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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1911
Page
11
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Daily and Sunday Post invites New England homemakers to discuss home management family issues health tips baby care budgeting gardening flowers and domestic concerns. Correspondents may use pen names and should write on one side of the paper.
A reader complains about noisy neighbors and their daily routines. They dispute use of a front hall space by a baby carriage and request guidance after considering writing to the landlady. The letter ends with frustration and a request for help.
Instructions on finishing scallops for embroidery. The author advises trimming ravellings after cutting the embroidered edge, then restitching about two thirds down to prevent fraying.
In a letter to the Post a reader shares steps to make a baby carriage robe using one yard of eiderdown bound with one inch ribbon and a large bow. She describes a cream white version and a future warmer weather variant in heavy linen with a scalloped border and eyelets using No 25 cotton. The writer notes her baby is seven months old and she enjoys the Sewing Circle and the daily Post.
The writer recounts a marital strain and suggests reconciling through shared duties and affection. She notes her own eight year marriage as happy, urges open talk, a possible temporary separation, and even adopting a motherless baby to strengthen bonds. She emphasizes love, family routines, and mutual effort.
Advice on laundering with overnight soak and boil method using round can washing powder. Instructions include rubbing spots, three rinse waters with blueing, and using cold water for easier cleaning. Also includes domestic tips on canvassing, cooking, and health remarks about catarrh and tonics.
A reader offers practical parenting guidance focused on gentle daily routines. She stresses loving, gradual rule setting, consistent sleep patterns, feeding schedules every two hours early on then every three, light left on at first sleep, and calming patting. She notes milk of magnesia as a laxative and thanks the Sewing Circle sisters for support.
A letter describes purchasing a small farm in New Hampshire. The author plans to repair a house, furnish it, buy a horse, cow, pig, and hens, and run the farm for about a year and a half on the stated sum.
A letter urges Patty to avoid marriage and seek steady work, warns against revealing illness, and stresses responsibility to future children. It recounts a man whose marriage led to a disabled child and a widow returning to her mother. The message advocates self supporting, sacrificing personal happiness for future generations.
A letter outlines a 17th of March gathering with green crepe paper decor, shamrocks on the ends of the table, a central bowl, and clay pipes marked as faces. Guests receive souvenirs as refreshments end, with a designated coordinator to ensure a relaxed, enjoyable event.
Reader Rosie offers home washing tips including cold water use with kerosene and yellow soap. She cautions against mixing powder and soap and suggests adding kerosene to starch and blueing for whitening.
A reader asks for remedies to kill plant lice destroying houseplants and to revive ivy dying from a room fire. The inquiry comes from a Boston Post Sewing Circle reader seeking practical tips and safe solutions.
Mildred Champagne counsels Anxious on handling constant quarrelling with a steady boyfriend. She warns that repeated fights erode affection and suggests cultivating tolerance and a live and let live mindset to keep a relationship amiable or remain distant friends.
A humorous verse by Walt Mason critiquing fad diets and conventional eating. It celebrates hearty appetite and skepticism toward medical or scientific dieting complaints, illustrating a robust, carefree approach to food and weight.
A 21 year old bookkeeper seeking marriage with a 19 year old heiress asks for guidance. The adviser commends his scruples and urges honest disclosure of love over wealth, urging the man to explain he cannot yet provide as she does, and to ask her to wait while he plans to improve.
George W. Perkins began life as a Chicago book-keeper earning 12 dollars a week. Mayor Reyburn of Philadelphia is Ohio-born and admitted to the bar in 1870. Emma Nevada, the prima donna, now lives in Paris. her real name is Wixon. Isador Straus, New York merchant, helped write the Wilson tariff law. Augustus Thomas, the playwright, once a Forty first Congress page boy. William Astor Chanler of New York has made two Africa expeditions and earned Royal Geographical Society honors.
A collection of vintage kitchen directions lists ingredients and steps for macaroni with milk and cheese, salmon steamed in buttered dish with crumbs, and a sweet roll with sour cream and currants. Each entry includes a name and address from New Bedford Winchester Highlands and West Peabody Massachusetts.
A simple frugal peach dessert: stew peaches til soft, sweeten if needed, beat with butter, and mix with eggs. Stir in grated chocolate to a pint of milk, boil smooth, pour over peaches in a buttered dish and bake ten minutes in a moderate oven.
Laurent Fitzlillie, a British heir working in America, seeks Nellie Upton’s hand despite her father Mr. Upton’s anti foreign name and odd pride. A pond lily crest becomes central to the feud and eventual marriage with comic family clashes. The Upton dislike softens after a ludicrous pond scene and a vow to marry with permission. The couple wed with lilies on the table and a gift lionized by both families, while Lord Fitzlillie cautions restraint over lineage and tradition.
Japanese sashes pair with Paris frocks while black chantilly lace decorates many dresses. Paris decrees velvet slippers for evening wear and the evening cap has vanished. Marquisette blouses, parasol handles in fine woods, Irish lace for lingerie, Bulgarian embroideries, and ostrich feather trims mark the season. Tailored coats stay loose and long with varied sleeve lengths and collar shapes.
William J. Walshe presents an Irish evening in Whitney Hall Brookline March 17 to benefit St Aidan's Church led by Pastor Rev. Joseph F F Coppinger. The program has drawn press praise for its entertaining mix of Irish culture and music.
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