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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1913
Page
11
A Boston Post department features letters from readers on marriage, honesty, child care, and home life. Contributors discuss truthful spouses, reform temptations, and the role of women in work, with anecdotes from mothers, musicians, and workers.
A recent correspondent calls a type of women who seek attentions and gifts to belong to others a female vampire. The following extracts present various phases of this question through letters.
Readers describe women dubbed vam pires as self centered social climbers who cling to male attention while married. Letters recount husbands neglected for attention and money spent on clothes, highlighting a moral judgment of such behavior in a communal circle.
A passerby note reports Magistrate Freschi proposing that lying may be necessary to preserve domestic calm, prompting discussion on ethics and public morals within the community.
The text notes a persistent claim that a woman who has fallen into degradation cannot find honest work after her past becomes known. It cites reform writings and personal letters discussing the social exclusion faced by such women from employers and colleagues.
Irene, anxious about a dinner with the Ainsleys to boost her husband Dick’s architecture bid, hides a hired gown and a mystery letter. A mistaken past romance surfaces as Miss Ainsley reveals her own gown once belonged to Irene, and Alan Leighton reappears. Irene learns the Emerson school is secured, and she joyfully schemes to wear a red gown to the couple’s wedding.
A Mason penned column imagines the new administration to administrate and ease the people's load though faces a rocky road. He laments skeptical crowds and warns of storms as reforms loom for equal justice and relief from burdens on the poor and working classes.
The fashion spread notes the growing popularity of the one buttoned coat and sash accented draped skirts. Many one piece frocks still use buttons while ribbed Ottoman silk dominates spring dresses. Colored silk vests boast Roumanian and oriental embroidery and Russian blouse influences appear in many costumes. Traveller cases shift to cretonne colonial and chintz patterns.
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