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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jul 26, 1922
Page
11
Readers share dates and dilemmas in 1920s style guidance on wedding timing love vs money and independence. Letters discuss trust youth marriage age and choosing a life partner while emphasizing love as essential and warnings about social gossip and selfish partners.
Dr. Hendrik van Loon recounts medieval accounts of Norse explorers from Greenland who pursued Vinland, the land of the vine, and traces how their reports influenced later Columbus era curiosity. He notes Adam of Bremen's 1595 account and suggests Columbus may have heard rumors of western lands during his northern voyages.
This guide explains color application on cotton fabrics including printed designs, yarn dyed materials such as ginghams and chambrays, and piece dyed solid colors. It warns that chemical removal to create white dots may weaken fabric and that printed colors fade, offering tips to test fastness or rely on a trustworthy salesman.
Recipes from New England housewives include stuffed egg salad with olives and lobster dishes. Also featured are tomato sauce, macaroni salad with olives, plus a fruit layered pudding. A reflection on motives in marriage closes the column.
In a Sewing Circle style exchange, spouses are urged to seek tact and mutual consent. Martha and Jerry share a playful moment as Martha finds a bright golf ball, misattributing it to Jerry and joking that Dave marks balls with an H as a keepsake of their engagement.
The article highlights using plain organdie in matching panels and sleeves with flowered organdies. It notes chiffon evening frocks trimmed with cretonne motifs and calls fichu a great success as swiss and organ die styles rise in vogue.
A golf foursome story follows Jerry and Dave when a misplayed shot shatters a car windshield. Martha Dale swoons, Jerry drives her to the hospital, then confesses love. Martha reveals she favored Jerry all along and allowed the ruse to wake him to true feelings.
A reader asks if a young man who plans marriage without declaring love should marry. The columnist notes a man assumes responsibility when proposing and questions whether a girl should be expected to deduce his love.
The description explains a fashionable bodice style for evening gowns featuring a fitted silhouette with a pointed front and back and sleeveless design.
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