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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1916
Page
15
Readers advise Prairie Rose on marriage childbearing and beauty. Letters urge patience for children, critique vanity, and suggest focusing on partnership, with varied views from other columnists and readers about love, roles, and domestic life.
A New England Housewives column shares practical kitchen tips and recipes. It outlines a plain economical beef bone soup using leftovers, carrots, turnips, onion, and a flour slurry, served with toast. It also covers salt fish soaking, broiling, and a cookie trio including surprise, filling, and molasses cookies with clear ingredient lists from Ruby M Thurston of Bethel, Maine.
A reflection on timeless tunes that linger in memory. Poems and song titles like Home Sweet Home Annie Laurie Old Oaken Bucket The Mocking Bird Whippoorwill My Country Tis of Thee Star Spangled Banner Nearer My God to Thee Lead Kindly Light Down on the Suwanee River Way Down in Dixie Old Virginia Massa s in the Cold Cold Ground echo through reminiscence and rooms of the past.
Dear Miss Champagne asks whether a young woman may invite a young man to a leap year dance and pay all expenses. The man may view it as a joke or use humor to avoid obligations, or pretend to be oppressed to show independence and pay his own way.
A snowbound rural station becomes the stage for a mistaken identity and a budding romance between Carlton and Sidney Warrington. After a dog incident and a tense wait, the pair learn Sidney is a girl and uncover family misreadings that end in a warm reunion at the house with Uncle Stan and others smiling at the joke.
A nostalgic meditation on memory and beauty. The speaker recalls vivid scenes from childhood and old places, where scent of blooming things, gardens, lilacs, and green woods evoke a renewed youthful heart and the ideal of serenity beyond the crowd.
A Salem reader asks if any small republics have fought foreign wars since our own founding and who Maximilian was. The Post answers with a brief history: Mexico fought France 1862 to 1867 and Maximilian was shot in 1867. Cambridge columnist advises gladiolus bulbs as low effort blooms for small borders.
John R. Collins, recently discharged from the U S Cavalry after injuries in the Philippines, rescued his sister in law Flora Collins from a fire at 1A Charles Street Dorchester. He removed her from the smoke and she was revived after reaching the street as firefighters confined the blaze to the kitchen causing about 500 dollars in damage.
Dorothy discusses Ciara's house party outfit in a phone chat. The gown features rose taffeta, silver brocade, a shirred bodice, lace trim, a black velvet bow, long earrings, and a lace underskirt with a gathered taffeta skirt opened at the front to create panniers.
The wing-draped panniers on the skirts can be cleverly arranged to create a graceful silhouette. The description emphasizes how styling details influence overall form and elegance.
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