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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 23, 1921
Page
15
A short verse urging to brighten days by humming a cheerful tune. It counsels making your own sunshine when life turns gloomy, suggesting a cheerful attitude helps forget sadness. The poem repeats the idea with slight rhythmic variation and urges cheerfulness.
A Readers Forum section features letters on whether a wife should rise to cook her husband's breakfast or eat breakfast with him. Contributors argue for wives cooking to show love and support, while others contend men can eat out or share in chores as times change.
A collection of homey dishes including salt codfish cakes with mashed potatoes and pork fat fry, chilled apple sauce with sherbet and cherries, frosted baked apples with marshmallow, citrus custard puddings, and a rice milk dessert. Contains a note from Mrs. J. L. Dunham of Taunton, mass.
A 1921 verse by the Bentitown Bard reflects on city life and unseen presences. The speaker notes living crowds, distant memories, and visions of friends and loved ones who are no longer present yet seem near through memory and a dim celestial communication. The poem blends urban observation with nostalgic longing.
A reader writes she has dated a 22-year-old man for ten months and, though he loves her and wants marriage in a year, she cannot say she truly loves him. She fears separation but cannot identify the love. She has given up other boyfriends and seeks guidance on her uncertain feelings.
Vivian Vane writes of Jack and Jill in Happily Married a lighthearted 1921 sketch about domestic thrift. Jill darning socks provokes Jack’s eye strain and clever talk as they debate cheaper socks and beaded handbags. In a dinner table moment they laugh at frugality. Jill’s sock darning ends with a pile of mismatched gifts and a vow to keep mending.
Jack Dalton declares intent to marry Phebe but faces disinheritance and moral tests. Phebe reveals firm resolve to marry another, citing pride and conscience. The scene unfolds in a boarding house as Martha delivers news that the father opposite their romance approves or blocks the match.
An observing traveller notes the sexton digging a grave in a village famed for health. The traveller asks why so many deaths, and the sexton replies that people die but once. The quip reflects the village's misleading vigor and the grim joke at a quiet churchyard.
While strolling Tremont street a beggar approaches a crabbed bachelor asking for a few cents. The bachelor snaps I have no cents and no feeling. The exchange ends with the beggar’s quip about cold indifference.
A Frenchman explains the difference between gout and rheumatism with a humorous mispronounced phrase. He says rheumatism comes from turning a screw until you can bear it, and gout is one more turn.
Jinks questions a presumed robbery cited by Binks and recalls the landlord calling to collect last week, as reported by Legion Weekly.
The article profiles Mrs. Margaret Carter of Wakefield known as a pioneering milkwoman who transformed a dairy into a thriving farm operation with 50 cows, 18 workers, horses and 500 customers. She proves hard work beats gender stereotypes and expands her sales with milk cream and butter knowledge.
George Frideric Handel, born February 23 1685 in Saxony, later English by naturalization, became famed composer of works like Largo and Messiah. His early talent surfaced at a ducal court where he trained on organ. He is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Sir Philip Gibbs, famed war correspondent, accepts editorship of the Review of Reviews drawing worldwide notice for his journalism, writing, and lectures. Premier Lloyd George planned to join Lord Kitchener to Russia but was blocked from boarding the ship on which Kitchener perished. he narrowly missed Calais during bombardment.
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