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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1918
Page
27
A reader named Cake or Kisses asks which love is stronger for a wife. Letters advise choosing between a deeply affectionate husband and a steady provider with a good home, urging practical reflection, patience, and preservation of affection.
In Mrs. GB absence I taught four people dressings with care at the Red Cross rooms. A notably well-dressed young woman arrived, wearing a wet white linen frock trimmed with red and white gingham panels and a gingham belt, described in detail.
Fads and fashions highlight the versatile RM Re me Tiace de Voile fabric used in many ways. Black patent leather and pink satin create a tam o shanter for automobiling while sailor hats and Oriental turbans boost veils in the vogue.
During a formal dinner the service plate stays before each guest at all times. After marriage a woman may keep her middle name or maiden surname, with many preferring the latter. Letters should be signed accordingly. It is now considered better to remove cards from wedding gifts on display to avoid curiosity.
Poem by Harold Willard Gleason praising band musicians who boost morale amid trenches and mud. It honors windjammers for carrying the wounded, cheering infantry, artillery, engineers, cavalry, and aviators, and inspiring soldiers toward Berlin without weapons. The chorus lauds regimental bands for sustaining courage during war.
The text celebrates Josiah Wedgwood's perfection of earthenware, creation of Queen's Ware, and royal status as royal potter. It notes the era's Pompeii discovery boosting Grecian influence, the Adam brothers as contemporaries, Wedgwood's family ties to Darwin, and the lasting Etruria potteries lineage after his death in 1795.
A New York beauty powder named La-May Poudre LAme claims to be pure and long lasting without white lead or rice powder. It boasts a medicinal use by doctors, reduces enlarged pores and pimples, and is marketed to over a million American women at fifty cents for large size.
The Rev Billy Sunday is hospitalized in Rochester Minnesota for a serious operation causing cancellation of his sea voyage. Taft seeks quiet in Canada near Murray Bay while Ford endows a Detroit hospital calling it a human garage and ensuring equal treatment for all patients. A showy mix of anecdotes notes Americans meeting the Prince of Wales and a vaudeville inquiry at the Apollo.
The piece argues that admiration for Theodore Roosevelt and fighters should hinge on the cause fought for not personal bravado. It asserts that even great nations can fight for wrong reasons and urges fighters to align with America and its institutions to be considered true Americans.
The piece highlights a playful moment with the Prince of Wales mistaken for a lunch guest, and a surprise visit by Major General William Branker to Colonel E M House at Magnolia. It notes Wanda Hawley’s rise beside Douglas Fairbanks, Bramwell Booth’s war union sentiment to President Wilson, and Mrs Nathan Straus promoting affordable infant milk via donated apparatus accessible to poorer mothers.
Poem by the Bentztown Bard from 1918 emphasizes keeping life orderly and bright. It contrasts easy mistakes with the effort to make things right and steady like a compass guiding back on track.
A Sunday Post food feature by Cora B. March from Greenfield shares wartime kitchen ideas. It lists a potato salad method with a vinegar dressing and a layered dressing, and provides a wartime variation apple sauce cake recipe with molasses, flours, spices, and dried fruit notes.
More than 1 percent of city tenement district youth will be guests of Volunteers of America at Reading fresh air camp for two weeks. The grounds have been prepared for a wartime garden project in which children help with the war effort and grow vegetables to be shared with their families.
In hot weather parents are urged to feed babies with Nestlé's Food when nursing is insufficient. The notice warns that heat and dehydration risk listlessness and restlessness in infants and promotes a milk-based substitute proven safe over decades.
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