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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1920
Page
23
Poem by John P. Ketrick in the New York Sun about rejoining youthful dancers. The speaker recalls old friends, vivid imagery of the dance, fading romance, and the ache of aging as the music ends and loneliness sets in. The piece contrasts youthful ardor with time worn memory and the enduring ache of fidelity.
A reader questions the logic of denying women equal respect in social and business life, arguing true courtesy applies to all regardless of sex. Letters defend woman suffrage, critique condescension, and urge men to act with genuine respect, not patronizing acts.
A Sunday Post column presents multiple home recipes and kitchen tips. Recipes include baked macaroni with ham, cheese souffle, sour milk pie, and batter blends. The piece also offers practical notes on sewing and garment care adding household hints from Edith A. Libby of Cambridge.
Advice on sewing buttonholes in delicate fabrics like silk and georgette. Do not cut the hole first. Start work carefully and avoid catching the initial stitches when beginning the second row. Continue with precise stitching to prevent fraying.
A reader asks if candy is still common at theatres and whether a gentleman should pass candy or help himself. The answer notes candy is rare in expensive theatres. if present, the lady offers and the gentleman may decline after enough has been taken. For a country girl visiting the city, the guidance is to be simple, quiet, observant, and not overdressed.
A brief column from Your Home Lawn Reads 1920 catalogs notable figures in furniture design and industry. It highlights key designers, manufacturers, and showrooms, noting trends and prominent names shaping the era’s home decor landscape.
A reader asks how to tell apart furniture periods without buying a period room. She wants tips for identifying genuine pieces like chairs and settees and avoids confusing terms such as Chip pendale with chippendale veneer. The writer notes other shoppers misidentify mahogany and styles.
Thomas Chippendale, England's famed furniture designer, shaped mid 18th century taste with heavy solid pieces built to support hoopskirts. His chairs feature broad seats, stout legs, and intricate splay backs often carved with ribbonlike patterns or rib bon backs, a hallmark for authentic Chippendale.
Silas Cobb born January 23 1812 in Montpelier rose from poor roots to become a pioneer capitalist in Chicago. Apprenticed to a harness maker hewarded westward trading with Indians, bought land as the city grew, and built fortunes in railways and tall buildings. A noted philanthropist his Cobb Hall at the University of Chicago marks his generosity. he died in 1888.
A reader asks how to win a slow to respond man. The columnist says magnetism matters, mutual attraction is key, and artificial effort rarely succeeds. At 19 it is too soon to despair and urges meeting other young men to find a truly responsive partner.
In the Boston Sunday Post Magazine Josephine Daskam Bacon presents a playful entertaining story titled And Tastes Differ. The piece explores varied preferences and human quirks with light humor and a gentle social edge.
A poem captions a small city vignette where a nameless man, long obscure, gains fame as the one who does not own a car. The piece notes locals discuss him amid views of the pesthouse jail, bank, legislature, and courthouse, lampooning social status.
Grace, a pale shop girl, and Jack Morton, a lonely boarder, form a bond after Grace buys time with makeup. Madge helps Grace transform and gain attention, but a mishap with her cosmetics nearly derails the budding relationship when Jack reveals he prefers Grace without the makeup.
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