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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1912
Page
13
A mix of reader letters and local observations recounts voices in Boston Roxbury and Dorchester. Mentions include a Harvard Cambridge route nickname The College Course, the Young Men's Hebrew Association at Hetty Green’s Roxbury estate, and travels of notable figures like Robert Bevans the traveling salesman.
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Daily and Sunday Post invites women to discuss home and household topics. Home makers can share advice on family life, baby care, budgeting, gardening, and related issues using pen names. Letters should be mailed to Sewing Circle Editor, Boston Post.
A New England mother seeks advice on whether she should work to supplement her husband’s 12 a week trade income. Letters share a husband who stays home to cook while the wife designs hats earning 20 to 385 weekly, noting happiness and savings.
A reader from Hingham Sister counsels careful household budgeting noting rent milk and insurance costs, praises frugal living, warns against extravagance, and urges buying in bulk from prices found around town to save money.
The poem contemplates life at the midpoint where youth and years blend on life’s page. It contrasts youthful impetuosity with mature reflection and sees Heaven’s plan, divine love, and moral growth guiding adults toward a tempered, hopeful destiny.
Several handwritten style recipes from Vermont contributors describe batters with eggs and flour, stock and white soup techniques, and steps for preparing fowl. Aldea Joubert from Springfield, Mary Crane from Danville, and Miss Sophia Revaghrh of Waterford share methods for pie fillings, pastry, croquettes, and stock preparation including vegetables, cream, and cornstarch.
In a 19th or early 20th century voice a letter criticizes married women who work outside the home arguing they take bread from men and depress wages. It urges women to stay home with children and live on a $12 scale, addressing the so called working girl.
A young wife named Alice stayed out all night with a female friend hoping to curb her husband’s late hours. Her letter to the Circle asks if this was the proper course, noting it instead provoked his fury.
In a personal reminiscence a woman recalls a difficult marriage and argues for self assertion within wedded life. The narrator past and present contrasts illustrate unequal demands. A second reader asks if two can live on six dollars weekly with rent and laundry expenses outlined.
A reader describes a four person household surviving on six dollars weekly while the father earns fifteen, detailing the hardship of feeding a boy and a girl and managing finances.
A reader explains supporting a family of six on nine dollars and eighty cents weekly. The note says taxes are paid and interest is paid twice yearly while economy guides all spending and daily life.
A reader sympathizes with a wife who feels neglected by her husband due to his poultry obsession. The writer shares a Rhode Island Red hobby and encourages mutual interest to rekindle affection, noting the joys of hatching chicks and caring for a flock. The piece ends with the line ALMOST SIXTEEN.
The Sunday Post highlights The Sewing Circle as a recurring feature in its pages, showcasing craft tips and project ideas for readers interested in fabric work and needlework.
It is estimated that one quart of honey requires bees to travel about 48 000 miles between flowers and the hive. American sandpaper remains popular in Gere many despite higher cost than domestic. The golden plover migrates from North America via Nova Scotia to South America, covering about 5000 miles over water.
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