Mrs. Nancy Page Gives it Clam Chowder to Friends in the North End.
The next best thing to going to the beach is to have the beach come to you. The denizens of the North End, on Washington Street, are mostly stay-at-homes, with but few millionaires among them.
To console and comfort them in their hunger for salt air and fresh clams, Mrs. Page sent her man to the shore for a barrel of the bivalves and then invited all her neighbors to a rich and bountiful clam chowder, topped out with watermelon and a nice cup of coffee.
About twenty-five sat down to the feast, and rose with full stomachs and grateful hearts. “When thou makest a feast invite the poor, hoping for nothing in return, and great shall be thy reward in heaven.”