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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 24, 1919
Page
21
Boston writer Charles Franklin Jones urges acceptance of partial gains in diplomacy. He argues compromise on the best available terms in the League of Nations and peace treaty, while pursuing further improvements later.
On a rainy Sunday Mr. Barrows seeks quiet in his chair while his wife Martha nags over dust, meals, and bargains. He storms up, insisting a man deserves rest, and declares he will go on strike from nagging. She learns the cost of constant fuss and laments men do not understand.
The article highlights blue and white plaid foulard and white serge as a pretty mix. A loose white crepe de chine coat with straw braid embroidery appears, while checked crepe yields pretty afternoon frocks. Black chantilly lace satin and jet are favored for dinner gowns.
A reader advises a correspondent to reveal her marriage to seven soldiers she has written to and host a meeting with her husband present. She shares her own experience of writing to a single “war brother,” noting her four children and the comfort her letters provided. She urges stopping further letters to avoid a quarrel. GROUCH'S WIFE AT 28 signs off.
A Sewing Circle correspondent argues against large families on low wages, condemns population growth, and critiques price gouging and food shortages. She cites biblical punishment, compares wartime wage gains to real purchasing power, warns of profiteers, and urges humane treatment of workers and modest fashion.
A collage of reader queries to the editor including divisions in the word hundred, legal grounds for divorce in Vermont, potato consumption in France and England, the Fourth Amendment’s warrant standard, telescope magnification limits, and visibility of a flag 50 feet above sea level.
Household hints list simple methods for cleaning linen shades piano keys windows and mirrors willow chairs and tables and removing paint spots from glass. The note from Mrs K Be Foster at 41 Tremont Street Campello offers practical tips for home maintenance and neatness.
In etiquette guidance, an engaged girl should not limit herself to a single dance partner even with her fiancé and may join a friend group. Titles belong to the man. a wife should be addressed by her own name with the husband’s title not used on visiting cards.
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