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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1919
Page
21
A humorous poem about ignoring medical advice on diet. The speaker vows to eat rich foods despite a doctor's warnings, joking about dieting’s futility and imagining a coroner finding cake and pie in his system. Copyright 1919 is noted.
Readers discuss whether women should stay in work or start families, arguing for voluntary motherhood and better baby conditions. Letters from IDEALISM and others urge balance, sacrifice, and respect for motherhood in a wartime economy with soldiers abroad.
An 18 year old girl asks advice about whether to keep dating a 28 year old with drinking smoking and gambling habits or pursue a newer acquaintance who says he has none of these faults. She weighs love and loyalty against known vices as she contemplates which path to take.
Charles Franklin Jones of Boston argues open discussion reveals both sides of every issue. He cites Aesop’s mule fable to illustrate that every truth has two sides and urges considering alternatives before deciding what is best for people and themselves.
The writer urges a woman to insist on conduct and virtues from her companion. She argues against tolerating faults and asks the man to prove his love by becoming worthy of lasting affection, challenging the idea that affection excuses flaws.
A palm beach observer notes amusement at several costumes and bathing suits seen on the shore. The writer dismisses black velvet and beaded outfits as inappropriate for the sunlit beach and praises a sporty skirt style seen among beachgoers.
A reflective poem cycle on mortality and nature. The speaker contemplates aging and approaching blindness as hetones the wind, hemlock, moon and stars. Nature shelters the speaker, offering solace and a vision of beauty that may outlast earthly life.
The description notes a white silk gabardine garment with a single pleat on each side of the front and back creating a panel effect. The pleat is lined with old rose satin that reveals itself as the wearer moves. Pockets are piped and satin lined for contrast.
Readers debate science about the earths core being solid, thunder duration versus echoes, and presidential ancestry noting no German descent presidents among twenty seven with most being English, Scotch Irish, Scotch, Dutch, and Welsh. A pensioner also asks about the pension roll size.
The data show a drop in pensioner counts from 951,687 to 616,895 while total payout increased from 153,093,086.27 to 179,835,329. The figures point to fewer recipients but higher payments overall.
The famed French ace Guynemer downs his eighth Hun plane and is wounded in the face with two bullets in his arm, in the next instalment of his life story in the Sunday Post.
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