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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1921
Page
13
A verse meditation contrasts past fashion and etiquette with modern shifts in society. The speaker laments loss of old manners, decorum, and genteel display as democracy rises and skirts shorten, noting only trees remain unchanged in a world of faded chaperons, coaches, and high society symbols.
A reader column critiques a wife’s home brewed drink and her husband’s threat to involve law. Letters from MERELY MALE and others advise therapy, limits, and negotiation, urging harmony, health, and mutual respect over legal actions. The exchange highlights tension between liberty and duty within marriage.
A hostile reader letter exchanges blame over drinking and morality. The writer urges conformity with prohibition and suggests reporting a spouse for health related misuse. Sympathetic reply questions the health claims of alcohol and counsels temperance while urging faith for support.
A Sunday Post page features home recipes including English baked stew using potatoes onions and salt pork baked until done, a dainty frosting for cake with banana and whipped cream, macaroni with hamburger and stewed tomatoes, and cream horns with butter sugar milk and orange zest. Recipes credited to Mrs H B Russell of North Woodstock New Hampshire and Miss Louise Glover Eustis of Marblehead.
Lorette and Hugh set out at dawn to hunt with rifle and shotgun. A deer spooks, a shot wounds a hunter, and David arrives to help. Lorette treats the wounded man while Hugh finds the deer fallen nearby as she recovers from shock.
Practical tips include separating damp stamps with a hot iron over paper, sustaining a flashlight with a near-dead battery by inserting a coin, using old magazines to protect pots from soiled bottoms, camphor to deter mice, and a homemade cement recipe of sand coal ashes and flour for plaster patching.
The guide explains that children fifteen and under do not wear mourning. It also notes that a young man may invite a chaperone for a theater outing, typically an adult woman or elder relative, but not necessarily the girl's mother.
The text profiles Mrs. Ford who turned auction fascination into a profession as an antiques aficionado. She analyzed her urge for bidding at auctions and created a service bidding for others, charging commissions. Her success supported her home and funded her son's college education.
A playful scene shows Willie asking aunt Mabel to play. He imagines himself as an elephant while she sews and becomes the feeding aunt. The piece then offers quips on manners, honesty, patience, and wit reflecting lighthearted social satire.
Amelia Barr born March 29, 1831 in Lancashire England. Daughter of a minister, she married Robert Barr and moved to the United States. After Civil War losses she built a writing career in New York with Henry Ward Beecher, producing popular novels including Remember the Alamo and A Bow of Orange Ribbon.
An advice column from Mildred Champagne explores whether a young woman’s intense affection is real love or mere fascination. She notes that true commitment shows in the suitor’s conduct and suggests waiting at least two years to test the feelings before marriage decision.
The description highlights Dresses with drawnwork and colored thread decorations, Coin eyelets with soutache trim on hems, a cream chiffon blouse with black lace, a chalk frock with organdie bib and grosgrain belt, a yellow velour delaine sports coat with brown trim, a white Canton crepe blouse and black taffeta draped skirt outfit, checked linen and taffeta silk combos, a junior gingham panel dress, and elaborately embroidered waistcoats and waistlines.
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