Why Girle Marry and the Old Times of Love
Dear Sewing Circle letters discuss marriage motives, fidelity, and the weight of love versus money. A reader questions why girls marry, comparing past legal control to modern unions, while others urge choosing happiness and shared values over material gain and social pressure. The exchange touches courtship, divorce, and the idea of love sustaining marriage.
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Royal Mounted Police
Sewing Circle
Dear Lonesome and Blue letter offers dating guidance
In a Sewing Circle correspondence, a reader, nearly 19, defends her dignity and explains desire for love, home, and children. Mrs I M F advises evaluating engagement, ensuring mutual love, and choosing the right partner to create a happy home.
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Sewing Circle
Ireland
Bobbetth DR
Blue
MRS. I. M. F
The Joint Debate On Household Economics
A staged conversation titled Dearie and Arnold Hiattga presents a domestic argument on salaries and budgets. The Referee proclaims the wife wins and invites readers to vote by writing to the Post Sewing Circle as the daily debate continues.
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Arnold Hiattga
Hippo Fund Donation Appeal Urges Immediate Support
A call to action urges readers to donate now to the Hippo Fund, emphasizing urgency and immediate contribution rather than delaying. The appeal stresses the impact of daily gifts and supports ongoing conservation efforts.
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The
Hippo Fund
Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason The Cheerful Front
A humorous verse sketch by Walt Mason about enduring illness talk and social reception. The speaker aside from aches and pills chooses cheer over doom, noting how friends, pastors, and neighbors react to his gloomy storytelling and how he now faces others with a brighter tone despite forty ailments.
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Dr. Hightow
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Beauty’s Bidding in a Boarding House Beauty Parlor
In a Beacon Hill attic, three workers turn a hostel into a makeshift beauty parlor. The narrator, Milo the beauty promoter, launches a side business for fellow lodgers including Mrs Gibson and Betty Enderhurst, as earnings rise then falter amid social rivalries and moral doubt.
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Jim Bryant
Milo
Gibson
Betty Enderhurst
Mrs. Gibson
Betty
Waterloo
Grace Bryant
Jimmy
Betty Maderhurst
A Night of Glamour and Self-Pashion in Ash Green Rooms
A narrator describes moving into two stylish rooms hung in ash green and silver. Chevalier orders a golden wig for Eva Herrick, who serves as the narrator's assistant. The narrator flaunts a striking white wig and invites dames to seek beauty, success, and happiness.
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Chevalier
Eva Herrick
Eva
Fried Potatoes and Stuffed Steaks in New England Cookbook
Instructions show a Sunday post recipe page with fried potatoes using lard and butter, onion fried then removed, potatoes browned in the same fat, seasoned with salt pepper and parsley. It also details a steak stuffed with bread crumbs milk butter mint sage onion, sewn, roasted for an hour basting with butter, plus mushroom served as a topping.
Parisian Beans and Walnut Wafers From Home Cook Notes
Recipes and domestic tips feature veal gravy steps with parsley garnish from Anna T. Hankala Salisbury New Hampshire. Parisian beans advise string beans with tomato and celery salt baked in a casserole. Walnut wafers describe creamed butter sugar eggs chocolate walnuts vanilla and flour baked in moderate oven.
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Anna T. Hankala
Salisbury
N. H
J. L. Dunham
Maple Street
Taunton
Love and Sentiment Advice From Mildred Champagne
A young woman asks how to handle a brother who became distant after courting her at her chum’s house. The columnist advises not to let the brother affect the friendship with the sister, notes the sister’s possible influence, and suggests the brother may apologize if the young woman ignores him.
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Champagne
Chum
How to Save When Shopping for Poultry
An article discusses pros and cons of drawn versus undrawn poultry. It cites dealer opinions, a Massachusetts Board of Health study showing better preservation when entrails are drawn, and cautions buyers to choose fresh well drawn birds and buy from reliable butchers to avoid off flavors and ptomaine risk.
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Massachusetts State Board of Health
Puble Ledger Co
The Patentee Wizard Turns Seventy Five Still Keen
A remarkable inventor with over two thousand telegraph patents inspires with constant new inventions. A self taught innovator who never attended school gathers knowledge from every source to advance betterment. The aging wizard remains hale at seventy five and active in his workshop.
Household Hints on Removing Common Stains
Ink stains remove with a solution of oxalic acid. For acid stains apply peariish and boil in soapy water. Iron stains respond to oxalic acid or buttermilk.
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