , but the const r uct ioni s defective and the sty l e va r iab l e .THE COLUMN. By Cha r l es Ma r r iott . (John Lane . We unde rstand that th is i s the fi r st sto ry by th i s autho r . It seems not imp r obab l e . Iti s d ifficult to unde r stand why the sto r y was wr itten . Most of the cha r acte rs

are imposs ib l e and the r est are undes i r ab l e . Pa r t of the sto ry i s r eal i st i c andunp l easant . Pa rt i s myst ical and unintel l igib l e . We doubt if the autho r himse lf knows qui te what hemeans by it . The cent r al figu re i s an Engl ishman , anagnost ic , who ma r r ies in G r eece and, on the death of h i s w ife , r etu rns to Engl and wi th a G r eek col umn (wh ich he sets up on h i s l awn) and a daughte r ,Daphne , who i s the he r o ine of the book . Appa r ent ly , the pu rpose of the sto r yi s to show the supe r io r ity of He l l en i sm ove r Ch r ist iani ty . The Estab l i shedChu r ch , the Roman Cathol i c Chu r ch and Col l ege Settl ement wo r k are madeta rgets of r id icule . But

,afte r al l

, the task i s too b ig fo r the autho r . He cutsoff the agnost i c in the m idst of h i s days , and the Hel l en ic Daphne , dese rted byeve r ybody , comm i ts su ic ide . In so fa r as the autho r attempts to make thepagan G r eek sp i r it att r act ive he fai l s , as he ough t to fa i l . The book i s mo rb id ,unhealthy and pess im i st ic and the sty l e i s poo r . Pe rhaps the autho r may imp r ove w i th age.

THE ARlSTOCRATS, be ing the l ette r s of the Lady Helen Pol e . (JohnLane . The on ly use of th i s k ind of a book i s to show the morb id ideasof a ce rta in c l ass of peop le . The r e i s a sma rt set. who cul t ivate the r eputationfo r badness, who l ive as c lo se as they may to the bo rde r l ine of soc ial vice andcal l such conduct “ l ife . ” The i r joy i s in audac i ty , and the outcome a k ind ofgi l ded vulga r ity . The wr ite r of th i s book i s appa r ent ly young and

“ f r esh . ”She ( is i t a woman r ep r esents he r self as accept ing the invi tat ion of a casualsteame r acquaintance to use h i s camp in the Ad i r ondack s fo r he r self and herinval id b r othe r and s iste r . Then th is Lady H elen Pole w r i tes a se r ies of lette r s,(wh ich const i tute the book ) fu l l of sha r p c r i t i c i sms upon her host and al l h i sf r iends , who are, by her account , a p r etty set of snob s . But th i s i s the l east ofthe Engl i sh l ady ’s fau lts . Themain pu rpose of the book i s to sat i r i ze Ame r ican l ite r atu r e , wh i ch i s cha r acte r i zed as “aenemic,” because it i s c l ean . In the

few r e l igious notes wh ich are sounded i s an amaz ing pat r onage of the A lm ighty ,a bald hypoc r isy , wh ich i s the mo r e r ema r kab l e because i t i s so utte r ly un r ealized. Beneath i t al l , mo reove r , as in so many r ecent Engl i sh novel s , is thesto ry of a wife l onging fo r the death of her husband in o rde r that she mayma r ry anothe r man . Is th i s r eal ly what Engl i sh a r i stoc r acy i s com ing to ?Much of the book i s b r ight . Its natu r e desc r ipt ions are beaut iful , r eveal ingwhat the autho r

,w i th a c l ean m ind and cha r i tab l e natu r e , m igh t accomp l i sh .

But most of the sto ry is what the “Duke ” cal l s r ot . The pub l i she r s have

given th i s book a most att r active sett ing.

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”And th esew e r e th e five ev idence s wh ich he menti oned : Fi r s t

,co r r ectness and p r e

cision in the use of the m othe r tongue ; se cond, r efined and gent l e manne r s

,which a r e the exp r e s si on of fixed habi ts of tho ugh t and acti on ;th i r d,the powe r and h abi t of r eflec ti on ; fou r th , the powe r of gr ow th ;fifth

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Thompson accompl i shed h i s be st r e su l ts or be st se r ved his fe l l owmen.

Few of the r e ade rsof h i s sto r y r e al i ze the l a rgene ss and r ichne ss ofthe l i fe wh ich p r od uced i t . No mo r e v e r sat i l e w r i te r h as eve r l ived amongu s . Out of h i s own t r a in ing and expe r ience came th e know l edge andpowe r wh i ch giv e to th i s maste r p ie ce i ts e s sen ti a l qua l i t i e s . The auth o rhad been ed ucated as a civ i l enginee r , and was for some time the enginee r of a r a i l r o ad ; he had been for ye a r s the s tate geo l ogi s t of Ind iana .When be dev o ted h im se l f to l i te r a tu r e i t w as na tu r e he mos t enj oyeds tudying and de sc r ibing. Th i s exp l a ins the ch a rming and t r uth fu l d escriptions in h i s ficti on. He had al s o p r ac ti sed l aw for awh i l e , and hiskeen scent for fac ts

,the t r ue l ogi c of his sto r y, r ev ea l t r aces of th att r a ining. When but a l ad he h ad en l i s ted in th e Confede r ate a rmy .

He was expe r t w i th the r ifle . But above a l l h e l ov ed to u se the bow.

Some th i r ty ye a r s ago he w r o te “TheWi t che r y of A r che r y,” and was

mo r e than anyone e l se r e sponsibl e for that l ove of a r che r y whi ch, someof us w i l l r emembe r

,was so gene r a l in the seventi e s . The r e fo r e, he

neve r make s a mi stak e in hi s de sc r i p ti ons of the u se of bow or r ifle inh i s po pul a r sto r y . He had al so been a po l i t i ci an and a membe r of th eIndiana l egi s l atu r e . For fifte en ye a r s he was a membe r of th e ed i to ri a l staff of the “Inde pendent,” and w r o te many of i t s most v al uab l e rev i ew s and many a r ti c l es

,essays

,poems and sto r ies for va r i o us magaz ine s . He w r ote the h is to r i e s of Ind iana and Lou i s i ana . He was a

poet of mo r e than usua l me r i t,but too l i tt l e app r e ci ated . Such was the

t r ain ing of the auth o r of “A l i ce of .Old Vincennes,” and al l of the seexpe r iences and th i s many - s ided natu r e exp l a in

,in pa r t

,th e r a r e qua l

i ty of the book . But,above a l l

,th e pe r sonal i ty of the man i s th e se c r e t

of i ts qua l i ty . He was a l ove r of r omance . He hated th e r e al i s ti cnove l , and e speci al ly th a t sch oo l of fict i on whi ch p aint s v ice and ca l l si t “l i fe .” In cont r ast w i th the c r i t i cs who hav e attacked th e mode rnficti on in which so much (doubtl e s s, often too much ) of figh ting and

bl ood sh ed abound,

' he de c l a r ed : “Come Ivanhoe, D’Artagnan, come anyhe r o of t he m igh ty age s, and make us fo rge t the s to r y of debauch inginnuendo and i l l - fav o r ed l ove . Be tte r coa r se deeds of a r ms than flabby

and unsound domest ic mo r a l s se t in a f r ame of unho ly sugges ti on.

And again he l a id a t the doo r of mate r ia l i s ti c r ea l i sm the death , or p r esent dea r th, of gr e a t poet r y and endu r ing l i te r atu r e . “Real i sm,” he says,has neve r p r oduced one pe rmanent d r ama, one immo r tal novel , or oneendu r ing l y r i c .”The gr e a t l e sson of the r ema rkabl e succe ss of “A l i ce of Old Vinocume s” is the popul a r agr e ement w i th th i s ve r d i ct of Thompson’s .

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p r oof aga inst i t . It i s an e l ementa r y,an abo r igina l vo i ce, w ith singul a r p owe r in i t.”

But i t is Thompson’s d esc r ipt i ons of natu r e in wh ich i s h i s sfipremefascina ti on. It i s as imposs ib l e to quote f r om them w i th ou t inj u r y tothe who l e as i t i s to tak e a figu r e f r om a wo r k of a r t to desc r ibe thecomp lex maste r p ie ce . But he r e, for examp l e , i s a sugge stive b i t :“Bi r d s and flowe r s appe al to a sense of both beauty and myste r yth r ough p e r fe ct i on of co l o r and fo r m ; bu t bi r d s add two fu r the r fascinations—name ly

,fl igh t and song. I have seen a b l uebi r d flutte r

d r e ami ly th r ough th e sp r ingtim e a i r , l ike an anim ated flowe r whosesky

- tinted pe ta l s had become w ings (meant ime singing tha t most memorab le of a l l mono ton i e s, now gone fo r eve r f r om our we ste rn co unt r y ) ,and i t seemed to me a pe r fec t examp l e of an embod ied se l f - s ingingpoem.

” He r e i s a wo r d abou t the ca r d ina l gr o sbeak , “a flash of viv idr ed

,as i f a smi th had swung a b i t of r uby - hot metal f r om bush to bush .

Or r e ad th i s about a fie l d of v i o l e ts: “In p l ace s they gr ew so abnudantly th a t the gr ound l ook ed as i f a b i t of sky had fal l en so ha r d th atthe impact had made f r o th of i t.” But afte r a l l no b r i e f quo tati on can

do j us tice to the se be aut ifu l ta lks abou t natu r e . And mingl e d in w ithi t a r e d e l ightfu l r eve r i es wi th Mon taigne and Buffon and Bu rns, Ramsay,Theoc r i tu s and a l l the b r o the r h o od of na tu r e l ove r s . It is a cha rm

ing company and of them al l no pe r sona l i ty i s mo r e att r act iv e th an tha tof Mau r i ce Thompson

,to whom h i s own wo r d s abou t Hayne , Timrod

and Lan i e r co ul d be equa l ly a pp l ied,“Ev e r y th ought they se t to song

was as p u r e a s d i sti l led wate r .”Yes

,th i s was M au r i ce Thompson’s gr e ate st w o r k . The sto r y of

A l i ce of Old Vincenne s” b r ough t h im fame, and may be l onge s t remembe r ed . But h i s s tud ie s of na tu r e,such as we find a t th e i r be s t in

“MyWinte r Ga r den,” a r e h i s mos t cho i ce cont r ibut i ons to l i te r atu r eand the sup r eme wo rk of h i s geni u s.

A l ice of OldVincennes , Bowen-Me r r i l l Co . I l l us .,

MyWinte r Ga rden. The Centu ry 00 . 1 2mo . 31 0 p .

TEACHER : “Johnny , te l l me the name of the t r op ical bel t no rth of theequato r .”J OHNNY Can’t , si r .TEACHER : “

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The noonday p l ay of c loud and sun,

And even ing d roop her oriflammeOf gold and red in st i l l Asquam .

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O w r ote Whi ttie r of Winnepe saukee’s smal l e r s i ste r in thev i c ini ty of wh i ch h e spent m uch time and whose beaut ie sh e d r ank d eep ly . Sta r K ing, too, fo und the i s l anded ,r ambl ing Asquam ( cal l ed mo r e b r iefly Squam ) an e ve rf r e sh sou r ce of enj oyment and insp i r at ion .

Camp Asquam i s s i tua ted on a h i l l on the so uthe rn sh o r eof the l ak e . A c r o s s the s t r e tch e s of wate r and wood

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co r ua r i se s bo l d l y aga ins t th e sky. To th e wes t l i e Porgus,Nanalancet, Passaconaw ay, Wh i te face, Tripyramid and

Moa t.As i f to av o id too hold a con t r as t be tween th e se h e igh ts and th el ev e l of the l ak e be l ow, an inte rm ed i ate r ange known as the Squam

M ts. gi r d s th e sh o r e . On the oppo s i te s id e Red H i l l s tand s out protruding i t s unga in l y m ass as i f to make up for i ts l one l ine s s by sp r e ading out ove r as much gr o und as p o s s ib l e .

Camp Asquam j o ins i t s h i s to r y to th a t of Camp H a r va r d and i sthe p ionee r among summe r camps for boys . I t d r aw s i ts pat r ons f r omthe boy s th r o ughout the count r y wh ose c i r cum stance s pe r m i t them to

s pend ten week s in th e wo od s, whe r e the r e i s suffici ent ca r e and com

fo r t bu t no l uxu r y . It canno t be ca l l e d a sch oo l . The boys do not

s tudy . But they do l e a rn f r om th e natu r e abou t th em— th e b i r d s, fi shand insec ts . They a r e t r a ined int o efliciency in the spo r ts of wate rand l and , and a r e influenced wi th th e highe s t i d ea l s of t r ue Ch r i s ti anman l ine ss eve r in mind . Unde r th e ex pe r ienced spe ci a l i s t in th e t r a ining of boys, who owns and manage s the camp, a r e yo ung men who acta s compan i ons and adv i so r s to the boys . They attend to the cont r ol ofthe camp f r om day to day . They s l ee p

,e at

,wo r k and p l ay w i th th e boys

,mak ing i t the i r b us ine ss to se e th a t e ach boy be a r s h i s pa r t and d oe s9

h i s sha r e in th e commun i ty of camp l i fe . To c r e ate a hea r ty, h ones tand un se lfish pa r t i ci pa t i on in wo rk and p l ay, in a w o r d, to p r oduce agood “camp sp i r i t” i s the gr eat obj e c t of each summe r .

Reve i l l e at seven in the mo r ning i s th e signal for al l to th r ow off

bl ank e ts and appea r,dumb - be l l s in hand

,on the sunny side of Pat r i c ian

Pa l ace . H e r e,with . the l ak e and mountains s t r e tch ing ou t in themo rn ing l ight, the fi r s t e xe r c i s e i s tak en . Then “bl anke ts out” and

wash ingmus t be exe cuted in time for b r eak fa s t . Be fo r e the p l e asu r eof the day can begin, each boy must do th e d uty wh i ch fal l s to h im .

Some times he i s “po l i ce ” and wie l d s the b r o om up and d own th r o ughone of the bu i l d ings . Aga in, he must act a s mai l ca r r i e r or be “

gal l yand p r epa r e the vege tab l e s fo r co ok ing. The se r e spons ibi l i t i e s r emovedf r om the boys’ sh o u ld e r s

,or pe r h aps mo r e accu r ate l y th e sh ou lde r s of

th e co unse l l o r s,“assembly” on th e bugl e summons al l to headqua r te r s .

The r e th ey l i s ten to a ta l k on “The H uman Musc l e s,

” “Butte rfl i e s,”Row ing,” “Sw imming,” and the l i k e . Then th e boys a r e f r e e un t i lt ime for a “soak ” in the c l e an wate r a t the fo o t of the b il l . Thi s i sthe mos t popu l a r ev ent of the day

,and “al l in” i s much mo r e speed i l y

obeyed th an “a l l out.

”In th e afte rnoon comes a t r i p in the l aunch ,

tenn i s or baseba l l,whi ch p r e pa r e s the boys for th e occasi ona l l y gr antedl uxu r y of a “se cond soak .” Suppe r ov e r

,and s ome of th e su r p l u s e u

ergy of the day expended in r unning abo ut the b ui l d ings, al l gr o upthemse l ve s about th e camp fi r e to l i sten to sto r i es or j o in in s ongs .A fte r p r aye r s comes “taps

,

” whi ch means l ights out, no wh i spe r ing and

spe edy fo rge tfu lnes s in s l eep .The Sabbath i s begun by a sho r t se r v i ce in the chape l among th ep ine s . At no on a l l s t r o l l off f r om camp and,se ated unde r a b r o ad t r e e

ove r l o ok ing the wate r s, d i scuss some top i c of inte r e st, as “Popul a r i ty,”“Co u r age ,” or “M an l ine ss .” As the l ong afte rnoon s l ow ly d r aws ontowa r d s sunse t, th e se r v i ce of the d ay i s he l d in the chape l , whe r e wo r d sof adv i ce and e xho r tati on a r e spoken

,sugge s ted by th e l i fe in th e wood s

and su i te d to th e p r ob l ems and need s of boy l i fe .At th e most imp r e ssi onab l e s tage in a boy’s ca r e e r , on l y the pu re s t and most who l e some influence s sh ou l d b e suffe r ed to ex i s t. The

nea r e r he can be b r ought into contact w i th natu r e,th e m o r e co r r e ctl y

he can be made to indu lge in natu r a l and su i tab l e exe r c i s e, and themo r e c l e a r ly be can be made to app r e c ia te th e deepe r t r uth s of l ife, thebette r i s be fi tted to cope w i th th e duti e s befo r e h im . P r ofe s so r s nol onge r in s i s t upon send ing a l l un iv e r s i ty men th r ough th e same mou l d .Ind iv idual need s and p r opens i t i e s d emand speci a l p r ov i si on . Even

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We l l esley Alu m n i Assoc ia tio n

By Caro lyn J . Peck

S in a l l sch oo l s,th e a l umni of the H igh Schoo l a r e its be s tadvocate s . These numbe r 275, of whom fifteen hav e d ie d

in th e - th i r ty - tw o yea r s of the schoo l’s ex i stence . They a r ew idel y scatte r ed ov e r s ix teen state s of th e un i on, f r omMassachuse tts

,whi ch natu r a l l y has th e l a rge st numbe r , to

Wash ington, Ca l i fo rn i a , Col o r ad o andWyoming in th e fa rwe st,K entu cky in the south

,and Oh io and M inne so ta in

the m idd l e we st,whi l e in New Y o r k

,New Je r sey and

Penn syl van i a a r e many r ep r e sen tativ e s of the We l l e sl eyH igh Schoo l . Th r e e a r e pe r manent ly se ttl ed ab r oad, two

in Engl and and one in Japan. Mo r e than th i r ty pe r cent a r e m a r r i ed ,and the a l umn i l i s ts inc l ude many teache r s— teach e r s of cook ingmusic

,e l o cu t i on and a r t ; teach e r s in common s ch oo l s and in highschoo l s ; p r ofes so r s in s i x co l l eges and un iv e r s i t i e s, tu to r s, supe r in tendents of sch oo l s

,e tc . Of the se fou r teen a r e or h ave be en teach e r s in

our ownWe l l e s l ey sch oo l s . Nor a r e the r e l acking among the al umni ,busine ss men,d ent i s ts

,phys i ci ans

,c l e rgymen, l awye r s, a r ti s ts and

w r i te r s of p r ose and poe t r y . Many a r e co l l ege gr aduate s and s ti l lo the r s to ok pa r ti a l co l l ege co u r se s or gr aduate d a t no rmal s choo l s,wh i l e many a r e now in co l l ege .About twenty yea r s ago, an a l umn i as soc iat i on was o rgani zed bythe e a r l y gr aduate s, which was most flou r i sh ing in

’80

,

’81 and

’82.

The ch ie f move r s in th i s we r e M a r sh al l L. Pe r r in, ’70, Mrs. A l i c e Put

ney K ingsbu r y, ’7 8, G. A . P. Codwise

,

”76

,Mrs. Jenn i e S. Sp r ing, ’

7 8,

and Mrs. M a r y Nash Ea r ly,

’79 . Thi s o rgan i za ti on l a te r f e l l to p i e ce s,but was r ev ived by the c l as s of ’

89,who a t th e i r fi r s t mee t ing gave ar e cep ti on to th e c l ass of ’

90,the gr aduating c l as s of that ye a r . Thi s

cu s tom has been k ep t up eve r s ince,at fi r s t by l a rge gathe r ings ofal umn i and the i r f r i end s in Shaw Hal l,and l a te r

,when th e numbe r

gr ew too l a rge for th i s, by outd oo r affa i r s at th e home of Dr. Pe r r in,who has fai thful l y se r v ed the as soc i a ti on a l l th ese ye a r s as p r e s iden t,and has spa r ed ne i the r t ime nor money to mak e th e o rganizati on successfu l . Last ye a r a new p l an was t r i ed

,tha t of hav ing a suppe r foll owed by app r op r i ate toas ts at some hote l

,to wh i ch ev e r y gr aduatem ight come on payment of a sma l l fe e . The fo rmal o rganizat i on was

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d r opped as fa r as po ssibl e and a spe ci a l e ffo r t m ade t o inte r e s t theo l d e r a l umn i . Thi s yea r , th r ough th e cou r te sy of Mr. He rbe r t D.

K ingsbu r y, ’70, the r e un i on was h e l d at the New ton C l ub Hou se , Newtonv i l l e , to wh i ch about nine ty we r e conveyed in a spe ci a l ca r . The

te ache r s o f the H igh Schoo l and th e c l a ss of 1 901 we r e th e guests ofth e as so c i ati on .

After‘

the suppe r , Dr. Pe r r in, p r e s id en t of th e asso ci ati on, cal l edthe membe r s to o r d e r and appo in ted a comm i tte e to nom inate oflicers

fo r nex t yea r . These we r e r e po r ted as fo l l ow s : P r e s ident,Dr . M . L.

Pe r r in,

’70; v i ce - p r e s id ent, Cha r l e s E. Fu l l e r , ’

88; se c r e ta r y, Ca r o l ynJ . Peck , ’90; t r ea su r e r , El l a M . Beck , ’

9 1 ; e x ecu t iv e comm i tte e, A .

Ed i th Lee s, ’89

,Ca r r i e E. Ha l e , ’

94, A l i ce E. Cunn ingham , ’

92, John L.

Rothe r y, ’99

,Cha r l e s S. Cabo t, ’

97 .

Afte r - d inne r speeche s w e r e made by Roge r N . Ba l dw in,1 901

, whor e sponded for h i s c l as s,th e gue sts of the ev ening, and G r ace B . Town

send , ’92, who spoke ente r ta iningl y on he r So u the rn expe r ience s inte a ch ing, c l os ing w i th a h e a r ty t r ibu te to Mr . B r own . Se l e c ti on s f r om

old copi e s of the “Index ” b r o ugh t back many inte r e s ting memo r ie s tothe o l de r gr ad uate s, af te r wh ich G r a ce E. Ro chfo r d,1 901

,de sc r ibe d

the h igh s choo l l i fe of tod ay . Mr. B r own,th e l as t spe ake r w as mo st

hea r ti l y we l comed by hi s many pup i l s, who a l ways r emembe r the i rh igh schoo l days unde r h i s in st r u ct ion w i th p l e asu r e and gr a ti tud e .

Du r ing the ev en ingM i s s Be l l e S. Basse tt, supe r v i s o r of musi c in th eWe l l e s l ey schoo l s, sang sev e r a l se l e c ti on s, and co rne t so l o s w e r e giv enby F r ank S. Fa rnham , 1 901 .

Why can’t a man’s nose b e l onge r than e leven inches ? ” Oh ,if i t we r eove r twelve it would b e a foot . ” YaleRecord .

“Tommy , what on earth have you been do ing? Been out in the ba rn,

skinnin’ that o ld b l ack cat that’s been hangin’ a round he r e so long. Sk in

n ingher ? Oh , you c r ue l boy I” “C r ue l ? I a in’t ne i the r . I k i l l ed her fi r st . ”Chi cago Tr i bune.

The r e was a young l ady of Gl ouceste rWhose name was Pene lope Foucester ;

It i s p r ope r to say,

Had she Spel t i t th i s wayWe should not have known how to accoucester .

—Puck.

If Funston has h i s eye on the P r es idency he shou ld commun i cate w i thGeo rge Dewey ,Wash ington .

- TheNew YorkWo r ld.

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Way Dow n in Dix ie

By Grace B . Townsend

T was a hot August even ing, and, afte r a l ong day’s r i d e byr a i l,we found ou r se l ve s on a sh o r t b r anch r oad r unn ing tothe a r i sto c r a ti c o l d town of Washington, Geo rgi a . As we

nea r ed ou r de s tinat i on,the conducto r came into the ca r ,

l o oked at me inqui r ingly , and final ly,s i tt ing down in the

sea t beh ind me,sa id

“Is anyone to meet you atWa sh ington,madam ?

Yes,”I r e p l i ed

,

“Mr. A .

A l o o k of r e l i ef p assed ov e r h i s countenance,fo r i t i s

un safe fo r l ad ie s to be out al one in th e even ing in th eSouth . As th e t r a in pu l l ed into the s tati on, h e pi ck ed up my sat che l ,l ed the way to the d oo r , he l ped me down the ste ps, found M r. A .

,and

l e f t me in h i s ca r e .Such attent i on to a l ady t r ave l l ing a l one i s no th ing unu sual . The

So uth e rne r h as amp l e t ime for cou r te sy ; the e asy -

go ingGe o rgi an con

s ide r s it pa r t of h i s bus iness to make h im se l f u sefu l to h i s fe l l ow t r ave l l e r s . He “ r e ckons ” he w i l l h av e t ime enough to attend to al l h i sd utie s .

Befo r e a week in the South,the No r th e rne r r e al ize s tha t some th ing

in the natu r e of th ings ke eps th e negr o f r om be ing to l e r ated as a so c i a lequal . In co unt r y d i s t r i cts one see s th e fi l th and degr adati on in wh i chthey l iv e . They a r e f r equent ly l aw l e ss, and a lway s sh iftl e ss and thieving, content w i th r ags and food sufli cient fo r th e nex t meal . VVithal ,th e good natu r ed one s a r e i r r e s i st ibl y funny .

On our p l antati on of a thousand ac r e s,th ey we r e peace ab l e

,and

I cou ld v i s i t the i r c abins w i tho u t fea r . A ce r ta in gl amo u r , too, seemedto r e s t upon me be cau se I had the r e pu tat i on of c om ing f r om Boston .

One day two negr o ca r pente r s saw me c r o s s the ya r d , and one said toth e o th e r :

“Whar’s de new teachah f r om ? ”

Bos ton, answe r ed Unc l e Tobe, “d o yah s’po se we’se evah gwinegit dah ? ”

“I reck’n s o

,on de way to he’

b’n,was the r e p ly .

It i s t r ue that the southe rn pl antat i on of today,e spe ci a l ly i f i t h as

been in the same fami ly fo r s eve r a l gene r ati ons, gi ve s one, mo r e nea r l y1 4

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te ams and ‘nigge r s’ se emed eve r ywhe r e . Abov e al l r o se th e s tifl ing r e dGeo rgi a d ust, and th r o ugh i t a l l , in th e d im l igh t, was the most nue a r th l y din, sho u tingnegr oe s, cu r s ing d r iv e r s, and s c r e aming locomo

t i v e .My sensat i on was as i f I we r e suspend ed in th e h e l l th at Vi rgi lw r i te s of and that I we r e see ing the confu s ion of th at p l ace l e t l oo se

a r o und me . It was r e a l l y f r ightfu l , and i t was w ith r e l ie f that we foundou r se l v es in our ca r r i age , d r i v ing th r ough th e s i l ent count r y back to

our home .”The las t scene wh i ch I shal l attempt to de sc r ibe i s one whi ch few

wh ite pe op l e , even Southe rne r s,e ve r w i tne ss

,but for th e peaceabl e

ch a r ac te r of our p l antat i on negr oe s I co u l d not hav e had th e oppo r tuni ty.The afiair i s known as a “hot suppe r , a l though th e suppe r i s inr e a l i ty co l d . It i s giv en in s ome negr o cabin . The negr oe s begin toassemb l e about ten in the ev en ing and hang abou t unti l a good ly num o

be r come . Then they ente r a r o om wh i ch has been c l e a r ed for the oc

cas i on and begin to dance . Some time s th ey h av e a fidd l e r,bu t oftene r

the men s ing some mean ingl e ss song, ma r k ing the time by cl appinghands and stamp ing fee t . The r e i s no appa r ent m e th od in th e dance ,and they tu r n and sw ing and dance e labo r ate cl og dan ce s unt i l the pe rsp i r at i on r o l l s off the i r face s in st r e ams and the i r v o i ces a r e h oa r se w i thca l l ing off and shout ing. They a r e compl e te l y ca r r i ed away

,and as

ob l iv i o us of v i s i to r s a s the p ine s of the fo r e s t . Many of the be st d ance r swe r e the commone s t negr oe s ; th ose who pos se ssed some l i t tl e sense ofour r efinements a t such occas i ons seemed out of pl ace a t su ch a madca r ouse .When the dance s topped fo r a few m inutes

, the dance r s by coup l eswou ld go to an adj o in ing r o om whe r e they cou l d buy r e f r e shment s ;f r i e d fish—of whi ch they a r e v e ry fond , s tewed “po ssum,a k ind of

swee t b r e ad ca l l ed cak e, potato custa r d—a d i sh made of gr ated swee tpotatoe s, seasoned, and baked w i th one c r us t, candy and appl e s .The se d i she s

,i f we l l co oked

,a r e r e a l ly v e r y go od, and th e money com

ing f r om the i r sa l e i s the ch i e f mo tive in gi v ing a h o t su ppe r .Soon the dance i s r e sumed

,and so they dance and e at

,e at and

dance unt i l nea r ly mo r ning. If they succeed in get ting any whi skey,th ey occas i onal l y d r aw a r evo l v e r by way of v a r ie ty,bu t un ti l m idnigh tthey a r e usua l ly we l l behaved . By tha t time my pa r ty a lway s l eft, and

I quote , in c l o s ing, th i s account of our way h ome one mo rn ing afte rone of th ese occas i ons

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Apo s tl e we r e e l oquent l y u tte r ed , pa r ti cu l a r l y by Wi l l i am S. El i o t, J r.,

a membe r of the Ch i cago ba r . The ch ai r in wh ich E l i o t u sed to s i t,p i ctu r e s i l l ust r a ting h i s l i fe and th at of his de scendant s w e r e sh own inthe ve st r y of the chu r ch .

