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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1916
Page
19
Readers share tips on budgeting on modest incomes, balancing rent and clothing costs, and managing family time. Writers debate whether a $15 per week budget can cover housing, food, and entertainment, with anecdotes from women on savings, child care, and domestic duties.
Paragraphs describe season trends with jackets extending to knee length and silk coats. Skirts on dance frocks grow wide and untrimmed while marabou shoulder capes appear. Trimming with braid embroidery rises, ribbons adorn voile and chiffon gowns, detachable trains appear, and close millinery hairdos remain necessary.
The speaker discusses sewing a decorative darning bag with silk in boudoir color and a large oval embroidery hoop. She outlines construction: silk sides half sewn, folded bottom, gathered top with frill, hoop coverage, and ribbon rose trim. She plans pockets inside and hopes to show the finished bag to her mother.
A brief household note advises adding a few spoonfuls of milk to a squash pile before baking to darken the top. It also recommends brushing pie crusts with milk for browning and storing pies for three or four days under a plate. Miss C. W. Grant Attleboro Massachusetts.
A May morning sets the scene as Margaret, a recently graduated orphan living with Aunt Bessie, seeks employment in the city. She rents a modest room, proves herself capable as a stenographer at a publisher, and attends the company dance where she is swept into a budding romance with Albert Loring, the firm’s private secretary.
A 1916 poem praising the dreamer who travels with a song and vision. It emphasizes that the worth lies in the dream and the act of creation, not just the singer or the finished line. The poem notes glory in each moment of pursuit.
Margaret Loring leaves her small hometown seeking work as a stenographer in a larger city. The piece reflects a grim outlook on the future and the scant hope for brighter days.
A poetic tale unfolds where Love resists a knight scholar courtier miser and merchant as a winged youth arrives to woo. The tree scene ends with Love choosing the playful donor of affection, triumphing over craft and wealth.
A man learns through family storytelling that a woman he thought was unrelated is actually his long lost sister. He explains his high salary and a paternal estate settlement while she and their foster aunt Bessie react with mixed emotion and relief. The reunion unfolds with hopeful outlooks.
Fashion notes highlight stripes as a spring trend with colorful illustrations in the upcoming Sunday Post. The feature promises vivid color and stylish ideas for wardrobes.
A reader asks which ship is fastest and is answered that Mauretania holds the ocean liner record while torpedo boat destroyer McDougal outpaces it. A Newton Suburbanite advises against pruning shrubs blossoming by Decoration Day, guiding pruning by shrub type and growth timing.
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