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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1919
Page
19
The speaker sits in a dark damp room as sorrow and rain beat the window. A knock comes and a voice says it has come to sup. The speaker tells sorrow to light the lamp and set the guest chair, then invites the stranger who has turned the key and entered to supper.
Poetic reminiscence describes an unnamed visitor who joins a quiet home gathering by the fire. The speaker cannot name the guest yet recognizes the presence as a guiding Master figure during a simple, intimate supper for three.
readers debate dancing in a sewing circle letters from teens and adults. contributors defend good clean dancing while condemning salacious venues and urge balanced modern schooling and moral guidance. early 20th century tone recalls social norms and youth culture.
A poem urges expressing happiness to others to magnify joy and brighten life. It invites sending part of one’s gladness beyond walls to meadow air and bloom. It emphasizes that a constant hunger for sharing fuels stronger personal growth and communal living.
A Bellows Falls reader shares a simple money saving trick for oil cook stoves. Buy one new wick and cut remaining old wicks into three quarters inch bands. Sew bands onto burned portions to extend life, saving about $1.05 per season for a three burner stove in about 20 minutes. Mrs J Be Mo, 111-2 Lockwood St.
Betty imitates golf with imaginary club while Dick teaches her. She borrows a white linen skirt with red gingham trim and red buttons, paired with a black knitted silk sweater and sailor hat for a lunch outing. The narrator considers sharing the garment.
A 21 year old asks whether to marry a wealthy but homely navy fiancé or a good looking suitor who urges immediate marriage. The columnist rebukes marrying as escape from work, urging the reader to view marriage as home and family work, and to consider real duties of wife and mother.
A farmer tends five acres of wheat through storms heat and pests and fears ruin. He complains and frets over weather and blight, but the crop survives and proves his worries vain.
The article argues that marriage is not a cure for a conscientious working woman’s toil. It notes many women see marriage as blissful idleness and expect a man to provide, suggesting hopes are known to many men.
Advice column discusses hat tipping etiquette with a rule that a gentleman removes the hat with the far hand unless that hand is occupied. It also notes at breakfast a wider freedom to read mail or a newspaper, more so than at other meals.
A fragment from the Sunday Post recipes section presents Frozen Caramel Custard with caramelized sugar, milk, tapioca, eggs, cream, and vanilla to freeze, plus Swedish Coffee Bread with milk, butter, sugar, eggs, cardamom, raisins, and yeast yielding two loaves. Also included are Corn Fritters, Egg Gruel, Mulled Jelly, Oyster Toast, Milk Toast, and home addresses for several contributors.
Jean Ross, a decorated nurse from a French hospital, spends a lavish coastal resort month funded by Red Cross hospitality. With $500, she boutiques outfits, befriends Allen Stewart and dreams of building a model hospital, then discovers Allen’s family wealth and questions of sincerity.
Mrs. Robt Wellington Adams, formerly Frances Linzee Prescott, a YMCA worker in France, was married in Paris to a member of the Tank Corps.
Frances Linzee Prescott daughter of Mrs. Linzee Prescott of Gloucester street marries Robert Wellngton Adams son of Mrs. H. A. Adams of Kansas City. Adams served in the Tank Corps and both were in wartime service with Miss Prescott in France. They are returning to the United States together.
A long roster of marriage intentions is listed with pairs including Alphonso Cannon and Marion Morton of Roxbury, George Theobald and Hazel Chandler, and many others across Boston and surrounding towns. Entries give ages, occupations, and street addresses. The compilation shows multiple proposed unions of mixed ages and professions, reflecting formal record entries for upcoming marriages.
Anthony Cooper first Earl of Shaftsbury born July 22 1621 in England. A controversial figure of the civil wars friend of Charles I and a noted scholar soldier who urged war against the Dutch he fled to Amsterdam where he died of gout living as a citizen there.
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