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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 21, 1910
Page
9
In a local exchange titled Bath a reader seeks views on marriage prospects for a country town woman. Advice urges her to stay in her job, marry only if a man markedly superior to average arrives, noting she earns more than many local men and can spend and enjoy her money.
A July booklet lists simple at home preparations for skin care hair and health. It promotes a grease less face cream a safe shampoo a complexion beautifier a hair remover a hair tonic an eye remedy a blood tonic and a flesh reducer with basic recipes and instructions.
The remark envisions a woman marrying into dependency, foreseeing loss of financial independence as she becomes tied to household duties, rather than remaining free and self supporting. The passage portrays marriage as a path to subjection rather than autonomy.
A businesswoman in her early thirties, earning about $35 weekly year round, contemplates marriage to a professional suitor whose income lags at under $30 weekly. She has supported family, saved money, and fears losing financial independence if she marries and reduces living standards. She seeks guidance from the sisterly circle.
Letter seeks formation of a Boston housemaids union with rules. Proposes addressing maids as Miss or Mrs, banning Sunday work, granting holidays and regular hours, mutual references between mistresses and maids, and asserts domestic workers deserve respect similar to business women.
A reader argues that women face spinsterhood due to a scarcity of marriageable men. She claims social gatherings reveal more eligible women than men and critiques statistics she believes misrepresent Massachusetts demographics.
A reader laments a mistress who expects a maid to wash dishes on her day off and recalls her own positive experience with a generous employer. The letter from IRISH ROSE contrasts kind treatment with harsh duties and ends with relief that such cranks are scarce.
Quiet Matron offers hopeful advice to Beth about marriage. She cautions that good men seek steady girls over flashy dating and assures Beth her future husband will come. The note emphasizes patience and traditional values in selecting a partner.
A reader describes preserving rose petals in sun dried sheets then layering them with cassia and cloves in jars. A separate note to Somerville shares a remedy for infant colic using senna leaves brewed in hot water and given in milk.
A shadowy intruder climbs to the Northeast wing to steal a small packet from a desk. Silvia Dale faces her father and Miss Evertrim over suspicious letters from Jim, then discovers the letters are missing and keeps silent until graduation. A note from Jim hints he has them and plans to meet near Silvia’s home next week.
A letter to the Post editor argues against taking Fort Hill square for building. The writer calls it the sole open space between Franklin Square and North End Park, east of the Common, and urges practical grounds to oppose the project.
Readable recipes from a Sunday Post page include how to fry doughnuts without sticking, drainage and salting steps, and tips from Mrs. B. J. Thompson Lisbon New Hampshire. Also an apples and crust pie method with sugar nutmeg and butter and a tomato salad with celery walnuts and dressing from Mrs. L. T. Goman Turners Falls and Mrs. Peroy A Berry Gloucester.
A simple egg free pudding uses five cups milk one third cup rice half teaspoon salt one third cup sugar and lemon rind or nutmeg. Wash rice mix into buttered dish bake slowly three hours stirring once in the first hour. Raisins may be added and a small butter piece improves flavor. Mrs Lucy Lbb 83 Lexington Avenue Cambridge.
Roslindale parishioners of the Church of the Sacred Heart plan a Saturday field day at Caledonian Grove West Roxbury featuring sports vaudeville band concerts and dancing. It will be the last parish outing before next year’s revival of the old time barbecues for fundraising toward the new church recently dedicated by Archbishop O Connell.
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