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ONG before you finish "The NextTo-Nothing House," you will feel the urge to become at once a Collector. You may have been perfectly content with your twentieth century furniture. reveling in its softness and springy luxury, but before you have read many pages, you will feel a vague discontent stealing over you, you will fitfully start to eliminate, alter, and add to your furnishings; and your longing for spring will become more intense, that you may start out on the road of the Collector, leading through the tiny hamlet, the secluded farm, and the dusty junk shop to an early eighteenth century house. This feeling will probably pass with the realization that we can't all have cosy white cottages in which men like Daniel Webster roomed while in college and which we may furnish so that he himself might step into it and feel no strangeness on his return into a modern world. But whatever the feeling of our house may be, we can be sure that it pervades throughout, that everything harmonizes and combines to produce one effect, and in her book the author gives many valuable hints as to what must be considered to achieve success. Location, size, color, and arrangement of the room, and a sense of what furniture may or may not be used together, all are necessary details, and as you follow the mistress of the Next-To-Nothing-House on a tour of inspection, you see by her vivid descriptions and alluring photographs how altogether charming will be the result. You will undoubtedly choose your favorite room, as I did, selecting much to my surprise, the kitchen. It seems to me the greatest of all achievements in furnishing to make a kitchen

attractive, but how could anyone help but adore this "unsterilized" colorful room which, in spite of antique pottery and stenciled chairs, is convenient and modern in culinary equipment. The most menial tasks must lose a distatefulness when performed in a kitchen. with the air of "spiced cookies" or a pan of "gingerbread."

This eighteenth century house is entirely livable, and it is one of the fascinations of the book to see how cleverly the modern additions may be installed to blend with the dignified simplicity of past generations and not detract from the "fourposter" atmosphere.

To all lovers of antiques I recommend this book, to all interested in making their homes the most delightful of places I strongly advise it, and to those not included in either class, if there be any such, I urge its perusal because of the pleasure received from acquaintance with the personality of the author. Whether or not she can overwhelm your protests that eighteenth century furniture is not comfortable by awakening the artistic in you to a point which will disregard downy divans and by explaining how comfort and art may be combined, you will enjoy her friendly manner, her amusing recital of her problems, her cordiality, cordiality, lightheartedness, and charm, the charm with which are offered her bits of philosophy and her wish that her friends may have "everything they desire-almost," leaving always something for anticipation.

It is wonderful to know all we read is true, that these are real people living in a real house whose old green door will open to us at the lift of the brass knocker and reveal its lovely interior on our next visit to Hanover.

JAMES W. HENDERSON

JAMES W. HENDERSON

James William Henderson, born in Rochester, February 18, 1840, died in Dover, March 15, 1923.

He was the son of William M. and Maria (Diman) Henderson, and was educated in the schools of Rochester and Dover, to which latter city his parents removed during his early life, his last attendance being at Franklin Academy in Dover. He taught school in Rochester and Farmington in youth, and learned the printer's trade in the office of the Dover Enquirer; was engaged for some time in the Massachusetts State Printing Office and on the Boston Journal, and was subsequently employed at times in Dover printing offices.

He took an active part in political affairs in Dover, for many years, as a Democrat, and was prominent as a party leader in Strafford County, serving as a member of the State Committee. In the State Convention of 1875, he had the honor of presenting the name of Capt. Daniel Marcy of Portsmouth as the candidate for Governor, which he did in a forceful and convincing speech.

In 1877, Mr. Henderson I went to St. Augustine, Florida, where he became extensively engaged in real estate operations, and also continued the study of law, which he had commenced in Dover. He was admitted to the Florida bar, and subsequently to the bar of the U. S. District and Supreme Courts. He served for some time as State's Attorney for St. Johns County, under appointment of Judge J. M. Baker.