It wou ld not be d es i r abl e to te l l again th e s to r y of the ce l eb r ati onof the fou r th . The day was a d e l igh tfu l one and a l l th e i tem s of thep r ogr am we r e successfu l l y ca r r ied out. The st r ee ts and home s we r eb r i l l i ant in de co r a ti on s ; the Ind ians we r e r ea l enough to ha l f te r r i fyand who l l y de l igh t the sma l l boy; the speake r s we r e e l oquent and imp r e ss ive ; the d inne r amp l e and appe tiz ing; the r egatta w e l l conte sted ;the ev en ing assembly unde r the oak no tab l e fo r the add r es se s of our

townsmen and th e musi c of our Nati ck band . The ev ening saw th eb r idge, th e i s l and and the r iv e r t r ansfo r med into fa i r y l and by gl e amingl igh ts and fla sh ing fi r ew o r k s . Suffic ient time h as passed s ince th e s ightsand sound s of the d ay to make pe r tinent the que sti on “d id i t pay ? ” I

am confident th a t the comm itte e and the c i ti zens w oul d un i te in an em

phati c affi r mativ e . The b r inging toge the r of the d i ffe r ent denom inati on s and pa r ti e s, the p l ann ing for a common good has been a he l pfu lexpe r i ence . The know ledge gained of the h i sto r y of our v i l l age , th eho pe tha t w e may be ab l e to d o some th ing for a pe r manent mem o r i a lto one s o w o r thy of fu r the r r e cogn i ti on, th e se a r e some of th e r e asonsfo r the “ye s .” A l a rge and ea rne st comm i ttee i s at w o r k on p l ans tointe r e s t a l l in mak ing th e p l ace of the fi r s t v i l l age of p r aying Ind iansmemo r ab l e . It i s h oped tha t many students of hi sto r y w i l l fee l a s d idDean Stan l y in coming to th i s l and, “I want to see th e p l ace whe r ethe Pi lgr ims l anded and whe r e the Apost l e El i o t p r e ach ed .

It i s the desi r e of the c i t i zens of the v i l l age th at a memo r i a l so imp r e ss iv e may be p l anned th at th e ca r e l e s s passe rby may be imp r e ssed .It i s a l s o h oped tha t th e spo t s made no tewo r thy by the pen of H a r r i e tBe eche r Stowe may be so ma rked a s to make the v i l l age of “O l d townFo l k s” be tte r known .

So we hope th at th e 4th of Ju ly ce l eb r ati on w i l l p r ov e some th ingmo r e th an “sound and fu ry s ign i fy ing no th ing.

”

Aunt Ch l oe , fol lowing the suggest ion of an educated f r iend , had namedthe p r evious p i ckan inny Append ix , th ink ing the r e wou ld b e no mo re . Butanothe r one had come . “Dis,

” sa id Aunt Ch l oe,

“ is my cu l lud supp lement .”And she folded it in her a rms . Chi cago Tr i bune.

Why do hens lay eggs in the day t ime At n igh t they are r ooste r s .— Exchange.

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PUBLISHED.

ON THE FIRST OF EACH WONTH BY C . M . EATON

MANAGING EDITO‘

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Ed itor ia l

The l ate John Fi s k e was a un ique figu r e in New Engl and so cie ty .

Coming f r om Pu r i tan stock , and inhe r i t ing a l l the so c i a l , r e l igi o u s andpo l i t i ca l t r ad i ti ons of th a t stock,he sh a r ed few of th e id e as and im

pul se s wh ich a r e th e cont r o l l ing fac to r s in New Engl and l i fe . So ci a l l yh e was a th o r ough Boh em i an, hav ing a ma r k ed d i sda in and contem ptfo r th e s l igh te s t appea r ance of sum ptua r y l egi s l a ti on, or for th o se umw r i tten

,but no l e s s r e s t r i c ted

,l aw s for wh ich th e av e r age New Engl ande r has s uch p r ofo und r e ve r ence . Un l i k e many sch o l a r l y Ame r i

cans,he h ad not cont r ac ted ce r tain so c i a l h ab i t s in th e f r e e l i fe of th e

Ge r man univ e r s i ti es, becau se h e h ad neve r been a sso c i ate d w i th such al ife . H is ca r e l e ss unconvential ism seemed to h av e be en r a the r a so ci a lr e acti on and r ev u l si on against a type of s tiff fo r mal i t i e s, wh i ch has pe rh aps p r oduced a l ike tendency in natu r e s not giv en to s o ci a l l i cense .He had such an intense h at r ed for any th ing l ike ins ince r i ty or p r e tencetha t no d oubt he was al ways tempted to exagge r a te th e cont r as t tha te xi s te d be tween h i s s o ci a l h ab i ts and the id ea l s by wh i ch h e was su rr o unded . What h e was and d id w as o pen a s the day to a l l m en’s s igh t .

Po l i t i ca l l y, M r . Fi sk e was a Je ffe r son i an Dem oc r a t, of a type nowa lmost ex tinct . He h ad unmeasu r ed contem pt fo r tha t h a l f d i sgu i sedpopu l i sm which see k s to imp r ov e the cond i ti on of the poo r by r obbingind ust r y of i ts natu r a l r ewa r d s ; no sympathy for th at fo r m of po l i t i ca lexpe r imentati on wh i ch begin s to r efo r m socie ty by flying in the face ofexpe r ience and be l i ev e s tha t l egi s l a tu r e s can c r e ate the m i l l en ium . He

he ld w i th M r. Jeffe r son tha t gove rnment s we r e not c r e ate d to mak emen r i ch o r to mak e them v i r tuou s

,but s imp l y to p r o te ct them in th e i r

na tu r a l r igh ts . He l o ok ed to o the r agenci e s to inc r e ase the i r wea l th ,the i r know l edge , and the i r v i r tu e . He had , l i k e h i s gr e a t p r o totype ,1 9

a p r ofound t r u s t in the capaci ty of the peop l e for se l f - gov e rnment .And whi l e he d id not be l ie ve in any fo r m of popu l a r gove rnment th atcou l d be used as a subs ti tu te for a w i se r ep r e sentative system , ye t hewas oppo sed to al l scheme s for the r e s t r i cti on of the s uff r age to thew i se, the educa ted , the v i r tuou s or the r i ch . He be l i ev ed th at ev e r yman had a pa r amount in te r e s t in good gov e rnment, and that th e be stanti do te for the influence of th e igno r ant and the bad i s on ly to befound in the inc r e ased influence of the educated and the good . He was

so bi tte r ly opposed to the Ame r i can sys tem of p r o tec t i on,tha t h e w as

b l ind to the v a l ue o f that system at any s tage of our comme r c ia l gr owth ;and i t was am us ing, at time s, to see h im s te p out of th e path of a se r ious a rgument to st r i k e a v i c io us bl ow at ta r iff r e s t r i ct ion . How fa rh i s v iews in th i s r e spe c t w ou l d have been mod ified had he attemp ted toput h i s r igo r o us theo r ie s into comme r c i a l p r ac ti ce, must of cou r se be amatte r of conj e ctu r e .

In l i te r atu r e John Fi sk e was as unconventi ona l a s in soc i a l l i fe .Much h as been sai d about the cha rm and c l a r i ty of h i s s ty l e

,bu t w e do

not be l ie v e he was any mo r e cons c i ou s of l i te r a r y styl e than he was ofthe s ty l e of h i s c l o thes . Po sse ssed of un su l l i ed c l e a rne ss of mind , anhone s t de s i r e to be impa r tia l,and a th o r o ugh maste r y of h i s subj e cts,toge the r w ith a r i ch bu t s imp l e vocabu l a r y, he w r ote a s f r e e l y as heta l k ed

,and a lmo st a s r ap id ly . Some of his mos t cha rm ing l e ctu r e swe r e w r i tten in a compa r a t i ve l y few h ou r s . Tho se adm i r abl e l i t t l e

book s,“The De s tiny of Man

”and “The Ide a of God,” we r e th e r e su l t

of but a few days l abo r .H is r ema r k abl e a cqui r ements and gr e a t r e pu ta ti on neve r su l l i e d

the ch i l d l ike s imp l i ci ty of h i s natu r e . He was the inca rnati on of inte ll e ctua l mod e sty . A l ways r e ady to r e cogni ze and r e pai r any hi sto r i ca lm i s take into wh ich he may hav e fa l l en

,h e would tal k a s f r ank ly about

the sh o r tcomings of h is ph i l osoph i ca l sys tem as i f he we r e c r i t i ca l l y examining the wo r k s of ano the r man . A who l e some

,s ince r e and mass iv e

inte l l e c t has been taken f r om Ame r i can l i fe and l e tte r s .Q t!”

H e I wonde r what the mean ing of that p i ctu r e i s ? The youth andma iden are in a tende r atti tude . ” She— “

Oh , don’t you see ? H e has justasked her to mar ry h im and she i s accept ing h im . How sweet ! What doesthe art i st cal l the p ictu r e ? ” He (look ing about) Ah ! I see. It i s w r i ttenat the bottom on a ca rd . ‘

Sold . ’DON I hea r that al l the l igh ts in town went out wh i l e you we r e cal l ing

on Ma r ie . PETE“Yes, i t was a c l ose cal l . ”—P r inceton Tiger .

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M r . Cha r l es E . Ful l e r has been e lected c l e r k of the chu r ch , and Mr . GuytonBergonzoni t r easu r e r of the Sunday school . Both of these pos i t ion s we r e madevacant by the r es ignat ion of M r . F rank S. Fa rnham , who i s to ente r Co rnel lUn ive r s i ty th i s fal l .

At the l ast communion ind ividual commun ion cups we re used fo r the fi r stt ime . The cups are of gl ass and the t r ays of si lve r . The se rvice i s in memo ryof Mr Edw in L. Rol l ins , and was bought wi th money l ef t to the chu r ch by h i sh is Wi l l .

The o rgan of the chu r ch has been p r ovided w ith a new Spence r moto r .We l les l ey H i l ls C o ngregatio n a l C h u r ch

The add ress of the Pasto r du r ing themonth of August wi l l b e Sa rgentvi l l eMa ine .

P r each ing se rv ices du r ing the month w i l l b e held on Sunday mo rnings atThe pul p i t wi l l b e supp l ied as fol l ows : Aug. 4, Rev . Joseph B . Seabu ry ;

1 1 , Rev . Geo rge G. Ph ipps ; 1 8, Rev . Hen r y E. Oxna rd ; 25, Rev. Joseph Seabu ry . Al l se r vices in the Un ita r i an Chu r ch .TheYoungPeop l e’s Soc iety wi l l have cha rge of the Sunday even ing un ionse rvi ces , at P . M . in the Un ita r ian Chu r ch pa r l o r .The Septembe r commun ion se rvi ce wi l l b e he ld on the second Sunday in

Septembe r , the sth , as in p r evious yea r s . It wi l l b e at 4 p . M . in the Un ita r ianChu r ch . The se rvi ce p r epa r ato r y wi l l b e hel d in the pa r sonage on Sept . 6, at

P . M .

The Sunday School w i l l r eo rgan i ze on Sunday, Sept . 8, at the c l ose of themo rn ing se rvice . New teache r s are des i r ed to take the p l ace of those who areunavo idab ly absent . Let voluntee r s gl adden the hea rt of ou r Supe r intendentby off e r ing the i r se rvices .Pr aye r meet ings are in cha rgeof M r. Fr ank Ful l e r , and wi l l b e held in thehomes of those who ca r e to wel come such se r vi ces . He wi l l b e gl ad to r ece iveinvitat ions fo r the fou r meet ings .

“N”

She sa id I m igh t k i ss her on e i the r cheek . What did you do ? ”hes i tated a long t ime between them .

”—s fe.

“What are the names of that newl y ma r r ied coup l e in the next flat ?Oh, we can’t find out fo r a coup l e of week s ; each now cal l s the othe r B i rd ie . ”

u l itdllanapol is J ou rnal .A co r r espondent of The Academy (London) conside r s that memoi r s are ofth r ee k inds : b iogr aph ies, autob iogr aph ies , and ought - not- to- b e- ographies.

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Eco n om ics an d Socio l ogyWe llesley C o llege

ByEmily C . Batch

Inst r ucto r in Econom i cs0 the se subj e cts att r ac t w omen s tud ents ? Wh at do theyofler th at i s of v al ue ? And

,mo r e pa r ti cu l a r l y, what cou r se s

in th i s w ide fie l d d oe sWe l l e s l ey Co l l ege p r ov ide and howa r e they ca r r i e d on ? Su ch , pe r h aps, a r e some of the questi ons th at a r e ade r of OUR Town woul d l ik e to h av e answered.

Ten e l ectiv e cou r se s in e conomi cs and so c io l ogy a r e nowo ffe r e d a t We l l es l ey . The se a r e open to al l ab ov e f r e shman gr ade, bu t the mo r e advanced cou r se s may on ly betak en afte r one ye a r ’s e l emen ta r y w o rk has been done in

the depa r tment.The fi r s t ye a r ’s w o r k

,wh i ch i s thus the basi s of a l l fu r the r study

,has two main e l ements . Econom ic the o r y, th at i s the l ogi ca l ana lys i sof e conom i c facts,must go hand in hand w i th h i sto r i cal and i l l ust r ativ ematte r . The constant endeavo r i s to l ead the student to obse r ve and to

r eason. The depa r tmen t ce r tain l y owe s a debt of gr at i tude to manype r s on s inWe l l e s l ey who hav e a l l owed s tuden ts who cou l d find no o the rmate r i a l to u ti l i ze the i r busine sse s fo r i l l u s t r at i on, and i f que sti ons maysome time s have seemed to run a l i t tl e ov e r bound s

,th r ough a stud ent’sine xpe r i ence or he r fa i l u r e t o unde r s tand wha t she was ask ed to l e a rn

,the i r a im has not been mistaken . St i l l a te ache r i s a l i ttl e aghast whena s tudent r e po r ts w i th mi l d su r p r i se th a t an agent of the Wa l thamwatch facto r y r e fused to s tate i ts profits—a po int qu i te apa r t f r om herap po inted subj e ct of inqui r y .

The se cond yea r ’s wo rk in e conom i cs may cons i st of cou r se s on theIndust r ia l H i s to r y of Engl and , Sta ti sti cs, Soc ia l i smor the mode rn Labo rP r ob l em . Some of th e se a r e o ffe r ed in a l te rnate yea r s onl y ; nex t ye a r ,fo r ins tance

,the second and th i r d w i l l be omi tted .

In th i s wo r k , too, the e ffo r t i s m ade to ke ep the student in to u chw ith r e al i t i e s . In the cou r se in s ta ti st ic s, for instance , each studentunde r take s a speci a l p r obl em to be e l u cid ated by sta ti sti cal d ata . Thi s

yea r two s tudents h ave been co l l e ct ing info r mati on w ith r ega r d to p u rch ase by ins talmen t, wi th a v iew to d i s cov e r inghow fa r th i s i s a legitimate use oi c r ed i t and how fa r th e p r e sen t l aw i s adequate to p r ev en tf r aud . In th e c l as se s in So ci a l i sm and in the Labo r P r ob l em oppor

tunity i s giv en as o ccas i on offe r s to get at po ints of v iew f r om men ins te ad oi f r om books . A t r ade - un i oni s t, a facto r y insp ecto r , an Engl i shco- o pe r a to r

,or a so ci a l i s t l e ade r come s and l e ts him se l f be inte r v i ewed

by the students wh o have a ch ance in th i s w ay to get at, fo r them se l v e s,many things wh i ch the fo rma l t r e at i se m ay fa i l to supp ly .

The th i r d yea r ’s w o rkmay l i e in va r i o us fie ld s . P r ofe s so r C oman’scou r se in Finance

,r unn ing th r ough th e who l e yea r , affo r d s a ve r y v a l

uab le oppo r tuni ty to s tudy muni c i pa l p r ob l em s . The quest i on of publ i c l igh ting, whi ch We l l e s l ey i s j u s t now agi tat ing, h as be en made as ubj e c t of spe c i al s tudy . Ano th e r who l e yea r co u r se i s tha t in Gene r a lSoci o l ogy, now be inggiv en fo r the fi r s t t im e . The two co u r se s in Social Econom i cs offe r mo r e po ints of gene r a l inte r e s t . The i r ch a r acte rwi l l be bes t exp l a ined by the i r h i s to r y . The fi r s t of the se was for me r l ygi ven by itse l f unde r th e name of So c i a l Pa th o l ogy . I t i s a study ofthe c r im ina l

,d efe ct iv e and paupe r c l asse s and of methods of de al ingwi th them . The r e se emed to be dange r of th i s l e av ing in th e student’smind an unfo r tunate l y e xagge r ated sense of th e abno rm a l and a cou r se

in what migh t be ca l l ed by the same me tapho r social hygi ene was addedto compl e te the fi r st . Thi s i s con ce rned w i th th e c iv i c r ath e r th an wi ththe phi l anth r o p i c aspec t of s o ci a l p r ob l em s .

Bos ton supp l ie s an ex t r eme ly in te r e sting fie l d of st udy ; th e s i tu at i on i s l e ss ove r whe l mingand confu sed th an in New Y o r k and Ch icago,wh i l e the r e i s a gr e a t va r i e ty of cond i ti ons and a we a l th of inte l l igentexpe r iment, cha r i tabl e and muni c i pa l . In bo th cou r se s th e s tud ent smak e some exped i t ion abou t once a m onth

,subm i tting ca r efu l no te s ofthe i r obse r v a ti ons . Some time sWe l l e s l ey

,as we l l a s Bos ton

,i s d r awn

on ; the town poo r h ouse , fo r examp l e , has been seve r a l t ime s v i si ted .

Th i s yea r e ach student i s s tudy ing, in as mu ch de ta i l as th e cond it i on s al l ow, a gi ven p r e c inct of Bos ton— the h ous ing cond i t i ons, theamount of open space , the acce ss to p l aygr o und s, l ib r a r i e s, pub l i c ba th s,and hosp i ta l s .

Su ch study shou l d make for inte l l igence in d ea l ingw ith p r obl em swh ich a t one time or ano the r conf r on t a lm ost ev e r y one. The fe eb l em inded son of a poo r e r ne ighbo r , th e Sunday s choo l sch o l a r wh o i sgr o w ing “wi lt the un r u ly pup i l who w i l l p l ay t r u ant, th e begga r , th et r amp, the d r unka r d,— such a l i s t sugge s ts the k ind of d iffi cul ty whi ch

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a co u r se l ike thi s ough t to he l p one to face mo r e th ough tfu l ly, ca r efu l l yand inte r e s ted l y

,w ith a mo r e imaginat i v e and in te l l igent sympathy,with mo r e know l edge of the r e s ou r ce s of the communi ty and of the in

d i r e c t and l e s s obv io us r e sul ts of ce r ta in l ine s of a c t i on.

Mo r e ove r,whi l e not a te chn i ca l p r e pa r at i on for ph i l anth r op i c wo r k

,th i s co u r se ough t to be of s ome va l ue as sugge s ting o the r l ine s of activi ty than te ach ing and he l p ing a student to j udge whe the r or not suchwo r k at t r ac ts he r and i s su i ted to he r gi ft

A new de pa r tu r e for the comingye a r i s a se r i e s of l e c tu r e s on B us

iness Law and B usiness M et/rods t o be giv en once a wee k by M i s sCa r o l ine J . Coo k

,L. L. B .

,fo rm e r ly of Dana H a l l . Women so often

find themse l v e s mo r tified,ove r - r e ached

,or in one way or ano the r at a

d i sadvantage th r ough l ack of acqua intance w ith th e mo s t o r d ina r y bu siness usage s and principles tha t i t i s h oped th at th i s cou r se , wh i ch i so pen to a l l s tudents

,w i l l be of d i st inct p r ac ti ca l u se .

Be s ide the r egu l a r w o rk the r e i s an Econom i c s C l ub open to th eo l d e r s tudents and mee ting in the ev en ing th r ough ou t the w inte r forj ou rna l r e po r ts

,pape r s and d i s cus si ons, or , as th i s ye a r , for ou tside l ectu r e s . Thi s b r ings stud en ts and te ach e r s t oge the r unde r f r ee r cond it i ons th an th ose of th e c l ass r o om , and se ems w e l l w o r th wh i l e in spi te

of the d ifficu l ty of maintaining i t in fa ce of the p r ess u r e and p l e tho r a ofco l l ege l i fe . Membe r s of the C l ub r emain as co r r e spond ing membe r safte r gr ad ua ti on and keep up a ci r cu l a ting l e tte r t o wh ich th ey cont r ibu te obse r v ati ons— s ome time s info r ma l pape r s of mu ch in te r e s t,which

u l t imate ly r e tu rn to the C l ub a r ch iv e s .To r e tu rn to one of the que sti ons w i th whi ch we began,

the val ueof e conom i c and so ci a l s tudy . Th is v a l ue i s of th r ee d iffe r ent s o r ts .Fi r s t, in r ega r d to i ts d i sci p l ina r y wo r th , I be l i ev e th a t no subj ect th ata s tudent can tak e up yi e l d s mo r e impo r tant menta l t r a in ing than eco

nom i c the o r y . It invo l ve s as ca r efu l r eason ing as ma th emati c s or forma l l ogi c, toge the r w i th an exe r c i s e of j udgment and d i sc r im ina ti on of

the k inds most ne eded in the compl ex i t ie s of r e a l l i fe , be side m ak ingun l im i ted demands on the sci entific imagina ti on . The student mustl e a rn to ana l yze a s i tuati on, to r edu ce i t to i t s s impl e s t te r ms, to l ayas ide a l l bu t one cause in o r de r to get at th e e ffe c ts of th i s Wi thou t comp l icat ion or defle c ti on. At the same t ime i t mus t be bo rne in mind howthe r e su l t th us obtained d i ffe r s f r om that that fo l l ow s a combinati on ofcause s

,a l l bu t one of wh i ch hav e in the o the r case been excl uded . Astudent who has r e al ly gr asped the necess i ty andmean ingof thi s me th odw i l l neve r fa l l in to the cu r r ent fo o l i sh mi sunde r stand ings of what th e o r yi s and of i ts r e l a t i on t o the a c tual .

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va l ue of one f r anc ; the bond, the r e fo r e, hav ing a nom ina l va l ue of

twenty f r ancs . The se bonds we r e bough t by the peop l e, who cut offthe co upons and hawked them upon the s t r ee ts or so l d them to specu l ato r s, ho l d ing ou to the bond i tse l f in the hope of d r aw ing a p r i ze .D r aw ings we r e made e ach month , and p r ize s, s ome a s high as a h und r edthou sand f r ancs, we r e actual ly paid out. The p r i ce of the t i ck e ts ste adi l y dec l ined

,howev e r , and l ongbefo r e the end of th e fa i r we r e a s low as

twenty to twenty - five centime s— fou r to fiv e cents ; on the l a s t d ay th eoffic ia l p r i ce was on l y five centime s or one cent. As a r e su l t of th i smanagement, p r o p r ie to r s of cafes in the gr ound s, who had pai d r ound lyfor “conce ss i ons ” and we r e the r efo r e ob l ige d to ch a rge h igh p r i ce s,found the i r cu s tom d e se r ting them , the c rowds be ingenab l ed , by the lowp r ice of adm iss i on, to s l i p out a t mea l time s to mo r e r e asonab l e e stabl ishments. The fai l u r e s among “con cess i ona i r e s ” we r e nume r ous .

That the F r ench a r e an a r t i s ti c pe op l e , few who know them w i l ldeny,ye t they a r e qui te capabl e of go ing to both ext r eme s in matte r s

of taste , and th i s even in a gr e at pub l i c ente r p r i se l ike th e bu i ld ings ofthe Exposi t i on . The se on th e who l e we r e a c ceptabl e,th ough not to be

long r emembe r ed, as w i l l those of the Co l umbi an Fa i r , for extraordin

a r y beauty and fi tness . The new Bea ux A r ts Bui l d ing and i ts ne ighb or, the Pe ti t Beaux A r ts, both pe rmanent s t r uc tu r e s, th ough e r ec tedfor the Expo si tion

,a r e in exce l l ent taste and ex t r eme ly happy effo r ts

wh ich w i l l r emain as o rnaments to the c i ty . Ve r y nea r them,howev e r ,s tood one of the most unfo r tuna te c r e at i ons

,a lmo s t h ideou s in gr o te squeugl ine ss, but h app i l y onl y a tempo r a r y affai r e r e cted fo r th e p r inci pa lent r ance to the Exposi ti on f r om the Pl ace de l a Conco r de , pe r haps themost beauti fu l squa r e in Eu r ope . It was simply the r e su l t of an ove r

s t r a ined effo r t to be o r igina l ; th a t i t was a hope l e ss fa i l u r e was themi l de s t te rm w i th wh ich i t cou l d be d ism issed . In the same ne ighbo rh ood sto od the new A l exande r b r idge , th r own ove r the Se ine opposi tethe Esp l anade de s Inva l ids, wh ich seems to me w ith out a. supe r i o ramongmode rn b r idge s fo r u ti l i ty uni ted to r efined and sta te l y e l egance .Thi s was ado rned at i ts fo u r co rne r s by tal l pylones, en r i ched by ca r vings and figu r e s, each one su rmounted a l s o by an immense gi l d ed Pegasus . The se monumenta l s t r uctu r e s we r e mo st h appy and s t r i k ing in

effe ct. The r e cent s t r e e t statua r y of Pa r i s i s not,h oweve r

, gene r a l ly ofa h igh o rde r , but ap t to be e i the r ove r sent imenta l or d own r igh t hysterical .

Noth ing cou l d be wo r se as a wh ol e th an the r id i cu l ou s monumentto de Maupassant in the Pa r k Monce au ; th at to Gambe tta, nea r the8

Pl ace du Ca r r o use l , i s the at r i ca l r athe r th an d r amati c, and the se unfortunately are r a the r r e p r e sentat i ve of mode rn wo r k

,th o ugh not the

worst. The se a ted figu r e s symbo l i z ing the c i t i e s of F r ance , wh ichado rn the Pl ace de l a Conco r d e, a r e of an e a r l ie r da te and not unhappyexamp l e s o f the c l as s to wh i ch they be l ong. The r e i s m uch v e r y excel lent statua ry to be se en in the v a r io us ga r den s and pa r k s of the c i ty,but gene r a l ly i t be l ongs to a mo r e gi fted e r a th an the p r e sent .

On the o the r hand , th ough they d o not v e r y much affe c t l a rge pa r ks ,as d o the Engl i sh for example , no peop l e und e r s tand be tte r the subtl ya r t that goe s to the mak ing of sma l l c i ty pa r k s and squa r e s of a pu r e l ya r tifi c i a l natu r e . For natu r e p u r e and s imp l e they seem to ca r e l i t t l e ;the Bo i s de Bo l ogne , tho ugh one of the l a rge s t pa r k s in the wo r l d , i smonotonous l y a r tifici a l and t r i v i a l . Wi th in th e c i ty

,howeve r

,th e

Butte s Chaumont, r e fe r r ed to in a p r ev i ou s pape r , th e ga r dens of th eTuil leries and Luxembou rg, The Champs Ely see , th e Pa r c Monceau,etc.

,a r e de l igh tfu l e xampl e s of th i s kind of sk i l l ; th e l a s t named i s one

of the mo st exqui s i te to be fo und anywhe r e . Tho ugh sma l l in a r e a, th ee ffec t i s conveyed of a much l a rge r space , th r o ugh th e a lmo st Japane sedeftne ss and sk i l l w i th wh i ch the t r ee s and sh r ubbe r i e s h av e been a rr anged . It i s ado r ned w i th s tatua r y

,much of a be tte r o r d e r th an that

of the exam pl e named ; h as de ep , sh adowy gr ov e s of t r e e s , m im i c h i l l sand dal e s and a l i t tl e pu r l ings t r e am— th i sga r den in the m id st of Pa r i swh ich myste r i ous l y i ssue s f r om the s i de of a h i l l o ck

,and

,afte r w ande r

ing abou t a good de a l , fal l s into a d uck pond , whe r e i t he l p s to r efle ct abi t of r u inous a r ch i te c tu r e . The l atte r i s a v e r y e l egant Co r inth i ancolonade in the fo r m o f a hal f c i r c l e

,s ugge st ing the i de a th a t som e anc ient and beau tifu l temp l e once o c cupi ed th e s i te . As a matte r of fact

none e ve r d id, but w i th fau l t l e ss tas te the a r ch i te ct of th i s gem of aga r den - pa r k managed somewhe r e to pick up th i s bi t of ea r l y F r enchRena is sance and p l ace i t he r e w i th supe r b s k i l l . I might ment i on, inpass ing, ano the r ins tance of th e c l eve rness w ith wh i ch the F r ench sometime s manage to p r e se r ve a fine bi t of the antique in sp i te of the ma r chof “ imp r ovement s,”— the r a r e old Go th i c towe r of St. Jacque s, wh i chs t i l l s tand s

,a che r i shed o rnament in the ve r y he a r t of the c i ty, thoughthe chu r ch to wh ich i t be l onged was so ld and r emov ed in 1 789 . Insp i te of the de s t r ucti ve insan i ty wh ich a t t ime s has r aged in the pcpul ace of Pa r i s, the sobe r sense of the F r ench pe op l e i s one of r ev e r encetowa r d s wo r thy memo r i a l s of the past

,as i s abundant ly shown not onl yby the se examp l e s bu t by the fine old abbey of C l uny, the Carnavalet

Muse um, once th e r e s idence of Madam de Sev igny, a host of inte r e st ingold ch u r che s and many o the r r e l i cs of age s now numbe r ed w i th th e h i sto r i c pas t .

