Sewing Circle letter on home life and cigarette use in 1910s Boston
A Sewing Circle reader laments overworked wives and nicotine dangers, contrasts husbands’ eight hour days, recounts a neighbor father whose smoking imperiled a sick child, and urges practical use of wages. The piece questions gender roles, household labor, and moral duties in early 20th century New England.
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Sewing Circle
Boston Daily
Sunday Post
New England
Nour
Boston Post
Wanted A Young Housekeeper Account Book Question
A reader asks the Sewing Circle if a Boston couple can live frugally on $15 a week. She seeks itemized weekly expenses from married readers to gauge a modest budget, noting first-year clothes costs. The editor adds that earlier letters discussed living on $12 weekly, inviting such accounts.
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Sewing Circle
Boston
Woman Ly Woman Tale Of A Son In Tobacco Dilemma
A fragment recalls a mother addressing a son who admits cigarette use after discovering his partner smoking. The dialogue hints at social attitudes toward tobacco and relationships, leaving questions about consequences and reconciliation.
The Woman With a Temper Dear Sewing Circle
A reader defends husbands who endure scolding and public indignities from wives in a letter to a sewing circle. She recalls a son whose wife had an uncontrollable temper and how onlookers mocked the husband for tolerating it, arguing it shows nobility in men to persevere love despite mistreatment.
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Sewing Circle
Professor Sargent
Sissy
The Prodigal Daughter's Return in Sewing Circle
A member called Fair Play quotes the Sewing Circle on women who repent after a bohemian phase. The piece critiques how former partygoers often scorn others seeking stable domestic paths, and recalls a girl’s own past fascination with dancing and late suppers in casual eateries.
Sweet Sounds and Sorrow Echoes in a Rural Night
A playful meditation on midnight sounds features a tomcat and a neighbor’s dog singing to the night, interrupted by a rooster’s martial cry. Amid reflections, a wedding dress mixup unfolds, revealing a dead bride and a fiancé’s deception as Del finds solace.
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Yellow Pup
Bunker Hill
Walt Mason
George Matthew Adams
Prodigal Daughter Turns From Forgiveness to Reproof
The excerpt recounts a woman who once felt cast out warns a young man’s parents against her, causing a broken match. She argues that those needing forgiveness are less inclined to forgive others of their sex, challenging the belief that the repentant are more forgiving.
Sewing Circle Letters Highlighted in Sunday Post
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, showcasing reader thoughts, tips, and community chatter on crafts, patterns, and social events.
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the Post
The
Sunday Post
The Ditty of Our Twilight Melancholy
A 1913 verse reflects a speaker and a companion sharing a piano mood as twilight deepens. The poem contemplates sorrow, memory, and prophetic dread of death, with Azrael's approach foreshadowed and a plea for shared fate and mutual speech in love.
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Azrael
June
Del's Wedding Dress and a White Dress for Hattie
A serialized scene follows Del buying a white muslin dress with a lace fichu and veil, planning a wedding with Jim. Meanwhile, Miss Smith dies at 4 PM and Bill is revealed to have purchased a white dress and veil for her, earning a mixed moral judgment from Del and her mother as Hattie is laid to rest.
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Bill
Hattie
Del
Jim
Miss Smith
McAlister
Morton
Travel to Yellowstone Park by Burlington Pullman Car
A Boston travel agent promotes a summer trip from Chicago to Gardiner via a luxurious Burlington Pullman car. The service runs 300 miles by daylight along the Mississippi Valley with a weekly conductor to assist guests at no extra charge. Contact Alex Stocks for maps and descriptions.
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Yellowstone Park
Burlington
Chicago
Mississippi River
Waters
Gardiner
Park
Alex Stocks
New England Pass
R. R. Co
Washington St
Boston
Tel
Love and Sentiment in Advice Column Dialogue
A youthful correspondent seeks counsel on a romance opposed by her father. The adviser defends the match, praising the workingman lover’s character and urging the couple to win parental approval through steady effort and mutual happiness.
J E Nolan Buried in South Boston
The funeral of John E. Nolan, the South Boston undertaker, who died at City Hospital last Sunday night, was held at his late home 925 TKast Broadway, with a requiem high mass at St Eulalia's Church at 9 o clock.
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John E. Nolan
South Boston
City Hospital
Tkast Broadway
St. Eulalia’s Church
Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII Love Letters Revealed
A study of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII letters recounts royal court romance and peril. It notes Anne’s imprisonment and beheading on May 19, 1536, with her Tower writings praising Henry and loyal love, alongside Henry's own courtship message about enduring passion and distance.
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Anne Boleyn
Henry VIII
Anne
Henry
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