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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1913
Page
13
The Sewing Circle section in the Boston Post invites New England homemakers to discuss home life and domestic topics. Readers may use pen names and seek or give advice on parenting, marriage, managing households, baby care, gardening, and related concerns. Submit letters to the Sewing Circle Editor.
A series of letters urges mothers to instruct daughters about vital life truths at home rather than schools or public spaces. Anxious mothers warn against dancing halls, while others defend a moral standard and emphasize forgiveness to reform wayward women.
A reader cites an old family expense book to compare postwar budgeting with modern cost pressures. The notes show items like boots bought for two dollars and reflect on how such prices would affect today’s wages and job security.
A reader cites rising prices from old to present and discusses family finances. An open letter from MOTHER OF FIVE GIRLS argues parents retain control over unmarried daughters earnings until 21 and urges independence with caution.
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