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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1912
Page
7
An advertisement touts a fat reducing remedy called parnotis with a weight loss claim and a skin firming effect. It also promotes hair removal with delatone, a canthrax shampoo, and a complexion lotion made from spur max and hazel for oily skin and freckles.
A reader asks if a two person family can survive on six dollars weekly covering rent groceries and utilities with washing and ironing. The note hints at a debate within the Sewing Circle about frugal living and mis management.
A letter attacks a spinster for advising about adopted children, arguing that adoptive parents are true parents by love and law. The writer defends her bond with a daughter she adopted, insisting she will keep the child’s parentage secret and not reveal it.
A suburban reader signs as PERPLEXED SUBURBANITE describing a ten year marriage with four children and no personal money. She details paying bills and house expenses while never receiving an allowance or access to her husband’s pay envelope. She asks for guidance on securing a small personal stipend.
A letter column centers on the Peaches and Cream problem asking whether a wife should lie to keep her husband’s affections or rise early to prepare a hot breakfast at 6 30 am. Several letters received yesterday address this moral dilemma.
A wife writes of 12 years of marriage celebrating companionship with her husband. She urges women to maintain appearance and housekeeping without spoiling the home, noting she never misses breakfast unless unwell. She advises doing work within strength, being economical, managing finances, and keeping things neat for the evening meal.
A note from Betheda describes waking before dawn to see her husband had partly prepared his own breakfast, leaving bread and butter and cold beef, while other items were neglected. She resolves not to neglect him, inspired by the Peaches and Cream story and his breakfast return.
A reader writes about aging gracefully and maintaining appearance. She recalls advice from her husband before marriage and shares how she wakes early to prepare breakfast, crediting discipline for steady self-improvement. She notes being married 15 years with many children and feeling happier at 33.
A reader letter urges wives to avoid airing husbands faults in public while sharing a balanced view from a wife who vows to stay. The author notes discontent among women and hints at resilient, enduring marriage despite flaws.
A local column notes that The Sewing Circle feature also runs in the Sunday Post, highlighting cross-coverage of this hobbyist segment.
Albany March 19. The Stillwell constitutional amendment to grant woman suffrage was killed in the Senate 21 to 19. In the Assembly suffragists won a technical victory 68 to 68 but the matter moves to the rules committee, whose makeup offers little hope for action.
Christ Church Dorchester Unitarian founded in 1852 as the Third Unitarian Society. Early meetings at Mill Street and Neponset Avenue. edifice built in 1894. Society, later at Dix Street and Dorchester Avenue, is stone and active under Rev. George F. Pratt for seven years. plans for a larger church while retaining the present as a chapel.
Narrator recalls a rambunctious episode about Artemus Ward's twins causing uproar at a tavern. Bill Stokes bursts in with startling news, Ward performs a fiery stunt on a Nash national day, and bystanders react with laughter and disbelief as the scene closes with news of mother and children doing well.
Paragraph Points On Facts and Fashions notes Serge remains popular with heavy lace coat sets and silk ottoman for elegant costumes. Paris hints at a skirt with a yoke and cerise touches on white crepe de chine blouses. Louis XVI styles loom in millinery with large draped hats and rose trims, Pierrot frills, changeable taffeta fabrics, and foulard gowns in blue, cerise, and violet.
The United States Department of Agriculture reports the 1910-11 world sugar output rose to near 16.42 million tons with U S cane and beet production reaching record levels 811 000 tons of cane and 465 000 tons of beet The global total surpassed 1909-10 figures by about 2 million tons Hawaii produced 56 tons of cane and Puerto Rico 2900 tons as part of a larger total for states and territories
Mrs Blanche Cummings of Los Angeles races east by train after learning of her mother's illness and death. Mrs Edward F Mahar wife of famed horseman Teddy Mahar of Whitman died at Brockton Hospital before an operation.
A 1912 verse by Walt Mason urges practical patriotism through steady thrift and self reliance. The speaker rejects grand displays and political agitation, choosing to tend to daily duties, manage savings, pay bills, and keep a home fed while others rail.
The New England conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church opens April 10 at the First Methodist Church in Springfield and runs several days. Six ministers and six laymen will be chosen to attend the Minneapolis general conference a month later. A dance and theatre ban repeal contest is expected during delegate selection.
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