Sewing Circle in Boston Post invites homemaker letters
The Sewing Circle department invites New England home makers to discuss domestic topics. Submit one side of the paper with advice on home life, babies, marriage, budgeting, gardening, and related concerns. Use noms de plume and address letters to the Sewing Circle Editor at the Boston Post.
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Modesty standards through the Sewing Circle era and today
Readers discuss changes in female modesty from grandmother’s day to now. A motherly columnist notes improved candor yet questions modern behavior, highlighting debt, social duties, church attendance, and changing dress norms across generations.
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New York State
Letters on debt, Eugenics, love and marriage voices
A reader writes about debt and vacation spending, arguing for paying honest debts and care for home. A second letter cites Eugenics in marriage, recounting a granddaughter's future wedding free of so-called trimmings, and condemns law regulation of marriages as impractical. The writer blasts romantic illusions and stresses love as the only worthwhile basis for marriage.
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