Sewing Circle Letters on Women Roles and Morality
Readers of the Sewing Circle discuss gender expectations, fairness in spending on sons and daughters, and the idea that women should wait on husbands. Letters reveal personal anecdotes about courtship, marriage, and domestic life, with opinions from various contributors on motherhood and female responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Sisters
Fever in the Household Sparks Sharp Exchange Over Sugar
A narrator recalls a fever in the home and a tense scene with a visiting woman who asks to borrow sugar. The visitor is told never to return, and the moment is noted as a pointed retort. Later, Sam comments that the speech was excellent though long overdue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Post Office
Sam
Marm
Tarnation
Watts Place
Protestant Church Events and Missionary News
Sunday school picnic at Plymouth hosted by St Pauls Cathedral with Rev. Allen Jacobs meeting attendees. Missionary Society meetings include First Presbyterian, Stan ton Avenue Methodist, and Congregational Board planning three new missionaries to Trebizond Foochow and Van. Also speakers at Maine Unitarian conference in Augusta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul’s Cathedral
Plymouth
Allen Jacobs
Plymouth Episcopal Church
Ralph M. Harper
Artley B. Parson
The
Methodist Women’s Home Missionary Society
Stanton Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church
Congregational Women’s Board of Missions
Mary Cole
R. M. Cole
Bitlis
Turkey
Trebizond
Stella M. Cook
Shoreham
Foochow Girls’ School
China
Katherine
Hazeltine
Glen Ridge
N. J
Van
Paul Revere Frothingham
Lewis G. Wilson
Boston
Maine Conference of Unitarian Churches
Augusta
Busy Dad Weighs on Little Boy's Somber Look
A poem about a boy with a hardworking father who spends long hours at the office. The child bears a solemn, sad expression as the father saves money, suggesting tension between wealth and attention. The piece centers on family dynamics and the kid's quiet burden.
Borrowing Neighbors Spark Humorous Misadventure
A neighbor’s relentless borrowing turns comic as Sam falls into the shed while the couple foils a plan to “beat her to it.” The tale centers on a wintery Misadventure with eggs, coffee, sugar, and a flooded sugar bucket amid a pratfall by Sam and the infamous borrower.
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van Loon
FMAMA
Bobby
Boyt
Patoor Ee
Rae
Jim
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Prama
Senorgene
Saemaoours
Pao
California
New York
Yuma
Women’s Missionary Society of the
First Presbyterian Church
Baptist Home
Cambridge
Tremont Temple Baptist Church
McClure
Gyndicats
Bour
Edgar A. Guest
Detroit Free Press
Trepost
Hort Story
Alice L. Martyn
Walnut Avenue
North
Beverly
Georgia
Devonport
Butler Furniture CO
Friend Street
Ks & Butler
Summer Street
Haymarket Square
Haymarket
Union
Friend
Hoosier
Julius Kayser & Co
aNisha Ae Hana
Julius Kayser & Co., Makers
Pan
FOX Bakery
Charlestown, Mass
Mula
Walker
ERE Fairbank San Chigags
the Post
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