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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1893
Page
5
The Post invites readers to submit a 100 word or fewer letter on how to keep a husband at home evenings. Address Husband Competition The Post Boston, write on one side, and deliver earliest among equal merit. A gold eagle prize awaits the winner.
A humorous compare and contrast of outside attractions such as theatres and liquor saloons with home attractions like good dinners and family games. The piece argues that encouraging home activities leads to happiness, while late hours from outside entertainment bring misery, favoring a balanced home life.
A wife recalls three years of marriage when her husband began staying out at nights. She stayed affectionate but it changed nothing. One night, after he returned at 1:30 and found her out, he became almost insane, and afterwards never went out in the evenings. Mrs. J. 8.
A dated social instruction urges a wife to be a passive partner to her husband, ensuring meals, comfort, praise, and avoidance of questions about his day. The letter from E. M. J. R. at 66 Chester Square promotes submission as the route to a harmonious home life.
A brief homemaker note from Dorchester by E. M. S. suggests discarding the club and the pretty typewriter to enjoy more evenings at home.
Mrs F reflects on twenty seven years of married happiness by living the Golden Rule with her husband, keeping harmony in their evenings together with few exceptions.
A note advising single women to seek happiness in marriage by choosing a husband who is not overly handsome and suitable in character, reflecting a bygone moral tone.
A list of applicants filed on January 16 with the City Register. Names include Richard H. Evans and Elizabeth Evans. James Callaghan and Annie Anderson. Ronald McEachern and Annie McPhearson. George D. Burton and Frances R. Jones. Edw Le Blance and Daphine Le Blance. Arthur E. Spencer and Eva L. Smith. Charles P. Devise and Georgie A. Callahan. Gabriel M. Moses and Frances Daniel. William Ritchie and Amelia Cameron. Arthur E. Mason and Alice M. Joy.
Death notices record multiple interments and ages across Brookline Lexington Cambridge Somerville Roxbury Jamaica Plain Milton Jamaica Plain and Boston Highlands. Entries include Elbridge Baker Sarah A Butters Edward Cheney Bridget Doherty Martha B Farley Jonas Fillebrown George A Gillette Captain George Hagar Sarah Mackay Hicks Mary P Homes Mary Burton Cor Delia A Jordan with ages ranging from 48 to 92 years.
A brief fragment requests that Charles W. Goodwin be placed in daytime work to allow some circulation and reduce nighttime absence. The text implies a personal or employment adjustment during wartime.
Household guidance urges a wife to keep a well ordered home. She should greet him warmly, ensure lights and warmth, present a neat table with his favorite dish, offer comfort, and read aloud if he is tired, while showing patient interest in his affairs. Mrs Lintitt Bb Worthen of South Boston writes.
A reader signs as Voda Waltham offering a grim joke in a letter about keeping husbands at home by breaking their legs. The audacious remark, framed as a “receipt,” provokes concern over violent implications in domestic life.
Advice from K. W. Y. Boston urges wives to cater to husbands at home with prepared meals, cheerful house, and attentive, flexible companionship to keep him content and prevent him from seeking social clubs. Ensure daily needs for recreation and rest at home.
A guidance piece advises women to make home attractive to keep a husband. It stresses balancing love and work, adding duty and sweetness, sunshine, patience, kindness, and neatness. It warns against hunger and indifference and suggests a man worthy of the name will stay at home evenings.
A society text urges women to keep a welcoming home for husbands with sociable games a loving wife and children to greet him. It argues obedience to his whims strengthens home life and suggests preserving the past in the house to keep him home and agreeable.
Miss Florence d Stephens of Venita in the Cherokee Nation is a pretty and accomplished full blood Indian girl in Boston pursuing musical education. Mrs Hicks Lord a New York society woman owns a massive gold punch bowl with a diamond monogram. Miss Whitney daughter of Secretary Whitney carries a posy of gold orchids and foliage tied with gold ribbons. Miss Maude Denny a New York girl is a capital shot who killed a five buck in the Adirondacks. Miss Barris a Brooklyn belle is an accomplished rider habitually taking a morning canter in Prospect Park. Mrs Paran Stevens's silverware is lavish enough for an art museum display.
Mrs Yost of St Louis plans an exhibit built from odds and ends of famous attire and autographs from notable people. Items include a white skin string from Frau Maternas cloak and a sleeve from Mme Scalchis dress along with other fragments. She seeks to sell the collection, but the Board cannot purchase due to lack of government funds for such investments.
The purple veil arrives from Paris and dominates Boston salons and sidewalks. It enshrouds every complexion and bonnet color, causing differing opinions from fashion critics who condemn its garish effect and eyeache while praising its brilliancy.