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Th e H ea l th o f Schoo l Childr en

[Ext r acts f r om N o te s on Schoo l Hygi ene , by Hon . John T . P r ince ]An e xamp le of what i s need fu l fo r p a r ents to know is giv en in the

fo l l ow ing l e t te r , p r e pa r ed by Dr. Wm. H . Maxwe l l,and sent to the

pa r ents of a l l th e pup i l s in B r o okl yn when he was supe r intendent of

the sch oo l s of th a t c i ty .To PARENTS

1 . The he a l th of you r ch i l d r en i s p a r amount to ev e r y o the r cons id e r ati on . When ch ildr en

,pa r ti cu l a r ly gi r l s, be tw een th e age s of ten

and seventeen, exh ibi t ev id ence of ne r v ous di so r de r,su ch as tw i tch ing

of the face and hands,or ex t r eme i r r i tabi l i ty

,i t i s a su r e sign e i th e rtha t the sch oo l wo r k i s to o seve r e

,or th a t they a r e not l i v ing unde rp r ope r hygi en i c cond i ti ons, or bo th . In a l l such cases sch oo l w o r k

sh o u l d be e i the r mate r i al l y l e ssened o r be inte rm i tted un ti l th e r e i s ar e s to r ati on to hea l th .

2. In the maj o r i ty of case s,to conque r the d iffi cu l tie s of a r i thme ti c and gr amma r or th e int r i ca c i e s of a new l anguage i s ha r de r w o r k

for the ch i l d th an a r e,for th e busine s s or p r ofe ss i ona l man

,h i s ev e r y

d ay avocati ons . Hence,ch i l d r en need con stant ca r e

,sympa thy and

encou r agemen t.3 . Ch i ld r en shou l d spend not l e ss th an two hou r s eve r y d ay in

the open a i r, and, i f p o ss ib l e, sh ou l d engage in game s r equi r ing bo ths k i l l and activ i ty .

4. Ch i l d r en sh ou l d spend at l e ast twenty minute s eve r y day inp r ac ti s ing a t h ome the gymnas ti c exe r ci se s th ey l ea rn at sch oo l .

5. Chi l d r en sh ou l d not be pe rm i tted to attend so c i a l pa r t i e s o rpub l i c mee t ings or ente r ta inments on evenings p r e ced ing s choo l days .6 . Ch i ld r en sh ould spend in s l ee p not l e ss than n ine

, and, i f poss ib l e, ten, h ou r s out of eve r y twenty - fou r .7 . The fo l l ow ingp r a c t i ce s sh ou l d be p r oh ibi ted , as be ing inj u r i ou s

to h e a l th : s tudy befo r e pa r taking of fo od in the m o rning; the r api dr e ad ing of l e ssons j ust befo r e th e beginn ing of a sch oo l se ssi on ; s tudyd u r ing th e noon inte rm i ss i on ; s tudy immed i ate l y afte r the c l o se of

s ch oo l,befo r e m ind and body hav e been r e sted by pl ay or o the r su i tabl e

ch ange of occupati on ; s tudy immed iate l y af te r e ating a h ea r ty mea l .1 0

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The fi r s t floo r of th e bu i l d ing i s p l anned to be th r own toge th e r asde s i r ed,fo r m ing one l a rge aud i to r i um seating si x h und r ed , a hand some

oak sc r een be ing bui l t be tween the main aud i to r i um and Sunday sch oo lr oom, h ung on pu l l eys to s l ide th r ough th e floo r into the basem ent .Fo l d ingdoo r s be tween Sunday schoo l r oom and pa r l o r a l s o pe r m i t the setwo r o oms to be Opened toge th e r . The pu l p i t and o rgan a r e p l acedd i r e ct ly oppos i te the chape l or Sund ay s choo l r o om . When th i s sc r eeni s r emoved th e effec t w i l l be a c r uc ifo rm chu r ch w i th ent r ance s a t theinte r se ct i on of the nave and t r anse p t . The pasto r ’s study i s a t th e l e ftof the pu l p i t

,wi th exte r i o r ent r ance and to i l e t and the cho i r r oom on

th e r igh t . The cho i r wi l l s i t on the l e ft of th e pu l p i t p l atfo rm .

The inte r io r w i l l be fini sh ed in qua r te r ed Ind ian wh i te oak,wi th

hand some pu l p i t,pews

,doo r s and dad o . The r o of t r u s se s w i l l be e x

posed and fini sh e d w i th qua r te r ed oak, w ith pane l s of r o ugh fin i sh pl aste r be tween them de co r ated in co l o r . The wa l l s w i l l - h av e a ch u r chp l aste r fini sh . The floo r s w i l l b e of Ge o rgi a r if t h a r d p ine .

The l ad i e s’ pa r l o r w i l l be a chee r fu l r o om w i th a l a rge window and

fi r e p l ace; w ith the ce i l ing fini shed up in to th e gabl e r oo f .The basement i s ente r ed a t the ex t r eme r igh t of the bu i ld ing on a

l eve l w i th the gr ade . Al l of the w i nd ow s in the basement a r e l a rge ,insu r ing b r igh tl y l igh ted r oom s .A po inted do ubl e d oo r l e ad s into a ve s tibu l e . Di r e ctl y opposi te

th i s i s an inne r d oubl e d oo r in to th e l owe r h a l l or en te r tainmen t r o om.

On the l e ft of the v es tibu l e i s a r o om whi ch may be used for w r aps .A sta i r case l ead s up to the choi r r o om . Th i s ente r ta inment r o om seatsabout th r e e hund r ed peop l e

,and i t i s en ti r e l y f r e e of suppo r ting col

umns,as the chu r ch floo r above i s suppo r ted on stee l gi r de r s wh ich spanthe enti r e ha l l . The r e a r e a l so two l a rge d r e s s ing r o om s w i th toi lets .

Commodi ou s and we l l appo inted pant r i e s and k i tchen open f r om th eente r tainment r oom wi th a back ent r y for su pp l i e s .

The e xte r i o r i s de s igned , as we l l as th e de ta i l of th e inte r i o r , in th esp i r i t of the Engl i sh pe r pend i cu l a r Go th i c sty l e .The towe r , e igh te en fee t squa r e , w i l l be a r ch i te c tu r a l and ve r y

agr e e ab l e , even r i ch , and w i l l be of beau ti fu l ly co l o r ed se am face s toneand handsome l ime stone out wo r k .

An o ctagonal sta i r case tou r e l l e r uns the enti r e he igh t and p r oj e ctsa few fee t above the batt l emented squa r e top of the tow e r . On th e opposite co rne r of th e towe r i s a massi ve butt r e ss p l aced d iagonal ly, wh ichgiv e s a we l l - bal anced effe ct .

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A hand some l ime stone ent r ance w i th pane l and finials i s app r oachedby wh i te gr an i te ste ps . The do o r s w i l l be of qua r te r ed oak and heav i lymou ld ed . In the uppe r sto r y of the towe r or be l f r y a r e fou r l ouv r ew indows of mo l ted l imestone

,the l o uv r e s cov e r ed w i th coppe r .

At the r igh t of the towe r i s a l a rge s tone t r ace r y w indow , witht r ace ry who l l y o f l ime stone , th e gl a s s be ing se t in i r on f r ame s l e td i r ec tly in to th e s tone of th e w indow s, as in old Engl i sh wo r k . Th r e eof the w indow s w i l l o pen fo r a i r and ven ti l a t ion . The r e a r e th r e e of

the se l a rge windows, two l igh ting the m ain aud i t o r i um and one l igh tingth e chape l . The gabl e cop ing i s of l ime s tone ; the r oo fs of Mons ons l ate and coppe r , w ith coppe r fla sh ing and gutte r s .In sho r t

,the bui l d ing i s to be bu i l t of th e be st mate r i a l in eve r yr e spect

, and p r ogr e ss thus fa r ind icate s th a t the w o r kmansh i p w i l l a l s obe of th e be st.The window s a r e to be gl azed fo r the p r e sent w ith p l a in l e adedd iamond panes

,and the inte r i o r w a l l and ce i l ing de co r at i on i s to bedone in p l a in co l o r s . I t i s ho ped that b o th th e gl a s s and the d eco r ati onof th e wa l l s may be equ a l to th e ex te r i o r of the chu r ch by the use of

stained gl a s s and we l l de s igne d wa l l paint ing.

The o rgan has not ye t been cont r ac ted for, bu t th e f r ont w i l l bespe c ia l l y b r onzed to ha rmon i ze w ith the inte r i o r of the chu r ch . A

wate r mo to r w i l l s uppl y ai r to the o rgan .

SUMMER K INDERGA RTEN

It may be of inte r e s t to many to know tha t the kinde rga r ten in

Ceda r s t r eet , whi ch has been ca r r i ed on for the l as t two yea r s by th eF r iend ly A id Comm i tte e, has been o pene d for s i x week s th i s summe rw i th gr e at success .

The r e has been an ave r age attendance of s ix teen ch i l d r en, and th ete ach e r,M i s s Lo r ing, ha s k ept th em happy and busy the who l e t im e .

Th is l i tt l e summe r schoo l i s v e r y much app r e c i a te d by both pa r ent sand ch i l d r en, and i s the k ind of wo rk th at i s be ing done a l l ove r thecount r y by th e Woman’s C l ubs .

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With Chr ist at Sea

OUBTLESS,“Two Yea r s Befo r e the Mast r emains the

c l ass i c na r r at iv e of sai l o r l i fe . But eas i ly se cond w i l l r ankanyth ing that M r . F r ank T. Bul l en has w r i tten . In s om er e spects the mo r e r e cen t au tho r i s the su pe r i o r of the two.

H is r e co r d cove r s mo r e yea r s and a w ide r d ive r s i ty of experience. He i s m o r e na tu r a l . He owes no th ing to th epo l i sh of the schoo l s

,eve r yth ing to nat iv e abi l i ty . He sim

ply te l l s a st r a igh tfo r wa r d ta l e, wh i ch i s e l oquent or fascinating be cause of i t s theme, i ts contents, nev e r by r e asonof the scho l a r ’s embe l l i shment . “The C r u i se of th e Cacha

lot, whi ch i s the sto r y of the au th o r ’s expe r i ence on a wha l ing c ru i s ea r o und th e wo r l d, r ema r k ab l e a s i t i s, ye t s imply na r r a te s wh at a manw i th h i s eye s open was abl e to se e,unde r ex t r a o r d ina ry cond i t i ons

and abl e to na r r ate w i th gr aph ic powe r . Mr . Bu l l en’s abi l i ty to obse r v ehas indeed won h im d i s tincti on, a p l ace among the Fe l l ows of the Roya lGe ogr aph i ca l Soci e ty of Engl and , and an offic ia l po s i t ion unde r th eEngl i sh gove rnment . But not eve r y onewho has k een obse r v ati on can

de sc r ibe what he se es in inte r e sting fash i on . So fa r as h i s l i te r a r ys ty le i s conce rned Mr. Bu l l en says that h e owe s i ts qual i ty to h i s fam i liarity w ith th e Bib l e . “Q uo te m e the fi r s t ha l f of a ve r se and I w i l lgi v e you the se cond hal f . No th ing has taken h o l d of my hea r t andso ul l i k e the B ibl e . Fi f teen yea r s a t se a, “c l imbingup f r om cabin boyto mate

,and the B ibl e r e ad th r ough fo r ty - five t ime s f r om cov e r to cove r ,the se a r e th e k eys to M r. Bul l en’s l i fe . Wi th Ch r i s t a t Sea” i s a b io

gr aph i cal na r r ati v e of th i s r ema r k abl e l i fe, dwe l l ing e spe c i a l l y upon itsr e l igi o u s de ve l o pment. Once,in th i s l i fe

,the r e w as l i tt l e s ign of the

a uth o r and s cienti s t of tod ay . A waif,home l e s s

,f r i end l e ss

,a cabin b oya t e l even yea r s of age, in the fo r e castl e, in fo r e ign po r t s, in the sa i l o r s’boa r d ing ho use, in th e hands of l and sha r k s, su ffe r ing f r om al l so r t s ofev i l s u r r o und ings, for many yea r s “Wi tho u t Ch r i s t at Sea”; then, in asai l - l o ft whe r e a few sa i l o r s and the i r f r i end s w e r e gath e r ed in a r e l igi o us se r v i ce

,conv e r ted , r e scued as t r u ly a s i f d r awn f r om the w ate r s ofthe o cean

,and Jem

,h is sh ipmate

,changed f r om a b l asphem ing d r unka rd to a sane man ca r ing for the w e l fa r e of o the r s

,then yea r s “Wi th

Ch r i s t at Sea,” ye a r s of st r uggl e , of temptati on st i l l , bu t of v i cto r y, ofp r ogr e s s— th i s i s th e theme of the book . The sto r y i s to l d in s imp l e,s t r aightfo rwa r d sty l e . It i s one of th ose s to r i e s wh ich demons t r ates

,as

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the autho r was ab l e to desc r ibe in th i s manne r ove r five hund r ed flowe r s andthe insects that haunt them ,

w ithout appa rent ly wea r y ing of her subject .Look up whateve r you w i l l you are su r e to find an inte r est ing l ife sto r y of you rp l ant . And then the photogr aph s—one hund r ed and n ineteen of them— fiftysix most beau t ifu l l y col o r ed , give the book a val ue unequal led . Poet ry , fol klo r e and c l ass i c l ite r atu r e are d r awn upon abundantl y to make the book a masterpiece.

A GUIDE TO THE TREES. ByA l i ce Lounsbe r r y wi th i l l ust r at ions by Mrs.

El l i s Rowan . (Fr ede r ick A . Stokes Co . net) . A l l the t r ees of No rth - eastAme r i ca and some r a r e spec ies of the South andWest are he r e desc r ibed , abouttwo hund r ed in al l . The a r r angement i s by the so i l in wh i ch the t r ees p r efe rto gr ow ; fi r st come those that choose to gr ow nea r wate r , then th ose of mo istso i l

,those of r i ch so i l

,those of sandy o r r ocky so i l and those of d ry so i l . There

are s ixty- fou r fu l l - page col o r ed p l ates made f r om d raw ings , and a hund r ed fu l lpage b l ack and wh i te p l ates . The book i s intended fo r popula r use and givesintel l igib l e desc r ipt ions, using the var ious popula r names as wel l as the scien

tific names of al l t rees desc r ibed .FIC T IO N

A PRINCESS OF THE H ILLS. An Itatian r omance by Mrs. Bu r ton Harr ison . (Loth r op Pub l ish ingCompany . I l lu st r ated . 1 2mo . Th i s Pr incess l ives in the beaut iful r egion of the Ita l ian A lps known as the Dolom i tes .She i s a peasant gi r l of nob le ancest r y and r ema r kab l e beauty , b ut of dec idedl yp l eb ian tastes and educat ion ; and she has many l ove r s of many k inds . Ch iefamong these i s an Ame r i can ,

a H a rva r d gr aduate who i s d i sgusted with theshal lowness of soc iety and flees f r om an engagement w i th a p r etty Pu r i tanma iden,that he may find r e l ief in p r im i t ive natu r e . In themounta ins he findsh is goddess . But the r e are othe r love r s , an Engl ishman and ce r ta in Ital ians ,

and theway i s ful l of t r oub l e . The conc l us ion of the sto ry i s a su r p r i ze , butw i l l p r obab ly sat isfy most r eade r s . Th i s i s a new fie ld of fict ion fo r Mrs.

H a r r i son and i s though t to b e her best wo r k . It contains much beaut ifu l desc r ipt ion and va r ious d ramat ic s i tuat ions. The lette r - p r ess is pe rfect as i s usualin the wo r k of the Loth r op Company .

LIKE ANOTHER HELEN. By Geo rge Ho rton . (Bowen- Me r r i l l Co . I l l ustrated, The sto r y of a Ha r va rd student , a Swedi sh Sold ie r of Fo r tune , abeaut ifu l C r etan gi r l , an “unspeakab l e Tu r k” , and va r ious othe r cha r acte r s .The scene i s in C r ete du r ing the Greeko-Tu r k ish war . Inte r esting desc r ipt ionsare given of count r y l ife in the h i l l s of C r ete , Tu r k i sh massac r es , ha r em epi

sodes, and a l epe r settl ement . The gi r l i s of cou r se the cent r al figu re and thesto ry i s the st r uggle fo r her of Tu r k , C r etan , Swede and Yankee . The sto ry i sfu l l of deeds of da r ing and r eveal s the c r uel ty of theTu r k and h is sh r ewd man

ipu lation of pol i ti cal affa i r s . The massac r e of Ch r istians at Canea is themos tcons ide r ab l e h isto r ical inc ident . A ve in of humo r softens the desc r ipt ions ofwar and r ap ine .GINSEY KREIDER. Th i s i s a tale of the p ri m it ive l ife of the mountainsof Kentucky . Wew ish ou r f r iends would r ead th is sto ry , wh i ch tel l s of theexpe r iences of a peop l e who have fo r gene r at ion s been cut off f r om the st r eamof mode rn c ivi l i zat ion . It deal s w i th no “ p r ob l ems ,” except the ete rnal p r ob

lem of human natu r e , moved by deep elemental pass ions . It conta ins no newtheo r ies about ma r r iage , divo r ce , r iches o r pove r ty . It p r opounds no p l an fo rthe soc ial r ehab i l i tat ion of soci ety th r ough the inf r ingement of theDecalogue .It i s just a sweet and touch ing sto ry told by a h igh - minded and whol esomelyr el igious woman who i s ea rnestly' anx ious to hel p the peop l e she so vividly desc r ibes . The autho r evi dentl y holds the good , old- fash ioned doct r ine that ifyou want to r efo rm thewo r l d it i s wel l to begin by r efo rm ing you r se lf . Andth i s is a sto r y of a few ea rnest peop l e who wanted to secu r e educat ion and cha racte r fo r themselves in o r de r that they m igh t hel p th ei r ne ighbo r s .

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EDU C A T IO NA L

STUDIES IN HISTORICAL METHOD . By M a r y Shel don Ba rnes . (D . C .

Heath d: Co . 90 cents . ) A manual wh i ch wi l l r e jo i ce al l l ove r s of h i sto r y . Iti s a compact study of methods , a im ing to p r oduce both accu r acy and sympathyin students and teache r s. The r e i s a sens ib le sect ion on sou r ces and the i r u ses .The val ue of contempo r a ry and of loca l h i sto ry i s emphasi zed in the t r a in ingof futu r e ci t i zens . But the wa rning i s given not to negl ect p r im i t ive sto r ies inteach ingthe young,

fo r “ the ch i ld can unde r stand Jason go ing afte r theGoldenFl eece bette r than he can the Tammany Tige r . ” A few pages are given to theh i sto r i c value of bal l ads . Th r oughout , the b ib l iogr aph i es are excel l ent . The

m iddle po rt ion of the manual i s devoted to studies of the devel opment of theh i sto r ic sense in ch i ld r en w i th good p r act i cal suggest ions . The l atte r pa rt i sOn the a im of the study of h isto ry .

THE EARLY TRAINING OF CH ILDREN. By Mrs. Fr ank M al l eson . (D .

C . H eath Co . 75 cts . ) M rs . Mal l eson speaks to mothe r s and teache r s . Incont r ast wi th ce r ta in new ideas she r epr esents the olde r and we th ink heal thier methods and makes much of t r a in ing ch i l d r en in obedi ence , court esy , reve r ence , t r uthfulness and usefu lness . What she says on r ewa rds and puni shments

, on giving r eason s to ch i l d r en , and on keeping fa i th w ith them i s especial lygood .

A MODERN COMPOSITION AND RHETORIC . By L.W. Sm i th and JamesThomas (Benj . H . Sanbo rn Co) . P r act ical expe r ience and the advi ce of al a rge numbe r of teache r s in seconda ry school s have gu ided the p roduct ion ofth i s ve ry p r act ical textb ook . Its un ique featu r e i s that i t begins w i th the d i sCussion of “ TheTheme ” and takes up the pa r agr aph , the sentence , and wo rds ,and the l aws of good usage , afte rwa rd . “

Ideas and not wo rds are the fi r stcons ide rat ion . Th i s i s the natu r al o r de r of p r ocedu re and is confi rmed by psychological and pedagogical r easons . ”

THE H IAWATHA PRIMER. By Fl o r en ce Holb r ook (Hough ton , M ifl‘l in

Co . I l l ust r ated . 400ts. ) A beginne r ’s book in r eading, based upon thesto ry of H iawatha as told by Longfe l l ow . In the suggest ion s to teache r s fo rthe use of th i s book i t i s shown how it has been used to comb ine wo r k in r eading,wr i t ing, spel l ing, d r awing and c l ay model ing. As a p iece of book mak ing,w ith i ts att r act ive col o r ed p i ctu r es , s i lhouettes and d r aw ings , th i s wo r k ap

proaches pe rfect ion . That i t inte r ests and del igh ts ch i ld r en we know by obse rvat ion . Its l i te r a r y qual ity i s in mar ked cont r ast to the dogge r e l often usedfo r ch i ld r en at th i s stage .M ISC ELLA NEO U S

HOME THOUGHTS . (A . S Ba rnes . A se r ies of de l ightful essayson H ome Life . Thewr ite r i s evi dent l y a w ife andmothe r , whose advi ce sp r ingsf r om a wa rm hea r t , a w i se b r a in and l ong expe r ience . F r om “Ma r r iage ” tothe l ast days of a good old age, the man ifol d p r ob l ems wh ich conf r ont us arecons ide r ed . The r e are th i r ty - one of these essays , and we could w ish fo r nothing bette r than that such counsel as i s he r e given coul d b e w idely r ece ived andfo l lowed .

HER ROYAL H IGHNESS WOMAN AND HIS MAJESTY—CUPID. ByMax O

’Rel l . (TheAbbey P r ess , 31 1 pages . 1 2mo . c l oth , uncut ) . Eve ry womanwho can l ay hands on th i s book w i l l r ead i t . And much that i s in i t w i l l b etho rough ly en joyed , fo r i t i s b r ight and w itty as the autho r gene r al l y i s . H eintends on the whol e to eu l ogi ze woman— the woman ly woman . And out of

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h is yea r s of obse rvat ion in t r ave l in many l ands hegives inte r esting imp r ess ionsof the di ffe r ences wh ich he fanc i es he has di scove r ed . For Amer i can womenhe p r ofesses unbounded adm i r at ion

, and he often exc l a ims , “If I coul d choosemy sex and my b i r thp l ace

,I wou ld shout to the A lm ighty at the top of myvo i ce , ‘

Oh ! p l ease make me an Amer ican woman .

’Some idea of the bookmay b e obta ined by the t i tl es of its chapte r s— “Woman’s influence fo r good andevi l ,” Advice to theman who wants to ma r ry ,” The gentl e a r t of r u l ing ahusband ,” “

Cou r t ing in Fr ance and Engl and ,” “The goose and the gande r ,”“The Ame r i can woman ,

” “The woman I hate

,

”etc. The r e are fo rty- s ix ofthese d i scuss ions . Among them i s much good common sense . And yet th i sbook wou ld neve r have been wr itten by an Ame r i can . It i s the Op in ion, afte ral l , of an educated F r enchman , and the fact i s appa r ent on many occasions.

THE STORY OF VICTORIA . By W. J . Wintte. (Wh ittake r , i l lus . , c l oth50 cents . ) The autho r states as h i s pu rpose to p r esent in th i s book “ al l thatwould se r ve to i l l ust r ate the pe r sonal l ife and cha r acte r of the queen , and toenfo r ce the l essons wh ich that l ife has fo r al l who cons ide r it . The wo r k i swel l done and is ful l of inte r est ing inc ident .

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EMBERS of th e We l l e s l ey H i l l s Woman’s C l ub w i l l r e ce iv eby mai l

,some time in Sep tembe r , an announcement of th emeet ings fo r the yea r . Engagements have a l r eady beenmade w ith speake r s of d i st incti on in the i r r e spective fie ld s,

cov e r ing a w id e r ange of subj e cts and incl ud ingEngl i shLi te r atu r e

, Bi ogr aphy, Soc i o l ogy, T r ave l and Natu r eStudy .

Pu r e ly ente r taining fea tu r e s have not be en ove rl o ok ed . In the af te rnoon of De cembe r 4, M i s s G r aceChambe r l a in, who has been hea r d w i th p l e asu r e by some of

our membe r s e l sewhe r e and co r d i a l ly r e commended,wi l l r e ci te K ing

Reué’s Daughte r ; and on Gent l emen’s Nigh t, Feb r ua r y 5, a goodconce r t w i l l be gi ven.

M embe r s a r e r em inded that the i r annua l dues a r e payabl e on or

befo r e Octobe r 1,to the t r ea su r e r , Mrs. F r ank C. Mo r se, A messen

ger w i l l cal l w i th membe r sh ip ti ck e t at the ho use of any membe r whor eque s ts the p r iv i l ege of paying he r d ue s at he r own home , suchr eq ue s t be ing p r e sented to the P r e s iden t or T r e asu r e r .App l i cati ons for membe r sh i p may be made by mai l or o the r w i se to

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We sho u l d have stated in the A ugust numbe r of OUR TOWN th a twe we r e ab l e to p r e sent the i l l u s t r ations in the a r ti c l e u pon Mau r i ceThompson th r o ugh the co u r te sy of the Bowen- Me r r i l l p ub l i sh ing company . The f u l l page i l l u st r a ti on w as tak en f r om “A l i ce of Old Vincennes.

”It is inte r e s t ing to s ee in the l a te s t r e po r ts f r om book se l l e r s

and publ ic l ib r a r i e s that th i s po pu l a r nove l i s s ti l l among th e boo ksmos t in demand .We a r e gl ad to pub l i sh in th i s numbe r a pe r spe ct iv e of the ch u r chwhich i s in p r oces s of e r e cti on inWe l l e s l ey H i l l s . The de sc r i p ti on ofthe chu r ch i s w r i tten by the a r ch i te c t

,M r. Ge o rge F. Newton, whowas assoc i ated w i th Mr. B l ackwe l l in the bu i ld ing of T r emon t Temp le .

The new ch u r ch wi l l be a s tone s t r uc tu r e and we be l i ev e w i l l be ano rnament to th e town ; sati sfacto r y not on l y to the membe r s of theCongr ega ti ona l pa r i sh , but al so to a l l who have the inte r e s t of the towna t hea r t. It i s a p l e asant fact tha t many cont r ib uti ons towa r d th ee r e ct i on of th i s bu i l d ing have been made by membe r s of o the r denominations

,so th a t th e ch u r ch w i l l be

,in some degr e e, a monumen t ofth at k ind l i e r s pi r i t of Ch r i s ti an com i ty whi ch i s a ma r k of the advancingye a r s .

We l l e s l ey has e spec i a l r e ason to be inte r e s ted i n the A rno l d A r boretum,

for one of our ci t i zens,Mr. H . H . Hunnewe l l , gave to i t bo th i ts

remai kab lehe r ba r i um and i ts muse um . F1 om thi s town a l s o have gones ubstanti a l sub sc r i p ti ons towa r d i ts suppo r t . The A r bo r e tum is thefines t insti tu ti on of i t s kind in the wo r l d . When P r o f , Cha r l e s S.

Sa rgent, the D i r e cto r of the A r bo r e tum , r e ce iv ed f r om Ha r va r d Co l l ege ,a t the l as t commencement,the degr e e of L. L. D .

,i t w as r e cogn i zedth at the hono r confe r r ed upon h im was mo r e th an j u st ified by the gr e a tp ubl ic val ue of the wo r k wh i ch he has so w i se l y inspi r ed and gu ided .

An exceed ingl y inte r e s ting and beau ti fu l l y i l l u st r a ted de sc r i p ti on ofthe A r bo r e tum , w r i tten by Sy l ve ste r Bax te r , may be found in th eSe ptembe r numbe r of th e “Wo r l d’s Wo r k .

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Chu r ch New s

We l les l ey H i l l s C o ngrega tio n a l C h u r ch

Sunday mo rn ing se r vices wi l l b e r esumed , in Maugus Hal l , on Sunday ,Septembe r 8

,at A . M .

The P r epa r ato ry Se rvi ce wi l l b e h eld at the pa r sonage on Fr iday even ing,Septembe r 6, at quar te r befo r e e ight .

TheCommun ion Se r vi ce w i l l beobse rved on Sunday afte rnoon , Septembe r 8,at fou r o’c l ock, in the Un i ta r ian Chu rch .

TheAux i l ia ry to theWoman’s Boa r d of M i ssions w i l l meet at the pa r sonageon Tuesday, Septembe r 24. at 3 P . M . Subject “

Gene r al News Items . ” Th i sw i l l b e theAnnual Thank - Offe r ingMeet ing and a fu l l attendance i s des i r ed .The sess ions of the Sunday school wi l l b e r esumed Sunday , Septembe r 8 ,

in Maugus H al l . Two vol untee r teache r s are needed . K indl y give you r nameto the supe r intendent if you are w i l l ing to take a c l ass .

