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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 05, 1921
Page
13
A lyrical meditation on warming the heart with love for strangers. The speaker seeks solace as night falls, feeling the scent of dark air and the witchery of stars to ease unrest and heal loneliness through connections with people not yet known.
A Pioneer era discussion frames a young stenographer earning 25 a week with a 18 year old sister earning 15. The pair support a family while the mother imposes housework and limits on leisure such as dancing. Letters debate parental duty, wages, and fairness alongside men and women roles, breakfast duties, and marriage fatigue.
Mrs. Nelson Burdick asks to nominate Miss Muriel Thorpe for the vacancy left by Miss Loveless in the Women's Literary Club. The motion provokes sharp rebukes from Mrs. LeMar Mallison who questions Thorpe’s background. A year later the club hosts Sara Green, and Thorpe’s success story unfolds as Green highlights talent produced by adversity and support from Burdick and a local rector.
In a Vivial era vignette Vivian Vane presents Jack and Jill in a playful domestic comedy. A dinner party with the Higginsbys turns chaotic when soup splashes flood the outfits and table linen, ending with a lighthearted quarrel and a vow to spare mentions of soup.
The Italian king pursues a history of coins from Etruscan times to today, spanning over 30000 years with seven volumes published. famed financier Thomas W. Lamont treats bankrupts as patients. artists Sargent Cope Guthrie Stone Russell connected to portraits and gifts to the nation. pensioners Williams and Bell, both 70s, long railway porters. Vanderbilt couple renting Carlton House Terrace. Princess Anastasia of Greece linked to former Mrs Leeds at London home.
Recipe style list features salmon loaf with flaked fish crackers egg milk butter salt pepper and mustard. meat croquettes formed into rolls fried until brown. desserts include spiced bread with apple molasses sugar butter milk and flour with soda eggs and spices. large bake quantities and ratios provided.
A collection of practical tips for home tasks. Vinegar soaking extends gas mantles durability and brightness. Fasteners on cushion covers reduce wear. Use cold water for scrubbing floors to ease drying. Threading tips for darning needles and ribbons simplify laundry and sewing tasks. Contributed by Mrs D B Harris of Dedham.
Miss Rose Boyd, a Charleston native now in New York, operates as a professional job analyst. She has placed over 5000 people by analyzing life history, education, and preferences, then matching them to positions, sometimes stern about dress and deportment. She began with $400 borrowed, turning years into a profitable, highly specialized career.
A student asks to be hired as a bricklayer. The foreman replies that they would start as an architect with potential to advance, framing a humorous career progression from trades to design.
In the Senate, Vice-President Marshall is noted as a wit who often comments as debates progress. Occasionally his remarks reach the chamber, delighting statesmen. Once, amid serious views on the nation’s needs, he bent toward his desk and whispered audibly to the assistant.
The secretary of the Senate joked that the country needs a really good six-cent cigar, prompting laughter and likely approval from the chamber. The light remark reflects a moment of levity in a formal session.
Mr Green seeks advice from a neighbor about pests in his radish bed. The neighbor suggests placing salt between rows. After trying it, Mr Green finds the pests not only survive but pull up radishes, dip them in salt, and eat them with evident relish.
A humorous exchange from the Birmingham Age-Herald jokes about a man’s head being unusually solid with bones. The dialogue compares the speaker’s remark to everyday language, concluding with a quip that the comment was meant as a physical observation rather than crude slang.
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