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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1916
Page
13
Letters to the Sewing Circle argue money buys health and happiness through personal stories. A poor family recalls deaths and illness mitigated by funds, while readers describe thrift, budgeting, and consumer choices showing how money shapes health, home, and happiness in New England.
A reader recalls a striking white Jersey cloth sports costume seen this afternoon. The skirt, coat pockets, cuffs, and high collar featured blue and white stripes, with a waistcoat-like belt and blue smoke-pearl buttons, a memory that stirs admiration.
Household hints show gelatine thickens thin soup adds body. A teaspoon in a quart of water helps any soup. Gelatine helps small meat bits firm for slicing. A lotion of bay rum gelatine and lemon juice removes stains. Ellen I Foster 140 Lincoln Street Holyoke.
A twelve year old girl Eileen travels alone to visit her grandmother but is mistaken for a different town. She becomes stranded in Leicester during a blizzard, is helped by a boy George and his mother Mrs Edwards, and later reaches Western and returns to visit Leicester. Years later she reflects on the stormy night and the kindness she received.
A 19 year old expresses loneliness despite a well-to-do home and stylish life. She seeks guidance to find a courteous, well dressed gentleman and asks about starting a correspondence through Miss Champagne's advice. She hosts parties and desires social engagement to reduce loneliness.
A 1916 verse by the Bentztown Bard speaks of a Valley of Better Things where light, love, and kindness reign. It envisions sweet healing, shared praise, and a world united by love as life is described as beautiful and the heart finds its summer.
A reflective verse about how sorrow reveals true neighbors as friends. It contrasts idle greetings in bright days with genuine support that appears in adversity, showing how hardship transforms casual passersby into companions who lend strength.
A New York importing firm launches a fashion battle with Boston rivals at the Hotel Lenox. Both sides set up in adjoining suites as rush of samples begins before sunrise. The conflict is a quiet dressmaker war, not Olympic combat.
A New England Housewives item offers a recipe to bake small round tins into cones that resemble calma lilies. Mix sugar eggs flour water salt tar tar soda, bake, roll into cones, fill with vanilla whipped cream, add an egg yolk stamen, or use as a layer cake with cream and strawberries. From Mrs Lydia M Richards of Waterville Maine.
Andre Tridon of New York, guest of honor at a Women’s City Club dinner, argues the New World lacks dolled-up theatrics and praises enlightened progressive women. He contrasts American virtue with European notions of patriotism and predicts a future where states abandon male-only governance and bachelor housekeeping declines.
Arrangements are underway for a double funeral for Margaret Dempsey, 68, and her twin brother Michael Hanlon, of 50 Hood Street, Lynn. Hanlon died Saturday at Union Hospital from Brights disease, while his sister died Sunday night in Lynn Hospital from the same illness. she did not know of his death.
At the annual town meeting Winthrop voters approved 1500 dollars for preparedness and 1900 dollars for maintenance of the Winthrop machine gun company plus 40 dollars for a rifle range.
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