Boston Girls Home Office Plans For Working Women
A Boston project led by Rev. George L. Perin proposes a nonsectarian, self supporting home on Franklin square for girls with modest means. It aims to be home like with liberty, mutual trust, and self government, aiding student and working girls while Open to Protestant Catholic Jew Gentile. A transient department will assist those seeking work or city short stays, with remodeling of the New England Conservatory building planned and a target opening around July 15.
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Mills
Old
New England Conservatory of Music
Franklin Square
Perin
Franklin Square House
Remarkable female cast enlivens Shakespeare spoof
A group of six young women, praised by professors for geology prowess, delivered riotous comic acting as Bottom Quince and others in a gender bending Shakespeare spoof. Their performance hid beauty behind grotesque masculine disguises, eliciting sustained audience laughter and challenging old notions about women and humor.
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Nick Bottom
Quince
Charles Reade
Peg Woffington
Shakespeare
Fashion Talk on Fabrics and Finery of the Season
The New York Mail and Express notes revived foulards with large spots and fine voiles resembling silk canvas, compares eolienne with crepe de chine, and observes shifts in dress from elaborate afternoon frocks to simple white muslin. It urges trimming sleeves creatively, praises low necklines, coiffure harmony, and green and blue color surges with red accents in Paris.
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Paris
New York Mail and Express
Historic Molly Varnum Chapter Visit in Dracut
The Molly Varnum Chapter of the D A R enjoyed a day at the Varnum homestead near Varnum's landing Dracut. Miss Irma Lee Varnum hosted with readings on Gen Joseph Varnum and Molly Varnum. The party toured the old cemetery and house before a generous collation. Members and guests included Mrs Paul Hill and attendees from Lowell and Methuen.
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Molly Varnum
Irma Lee Varnum
Varnum’s Landing
Dracut
Merrimack
Ida M. Howe
America
Joseph Smith
Draycutt
Varnum
Earl
Joseph Varnum
Y. Wood
N. E. Magazine
Revolutionary and Family
Gen. Varnum
Molly Butler
Miss Varnum
Paul Hill
Educational Club of
Lowell
Samuel Adams
Methuen
Shakespeare at Wellesley staged outdoors in a moonlit dream
The Shakespeare Society of Wellesley College presented A Midsummer Night's Dream on June 18 beside Longfellow Pond. The wood setting replaced scenery with rhododendrons and vines, while actors, including a nimble Puck, blended with the forest backdrop for a magical, outdoor performance.
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Shakespeare Society
Wellesley College
Longfellow Pond
Theseus
Hippolyta
Hermia
Helena
Oberon
Lysander
Demetrius
Aegeus
Nick Bottom
Puck
Robin Goodfellow
Summer Resorts Pamphlets For N Y N H R R Travel
The passenger department of the New York New Haven and Hartford railroad offers season pamphlets on summer resorts east of New London and Willimantic. Titles include Manual of Summer Resorts Along the South Shore Plymouth as a Summer Resort Quaint Cape Cod and Its Summer Delights Martha’s Vineyard Nantucket Handbook of Newport Jamestown Conanicut Island Watch Hill Narragansett Pier and Block Island. Request at Terminal Station Boston or have sent by mail with two cents postage.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
New London
Willimantic
South Shore
Plymouth
Cape Cod
Martha’s Vineyard
Nantucket
Newport
Jamestown-Conanicut Island
Watch Hill
Narragansett Pier
Block Island
Rtment
N. H
Terminal Station
Boston
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Ceylon
Wholesale
State Street
Arthur Paget
United States
Alice Roosevelt
Miss Roosevelt
State Association
D. A. R.ters
General Federation of Women’s Clubs
Booker T. Washington
Massachusetts Club
George L. Perin
Every-Day Church
Lady Beatrice Pole-Carew
Countess OF
Annesley
Historic Ground
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Varnum House
Wellesley
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A. G. Pollard & CO
Palmer St., Bash Ment
NEW York Cloak and Suit CO
John Street
Gibson
Woonsocket
Pawtucket
Chicago
Lowell Rubber CO
Central Street
H. B. Shattuck & Son
Prescott Street
H. W. Estabrook
Pinehurst
N. C
Respiro
Optician
Geo. G. Rogers
Merrimack Streer
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