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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1914
Page
17
A Boston Post Sewing Circle column discusses living on $15 a week. A young wife shares her $13.50 wage, $1.20 weekly fare, $5 weekly rent, and $2 savings, noting they cover groceries and luxuries, with heat, light, and a telephone included. A seasoned correspondent advises planning for emergencies and warns against too-optimistic budgets.
A first person reminiscence recalls growing up among well to do city people and being the sole daughter with five brothers. She trained as a dressmaker apprentice to earn independence and married at twenty one.
Miss Susan G Drake of New York was presented to Boston friends yesterday at the home of Mrs Sears sisters in law at 8 Mount Vernon street. Miss Annie Evelyn and Mary Sears hosted the reception at the Sears residence to honor their sister in law Mrs Richard Sears.
Former New York resident Susan Drake becomes Mrs Richard Sears after a November wedding. The couple now stay at the Copley Plaza Hotel in Boston with a reception at their Colonial mansion attended by many Sears relatives and local friends. Francis P Sears served as best man and helped hostesses in the tearoom along with several named Boston ladies.
A wife recounts years of tight budgets from $12 weekly beginnings to six rooms and a piano, noting shifts in income, rent, and family growth while emphasizing frugality, cash buying, and self sufficiency. She contrasts past costs with present wages and urges readers to consider real living costs versus appearances.
Miss May de Sousa told Kensington building audience that a woman's true vocation is to mend her husband's socks. She derided militant suffragists in England and described their hunger strikes as a tactic to gain martyr status, recalling a stone-throwing incident she observed.
Miss de Sousa of the Donald Brian Company, now in Ros ton, wore an old rose brocaded plush coat with a large bouquet of violets at her belt. She formed the centerpiece of the scene as the program progressed.
Morverand the driver of the auto that plunged into the Seine with Isadora Duncan's two children and their governess was sentenced to six months in prison and a $40 fine. Duncan interceded for Morverand and the sentence was suspended.
The Sunday Post hints Hank and his animal friends pull a new scheme as the chief voices that hanging is too good for them, prompting readers to see why in the upcoming report.
The funeral for Civil War veteran Thomas F. Goode will be held tomorrow morning at his daughter Mrs. Daniel J. Hurley’s Dorchester home, then a 4 PM high mass at St. Margaret's Church. Goode died at City Hospital from wounds and gangrene contracted in service while serving with Admiral Farragut. He is survived by two daughters and four sons, including Patrolman Edward G C Goode of the Adams Street station and Captain Thomas F Goode Jr of the Back Bay station.
A Sunday Post installment continues Motorman No 1’s practical musings on life and work. The column shares down to earth observations and jokes about daily transit routines and rider etiquette.
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