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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1919
Page
15
A reader writes about choosing home and babies over career earnings after marriage and urges women to prioritize family. A second letter voices frustration of unmarried women seeking homes and partners, asking why home makers are left alone. TRULY HAPPY and LONELY WOULD-BE MOTHER signatures appear in the discussion.
A reader questions the value of women’s public roles versus motherhood, arguing that women should marry and bear children. A young mother shares her choice to marry and raise two children, asserting her babies bring far more happiness than wage earnings.
The poem speaks of a broken bridge and floodtide sweeping through fields and town. It warns that a single failure compromises life and structures, urging steadfastness to keep every span of life upright against flood and storm.
Folio of recipes including Buttermilk Pie Eggless White Cake and sugary cookies from Mrs Freeman Cirle Trenant King’s County Nova Scotia. Includes instructions for meringue topping and frosting plus eggless, milkless cake variations and a molasses cookie dough with raisins.
A vivid vignette describes a soldier greeted by an attractive, well-dressed young woman in Canary yellow three piece sports silk suit with oyster white pongee jumper and matching detailing. The description notes the coat, skirt hem, and cuff design with cross stitching and three quarter length sleeves.
In Miss Alice Stuart’s etiquette column, she explains mourning cards should keep the same size and materials, with the border width adjusted to reflect relationship proximity. She clarifies letter writing: do not turn pages sideways. use pages in numerical order, starting with pages one and three if two pages are needed, and proceed in order for longer letters.
An afternoon dress features a black velvet bodice and a skirt made of seven ruffles of black tulle, presenting a layered and elegant silhouette.
A reader recounts an incident with a young man who forced a kiss after she refused. The letter argues women must assert boundaries and resist manipulation to avoid reinforcing the stereotype that women capitulate. It contends men can be decent but social norms pressure women to yield.
Mabel Herbert Urner invites readers to a domestic scene where an unplanned visitor disrupts the quiet of the Warren and Helen home. The installment previews how this intrusion upends family harmony in the forthcoming Boston Post Sunday Magazine.
Bettina Ray on her grandfather's Maine farm shoots what she thinks is a deer but finds she has killed Dick Haskell, her former admirer. He recovers, Bettina admits the mistake, and plans for a roadster in exchange for his skin are revealed.
Boston author Charles Franklin Jones urges Americans to live up to the ideals of freedom justice and determination in daily conduct and public life. He cites Aesops fable of the Jackass and the Image to warn that people may revere the idea not the bearer and reminds readers that the nation and individuals are bearers of peace and liberty.
Betty recounts how Bettina saved a deer skin mistaken for a khaki uniform and kept the skin while honeymooning in a small roadster. The gift from her grandfather adds charm to the tale of a cherished permanent keepsake.
Birthday observances tie Lincoln to George Meredith born in 1828 in Portsmouth England. The novelist and poet, war correspondent in 1866, produced Shaving of Shagpat and Diana of the Crossways. Meredith died soon after Swinburne, his close friend, with health failing in later years.
Old magazine under hot dishes protects oilcloth. Tear off used pages to keep magazine clean. To keep lettuce crisp, wrap in a cold water cloth with roots in a little water and refrigerate. it stays fresh for two to three days. Mrs. F. W. Crowell, 4 Birch Street, Mast Lynn.
The Order of Queen Elizabeth of Belgium was given in Tokio to Princess Fishimi and four American women for war work. The Japanese government plans to issue similar orders. S F Hildebrand at Camp Hancock studies mosquito control using fish. A portrait of Jacob T Schitt hangs in the Montefiore Home directors’ room.
A reflective poem traces smoke’s soft eddies as the dreamer hopes vapors to carry memories into space. It seeks temperate fire to temper life and asks Experience to turn the self into meerschaum, preserving a gentle memory of a lifelong friend as life fades.
The painting titled nist valued at 7000 was by Harrington Mann and presented to Mrs Schiff. A search for St Merk Temple Dowling follows after the work was cut from its frame. A sequence of cultural and economic notes from Boston features real estate, finance schemes, and a 15 year old piano prodigy amid sparse local humor.
A devoted mother praises her eight year old son Flo in a lyrical verse. She describes his golden hair bright eyes and red lips as she vows to fulfill his desires and celebrates the boy bringing joy to her life. The speaker closes with unwavering maternal love and happiness from his presence.
The French ace Guynemer downs his eighth Hun aircraft and is wounded in the face with two bullets in the arm, in the next instalment of his thrilling life story in the Sunday Post.
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