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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1919
Page
15
A reader asks if a young woman should quit work to marry and start a home or keep her job for a wage. The Sewing Circle invites responses with prizes for the most compelling letters from women in gainful employment and men considering matrimony.
Guidance on sending newborn gifts to the baby via mail to the parents and attaching a card to the package. Also explains how a woman visitor uses her and her husband's visiting cards, leaving two of the husband's cards for the mistress and master of the house.
A collection of inexpensive soup recipes includes Baked Soup with beef or veal, Onions carrots rice and peas baked four hours. Soup a la Reine using chicken remains and stock. Prince of Wales Soup with veal stock turnips and bread. and a hearty mixed meat and vegetable soup simmered with oats or barley. Named contributor Mrs. Nellie Skinner of 58 Bigelow Street, Quincy.
Household hints from Lucy Lee at 83 Lexington Avenue Cambridge cover practical tips. They describe adjustable brackets for laundry area to store ironing board, dissolving soda to brighten clothes, salting and cleaning rust, and methods to prevent iron rusting with fat. Also a simple glue recipe using gelatin to bond paper or cloth to various surfaces.
A prose poem from Emporia Kansas laments winter’s harshness and longs for spring. The speaker uses a pilgrim metaphor to describe winter as stubborn and burdensome, while spring arrives with roses and renewed hope. The piece attributes the poem to Walt ason, reflecting a period voice.
Anne Waring confronts aging and a past engagement during a solitary sunset walk to Sunset Hill. She encounters Peter Lee on the hill and forgives him, reflecting on love, time, and the idea of happiness found rather than lost.
A child named Dorrie endures mismatched clothing from sisters Maisie Daisy and Rose as she struggles with feeling unwanted and punished. The verse suggests fashion burdens reflect family dynamics and a wish for Dorrie to have garments that fit and suit her.
In the Boston Post Sunday Magazine installment of The Flying Poilu Marcel Nadaud follows Chignole who desires a sausage and pursues it. He achieves the goal and the narration offers lively entertainment through the chase in the clouds.
The poem argues against selfish taking and promotes giving as essential to life. It emphasizes a universal duty to help others, warns that taking without giving leads to loss, and praises a square deal, justice, and truth as guiding lights for all people.
The Infants' Hospital Fund total stood at 18 225.58 dollars after last night’s committee announcement. They report a greater need this year and list numerous contributors led by Mrs. Stephen L. Bartlett and many other named donors and organizations.
A distinguished American industrial group will present the protection of U S economic interests in Mexico and sectors like petroleum mining agriculture and cattle at the Paris conference led by BH L Doheny C F Kelley and Thomas W Lambert with others to be named. Soldiers returning from overseas fuel a Theodore Roosevelt boom led by Major Melvin Hall and Lt W P Irwin who aims for a Pole ascent or a transatlantic flight.
Margaret Wilson daughter of President Wilson arrived in Brussels yesterday and is hosted at the American legation as a guest.
Marcel Nadaud, thrice wounded in French air service, author of The Flying Poilu, writes in his upcoming Boston Post Sunday feature about his rare wartime experiences among aviators. He is retired and the book reflects his firsthand service.
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