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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1917
Page
15
A reader column compiles reader opinions on the first requisite to a successful marriage. Answers stress roles for husband and wife, financial harmony, saving, homemaking, and practical duties amid wartime hardships.
A reader signed Sally laments farmer wives aiding city vendors and questions middleman profits while recounting a year on a farm. She warns of upcoming letters revealing “the other side” of the story and hints at high transport costs and rising prices. Some Sewing Circle letters are printed in the Sunday Post.
An advertisement extols COTTOLENE as a butter substitute for biscuits noting good flavor and browning. It claims one third less shortening needed, smoother dough, and broader uses including frying and cake, branding COTTOLENE as wholesome and cost effective.
Dorothy recalls a theater night with Jack and companions. They wore a striking all black gown with a silver ribbon bodice and jet embroidered train. The design features a black tulle drapery with picot edging and bead borders, emphasized by a colorless black and silver palette.
A collection of period kitchen guides listing recipes and instructions for sweets and cakes. It includes methods for Coffer K Plummery coffee dessert, Orange Sponge Cake, Society Cake, Ideal Frosting, and Sally Lunn muffins with steps, ingredients, and baking details.
A historical note discusses George Henry Lewes born April 18 1817 in London. It highlights his literary and scientific work including Life of Goethe Problems of Life and Mind and his friendship with George Eliot. It mentions Lewes teaching Hebrew to Eliot to converse discreetly in front of hotel staff and notes Darwin quoted him approvingly.
Concord April 17 Governor Henry W Keyes signed the Lewis bill making prohibition effective in New Hampshire May 4 1918. The action meets ongoing temperance efforts with state enforcement to begin in early May.
Household hints suggest filling a coal hod gradually and keeping a grape basket at the cellar stairs to ease trips. Use paper napkins with fruit to protect linen, sprinkle clothes with hot water, and iron in two hours. Mrs H B Crosby 260 Lexington St East Boston.
A 1917 poem celebrating April’s charm. It depicts fairy folk, birds, blossoms, and Oberon’s horn, portraying spring's magic as hearts and world are touched by youth and dream. The verse highlights nature’s beauty and joyful renewal across April.
A column on everyday manners suggests a gentleman should walk with a woman he meets on the street. It also states that one must ask permission before smoking in the presence of ladies, emphasizing courteous behavior in social settings.
Skirts vary in length while the sweater remains in fashion and satin blouses suit tailored wear. Neutral street colors are favored and tailored suits feature many buttons with bags made from striped or figured foulard.
Nils Sampson of 9 Broadway Cambridge was fined $25 in the Municipal Court yesterday for overspeeding his automobile. He disputed officers testimony from the arrest last Saturday near Park Avenue.
A 22 year old man in a low paying job asks if he should propose now or wait until he can offer a life she is used to. The adviser urges honesty, shared hopes, and faith in love to bridge money gaps and suggests he can improve with time.
Laura Sheldon writes verses imagining mothers amid wartime fear and sacrifice. The poem asks whether maternal loyalty can sustain soldiers, portraying a mother’s sorrow feeding the war effort and a resolve to endure and inspire victory.
The Rev Father Alexis and three priests lead a two week parish mission at St Mary of the Assumption Brookline for married and single women with strong attendance. Requiem mass for Italy Cross Cemetery Malden dead at 10 30 am today. rosary and benediction Sundays 4 pm. Industrial exhibit by Catholic Women's Club at St Patrick Hall Haverhill April 26 features altar linens for Catholic Extension Society. Forty Hours devotion opens Friday morning at St Rocco Brockton St Anthony Somerville and St Francis Lawrence churches.
The Rev. Ernest Graham Guthrie sails for France to comfort soldiers in trenches for six months. Ministers Stebbins Welms Stair preach and speak on religious values during church events in Boston and Chicago. A Sailors Day service at the Cathedral Church of St Paul in Boston gathers five hundred sailors with Bishop Lawrence expected to address attendees.
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