He married, May 18, 1878, Ellen Compton, daughter of Jacob Compton of Chicago, by whom he had two sons, the first

born dying in infancy. The second-J. Compton Henderson-born July 8, 1880, educated in the public schools of Chicago, Phillips Exeter Academy and the Southwestern University, Jackson, Tenn., is a lawyer in Chicago, where his father was for some time associated with him, and where he had extensive real estate interests, as well as in Dover and St. Augustine, dividing his time for some years among the three places, his wife having died April 26, 1909.

For the past two years he had resided most of the time in Dover, to which city he was strongly attached. His death resulted from pneumon a, and shortly preIceded the arrival of his son, who had been summoned upon his illness. Funeral services were held on Sunday March 18, in the Ricker Memorial Chapel at Pine Hill Cemetery, under the auspices of Wecohamet Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he was a member.

James W. Henderson was indeed one of Nature's noblemen, an honest man, a faithful friend, a true American citizen, a loyal and lifelong adherent of the principles of Thomas Jefferson, the father of American Democracy. H. H. M.

He was born in Meredith, August 20, 1898. He attended the Channing and Meredith Center schools, later becoming a student at the N. H. State College, from which he graduated in 1920. While at college he was one of the most active and popular members of the student body, being president of his fraternity, captain of the track team, and member of the popular society, the Senior Skulls. After serving in the scuthern camp during the war, he became headmaster of the Hancock High School in 1920. In June, 1921, he was elected headmaster of the Meredith High School, and in August was married to Miss Corinne Emerson, a graduate of the Keene Normal School.

He is survived by his father, Commissioner Andrew D. Felker, his widow and a young child.

JOHN S. BROUGHTON

Ex-Mayor John S. Broughton died in Portsmouth February 9th, at the age of ninety-two years. He was one of Ports

mouth's oldest retired business men, having begun at the age of fifteen years as a clerk in a lumber company where he remained doing the bookkeeping for over sixty years. He was a member of the

common council, the Board of Aldermen, in 1879 was a member of the Legislature, in 1880 a member of the Senate. It was while at the Senate that he cast the deciding vote for Senator Gallinger. In 1876 he was elected Mayor of Portsmouth.

EDMUND HOWARD ALBEE, D.D.S.

Dr. Edmund H. Albee, dean of the dental profession in Concord, died suddenly from heart failure at his home on Liberty Street, on the morning of March 12, 1923.

He was the son of Willard S. and Harriett (Marsh) Albee, born in Charlestown, N. H., Nov. 15, 1863, and a descendant in several lines of Revolutionary and Colonial War ancestry, including Major Willard, commander of the Massachusetts forces in the early Wars, and Daniel Marsh who served under Washington at Valley Forge.

Dr. Albee passed his youth on his father's farm, and attending the public schools, and early commenced the study of dentistry, pursuing the same in the office of his uncle, Dr. William Albee, at Bellows Falls, Vt., and at the Philadelphia Dental College, from which he graduated D.D.S. in 1891, immediately commencing the practice of his profession in Concord, in which he continued with great success up to the time of his last illness in January of the present year. He was devotedly attached to the work of his profession, in which he gained wide reputation as a skilful practitioner, and gave little time to the distractions of social and fraternal life. He was a member of the Concord District Associaton of Dentists, of which he was treasurer at the time of his decease. He was also an active member of the N. H. Dental Society, of which he was president in 1914; of the Northeastern Dental Association and of the National Dental Society. Outside his profession, the only organizations to which he belonged were the Concord Chamber of Commerce and the N. H. Society of Colonial Wars. He was a consulting surgeon of the Margaret Pillsbury General Hospital and an attendant at the South Congregational Church.

Of a modest and retiring disposition, he was little known outside the wide circle of those who had been his patients in the long period of his practice, which exceeded that of any Concord dentist now living. and by large numbers of whom he was held in high personal regard as a man and a friend; while he was generally esteemed as a public spirited citizen.

Dr. Albee was united in marriage, December 9, 1891, with Miss Lois Hurd of Newport, by whom he is survived; also by a daughter, Harriett Isabella, born February 18, 1903, now a student at Simmons