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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1913
Page
11
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Daily Post invites New England women to discuss home life and family issues. Topics include domestic economy, child care, gardening, and household tips. Correspondents may write under pen names and direct questions to the Circle Editor in Boston.
A letter from HAPPY WIFE argues that women laboring for better homes face class envy from so called grafters while a good husband is defined by warmth, tolerance, and shared duties. She prefers occasional faults over constant nagging, intoxication and absence over coldness and stinginess, urging discussion on marital ideals.
A Fall River Work Girl argues against employed women asserting that female labor lowers wages and harms families. She contends men would earn higher pay if women stayed home and urges laws to pension married mothers, recalling a past era when married women were rare in the workforce.
A reader condemns competition among women workers who accept lower pay, urging a sign over a home door warning against female grafters. The letter condemns underpaid labor harming honest workers and driving women to poverty, arguing for a fair living wage to end exploitation by needy schemes.
A sister named Claudia signs that a woman can be happy with a drinking, smoking husband. She states she has been married nearly twenty years and despite his faults she is very happy, urging readers not to sneer at such unions.
A reader advises wives to tolerate and invite their husbands former love interests to their homes to test fidelity. By encouraging playful kisses and creating baby duties, she argues jealousy is unnecessary and that confronting potential deceit early preserves possession and control. SAMANTHY ANN.
Letters signed as Loving Mother and Ripened Wisdom argued a mother’s demand that her sons remain unmarried to shield her from poverty in old age. The discussion grew from a prior debate on whether widowed mothers should receive pensions.
A reader lambasts two writers signing as Loving Mother and Ripened Wisdom for promoting selfish motherhood. She argues motherhood should be joy in children, not demanding sons sacrifice happiness for money or societal gain.
A reader signed Elizabeth blasts a sister's Sewing Circle note about sons obeying their mother as adults. She argues men should have the right to marry without their mother's constraint and condemns the actions and sympathizers of the pair.
Marguerite Herrick of Farmington Maine 18 receives gossip about Marguerite and Geoffrey Keene, breaks with him over trust. A green box of letters reappears via her brother Ted leading Geoffrey to confront and Marguerite to forgive with a kiss ending the misunderstanding.
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