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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1913
Page
11
A Sewing Circle column compiles letters from women arguing for or against domestic service as a pathway to marriage. Stories recount cooks who marry wealthy husbands, homemakers whose children prosper, and critiques of educated or urban women. The piece reflects varied female experiences and social expectations about work, marriage, and class in the era.
Readers debate the ideal husband with competing letters. A respondent praises a devoted spouse who handles finances, home, and insurance, while another insists equality in sharing pay and household costs proves the ideal. A third letter moderates expectations about male involvement.
In a Dear Sewing Circle column a reader recalls a youth seeking fame in Boston who ends up penniless and alone until a kind policeman helps. The officer guides the author to his home where his wife shelters him and sends him home to his father. The story contrasts loneliness with mercy.
Letters debate who holds command in the home with one correspondent claiming the wife should boss the household and finances while another stresses obedience and a man’s right to command. The exchange cites family roles, earnings, and child care as core issues in the marital dynamic.
A reader argues against daughters pursuing higher education citing limited family income and marriage outcomes. She claims algebra and Latin offer little practical benefit for most women and warns education may raise unattainable ambitions.
Some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle are printed in the Sunday Post, presenting reader views on crafts, culture, and community life in a period newspaper feature.
Dear Miss Champagne advises a man in a two month situation with a 19 year old house resident. He fears revealing love due to favors to her mother and lack of formal introduction. The columnist says pursue the girl directly, noting gratitude to the mother rarely equals love and that the couple alone decide their future.
A humorous dialogue contrasts old courtship with modern fantasies. Miss Gushington yearns for bygone nights while Mr. Hardfax retorts that such whispers are obsolete because a 100 horsepower aeroplane would loom outside the window today.
Grace, a touring singer from Newburyport, considers marrying Donald after a decade apart. In a fateful station moment she spots Donald with his child, tearing up a telegram to cancel her Boston engagement. The estranged lovers reconnect only to part again as the train resumes.
The speaker rejects sermons that portray people as vile and depraved defending a view that humans are made in God's image. He argues heaven favors uprightness over groveling and mocks the idea of perpetual self abasement for salvation. The quotation is attributed to Walt Mason.
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