We l les ley H i l l s Un ita r ian S o c ietyThe SundaySchool connected with theUn ita r ian Chu r ch wi l l r eopen Septembe r 8, immediate ly afte r the c l ose of the mo rn ing se rvi ces .August 1 4, the Pasto r bapti zed Fr ances C rosby El l s .Regula r se r vices both fo r chu rch and Sunday school wi l l be r esumed Sept .

8th , at A . M .

Rev . John Snyde r , Mr . Wa r r en Sawye r and Mr . Cl a r ence A . Bunke r havebeen selected'

b y the Standing Comm ittee to r ep r esent the Soc iety at theNat ional Un i ta r ian Confe r ence , to b e held at Sa r atoga , Sept . 23d.

The Pasto r has p r eached du r ing the summe r vacat ion at Magnol ia and Dorcheste r , and l ectu r ed at Nantucket and the Isl e of Shoal s .

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The Rev. Geo rge Nattrass, ass i stant r ecto r wi th Dr . Le igh ton Pa rk s atEmmanuel Chu r ch , Newbu r y St.

,Boston , has been cal l ed to the offi ce of r ecto rof St . And r ew’s and has accepted the pos it ion . He w i l l assume h i s dut ies atsome date du r ing the fal l month s .

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A Lesso n fo r th e Hou r

[F r om Ungua r ded Gates , by T. B . A ld r ich]Wide open and ungua r ded s tand our gate s,Named of th e fo u r Wind s— No r th , South , Eas t andWe s t ;Po r ta l s th a t l e ad to an enchante d l and

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A l a te r Eden p l ante d in the w i ld s,

IVit-h not an inch of e a r th w i th in i ts boundBut i f a s l ave ’s fo o t p r e s s i t se ts h im f r e e !He r e i t i s w r i tten, Toi l sh a l l h av e i ts wage ,And Hono r hono r , and th e humbl e s t manStand l eve l w i th the h igh e st in the l aw .

Of such a l and have men in dunge ons d r e amed ,And w ith the v i s i on b r igh ten ing in the i r eye sGone sm i l ing to the fago t and th e swo r d .

Wi de Open and ungua r ded s tand ou r gate s,And th r o ugh them p r esses a w i l d , motl ey th r ongMen f r om the Vo lga and the Ta r ta r Ste ppe s,Fea tu r e le s s figu r e s of the Hoang- Ho

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M a l ayan,Scyth ian

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, K e l t, and Sl av,Fl y ing the OldWo r l d ’s pove r ty and sco rn ;

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These b r ingingw i th them unknown god s and r i te s,Those

,tige r pass ions, he r e to st r e tch the i r c l aw s .

In s t r e e t and a l l ey wh at st r ange tongue s a r e l oud,A ccents of menace al ien to ou r ai r .Vo i ce s th a t Once the Towe r Of Babe l knew !0

,Libe r ty

,Whi te Godde ss ! i s i t we l l

To l e ave thy gate ungua r ded ? On thy b r e a stFo l d So r r ow ’s ch i ld r en

,s oo th e the hu r ts of fate,

Li ft the d own - t r odden,bu t w i th hand Of s te e l

Stay those who to thy sac r e d po r tal s com eTO waste the gi fts Of f r eed om . H av e a ca r eLe s t f r om thy b r ow the c l us te r ed s ta r s be to rnAnd t r amp l ed in the d ust . For s o of OldThe th r ongingGo th and Vanda l t r amp l e d Rome,And whe r e the templ e s of the Cae sa r s stoodThe l e an wol f unmol e sted made he r l a i r .

*P r inted by pe rm i ss ion of Houghton , M itfl in Co . , pub l i she r sgua rded Gates and Othe r Poems .

Wi l l iam M cK in ley

By fl l bert Clarke

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o th e r s ubj e c ts,i t i s h a r d ly h oped that anything wh ich amonth l y publ i cat i on can say w i l l a r r e s t th e attenti on of

many r e ade r s , and ye t OUR TOWN cann o t om i t to l ay i tsl i t t l e chapl e t on h i s tomb .

NO man ex ce pt Ab r aham Linco ln eve r got qu i te so nea rth e h e a r t s of the pe o p l e a s Wi l l i am McK inley. El ev enye a r s ago, when he l ed in the enactment of a p r o te c tiv e

ta r iff which was s t r ongly Oppo sed by powe r fu l in te r e s ts and a gr e a tpo l i t i ca l pa r ty,he was much mis r e p r e sented and m i sunde r s tood

,and

ye t, even then his amiab l e pe r sona l i ty fo rmed f r i ends among hi s po l i t ica l Opponents . Since then, pa r tl y th r ough the adve r s i ty wh i ch fo l l owedthe r eve r sa l of h is po l i cy,pa r tl y th r ough the div e r s i on of the publ i c

m ind to o the r subj e c ts upon whi ch h is v i ew s met w i th fav o r,pa r tl y

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and dange r o us se r v i ce for h i s count r y in the yea r s of i t s gr e ate s t pe r i land in eve r y act of a lmo st con tinuous pub l i c se r v i ce sin ce th e c iv i l w a r .He was animated by co r r e ct ideas of ci ti zenshi p . Whatev e r th e p r oposition

,he fi r s t ask ed h im se l f “Is i t r igh t and wi l l i t be to the good ofthe count r y ?” If he had been co r r up t or even se lfi sh he m igh t hav ebecome weal thy . The fa c t th at unti l afte r h e be came p r e s iden t h e h ad

a lway s l iv ed in a h i r ed h ou se,and th a t he d ied wo r th l e ss than one

hund r ed th ousand do l l a r s,te st ifie s to h i s unse lfish devot i on . Pu r i ty

and pat r i o ti sm beamed f r om h is countenance and su r r o und ed h im w i tha panop ly tha t ke p t a t a d i s tance ev e r y tempte r ’s a r t . In h i s championship of p r o te cti on he ne ce ssa r i l y b ad to be come acquainted w i th i tse ffe c ts upon d i ffe r ent indust r i es, compan i e s and men ; bu t h e l ookedu pon al l of th em as but pa r ts of the coun t r y, and as God gav e h im tose e the l igh t, he l abo r ed so l e l y for his count r y . In the l a te r gr e a tcause s w i th wh i ch h e was so consp i cuous l y identified— th e Span i sh wa rand i t s r esu l tant r e spons ib i l i ti e s

,and th e t r o ubl e s in Ch ina—he fi r s t

s ough t the pea ce and p r o te c ti on of the Un i ted Sta te s bu t neve r in any

na r r ow and e xacting way . Ra the r d i d h e imp r e s s the w o r l d w ith th egr e at s t r ength of th i s count r y by i ts calmne ss, mode r at i on and generosi ty . In a l l th i s he had abl e ass i s tant s, but l ik e the t r a ine d state smanand natu r a l l eade r th at he was

,b e dom ina ted our fo r e ign r e l ati on s andwith unfai l ing cou r te sy h e in sp i r ed othe r s to th ink and act h i s w i l l .

So h i s p e r sona l unselfishness became nati ona l fo rbea r ance and his pat r iotism gr ew to be a lmost as bound l e s s as the a i r . He was fa r s igh tedenough to se e h ow th i s wou ld r ed ound to th e gl o r y and the p r ofi t ofthe Un i ted State s ; but he was enough a c i t i zen of the wo r l d so th at hewoul d h ave co un ted i t gain to sac r ifice for humani ty .

But he had not changed ; he had on l y ca r r i ed fo r w a r d th e benificent p r incip l e s for wh ich he had alw ays s tood . He had k i cked downno l adde r bywh i ch he c l imbed ; he h ad de se r ted no old f r i ends for new.

On the cont r a r y he had be come r evea l e d to the new and a t l as t“None knew h im but to l ove h im ,

Nor named h im but to p r a ise .That i s, none wo r th ment i on ing. Even th e w r e tch ed pe r ve r t who sh o th im owed h im no i l l - w i l l . As we l l a s can be j udged so so on afte r h i sca r e e r h as c l o sed

,measu r ed by any s tanda r d known to hi sto r y, h i s fam ei s in the h ighe st n i che of fame a l ongs id e of Wash ington and Linco ln,emul a ting bo th of th e i r exampl e s, r iv a l ing the i r ab i l i ti e s and even s u rpass ing them , by th e l a rge r me asu r e of h i s oppo r tuni ty, as a l ibe r ato r

of h i s fe l l ow men .

Phys ica l Edu ca tio n atWe llesleyBy Evelyn B . J

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herrard

ERHAPS th e mo s t v a l uab l e of a l l im p r o vements in ed ucational sc ience h as been the gr ow ing r e cogn i t i on of th e phy si ca l bas i s on wh i ch al l menta l t r a in ing and powe r must r e s t .Thi s i s e spe ci a l l y t r ue of the co l l ege edu ca t i on of women .

La rge numbe r s of the gi r l s who ente r co l l ege w ith h ighasp i r at i ons fo r know l edge a r e dep l o r ably igno r ant of th e i rown bod i e s, and of th e cond i ti ons and managemen t of th emwh ich a r e e ssenti a l to hea l th and to men ta l v igo r . They a r eve r y often hampe r e d and weak ened by habi ts in d ie t

,d r e s s

,bea r ing and cond uct, th e ev i l e ffe ct s of wh i ch th ey do not

unde r stand . It has be come ev iden t th a t th e co l l ege s mus t th emse l ve sacce p t th e r e spons ibi l i ty for th e phys i c a l t r a ining of the i r s tudents andmust enl igh ten th em upon th e ca r e and t r e atment of the i r bod i e s, asone of th e fundamen ta l b r anche s of l e a rn ing. InWe l l e sl ey Co l l egeth i s r e spons ibi l i ty has been de ep l y fe l t f r om th e fi r s t

,and inte l l igente ffo r ts h av e been mo r e and mo r e di r e cted to mee ting i t . The th e o r y

and p r a c t ice of hygi ene have been made th e stbject of l e c tu r e s by th ehea l th o ffi ce r s to eve r y f re shman c l a ss ; and the se s tud ent s, a t the beginn ing of th e i r c ou r se, a r e r equ i r ed to l ea rn so much of physi o l ogy and ofthe l aw s of h ea l th as wi l l enabl e them r a ti ona l l y to conduc t th e i r ownphys i ca l l i fe

,and to av o id th e ev i l s so gene r a l ly consequent upon ignor ance of the se t r u th s . In th i s c onne cti on i t i s inte r e sting to obse r v eth at e xpe r i ence has b r o ugh t into gr e at p r ominence th e need of gu idance and t r a in ing in the h abi tua l p o i se and bea r ing of the body, cor

rectness in wh ich cont r ibu te s so mu ch , not onl y to d ign i ty and gr ace ,but al s o to actua l h e al th and s t r ength , and to th e cons c i o usne ss of powe r .It i s the aim of th i s co u r se of in s t r uct i on, not me r e l y to imp r e s s onthe memo r y th e sci entific facts and p r inci p l e s taugh t, but to make thema pa r t of th e studen t’s consci ou s l i fe and gu ide s to conduct, so a s to fo ste rthe gr ow th of wh at may be ca l l ed a phy si ca l consc i ence ; a sense of pe rs ona l r e s pons ib i l i ty for eve r y avo idabl e weakne s s, ind i spos i ti on or defe e t

,and a cons tan t d e s i r e and eff o r t for the h ighe st phys i ca l effi ci enc y

and in tegr i ty wh ich a r e a ttainab l e . A most impo r tant agency in pro

moting the same gene r a l aim i s th e Depa r tment of Physi cal Tr aining,wh ich has spe ci a l cha rge of the bod i l y a ct iv i t i e s of th e s tudents f r om9

the i r admiss i on. Its fi r s t duty i s,by a p r oper and somewh at m inute

examinat i on,to asce r ta in the actua l cond i ti on of th e new come r a t her

ent r ance . For th i s pu r pose,not on l y gene r a l measu r ements, as of

he igh t, we ight, gi r th, e tc ., a r e taken and r e co r ded , bu t spec i a l ca r e i se xe r c i sed to sea r ch for any i r r egu l a r i t i e s of d ev e l opment, exce sse s orde fec ts of muscul a r st r ength or s t r ain in pa r ti cul a r o rgans, dev i ati onsf r om symme t ry,cu rvatu r e s or di sp l acements, and the degr ee of sound

ne ss and acu tene ss of the sen se s,espe ci a l l y of s igh t and hea r ing. When

th e exam inat i on d i s c l o se s,as i t of ten doe s

,any tendency to i r r egu lar orim pe r fe c t de ve l opment, an o ppo r tuni ty i s giv en the pupi l to obtainsk i l l e d med ica l and su rgi ca l adv i ce a s to the r emed ie s most app r o p r iat e

to the case ; usua l ly some fo rm and degr e e of system ati c exe r ti on be ingp r e s c r ibed,wh i ch w i l l tend

,wh i l e a ffo r d ing agr ee ab l e r e c r e at i on and

gene r a l exe r c i se , to counte r ac t th e defec t wh ich i s th r eatened .It i s we l l known

,fo r e xampl e

,th at a l a rge pe r centage of th e gi r l sente r ing co l l ege a r e to some ex tent aff ected w i th inci p ient sp ina l cu r

vature; a mal fo rmati on wh ich doubtl e ss, in the l a rge maj o r i ty of cases,re sul ts in no se r i o us inj u r y to heal th , but wh ich i s none the l e s s a defe c tof f r ame

,and may gr ow to d efo r m i ty and hel p l e ssness . Yet the se cases,

p r ope r l y guided in the i r e a r ly s tage s, a r e commonl y amenab l e to t r e atment, and capab l e of r e sto r ati on to compl e te symmet r y and inc r e asedst r ength . When the r e co r d s a r e com pl e te, i t i s the duty of th e Depa r tment of Physi ca l T r a ining to s tudy the ind iv id ual need s of s tudents, asr eco rd ed by the e xam ina ti ons ; and to ass ign each one to the c l ass of

wo r k be s t ad ap te d to he r in th e gymnasium . Th i s,l ike all . th e be s t

sch oo l s of physi ca l t r a in ing, i s condu c ted on th e p r inci p l e s of wh at isknown as the Swedi sh System , which i s in r ea l i ty s imply the d i r e cti onof sc ient ific gymnast i c s to th e fu l l deve l opmen t of he al th . Th i s b r anchof wo r k becomes a pa r t of the r egul a r cu r r i cul um of the co l l ege ; and

fai thfu l attenti on to i t i s a s e ssenti a l to a r egu l a r s tand ing in the inst itution as i s any o the r b r anch of s tudy . Th i s r equ i r ement of sy stemati cand sci ent ific exe r c i se cont inue s th r o ugh out the fi r s t ye a r of co l l ege l i fe .It was the o r igina l pu r pose of the co l l ege in bui l d ing i ts gymnasiumto p r ov ide oppo r tuni t i e s f o r tho r ough physi ca l t r a in ing, continue dth r o ugh ou t the co u r se . But the co l l ege so r apid l y ou tgr ew ex pectat ions in i t s numbe r s tha t the gymnasi um i s now adequate onl y for th ef r e shman c l ass . The s tudents of the se cond ye a r

,hav ing had a yea r

of t r a in ing in the gymnas i um as we l l a s ins t r uct i on in hygi ene, a r e, ofcou r se,fa r be tte r ab l e to d i r e ct them se lv e s in th e i r spo r t s and ath l e t i c

o ccupati ons,and they a r e sti l l , unde r the supe r v i s i on of the Depa r tment

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Const r uct iv e effo r t in s oci e ty h as a l ways had th e gr e ate r emphasi s . Its

pu r pose,as ph r ased by i ts P r e si dent, i s, “to p r om ote a fine r p ubl i c

sp i r i t and a be tte r soc i al o r de r,

”and i t l i s tens gl ad l y to tho se who can

l e ad in the a ch iev ement of that pu r po se .Be cause i t i s th e med ium of acquaintance be tw een peop l e who a r e

act iv e in al l k ind s of ph i l an th r op i c and r efo rmato r y e ffo r t,i t i s i tse l f

gi ven ove r to none . The C l ub has a l ways avo ided dup l i ca ting thew o r k of o the r o rgan i zati ons . Its activ i t i e s a r e ch iefly in th e l ine of

ga in ing and se tting fo r th soc i a l fa c ts and in sp r e ad ing id eas and i d ea l s .But i t s tands r e ady to do spe ci a l se r i e s when Oppo r tun i ty o ffe r s . In

past yea r s i t h as p r o v ided se r ie s of f r ee o rgan r e c i ta l s, mainta ine d f r e eco u r se s of l e ctu r es and ente r ta inments,a ided and stim ul ated the heal th

autho r i ti e s in imp r ov ing s l um cond i ti on s, and influen ced l egi sla ti on inth e inte r e s t of a mo r e beaut ifu l c ity . M any of the most sa l u ta r y effo r tsm ade in Bos ton for imp r ov ing bad cond i ti on s h av e r e ce iv ed the i r in i t ia li mpu l se in the C l ub r oom s . Info rma ti on for many d i ffe r ent ac tiv i ti e sh as been gathe r ed a t th e C l ub and giv en to th o se who cou l d be st use i t .

For fo u r ye a r s pas t a l a rge numbe r of te ache r s, educato r s, c l e rgymen and o the r s have gl ad ly bought sea son ti ck e ts to the C l ub cou r se sp r ov ide d in T r emon t Temp le

,on the p r incip l e s of educat i on . Du r ingthe coming winte r p r obably a sti l l l a rge r numbe r w i l l gathe r , fi r s t

to hea r five o r s i x co l l ege p r e s id ents in tu rn, and then to he a r oncemo r e P r ofe sso r E. H . G r iggs, who b r ought such a st im u l us to many l as tyea r . A new fo r m of e ffo r t in th e C l ub th i s fal l w i l l be fo und in i t sLe c tu r e Se r v i ce . It p r opose s to fu rni sh to th ose who desi r e them these r v i ce s of e xpe r t sch o l a r s

,educato r s

,mun i c ip a l offici a l s

,and p r act i cal

men of affa i r s,who w i l l d i s cus s inte l l igent l y the p r e s sing p r ob l ems of

mun i c i pa l admin i s t r a ti on,ed uca tion

,so c i a l o rgan i zat ion, home l i fe , ph i l

anthropy, l abo r , and the r es t of the fam i l i a r l i s t. A l r eady many inqui ri e s hav e come in f r om d iff e r en t d i r ec ti ons ask ing for speak e r s who w i l lb r ing to the smal l communi t i e s the expe r i enc e of yea r s of e ffo r t andobse r va ti on .

The fi r s t l e ctu r e to the C l ub w i l l be giv en by Mr. Cl inton Roge r sWood r uff

,of Ph i l ade l ph ia, on “The Po l i t i ca l Si tuat ion in Philadel

ph ia . ” Late r in the ye a r P r o fe s so r H . C . Eme r y,of Yal e

,and P r ofe sso r

E. A . Ro ss,fo r me r ly of Le l and Stanfo r d Jun i o r

,wi l l be h e a r d . Mr .

Edwin D . Mead w i l l b r ing to the C l ub, in the new yea r , some of ther e su l ts of h i s Eu r opean v i s i t. Othe r l e ctu r e r s

,bo th t ime l y and of

weigh t, w i l l be p l anne d l ate r . As in past ye a r s the e ffo r t wi l l be mad eto int r oduce d is t inguis hed vi s i to r s f r om ab r oad to the C l ub aud ience s

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advocate gen’l , G . A . R. (U . 1 897 ; p r es. Vt. Can . R. R. Co., 1 885- 6, and

s ince connected w i th va r ious indust r ies ; membe r U . S. Indust r ial Comm iss ion1 899 - 1 901 and cha i rman s ince death of Sen . K y l e ; Ed ito r and p r op r ieto r St .

A lbans , Vt. , Da i l y andweek lyM essenge r , 1 868- 80; on ed. staff Boston D. Adver

t ise r,1 883- 5 ; ed . andmgr . Rutl and Vt . , H e r al d , 1 886- 9 ; ed. Home M a r ket Bu l

lst in (now P r otect ioni st magaz ine) s ince 1 889 ; autho r of many add r esses , a rguments, etc. Residence,Wel l esley H i l l s , Mass . Offi ce , 77 Bedf o r d St .

, Boston .

Thi s i s b i ogr a phy r educed to i ts l ow e st te r m s, but i t ind icate s a re

markab ly act iv e and p r ogr e ss iv e ca r ee r . Anoth e r b i ography te l l s of aten yea r s’ s t r uggl e , wh i l e inVe r mon t, w ith th e Cent r a l Ve r mont Rai l r oadmanage r s, whom he accused of p l unde r ing the i r t r u s t and co r r uptingthe State . Th i s cou r ageous s tand mad e him many enem i e s as we l l a sm any st r ong f r i ends . I t co s t h im the nom ina t i on for l i e u tenant governor wh i ch he cou l d hav e had for a p r omi se to bu r y the hatchet . The

s ac r ifice wh ich h e made has not been fo rgo tten in Ve rmont, whe r e h e i so ften so ugh t to speak on campa igns and on o the r pub l i c o ccas i ons .In 1 880 Co l one l C l a r k e l eft St. A lb ans

,spent a w inte r inWash ing

ton and then came to Massach use tts,mak ing h i s r e s idence inWe l l e s l ey .

For business r e a sons h e ha s l e ft th e town befo r e and r e t u rned again,whi ch l eads u s to hope that the p r e sent r emov a l to Bo st on may not bepe rmanent .

On the d iffi cu l t que st i ons c onne c ted w i th the ta r i ff C o l one l Cl a rkei s un i ve r sa l ly r e cogni zed as an expe r t auth o r i ty . He has l ong enj oyeda l a rge a cqua intance w i th the publ i c men of th e coun t r y . Wh i l e inthe Massachuse tts l egi s l a tu r e h e was chai r m an of the “Ways andMe ansCommi tte e .” Twi ce h e was ne a r ly e l e c te d for Congr e s s, f r om the d i st r i ctto which We l l e s l ey be l ongs, in 1 896 and 1 900. Al l wh o know h im a r es u r e that he w ou l d hav e se r v ed in th e office mos t fa i th fu l l y and effi

ciently.

As a c i tizen of We l l e sl ey Co l one l C l a r k e has tak en gr e at inte r e s tin the affai r s of the town . He was th e fi r s t p r e s id ent of th e We l l e sl eyC l ub, se r v ing f r om 1 889 to 1 896 . He has been uni v e r sa l l y r e cogn i zedas a most effi c i en t moderator at our town mee tings, p r e s id ing with pe rfe c t fai rne ss and ma r k ed ab i l i ty . He has been a fai th fu l and ac tiv emembe r of h i s r e l igi o u s so c i e ty, and a f r i end of ev e r y good cha r i ty andeve ry r ighte o us cause . Wi th out r efe r ence to pa r ty or r e l igi ous l ine s,he has th e r e sp ect and de se r v e s the gr a ti tud e of a l l h i s fe l l ow c i ti zens .H is w ife and daughte r , as we l l as h imse l f, w i l l be mi ssed he r e by a l a rgec i r c l e of f r i ends . The i r Bo s ton r e s iden ce i s in the Audubon C i r c l e, 879Beacon s t r ee t.

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A Deserv ing’

Char ityMrs. Ma r y A . Li v e r mo r e s ays : “I do not know a mo r e de se r v ingch a r i ty

, nor one conducte d mo r e w i se ly and su cce ssfu l l y,than th e Pea

body H ome for C r i pp l e d Ch i l d r en .

”

M i s s Ju l i a A . Eastman say s “Eve r y yea r of i t s h i sto r y r eveal smo r e c l e a r l y th e need of the Pe abody Home ”

The sto r y of th i s w o r k i s a s to r y of se l f - sacrificing end e avo r on thepa r t of i t s p r omote r s, of gene r o us suppo r t on th e pa r t of th e pub l i c, andof constan t en l a rgement . De sp i te th e se enco u r aging fe atu r e s, howeve r ,on l y a po r t i on of those m ak ing app l i cati on can be r e ce iv ed

,because of

l im i te d qua r te r s . The r e po r t of M i s s Ju l i a Eastman,of the Adv i so r y

Committee , a l tho ugh c r owde d w i th in stan ce s of th e su c ce ssfu l ca r e andt r e atm ent of c r i pp l ed ch i l d r en, i s p athe ti c in i t s r e fe r ence s to the ca l l sth a t canno t be m e t . Wi th th e gi f t of l and at Hyd e Pa r k , by Mr . Rob

e r t Bleakie, th e Hom e management i s mak ing a b r av e effo rt to secu r efunds fo r th e e r e ct i on of an adequate bu i l d ing, and to th i s end gene r o u scont r ibu t i on s a r e be ing made to th e Rummage Sa l e wh i ch occu r s on th eafte r noons and even ings of Octobe r 7 th and 8th,a t Waban Hal l ,

lVellesley Squa r e . Cont r ibu ti on s of anyth ing, no matte r h ow t r ifl ingor how v a l uab l e

,w i l l be gl ad l y r e ce iv ed a t th e Ha l l on Sa tu r d ay, Oc tobe r 5th

,and on th e fo l l ow ingM onday and Tuesd ay the publ i c w i l l beco r d i a l l y w e l comed . An unu sual l y l a rge and v a r i ed as so r tment of u sef u l a r t i c l e s h as a l r e ady been p r om i sed .

We l iesley H ills VVom an’

s C l u bTheW' e l l e s l e y H i l l s Woman’s C l ub w i l l h o l d i t s fi r s t me e ting forthe yea r in M augu s Ha l l ,Wednesd ay afte rnoon, Novembe r 6, a to’c l o ck .The p r ogr am fo r the yea r a s fa r as comp le te d i s as fo l l ow s

Nov . 6 . H ome afte rnoon, _“Mounta in and Sho r e .” Tea.

Nov . 20.

“Li fe andNa tu r e in the Engl i sh Lake s .”Uni ta r i an chu r ch .P r of . A . J . George.

Dec. 4. M ono l ogue , K ingRené ’s Daugh te r . Tea.

.l iss Grace Chamber l in .

Dec. 1 8. To be anno unced .

Jan . 1 . NewY ea r ’s Recep ti on . Tea.

Jan . 1 5.

“H a r r ie t Be e che r Stowe .” M iss Jll ar t'

a L . B aldwin.

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Feb . 5. Gent l emen’s n ight . Conce r t, P. M .

Under di rection of M iss B el le S. B assett,

Feb . 1 9 . The Cu rve of So ci al P r ogr e s s . R ev. Edward Cummings.

Ma r ch 5. Wi l d B i r d s and The i r Mus i c .” M r . Schuyler F . Mathews.

Ma r ch 1 9 . To be announced . Tea .Ap r i l 2. To be anno unced .Ap r i l 1 6.

“Th r ee Ap r i l Days— 1 6894 7 754 861 . H on. A . S. R oe.

May 7 . Annua l Me e ting. Tea .Al l mee tings, excep t th at of Novembe r 20, wi l l be he l d in Maugu s

Hal l . Th is one i s a s te r e op t i con l e ctu r e and w i l l be h e l d in the Uni

ta r i an Chu r ch .Fo l l ow ing i s th e l i st of offi ce r s and commi ttee s of th e C l ub for th eensu i ngye a r :P r esid ent, Mrs. Ma r y W. Ove r ho l se r ; Fi r s t Vi ce P r e s .,M rs. He l en

M. No r c r os s Se cond Vi ce P r e s .,Mrs. A . Joseph ine Sp r ing; Rec. Sec r e

ta r y,M rs. Sad i e E. Ha r dy ; Cor . Se c r e ta r y, M i ss Ca r o lyn J. Peck ; T r eas

urer,M rs. Anni e M . Mo r se .

D i r e c to r sM rs. H annah T. Ca r r e t, Mrs. Joseph B. Seabu r y, Mrs. Hatti e B .

Cunningham , Mrs. S. I rvingRi ch a r d son, Mrs. El l a L. Pe abody, M rs.

E l l a L. To r r ey .Hosp i ta l i ty Comm i t tee .

M rs. H e l en M . No r c r o s s, chai r man,Mrs. Emma F. Hatch, Mrs.

Ge r t r ud e Pl ympton, Mrs. Ma rga r e t A . Q uackenboss, Mrs. F l o r ence A .

T r ain,M rs. Jo seph ine Hunneman

,Mrs. Ro samund Ro the r y, Mrs. No r a

M . Jo sl in, M iss Ma ry N. Edwa r ds.

Doo r Comm i tte e .Mrs. El l a L. Pe abody, ch ai r man, Mrs. A l i ce W. Cu r r i e r

,Mrs. Nor

r i ss McGoon.

Pl atfo r m Commi ttee .M rs. J ose ph B. Seabu r y, chai r man, M rs. S. I r v ingR i ch a r d son .

Tea Comm i ttee .Mrs. Hattie B . Cunningham , chai r man, Mrs. Sa r ah E. To r r y

,Mrs.

Vi o l a Jay Rus se l l .F r i end l y Aid Comm i tte e .

Mrs. El l en R . Robson, Mrs. He l en M . Norcross,Mrs. Sa r ah F . Jen

nings.

