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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1918
Page
17
The Sewing Circle editor invites reader submissions and letters for the best weekly contribution. Readers discuss whether mothers may, should, or must open daughters' mail, with many speaking from personal experience on trust, privacy, and guidance within families.
A New York beauty powder called Lamay asserts it stays on without white lead or rice powder which clog pores. It claims a medicinal blend heals skin and prevents pimples while remaining popular and sold widely at fifty cents for large and twenty five cents for half size.
The observer notes seeing The Lady of the Cape twice in one day. In morning bathing she wore a violet taffeta suit with a hem faced in Poi ret blue and a slim sash at the waist. In the afternoon she appeared with two French aviators, their sleeves showing wound stripes and chests bearing medals, dressed in gray with a matching taffeta hat and gray wheat brims. The writer ponders her identity.
The article notes dress materials for summer fashion, stating that upholstery fabrics inspire pretties and that black taffeta trims brown wool coats. It mentions cotton voiles and cotton crepes as among the favored summer fabrics.
The Sunday Post features Recipes of New England Housewives with a dish of Rice and Beans. Two cups kidney beans two cups rice two onions salt pepper mustard and salt pork. Soak beans overnight drain add cold water boil until tender. Fry salt pork and onions, simmer, add rice and onions, season, cook until tender. Butter and pepper to taste. By Miss Frances E Watson, 28 Blagden Street Boston.
A clipped column offers kitchen recipes for Economical Muffins with Mr s Clifford A Blackman and Mrs Joseph M Sousa Jr, plus etiquette guidance from Alicia Hoyt on visiting etiquette after dining with a friend and proper manners for mothers teaching children not to force handshakes or kisses. It notes households in Melrose Highlands and Cambridge.
Practical hints cover sewing two aprons from one pattern and organizing cook books by category. Use an old teapot to melt paraffin for jar seals and dip jar tops for security. Add a salt pinch to eggs for foam, polish flower pots with wallpaper, and tweak cranberry sauce with soda and later sugar.
Mrs Sally Camp of East Randolph Vermont nears her 95th birthday. She raised nine children and sent them through Normal or High School. After her husband’s death 12 years ago her youngest daughter lived with her. Even in old age she works daily, sings while mending, and keeps a sharp mind. She recalls a 89 year old family saying: Have communion with few be intimate with but one deal justly with all speak ill of none.
Captain Ben Childs recalls astonishment at flounders hitting twenty dollars per barrel in Hyannis as he chats with a spry Old Northeast mariner about market changes and surprising sea trade prices.
The speaker recalls fetching the first railroad ties from New London Connecticut during the stretch of the line from Sandwich to Hyannis for John Hall, reflecting on the revival of the old wharf area.
It was decided to build a wharf and establish a river steamship run to Nantucket. The narrator recalls fetching 750 spiles for Mr Hayward of Norwich, Conn., aboard the schooner Norwich with Simeon Childs as mate and Edward Childs as cook. Captain Benjamin Childs, born Oct 18, 1824 in Centerville, spent 21 years coasting, 18 years as a Boston chef, and celebrated his 72nd wedding anniversary with Mrs. Childs on Jan 18.
EVA J. K. STILES praises 87 year old Mrs Comfort Hooper of 12 Highlands Dover New Hampshire. She keeps busy with housework sewing knitting for Red Cross quilting baby layette and mending while teaching farming gardening and Civil War lore. She may ride in an airplane despite age and has ridden in a motorcycle sidecar.
Birthday bio brief on Catherine I of Russia recounts her obscure origins as Martha, a Lithuanian peasant’s daughter, adoption, marriage to Peter the Great, royal ascent, and reign after his death, noting her indifference to danger and crown jewels count alongside her governance and character.
The oldest resident recalls Boston's coldest and warmest Aprils by official figures. He notes 11 above zero as both a cold milestone in 1879 and a warm high of 11 degrees in 1912, and mentions rain or snow on this date in 1911 1912 and 1913.
Mildred Champagne advises a reader torn between a three year steady partner who offers security and an overseas war correspondent who writes from France. She weighs love versus practical happiness and urges choosing the man who can provide a comfortable home, while acknowledging individual ideals of happiness and respect.
William Buxton sues in Suffolk Superior Court for 10000 in damages after being bitten by Henry Marcy's dog on Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge. Buxton says the dog attacked him on the avenue and Marcy's address is listed as 180 Commonwealth Avenue.
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