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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1913
Page
5
Readers of the Sewing Circle in the Boston Post discuss marriage laws, the idea of premarital exams for inheritable diseases, and the balance of authority between wives and mothers in the home. Correspondents share anecdotes about love, respect, and the influence of mothers-in-law on marriages.
Weldon argues for parental authority within the home and questions a grandmother's meddling limits. The voice defends young mothers learning from experience and warns against cross in law interference.
A reader describes earning 15 dollars weekly, saving five, and living on ten. She details budgeting for board, travel, clothing, and recreation, stresses durable purchases, avoids frivolous clothes, and urges loyalty and discretion with employers. Bittersweet.
A readers letter urges mothers to raise boys and girls with purity to prevent wreckage in women's lives. The writer cites personal examples of virtuous men saving girls and stresses fewer children and moral upbringing. The piece closes with a call for maternal virtue and chastity.
A reader urges mothers to teach girls right from wrong early, criticizes immodest fashion sources, and stresses preserving dignity. The author emphasizes maternal responsibility for boys and girls and calls for stricter early guidance.
Awake the stars fade as morning nears and tempers rise with peace. The poem envisions victory, banners broken, and a world of rest where wolves and dragons vanish and all creatures drink from peaceful streams.
A mother argues that working women should avoid gaudy ball dresses and uphold pride dignity and self respect over flashy attire. She asserts many girls earn meager wages yet must resist temptations she equates with selling their souls.
A letter argues young women can look stylish at work without extremes. It prefers modest shirt waists, semi hobble skirts, and metal pumps in summer over satin styles. The writer, a stenographer, rejects imitation of society ladies and notes men should not dictate dress.
A reader argues women should marry for love not money, stating poverty drives love away and that single sweethearts is better than marriage to a moneyed partner. She says children are natural for women and stresses happiness and family over wealth. The note appears in a Sewing Circle column.
Peel and slice a dozen apples and spread thickly in a cake tin. Sprinkle with 2 3 cup sugar and a little nutmeg. Two cups sugar, 2 cups sour milk, 3 cups flour, 1 2 cup butter, 3 eggs, pinch of salt, 1 1 kinds of spices, 1 2 pound currants, 1 2 pound raisins. Mrs F W Monroe, 117 Wendell Street, Providence Rhode Island.
A digest of home recipes from Mrs T N Shorey Mrs Evelyn Green and others includes a soft batter for apple desserts with cold milk and lard or butter, a lemon custard style filling, a two egg yolk sauce with vanilla, and a ginger molasses cookie dough urging butter lard mix with flour for rolling.
Carnag Harpoothian once a rug house proprietor on Kneeland Street and sought by two continents for two years was captured in Revere by United States Deputy Marshal Ruhl and Patrolman Walton after a half mile chase. He faced US bankruptcy fugitive from justice charges in New York for concealment of assets and previously jumped bail posting 3000 dollars in bonds. He was jailed in East Cambridge awaiting hearing before Commissioner Hayes.
Regina Ros enfeld of Brooklyn sues the city claiming a fall in Manhattan street damaged her left arm. She testified before Justice Delehanty in Supreme Court that a July visit to Avenue B and Ninth street led to a slip in a curb hole and a broken arm.
Brother Timothy Fealy S J head sacristan for 44 years at the Church of the Immaculate Conception dies. Mass of requiem planned at St Mary North End. Society of the Holy Name at St Joseph Roxbury hosts banquet April 30. St Joseph Belmont dedication attended by bishop. Sacred Heart Newton Centre reunion planned at Bray's Hall. Redemptorists guest at Mission Church Roxbury. West End K of C to discuss socialism April 25. Foresters memorial mass April 19 Patriots Day. Bishop Anderson administers confirmations at Holy Redeemer East Boston and Star of the Sea East Boston.
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