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Photogr aph of Reue l Wi l l a rdWa re , h i s son , the onl y membe r now l ivingofthe o r igina l founde r s of th i s chu r ch in 1 847 .

Photogra phs of Mr . and M rs. Cha r les T. Wi l de r .Photogr aph ofMrs . Rebecca A . Bache lde r

,one of the o r iginal membe r s .

Photogr aphs of the Bu i ld ing Comm i ttee (F. J . Lake , cha i rman , L. K . Pu t

ney, Rev. Pa r r i s T. Fa rwel l , Geo rge D . Wa re , and T . W. Tr avi s) , al so photogr aph s oi A . W. No r c r oss

,cont r acto r and Cha r l es H . K inney

,fo r eman .

Si l ve r qua r te r of 1 901 i ssue .A fte r r e ading th i s l i s t the b ox was put in p l ace by Mr . F . J . Lake

,chai rman of the bui l d ing commi tte e, and se cu r ed the r e w i th mo r ta rby De a con Geo rge D. Wa r e . The pas to r offe r ed a p r aye r, the pe op l esang “The Chu r ch’s one foundati on i s Je sus Ch r i s t he r Lo r d

,

”and thebened i ct i on was p r onounced .

Thu r sday, Sept . 19 , 19 0 1

The day when P r e s ident McK inleywas bu r i ed w i l l l ong be r emembe r ed in the Un i ted State s . The who le count r y was in mou rning. In

gr e at ci ti e s and in co unt r y v i l l age s the pe op l e gathe r e d in memo r i a ls e r v i ce s to exp r e ss the i r s o r r ow . The t r affi c of the l and was s i l enced .

In mo r e than one me t r opo l i s,a t a giv en s igna l , th e ca r s on e l ect r i cl ine s and ste am r a i l r oad s

,the s te ame r s on the r iv e r s

,the veh i c l e s o fbus ine ss paused for a few moments . Men s to od w i th ba r ed head s ins i l ence

,and the thoughts of a l l h e a r t s went o u t to th a t pa the ti c s cene

in Canton, whe r e the body of the be l ov ed P r e s ident w as l aid away .

In ou r own t own of We l l e s l ey an imp r e s s ive se r v i ce was he l d inthe Town Hal l . Ra r e l y,i f ev e r

,has s o t r u ly r ep r e sentativ e an assemb ly been gathe r ed the r e , and i t c r owded ev e r y se at and a l l av ai l ab l es tand ing r o om . On the p l atfo r m we r e a l l the ofiicials of the town

,t oge the r w i th the c l e rgymen of the Cath o l i c, Congr egat i ona l and Unita r i an chu r che s . The r e was a b r i ef and imp r e ss iv e o pen ing add r e ss byCol . Noah Pl ympton

,the cha i r m an of th e Boa r d of Sel e ctmen, r eadingof Sc r i p tu r e by i ev. John Snyde r o f the Un i ta r i an Chu r ch

,and p r aye r

,

whi l e al l the pe op l e sto od , by Rev . Pa r r i s T. Fa rw e l l of th e W' e l l e s l e yH i l l s Congr ega ti ona l Chu r ch . Two add r es se s we r e de l i ve r ed . Onewa s by the Rev . P. H . Ca l l anan, of St. John’s Roman Cath o l i c Chu r ch

,

whi ch was d i r e ct,ea r ne s t and e l oquen t, and dwe l t pa r ti cu l a r ly uponthe exa l te d pe r sona l cha r ac te r of th e l ate P r e s id ent . The o the r add r e s swas by C0 1 . A l be r t C l a r k e, who fi r s t cal l ed th e ci ti zens to a r enewedsense of the sac r edne ss of al l l aw and the d uty of r ega r d ing i t in our

own communi ty. Then, a s he h ad been asked to d o , he r e fe r r ed tose ve r a l o c casi ons on whi ch he had met P r e s iden t McK inl ey and descr i bed , f r om h i s pe r sonal knowl edge , the k ind l ine ss and cou r te sy wh i chwe r e su ch ma r k ed featu r e s of the P r e s ident’s char a cte r . Du r ing th ee xe r c i se s the Schube r t Q ua r te tte sang app r o p r iate p i e ce s . The aud ience uni ted in s inging “Nea r e r MyGod to The e at the Open ing of themee ting, and Ame r i ca ” at i ts c l o se . Then,wh i l e the aud ience st ood

,

“Taps ” we r e s ounded , and th e bened i ct i on was p r onounced .

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L ite ra ry N o te s

Houghton ,M ifi‘

l in Co . announce an impo rtant l ist of fal l pub l icat i ons .

Among these are two books b y the late J ohn Fiske "Li fe Ever last ing”

and“New France and New Englan t A lso "

A rch itectu re in Italy”(2 by

Cha r les K . Cumm ings ; “Our Nat i ona l Parks ,

”by J ohn M u i r . H i sto ry of the

M ississi pp i Val ley,

”by James K . H osmer ; “

The Rights of Man”by Lyman

Abbott ; “The Teachings of Dant ,e b y C . A . Di nsmo re ; “

Essays”by C . C .

Everett ; Ame1 ican T 1 ai ts ”b y H ugo lvl unstei b ei g an t

“Foot ing It in F ran

con ia ”by Bradfo1 d To r r .ey New fict i on “

The'

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o 1 y Lovel .” by Sai ah O rneJewett ; “Ma rga ret Wa r rener , ’

b y A l ice B rown ; “Our Lady Van i ty”

by El lenO lney K i rk ; “

The Ma r r ow of T radi t i on ,

”by Cha r lesW. Chestnu tt .

Among,r the fal l publ icat ions of the Bowen- Me r r i l l Company is a new sto ry,byM rs. Mary Hal t wel l Catherwood. Whateve r M rs . Catherwood w r i tes is goodand, as it is announced that she has chosen a most r omant ic and interest ingsub ject fo r her new novel , a l i terary t reat may b e expected. The name of thebook i s Lazar re and its basis is an o ld legend that the Dauph in Lou is, sonof Lou is X VI . and Mar ie Anto inet te, did not die in p r i son b ut was b r ought toth is count ry,

to l i ve and die in ex i le and obscu r ity.

The Baker and Tayl o r Company announce fo r com ino publ icat i on “\V00dland and Meadow .

”by M 1 . W’

. 1 . Linco ln Adams, a se1 ies of papers deal ingw ith l i fe on a New EnO Iand h i l l fai m A lso two new books by Dr . Josiah“t 1 ono — “

Youn cr \1 en and the Times”and

“The nex t G1 eat Awaken ing.

”

O thei books are “TheM odel n M i ssi on Cycle,

”b yRev. A i thur T . Pierson ,

“The

Tew as a Pati iot, b y Madison C . Petel s, and“The Ch i ld ren ’

s H ealth ,

”b y

Fl o rence II . Winterbu rn .

Li tt le B r own Co. have ju st i ssued a new edit i on o f “The Li fe of FrancisPa rkman . also a new i l lu st rated edit i on o f Litt le Men .

”The young peop le

w i l l b e interested to know that they have al so pub l ished “The Li tt leMen Play.

”

and“ The Litt le \V0 1 11 en Play,

”wh ich are adaptat i ons b y E l i zabeth Linco lnGou ld. The p lays take abou t fo r ty- five m inutes fo r p resentat i on and are verypopu la r fo r amateu r per fo rmances . Among new books announced are

“ Typesof Naval O ffice r s ,

”b y Capt . A lf red T . Mal i an ;

“The \Vo r ld Beaut i fu l in Books ,”b y Li l ian Wh it ing ; “

A Japanese M i scel lany.

”b y Lafcadi o Hearn ; “

Up and

Down the Sands of Go ld,

”b y Ma ry Devereu x ; M ist ress B rent . ” b y Lucy M .Thu rston ; and “

J oy and St r ength fo r thePi lgr im ’s Day,

”by MaryW. Ti leston .

G . P. Putnam ’s Sons wi l l pub l i sh sho r t ly. o r have just pub l ished,

“The Arto f Li fe.

”a study in femin ism ; “

Du tch Li fe in Town and County,

” b y a resident. at The Hague ; Romance of the Renai ssance Chateaux ,” by E l i zabethW.

Cham pney ; “One of My Sons,” b x Anna Cathe r ine G i cen ; Lun i Fo lk- Ta les,”

b y F rank H . Cush ing,

“Wales”and “ M edi e val Rome,

”in the

“Sto ry of the

Nat i ons "ser ies ; “

The Star s.

”b y Simon Newcomb ; “

The H ome Li fe o f theWi ld Bi rds, ” b y Francis H . Her r ick ; he Science of Peno logy,

”b y H en ryM .

Bo ies. etc. . etc.

The announcement is made b y M r . Cha r l es F r ohman that the in i t ial p r oducti on of the p lay “

Eben H o lden ” was gi ven in B r idgepo r t , Conn , on Mon

day n ight . September 30. wi th M r . E . M . H o l land p laying the cha racter of“Uncle Eb . The d ramat i zat i on of Mr . I r ving Bachel ler ’s phenomenal ly suc

cessful book has been do ne b y Mr . Edwa rd E . Rose, and i s said t o b e a veryst r ong p iece of wo rk , and to po r t ray the sto ry accu rately. M r . Bachel ler ’s sec

ond success,“D

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r i and I ,”has been fo r the past two weeks the best sel l ingb ook in New Y o rk and other cit ies .

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October, 1 901

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BLISHED ON THE FIRST OF EACH WON‘

TH BY C . M . EATONMANAGING EDITOR, T. FARM/ELL, WELLESLEY HILLSA

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D‘UERTISING MANAGER, G . E. SEAGRAVE, WELLESLEY

Entered at thepost officeatWellesley Hil ls as second- classmailer.

Ed itor ia l

We cal l at tent i on to the fact that the admi rab le address by Rev .P . H . Cal lanan, at the ser v ices in the Town Hal l on Thu r sday, Sep t 1 9,is rep o r ted in fu l l in theWel lesley Rev iew for Sep t . 27 .

Never,perhaps

,has there been so p lain ly revealed the under lying

un i ty of our great nat i on as du r ing the days o f its gr ief for the mu rde rous assau l t up on its P resident . A l l that was best in nati onal l i fe wasthen b r ought t o the f r ont . Men o f al l pa r t ies

, of al l races, and al l rel igi ons op in i ons we re uni ted in a comm on so r r ow and a comm on l oyal ty.

A f ter al l , imp o r tant as they are,the div isi ons which are th rust into

View in t imes of p o l itical exci tement do not run very deep . Beneaththem al l is the so l id bed r ock of a great nati onal Spi r i t of l oyal ty andpat r i o t ism . And the ter r ib le adjecti ves emp l oyed and the di re disaster sth reatened by each par ty when speaking of its opponents come largelyf r om feve red imaginat i ons.

Neve r theless,i t is imp ossible that this event shou ld pass by w i th

out our lea r ning one lesson at least . I t has been a b l o t upon our

nat i onal hono r that th r ough mistaken loyal ty to f reedom of speech,mingled wi th an. inexcusab le neglect to rebuke recogn i zed ev i l,we haveper m i t ted the doct r ine of refo rm by assassinat i on to b e taught open ly

and un fo rb idden . I t is the immediate duty o f every state legislatu re,in Massachuset ts as elsewhere, to p r ov ide, so far as can be done by law ,for the supp ressi on o f the propogation of the doct r ines of ana r chy andto decla re that mu rde r ous at tacks upon the l i fe of the P resident aret rai to r ous and punishab le by death. It makes one shudde r t o thinkthat the t ragedy of Buffal o might equal ly wel l have happened when theP residen t was the guest of our own Comm onweal th.

The Metaphysical C lub, at 200 C la rendon St.

, Boston, has issued at imely ci rcula r against “M ode rn Sensat i onal ism , and decla res its intent i on to ente r upon an especial eff o r t to counte ract its influences. I t

emphasizes the ala r m ing effects of the del ineat i on of c r ime in the dai lyp ress and the need of educat ing pub l ic opini on to demand the banishment of such mate r ial f r om the paper s that en te r the homes of the people. To this end i t inv i tes the co- Ope rat i on of al l who are l ike- minded.

M r. War ren A . Rodman,o f Wel lesley H i l l s, is the Sec retary of the

Metaphysical C lub, and he inv i tes co r r esp ondence w i th refe rence to

this needed refo rm.

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Mr. Ca r te r B enn e r has gone to Cal i fo rnia to r a i se f r u i t .M iss A l i c e Mou l ton i s p l ayi ng th e o rgan at th e Cong r egat ional ch u rch in

South Nat ick .M iss B ess i e Tuck e r has en te r ed th e F r eshman C l ass atWe l l es l ey Co l l ege .M i ss Ge rt u de E. Chand l e r has gon e to Pittsfield, Mass . , to attend a p r ivateschool .At a meet ing h e l d Sept emb e r 1 0, b y th e Soc i a l Chu r ch Depa rtmen t of th e

Woman ’s Un ion , i t was voted to ho l d a se r i es of “ Tea Soc ia l s ” as ou r means ofr a i si ng mon ey. Th e fi r st one occu r r ed Thu r sday aft e r noon , Octobe r 3 , at Mrs.

Chas . E . Shattuck ’s , G rove st r ee t . It i s hop ed that th ese teas w i l l me et w i thfavo r and b e la rge ly atten de d .Octob e r 1 7 , Ch u r ch Soc ia l in Lad i e s’Pa r lo r s .Octob e r 24, Ch r i st ian Endeavo r Soc ia l .

Un itarian J‘

ociety

Octob e r 1 1 , th e fi r st Sunday Schoo l ent e r ta inmen t of th e season w i l l b egi ven in th e ch u r ch pa r lo r . It w i l l tak e the fo rm of a Teach e r ’s Recept ion ,and a fine soc ia l p r og r am i s b e ing a r r anged .

Octob e r 1 3 , Rev . Edwa r d A . Ho r ton , Sup e r in tenden t of th e Un i ta r ian Sunday Schoo l Soc i ety, w i l l v i si t th e Sunday Schoo l , and afte r conduct ing th echu r ch se r v ice , w i l l speak to th e ch i ld r en and teach e r s , afte r twe l ve o’c lock , onmatte r s of v i ta l int e r est to th em on th e subjec t of Sunday Schoo l .Th e o rgan i zat ion of th e Sunday Schoo l i s comp l et e, a fu l l comp l emen t oft each e r s and ofiicers has b e en secu r ed , and pl an s a r e fo rmu lat ed to ca r ry ona succe ssfu l Wo rk in th e SundaySchoo l in 1 901 and 1 902. Teach e r sme et ings w i l lbe h e l d r egu la r ly at r e s idenc e of th e pasto r e ve ry F r i day even i ng , o’c lock ,

uu less oth e rw i se sp ec ified .Mr . Snyde r un i te d i n ma r r iage , on Thu r sday e ven ing, Octob e r 3 , Mr . Cha r l e sB rook ingWe th e rb e e and M iss Sa r a Lou i se Mo r se .Regu la r q ua r te r ly Commun ion Se r v ic e on Sunday mo r n ing, Oc tob e r 6, atA ve ry b eau t ifu l b ronze memo r ia l tab l e t , b ea r ing th e name of th e fo rme rr e ve r ed pasto r , has ju st b e en f in i sh ed for th e chu r ch . It Wi l l b e p u t in p lace

and ded icate d w i th a s imp l e se r v i ce in a v e ry few days .

For Sale, Coupe Carrya l lVe ry l i t tl e use d an d i n sp le n d id cond i t i on , p o l e an d sh af ts ; ow n e ro u t o f th e S ta te an d w i l l se l l low.

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llesley Hi l ls , Mass . ,

ln refe rence to the sh rubs you have set out for us , weare v e ry we l l p leased with thewo rk so far, andwou ld thank

MQX t H5§M® you to go ahead as o r iginal ly ta lked and put in the othe r twohund r ed. We shou ld l ike to hav e you sta r t on th is Just assoon as poss ib l e .

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wel lesleyCourses Preparatory to College

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for N on Col legi an sSpecial Advantages in English Literature, Art, History ofArt,andMusic

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M iss Helen Temple Cooke, PrincipalMrs.Harriett E. Page, Miss JeannieEvans, Associate Principals

EST . I8 6 1 Te lephone Co nnect io nTHEWELLESLEY SCHOOL

HENRY F. CATE FORBOYS(Successor to Stephen F.C ate)

P repa res s tudents for col legeFUNERALDIRECTOR or Sc ien t if ic SChO O lSAND EMBALNER a;

Specia l advantages o ffe red to you ng b oysEDWARD AUGUSTINE BENNER

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ROCkR idge Hal l .

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P repa ra t ion f o r Co l lege, Sc ien t if ic S choo l .and Bus iness .

A home f or b oys f rom a d is tance .

Schoo l l ife f or b oys w hose homes are nea r .GeorgeRan tou lWhite,i

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Dana Hal l A New Department

A board ingand day school for girlsfrom five to - fouiteen years of age wasOpened inWel les ley, October second , 1 900 .This school is under the management of the Dana H 'a l l School, and incharge of res ident teachers of longand successf u l experiencewith children of primaryand intermedia te grades . Boys are admitted to the day school.

In add it ion to the usua l English branches, French and German, voca l mus ic,and drawingare taught, and especial emphasis ls la id on nature study andmanualt ra ining.

For further particu lars apply to the Principa l,HELEN TEMPLE COOKE, Dana Hal l, Wel lesley, Mass .

C . A . Partridge

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Ho r se s sliod fo r al l k ind s of lamen e ss,

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Anybody can se l l some ki nd of clothingat alow pr ice , but if qua l itybe lackingthe ga rmentis wo r th less . It is the combination of lowp r ice w ith best qua l ity that has won for usour reputat ion . Keep th is inmind when buying goods , and save t ime andmoney.

Al l the new Fall Styles a re now ready atA. W. PALNIER’S

Natick, NIass.DR. M . O. NELSON DentistC r ow n and B r idge Wo r k a Spe c i a l tyRoom 4

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Spec i a l r a tes toWel lesley r esiden ts

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KRAUPA Impo r te d and Dome s t i cNIillinery.

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0 11 May 23 , 1 872, h e ma r r ied M i ss Ann i e West Fu l le r , of Dorcheste r,wh o bo r e him fiv e ch i ld r en

,th r e e of wh om s u r v iv e . Abou t e lev e n

ye a r s ago, M r. Law r e n ce passed th r ough a te r r ib l e and p r ot r acteda ttack of typh o id fe ve r wh ich seemed to te s t to th e u tmost the s t r e ngtho f his v i ta l fo r ce s; bu t whe n , a few mon th s af te r , h e pu r chased the K idde r e s ta te and came to r e s ide p e rman en tly i n We l l e s ley, h e enj oye d ar obu stn e ss of hea l th and fu l n e ss of v igo r of w h i ch h i s c losest f r i end ssaw n o aba teme n t t i l l h i s fi n a l s i ck n es s . Upo n th e l a s t Su nday i nJu n e h e was a t tacked w i th wh a t seemed a t fi r s t to be on ly a tempo r a ryfo rm of gast r i c t r oub l e, but i t soon d eve l op ed i n to a d i st r e ss ing ca se ofangina pecto r is. A l th ough th e fi r s t a ttack s we r e e x ceed i ngly sev e r e,yet su ch was th e measu r e of h i s re se r ve st r e ngth th a t af te r a few week she was ab le to r id e out u pon fi n e days . We k n ew

,of cou r se

,th a t h e

cou ld n e ve r be r e sto r e d to fu l n e s s of h ea l th,bu t we h ope d tha t h e

migh t r ema i n w i th u s e v e n w i th impa i r e d st r ength and b r ok e n v igo r .I n a l i tt l e Wh i l e i t be came appa r en t tha t th i s h ope was v a i n . New

and p a i n fu l c omp l i ca t i on s d ev e loped,an d on Mond ay, Oct. 28

,sev en

tee n wee ks af te r th e fi r s t a ttack,th e ov e r - bu r d en ed he a r t cease d to

bea t . Dea th came sudde n ly a t la s t, and e v ide n tly w i th ou t un u sua l pa in .

The se fe w ba r e fac ts of ou r f r i en d’s ca r ee r sugge s t but fa i n t ly th ebu sy l ife of u se fu l n e s s and v a lu e w h i ch for te n yea r s h e ha s passed i nth i s c ommun i ty. He h as been c l os e ly id e n t ified w i th e ve ry s i ngl ei n te r e s t c r eated to ad van ce the w e l fa r e o f th i s tow n . Dev o ted to th ee n la rgeme n t of i ts ma te r i a l aggr an d i z eme n t an d beau ty, h e has bee nk e en ly se n s i t i ve to th e v a lue o f a l l th e i n st i tu t i on s tha t stand fo r i tsmo r a l an d sp i r i tu a l e n r i chme n t . He was sympa the t i ca l ly ac t i ve in th esoc ia l l i fe o f young an d o ld ; an d to th e ch u r ch o f h i s ch o i ce h e n o t on lygave th e h e l pfu l n ess of con s tan t p e rs on a l a tte nd an c e , bu t th e mo s tge n e r ous a nd u n s t i n ted ma te r ia l suppo r t . He p oss e ssed i n a l a rgemeasu r e tha t r a r e. an d subtl e qua l i ty of c i t i ze n sh i p we ca l l “publ i csp i r i t.” P le n ty o f men sh e d sympa thy upon w o r thy cau se s, and w i l lev e n gi ve th em pecu n i a ry sup po r t, bu t you can n ot get th em to giv eon e h ou r of t ime or one s t r ok e o f l abo r to mak e th e o ld w o r ld a be tte rp lace to l ive i n . I th ink i t was P l u ta r ch who sa id th a t th e r e we r e tw otype s of ge n e r a l s . Th ose w h o sa id Go ” an d th ose w h o sa id “Come . ”J u l i u s Caesa r

,h e sa id

,won a l l h i s batt le s by saying to h i s so ld i e r s

“Come ! ” M r. Law r e n ce n ev e r sa id to th e you nge r men of th i s town ,w he n u se ful an d a r d uous w o r k was to be d on e,

“G o bu t “Come and l e tu s d o i t togeth e r .” I n t r u th b e h ad i n h e r i ted the max im of New Eng

l and e co n omi c s, “ i f you wan t a th i ng don e w e l l , d o i t you r se l f,” and so

con sc ie n t iou s ly d id h e obse r v e i ts sp i r i t th a t i f h e d i sp layed any de fe cti n th e admi n i st r a t io n o f p e r son a l and mu n i c i pa l a ffa i r s i t w as in a p a i nfu l and labo r iou s a tte n t ion to de ta i l s tha t shou ld h av e be en e n t r u s te dto you nge r an d l ess bu sy h and s . T r ue to th e h ab i ts of a ca r e fu l , oldfash i on ed bu s i n e ss ed uca t i on

,h e cou ld n o t e nd u r e anyth ing l ik e s l ov e n

l iness i n any type of l abo r .A lmo s t ev e ry s t r ong an d po s i t i ve ch a r ac te r i s many s ided , touch

ing th e w o r ld a t many po i n ts . I t often h ap pe n s th a t th e man i n bu s in e ss an d th e r ough con tac t w i th th e busy w o r ld , may be a v e ry d i ffe re n t n a tu r e f r om th e same man i n so c ia l an d domes t i c r e la t i on s . Bu t.Mr. Law r e n ce a lways se eme d to me to posse s s a s i ngu la r s imp l ic i ty of

ch a r ac te r . I n him I de te cted n o e th i ca l comp l ex i t i e s,n o c on t r ad i ct o ryidea l s . He d id n o t h av e d iffe r e n t se t s of. op i n io n s fo r d iff e r e n t k i n d s

o f p e op le . He was n ot “ a l l th ings to a l l men,

” bu t one th i ng to a l lmen ; an d th a t was a f r an k , d i r e c t, s i n c e r e , op e n - h e a r te d man. Th emo s t u n iq ue fea tu r e of h i s ch a r acte r i n my mi nd w as wh a t I may ca l lh i s you th fu l n e ss of h ea r t . I h av e r a r e ly kn own a man of his age w h o,amid s t th e ab r as ion s of th e wo r ld

,h ad kep t so keenlv a l iv e wh a t men

ca l l the i r “you th fu l i l lus io n s . He n ev e r los t th e e n th u s i asms o f

ea r l i e r l i fe . He n o t on ly l ov ed h i s f r ie nd s p r ofou nd ly, bu t h e gr e a t lyr e j o i ced i n th e i r r e tu r n i ng love .\Ve can n ot yet r e a l i ze th at h e i s gon e . In th i s l i tt l e commonwea l th of ou r s he fi l l ed so la rge a p l ac e th a t th os e o f u s wh o r ema i nmu s t each gi v e a la rge r po r t i on o f t ime , tho ugh t an d labo r to th e i n te re sts h e ch e r i she d i f we w ou l d me asu r ab ly mak e good h i s l oss .

“God ca l l s our lov ed on e s , b u t we lose not who l ly wh at He hath g i ven ;Th ey l i ve on ea r th , in though t and deed , as t r u ly as in H is h eaven . ”

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largely a tte nd ed spe c i a l mee t i ng of th e M augu s C lub was h e ldWed n esday, Oct. 30, 1 901 , i n memo ry o f i ts la te P r e s ide n t, Edw a r dLaw r e n ce . Th e me e t i ng was ca l l e d to o r d e r by i ts Vi ce - P r e s ide n t,Schuyle r S . Ba r tl e tt, who in we l l - ch o se n w o r d s be spok e th e dee p gr iefan d fee l ing of th e membe r s of th e C lub i n th e gr e a t l o ss they h ads us ta i n ed . Eu l ogi st i c r ema r k s w e r e mad e by Me ss r s . Vi c to r J . Lo r i ng,Noah A . P lympton , Edwa r d I) . Eme r son an d R ich a r d C un n ingh am.

Th r ough ou t th e me e t ing was d i sp lay ed su ch grea t gr i ef an d so r r ow asn oth i ng bu t s u ch a ch a r acte r as th a t of i t s l a te P r e s ide n t cou ld ca l l

fo r th . To ev e ry;membe r of the C l ub i t mean t the lo ss of a t r u e fr ie nd,fo r th e i r w e l fa r e was -h i s,and th e bes t i n te r e s ts of th e Cl ub h i s con stant

th ought .Th e fo l l ow i ng r e so l u t ion s w e r e r e ad byMr . Ha r r i son A . P lymp ton,and th e same adop ted an d o r de r e d i n sc r ibed on the r e co r d s of th e C lub

,a nd a copy se n t to th e fami ly of th e de ceasedWHEREA S, th e M augu s C l ub h as l ea r n ed w i th p rofound so r row of th edeath of i ts b e love d P r es iden t and fe l low memb e r , Edwa r d Law r en ce , andt ereas

, des i r ing to r e co r d ou r r ecogn i t ion and app r ec iat ion of h i s nob l echa r acte r and of h i s se r v i ce and devot ion to th e C l ub ,The r efo r e, b e i t r e so l ved that th e Maugu s C l ub , in mee t ing esp ec ia l lyassemb l ed , ex tends its de ep est sympathy to th e fami ly of th e deceased in th i sth e i r hou r of b e r eavemen t and gr i ef , t r ust ing that th e s ince r e fee l ing andso r r ow in th e h ea r t of each and e ve rymemb e r of th e C l ub may h el p and su sta in th em in th e i r gr eat affl ict ion ; andB e it f urther r eso l ved that in h is death th e Maugu s C l ub has lost not on ly

an e ffic i en t offi ce r and devoted memb e r , who gave a lways h i s u tmost en e rgyand devot ion to th e advancemen t and u pbu i l d i ng of th e C l ub , bu t a l so a manof th e h igh est typ e , u nse l fish in act , hone st in p u r pose , just in al l dea l ings w i thh i s fe l l ow men , and a t r ue an d l oya l f r i end to a l l .

H is name w i l l n eve r b e fo rgotten , bu t w i l l r ema in an hono r ed . ch e r i sh edmemo ry to one and a l l .

A l l’

sWel lBy Robert M . Baker

I n r o l l th e b i l l ow s w i th a su l l e n r oa rAga inst the r ock s th a t gua r d a peace fu l sh o r e ;Th e sp r ay, dash ed up w i th a r e l e n t l e ss fo r ce,I n i ts wh i te sh r oud r efle cts th e moonbeam’s cou r se .

Some l on e ly sa i l s fa r out u pon the deep,Lik e phan tom shap e s ac r o ss th e moon l igh t c r e ep ;

Sof t o’e r th e mo l te n sea s sou nd s th e sh i p’s bel l ,Fo l l ow s th e sa i lo r ’s ch ee r ing cry,“A l l’s w e l l .

On sh o r e a l i fe has ceased i ts mo r ta l to i l ,To fi nd a w e l l—ea r n ed r e s t i n h a l l owed sorlThat wa tc h - cry h ove r s o’e r th e moon l i t be d ,

“A l l’s we l l,a be n ed i ct io n fo r the dead .

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ban k f r om th e r ive r,w e passe d th r ough a l i tt le bowe r ca l led th e

“ l ib r a ry,” fu r n i sh ed w i th a tab le cove r ed w i th book s an d magaz i n e s, ahammock an d a few l oungi ng cha i r s . To lounge i n th i s c oo l r e t r e a ta nd l ook ou t th r ough th e op e n i ng a t th e r i ve r an d th e h i l l s wa s th ed r eamy de l igh t of a summe r day.

