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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1920
Page
18
Readers discuss trust among women and how secrets spread, with Rob, All-Of-A-Sudden Peggy, and Freeborn weighing in on gender roles, strength, and equality. Contributions contrast American and Spanish norms and defend gentleness over brute toughness.
Advice on entertaining in warm weather focuses on refreshing drinks for golf and tennis guests. It suggests bottled juice mixes such as apple, raspberry, grape, loganberry with lemon and tea, plus lime as an alternative. The piece emphasizes varied juice blends to keep beverages appealing all season.
Gladys A Parker from Norway Street shares practical home ideas. She suggests a rubber suction stopper as a multipurpose tool in kitchens and a variety of thrift fixes such as indoor clothes reels, an apron from oil cloth, a step stool, a soapstone for oven heating, and repurposing items like a goldfish bowl as a cracker jar and glass tobacco jars for storage.
A 1920s syndicated column explains that dream meanings were once considered significant but now are viewed as interesting yet not important. The piece notes the new series aims to explore old beliefs without endorsing them.
The piece explains dream meanings for trunks: packing a trunk predicts a forthcoming journey that brings advantage. A full trunk warns economy, an empty trunk signals a large money gain, a too small trunk forecasts a promotion, scattered clothes warn of leaving current work, while a trunk with many compartments urges staying focused.
The report notes growing favor for laces in trousseaux and describes a sober black hat with a flaming cockade, while the flaring and straight tailleurs appear smart and stylish.
Longstanding feuds between the Goodwins and Marstons erupt when a kitchen fire threatens Helen Goodwin's home. Jim Marston saves the house using fire smothering earth and quick action. An insurance settlement and budding romance lead to plans for marriage.
Miss Alice Stuart presents a reader dilemma about being asked to play bridge for money at a party. The response states there is no etiquette rule forcing a person to break personal morals and that the hostess should not press.
The writer argues that money stakes in card games are not universally accepted. They advise declining in time to avoid pressuring others and condemn bending conscience for social approval, noting that more people refuse money games in modern society.
A San Francisco bulletin poem describes a redwood forest scene with dawn light, a woodsman preparing to hew a tree, and the dramatic image of the kingly tree yielding to the ax. The narrator notes the tree’s majesty and the cruel stroke of form over nature.
A vintage collection of kitchen tips from Mrs Milton B White and others. Recipes include a rich orange cake with separate whites and yolks beaten with sugar, orange filling, and a step by step bake in two tins. Also covers potato and bran bread variations, leftover frankfurters with scrambled eggs, and a simple milk gravy pork fry.
A cooking note describes stirring a tablespoon flour into fat until brown with pork bits, then gradually adding about three cups milk and cooking until thickened, as a standard gravy method referenced in Woodstock Vermont. The note closes with the signature MISS J A COLE.
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