Boston Post Sewing Circles Forum for Women Readers
The Boston Post announces a new Sewing Circles department to be a forum for women readers. Topics include household tips, health, baby care, husband and children management, home economy, furnishings, gardening, and social questions. Correspondents may use pen names and send questions to the Sewing Circle Editor.
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Remedy for pale hair through castor oil and brandy mix
A reader from Valley-One requests color remedies and shares a home hair treatment. The proposal combines equal parts castor oil and brandy rubbed into the scalp every other day, with a biweekly egg shampoo recipe using Castile soap borax and eggs. The writer asks Snow Bell to try and report results.
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BELL
Embroidery Technique For Preventing Ravelling
A note by L Everett explains a sewing method to stop embroidery from ravelling. She describes leaving a narrow piece beside the scallop and turning a small hem on the wrong side after completion, ensuring no further ravelling after washing.
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L. Everett
From the Housegirls Standpoint A call to aid housework workers
A Housegirls Standpoint writer supports Caledonian in aiding housework girls and offers to join the club. She describes ten years in service, worsening treatment, and overwork including washing ironing cooking answering doors and nighttime sleeping in cramped rooms. She notes being assigned all upstairs work and poor living conditions.
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Caledonian
Plea for Fair Treatment of Housework Helpers
ALANNAH laments dark cramped kitchens and cold meals, urging ladies to value human rights for servants. She argues women promote suffrage while neglecting the servant question, noting fashionable talk hides harsh realities of domestic labor and urging considerate care to reduce turnover.
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Alannah
Roxbury Letter Describes Lone Evenings for Married Reader
A Roxbury reader writes about the loneliness of her husband’s work schedule, which keeps him away from 8 PM to midnight every third month. She asks for guidance on finding ways to spend evenings together and mentions she is also from Roxbury.
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Roxbury
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I Am Married Three Years And Have Two Babies
A letter noting a man’s care in a happy marriage. The wife explains daily support from her Parisian French husband, who helps with household chores and child care. She asserts a contented life and uses the nickname Dolly for her husband’s pet name for her.
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Dolly
Quiet Smile and Jealous Hearts in Morning Duties
The speaker expresses envy and affection in a playful tone about domestic life. She notes pride in home duties, claiming she would rather supervise housework than rely on others, and asserts strong commitment to her household and marriage. The dialogue hints at romantic tension and domestic familiarity.
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George
How She Cares For Gold Fish
The author describes a unique method for keeping two gold fish in a three gallon bowl. Water is changed five or six times daily by removing a gallon at a time and adding fresh cold water to maintain temperature. Feed includes oatmeal flakes in the morning and fish food later in the day.
Mother in law family tension and child behavior
A mother asks how to handle her mother in law's differential treatment of her two sons ages 6, 1 2, and 4 in a shared home. The elder is favored, the younger is ridiculed by the grandmother, causing friction, fear in the younger, and marital strain. The writer seeks guidance without blaming her husband.
Gold fish care cautions and growth observations
Athol notes daily care of small angle worms and weekly sand scalding to keep goldfish healthy. He warns against stale foul water, recounting deaths from poor conditions. His fish have grown from small to nearly six inches, solid and strong.
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ATHOL
Caring for a Century Plant and Related Ferns
A reader asks how to revive a five year old century plant that suffered over winter with leaf tips drying. They also request guidance on Boston ferns and asparagus ferns care, showing a general need for winter protection and proper watering.
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Boston
Etiquette note on introductions at aunt's gathering
A letter on proper manners explains that when guests enter while the aunt is present the aunt should introduce the guest to the hostess and to others, including a husband’s cousin. It emphasizes courtesy and social duty in introductions.
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H. S
Hungry Heart and a spouse in love’s bind
Shorty C recounts a pain filled plea about forgiveness and loyalty in a troubled marriage. He advises a wife to forgive, forget, and reject the other man while reflecting on his own nine years of wedded happiness and the ruin of a home caused by another married woman.
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Shorty C
Quiet Smile and Coffe Love Jibe Sparks Circle Roast
In a spirited exchange a woman defends a sister named Liberal and mocks a speaker who disparages wives who seek affection from their husbands. The crowd notes a man serving coffee to his wife as “coffee love” while ridiculing the critic, the tone playful yet sharp. Topsy observations close the scene.
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Topsy
Scrap Book For Sewing Circle in the Post
A reader notes the new Sewing Circle department bringing “Shut Ins” a chance to attend and gain ideas. The writer plans to scrap clippings into a scrapbook and remarks it odd New England folk meet on Sunday but do no sewing. Wish for success.
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New England
Mary
Husband and Wife Share Work and Wealth in Domestic Union
In a Sewing Circle discussion titled Husbands and Will Shake Hands on June 22, a wife describes a partnership with her husband. They share time and chores, bank accounts, and decisions, asserting mutual respect and companionship. She notes he aids at home and they are “great chums” when not at work, with money held in common and open dialogue on purchases.
Daughter of a Married Couple of 60
A 21 year old unmarried housekeeper recounts her duties caring for her father and three brothers since age sixteen. She contrasts her labor with the wives of mill workers and warns Miss 21 against expecting a husband to replicate her father’s sacrifices.
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Mother
Should Opera Singers Marry in New York? Cavalleri eyes possible marriage
Mme Lina Cavalleri, star of the Manhattan Opera House, says Robert Chanler asked her to marry. She questions lifetime commitment yet praises the romance and wealth he offers while noting marriage may affect an opera career. Other prima donnas, including Celestina Boninsegna, Lipkowska, Bronska, and Eugenia Bronska, argue marriage can aid art, though Miss Alice Nielsen weighs against it.
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Lina Cavalleri
Manhattan Opera House
Robert Winthrop Chnier
John Jacob Astor
Dutchess County
Chanler
Mr. Chanler
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Boston Opera House
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Celestina Boninsegna
Mme. Schumann-Heink
Louise Homer
Mme. Lipkowska
Eugenia Bronska
Alice Nielsen
Heavy Storm Wrecks Navy Target Raft Off Guantanamo
Washington Feb 21 The Caigon sailed from New York towing two naval target rafts for fleet use at Guantanamo Cuba. One raft was badly damaged by heavy weather and the commander asked the Navy Department for help to bring it in. Birmingham was sent with Culgoa to Hampton Roads until conditions improve.
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Love and common sense in a troubled marriage
A married woman laments 14 years of hardship with a husband earning 16 dollars weekly and prone to theater outings. The adviser questions true love, urges shared responsibility, saving for needs, and asks the husband to prove love by providing and being tender toward the family.
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