Ne x t to the l ib r a ry came th e h uge camp fi r e, a r ou nd w h i ch . wea lways u sed to ga th e r i n th e e v e n ing, r e ad ing, w r i t ing,te l l ing con nud r ums, and p l ayi ng games . Th e camp fi r e i s a ve ry impo r tan t i tem i n

Cal i fo r n ia ou t - d oor l ife,as th e n ights a r e a lmos t i n v a r iab ly co ld , n o

matte r how hot th e day.

Some d i stan ce beyo nd the camp we r e th e di n i ng r oom an d ki tchen ,both ou t of doo r s bu t p r o te c ted ove r h ead by aw n i ngs . The k i tch e nw as separ a te d f r om th e aven ue by a h uge r ed w ood t r unk , s ix fee t i nd i ame te r,w h ic h fo rme d an ex ce l l e n t ba r r ie r aga i n s t th e w ind . Th ed i n i ng r oom,wh i ch was s imp ly a p l a tfo rm,

was sh e l te r ed a r ou n d th es ide s by s t r ip s of bu r lap .Bes ide s th e r i v e r

,w i th i ts boa t i ng, ba th i ng and fi sh i ng, th e r e w e r e

gl o r i ou s wa lk s and d r ive s in all d i r ec t ion s . Our favo r i te w a l k j ust afte rb r eak fas t was a long the r oad ove r look i ng th e r i ve r .

One a fte r n oo n we d r ov e i n a fou r - se ated ca r rya l l to a gr ove of b igt r ee s an d h ad ou r s uppe r,r e tu r n i ng h ome bymoon l igh t. The t r e e s,a l th ough n ot so la rge as th o se i n th e Yo semi te r egi on , we r e neVerthel es s l a rge r th an any t r e e s th a t gr ow i n th e Eas t. I t was a veritab le

fo r e s t p r ime v a l,su ch as Longfe l l ow s ings abou t i n Ev ange l i n e . To getth e fu l l imp r e ss ion of th e i r s i ze an d gr ande u r on e mus t l i e upon the

gr oun d an d look u pwa r d . A sen se of awe an d w ond e r came ove r u s asw e gazed u pon the se gigan t i c p r od u cts o f n at u r e, o ld e r than th e Ch r i st i an e r a . How s t i l l and so l emn th ey s tood , so c l os e lygr ou ped toge the rth at the w in d d i s tu r bed on ly th e topmos t bough s . Not a sound o f anyk i nd was h e a r d i n tha t v i rgi n fo r e st . Th e s i l e n ce was a lmo st Oppress ive . To speak abov e a wh i spe r se emed a lmos t a p r ofan e te rm. A

p l ace to med i ta te and ponde r th e myste ry of th e un iv e r se a nd d r awn ea r the Ete r n a l Sp i r i t w h o b r ood s ove r i t. I t r e ca l l e d th o se l i n e s ofthe p sa lmi s t

,“Be s t i l l

,and k n ow th a t I am God .”

Th e h omewa r d d r ive i n th e cool o f the daymad e us gr a te fu l fo r th ecamp fi r e . As th e flame s sh ot u p f r om the dry l ogs, mak i ng w e i r d ,fan tas t i c shap es i n th e glow i ng embe r s, w e to ld gh os t s to r ie s t i ll' our

eyes gr ew h eavy; the n one by one we to ok a l an te r n an d c r e p t off toour te n ts, an d soon we r e bu r i ed deep i n sl umbe r un de r Nav aj o b l ank e tsand Mex i can za r ape s .

Deco ratingo f Sch oo l - RoomByM arsha l l L. Perrin

HERE a r e fea tu r e s i n our Ame r i can c iv i l i za t i on th at sh owma r k s o f imma tu r i ty; an d i t i s n ot u n pa t r i ot i c to ca l l a tte nt ion to th em

,w i th i n th e fami ly c i r c l e . Mos t s ign ifican t ofth e i r gr ow th i n c i v i l i za t io n a r e th e man n e r s an d cu stoms o fa pe op l e ; an d th e de p lo r ab le o ff - h an d d i s r ega r d of s imp l e

fo rms o f po l i te an d de fe r en t i a l i n te r cou r se,th e cu stom i n

Ame r ican dwe l l i ngs of p l ac ing th e be s t r oom towa r d thes t r e e t,an d o f p u tt i ng th e sh ow i e s t t r ea su r e s i n th at r oom,

i n to wh i ch an e n t i r e s t r ange r i s fi r s t in t r od u ced , th e w ea ring of a fu r - l i n e d coa t w i th th e fu r ou ts id e

,and coun t l e s s

o th e r de ta i l s of Ame r i ca n l i fe sh ow too p la i n ly th a t we a r e mo r e mi ndfu l of ap pe a r i ng than of be i ng, mo r e con sc i ou s th at oth e r s’ eye s a r eu pon u s

,th an tha t we po sse ss t r u e w o r th

,o f wh i ch the ou ts id e w o r ld

may not know.

Th ough we h av e fo r tu n a te ly a gr ow i ng sen se of hu nge r an d th i r s tfo r th e ge n u i n e and fo r th e ide a l , we h av e n o t yet ou tgr ow n th e ope nmouth e d s ta r e of th e b oy in th e s t r e e t, wh o i s aw ed by r oya l ty, as i tpasse s by. We gaze i n r ap tu r e u pon th e s i nge r an d th e a r t i s t, an d payh igh p r i c e s fo r s e a ts i f h e o r sh e i s on the p r ogr am . We d on ’t so mu chm in d w ha t they s i ng, o r p l ay, o r ac t, i f we can on lygo to se e them.

W’e a r e f r eque n t ly r e p r oa ch e d w i th ca r ing n ot so much fo r mus i c a sfo r mu s i c ia n s,n o r so mu c h fo r a r t as fo r a r t i sts .

Ye t,w h i l e w e d o pay h omage to gr e a t wo r k s of a r t, an d r e a l lye n j oy wh a te v e r ou r se n se of app r e c ia t i on r end e r s u s cap ab l e of receiv

ing f r om them— an d i t is of te n h ope fu l ly ge n u in e— we a r e neverthel e s s p e r fe ct ly w i l l ing to l iv e ou r da i ly r ou t i n e of l i fe su r r ou nd ed byd e ta i l s th a t a r e pos i t iv e ly ugly, an d w i th app a r e n t comp lace n cy. I t i sw e l l sa id

,tha t a p e op l e i s n ot t r u ly a r t i s t ic un le ss a r t i s sh ow n i n a l lth e w o r k s of i ts h and s . Compa r e th e av e r age d i n i ng se r v i ce , th oughabou nd i ng i n s i l v e r , w i th th e s imp le , bu t beau t i fu l , h ou sek e ep i ng a r t ic l e s b r ough t to l igh t a t e v e ry tu r n i n Pompe i i . Compa r e th e picture sq ue a n d r e s tfu l v i l lage s a n d v i l l a s of Eu r op ean land sc ap e s w i th th esubu r b s of Bos ton an d New Yo r k

,wh e r e w ea l th ha s bu i l t cos t ly h ou se ste r r ibl e to l ook a t, wh e r e Q uee n An n e an d C r azy J an e , Romane squean d O ld New Engl an d a r e j umb l ed toge th e r i n a way th a t sugge s ts an

a ttemp t to be fu n ny, yet who l ly sa t i sfac to ry to th e r i c h ow n e r , i f on lyod d e n ough to be s t r ik i ng.

How i s a l l th i s to be r emed ied ? By su r r ound i ng th e ch i ld r e n oftoday w i th so much t r u e beau ty tha t th eyw i l l n ot be sa t i sfied w i th suchch i ld i sh n e ss,whe n they gr ow to be men an d w omen . By so aw ake n

ing i n them th e i nh e r e n t c r av i ng of ev e ry h uman h ea r t, tha t th e son sand d augh te r s of th e r i ch boo r s, as w e l l a s of the poo r labo r e r s, w i l lnot be c on te n t w i th mon ey-

ge tt ing and po l i t i ca l r iv a l ry, bu t sha l ld eman d i n th e i r l ive s tha t w h i ch i s mo r e th an go ld , th e beau ty of Ho l in e ss an d the h o l i n e ss of Beautv. Th i s can n o t be accomp l i sh ed byn egle c t ing the ma tte r d u r i ng th e i r you th , an d th e n i n t r od u c i ng th em tow o r k s of a r t o r mod e l s of good n e ss l a te r i n l ife . Nor c an th e h igh e s tsen t imen ts of v i r tue o r of a r t be fo r ce d a t any age u pon the h ea r t. A

ch i ld ab so rb s l ast i ng imp r e s s i on s of th a t k i n d on ly f r om en v i r onment,n ot f r om ta lk . Th e on ly p r ope r p l ace fo r any ch i l d , who i s a fu tu r ec i t i zen , to spe nd five h ou r s a day, i s i n th e p r e sen ce of a teach e r who i sh i s idea l of a lady, and i n an e n v i r onme n t tha t sh a l l awak e n his be s tan d d eepe s t impu l se s . Th e eff e ct of su ch su r r ou nd ings i s mo r e last i ngan d of v ast lymo r e impo r tan ce for h i s fu tu r e wo r k i n l i fe, than th e aoquisition of r u le s an d fac ts .Be s ide s u rgi ng th e e n cou r ageme n t of wh o l e some se n t ime n t i n thech a r acte r of th e i nd i v i du a l

,an d th u s i n th e n a t ion

,we w i l l fu r the r

asse r t th a t ch i ld r e n w o r k be t te r i n a r e s tfu l,p l easan t r oom th an i n a

ba r n . I h av e v i s i ted sch oo l - r ooms whe r e I shou ld su r e ly h av e bee nc r o ss an d i l l - n a tu r ed,e i th e r as scho l a r or teach e r . P l e asan t su r r ound

i ngs, l ik e mu s i c, almo s t compe l a n a tu r e to be at i ts be st . Noth i ng w i l lso soo n ca lm a r e s t le ss schoo l as a s i ngi ng exe r c i se, n o t on ly be cau sethe d iaph r agm i s se t a t w o r k , bu t f r om the con sc iou s e ffo r t to come i n toh a rmony an d tu n e w i th o th e r s and w i th on e’s se l f . Ve ry l i tt l e ch i ld r ena r e l ik e w i se n ot the on ly o n e s tha t a r e qu ie ted an d in te r e s t ed by l ooking a t p i c tu r e s, e spe c ia l ly i f th ese a r e assoc i a te d w i th some h i sto r i ceve n t or s to ry. And an app r e c ia t ion of t r u e a r t de v e l op s a p r ope r nuderstandingof the r e la t ionsof th ings, an d a s e n se o f h a rmon i ou s ad j u s tme n t

,not on ly i n th e phys i ca l bu t i n th e me n tal an d mo r a l s id e of l i fe .The h ope fu l fact i s

,tha t our ch i ld r e n a r e be comi ng n o t i ceab ly ap

preciative of th e i r s u r r ou nd i ngs . Th ey a r e mu ch mo r e t idy i n d r e ssand ge n e r a l app e a r an ce, and l e s s c on ten ted w i th th e ugly. M anysc hoo l s hav e ch ee r fu l ly b r ough t pe n n i e s fo r th e p i ctu r e s and be au t i fu lcas ts w i th w h i ch the i r r ooms a r e deco r ated . Oth e r s, too, a r e fu r n i sh e dby the town . In some i n s tan ces, gi fts have be e n made by pa r e n ts and

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begi n s w i th the begi n n i ngs of Heb r ew h isto ry, and fo r two yea r s fo l l owsi t th r ough th e Old Testame n t. Un fo r tu n a te ly, th e ave r age s tude n t i sfound to be de n se ly ign o r an t of the s imp l e facts of th e h i s to ry, an dmu ch t ime i s n e cessa r i ly spe n t i n acqu i r i ng th em wh i ch cou ld h avebee n sav ed by p r ope r h ome or Sunday schoo l teach i ng. Ve ry few ca ngiv e co r r e c tly th e sto ryof El ij ah’s con tes t w i th th e p r i e sts of Baa l on Carmel . Many cou ld n ot give th r e e impo r tan t fac ts ap ie c e abou t Ab r aham,

Dav id , or So l omon . How can a s tude n t i n te l l ige n t ly r e ad or l i ste n todiseussmns o f the w o r k o f Mo se s o r Dav id u n t i l sh e k n ows th e me r efac ts abou t e ach ? O n ce acqu i r e d

,a w id e fi e ld of mo st sugges t i v e r ead

ing i s open to h e r . I n con n e c t io n w i th th e le ctu r e or a spe c i a l pape rshe i s i n t r od uced to w id e ly va r i ed r e fe r e n ce s i n F r e n ch and Ge rman a swe l l as Engl i sh .\Vel lesley r e j o i ce s, th r ough the l ibe r a l i ty of Mr. A . A . Swee t

,in a

l a rge spe c ia l l ib r a ry of r efe r e n ce book s for th e u se o f th i s de pa r tme n t,amp ly i n c r eased eve ry yea r . And th i s s ugge s ts an oth e r aim o f thew o r k—to giv e th e s tude n t some acqua i n tan ce w i th th e non- h i sto r i ca lbook s of the Old Tes tame n t. Bu t l i t t l e t ime can be gi ve n i n th e c l as sr oom to the d i scuss ion of th e P sa lms, th e P r ov e rbs, th e book s of Joban d Ec c le s i as te s . Subj ec ts fo r pape r s a r e th e r e fo r e giv e n tha t w i l laff o r d Oppo r tun i ty fo r d e ta i led s tudy of them an d the book s abou t th emw i th wh i ch th e l ib r a ry i s so we l l s upp l i ed . Th r ough the w r i t i ng of

th ese,an d oth e r pape r s on subj e cts not fu l ly dea l t w i th i n th e c lass r oom,

the stude n t i s sh ow n how to fi n d out th i ngs for h e r se l f, to d i sc r imin a tebe twee n o r igi n a l sou r ce s and se co nd - ha nd in fo rmat ion , to d i s t ingu i shth e impo r tan t f r om th e u n impo r tan t an d to we igh e v ide n ce . We r e thec lasse s not so l a rge mu ch mo r e migh t be d on e i n th i s l i n e, wh i chde pe nd s so l a rge ly fo r s ucce ss upo n ca r efu l i nd iv id ua l ove r s igh t . To

acc omp l i sh the se e n d s an d t r e a t the w o r k of wa r r io r , k ing, pri e s t,p r oph e t and w i se man as i t d e se r v es i s mo r e than d i fficu l t w i th i n oursho r t a l lowan ce of t ime, th e c lasse s mee t i ng bu t o n ce a week , an d the r efo r e oppo r tu n i ty fo r mo r e th o r ough an d e x te n ded w o r k i n th i s fi e ld i soffe r ed i n e l ec t i v e cou r se s to th os e w h o ca r e fo r i t .Wi th th e j un i o r yea r th e r e i s a d i ffe r en ce i n th e me th od of w o r k .I n p lace of ca r ryi ng a l l th e students th r ough th e same cou r se , sev e r a lpa r a l le l cou r se s a r e off e r ed an d th e s tud e n t mak e s h e r own cho ice . I non e th e emphas i s i s on th e s tudy of th e o r igi n a l language ; i n one on

th e l ife of Ch r i s t ; i n an othe r on the begi n n ing o f th e Ch u r ch , an d i n afou r th on the o r igi n and e spe c ia l teach ings of e ach b ook. Ye t i n eachthe sta ndpo i n t a nd t r e atme n t i s h i s to r i ca l r a th e r than dogma t i c, a imi ng

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to a sce r ta i n th e facts and u n de r s tand the i r bea r i ngs a s fu l ly as may be .Th e d i st r ibu t i on of stude n ts i n th i s way av o id s, to some ex te n t, th e d i sadv an tages of l a rge n umbe r s, a l low i ngmo r e scope for c l ass d i scu ss i onan d f r e e r u se of th e l ib r a ry r e fe r e n ce book s . Th e av e r age stude n t i sa l so mo r e fami l i a r wi th th e facts o f the New Tes tame n t h i s to ry, an dt he r e fo r e ab l e to de vo te mo r e t ime to r e ad ing.

Th r e e l i n e s of w o r k may be fo l l owe d i n th e e le c t iv e s of th e se n i o rye a r : S tudy of th e book s of th e B ib le th r ough th e o r igin a l languages,Heb r e w and G r e ek ; the h i s to ry of Ch r i s t ian i ty sub seque n t to th e apo sto l i c age; o r th e h i s to ry of r e l igio n s, s av age, ba rba r i c and c i v i l i zed .As th e ch u r ch h i s to ry w o r k i s n e ce ssa r i ly l a rge ly pa r a l le l to th e mod

e r n h i s to ry cou r se s o f th e h i s to ry d epa r tme n t, i t may p r ove adv i sab l eto co nfi n e i t i n fu tu r e to the h i s to ry o f d oc t r i n e an d ch u r ch i n st i tu t i on s .I t w i l l be obse r v ed th a t the r e i s one aspe c t o f B ib l e s tudy— th ep e r son a l p r ac t i ca l app l i ca t i on— wh i c h ca n at mos t be bu t ve ry s l igh t lys ugge s te d i n th e c l as s r oom,and i nd i r e ct ly ev e n th en . Th i s ph ase of

Bib le s tudy i s th e r e fo r e su p p l i ed th r ough the Sun d ay B ib l e s tudy c i rc l e s o f th e Ch r i s t i an A sso c i a t io n .As c ompa r ed w i th o th e r d epa r tme n ts

,th i s de pa r tme n t su ffe r s f r om

tw o d i sad van tage s . For th e sake of th e d e s i r ab l e ge n e r a l e ffe c t of co ntinuous B ib l e s tudy, i t. i s d eemed ad v i sab l e to r equ i r e i t th r ough th e fi r s tth r e e yea r s, wh i ch gi ve s on ly th e se n io r ye a r i n wh ich to d o w o r k corr e spond i ng to tha t d on e i n th e soph omo r e o r j u n i o r yea r i n oth e rd epa r tme n ts . Adv an ced w o r k

,a n d pos t - gr ad ua te w o r k can the r e fo r e bed on e. to th e be s t ad van tage on ly by stud e n t s wh o e n t e r w i th a p r e pa r a

t io n s uffi c ie n t to be acce p ted as an equ i va l e n t for a t l eas t a pa r t o f th er e qu i r ed wo r k; an d the se a r e fe w .I t i s h e r e tha t th e commu n i ty can do mu ch for th o se o f i t s s tude n t sw h o may e n te r c o l lege, as w e l l as fo r th o se wh o w i l l n ot . Let th em lea r n

to look fo r wa r d to the i r c o l l ege B ib l e w o r k as th ey do to th e h i s to ry,p h i lo sophy an d l i te r a tu r e w i th w h i ch i t i s so i n t ima te ly Con n ec ted , andyet, i n the Op i n i on of Ch r i st ian s, of so mu c h mo r e v i ta l i n te r e st an d impo r tan ce . Th e n

,by a r a t i on a l sys tem of Sund ay sch oo l le sso n s, gi v eth em th e oppo r tu n i ty to le a r n e n ough of th e s imp l e h i s to ry of th e Olda nd New Te stame n ts to e n ab l e th em to e n te r a t on ce upon th e ad

vanced t r e a tme n t th ey wi l l be p r e pa r ed to e xp e ct . I n r e tu r n the College h ope s t o gi ve back to th e c ommu n i ty w ome n w h o can mak e a tt r aet i ve and eff e c t i ve l ead e r s of '

Bib le c las se s,r a i s i ng th e ge n e r a l lev e l ofk n ow ledge and s t imu la t i ng many i n that l i fe longe ndeav o r to k n ow

mo r e of G od,wh i c h i s l i fe e te r n a l .

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A Neglected Soc ia l Prob lem

I t i s safe t o asse r t tha t n o impo r tan t soc ia l p r ob l em i s l e ss conside r ed o r l es s u nde r s tood th an th e p r ob l em of th e t r e a tme n t of th e c r imi n a l . The fac t i s not u n i n te l l igib le . Th e v e ry w o r d “c r ime i s r ep e ll en t. And i t i s n atu r a l ly fe l t th a t e ve n th e co n s ide r a t ion of th e c l assw h o commi t c r ime mu s t be d i sagr e e ab l e , p e r hap s ev e n inj u r iou s i n i tsr esu l ts. Let u s emphas i ze th e fact

,the n

,tha t th e p r op e r con s ide r at i on

of th i s p r ob lem i s n o t h a rmfu l and most impo r tan t an d comme nd ab le .Wi th th e e xce p t i on of a v e ry sma l l min o r i ty of “ i n co r r igib les,” th e menand w ome n i n ou r p r i son s a r e h uma n

,e ve n l ik e ou r se l ves

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w o r st e n emie s and capab le o f r e spon s e to r igh t app ea l . Th e aw fu l factabou t th ese,ou r f e l l ow c r e a tu r e s

,i s th a t th e t r e a tme n t wh i ch th ey re

ceive a t ou r han ds i s too ofte n su ch as to se nd th em fa r th e r on th e i rmi sguided cou r se . Th e j a i l s i n w h i ch we sh u t them fi x th e i r d oom.

We,th e p eop l e

,a r e respon s ib l e fo r th i s cond i t ion . lVe a r e mi stak en i n

our t r ea tmen t of the t r amp,th e d r u n ka r d and th e c r imi n a l . We d o

too l i t tl e to p r e v e n t th e begi n n i ngs of c r ime . Juve n i l e o ffence s a r e inc r e as i ng om i n ou sly. And we sav e too few o f the men an d w ome n whohave fa l le n . On ce a man has passed th r ough p r i son d oo r s most of u sgi ve him up as l os t . How many among us k n ow the p r inc i p l e s of th er e fo rmato ry w o r k i n ou r ow n s ta te ? W'

ho can te l l th e p r opo r t i on ofth ose w h om w e sen d to j a i l s to th ose wh o go to th e r e fo rmato ry? (Las tyea r ou t o f commi tme n ts on ly 79 1 we r e p l aced u nd e r r e fo rmato ry t r e a tme n t . ) Who can te l l th e v i r tue s a nd de fe cts of ou r j a i l t r e a tme n t ? How many of our c i t i ze n s a r e h e l p i ng such a n o rgan i za t i on asth e M as sach use tts P r i so n Asssociation

,o r e v en know w h a t i ts w o r k i s ?

Wou ld i t n o t be a good th ing i f ourWoman’s C l ub and some me n ’sc l ub we r e to con s ide r these matte r s ? Let c lasse s be fo rmed,and l e t

th em tak e su ch an admi r ab l e w o r k as P r ofesso r He nd e r son’s “S tudy ofthe De pe n de n t,De fe ct ive an d Dege n e r a te C l asse s an d Th e i r Soc ia lT r ea tme n t fo r a h an dbook . They w ou l d fi n d th e w h o l e p r ob l em of

th e poo r,th e t r amp

,th e in san e an d the l aw - b r eak e r d i scu ssed i n th e

c le a r e s t and mos t i n te r e s t i ngman n e r . Th ey wou ld see how fa r soc i e tyi s i t se l f r e spon s ib le fo r c r ime, an d h ow fa r c r ime i s th e na tu r a l r e su l t ofchangi ng soc i a l con d i t ions . Th ey w ou ld l ea r n the u se l e ssn e s s of th ep r e se n t sys tem of j a i l t r e a tmen t, th e ac tu a l h a rmfu lness of mu ch th atw e a r e n ow d o ing. And th e n th ey w ou l d be ab l e to co- ope r a te intel l ige n t ly in w i se e ffo r ts to obta i n a be tte r cond i t io n .

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i n the ch u r ch w i l l gi ve the i r e arn e s t suppo r t. The tab l e s w i l l be mad ea t t r ac t ive fo r Ch r is tmas buye r s, an d d u r i ng th e e ve n i ng Mr. Cu tte r,w h ose v o ice w e a l l r emembe r so del igh tfu l ly, w i l l r end e r se v e r a l se l e ct io n s . Tea w i l l be se r v ed i n the a fte r n oon . Suppe r f r om s ix to n i n e .

Th e a r r angemen ts fo r ca r ryi ng on th e Un i ta r i an C l ub fo r th eseas on a r e p r ac t ica l ly comp l e te . Rev. Cha r l e s F . Do l e was to h av eadd r e ssed th e membe r s Wed n e sday e ve n i ng, Oct. 29, a t Elm Par kHote l, on the subj ec t of “P r act i ca l Idea l i sm in th e F i n an c ia l Man ageme n t of th e Ch u r ch,” bu t th e mee t i ng was u n avo idab ly po s tpon ed . "I ti s h oped , howeve r , th at M r. Do l e may p r e sen t th e same subj ec t a t th en ex t mee t i ng, n ot i ce of wh i ch w i l l be give n la te r .Th e . Commi ttee on En te r ta i nmen t a r e ab l e to fu r th e r an n oun cetha t i t w i l l be the i r p r i v i l ege to p r e se n t, d u r i ng the season , th e fo l l owingge n t leme n wh o w i l l add r e ss u s on s ubj ec ts of ma r k ed i n te r e s t toUn i ta r ian s : Rev . E. A . Ho r ton , Rev . C . W. VVendte, f ev . Ed wa r dCummings, Rev. Geo rge Bach e l o r , Rev. Ch a r l e s E. S t . Joh n . I t i sp lan n ed to h ave on e ev en i ng wh i ch sh al l be wh o l ly i n cha rge of membe r s o f the C lub . The Commi tte e con fid e n tly be l i e v e tha t th e se me e ti ngs w i l l n ot on ly be i n te l l e c tua l ly p r ofi tab l e, bu t w i l l te n d to p r omo tesoc i ab i l i ty among the membe r s .

The dues fo r th e yea r hav e bee n p lace d a t

.Th e Woman ’s Aid Soc i e ty of th e We l l esl ey H i l l s Congr egat i on a lchurch a r e wo rk i ng ha r d and e n th us i ast i ca l ly fo r the i r tw o days’baza r ,to be h e ld on We dn e sday a nd Thu r sd ay, af te r n oon and e ve n i ng, Nov.

1 3 and 1 4,in Maugu s Ha l l . Th e r e wi l l be many a tt r ac t i on s, an d wea r e c onfide n t tha t a l l w ho a t te nd w i l l f e e l tha t the i r mon ey was we l l

8 ent.pOnWed n e sday af te r n oon , M i ss Newman of We l l e s l ey Co l l ege w i l le n te r ta i n the ch i ld r e n w i th Sou the r n d ia l e c t s to r i e s . The r e w i l l a l sobe candy, i ce c r eam and a mys te ry tab l e wh i ch th e young fo l k s w i l lw i sh to pa t r on i z e . Du r ing bo th e v en i ngs a s l igh t mu s i ca l e n te r tai n

me n t w i l l be gi ve n , and o n Th u r sd ay a su ppe r w i l l be se r v ed . Th efo l lowi ng lad i e s w i l l p r e s id e o v e r th e various tab l e s : M rs. J . W. O ld

ham wi l l have ch a rge o f th e u sefu l and fan cy a r t i c le s wh i ch the l ad i e sh ave bee n mak i ng th e pas t mo n th s ; M rs. Sibley wi l l hav e cha rge ofthe tab l e whe r e u se fu l and d a i n ty a r t i c l e s for ch i ld r e n w i l l d e l igh tth em a nd th e i r mothe r s a l ik e ; M rs. Sand e r son w i l l h av e th e my ste rytab le ; M rs. Fa r we l l w i l l h av e the book tab l e ; M i ss Edwa rds, the a r ttab l e ; M rs. F . H . Vaugh n , th e tea tab l e ; M rs. J . E. O ldham,the flow e rtab l e ; M i s s F l o r e n c e D . Eme r son , the candy tabl e ; . i iss Wr igh t w i l ltake o r d e r s fo r ch u r ch p i c tu r e s ; M rs. K e i th wi l l h ave th e h a r v e s t tabl ewh e r e p i ck l e s

,j e l l ie s an d vege tab l e s mayhe o r d e r ed , andM rs. P eabodyw i l l p r e s ide ove r th e suppe r . Suppe r t i ck e ts, 25 ce n ts . Gen e r a l ad

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,and i n the n atu r eo f i ts con te n ts tha t p r ogr e ss iv e q ua l i ty w h i ch i s c h a r ac te r i s t i c of th etown . Doe s i t n ot de se r ve th e s up po r t o f ev e rygood c i t i ze n , a p l acei n ev e ry h ome

A w o r d migh t be sa id “abou t the con te n ts of OUR TOWN . Th egrea t maj o r i ty o f th e a r t ic l e s pub l i sh ed d u r i ng th e ye a r h ave d i r e c tlycon ce r n e d tow n affa i r s . We sh ou l d be gl ad . ii

' we co u ld have publ ished ev e n mo r e a r t i c l e s o f th i s k i nd . Bu t th ey a r e not ea sy to Obta i n .I t mu s t b e r emembe r ed that a l l th e l i te r a ry w o r k i n th e magaz i n e - i sf r e e ly con t r ibuted , an d the Ed i to r s a r e gr a te fu l to th ose w h o h aveso k i nd ly fu r n i shed th e des i r e d ma te r i a l . We wi l l pub l i sh a l l th at wecan ob ta i n o f fa i r an d r e a son ab l e d i scu ss i o n ‘

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anyd i spu ted que s ti on . I t i s a l so to be r emembe r ed th a t w e h av e a w id ev a r i e ty o f r ead e r s, an d we d o n o t i n te nd to ca te r to any pa r t i cu la rc l as s . We ha ve p r e se n ted some o u ts ide top i c s be cau se th ey i n te r e sted afa i r p r opo r tion of ou r s ub sc r ibe r s,an d we had r oom fo r them. I t w ou ldbe al toge th e r too n a r r ow a po l i cy to confi n e our pape r s t r i ctly to tow na ffai r s, e ve n i f su lii cient ma te r i a l we r e p r ov id ed fo r th at pu r pose . Wei n v i te th e u se o f our page s by anyon e who w i sh e s th e aud ie n ce of1 5

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A v e ry p r ac t i ca l an d impo r tan t sugges t i on i s mad e to th e ch u r che si n th e a r t i c le by M i ss Locke u pon “B ib l e S tudy i n We l les ley Co l l ege .”The Su nday Schoo l i s the on ly p r e pa r ato ry schoo l in th i s d e pa r tme n tof educ a t io n fo r mos t of th ose who a r e to be co l l ege s tude n ts . I t i s a.s ign ifi can t fact tha t in n o o the r h i s to ry i s th e ave r age s tude n t so ignor an t as i n B ib le H i s to ry. In the vas t maj o r i ty o f case s app l i can ts fo radmi ss i on to a Co l l ege wou ld be co nd i t i on ed i f they we r e r equ i r ed topass an e xami n a t ion upon the subj ec ts wh i ch they a r e su pposed toh ave s tud i ed i n the schoo l s o f th e ch u r che s . Th i s i s an appa l l ing fac t,and i t shou ld be faced . A cal l i s comi ng to ou r ch u r ch e s f r om theCo l lege fo r “a r a t ion a l sys tem of Su nday Sch oo l l e s son s th a t sha l l giv eou r chi ld r en the op po r tu n i ty to lea r n e nough o f the s imp le h i s to ry ofth e O ld and New Te s tamen ts to e n ab le th em to e n te r a t on ce upon th ead vanced t r e a tme n t ( of the Sc r ip tu r e s ) wh i ch they w i l l be p r e pa r ed toe xpe c t” in the Co l l ege . The r e spon s ib i l i ty fo r th i s cond i tion , h owe ve r

,mu s t be fou nd back of th e ch u r ch e s i n th e h ome s . Whe n th ep a r en ts demand i t o f th e i r ch i ld r e n , a nd co- ope r a te e ffe c t i ve ly w i th th echu r ch,those school s wi l l be ab le to mee t the r e qu i r eme n t.

