Sewing Circle letters discuss marriage and earnings in New England
A Sewing Circle column from the Boston Post invites homemakers to share advice on finances marriage and family life. Readers discuss wages as low as 14 to 26 dollars a week, child care and discipline, independence and reform, marriage laws, and gender equality with personal letters from readers across New England. Several correspondents urge caution about marriage before stable income and criticize alcohol, debt, and inequity while urging protections and formality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Redfern Voile Gown With Lace and Sash
Paris report notes Redfern designed a charmingly simple gown in hand embroidered voile with a lace edge underskirt and a wide coral sash. The waist uses a simple surplice with elbow sleeves. Redfern styles are always marked by their simplicity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Redfern
Paris
New England Housewives Recipe for Vanilla Chocolate Custard
Beat 6 eggs with 1 cup sugar and a pinch of salt. Stir in 1 quart milk heated with cinnamon, melt 3 ounces chocolate and mix with 6 tablespoons hot water, add 1 teaspoon vanilla. Bake in a buttered dish in hot water until firm and serve cold with whipped cream. Mrs. W. Austin West Lebanon New Hampshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
West Lebanon
N. H
E. L. Corson
Bentham Road
Dorchester
Indian Tapioca Pudding and Bake Oven Recipes
A column of home baking tips includes an Indian tapioca pudding using soaked tapioca and a milk and molasses mixture baked in a buttered dish with a final milk pour. The section lists contributors Mrs E L Corson of Dorchester and Mrs J H Davis Attleboro with addresses. It also outlines a sour milk bake with eggs flour meal and a separate cheese bread crumb bake by RS E B Dev Plainfield Conn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
RS. E. B. Dev Plainfield
Conn
Automatic Road Builder Tests Show High Efficiency
A self-propelled road building machine tested abroad yields highly satisfactory results in efficiency and economy. It uses a six cylinder distillate engine of 8 horsepower to drive bucket chains that dig soil up to 18 inches deep. The machine mixes soil with binder in its body and spreads and rolls it in one operation at a speed of 5 1/2 square feet per minute for an eight inch depth, with a binder trailer following.
Three Drown After Boat Capsizes in Farmington River
Poquonock Conn July 5 three of a fishing party of four drowned when their boat capsized during what authorities say was death by own action. Surviving member John Sickmanus provided the details naming Michael Mitelenonus 34 John Watynsky 22 and William Zatazaski 37 as the deceased all unmarried except Zatazatski.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poquonock
Conn
Farmington River
Michael Mitelenonus
John Watynsky
William Zatazaski
John Sickmanus
Zatazatski
Death by Own Action Capsizes Boat After Midnight Row
Survivor recounts four men out on a boat after midnight all drinking. Zataratzki attempted death by own action and twice went overboard. The second plunge caused the boat to capsize on shallow water. Sickmanus reached shore. authorities recovered the bodies hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zataratzki
Sickmanus
Deceived Musicians Question Piano Sensitivity
Dr Marage presented a note to the Paris Academy of Sciences reporting tests on ear sensitivity to musical sound. After 30 students and musicians heard a piano, observers claimed the instrument had changed. The same piano was used both times, yet critics perceived a superior instrument on the second listen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marage
Paris Academy of Sciences
A Case for Compromise in Shared Holiday Roles
In a domestic tale from West Newfield Maine, Harvey Clinton agrees to swap duties with his wife Fanny after a discussion on half holidays for wives. Fanny supports equal time off, while Harvey resolves to hire help or alternate holidays so both share home duties and leisure. The day’s chaos tests their plan as a dining table mishap, interruptions, and the mess of three children complicate the experiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rebecca
Joe Hale
Harvey Clinton
Fanny Clinton
Harvey
Mr. Clinton
Fanny
Bessy Hale
Hales
Blanche
Betty
Alice
No Place Like Commons For A Derangement Of Metaphors
A witty remark likens the House of Commons to a stage where an effusive speaker delivers a tangled cascade of metaphors. The text hints at a striking oratorical outburst and a notable display of rhetoric in parliamentary settings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House of Commons
Also Mentioned on This Page
Timum
N'Gotte Heena
Mary
Citi
Pert
Stauth
Mame
Lfe
Mother
Arnold Bennett
Gilbert Parker
Colonel Watterson
Pankly
Elbert Hubbard
Bauer Chemical CO
Irving Place
New York
International Congress of Medicine
London
Id al
J. H. Davis
Jefferson Street
Attleboro
Cehort
Tat Post
Ira
Mrs
Annette Chadbourne
Symmes, West Newfield, Me
Winship
Bentztown
India
Canada
India-Ceylon
Formosa
Orloff
Chase & Sanborn’s
Post
Fis
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!