Sewing Circle forum in Boston Daily Post urged for homemaker advice
The Sewing Circle is a regular department in the Boston Daily and Sunday Post. It invites homemakers of New England to discuss home and household affairs domestic difficulties and family problems. Correspondents may use noms de plume and ask questions. please write on one side of the paper and address letters to the editor.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Maey
Dear Sisters of the Sewing Circle I Was Cast Out
A girl from Maine writes of parental forgiveness for a son but not for a daughter. She recounts growing up with a wild crowd, a drunken Sunday gambling party, and a mother’s harsh scorn. The writer left home for Boston while her brother was praised as a model son.
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Boston
Maine
Petty Misery in Public Life of Harvard Man
A narrator describes a Harvard man with money whose behavior makes public outings unpleasant. The tone hints at social pretensions and personal affectations, highlighting a pattern of petty misery in his demeanor and partnerable phrases like a casual hello to a man.
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Harvard
Son of Edgerly Boy Dies in Barn Accident
In Wolfboro New Hampshire on December 6 a 14 year old boy, son of George Curtis Edgerly of Pleasant Valley, was killed this afternoon by a horse kicking him in the barn. He died three hours later.
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Wolfboro
N. H
George Curtis Edgerly
Pleasant Valley
Mother's Ambition in a Sewing Circle Opinion Piece
A columnist argues that mothers treat daughters harsher than sons when scandals touch family plans. She explains daughters are seen as investments to secure improved social status and a comfortable home, while sons depart with wives and support their in-laws. The piece reflects gender expectations shaping family loyalties and ambitions.
AMBITIOUS MOTHER SEEKS HOME OR SUPPORT FOR DAUGHTER
A fragment shows a mother seeking housing with one of her daughters or else she must support herself. The tone suggests a personal plea or notice listing family needs and potential arrangements.
Dear Sisters Seek Advice On Running Away From Home
A Texas 18 year old girl writes to the Sewing Circle about running away to see the world. She fears humiliating her mother yet contemplates marrying a man ten years older who she may or may not tell about her past. She asks for guidance.
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Texas
Penitent Sue
Wife and Husband Conduct Question Sparks Debate
The correspondence from a writer signing as Red Locks asks if a wife can be happy with a man who neglects his appearance and table manners yet remains a good moral man, reflecting social expectations of decorum.
Dear Red Locks A Matron Describes A Troubled Marriage
A 32 year old matron complains of marital tensions despite her husband’s wealth. He rejects etiquette, avoids wearing a dress suit, criticizes dinner, rests elbows on the table and sips from a saucer, and omits bowing when meeting women.
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Red lLocks
Dear Sewing Circle Confession on Etiquette and Money
A reader from Marlboro Street voices envy of “Red Locks” and contrasts polite husbands with practical care. She argues that real happiness may come from a husband who shares money and affection rather than perfect manners and empty promises.
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Marlboro Street
Sister's loud neighborly calls meet sturdy rubberneck
A suburban sister recalls how she tamed persistent callers sharing her telephone line by standing near the instrument during their marketing and courting chatter. Neighbors teased her as the rubberneck, but the tactic stopped them from using her phone.
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Becaus
Mock Modesty and the Path to Respectable Husbands
A reader from the Girls of the Future Dear Sewing Circle argues that women will demand proof of a man's decent life before marriage. She believes men avoid college-educated women because they read and think for themselves. The letter cites a sister who married a man who squandered youth and has since led a miserable life, ending with a note from a spinster at seventy.
Should mothers be pensioned in old age debate
A Sewing Circle plea raises questions about pensions for mothers who lose spouses and raise children. The author asks whether destitute widowed women deserve state support while others on public payrolls and soldiers receive pensions, inviting members to discuss the issue.
Sewing Circle Letters Highlighted in Sunday Post
The Sunday Post features a selection of the Sewing Circle’s most engaging letters, offering readers insights, humor, and community chatter from club members.
Munyon's Cold Remedy Claims Fast Relief and Cure
Advertising copy proclaims Munyon's Cold Remedy relieves head and throat symptoms and cures grip coughs and prevents pneumonia. It claims fevers discharges of the nose and aches from colds vanish quickly with price 25 cents, available at all druggists.
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Munyon
If I Die First by Charles Mackay poem
A lyric Iambic piece where a lover imagines dying first and awaiting the beloved at heaven’s gate. The speaker longs to be reunited, watching the stars and earth for the beloved’s radiant face as they await the eternal moment when they are made one.
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Love
Firehouse Explosion In Medford Injures Captain Sampson
Captain Benjamin Sampson of the Medford fire department escaped serious injury when a hot water heater exploded at the Salem street fire station Medford flooding the lower floor and shattering windows. He was on the second floor when knocked down but exited unharmed. His son Hoseman Fred Sampson was away exercising horses when the blast occurred.
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Benjamin Sampson
Medford
Salem Street
Sampson
Fred Sampson
Turkish ambassador appointments shift duties in London and Washington
London dispatch announces H. Dijevad Bey, counselor of the Turkish embassy here, will take the London post. It is understood R. Raif Bey, counselor at Washington, will replace Djevad Bey in London and move to that post in Washington.
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London
H. Dijevad Bey
Washington
R. Raif Bey
Djevad Bey
Dear Miss Champagne Cheating Jealousy Love Dilemma
A 19 year old girl writes about a jealous man who fixates on her and estranges her friends. The columnist suggests testing love by imagining his attentions to others and notes age differences reveal lack of affinity. The tone resembles advice column guidance.
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Miss Champagne
Dream of a Model Bride in a Painter's Studio
A male artist discovers a painting of his model Edna May that seems to show him as the creator and lover. He questions love and fate as the living model confronts the dreamlike image. The sunlit moment ends with him asking Edna to be his bride.
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Jesse Thompson
Edna May
Heigho
Edna
Fads and Fashions Paragraph Highlights Velvet and Fur Trends
A vogue note describes a velvet muff for girls with shirred borders and matching outfits. Smart afternoon gowns use velvet with fur trims such as caracal Persian lamb and skunk. Hair adopts the French twist or flat pompadour with the front parted. Colors and materials mix, velvet with net and satin with cloth. Black and tan boots dominate. patent feather shoes match costumes. White blouses in crepe de chine satin or mousseline de soie gain pale yellow amber trims.
Flickering Romance and a Sleepy Lover Conundrum
A reader asks how to handle a fiancé who falls asleep during visits, and whether his sleepiness signals real love. The columnist suggests observing patterns and hints at using subtle pressure, noting such behavior may reflect the relationship’s seriousness or incompatibility.
Banana Pudding and Cornmeal Batter Recipes
A pair of old kitchen recipes list ingredients and steps for a banana dessert with lemon and Knox gelatin, served with whipped cream, and a corn meal batter fried on a hot griddle. Includes names Mrs A C Dole and Mrs LL B with street addresses in Brockton and Concord.
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Knox
A. C. Dole
Winthrop Street
Brockton
LL. B
Tohonto Street
Concord
N. H
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