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THE CAVALIER . By Geo rge W. Cab l e . I l l u s . By Howa r d Chand l e rCh r isty. (Sc r ibn e r ’s . 31 1 page s . Mr . Cab l e h as tu r n ed to a n ew fi e l dw i th th e zest of a young man who has th e wo r l d b efo r e him. Th i s sto ry g i ve sth e imp r e ss ion of exube r an t l i fe ,—a ro l l i ck i ng ta l e of wa r and lov e . Th esc en e i s la id “ in th e h ea r t of COpiah Coun ty, M i ss . ” du r ing th e C i v i l War .Th e two a rmi e s sw i r l back and fo r th ove r th e d isput ed t e r r i to ry. Th e lov esto ry i s th e ob l igato of th e p i ec e , sound ing h igh above th e f r ay. Th e Cava l i e rca r r i e s h imse l f w i thou t fea r and w i thou t r ep roach ” and com es to h is own atlast . Th e r e a r e some fine d r amat i c passages , notab ly the one wh e r e th e Confede r ate h e ro in e s ings to th e d i e ing No rth e r n office r .

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Yet th e au tho r de c la r e s that “ th e pu rpose of th i s ta l e i s to ex t end acquaintance w i th th e p la i n p eop l e who sweat , an d b l ed , an d l imped . an d d i ed for th i sRepub l i c of ou r s . ” D

’ri i s a r ea l cha r acte r and t r u e in type . H is ad ven tu r e sw i th Cap ta i n Ramon B e l l a r e un ique . Ba r r i ng an occas iona l co l loqu i l l ism, th estyl e i s b eau t i fu l .

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LAZARRE. By Ma ry H a r twe l l Cath e rwood . I l l us . By And r e Casta ign e .(Bowen - M e r r i l l Co . 436 pages . A sto ry of g r ea t powe r base d on " th elost dauph i n legenc And r ew Lang has sa i d the r e can b e no g r eat Ame r icanfi ct ion becau se , as h e th i nks , our h i sto ry lacks th e e l emen t of myste ry. H e r ei s one r efutat ion of h i s v i ew . Many of u s know that a M r. E l eaze r Wi l l iamsl i ved in we ste rn M assach usetts abou t a hun d r e d yea r s ago , who was b e l i e vedto be Lou i s X VII . of F r ance . Mrs. Cath e rwood h as t r ac ed th e ol d t r ad i t ion s ,t r ave l l ing ca r e fu l ly o ve r th e g round geog r aph i ca l ly and h i sto r ica l ly. Can sh emak e a ch i val rou s , f r ee Ame r ican ou t of th e Bou rbon stock 2) That i s th epsycho logica l p rob l em and th i s doub l e cha rm of h isto ry and cha racte r studyi s r ema rkab l e . The mat e r ia l i s sk i l fu l ly hand l ed , and th e Eng l i sh i s c l ea rand fine as a lways w i th th i s w r i t e r . It i s a st r ong and up l i ft ing book , one tor ead and th ink abou t and th en to re—r ead .L IVES OF THE H

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s . net . ) It i s we l l that som eon e shou l d sp eak w i thst i r r ing ton es in condemnat ion o f that “ spo r t ” wh ich k i l ls for th e p l easu r e ofk i l l ing . M r . Th omp son has g i ven u s a b eau t i fu l and in t e r est ing book . Itsp u r pose , for i t is ded i cated “ to th e p r ese r vat ion o f o ur w i l d c r eatu r es ,” p lace si t on th e h igh est l eve l amon g book s of i ts c lass . Its sto r i e s h av e a ma r v e l l ou sflavo r Of r ea l i ty,

th e au tho r c e r tain ly r evea l ing an un usua l capac i ty for see ingth e h uman s ide of an ima l natu r e . He te l l s u s that h i s accoun ts a r e mo r e orl e ss compos i te , b ut for th e most pa r t ac tua l ly desc r ib e what h as occ u r r ed inth e l i ves of th ese an ima l s . It i s ha r d to b e l i ev e that any one can r ead th ebook w i thou t p rofound ly syni path izing w i th th e w r i te r s ea r nest des i r e to stopth e c r ue l and wan ton d est r uct ion o f th e se ha rm l e ss and in te r est ing w i ldc r eatu r es . Th e book i s as b eau t i fu l in b ind ing , t y pog r aphy and wea l th ofi l l ustr at ion as is th e Sp i r i t w i th wh ich i t i s insp i r ed .THE RULING PASSION . Tal e s of Nat u r e and H uman Natu r e . By H en ry

Van Dyk e . I l l u s . By W. App l e ton C la rk . (Sc r i bne r ‘ s . 300 pages .Dr . Van Dyk e i s a maste r of th e a r t of te l l ing sto r i es, and th i s book con ta in ssome of h i s be st . Th ey abound in h umo r and pathos . Th ey appea l to and

move th e h ea r t Of th e r eade r , no t by mo r a l i zi ng bu t. by p lac ing b efo r e u s l i v inge xamp l es of gen u in e manhood,Th ey a r e sto r i e s of th e p la i n p eop l e of thatno r th e r n coun t ry beyond th e St . Law r ence , wh e r e Dr . Van Dyk e loves to spendh i s summ e r s . " I

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b ey a r e s imp l e sto r i es , d ea l i ng w i th e l ementa ry p r inc i p l es , th elove of mu s i c , hono r , r e venge , f r i endsh i p , du ty. Says th e au tho r in h i sp r efac e : “In e ve ry l i fe wo r th w r i t ing abou t th e r e i s a r u l ing pass ion , th ev e ry pu l se of th e mach in e . ’

Un l ess you touch that , you a r e g rop ing a roundou t sid e of r ea l i ty.

” Wi th h im c e r ta in ly th e r e i s no grop ing a r ound . Thebook i s b eau t i fu l l y i l l u st r ated , an d w i l l be a p r i ze for th e coming season .

BRYN MAWR STORIES. Ed i te d b yMa rga r e t Mo r r i s and Lou i se B u ffumCongdon . (Geo rge W. J acobs 6: CO . 295 pages . net . ) Sto r i e s byCo l l ege g i r l s abou t Col l ege l i fe a r e inte r esting to e ve ry one . Th e r e i s a ch a rmand myste ry abou t th e l i fe n e ve r to b e fo rgotten by those who have ex p e r i enc edi t . Th i s book abou t th e “ B ryn Mawrtyrs

” i s th e gen u in e a r t ic l e , a. p rod uctof those who know . Its ta l es of Co l l ege sp i r i t , Co l l ege po l i t i cs , Co l l ege p r ank s ,haps and m i shaps , th e g i r l w i th a ca r ee r that me r ge s in to a romanc e , e tc . , w i l lst r ik e a fam i l ia r an d p l eas ing cho r d in th e memo ry of many a r ead e r .

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AGUINALDO . A na r r at i ve of Fi l i p ino amb i t ion s . By Edw in Wi ldman .Fo rme r Vic e and Depu ty Con su l at Hong K ong . War co r r esponden t du r ing th eFi l i p ino r evo l t . (Loth rop Pub l i sh ing Co . I l l us . 374page s . n et . ) M r .

Wi l dman c la ims to w r i t e “ as a w i tne ss , fu l l of sympathy for th e vanqu i sh ed ,impa r t ia l i ty towa r d th e v i cto r s , and unp r ejud i c ed by r ac ia l cond i t ions, po l i t ica l1 7

con s i de rat ion or p e r sona l amb i tions . Th e tex t b ea r s out th e c l aim M r .

Wi l dman t e l l s in a g r aph i c and con v in c ing way th e who l e sto ry of Agu i na l dof rom h i s depa r tu r e to HongK ong,unde r th e. influ ence of a Span i sh b r ib e th atwas n e ve r pa id in fu l l , to h i s cap tu r e and po l i t i c accep tanc e of Ame r i can dom inat ion . One cannot h e l p fee li ng that th i s i s a t r u th fu l po r t r a i t , and wh i l e in

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PARTS OF SPEECH . Essays in Eng l i sh . By'

Brander Matth ews. (Scribn e r ’s . 350 page s . n et .) P rofesso r Matth ews b r ings to th ese stud i e s noton ly tho rough know l edge , bu t sound common sense an d a tou ch of h umo r .Th e book i s va l uab l e f or i ts sto r es of info rmat ion and for th e ext r em e p l easu r ew h ich th e p roce ss of r ead ing i t g i ves u s . Th e t i t l es of some of th e ch apt e r sa r e th ese “ Th e Stock that sp eaks th e Language ,” “Th e fu tu r e of th eLangu age ,” “Th e Eng l i sh Langu age in th e Un i ted Stat es ,” “ Th e Language ofG r eat B r i tain ,” “ Ame r ican isms

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” “Th e Funct ion of Slang ,” “ Ame r ican Sp e l ling.

”To r ead th i s book i s th e eas i est and b est way to find ou t to what stageth e Eng l i sh l anguage has p rog r e ssed . A l l su ch r eade r s w i l l b e st imu lated tor en ewed p r ide in ou r h e r i tage of sp ee ch . Pe rh aps

,too ,we sha l l lose somep e tty fea r s for “ th e p eop l e ’s Eng l i sh ” wh i ch has a vast e r fu tu r e b efo r e i t thancou l d e ve r b e long to the k ing’s Eng l ish . ”

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Mo r n ing se r v ice s in Maugu s H a l l at A . M . each Sunday. OnNov. l othth e pasto r w i l l ex change w i th Rev. L . B . Good r ich of Ma r lbo r o . On Nov . 1 7 thand 24th and Dec. 1 st th e fo l low i ng top i cs w i l l b e con si de r ed : “Th e Pa r t ofConsc i ence in Ch r i st ian L i v ing ,” “

Can th e Ch r i st L i fe b e r ea l i zed apa r t f romth e Chu r ch What i s Sp i r i t ua l i ty What i s G row th in G r aceThank sg i v ing se r v i ce . Un ion se rv ic e w i l l b e h e l d in th e We l l es l ey Con

gregational ch u r ch at A . M . Th e pasto r of th e We l l es l ey H i l l s ch u r ch w i l lde l i ve r th e se rmon . It i s hope d that a l l Ch r ist ian p eop l e w i l l endeavo r to ohse r ve th e -day app rop r iate ly.

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stead, and on bo th sides of the st reet estab l ished a No rumbega Pa rk,to compa re i t to a m odern achievement

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but sti l l of ve ry fai r dimensions. A gr o tto, wi th m ost enchanting fountains, p laying in many co l o red l ights, w i th statues, fascinat ing no oksand co rne rs, teete r ingboards, al l in ruins and danger ous for the unwa ryfeet now, b ut then a great sou r ce of enchantment and del ight, was one

of the p r inci pal at t racti onWi ld animals abounded—dee r , a buffal o and a bea r , who died and

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cannot be serviced at Ridge H il l Farms,Wellesley. until Saturday, August 8, 1 874, by reason of the time required by the

Taxiderm ist for stuff ing the skin of poo r Bil ly Bruin . Friends of his master are hereby informally invited to participatethe service, which will consist of songs, epitaphs and something else. Every nest will be expected to contributeBear E itnih in prose or rhyme for the In Memor iam Grounds, wherein will be hid a 1 but the hide of poor Bil ly. Take t

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Subject- matter for Epitaphs or Bear Efiusions—which if sent before Friday eveningwil l be p rinted, and distributedatthe service - age,2 1

- 2years ; size, 8 feet ;weight,abOut 500pounds; hair, jet black considerablybear -greased;eyes, wicked;teeth, sound and sharp , excepting two gone, and one broken during past ten days ; claws,two inches ; birthplace said to be

Labrador . Departed from Ridge H i ll FarmsWednesday evening, 9 o’clock, July 15, 1 874, after a residence there of Onlythree

hours. Departed this life in the ui hr of July 24- 25. H is most favorite resorts while he was en route away—the Congrega

tional Church, Dedham , and the evil’s Den,in Needham Taste, good ! for lump sugar ; disposition, childlike andbland ; and much moregentle than that of the I rishman who i n delirious alarm granite- rocked him whenhevisited Bunton’

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quarry inWest Quincy, Friday P. M . , 24 ih July, or that of the one in charge of McNeally Exp ress Co '

s stable, whence he

doubtless hoped to get expressed home. Ner vous temoen ment. sel l om as ruffl ed as the inmates of the houses in M iltonat whose doors he knocked or scratched about midnight F riday, but very considerably disturbed by the dogs who attackedhim and lacerated his hind quarters atWeymouth Lower Neck, com pellinghim to seek refuge in the water , where he wasdrowned, and floated ashore Saturday morning at Carey ’

s Point, Hul l , full three miles from Weymouth Lower Neck. For

other details of his 1 0days’ travels see the Boston EveningJournal ” of July 1 5, 1 7 , 1 8 , 21 , 23 and 25 ; DailyGlobe of

July25 and 27 , and other Boston papers . It is hoped at the pen of the readywriter wil l personify thatgentle and retiringclasswho met and pol itelygave him the right of way and also itemize the choice titbits he got atWings 300 head piggeryin Needham , and the subsequent alarm and reward of the Selectmen of that town,—oi the small pear trees rooted down,and which heomitted to replant after nibbling the fruit : of the corn, etc.

, he rooted up, and of the experience of all thowho met our dear Departed Bear Bil ly.

Respectful ly,Wellesley, July 28, 1 874. WM . E. BAKER .

In passing, we w ould say that unde r this “art ga rden, refer red to

above,in West St. was ano the r gr o t to , rather out of p lace in themidst Of

a ci ty, b ut pe rhapsal l the m o re fascinating on that account. The abovequo tat i on, taken f r om a v o lum inous p ostal card, is one of manysimi la r inv i tati ons ; am ong o thers, one being to assist at the layingof the co rner stone of the piggery, J une 1 9 , 1 875. But pe rhaps the m ostinterest ing in View of subsequent eventswas the inv i tat i on to the “Laying of the Co rner Stone Of the Ridge H i l l Labo rato ry fo r theMassachu

setts Inst i tute of Co oke ry, Sept. 20, 1 87 7 . This Insti tute of Co okerywas to be ca r r ied on in one o f the bu i ldingswhich had been t ransfe r red

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by f reight f r om the Centenn ial G r ounds, at Ph i ladel phia, to Wel lesley.

The bui ldingwas e rected, but I doub t i f any pa r ts we re emp l oyed forco oking save the ki tchens of “Baker ’s Ho tel,” to wh ich use i t wasqu ickly put.

Many quaint bu i ldings on the gr ounds at tested to the owner ’singenui ty and ( indi v idual ? ) tastes. A quo tati on f r om the inv i tati on tothe laying of the Ridge H i l l Labo rato ry w i l l show thei r numbe r andva r iety, and may perhaps r ecal l them to the minds of some of us.

“On reach ing the Ridge H i l l Fa rm the conveyance wi l l enter b y the Cham

ois Gateway, pass the No r ino Tower and theUn i on Chapel , and by the Fl o ralAvenue to the Tent Pavi l ion on Conser vato ry Lawn , no r th of the residence ofthe host

, where the host , wi th the Committee of Recept i on ,w i l l fo rmal lyrecei ve the guests, who w i l l then immediately descend b y Sunset Sl ope Av

enue, past the Un i on M onument Headqua r ters and Ch i l ian Pavi l ion , the Octagon Bea r Pit , Sp ray Fountain , T r i - pont Island Boat H ouse, Rust ic B r idge,Den Park to the E r ino Val ley ; thence retu rn to the Goth ic A rch and passth r ough to the Tunnel , C rystal Tower , Smuggler ’s Cave and Stalact i te G r otto ,to the Photograph Studi o G r ove, where a l unch wi l l b e ser ved f r om -ten o’cl ockP . M .

Al l are requested t o register thei r fu l l names and add resses on the Governor

’

s FeteGuest Register , found at theRegi st ryOffice ; then pass to the No r inoTower , B lack and Go ld Stable, A lbum Bow l ing A l ley, Chapel , Pavi l i on , M innehaha

’s Wigwam , Devi l ’s Den , Goat Inclosu re, Balust rade, and the Flo ral ArtGa rden ,Mosaic Garden , south o f residence, old pa r t of theHot H ouse, u sed fo r

theMonkeys, Pa r rots, Cockatoos , and to theConser vato ry Hot House. At th reeo’clock the signal gun wi l l b e fi red. The guests w i l l take seats in the ba rgesto the si te of the Ridge H i l l Labo rato ry, on the Char i ty Reser vat i on and pass byChar les Ri ver St reet bo rder ing the Cha r i ty Reser vat i on ; enter ing at the eastside and pass ar ound the b row of the h i l l , on wh ich is found the Governo r ’sCast le ; thence to Co rner Stone,

Piggery and River side Ba rn : thence a sho rtwalk to the Pine G rove.

”

Whe re once we re al l these fantast ic and quaint dev ices, the b lack and

go ld stab le, theemb ryon ic co oking insti tute are on one side of the r oad adi lap idated gr o t to , dange r ous su r p r ises lu rking in the grass, the b lackened and cha r red si te of the h o tel and on the o the r side fineNew England homes, which stand fo r the cul tu re and refinement that aid a townfar m o re than does the st r i v ing after the unnatu r al and the o rnate.

A young lady was si tt ingwi th a gal lant captain in a cha rm ingly deco ratedrecess. On her knee was a dim inut i ve n iece, p laced there to p lay p r op r iety.

In the adjo in ing r oom , with the doo r open , were the rest of the company.

Says the l itt le n iece, in a jeal ous and ve ry audible vo ice, Aunt ie, kiss me, too . ”We leave you to imagine what had just. happened.

“You shou ld say twice,

Ethel , dear ; two is not grammar ,” was the immediate rejo inder . The International J our na l of Ethics .

Engl ish Literatu re in We l lesley

C o l l eg’

e

ByKatharineLeeBates

N 1 894 the Chicago D ia l pub l ished a se r ies of some twentyarticles, afterwa rds re- issued as a vo lume in Heath’s Pedagogical Lib rary, upon the teaching of Engl ish in Amer icanco l leges and un i ve r si t ies. Each ar ticle was w r i tten by a

p r ofesso r of Engl ish in one of the insti tut i ons rep resented.

These comp r ised the old foundati ons ( for Amer ican dates)of Harvard, Yale, Co lumb ia, the Un ive rsi ty of Pennsylva

nia,Amherst

,Lafayette and the Uni versi ty of Vi rgin ia; theleading state un ive rsi ties of the NewWest

,M ichigan, I l l i

no is, Indiana,Wisconsin, M innesota, I owa, Neb raska and

Cal i fo rnia ; and cer tain lusty outgrowths of m ode r n phi lan th r opy, Cornel l

,Leland Stanfo rd

, J ohnsHopkins, Chicago ,Wel lesley.

The edi to r of The D ial, Mr. Wi l l iam Mo r ton Payne, in his int r oducti on to the twenty a r t icles as co l lected in bo ok fo r m

, says:“The

study of these rep o r ts shows the ex istence,in m ost of our co l leges, of a

wel arked diffe rent iat i on o f l i te ratu re f rom l ingu istics. In many of

the cases,indeed

,there is no equal ly distinct di fferentiat i on of rheto r ic

f r om the o ther two depar tments.

if f it One needhave no quarrel w i th ei ther the science of l inguistics or the art of rheto r ic t o bepe rsuaded that nei the r of the two should be permi t ted to masque rade as

the study of l i teratu re. It is grat i fying to find that the dist incti on is

bo th made and obser ved in nea r ly al l of the insti tuti ons under conside rat i on.

”

Wel lesley, then, is by no means un ique in maintaining a dist inctdepa r tment of Engl ish l i te ratu re. This fact, however , does not p r o tectus f r om the sco rn of the inc redul ous

,who wi l l not b el ieve that “me re

l i teratu re”is a subject fo r academic t reatmen t. “I can see

,

”a puzz led

phi l o l ogist declared a few yea rs ago in a pub l ic meet ing, “how i t maybe w o rk to w ri te a bo ok—some bo oks ; b ut I do not at al l under standhow i t can be considered w o rk to read a b o ok.

We freelyadmi t that the best values of l i teratu re canno t be taught .Any great w o rk of art has an histo r ical env i r onmen t, a relati on to pastand futu re. Its p lace in the l ine of devel opment, the contempo ra ry

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sent fo r m o re fo r mal study no tab le examp les o f the lyr ic, the novel,the

essay, the o rat i on, the d rama. In co l lege—he re atWel lesley—consec

ut i ve cou r ses acquaint the studen t w i th Angl o - Sax on and its chief l i te rary m onuments, w i th Chauce r ’s cen tu ry, w i th the E l izabethan era

,with

the Victo r ian. A final cou r se aims to t race thedevel opment of Engl ishl i teratu re as an o rgan ic who le. Fu r the r cou r ses—on rep resentati veautho r s

,on l i tera ry fo r ms, on Amer ican l i te ratu re, and the l ike—are

anged for students who are special iz ing in o the r depa r tments and

the refo re have not t ime for the fu l l “majo r ” in this subject . In graduate w o rk, intensive study is put on some rest r icted field.

We use ve ry few tex t—bo oks, b ut u rge the students to own theEng

l ish classics studied in the va r i ous cou rses. We depend cl osely uponthe co l lege l ib ra ry, and have ou rselves accumu lated, w ith our graduatestudents especial ly in mind, a depa r tmen t l ib r a ry of a few hund red volumes. (The re is r o om fo r m o re . )We at temp t to div ide the cou r ses am ong the membe rs of our fo r ce

acco rding to the distinct ive inte rest and achievement of each. Dr .

Lau ra Lockw o od’

s f ou r th- comingM i l ton Lex icon at tests her r ight tothe M i l ton w o rk. M iss Sophie J ewet t andM iss J osephine P reston Peabody have, as those who know thei r lyr ic v o lumes w i l l readi ly admi t, apecu l ia r claim to inter p ret m odern p oet ry. Dr . Ma rga ret She r wo od’

s

accomp l ishments in fict i on and M iss Vida D . Scudde r ’s in the essay

give them the field of p r ose. The fou r of us yet t o be accounted for,

Dr. Ma ry Bowen, Dr . Ma r tha Hale Shackfo rd,M r . Cha r les L. Y oung,

fo r me r ly o f Radcl i ffe, and mysel f are less obv i ously, but not inappropriately, so r ted t o our several tasks.

In the cou rse of fi fteen yea r s, we have seen ce r tain changes comeo ver the tempe r o f Wel lesley students. The m ost significant, perhaps,is this

,—adecade or so ago themajo r i ty p refe r red poet ry to p r ose; now

the majo r i ty are m o re at home with p r ose than with p oet ry. The

reasons for this l oss of ideal ism l ie far outside our class r o om .

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J udyand I got into a ter r ib le tangle shoppi ng to - day. How ? ”Iowed her ten cents, and bo r r owed five cents and then fifty cents. Wel l ?

Then I paid th i r ty cents fo r someth ing shebought Yes ? ” And shepaid forty cents fo r someth ing I bought , and then we t r eated each other toice cream soda. Wel l ? She says I st i l l owe her a n ickel .

—Detrm’

t Free P ress.

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Th e Sta rsTa le of a Provenca l .fhepherd

(T ranslated f rom the French of A l phonse Daudet, by M iss Edi th Sawyer , fo r

OUR TowN . )

HILE I was gua rding the flocks on the Lub enon m ountain,

I remained somet imes who le weeks wi thout seeing a l i v ingsoul , al one wi th my dog and my sheep . Occasi onal ly the

He r m i t of the m ountains passed by, hunt-ing for he rbs, or

pe rchance I saw the b lack face of someP iedm on t cha r coalbu rne r ; b ut these we re simp le men

,si len t by hab i t of thei r

so l i tude, men who had l ost the l iking fo r speech and who

knew no thing of what wen t on down in the v i l lages and

towns.

Thus when eve ry fo r tn ight, I hea rd comingup the r oad,the bel ls of the mu le f r om our fa r m ,

b ringingtne p r ov isi ons fo r thenexttwo weeks

,and when I saw the jo l ly face of the l i t t le fa r m - b oy or the

red head- d ress o f the old aun t Norade appea r ing f r om unde r the b il l,I

was indeed happy. I made the messenger tel l me al l the new s of theco un t ry side

,the bap t isms

,the ma r r iages, b ut what inte rested me m ost

of al l, was to hea r abou t my maste r ’s daughte r , Stephanette, the mostw inn ing maiden fo r leagues a r ound. Wi thou t appea r ing to take to omuch in te rest, I inqui red i f she went o ften to the fetes and the v i l lagegathe r ings, i f the re we re always new admi rer s, and to those who asked

what thismat te red t o me, a p o o r m oun tain shepherd

,I answered that I

was twen ty yea rs o ld,and that Stephenette was the m ost beauti fu l lady

I had seen in al l my l i fe.

One Sunday, as I was awai t ing the fo r tn ight’s p r ov i si ons, I foundthat they we re late in a r r i v ing. At ten o’cl ock I said to mysel f, “It is

because of the high mass.

” Then towa rd n o on the re came a great tempest,and I thought the mu le had not been ab le to make the jou rney on

account of the b ad state of the r oads. Final ly at th ree o’cl ock the sky

l ightened, themountain gleamed under the sudden sunshine, and I hea rdamidst the rain d r opping f r om the leaves and the overfl ow ing rush of

the sw o l len st r eams, the bel ls o f the mu le, as clear and gay as a greatchimingof bel ls on Easter day.

But i t was not the l i t t le fa r m - b oy, nor yet the old No rads,who

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drove the mule. It was my maste r ’s daughte r hersel f, seated betweenthe w i l l ow baskets, al l flushed and r osy w i th the f resh m ountain air .

The fa r m - boy was i l l , Aun t Norade away on a- ho l iday w i th her

chi ld ren. The beaut i fu l Stephanette to ld me al l this as she descendedf r om the mule

,al so that she came late because she had l ost her way.

But to see her d ressed for Sunday w i th her flowe red r ibbons,her b r ightpett icoat and her so ft laces

,she had rathe r the air of being a r r ayed f o r

some dance than for finding her way in the thickets. Oh,the cha r m ing

c reatu r e ! I cou ld not keep my eyes f r om her . T r ue,I had neve r seen

her so near befo re. Somet imes in the w inte r , when the fl ocks had comedown f rom the m ountain and when I went t o the fa r m for suppe r , shew ou ld pass th r ough the hal l qu ickly, wi thout deign ing t o speak to these r van ts

,always r ichly d ressed and a l i tt le p r oud. Now she was here,

al one w i th me. Was not this enough t o make me lose myhead ?When she had taken the p r ov isi ons out o f the baskets

,Stephanettel o oked cu r i ouslya r oundher . Li f tinga l i tt leher beaut i fu l Sunday pet t i

coat which might have been f rayed by the b ranches,she ente red the

sheepfo ld, wishing to see my shepherd’s cr o ok

,my gun,

mygr eat cl oakhanging on the wal l

,my st raw pal let w i th its sheepskin cover ing. A l l

this amused her .

