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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1916
Page
21
A lyrical poem celebrates sunshine as healing light that lifts hearts and wards off gloom. It links sunlit mornings with renewed strength, love, and resolve, urging courage, cheer, and a sense of purpose as clouds pass and May music returns.
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Post invites homemakers to share advice on family budgets, child care, and domestic management. Readers respond with vignettes on income, rent, and lifestyle, asking for help on finance, motherhood, and personal choices.
Poem invokes the angel of sleep to caress the speaker with soothing dreams and quiet her weary mind. The speaker longs to forget sorrow, escape crowded days, and drift to a peaceful, fairyland rest beneath a night sky.
Dorothy chats about a dance dress worn by Lucille. The Nile green sofffee taffeta gown features cream lace bodice frills, a silver ribbon, and lace trim along the waist and skirt with silver sequin sleeves.
A fragment describes ornate dress with frills along the bodice line, long jade earrings, and silver slippers and stockings. The scene ends with a farewell spoken as part of a refined social moment.
A 25 year old woman writes about two admirers both giving gifts. One is younger and eager to marry when able, the other older has shown interest but not declared. The columnist suggests time will reveal a clear favorite as both continue calling and circumstances change.
A Derby Vermont reader Maria Peirce shares a set of frosting and candy recipes from the Sunday Post. No. 1 chocolate frosting uses sugar chocolate butter and milk boiled then cooled. No. 2 combines butter chocolate sugar milk and extract melted then cooled. A peanut butter vanilla fudge is made by boiling sugar and milk, stirring in butter vanilla and peanut butter, then beating until grainy and setting in tins.
In a Sunday Post feature, a generous woman freely helps others while a quiet supporter nicknamed "Red" assists behind the scenes, though she remains unaware of his role. The tale unfolds with warmth and small acts of kindness.
Boston area high schools were urged by the enrolment committee to enlist senior students for the Plattsburg summer military training camps running July eight to August eight. The effort aims to boost New England participation, with a goal of about four thousand enrollees. In Pawtucket, Rhode Island, engineer Herbert C. Anderson, 40, died after a cerebral hemorrhage while 10 feet up in a coal hoisting car, his body found by rescuers once the car was raised.
Paragraphs describe rising hat heights and fitted backs on new suits. Mouse color emerges as a soft shade and versatile check and stripe fabrics gain popularity. Infancy coats favor silk with ruchings and cordings. Embroidered net lingerie in white and blue delights, while ornamental hatpins gain interest. Colored bordered handkerchiefs urged over plain linen. The tunic skirt persists reinterpreted as a draped overskirt.
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