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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1911
Page
11
The Sewing Circle is a regular Boston Post and Boston Daily feature for New England homemakers. It invites discussion of home life, family needs, health hints, remedies, baby care, gardening, and domestic economy with readers sharing advice and questions, using pen names if desired.
Baby clothing guidance and safety advice for new parents covers spring birth handling and preferred fabric lengths. It warns against coins in a child's mouth and suggests safe teething options like ivory rings, while praising steadfast friendship over material wealth.
The piece laments hollow friendships near a match that won't fight, contrasting those who defend us in danger with fairweather friends who vanish at danger. The author recalls a recent experience and hopes for in heaven a true, unwavering loyalty in friendship, imagining centuries of enjoying such steadfast companionship regardless of wealth or poverty.
A mother describes her four to five year old boy suffering hip joint disease from an injury at age two. He limped after the fall, received hospital care, and has endured two years of treatment with no near cure. She urges ongoing medical care for four to five years, using a splint and crutches outdoors, to prevent lifelong disability.
A reader comments on dressing boys using larger patterns. The writer recalls their own child's growth from 10 months to nearly four years, noting they made suits using a six year pattern and suggesting club name ideas for mothers. The letter discusses finding practical clothing solutions.
A letter from Lady Mayflower offers sewing tips for boys and babies, recommending plaid fabrics, panel front dresses, rompers in blue chambray, and linen gowns. She urges mothers to nurse when possible and shares personal notes about nursing, teething, and aging baby wardrobes.
In a brief note the mother recalls her infant daughter using a comforter from early months, stating the child was always healthy and strong. The message, signed Ingz, emphasizes affection and the child’s lasting comfort.
A personal letter recalls youthful picnics with girls roaming Mount Tom for mayflowers and mountain laurel. The writer mentions washing tips using kerosene and ponders a friend’s mother, expressing nostalgia for past times and asking to hear back.
Eva A. Webster recalls a childhood encounter with a roaming gypsy who claimed to foretell her future. The girl follows the midnight pool ritual for three nights, narrowly avoids danger as gypsy activity rises near the farm, and learns a warning about trusting strangers. The tale unfolds with a cautionary mood and a single, suspenseful moment as she sits by the pool.
I waited no longer and fled the scene seizing a chance to escape bold conspirators who bound my hands. I rushed to my aunt's room and recounted the tale from meeting a gipsy in the strawberry field to overheard words at the pool.
A 24 year old man asks Mildred Champagne whether to end a relationship or persevere to rekindle love after three years. The columnist urges honoring promises, considering the woman's feelings, and avoiding using her as a tool, noting her legal and moral rights in such matters.
A historical recipe card lists chocolate cookies using butter sugar egg melted chocolate milk flour salt and baking powder with instructions to cream butter and sugar add egg then chocolate and milk fold in dry ingredients roll thinly cut rounds bake on greased pans. Also includes a light milk based cream substitute by Mrs Josie O Hara in Quincy with whites milk sugar butter corn starch heated to thickened cool and served as a creamer.
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