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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 10, 1916
Page
13
In this Boston Post Sewing Circle column readers discuss home life and etiquette. Advice covers staying active with husbands, budgeting, child care, and managing chores while sharing personal letters from readers like Eve M F W M and Honey. The page blends domestic tips with communal support.
A fragment presents a poetic wish for a coherent life plan over scattered acts and words. The speaker names a quiltlike patchwork of behavior, seeking a unified design rather than ad hoc choices.
Poet Judge Charles Fenno Hoffman of 1806 era pens a tender poem urging a beloved to remember him at dawn and dusk. The verse likens light and twilight to memory and longing, asking for steadfast faith and devotion.
A homemaker section presents crafts and recipes including blancmange filled eggs served in shells with colored pastes, stuffed rolls using ham butter and eggs, and stuffed peppers for salad with cream cheese walnuts and cayenne. Readers are urged to chill and plate neatly for serving.
A short tale follows Peggy, born with blessings and charm, as she grows through daily errands and small adventures. Her first crush forms at a drug store with the clerk and evolves into a plan to marry him, while Peggy’s mother and father contemplate keeping her sweet and unspoiled.
A glass tube is prescribed for patients who cannot drink from a cup while a stick of macaroni is mentioned as an alternative, highlighting simple texture aids in assisted feeding.
A Portland reader shares frugal ideas for family life. She notes a five cent fire shovel flattened to lift pans safely from the stove and to coax a child to drink milk, promising fewer burns and easier serving.
The oldest resident recalls records for this date in Boston noting 27 above zero in 1885 and 1900 as the coldest on this date, with 80 degrees in 1907 as the warmest in the past decade. He also cites an 1887 warm April 10 and 68 above in 1916, plus storms in 1906 1907 and 1908.
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