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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1910
Page
11
The Boston Post launches a New Department called the Sewing Circle for women readers to discuss home life health recipes and social questions. Correspondents may write under pen names and address letters to the Sewing Circle Editor with topics on home management and family matters.
A letter from Sister Cheerful counsels a reader facing marital strain to seek air, routine, and small changes at home. Practical tips include outdoor time, egg business as therapy, reducing daily sleep, and gentle, honest talk with a tired husband. Emphasizes patience, restraint, and avoiding rash decisions or new lovers.
A letter to Hungry Heart argues critics would condemn a wife who marries for love yet recalls her husband promised to provide worldly goods and eternal affection. The writer asserts a wife’s need for love and a home enriched by its nurturing, stating without it the home feels like an empty sepulchre.
A reader advises that the best path is to have an understanding with her husband and give him a chance to improve conditions. It suggests he may be worried over business affairs and not indifferent, urging dialogue to ease the situation.
A reader seeks guidance on unhappy marriage. The column endorses self care and frank talk with husbands, urges sharing housework with sons, warns against infidelity, and encourages tactful independence. It argues not to accept infidelity, to remain strong and hopeful, and to avoid divorce unless necessary.
A mother recalls how an old country woman advised feeding crackers soaked in boiling water to a fat healthy infant. The child, who sucked his thumb until five months, gradually stopped thumb sucking and slept through the night after the feeding method.
A reader offers warm tips on easing insomnia by outdoor breathing on a frosty morning and slow breathing to sleep. A second letter argues about the sewing circle and maid hiring, noting modern housekeepers differ from their predecessors and advocating patience and tact in interviewing maids. PATIENCE.
A distraught mother seeks help from a broker who vows to ruin her husband over a stock battle. A playful child tests the man’s resolve with warmth and truth, revealing a kinder path. He frees the couple from the looming financial bind, calling off the Amalgamated deal.
A caustic verse rows over a worker named James Jones. The speaker laments forgotten duties and offers sharp mockery of broken memory, ending with a demand to leave the store. The piece reflects early 20th century comic social critique in verse form.
The forthcoming Post next Sunday offers fashions shown in color and tips on interior decorations. It includes dressmaking notes designs for towel ends and a full page of everyday household helps and suggestions for housekeepers.
Brae i eae surveys the new season with shorter coats and severe Paris designs. Velvet in black and color leads fabrics while diagonal silks and black taffetas show soft textures. Changes include intricate sleeves, military button trims, and velvet shawls as Paris dictates.
The Em-Bee Toilet Company via Houghton & Dutton Co offers a free 50c Ninon Face Powder with every $1 Sorose box purchased. Sorose, a vegetable concentrate sold at $1, promises bust enhancement and carries a money back guarantee if results are not achieved. Postage-paid mail orders available from Buffalo.
The description highlights tailored suits with a fine soft quality and narrow and broad satin stripes in varied colors, noting the style is much liked and fashionable.
A young woman seeks advice on inviting a promising suitor to call. The letter suggests that a woman should invite the man, noting the social expectations and potential delays if she does not. The respondent advises inviting him to call, praising proactive dating etiquette.
Sunday Post features a dessert idea Apple Royal with bananas and sweet apple sauce topped with vanilla whipped cream. Also two cookie recipes with bear and fish cutters use nuts raisins and coconut with an uncooked icing. Includes addresses Mrs Alice Bragdon Lynn and Mrs Co J Cullington East Boston and Mrs T B Bishop Hubbardston.
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