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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1919
Page
17
Readers discuss marriage and money in a Boston Sewing Circle column. Women argue against stingy husbands and upholding a home with a paying partner. The letters urge independence, a personal purse, and respect in marriage while contrasting jobs versus babies.
A reader argues that many women mistaking frivolity harm love and that men lack homemaking instinct. She favors stylish dressing, condemns men in paint and powder, and cites her seven children, shared finances, and joint duties to support family life. She praises her husband and calls for choosing “Mr Right Man.”
Jean Dickerman endures a blizzard anxiety at a lonely farm as she fails to adapt to country life. After a restless visit to her mother in the city, she treks home through heavy snow, reunites with Tom by the fire, and finds contentment in their strained marriage.
A Sunday Post spread presents homey sweets and pantry friendly fillings. Recipes include cookies with sour milk and raisins, orange filling, pineapple pudding, grape trifle, and a peach cream dessert by Mrs L L Leslie and Mrs K M McLaughlin from East Boston.
Denis Florence McCarthy laments waiting for May and summer as spring passes. The speaker longs for youthful love, nature's charms, and seasides while study and winter wear on the heart. Refrains repeat the waste of time and yearning for the May.
Readers ask about poll taxes and voting rights in Massachusetts and learn that Article XXXII abolished poll tax prerequisites in 1891. They inquire about Marmaduke Stephenson and Mary Dyer’s executions on Boston Common in 1659 and 1660, and the Worcester Insane Asylum backstory. Other queries cover early Massachusetts marriages and dahlias grown from seeds with varied outcomes.
The report notes Boston’s cold record for March 20 with official figures at 10 above in 1885 and 11 above in 1876. It also cites a warmest reading of 76 degrees in 1903 and records no rain or snow on this date in the past decade except in 1909 1910 1912 1913 and 1914.
Etiquette guidance notes that intimate friends hand wedding gifts in person while others may send or deliver from the store. For death in the home there is no fixed rule with white flowers common for a child or young girl, black ribbon for an older unmarried person, and crepe sometimes used for a married person no longer young.
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