The Museum company stage tonight two new works with strong home talent led by Miss Marguerite Merington in Good-Bye and the company’s steady best, Mary Hampton, Burress, Glenn, Edeson, and Rose. Faithful James opens the bill with Wilson the servant drawing laughs. Barrett’s The Silver King at Globe Theatre captivates a large Boston audience with a refined performance and versatile cast.
Hoyt’s A Temperance Town maintains top popularity at the Park Theatre as packed houses fill the venue and waitlists grow. The production, praised for clear treatment of a great question, delivers humor and engaging performances led by George Richards and Eugene Canfield.
The second and last week of Charles H. Hoyt show begins with large audience as satire on Washington politics wins praise. Jim Murphy as Maverick Brander shines in a vivid character study. Hoyt to debut Brassy Gall tomorrow with Sea Serpent Club presence. Niobe follows next week, promising strong reception.
Bowdoin Square Theatre was filled last evening with Lew Dockstader and his first rate company of blackfaced performers. The program opened with A Social Session of the Knickerbocker Club, a lively piece featuring nearly all the troupe, familiar here yet fresh and pleasing as ever.
A musical breeze led by conductor Mr Dockstader closed the circle in a happy finale. The second part featured Wood Davis Bode Galpin Falke Farley and the Collins brothers in vocal selections, a comic “take my card” by Dumont Burns Powers Harrington, Dokstader’s Ward McAllister routine, Falke and Lemons in a grand musical comedy act, Bockson and Burns in grotesque tumbling isms, and a full company cake walk. The Devil's Auction is billed for next week amid strong demand for seats.
A large fashionable audience attended the Columbia last night for the six day run of A. M. Palmer stock company in Jim the Penman. Frederick Robinson as Forter Jim and Maurice Birymore as Louis Percival drew praise for heroic and emotional turns. May Brookyn as Nina earned rapturous applause for fine work and realism in the husband forgery scene. Ottomeyer and Holland also scored, and the engagement runs this week only before Lady Windermere's Fan.
Sam Devere leads a large crowd at the Howard Atheneum in an all-star variety program featuring Wood-Travel Trio, Rowe and Brannon, Highielys, Devere songs and jokes, Harve La Rose, Leonard and Moran, Sisters Courson, Lituletiela, Ben Aji Moors, and a finale with Columbia quartet and Paddy McBride. Next week Dr Frnk Carver to perform Toe Scout.
Milbank presents a huge weekly show by Imperial Follies led by Sadie and assisted by Fannie Forrester Kittie Wils Sadie Munton Retta Donnelly and other young women. Burlesque On the Bowery and A Day in Camp introduce the troupe with Bertoto adding dances to the bill.
The Lyceum Theatre drew two large crowds yesterday after the announcement of Lida Gardner's Mustadon production. Audiences filled the seats as word spread about the show’s premiere despite limited seating. Gardner’s new work promises a blend of drama and spectacle that drew theatergoers from nearby towns.
Walter Sanford presents The Power of Gold at the Grand Opera House last evening. The crowd praised the London drama style and thrilling scenes with first class acting by William Humphrey Lloyd Melville J Jordan W L Bond and actresses Amelia Bingham Olive Oliver Annie Revel Mary Lytton. The production boasted a strong setting and energized performance.
At the Grand Museum Dover and Washington yesterday a strong bill featured a five act drama Un known by John A Stevens a vaudeville showcase and a one act farce The Glassford Barringer company with Miss Kate Glassford and Mr Charles Barringer starred in the drama Many noted favorites appeared in the vaudeville portion reflecting a first class presentation by all participants.
The evening featured Mazeppa the horse and Colombo the eight footed wonder with Zip the hunch backed pony and Ben the donkey delighting the crowd. Major Schoof and Eugene Berry displayed South African curios as Campanini Fischer Nordica offered choral and solo pieces to uproarious applause. The Kneisel Quartet at Chickering Hall pleased a large audience with Volkmann Schumann Brahms works.
The Boston audience fills the stalls as Babes in the Wood at the Boston Theatre enters its eleventh week with Vanoni earning an ovation. The Globe Theatre will debut The Lion Tamer on Monday signaling Francis Wilson’s return to Boston after two years away. William H. Crane continues at Hollis Street Theatre with The American Minister and will headline The Senator next week. Ticket sales for Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere's Fan begin Tuesday at the Columbia Theatre to serve the theatre girls delayed by inquiries. production is set for Monday evening January 23.
The Nordic concert company led by C A Ellis drew a large enthusiastic crowd at Music Hall last evening. Mme Nordica received a warm greeting and delivered superb singing with flawless top notes and expressive runs. Mme Scalchi, just arrived from Europe, persisted in performing despite fatigue to avoid disappointing the audience.
The Charlestown Enterprise notes that June seventeenth marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Bunker Hill Monument dedication as preparations begin for Hill Day celebrations.
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