“So i t ishe re that you l i ve, my p o o r shephe rd? How

wea ry you must b e w i th l i v ing al one ! What do you think ab ou t ? ”

I had difliculty not to rep ly “About you, mist ress,” and i t w ouldhave been the t r uth. But my agi tati on was so great that I cou ld not

find a w o rd. I bel ieve, indeed that she saw this, and w ickedly tookp leasu r e in inc reasing my emba r rassmen t .“And is the re somego od f r iend, shephe rd, who comes to see you at

t imes ? It ought to b e the sheep w i th the go lden fleece,or the fai ry

Esterel le, who v isi ts only the m ountain t ops‘

”She he rsel f in sayingthis

,had theair o f being the fai ryEsterelle, as w i th a dainty toss o f her

head,she tu rned to depa r t . “Adieu

,shepherd ! ” “A safe retu rn

mist ress.

”And she was gone, w i th the emp ty baskets. As she dis

appea r ed down the pathway, i t seemed t o me that the pebb les, r o l l ingf r om unde r the feet of her mu le, fel l one by one on my hea r t . I hea rdthem fo r a l ong, l ongtime, and even ti l l nightfal l I remained as i f dazed,not da r ing tomove, lest the d ream of her v isi t shou ld vanish.

Towa rd even ing, as the dep ths of the val leygrew b lue and the sheepcame b leat ing, runn ing one against ano the r , to get in to the fo ld, I hea rdsomeone cal l me, f r om the dim pathway, and lo ! Stephanette appea red,no l onger laughing, but t remb l ing w i th co ld and fea r . I t seemed that

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What is that ?” asked Stephanette in a low v o ice.

A sou l ente r ing Pa radise, mist ress.

”And I made the sign of the

c r oss. She c r ossed he r self also,and remained a m oment

,l o oking upmedi tat i vely.

“Is i t t rue,shephe rd

,that you are wiza rds, you shepherds?”

Far f r om i t, m ist ress. But he re we l ive nearer the sta rs and we

know what happens,bet te r than the peop le on the p lain .

”

She was st i l l l o oking up, her head leaning on her hand. Sur

r ounded by the goat - skin, she l o oked l ike a l i t t le celestial herdsman .

“How beauti ful the sta rs are ! I have neve r seen so many. Do you

know thei r names, shephe rd? ”“Oh

, yes ! mist ress. See, just above us is the Path of St. Jacques;that goes f r om F rance to Spain . It was St. Jacque de Gal ice who p o intedout the r oad to the b rave Cha r lemagne when he was makingwar on the

Sa racens. Fa r the r away is the Cha r i o t of Sou ls, wi th its fou r sp lendidwheels. The th ree sta r s in f r ont are the th ree steeds and the l i t tle one

behind is the Char i o tee r . Do you see al l a r ound the Cha r i o t that rainof fal l ing sta rs? Those are the soulswhom thego od God wi l l not admi tto heaven. A l i tt le l owe r is the Rack: that ser ves us shepherds as a

cl ock. Lo oking at i t now I kn ow that midn ight has passed. But the

m ost beaut ifu l of al l the sta r s,m ist ress

,is ou r s

,the Shephe rd’

s Sta r ,which l ights us at dayb reak when we go fo r th wi th the sheep

,and at

n ightfal l when we retu rn . We cal l this M aguel onne, the beaut i fu lMagnelonne, whom P ie r re de P r ovence fo l l owed and mar r ied afte rseven year s.

“What, shepherd, are the re then ma r r iages am ong the stars? ”Oh

, yes ! mist ress.

”And as I went on exp lain ing the sta r s, I fel t

somethingdel icateweigh l ight ly on my shoulde r . It was her head,heavyw i th slumber , which came against me with its cha rm ing bu rden of r ib

bons and wavy hai r . She rested thus, without st i r r ing, unt i l the sta r spaled in the sky befo re the coming day.

I watched her sleep ing, m oved to the depths o f my soul, p r o tectedby the clear n ight. A r ound us the sta rs con t inued thei r si lent mar ch,obedient as a great fl ock; and for the t ime I imagined that one of the

most b r i l l ian t, most exquisi te sta rs, hav ing l ost its way, had al ighted on

my shou lder to sleep .*Al l these detai ls of popu la r ast r onomy are f r om the Pr ovencal almanac,pub l ished in Avignon .

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Play G rou n d

By Richard Cunn ingham

HE TOWN of Wel lesley has been fo r tunate in its f r iends.

\Vhen the old town of Needham was div ided in and

the town of Wel lesley began l i fe, a go od and t r ue f r iendcame fo r wa rd and p resen ted a b i r thday p resent to the. new

town o f a town hal l and l ib ra ry comb ined, costing $1 00,000. It isan im p osing l ookingbu i ldingof stone, su r r oundedby ac res of t rees and shr ubs

, and w i thout exagge rati on, thefinest town hal l in the state.

Now the same thoughtfu l f r iend, alwayshav ing in mindthe happ iness and welfa re of bo th old and young, is

nego tiat ing for a t ract of land to be used as a p laygr ound for al l

the boys andgi r ls of the town of Wel lesley. The land, some twentyac res, known as the Cha r les K ingsbu ry land, l ies between the v i l lagesof Wel lesley andWel lesley H i l ls, and bo rder s on Washington st reet .I t extends back to Fu l le r B r o ok, and the o ld Boston wate r w o rks r unsth r ough the middle of the lot. It l ies in the geographical cent r e of thet own and is easy o f access. I t is an ideal sp o t for go l f, basebal l , fo o tbal l , tenn is, and p ossib ly a p ond w i l l be added for the boys to swim in .

M r . Hunnewel l ha rdly r eal izes the go od he is do ing. Here w i l l b etwentyac res o f land in the cen t re of the town bel onging to the boys andgi r ls as l ong as the town lasts. It can neve r be taken fo r a pa rk

,b ut

m ust hs kep t for sp o r ts andf ree always. The p laygr ound is the place tomake endear ing f r iendshi ps, and a meetinggr ound of this so r t w i l l got owa rd making bet te-r ci t i zens in the futu re. Here they w i l l lea rn of

each o the rs go od qual i t ies, and to thei r fau l ts w i l l be a l i t t le b l ind.

.When Petemakesa tackle or a jump, and some one o f his fel l ows cr iesout,

“goodw o rk, Pete,” that helps cement the f r iendshi p that is bound tolast.The boys and gi r ls ofWel lesley are of the best, and his gi f t w i l l

b e app reciated by them , and i t w i l l b e a b lessing to the town’s peop le

fo reve r . This is ano the r i l lust rat ion of Mr . Hunnewel l’s far—seeingwisdom and pub l ic- sp i r i ted gener osi ty for which we are al l gratefu l .1 5

Th e We l l e sley Bo y s’

C lu b

By Edward fl ugustine Benner

LONG st r i p of land opp osi te the Hunnewel l Scho o l,of scanty

dep th and lying cl ose to the rai l r oad, has been in the pos

sessi on of M rs. Du ran t for many yea r s past . One and

ano ther have sought to b uy i t o f her, b ut she thought she

might have a use for i t some day. The Boys’ C lub H ouseis the f rui t of her l ong cher ished pu r p ose. The l ocati on isadmi rab le, the gr ound is sufficient ly comm odi ous, and no

n o ise of t rains can diminish the p leasu re of the busy ath

letes and bow le rs in the C lub H ouse. The bui lding is one

hund red feet l ong, and twenty- eight feet w ide. The eastend, which contains the reading r oom ,

is thi r ty feet wide. The re is nolath and p laster wo rk in the house

,b ut the wal l and r o o f timbe r s con

stitute the inte r i o r fin ish ; these t imber s are su r faced and va r nished ;the reading r o om is sheathed. The who le bui ldingis l ighted wi th elec~

tricity. On the gr ound flo o r are fou r bow l ing al leys ve ry ca reful lyandpe r fect ly done. Seats are a r ranged fo r spectato r s. On the secondfl o o r

,nex t the reading r o om ,

is a la rge dr essing r o om , to be fu rn ishedw i th ho oks and l ocke r s. Nex t this is a to i let r o om wi th basin and two

showe r baths. The gymnasium occupies the weste rn end of the bui lding. I t is about si x ty feet l ong and twenty- eight feet w ide, and fur

n ished w ith m ode r n appa ratus. A l l the r o oms are wel l wa r med w itha system of hot wate r radiat i on .

M rs. Du rant has p r ov ided this fine bui lding p r ima r i ly fo r theamb i t i ous you th of Wel lesley v i l lage ; but the desi re is to ex tend itsbenefits to the last l im i t of its capaci ty. A t p r esen t great demand ismade up on i t by those l iv ing w i thin theWel lesley scho o l dist r ict . If

this demand shou ld fal l off, o the r s might be accomm odated.

The commi ttee have al ready o pened i t to al l the youngmen of

the town ove r twen ty yea rs o f age. The fee is one do l la r a yea r forgeneral membershi p, which gives the p r i v i lege o f the gymnasium on

Satu rday even ings, and the use of the b ow l ing al leys on payment o fthe usual fees. Tuesday and Friday afte rno ons classes are held for

inst ructi on in l ight gymnastics. Tuesdays and F r idays are set apa r tfor the gi r ls and ladies bo th o f the co l lege and the v i l lage. Thu rsdayevenings the al leys may be rented, at a fixed rate

,for the accomm oda

t i on of bow l ing par t ies.

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The article -byMiss~

.Bates. on “Engl ish Li te ratu re in Wel lesleyCo l lege,” is most inte rest ing th r oughout. . But the sect i on on r eadingby young peop le in the .homes is so valuab le that we are incl ined torecommend that i t be commi t ted to mem o ry. Much has been said of

late,and w ith t ruth, conce rn ing the disc redi tab le igno rance of the

Sc r i p tu res shown by-

yo'ungmen and w omen of co l lege age. May not

the same c r i ticism ho ld, howeve r , concern ing al l classic l i te ratu re ? It

is t rue that col leges are beginn ing t o demand a ce r tain am ount of info r mation about a l im i ted select i on o f b o oks. The quest ion may a r isei f a wider range o f reading o f our best Engl ish l i te ratu re w ou ld not bem o re p r ofi tab le than this analyt ical know ledge of a few select i ons. Is

not fami l ia r i ty wi th Sco tt, f r iendly acquaintance w i th a large numbe ro f the del ightfu l cha racters whom he in t r oduces, of m o re value, especial ly fo r young readers, than the c r i t ical know ledge . of t he p l o t of anysingle story ? But the t r oub le is that the novel of the day abso r bs al l

the t ime for general r eading. And the novel of the day does not pos

sess,as a r ule, the elements of pe r manence.

We cal l at tent i on to the tab le of conten ts for the yea r p r inted el sewhere ih this number of OUR TOWN . I t shows at a glance how manytop ics of especial l ocal inte rest have been p resen ted, and gives a goodidea of the value of the magaz ine al ready, as wel l as a suggest i on ofthe way in which i t may b e used in the futu re. The thanks of thereade rs are due t o al l the f r iends who have so gene r ously and w i tht r ue pub l ic sp i r i t gi ven thei r con t r ibut i ons t o our pages. The admir

ab le ser ies of a r t icles upon l i fe and w o rk in Wel lesley Co l lege isw o r thy of especial no t ice, and we hope i t has been successful in pro

moting a t rue concep t i on of the spi r i t and val ue o f a co l lege educat ion,perhaps,even,

in st imu lat ing aheal thful desi r e to ob tain such an edu

cat i on . Du r ing the coming vea r we expect to continue the ser ies forsever al numbe r s.

A Le c tu r e o n In d ia n A r t

M iss Ann ie Beeche r Scov i l le is to del i ve r a lectu re o f m o re thano rdina ry interest at Dana Hal l

,on Satu rday Decembe r 7 , at 4 P . M .

I t is desc r ibed as “A study o f p r im i t ive art am ong the Indians and of

the bel iefs and customs that l ie back of i t . ” A la rge co l lecti on of Siouxo r namen t-s and handiwork wi l l b e used to i l l ust rate the lectu re.

M iss Scov i l le speaks wi th amp le know ledge, hav ing taught theIndian pupi ls at Hampton fo r year s, and v isi ted thei r homes in the

West . Her f r iends know by expe r ience that what she has to say wi l lbe inter est ing and valuab le. Al l students of the hist o ry of art and al l

who are inter ested in the histo ry of the Ame r ican Indian should p r ofi tby this opp o r tun i ty. Tickets of admissi on fi fty cen ts.

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G ood H o l iday BooksSPANISH HIGHWAYS AND BY‘VAYS. This bo ok hasa peenl ia r claim up on the inte rest ofWel lesley reade rs, because i t was w r i tten

by a graduate o f our own v i l lage high scho o l , now P r o fesso r of Engl ishLi teratu re in “f el lesley C o l lege. We l ike to feel a sense of l ocal p r idein the sp lendid w o rk and w ide reputat i on of that depar tment of “ theC o l lege Beaut ifu l . ” But “Spanish H ighways and Byways”

needs no

such special ho ld up on the in terest o f its r eade r s. I t is a ref reshingreco rd of the imp ressi ons of a leisu r ely t ou r ist in a coun t ry that} is fu l lof r oman t ic cha r m . We have r ead many bo oks of t ravel in Spain

, butn one which disp lays a keene r sympathy wi th the Spanish peop le, or ism o re beauti fu l lyw r i t ten . The t r i p was taken whi le the t r oub le betweenSpain and our co un t ry was sti l l in the air . The Pa r is C ommissi on hadon ly just finished its labo r s ; the way in which Amer icans wou ld ber ecei ved was unce r tain, and the si tuat i on r evealed t rai ts of Spanish cha racter , c r o pp ing out th r ough the na r rat ive, not at al l to the disc redi t ofthe peop le. We find

,also

,much that is new and unusual

, such '

as the

mate r ial in a chap te r on the games o f Span ish chi ldren, the fu l l account

of Passi onWeek in Sev i l le w i th its elabo r ate p r ocessi ons and ceremo

n ies, the p resen t co ndi t i on of P r o testan t ism in Spain, the fune ral o f

Castela r and a v isi t to San t iago at the t ime of the great fest i val connected w i th the p i lgr image to the Shrine of St. James. Wel l chosenpho tographs hel p to inte r p ret the si tuat i ons desc r ibed.U ndo ub tedly many Wel lesley peop le are al r eady fam i l ia r w i ththis del ightful na r rat ive.

‘vVe congratu late those who have not become

so,on the p leasu re st i l l awai t ing them.

By Kathar ine Lee Bates . MacM i l lan Co . ,i l l ust rat ed, 440 pages net.

ASIA AND EUROPE . ByMe redith Townsend. [Gn P. Pu tnam ’s Sons . 8vo .pp . 376 , Any one w ish ing to study Easte rn p r oblemswou ld do wel l tobegin wi th th is wo rk fo l l owing i t wi th Sm i th’

s“ V i l lage Li fe in China,

” M rs.

Stee l ’s novels and K ip l ing’s K im .

”l -Vhatever the cou r se pu r sued the re

cou ld not b e a bette r beginn ing than M r . Townsend’s book . H ewas fo r twel ve

yea r s edito r and p r op r ieto r o f the “Fr iend of India and is now j oint edi to r o f

the London Spectato r . The thought is both p r ofound and clea r . The Engl ish i s of the qual i ty wh ich makes i t a del ight to read the book al oud. We trequent ly come upon odd terms and ph rases and themost v i v id character i zat i ons .

D iscu ssing“the suaveand humo rous Amer ican ’ who has taken thePh i l ipp inesfo r his dockyard and watchtower , ”

he st icks cl osely to h is sub ject , a des

cr iption of those inherent di fferences wh ich fo rbid the one con t inent permauent ly to conque r the o the r . The chapter on “

Is lam and Ch r ist iani ty ” oughtto b e pu b l ished as a m i ssi onary pamph let . The op in i ons are those of a c r i t icwho i s wise, kindly and Ch r ist ian . He concludes ; “ Mahommedan p r oselyt iem succeeds in India becau se i t l eaves i ts con ver ts Asiat ics st i l l : Ch r i st ianp roselyt ism fai ls in India because i t st r i ves to make of its con ver ts Engl ishm iddle- class men .

”The chapter ca l led “

The G reat A rabian ”is a master ly

summary of the l ife of Mahomet . The quest ion “Wi l l England retain India ? ”

he answers in the negati ve ho lding that “ the Emp i r e wh ich came in a daywi l l disappea r in a n ight . ”

The last hal f o f the book is taken up with b r iefsu r veys of such top ics as “

Race- hat red in Asia,

” “The Asiat ic Not i on of Just

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ice,”

C ruel ty in Eu r ope and Asia,

”Fanat ici sm in the East ,” “T rop ica l Coloni zat i on ” wh ich he th ink s cannot succeed. The Vastness of Calam it ies in

A sia” conta ins a wonder fu l wo rd- p ictu re of the ter r ib leYel low Ri ve r fl oodwh ich occu r red a few years ago . We close the vo lume wi th inc reased respectfor the o ldest cont inent whose ci v i l i zat i ons have defied t ime and the bust l ingOccident . “ The wh i te man invented the steam engine, b ut no rel igi on wh ichhas endu red. A l so , as was intended, we have an increased sense of separateness of the race.

“The Eu r opean desi red sel f - government , the Asiat ic to b egoverned by an abso lute wi l l . Everywhere the l ine of cleavage runs. The

w r i ter cal ls h imsel f a pessim ist yet the book is not at al l dep ressing perhapsbecause i t is so b racing.

CAPTAIN BLUITT, A TALE OF OLD TURLEY . By Char lesH eber C lark .

(Max Adeler) [Hen ry T . Coates Co . I l l . 463 pp . Here is our ol df r iend, the autho r of “ Out of the Hu r ley- Bu r ley.

” For many yea rs he hasabandoned humo r fo r po l it ical econom ics . But now heconcludes that “ the racemay find larger advantage b y reading avowed fict ion ,

in wh ich , as i n real l i fe,fun is m ingled with ser iousness, than b y accept ingat its su r face value falsehood p retending to be fact, and nonsense masqueradingas ph i losophy.

” We

are gratefu l to him fo r a tho r ough ly del icious book. We are su re there was area l Tu r leywel l known to the autho r “ in the fift ies. It was the t ime of thefugi t ive slave law and the Undergr ound rai lway —the t ime of fierce confl ictbetween the “ Jefferson ian Democrats ”and the Old- l ineWh igs. One of thebest chapters is on

“Saving the Count ry.

”Perhaps the gem of the scenes is

the one where Capt . B lu i tt t r ies to di ssuade a b oy f rom going to sea. H isl i vely account of sharks, cann ibals and p i rates so wo rk on the boy’sm ind that

he r un s away the same night and sh ips fo r Li verpoo l . But the book is fu l l of( f ood things “

fun m ingled wi th ser i ousness”— a who lesomem ixtu re.

THE EARLY CHURCH ; ITS H ISTORY AND LITERATURE. By Prof .J ames Orr . [A . C . A rmst rong Son . 12 mo . 60 cents. ) The fi r st of a se r iesof Ch r ist ian studymanuals, of handy fo rm ,adapted fo r class use o r fo r p r i vate

study. Th is vo lume co ve rs the gr ound f rom a statement of Jewish and Gen

ti le p repa rati ons to the victo ry of Ch r i st ian ity in 324 A .D . It is compact b utreadable, and based on the latest info rmat ion . Other vo lumes al ready an

nounced are Ru l ing Ideas of Our Lo rd, Pr otestant Pr incip les, and Rel igions ofB ible Lands.

HER SIX TEENTH YEAR . By H elen Dawes B r own . [H oughton , M itfl in

Co . $1 net .] A sweet , b r ight , interest ing sto ry of a gi r l fifteen yea rs old,

her home l i fe, her f r iends, her hopes and her fau l ts. She is her father ’s f r iendand compan ion th rough an ugly st r ike of m i l l hands, and takes a share inva r ious in terest ing events. hea r s Emerson lectu re and fina l ly en joys C lass Dayat H a r vard.

THE STORY OF JESUS. For ch i ld ren . [The Abbey Press. I l lus.9.5L]To ld in the language of the B ib le, with abundant i l lust rat i ons f rom the greatmasters. An att ract i ve l i tt le book accomp l ish ing its pu rpose in the best waypossib le .

THE TIMES AND YOUNG MEN. By Josiah St r ong. [The Baker and Tayl o r Company. 75 cents net ] The key to the pu rpose of this book is given in

the wo rds of i ts au tho r , “ It i s my hope that th is vo lume may fix in the m indsof the youngmen who read i t conv ict i ons as to the r ight cou rse of l i fe so deepand immo veable that theymay b e ancho red to in the st ress of sto rm .

”It iswr it ten fo r pe rp lexed m indsw ith the desi re to establ ish cer tain great laws,

the law of se r vice, the law of sel f- gi ving and the law of l ove—wi th thei r app l icati ons to personal and social p r oblems, such asEducat ion ,the Use of Time,

the Body, Amusements, Occupat ion , Expendi tu re, Rel igi on . The last chapteris on

“The Inspi rat ion of theTwent ieth Centu ry Out look . Wehope the bookwi l l b e widely read.

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THE TORY LOVER. BySa rah O rne Jewet t . [H oughton , M itfi in& Co . , 8vo .

$1 50. I l l .] A sto ry of Revo lu t ionary t imes of especia l interest fo r the descriptions which i t gi ves of l i fe in Po r tsmou th and Be rwick ,

of the cha racter o fPau l Jones and o f Benjam in Frankl in , of the att i tude o f France towa rd thi scount ry and of the t reatment of Amer ican p r isone rs by the Engl ish . There is abeau t ifu l l ove sto ry wi th a charm ing hero ine, and a l over who is To ry by imb eritance b ut becomes pat r iot b y convict i on . The quar rel s and jeal ousies andst ruggles and v icto r ies o f the t ime are wel l po r t rayed . The book is one of thevery best of its class.

C hu rch New sWe l l es l ey H i l l s C ongrega tio n a l C h u r ch

Mo rn ing ser vices at in Maugus Hal l . On Dec. 8th the pasto r w i l l exchange with Rev . Wm . B . Fo rbush of theWinth r op Chu rch , Char lestown . Thetop ic fo r the pasto r ’s sermon on Dec. 1 5 wi l l b e “What is G r owth in G race ? ”

On the mo rn ing o f Dec. 22d there w i l l b e a ser v ice app r op r iate to the Ch r istmasseason , w i th special music. Dec. 29th , top ic “How is Redempt ion a p resentFact 1’

Even ing ser vices. On Dec . 8th , at 7 o’cl ock, in the Un itar ian Chu rch ,there wi l l b e a Un i on Se r vice in behal f of the Woman ‘

s Ch r ist ian TemperanceUni on . M rs. Kathar ine Lente Stevenson , P resident of the MassachusettsW. C . T . U . , w i l l speak on the wo rk of the o rgani zat ion in some of its educa

t ional and ph i lanth r op ic depa r tments. Therewi l l b e a co l lect ion fo r the wo rkof the Un i on . A l l the chu rches are inv i ted to un i te in th i s ser vice. The

YoungPeop le’s ser v ice w i l l b e om i tted. On othe r even ings of the month the

young peop le wi l l ho ld thei r meet ing in the par lo r of the Un itar ian Chu rch at

A l l are co rdial ly inv ited to at tend .

Fr iday eveningmeet ings fo r study in the Li fe of Ch r ist and fo r p rayer wi l lb e held at the parsonage at o ’clock. Top ics : Dec . 6,

“Organ i zat i on of

the K ingdom Dec. 1 3,

“The Sermon on the Mount ; Dec. 20,

“ The SecondPreach ing Tou r ;” Dec. 27 , A Day of Teaching by the Sea of Gal i lee.

”A l l

are inv i ted to these meetings, whether engaged in the special B ib le studycou rse o r not .

Acco rding to the r u le of the chu rch the annual dinner and business meet.ing of the chu rch is to b e held on the Thurs day fo l lowing the last Sunday inDecember . The date th is yea r , therefo re, wi l l b e J an . 2, 1 902. The meet ingw i l l b e held in Maugus Ha l l , wi th supper at P . M .

, to b e fo l l owed b y b r iefrepo r ts of the wo rk of the va r i ous comm i ttees and o rgan i zat i ons of the chu rchfo r the yea r . The businessmeet ing w i l l b e held at 8 o ’cl ock . Eve ry chu rchmember wo rsh ipp ing w i th us is co rdial ly invited to th is annual dinner , togethe r with the husband o r wi fe of any such members. The yea r has been aremarkable one in the h isto ry of the chu rch, and we hope that th ismay b e amost enj oyable and p r ofitable occasion .

The Lo rd’s Supper w i l l b e celeb rated on the fi rst Suuday in Janua ry. On

F r iday, the 3d of Janua ry, in the even ing, wi l l b e held the usual p reparato ryser vice at the Parsonage. P revi ous to th i s, on Thu rsday,

the l gth of December , there w i l l b e a meet ing of the Chu rch Comm ittee at the Parsonage, onwh ich occasi on the comm itteewou ld be glad to meet any per sons who wish toun i te w i th the chu rch at the Janua ry Commun ion . Wi l l our f r iends who b r ingletters f r om other chu rches p lease hand them to the pasto r at thei r ea r l iestconven ience.

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We l les ley C o ngregatio n a l C h u rch

The Ch r ist ian Endeavo r Society was p leasant ly enter tained by Mrs. Chas.

E. Shattuck at her home onWednesday even ing,No vember 20.

The Sunday Schoo l gave ten do l lars to Mr . Wald ron fo r h is annualThanksgi ving dinner .An afternoon tea wi l l b e gi ven at M rs. He rbert A . J osl in

’s somet ime du r ing

Decembe r . Th is is one of a ser ies of teas wh ich are being held.

P rof . Chas. E. Fu l ler , who b r oke h is leg seven weeks ago ,is out again b ut

is ob l iged to use c rutches fo r the p resen t .A new class of boys has been fo rmed in the Sunday Schoo l , main ly composed of those who have been p romoted f rom thePr ima ry Depar tment .P reparat ions are beingmade by the Sunday Schoo l fo r a Ch r istmas concer t

and also fo r a Ch r istmas entertainment on Ch r i stmas n ight .St. M a ry

’

s C h u rch

Sundaymo rning ser vice at Even ing p rayer , H o lyCommun ionon the fi rst Sunday of the month at Se r vice on th i rd Sunday at 8 A . M .

The Sunday Schoo l meets at P . M . instead of in the mo rning as heretoThe Ch r istmas Day se r vices wi l l b e a celeb rat i on of Ho ly Commun ion at 8

A . M .,mo rning p rayer and H o ly Communion with sermon at 1 0A . M .

An ex t remely co rdial recept ion was gi ven to Rev . and M rs. Thomas L. Co lethe week befo re Thanksgi v ing in the par ish house. Many guests we re p resentf r om the Wel lesleys, Weston and the Newtons. The gather ing included an

unusual ly large number of pa r ish ioners. Letters of greet ing were read f romthe Bishop . the fo rmer recto r , Rev. H . W. M on r o , and others. The occasi on inevery way indicated a p leasant ou t look fo r the act i ve l i fe of the pa r ish .

On account of the inadequate accommodat ions of the recto ry fo r Mr . Co le’sfam i ly, a house has been tempo rar i ly taken on G len Road, co rne r of G lendale

avenue, Where M r . and Mrs . Co le wi l l b e glad to greet al l f r iends and par ishioners .

Un ita r ia n So c i etyThe Pasto r exchanged with Rev. John Cuckson of Plymouth , on Sunday,

Novem be r 1 0.

M r . Geo . W. Dudley, of the Music Comm i ttee,p repa red a most en joyableVespe r Ser vice fo r Sunday afternoon , of November 1 7 .

M r . Snyder lectu red du r ing the month ,in Wo rcester , East B r idgewater and

H opedale.

On Sunday, November 24, a very beaut i fu l b r onze tablet was p laced on the

wal ls of the Church , in memo ry of Rev. A lber t B . Vo rse, the fo rmer Pasto r andfounder of the Chu rch . Rev. Mess rs. Batchelo r,Ho rton

, Farwel l and the p resent Pasto r un i ted in a simp le and touch ing ser vice

M ost excel lent meet ing of Un i ta r ian C lub at theElm Pa rk H otel on Fr iday,

November 29 . Dinne r was ser ved to twenty- seven gent lemen at and at

its conclusi on Rev. Chas. Do le, of Jamaica Plain , spoke el oquent ly upon IdealMethods of Suppo r t ing the Chu rch . Thiswas fo l lowed by an interest ing dis

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Isaiah H. Farnham The Convalescen t HomeSome French Characteristics Third Annual Report, FriendlyMusic Study in Wel lesley Col lege Aid Committee.

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AUGUSTMaurice Thompson Wel lesleyAlumn i AssociationCampAsquam Way Down in Dix ieThe King’

s Daughters The Celeb ration at So. NatickSEPTEMBER

Poetry Supplication The Health of School ChildrenEconomics and Sociology at Descr iption of theW. H. Cong.

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