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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 10, 1919
Page
13
Claire Traynor and Dick Grant clash when he misses the club dance. Claire swears off yet Bob’s scheming plans unfold as Dick enlists in the navy. A canoe mishap, a staged rescue, and a confession seal their tense compromise.
A reader asks if a lady may request a smoking companion to quit while with her and how to handle smoking courtesy. The response says a gentleman should discard or seek permission to continue smoking when joining a lady, and a man may deny smoke with polite courage. For winter wear, white furs with white shoes and stockings are advised against on street wear by fashion authorities.
A letter asks what grandmothers would think of modern topics like jobs and babies. It discusses women’s education, emancipation, and birth control, noting changing roles since the last century and urging thoughtful individual choices about marriage, motherhood, and independence.
Recipes from the Sunday Post show lemon apple filled cake with a sausage and baked bean filling and a coconut cream candy. Included are coconut cream candy and gelatin marshmallow treats with names and street addresses of contributors.
A reader asks how to handle a delicate situation where a boyfriend of three years older expresses love while shifting attention to the mother. The response urges acquiescence, arguing the suitor’s pursuit by the mother is awkward and that the girl gains nothing by forcing his attention, adding that the man is not a desirable match if others can take him away.
The speaker recalls a treasured brown hair gift kept secret and golden as sunshine. They weave memory into strings on a wind harp, calling the breeze to wake chords that murmur of a forest greenwood, a vanished lover, and a sorrowful, final parting.
Mrs. Maynard Ladd, Boston sculptor with the Red Cross overseas, has made new faces for 70 French and five American soldiers. She took plaster casts of disfigured faces and used electrolysis to construct copper noses ears and chins, enamelled to look real. Also returning on the Baltic is Mrs. Barrett Andrews of Bronxville who served with the Smith College unit and was with American forces at the Somme and in the St Mihiel and Argonne offensives.
Letters from readers cover Halifax Harbor depth at low tide and the meaning of torn schooner. Queries also ask about universal prohibition in Canada and Julia Ward Howe centennial with notes on The Battle Hymn of the Republic. Epsom salts origin and Bethlehem place name meaning discussed.
The narrator notes a dramatic change in Miss Cecelie’s appearance at a recent dance, describing a pale rose satin evening frock with a rose ribbon girdle, looping back detail, silver net drape, and silver lace finishing at the knees, concealing the person’s prior identity.
New frocks feature bibs and ankle length hems while summer wraps lack fastenings. Evening coats boast double collars and fur belts with lisere straw hats gaining popularity. Belts shrink and leather bags arrive in many shapes as fashion notes record Paris trends and kids party frocks in net and satin ribbons.
Sergeant Daniel P. Barry of Arlington, recently mustered out, returned to his duties on the Arlington police force last evening. He has served in the United States army since the war began and is one of several Arlington officers who volunteered for world war service.
The excerpt explains that Vanity Fair in Pilgrim's Progress is named for the town’s lighter attitude toward vanity, noting the phrase appears in the work and is connected to the Bible expression.
The piece argues whether John Quincy Adams is a Bostonian noting both he and his father were born in Braintree. It mentions Adams’s mansion at the TreMont and Boylston corner where the Hotel Touraine stands and that his son Charles Francis Adams Sr. was born there in 1867.
When using sour milk in baking a cake soda is usually used to raise it. Baking powder is used with sweet milk.
Rev. Robert M. Pierce spoke at Newton Centre church urging young people to lead welfare, religious, educational and social service work. He cited 480 new stars on the New England life service flag as wartime inspiration and noted 18 young people needed for Boston area life service roles.
John S. Sargent paintings arrive at the Museum of Fine Arts for an exhibition including portraits of Jotun PD and Rockefelle. Washington’s birthday events feature Colonel Thopias at Boston coast defenses. Dr. Alexander Hamilton Rice plans a June Amazon expedition with scientists. Mrs Rice joins. James Gillespie Blaine Jr faces rumors of a third marriage while presiding at Liberty National Bank. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt visits Quentin Roosevelt’s grave with General Pershing assisting. Emily Carew engages in war work in France. Captain Alfred F B Carpenter brings Zeebrugge raid films to Boston and notes near silent hotel room preference after shelling. Former Treasurer William Gibbs McAdoo to counsel Mary Pickford and others, with a hefty salary.
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