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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1918
Page
9
The article discusses gender roles with the man bearing responsibility for the house while a woman's place is in the home. It notes women wash and mend and that caring for children provides ongoing tasks. It references letters to the Sewing Circle printed in the Sunday Post.
The Post invites stories about babies with three prize levels: A Double Gold Eagle, A Single Gold Eagle, and $5 in Gold. Submissions must be on one side of the paper and include real name and address. The editors will publish the best stories daily and on Sundays.
Three year old Edgar recounts a daring day of jumping on and off a railroad work car. His mother frets about danger from the locomotive and jokes about tying him to the bedpost. Edgar suggests praying about the incident as a remedy. Miss Emma Atkinson. Robert Brigham Hospital, Roxbury.
A Greenfield note describes four year old Marie’s curious mischiefs. The narrator recalls walking home after a bath to find Marie in her shirt with a fur scarf and pumps, heading to Aunt Nellie across the street, and remarks on Marie’s quick charm and independence.
Advertisement touts Dr Edwards Olive Tablets as a non calomel laxative. It claims 17 years medical practice and a cure for constipation and torpid liver without griping. The copy promises gentle, nightly use with two tablets and a 25 cent box available from all druggists.
A five year old girl Mildred watches a summer thunderstorm from the screen door. She asks her mother to make God wink again after lightning darkens the sky. Dorchester resident Mrs John E O'Brien signs the note.
A Massachusetts family recalls a dinner guest and a pantry plan. Mrs Lawrence notes limited Nabisco cakes for a summer meal, instructing children to take only five each. Margaret asks for her portion with a playful line, ending a quiet family moment.
Mrs. Omer Michaud recalls teaching method mix up when her 12 year old Alice, under Miss Joyce, skipped around the house with a reader to imitate lessons. The child misunderstood skip from one lesson to another as skipping physically while learning.
A Lancaster New Hampshire note from Mrs J D Howe recalls a granddaughter or grandson named Grayson Garrison. The storytelling piece shares a birthday moment and a poetic exchange about the moon and stars over New Hampshire and Illinois. Grayson asks about maple sugar and reading the Boston Post, ending with a family photo.
The narrator recalls Marian arranging a quick weekend party with friends Ben and Herbert, planning to depart by car and train as someone named Jack is away in Washington. The tone centers on anticipation and a vivid description of Marian’s hat and the amber bead buckle.
William Gill of Dorchester offers tips to survive freezing weather in homes with unheated kitchens and baths. Seal windows with brown paper, use a gas jet or lamp to keep temperatures around 40 degrees, and keep the kitchen fire smouldering to maintain boiler heat and hot water efficiency. He emphasizes testing hot water to ensure the water front remains clear.
A three year old, Charles, defends plaid socks despite a striped suit. He quips that Stars and Stripes work, while his father tries to swap him for a quiet boy. The note ends with Lucy E Henderson of Jamaica Plain.
A wartime-poem excerpt expresses a mother’s longing for the day her brave son returns from France. She imagines fresh grass on Belgian lanes and flowers opening to the day as she awaits the final welcome and renewed joy when all parting pains are behind.
Instructions for potato yeast bread using boiled potato water with sugar salt and flour to form a stiff dough then bake. Also a muffin recipe with flour egg butter sugar milk and baking powder. Two more muffin and walnut loaf variants. signed by Mrs Florence Sinclair Harvard.
A reader questions wartime rates on Liberty bond interest and bank charges. An army weight rule requires at least 115 pounds for draft eligibility. Government radio schools accept enlisted men with 10 words per minute Morse readiness.
Birthday note marks M Elizabeth Mapes Dodge born January 1838 in New York. Dodge published Shoddy Aristocracy in America in Cornhill Magazine and Miss Maloney on the Chinese Question in Scribner's, later founding and editing St Nicholas magazine until her death in 1906.
Readers of the Sewing Circle debate whether a wife may spend more on personal dress and appearance than her husband. Several letters urge equality and personal freedom, while others argue a wife should stay within her husband’s means or even avoid work if it threatens the home.
A 20 year old asks if flirting is acceptable to gain a respectable boyfriend. The columnist says she hasn’t met the right man yet, urges amiability, brightness and cheerful social life, and promises she will attract a man who will look at her again.
Pere Marquette Council Knights of Columbus resumes the season with a free public forum in the municipal building on East Broadway South Boston. Speaker Charles B. Fay former Common Cause Society president will discuss Human Freedom.
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