Sewing Circle letters raise questions on wills and marriage rights
The Sewing Circle invites homemakers to discuss domestic topics and moral questions. A reader asks if a wife must return saved earnings to a husband via will, and others argue for equality and partnership, warning against female subservience and urging openness, trust, and shared responsibility.
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Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Vyhey
Boston Lost
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the Post
Letters From the Sewing Circle Featured in Sunday Post
The Sunday Post presents engaging letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader perspectives and community chatter. Readers share tips, anecdotes, and requests for future issues.
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Sunday Post
Stand by the President Poem Excerpt From 1915
A 1915 verse urging public support for the president during wartime. The Bentztown Bard lauds fortitude and common sense while condemning privilege and hostility, calling readers to back the leader and refrain from criticism.
Love and Courtesy in Courtship Letters
A young man asks if kissing and continued courting are proper after his mother-in-law disapproves. The columnist argues the two-year steady relationship with the daughter implies trust and honor, urges respectful response, and recommends reassuring the mother while preserving the girl's trust and future.
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Denar Sisters
Miss Champagne
A Christmas Eve Lark From Miss Gertrude Winham Field
Miss Compton on Christmas Eve dreams of a snowbound North Pole visit to Santa Claus. In a magical journey she learns to value giving through letters from children, a sick boy, and a professorial host, ending with a note urging kept Christmas in the heart.
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Miss Compton
Bessie Hayes
Dr. Hayes
Professor Tweadie
Bobbie
Barbara
Radcliffe
Mrs. Newlywed
Henry
Santa Claus
the Express
North Pole
Santa
Bobbie Brown
Denly
Moonlight tea gown song of moonlit beads and chiffon
The piece describes a moonlit Moonlight gown from a charity fashion show. It features a silver weighted slip, jade bead waist ties, moonstone and rhinestone ornaments, midnight blue creped chiffon over violet chiffon, and a long back train.
Dress trends of the season tease styles and fabrics
Evening gowns grow low cut as silk mantles show broadcloth lining. Colored cord piping enhances checked wool. Velveteen stilts trend high. Long coat waists vary. The pouffant skirt remains dominant while pearls top artificial neck laces, with glass beads and coral following.
Can't the Word That Breaks The Bold Resolve
A poetic reflection condemns Can't as root of harm and failed effort. It argues the phrase erodes courage and initiative, saps vision, and undermines workers and dreamers by sowing fear and laziness in daily tasks.
Catholic Churches Observe Nativity Eve Vigil And Services
Cine Notes reports Nativity feast eve observances across the archdiocese with confessions novenas and special services ending in the evening. St James Church hosts a nightworkers mass at 3 30 Christmas morning in Harrison avenue. St Marys Star of the Sea in Last Boston runs winter whist drives under parish women in St Marys Hall Saratoga Street. Cohasset Knights of Columbus plan a Christmas tree event.
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Boston
Sacred Heart Parochial School
James H. O'Neil
St. James’ Church
Harrison Avenue
St. Mary’s Star of the Sea Parish
St. Mary's Hall
Saratoga Street
New Year Noise Questioned as Barbaric Din
Lucia Ames Mead appeals to Boston editor asking city leaders to curb the New Year noise of 1915. She condemns the barbaric din, calls for restoring Christmas spirit and watch-night church services, and urges public opinion to pressure authorities to act.
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Boston
Lucia Ames Mead
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