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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1913
Page
15
A Boston Post Sewing Circle letter debates laws to prevent marriage to unfit partners. A woman lawyer supports restricting marriage for mental or financial danger, arguing for safeguards and parental consent before nuptials.
Fragmentary verse about roses fading and roses growing again. A nostalgic refrain addresses a beloved, promising brighter days after sorrow. The dialect hints at older rural or song lyric style.
A Baltimore American excerpt argues love alone cannot justify marriage. It cites misery from dissipation, urges parental arranged matches and a legal fitness test for marriage, noting divorce courts thrive on marriages based on love without virtue and stability. The piece also includes a personal account from a young wife in Boston reflecting long days alone.
Daily intake reaches 350 people in the United States with deadly germs claiming more victims in cities due to indoor work and lack of sunshine. The ad promotes Scott's Emulsion as a strengthening food medicine that builds energy, enriches the blood, and supports lungs to resist colds and prevent consumption.
Thousands suffer from excessive thinness and weak nerves yet a new regenerative force named Sargol is claimed to restore flesh and strength. The ad says six fat producing elements work together to correct digestion and add fats to the blood, with physicians endorsing it and leading druggists stocking Sargol.
A reader argues against employed married women when not needed financially, urging women to work only to support themselves or in the home. She emphasizes loyalty to husbands, minimizing temptations, and suggests rocking a cradle or adopting a child if no own. The piece contrasts lonesomeness with self-sufficiency, advocating domestic labor over paid labor outside.
A correspondent endorses paying mothers salaries funded by the State while they care for their children. She notes a baby’s love cannot cover Grocer or Doctor bills and argues public policy should reward motherhood. The writer supports State payments to women who bear and raise new citizens.
A note indicates that some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle are printed in the Sunday Post, highlighting reader correspondence and community insights in the weekend edition.
The Rev Samuel Warren Dike a noted Congregational clergyman and author died at his Auburndale home after a short illness. Born in Thompson Connecticut in 1883 he was educated at Williston Academy Harvard Theological Seminary Andover Theological Seminary graduating in 1866. He received Williams College LL D in 1888 and served pastorates in Royalton Vermont Randolph Vermont and Pomfret Connecticut before turning to writing full time.
A moral tale on golf and gender roles. A woman in tight corset and high heels joins a sensible friend at the links. Two men offer to teach the game, one guiding her over a wall as they discuss bunkers and hazards, while the friend wades a muddy brook seeking her ball.
Paragraphs highlight afternoon frocks with bolero over draperies edged in fur, waistline draping with a belted, wide girdle, and washable shirtwaists without starch. Tailored suits show slim armholes, satin slippers accompany gowns, and fur stoles draped to reveal a shoulder with translucent fabric.
Recipes from New England cooks describe stuffing fish with bread crumbs and butter, baking and basting with parsley or egg sauce. Also included is a bacon and banana dish, frying slices of bacon then serving with thick banana slices glazed with sugar as a hot border.
An advertisement promotes Knowlton's Danderine at 25 cents as a solution for dandruff itchy scalp and falling hair. It claims one application enhances hair beauty, dissolves dandruff, prevents root damage and hair loss, and urges immediate use for soft lustrous hair.
A reader 42 claims loss of vigor and brightness. answer promotes S-mgrain cadomene tablets as a tonic treatment. Multiple letters request cures for weight loss, liver kidney trouble, bedwetting, catarrh, hair care, fatigue, rheumatism, bronchial issues, and indigestion with various patent remedies and dosages.
A note announces another chapter of Yorchy by Sewell Ford appearing in the upcoming Sunday Post magazine. It teases the new installment in the popular series and invites readers to collect the story with the issue.
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