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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1916
Page
19
A reader recalls cheaper land and food, simple play, and rough dental care from 40 years ago while urging modern reforms. Replies advise budgeting, enjoying outings, and maintaining personal appearance to keep partners, with letters from Betty Maple Leaf Missouri and A Lonesome Red Haired Girl contributing viewpoints.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most engaging letters received by the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader views and community discussions in brief correspondence.
Wool canvas is a spring fabric option. Almond green emerges as a fresh shade. Hair styles stay close and simple. Handkerchiefs flaunt brilliant colors. Bell sleeves remain popular. Woolen voile likely a spring favorite. Linen dresses trim with rickrack braid. Semi fitted close shouldered suit coats gain traction. Cloaks gain importance. Four cornered hats with white wings top crowns. Ostrich feather fans debut. Summer gardening smocks use ribbon lacing. Frilly white dresses pair with white footwear. Fine metal laces enhance day and evening gowns.
A reflective poem on bearing scars through toil and love. It links conquest, duty, and faith to a future where roses bloom in realms beyond the sun. The speaker notes that joy and pain accompany love, yet enduring hardship leads to heavenly rest and beauty.
Letter asks where Massachusetts members of Congress were born. It notes Senator Weeks born in New Hampshire, Richard Olney, 2d, born also there, Greene born in Illinois, Roberts born in Maine, with all other Bay State delegates born in Massachusetts.
A scanned recipe page offers a chicken shortcake method using boiled boned chicken layered with hot gravy on buttered shortcake. It also provides an Apple Cream dessert, Drops fried batter, Molasses Sponged Gingerbread, and a signature by Mrs Julia P Grover of Winthrop Maine.
The narrator recalls Lucille describing her stunning violet, blue, and green silk plaid gown with corded hip yoke, chiffon bodice, silver edging, and lace collar. Lucille plans to wear it for an Easter trip.
Amate ur Gardener says the usual planting time is the middle of May in eastern Massachusetts. Some yellow varieties such as Golden Bantam can be sown earlier depending on soil and weather. Do not plant until the ground is warm and dry and frost danger is past. Wait for trees to leaf out.
The Peabody Reader notes it is safe to plant both sweet and green peas now. Avoid wrinkled varieties and later greens until the soil dries and warms. Hard, smooth skinned peas should be planted as early as possible.
The editor advises that art should not bluff the viewer and presents two amusing dance pages with fresh interpretations. The note teases the upcoming What They Mean to Us feature, richly illustrated, in the next Sunday Post Magazine.
The observer recalls the coldest April fifth in memory at 11 above zero in 1874 and 25 above zero in 1908. He notes the warmest for this date at 69 above zero in 1912 and lists storms on this date in 1907 1908 1911 1912 and 1913.
In a Dorchester woods, Ned Martin and Ida part after a tense conflict with love unfulfilled. Years later their brothers Ralph and Teddy coax a reconciliation, revealing two boys eavesdropping as Ned and Ida realize the peacemakers theme fits their reunion and imminent marriage.
Health expert H. Addington Bruce explains the effects of dust on the human body for readers of the Sunday Post Magazine. He details lung irritation fatigue and long term risks while advising protective habits and air quality awareness.
Boston pianist George Copeland joins artists for the French Bazaar at Horticultural Hall April 1 3 14 and 16 to aid French orphans and wounded soldiers. He will perform with the Flonzaley quartet the McDowell Club and the Harvard musical clubs under Georges Longy direction. Adams orchestra will provide cabaret music nightly from 10 30 to midnight with Minglish folk dancers Princess Kainamah Indian dancer and notable performers Marshall Hall Melba Proctor and others.
A playful line noting two moments of many legs: a chicken scratching in the garden and the same bird served in a pie for Sunday dinner.
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