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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1913
Page
7
Readers of the Sewing Circle share experiences on co households and coop keeping, parental interference in marriages, and young women’s earnings. Advice covers honesty with parents, financial responsibility, and gender roles in households. A wife defends shared spending.
A reader in the Sewing Circle argues that claiming an inability to raise a large family on $40 a week is selfish. The letter contends that many can afford children with effort, values education, and notes the writer and family prosper with nine children and multiple financially independent offspring.
The speaker demands truth from a wise innkeeper about salvation and damnation. He declares hellish fate if denied a flame of truth and companionship, insisting a fire and a friend or two define genuine light versus sin.
A note from a mother in Lynn counsels restraint in romance. She warns that eager advances and excessive flirting can repel a suitor and hinder true affection. Kisses given too freely are not valued, and a woman should avoid throwing herself at a man to win him.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most interesting letters to the Sewing Circle, highlighting reader voices and craft discussions.
The notice lists a Lourdes lecture by Very Rev. Thomas J. Gasson S J at Boston College on May 28 in Newton. It mentions St. Aidan’s lawn party preparations led by Rev. Joseph F. Coppinger and a Jamaica Plain testimonial for Rev. John A. Sheridan. It notes a May party for Boston College alumni priests in Newton, directed by Rev. William J. Conway S J, with many friends assisting. Confirmation services are scheduled across several parishes with Bishop Anderson presiding, and multiple Masses at Cathedral of the Holy Cross, St Joseph’s Maplewood, and Immaculate Conception Malden led by Rev. Richard Neagle.
A reader in the Sewing Circle argues that despite effort and looks some women reach near forty without a proposal. She contemplates chasing romance through provocative dress and behavior, contrasting with others who wed despite limited domestic skills, and warns against modern courting conduct.
Engagement announced for Miss Delia F. Dana of Brattlestreet Cambridge to Robert H. Hutchinson of Philadelphia. They plan a June wedding and then a study tour of State Socialism in New Zealand.
Charlestown abandons the famous hor ribles parade for a veteran firemen playout. Director Dever and local residents approved the plan after consultations. Charlestown clubs protest and plan to appeal to the mayor upon his return to Boston next week.
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