Pauline's Grace and Taft's Cow Aboard a Witty Front Page
A playful reflection on public figures William Taft and Pauline, famous for a grace on the White House lawn, with Aunt Delia in public prints and a glimpse at fashion debates. A 1913 voice notes social dress, self support, and the era's style anxieties through letters and verse.
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White House
Greece
William Howard
Yale
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Sewing Circle in the Boston Post
The Sewing Circle is a regular department in the Boston daily and Sunday Post. It serves as a forum for homemakers in New England to discuss home and household topics, domestic problems, managing husbands and children, care of the home, economy, flowers and gardening. Correspondents may use noms de plume and ask questions, writing on one side of the paper.
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Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Sewing Circle
Boston Pest
Dance halls blamed for wrecking young women says reader
A Sewing Circle letter argues modern dancing erodes self respect, inviting male predation and social danger. It urges abolishing the round dance to protect girls, citing personal cautionary anecdotes and urging discussion of male behavior.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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