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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 04, 1921
Page
19
Dear Sewing Circle letters discuss fashion cosmetics and high heels. A reader argues powder improves appearance and suggests buying it for many girls to look better.
Readers discuss cosmetics, high heels, and race in wartime America. Letters argue for moderation while linking appearance to national fitness and immigration. Debates touch on morality, motherhood, and social reform.
A devotional poem urging humility and service. The speaker rejects holier than though airs and pledges to toil beside others, bearing dirt and hardship with a clean conscience by night and in day’s labor, seeking to stay useful and faithful.
In a playful scene Jack and Jill tease each other over Anne inviting them to dinner. Jill handles the call, misdirection and evasive talk highlight the couple’s comic navigation of social plans while Jack muses on women’s devious methods.
A Sunday Post food feature presents parsnip dishes and baked offerings. The page lists browned parsnips, parsnip croquettes, popovers, potato puff, and a hominy and milk cook, with method steps and ingredients. Contributor: Mrs Elizabeth H Gleason of Watertown.
Household hints advise using wheat flour as a fire extinguisher for kerosene spills. Preserve paper bags and place a bag over each jar when storing canned goods to keep out dust and light. Wipe hands dry, rub with cornstarch in cold weather, and mix whiting with yellow soap to seal leaks. Dry hands after onions with mustard water. Mrs. George H. Knowlton of 510 Fastern Avenue East Lynn signs off.
In a playful exchange Tommy asks about his sister preferring Mr. Softhead. the punchline reveals she hides her view of him by dimming the parlor light in the evening.
The text notes that the crocodile was believed to moan and sigh to lure people into its power, calling crocodile tears sham. It cites Shakespeare and a line about Gloucester being beguiled by a mournful crocodile whose sorrow snares passengers.
Ki ng George Lillo born February 4 1603 in London son of a Dutch jeweller. He joined his father’s trade but wrote drama late. first play at 37 and a ballad opera followed by The London Merchant at Drury Lane. He died before age 50.
A description notes a dark blue crepe pleated skirt paired with a henna crepe de chine coat. The coat features blue and silver embroidery detailing the outfit.
Mrs. Williamson laments hair nets while plotting to land her husband a big deal through a Hills dinner party. The mood shifts when Vera falls ill with a contagious disease and a 10 day quarantine binds the group. Betty’s engagement to Bob Harkners seals a chaotic, comic twist.
Mrs Nancy Fay of Southboro marks her 104th birthday by being elected a member of the Framingham chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, claiming status as the oldest member of any organization worldwide. Her son was killed at Gettysboro. Sir Edward Marshall Hall, famed London barrister, praised for defending murder cases with multiple acquittals.
Mrs Belle Case Harrington of Bowling Green Ohio sought extra income and discovered corks as a small business. She studied market demand, visited pharmacies within ten miles, filled orders promptly, and built near complete local trade earning over 100 dollars in spare time, funding a sinking fund toward a car and expanded sales radius.
John F. Bass argues Europe’s chaos stems from secret treaties eclipsing Wilson's 14 points. He surveys Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Czecho Slovakia, Poland, Russia, the Balkans and Turkey and urges German rehabilitation for European solvency. He calls for Allied cooperation with Germany, cautions against Junkers or Communists, and favors joining a reformed League of Nations focused on judicial and economic goals.
In church avoid fixing loose hair that covers the ear as it is a breach of good manners. Arrange hair so it cannot come loose after leaving home, since such in church grooming is considered bad manners and not fashionable in the best society.
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