Sewing Circle aims to discuss home life among Boston Post readers
A New England department inviting women to exchange advice on home and household topics. Readers may use pen names and ask questions about health, child care, recipes, furnishings, gardening, and social questions. Correspondents should write on one side of the paper and address the editor with queries.
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Dry Scale On Childs Head Causes And Cure Sought
A mother asks readers for advice about her four year old daughter who has persistent dry scales on the scalp, very thin hair, and red blotches on the forehead. She prefers not to cut the hair short again and signs as Babbling Bess.
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Bess
Advice to Thelma on resisting unwanted advances
A married woman criticizes a younger woman for receiving a married man's advances. She urges self reliance, warns the admirer lacks respect, and suggests clear refusal, plus a harsh ultimatum if needed. She adds that the husband’s friendship with the admirer should influence his behavior and ends with a blunt corrective impulse. QUEEN CITY.
Wants to Raise Mushrooms
A reader named Bert's Wife asks for advice on mushroom growing. She recounts two children who finger suck, claims adhesive plaster around the finger cured the oldest, and mentions using it on her eight month old. She seeks harmless methods to whiten clothes without boiling.
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Nog Tek
Bert
Quiet Smile letter praises husbands helping at home
Adelaide writes in response to Quiet Smile praising husbands who assist with housework. She notes her own husband helps gladly, believes it does not lessen a man's self-respect, and stresses returning kindness with a smiling greeting and warm appreciation. She ends by offering a friendly handshake.
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fMands
Adelaide
Would Help Her Husband Dear Emma K
Billie writes that as an English woman she believes a wife should support her husband with small acts like preparing breakfast, helping him dress, and ensuring supper is ready. She argues men are not machines and need rest, and vows to make a husband’s home life pleasant if she marries, while acknowledging a wish to go out but not abandon housework to the husband.
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Thelma
Queen City
Emma K
Hubby
Billie
Maurice Delarue
Arbuckle
Maurice
Mariel
Muriel
Wesley Arbuckle
Rivers
Miss Rivers
Miss Champagne
Chelsea
Here Comes Bachelor Maid Disgust at Female Demands
A reader ridicules a young woman's view of marriage arguing a husband who does housework shows strength, while condemning a wife who lets her partner perform chores. The letter questions family roles and parental labor within a rigid domestic stereotype.
Bachelor Maid: A Woman's View on Husbands and Homes
A short humorous column voice notes a woman who refuses to cede bed to her husband and prefers a man who stays out of the kitchen. She jokes about hoping for a husband yet dislikes domestic fussing, declaring kitchen nonchalance as ideal for any right-minded woman.
Advice to Loyal Bluenose on Domestic Life
A reader urges the Post to run a men’s column and counsels a wife seeking separation. She notes legal support rights, health impact from daily life, and the need for personal judgment. Suggests church help if possible, warns against remarriage for a home, and ends with personal resolve.
Reply to Happy Wife Letter from Dolly Lyndhurst
A reader signs as Dolly Lyndhurst, replying to a Happy Wife note. She notes baby clothing made from daisy flannel, sharing how a friend used four or five slips for a six week period to save white diapers. She offers to correspond again and mentions embroidery work.
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Dolly Lyndhurst
Longing for Home and the Resolve of a Mother Who Worked
A narrative describes a mother’s struggle and ingenuity to support her family by discreetly washing others’ clothes and white waists from a restaurant workers, earning more than she could outside. The piece reflects resilience and the social context of seeking employment during hardship.
No Such Word as Cant Dear Thelma
A letter admonishes Thelma to reveal a jealous, unsafe situation involving a man pressuring her for affection. It urges immediate action to protect her husband and family, advising warning first and disclosure to husband if the pressure continues.
Loyal Blue Nose letter from Yankton survivor
A reader writes from Yankton describing abuse and neglect by a former partner. She details four years of daily coercion and orders, then escaping to work, finding independence with a small flat and safety, praying for guidance and peace.
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Lfe
Yankton
Love and Pride on the River Bridge Rescue
Maurice Delarue seeks to prove his bravery to Muriel Rivers who rejects him for being a coward. A stormy journey to Mrs. Eliots ends when a dramatic bridge collapse forces a perilous rescue by Maurice, leading Muriel to realize her love and forgive.
Cream Cheese Sandwiches and Whipped Cream with Sherry
Recipe notes describe mixing mild dairy cheese with butter to make a paste, adding Worcestershire sauce French mustard salt and cayenne. Spread between buttered white bread slices trimmed square and cut into triangles. Also prepare a lemon cream using lemon juice zest sugar and whipped cream with sherry and nutmeg.
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Nellie E, Zackular
Baker Road
Everett
A. C. Roberts
Falcon Street
East
Boston
Excellent Doughnuts and a Letter About Flirtation
A recipe for doughnuts and potatoes appears amid a long reader letter from Chelsea seeking advice on love. The response defines flirtation, urges waiting for heart steadiness, and explains flirt behavior for both sexes in candid terms.
Recipe style note from Mrs Wheeler in Nashua
A household tip describes layering salt on thin slices of underdone meat such as mutton beef or veal then covering with gravy and a wineglass of ketchup. The dish is finished with a thick layer of mashed potatoes and baked about 40 minutes. Mrs L L Wheeler 110 Walnut Street Nashua New Hampshire.
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Ll. M. Wheeler
Walnut Street
Nashua
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Who Pays for Dance Tickets Dear Miss Champagne Answer
Mildred Champagne advises on social etiquette for dance parties. A young woman inviting a man and friends should generally pay for tickets if needed, though the gentleman also buys his own and hers if not prepaid. The writer notes embarrassment and urges sparing use of pay affairs to avoid making partners feel unable to attend.
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Miss Champagne
Helen M
Divorced, Wed in 12 Minutes in New York
Otto T. Max Unger an acrobat was divorced and remarried today in 12 minutes. At 3 o clock the decree was granted and Malenie Anne Progel sat with him in court. They rushed to City Hall by taxicab and obtained a marriage license at 3:05. Alderman White was summoned and arrived by telephone, and the couple wed at 3:12.
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New York
Otto T. Max Unger
Malenie Anne Progel
Unger
Alderman White
Among the Churches of Greater Boston
The mid winter Lend Hand clubs conference met at South Congregational Church vestry in Boston with Rev C R Eliot presiding. Tomorrow Rev W H van Allen will preach at St Andrew's Wellesley and Rev Henry S Nash will lead Trinity Church night service. Rev Anna Howard Shaw, 70, leader of the NAWSA, lies gravely ill after a Cooper Union speech. Public meeting at Hollis Theatre to discuss stage children will feature Francis Wilson and J E Dodson. Commissioner Elijah of the Salvation Army visits Boston for three services at the People's Church. Lectures and sermons by local pastors planned in Wakefield and Reading with vesper services at Church of the New Jerusalem under George W Dudley.
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South Congregational Church
Newbury and
Exeter Streets
C. R. Eliot
W. H. van Allen
Church of the Advent
St. Andrew’s Church
Wellesley
Anna Howard Shaw
National American Women’s Suffrage Union
George S. Perin
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Franklin Square House
Beacon Universalist Church
Brookline
Hollis Theatre
Francis Wilson
New York
J. E. Dodson
Eilijah
Salvation Army
Boston
People’s i
United States
Booth
London
Army
Church of the New Jerusalem
George W. Dudley
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