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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1915
Page
13
Readers in the Boston Post Sewing Circle debate laws and family life. Corresponde ents share views on engagement, wages, motherhood, and child care with practical advice and personal anecdotes, urging responsibility and fairness across households.
Dorothy recalls a winter wrap the mandarin coat was transformed into a tea gown by Maurice. The white silk canton crepe coat featured dragon embroidery in blue, silver, and black. A matching canton crepe skirt with embroidered bands and padded Chinese slippers complete the ensemble.
The tunic remains in fashion with draped skirts promised for fall. Braiding and cording are used, white fur bands may be in favor, and coats will be very full in design. Sleeves stay long and straight, heavy serges appear this winter, and pockets, yokes, and cordings appear on skirts. Chinese embroidery trims add color while flat collars dominate summer and high collars rise for fall.
Ray Weld tires of society and plans to flee with his fiancée Eleanor after discovering her affair with Richard. He hides his wealth and meets Hilda, a local art student, and grows closer as autumn nears. When his lawyer calls, he faces a choice between moneyed security and a genuine connection.
A verse by Walt Mason from 1915 laments casual familiarity with strangers and old friends alike. The speaker, a patrician type, resents being called by first names and being greeted warmly by clerks, preferring formal respect and distance in social exchanges. He vows to shop elsewhere and keep acquaintances at arm’s length.
Hilda leaves the city society that she blames for her mother’s death and begins art study with her father’s support. Ray, who shares her wish to avoid the city, embraces country life and the simple riches money cannot buy.
The sixth annual teachers institute for Brothers and Sisters of parochial schools in the diocese draws large daily attendance at Boston College Hall. Rev. Francis P. Donnelly leads lectures on composition and developing the writer's imagination. The institute ends Friday afternoon. The Star of the Sea Church at Houghs Neck, now an independent parish with Rev. Father Madden as pastor, gains support as parishioners plan a new church on a more advantageous site, purchased already.
A reflective poem urges action in the present to ease world misery. It contrasts grand ideals with daily deeds, stressing that meaningful change comes from kind acts and hourly duty done today. The speaker appeals to a brother to choose immediate good over distant dreams.
Other summer projects are concluded as plans move forward for the construction of a new building. Officials expect progress as schedules are set and approvals pursued.
A national effort to spread Bible knowledge is planned by the Pictorial Bible Contest League with offices in New York. Rev. Dr. W. W. Bustard will preach at Dudley Street Baptist in Boston, sharing his Chicago World’s Christian Endeavor address and a later talk on safety. The Unitarian General Conference opened in San Francisco with Rev. Dr. Samuel A. Eliot presiding in Boston.
Benjamin P. Cheney had recovered promissory notes worth 50 000 after suing Fred J. Taber and others. Judge Morton in the Superior Court equity session granted Taber’s motion to dissolve the injunction and attachment of 60 000 against Taber real estate, and Cheney’s suit was discontinued.
Heavy rain caused the fifth annual playground demonstration by the Cambridge School Commission to be postponed. Superintendent M E Fitzgerald announced the event would move from Russell Field to Friday at 3 o clock.
Recipes from Mrs. R. C. Marsters present an Orange Mint Salad using oranges sugar mint and lemon juice with a cool stand and sherbet serving. Sultana Loaf stacks flour salt baking powder butter sugar sultana raisins egg and milk to form a light dough baked in a loaf pan for hot or cold slicing.
Household hints advise wiping smoky ceilings with a white cloth and shoe whitening paste, spreading settled sediment for stain removal. Boiled frosting ruined by overboiling can be softened and flavored with a walnut-sized piece of butter. G. M. France, 153 Chiswick Road, Brighton.
Massachusetts executive council partially lifts embargo on cattle movement approving a regulation by Dr. Lester H. Howard. After Aug. 31 the Brighton Stock Yards in Somerville and Union Stock Yards in Watertown may receive meat cattle sheep and swine from Massachusetts Maine New Hampshire and Vermont.
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