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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1913
Page
13
The Sewing Circle is a department in the Boston Post serving as a homemakers forum for New England readers. It invites letters on home life, domestic problems, family care, budgeting, gardening, and related topics with anonymous noms de plume and advice exchanged among correspondents.
Instruction notes that drapery should be first pinned, then adjusted and rearranged until the correct line is achieved. The process emphasizes securing the fabric before final shaping or styling.
A catalog of sale items lists dresses, waists, coats, furs, and accessories with marked prices. Garment ranges include wool and silk dresses, evening wear, tailored waists, coats, fur pieces, and various accessories from silk charmeuse to leather goods, with price points from a few dollars to over a hundred.
A Letter to the Dear Sewing Circle recalls a case of female grafting where a wife undercuts workers for wages. The writer describes her sister in law replacing an elderly woman, causing personal ruin, and a husband losing work after a trip West. The tainted cycle ends with a married woman earning twelve dollars a week.
A reader defends married women who work to help with family expenses in Greater Boston. She argues the cost of living forces many mothers to work to support large families, challenging Miss Tarbell’s label and asserting insider experience with working women.
An offer to make to order smart tailored suits for $9 including material and workmanship. The seller claims partnerships with five New England mills to use mill ends and promises unmatched value, plus other garments priced low such as long coats and skirts.
A factory girl writes in to argue more obstacles in women’s wage work would raise wages for men to marry. She says many working girls stay in low pay jobs to avoid housework and child care, claiming most discharged girls end up marrying and becoming wives. She reflects on poverty and marriage trends among workers.
A Sewing Circle correspondent urges choosing money over love, while another asks if parents or children deserve priority. An elderly reader laments aging into charity housing, noting children favor their own households and rooms, revealing tensions between generations and progress.
A terse clipping notes an inmate of a home who stands in the way of the younger generation’s pleasure and profit, signaling tension between generations and institutional restraint. The item preserves stark phrasing and cadence from the era.
A reader counsels wives to demand husbands cut ties with former loves or risk infidelity. The letter argues men cannot resist past romances and warns that old sweethearts are the strongest danger. It closes with a blunt moral about choosing between wife and former partner.
A Sewing Circle page prints a flood of letters debating pets in households. Responses blame or defend dog ownership linking to child welfare and family finances, with comparisons to milk shortages, charity homes, and hunting. The exchange questions whether pets should be banished or cherished in family life.
A lyric pleads for the beloved Mary Donnelly, praising her beauty. The speaker acknowledges his poverty and social gap, wishing to share both grand and humble lives, while offering blessings and hopeful longing.
A minister and his wife face hardship as winter nears. A wealthy youth gives them gloves intended as a marriage fee, but the gloves contain five crisp five dollar bills in each fingertip, providing unexpected relief and gratitude.
A reader claims dogs harm women and babies while condemning mothers for allowing dogs near children. The letter, signed by a 60-something woman, laments affection for pets over infants and cites a fear of germs as a reason to avoid babies.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most engaging letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader views and community anecdotes. Readers share practical sewing tips, opinions on garment trends, and reflections on craft life from the local circle.
Paragraph ads describe fashion trends with three quarter length draped coats and patent leather shoes featuring silk tops. Winged Valkyrie headbands with black velvet bands, feather discs and fantasied ornaments add color. The courier du bois white felt motoring cap frames the face. Aigrettes and clusters offer optional front styling.
A recipe card style item detailing a sauce made with butter flour cream and chicken meat with egg yolk paste and sherry, followed by cabbage fried with salt pork and a peanut butter jelly jar method. Includes contributor names and hometowns: Mrs H B Crosby East Boston Miss Hazel Grace New Durham Mrs Alula Arey Stockton Springs.
Washington February 6 Miss Delia Torrey Aunt Delia of Millbury Massachusetts arrived at the executive mansion today for her last visit. Since President Taft has been President Miss Torrey has been a welcome visitor to her nephew s home on several occasions.
Beginning tonight the Boston Elevated will run more cars to City Point during theatre hours. The line operates from City Point to Summer street via Broadway Dorchester Avenue and Summer street, returning via Washington street and Broadway extension. The extra service gives roughly three minutes of added travel during theatre returns. Red Cross cough drops 5c per box. advé.
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