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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1916
Page
15
The Boston Post Sewing Circle offers a women's forum for homemakers to share domestic problems. Letters discuss money, budgeting, tobacco, child care, and relationship tensions, with readers offering advice and empathy.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters sent to the Sewing Circle, showcasing community opinions, tips, and personal anecdotes from readers.
The writer describes a dove gray silk gown with a basque bodice, three cape layers, and a standing neck frill. The full skirt features three flounces and jet crystal buttons. Chiffon sleeves gather at the wrist with a black velvet ribbon. The dress complements a new hat as they plan to astonish Anita at a bridge gathering tomorrow afternoon.
A seven year old girl named Kitty Gray schemes to snag a beau for herself butfriendless Nana. Kitty visits the Brown family and endears Ben Brown, a young lawyer, to Nana. After several outings, a canoe accident leads to a marriage between Nana and Ben, while Kitty later has her own beaus.
Mrs Wagner of Newtonville provides a meat pie method using lean beef suet turnips and summer savory. Fry suet until crisp, brown cubed beef, season, simmer with water and turnips, then bake in a crust for about 30 minutes.
A historic recipe fragment lists ingredients for a chocolate loaf cake including butter sugar flour eggs and dissolved chocolate with method steps and notes by ANNA SMITH of Springfield. It also describes an ice-bathed custard pudding with isinglass and candled fruits by MRS M A NEALLEY of Hopedale.
Poem depicts night as a refuge from misfortune with stars lighting the dark, contrasts shadows and storms with quiet skies. The speaker seeks solace in beauty and love amid unsettled world, urging the spirit to rest and endure until dawn. The verse echoes longing, hope, and transcendent imagery of night.
An old advertisement promotes Parmint Double strength as a constitutional cure for catarrh and related ear and nasal symptoms. It instructs dissolving one ounce in a pint of hot water with four ounces sugar and taking a tablespoon four times daily for relief and improved breathing. It asserts a tonic effect and low cost.
Fashion notes describe gold dotted evening scarves for debutantes and a shift away from high collars. Describes wide flouncings for summer dresses with color embroidery, checked wool velour skirts with integrated belts and pockets, and varied spring fabrics. Sheer waists tuck satin at the hem, and trends promise many checks and bold colors to suit individual personalities.
Theodore Botrel's Poems from Songs of Brittany translated by Elizabeth S Dickerman describe twelve year old Newfoundland Bank workers. The speaker laments hunger low pay and dangerous toil for Breton lads lured to sea while mothers widow and families suffer. It notes eight sous daily pay and the grim cycle of emigrant labor repeated by generations.
A young German, recently captured by the French, escaped a prison camp and stowed away on the steamship Virginian of the France Canada line. Immigration officials will treat him as a normal stowaway, likely deporting him to France. If returned to the camp, he faces punishment for his escape.
Frederic L. Lane was reelected general manager as F. L. Ripley became president and Lane treasurer. A new board includes EF L Ripley Charles B Barnes Albert Stone Charles A Vialls and G Peabody Gardner Jr. Capital stock is raised to 200 000 to cover the new boat and service improvements.
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