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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1921
Page
15
Dale Collins writes from the Sydney Bulletin about a ship moving along the river past Melbourne, then venturing toward the sea. The poem captures river ferries, coast lights, and the ship’s journey outward, with vivid imagery of gulls, wind, foam, engines, and glowing funnels. The narrator urges hurry home for tea despite the voyage ahead.
A sequence of letters to Liberty Lover condemns a wife’s home brew and a husband’s response. Readers argue whether her drinking is a legal issue, with advice defending abstinence, urging honesty, or proposing institutional intervention. Notable voices from Granite State and ordinary readers discuss marriage, health, and morality in a sharp, period tone.
A missive lists kitchen tips such as salting coffee to enhance flavor browning meat before stewing cleaning teapots with wet emery cloth and polishing mirrors with whiting and warm tea. Some soap scraps are melted to make a cleansing soap ball with sand added for hand stains. Miss Muriel L Jennings Dorchester offers these household hints.
A girl in Tamworth, depressed by her looks and age, dreams of a makeover. She discovers an ad for the Get Pretty Chemical Company promising a flawless complexion and scrambles to buy its treatment, eager for change and a brighter self-image.
Jack and Jill parody marriage dieting in a Vivian Vane comedy. Jill clings to a strict health plan from a book while Jack ignores diet rules. The pair negotiate hunger, indulgence, and a romantic reconciliation as they pursue a balanced approach.
A narrator describes indulging in mysterious hair and facial products that turn her face green and black. In a panic she crashes a lampshade while testing the cosmetics, then awakens to a shocked visitor who reports her green pallor to Miss Chispeck. The incident ends with her despairing over the ruined appearance.
A temperance speaker laments liquor as the world’s yoke while a bricklayer’s miscue prompts a grim exchange about pain. The column riffs on German nerve shortages, courting, gas, dangerous vocations, statecraft, and Ponzi schemes, ending with a quip on denying pleasures to live longer.
Florence Wilson of Philadelphia, native of Lancaster, organizes the League of Nations library system. She helped link the American Library Association with Paris and Geneva, advising on library duties at the peace conference in Paris and later building the league’s library network in London and Geneva. She notes library work is well paid and deeply satisfying for book lovers. She also quips about eating fish with a silver knife due to bones in shad.
A speaker condemns a man as coarse and selfish for treating affection as a commercial transaction. He contrasts acceptable romantic endearment with coercive demands for kisses, calling the man a poor sport and likening him to a Shylock. The piece argues women should respond firmly to such behavior.
A reader asks about table setting for fish. The answer states to place a small silver knife and fork for fish beside each plate.
Pierre La Plate, born March 28, 1749, in Normandy, is described as a mere lad in the account.
La Plate, a mathematician who left a military school to seek fame in Paris, wrote a letter to a great scientist that earned him a professorship at a major Paris military school. He thrived from age 23 until his death after enduring the French Revolution and Napoleon’s fall, living quietly later. He died in 1827. A gray-wool gabardine suit trimmed with green linen is described.
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