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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1918
Page
13
A letter and three reader comments debate whether a wife may or should intervene in her husband’s business. Points cover mutual respect, competence, and timing, with cautions against meddling unless invited and tempered by tact and family welfare.
Edward Sothern born in Liverpool to well to do parents left medicine for theology and then turned to acting. He debuted on Jersey’s Theatre Royal and later moved to America at about 26, facing early dismissals before rising. His breakthrough came as Armand Duval in Camille and he reshaped Lord Dundreary, making it the lead role. He died in 1881.
A Sunday Y Post feature lists home recipes from New England housewives. It includes hoe care and preparations for cornmeal batter, baked vegetable hash with layered potatoes and cheese, sugarless gingerbread, rye bread with mixed flours and yeast, and salmon and rice cakes fried in butter.
The observer notes a chic striped moire silk gown in beige brown with a mustard georgette under bodice, tight plain bodice, deep cuffs, and an unusually cut over blouse. Accessories include an old gold buckle on the crushed silk belt and matched slippers with stockings. Hair is dark red.
Poem from Cambridge dated January 1 1872 urges cheerful service to God. It centers on steadfast faith through hardship, outlook of hope, and living nobly with love joy and peace as outcomes of serving the Lord. The piece references an English bishop motto and notes the author as a friend’s scrapbook inclusion.
A readers column offers gardening tips with Easterly lilies needing pot drying and replanting, plus brief Q&A on topics from Fells versus Fens, death penalty options, Andre the spy, earliest garden planting times for suburban Boston, Kipling’s Halifax line, Brutus’ punishment, Old North vs Christ Church history, Mesopotamia location, and hotel plan differences between American and European formats.
A sister column advises on calling etiquette when with a lady, noting a half hour visit as typical and that calls of congratulations are limited after engagement announcements. It also covers introducing gratitude notes for new acquaintances and proper roles for a best man and suitable gifts for a bride’s maid of honor.
Eade notes a practical use for a nail in a pantry to hold bills and receipts. Mentions Miss Bertha Mie of 63 Van Winkle Street, Ashmont, as part of the household anecdote.
A Boston reader thanks the Daily Messenger for its public messages at the top of the morning Post page. She pastes them into a scrapbook to reread after the war, noting they are vital and true. She mentions father Darius Cobb and signs Lillie A. Cobb of 28 School Street.
Mrs Anabella Cummings of Enfield New Hampshire at 88 keeps busy despite a chair. This winter she knitted twelve yards of bandages an Afghan eight by five feet and ten small one yard squares. A remarkable record for her age and service.
A Spry Group features Glen Sutton, VI, seniors knitting for charity. Mrs LaPlant, 84 and blind, knits one sock daily. Mrs Sargent, 93, makes a pair each week. Myrtle Bryant has 65 knitted pairs this winter. Mrs Miller, an invalid, has 42 socks and several mufflers.
In Charlestown reader letter praises 92 year old Samuel Willard Barrows as an extraordinary New England gentleman who spent the past winter splitting and storing more than 10 cords of stove wood for his family, a notable feat amid readers who mock modern athletic excess.
A Roxbury Highlands reader sent a feature about Oliver Chapman, an eight year old near Porter Center, Maine, who cares for eleven cattle and cleans the barn as part of his day. He visits friends, follows the day’s events, and on a recent day walked two miles to the woods to help load logs, then carried his overcoat home.
When gloves wear at the fingers, mend by knitting the worn part or up the front base. To fix hem gauge on a sewing machine, place a heavy box to keep it steady. Save soap scraps to melt and mix with sulphur for a home face soap. Use toilet paper hooks bent into hangers for handy use.
An advertisement extols Dr Williams Pink Pills for women who lose weight pale and feel faint headaches and exhaustion. Customer Mrs Richard Ahrens of Minneapolis recounts long illness improved after using the tonic and gaining flesh color and appetite. Pills priced at 50 cents a box six for $2.50 with mail order from Dr Williams Medicine Co Schenectady New York and a free booklet for women.
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