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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1914
Page
11
Readers discuss living on small wages, marriage economics, and home life in a Boston Post Sewing Circle column. Letters urge frugal living to raise families while stressing dignity, modest dress, church, and homemaking.
The writer urges women to value their home duties and enjoy a wholesome dainty dinner. After cleaning up, they should step outside. city women with few children are advised to take a walk for daylight refreshment.
A 22 year old woman writes of longing to meet decent young men described by their mother, noting few exist. She avoids dances and theatres, favors outdoors like skating and tobogganing, dislikes tango and dancing, and laments modest dress in an era of extreme fashion.
A reader laments a lonely 17 year old motherless girl seeking advice and a home. A well wisher urges seeking church caretakers for companionship and work. A Vermont correspondent rebukes a letter writer for impropriety and warns about traveling acquaintances.
At Vienna a meeting between Phillip Heineken and Albert Fallin, directors general of Hamburg-America and North German lines, discussed merging their interests to replace the current quota based traffic division in the transatlantic passenger rate war.
Two siblings sit alone in a once lively home as children grow up and depart. The table is set for two once more, recalling days of laughter and tears. They find that no other place compares to the dear old home.
The column salutes Citizen John F Fitzgerald and Thomas A Isdison on birthdays and anniversaries. It notes spring delays with coal dealers and praises shade tree planting by the Massachusetts Forestry Association. Other items cover Newton posters against alcohol, Plymouth’s old blacksmith shop demolition, rising horse numbers in Boston, and birthdays of local leaders. Reports on New York garment workers and vest makers, western potato competition, and a Boston suffragist actress add to the mosaic.
Jeanette Neal and Dorothy Gunn share a cozy scene by a bay window discussing Christmas preparations. Jeanette catalogs thrifted season gifts and clever reuse plans, including a Holly covered box for patchwork and a calendar that will be repurposed next December.
A nostalgic speaker recalls bygone modesty and refined manners in youth while contrasting with modern women noted for fashion, nightlife, and bold behavior. The piece, attributed to Walt Mason from 1914, frames a humorous moral about changing social norms.
Jeanette plans a Christmas gift project printing pictures for Dorothy. She reflects on creating a window seat of gifts, buying one item at a time to ease costs, and hopes to finish a book by Christmas while sharing laughs. Mr Hogan's auto stumble provides light humor.
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