Breakfast duties spark debate in Sewing Circle letters
Readers weigh in on whether wives should wake early to cook for husbands. Optimistic advice urges breakfast as a daily support, while others criticize traditional gender roles and praise shared meals and humor for a happy marriage.
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Phoebe
Phoebe.” Dear Sewing Circle
Mildred Champagne Advises Gentle Handling Of Temper
Dear Miss Champagne advises a patient approach to a partner with a volatile temper. The writer should show kindness and patience, address possible annoyances, seek mutual understanding, and consider separation if harmony cannot be achieved. The tone endorses modern views on respect and non coercive resolution.
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Shakspere
Petruchio
Butterfly Night Changes Polly in Brookline Party
Polly Young at a Brookline masquerade cherishes old memories of Jerry as Archie presses for engagement. A bold black and gold knight flirts, but Polly longs for her childhood friend. When Jerry reappears in the woods, Polly confesses love and Jerry pledges to win her.
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Archie Morton
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Tye
South Africa
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Butterfly
Archie
Mrs. Young
Polly Darling
A Song of Many Loves Poem Fragments
Poems for pour scrap book recount whimsical loves from childhood to yesterday. Fragments speak of ghostly memories and wistful desires, with vivid imagery of spring, rain, and intimate dreams under velvet night. The verses linger on tender, unforgotten passions and soft, distant echoes of beloveds.
Human Sharks Card Game Across Ocean Exchange
A quirky fragment recalls conversations about sharks crossing seas and playing cards with a couple aboard, hinting at odd travel or meeting stories. No clear dates or institutions are provided.
Wit and Wisdom from a Legion Weekly Passage
A matron hands a hobo a handout telling him to eat outside. The man replies bluntly that he is used to it and recalls a line about dining out when wearing his dress suit. The scene has a humorous, old time tone from Legion Weekly.
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Greta
Valey
Make Your Own Sausage With Real Vermont Flavor
Read full recipe page on Sunday Post for sausage making using 16 pound pork shoulders yielding 12 pounds sausage meat. Graced by Grace W Smith and J L Dunham recipes, it covers grinding, seasoning, lard from skin, and serving tips with citrus dessert featuring tangerines oranges marshmallows coconut.
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Vermont
Grace W. Smith
Park Ave
Wooncocket
R. J
Food Pairings for Soups and Fish from Annie Goldsmith
Annie Goldsmith offers practical kitchen tips for pairing soups and fish. She recommends large croutons with cream or salmon fish soup, small croutons with thick soups like tomato, bread with thin soups, and celery in season with all soups. For chowder, soda crackers. fried oysters with cabbage salad and French dressing. boiled fish with cucumber salad and butter or creamy sauces and potatoes.
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Annie
Goldsmith
Folger Avenue
Beverly
Say You Remember When They Told Us It Would Be Good
A brief Legion Weekly quote recalls a wartime promise that returning soldiers would have it all after service. The exchange reflects optimism and collective memory of sacrifice.
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Legion Weekly
Sign of Death Echoed by Two Visitors in Story
Two visitors hear a prowling dog and debate whether the howls signal death. One asks if it’s a sign of death, while the other defiantly claims it would be if he could obtain a gun.
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Tom
Legal Question on Damages After Cow Destroys Skiff
A farmer ties a skiff to shore with a straw rope. A cow boards the skiff, chews the rope, setting the skiff adrift. The vessel capsizes and the cow drowns. Who bears the loss, the cow owner or the boat owner, under liability principles.
Doctor Defies Accusations Yet Silence Speaks
A physician, enraged by jokes about doctors, defended his care by saying he could not be accused of ignorance or neglect. A bystander quipped that men tell no tales, underscoring the lingering doubt and sly humor surrounding medical reputation.
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Galen
Raillery
Queen Caroline of England Birth and Influence
Queen Caroline, wife of George II, born March 1 1683 in a German family, spent early years in Europe and married to George Augustus of Hanover at 22. She supported Hanoverian succession, fostered literary friendship with Chesterfield Pope and Gay, and influenced King George II’s good deeds.
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Caroline
Lord Chesterfield
Alexander Pope
John Gay
George II
Jack and Jill Debate Charity Club Spend
Jack mocks Jill's charity efforts while they discuss knitting for the poor and a church drive. Jill defends the project and notes the value of labor, tea time, and parish events as they reconcile.
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Jack
Jill
Notable Figures and Fortunes in Arts and Titles
The piece lists sums paid to playwriters Frank Bacon Avery Hopwood and Mary Roberts Rinehart for works like Lightnin Trene The Bat and The Gold Diggers It notes James Montgomery and The Prince of Wales as a popular social mixer The text also mentions Thomas E Rush C W Wiley and Lord Dunsany highlighting their careers and wartime activities in a Boston context.
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Lightnin
James Montgomery
Trene
Avery Hopwood
Mary Roberts Rinehart
the Bat
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