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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 1918
Page
12
A collage of short vignettes and quips about children and adults. A girl questions gatekeeping paint, a teacher asks wonders, siblings reconcile with a kiss, a nurse jokes about grubby faces, and families recall childhood memories with humor and insight.
A mother advises polite shopping and letting salesmen show all stock until the desired item appears. Seven year old Harold voices a humorous wish to follow his father into the legal field, praying to become a good boy, a good lawyer, then land on the supreme bench.
The Official Taster presents colored sugar and plaster statues to a boy and his younger brother with a warning they are poison. The boy hides one in fear before admitting he gave it to Dick and plans to eat the other himself after school. The uncle is in France and reportedly overseeing the war effort.
Boston Sunday Post Magazine contents list readers items for August 11 1918 including Riders for Democracy Cover design The Slayer by George Patrullo A Reluctant Traveller by Foote Another story Dumb-Bell series Padgett's Reedville Quartette by Lloyd Dorsey Willis The Divided House by Hanshew Cleelk makes good once more The page references are 1 2 3, with various features across sections.
A suburban schoolroom tale features a first grade pupil named Johnny who answers a math riddle with seven, claiming he has two cents in his pocket. The teacher blushes and repeats the question, astonished at the persistent, cheeky reply from the rear of the room.
A mother consoles Bobby as he contemplates punishment while promising to think over his actions. A visiting girl’s composition humorously contrasts men and women, noting their habits and jokes about evolution and churchgoing.
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