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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 13, 1922
Page
11
Fragmented poem about gossip and social judgment urging readers to ignore gossip. Mentions talkativeness of others, keeping calm, dressing plainly, and minding one’s own business. Narrative voice cautions about loans, fashion, and rumors while stressing propriety and restraint.
A multi voice discussion in the Sewing Circle questions why young women marry and when engagement should occur. Writers debate love timing, home life, and the search for companionship, with views from Modern Girl, Dad's Girl, and Cheerful Idiot.
Jemima, an intelligent 23 year old considered ugly by society, endures a life of duty for her ailing mother and brothers. After a club dance, cosmetics transform her and she shares a romantic night with Charlie Crowell, prompting self doubt. A page in a book reveals the truth that happiness depends on herself, leading to a hopeful reconciliation with Charlie.
A collection of homestyle recipes including a banana cottage cheese spread for six slices of graham bread, an assorted prune salad with lettuce and boiled dressing, apricot marmalade, chopped meat croquettes with a rich white sauce, a thick binding sauce, scalloped scallops, asparagus loaf with cream sauce, and a strawberry cream pie. Recipes credited to Margaret D. Plympton, Mrs. J. A. Cowperthwaite, Mrs. Thos J. Butler, Julia B. Marsters, and Mrs. Annam Wight.
The Lord gave Moses laws for Israel, with the Ten Commandments as the greatest. God appeared to Moses on Mt Sinai and delivered two stone tablets inscribed with the Commandments.
Uncle Walt Mason jokes about avoiding alcohol under Volstead law by drinking boneset tea. He mocks prohibition while describing comic dangers from snakes and venom, ending with a quip that alcohol does not heal mortals and urging readers to keep away from the Volstead rule.
A visitor reflects on the Alice Freeman Palmer Memorial in the Chapel at Wellesley College. Sculptor Daniel Chester French portrays an ideal teacher and administrator guiding a student with protection and affection. The memorial bears the inscription honoring Palmer and inspires thoughts as music fills the chapel. The writer also notes the library’s treasures, including Castiglione's Book of the Courtier (Venice 1528) and rare Dante editions.
A narrator recalls meeting Katherine Lee Bates at Wellesley where Bates discussed the college and founder Henry F. Durant. Bates showed a new poetry collection Yellow Clover dedicated to Katherine Coman who taught economics and served as dean. The narrator notes Bates said she did not write America the Beautiful, claiming it was given to her.
A guidance-like reply argues against bringing a third person into the new couple's home during the early years. The writer says the groom owes allegiance only to his wife and warns that a third party, especially a woman, disrupts harmony, making two not always enough in the crucial first years.
A fashion note highlights envelope shaped bags for afternoon wear with abundant embroidery. Dresses feature figured hints in gay summer tones. Hats avoid trimming on large rolling brims. White leads spring and summer palettes. The new English box style top coat appears smart for the season.
This article explains mercerized cotton has sodium hydroxide treatment and stretching to gain strength luster and dye uptake. It contrasts genuine mercerized fabric with imitations using heated rollers that lose sheen after washing, noting double-sided luster and stronger thread.
Advice on ventilation temperatures and keeping parts of the home cool. Notes on ice storage butter milk and partial tips for milk tomato mixtures and cleaning tins with soda. The article signs off with MRS S H MIETT Brookville address.
The feature highlights how today’s colors, fabrics, and tailoring create slender silhouettes for stout women. A gown from a specialty house uses dark blue crepe Canton with slender panels and matching red accents in embroidery, the skirt reaching about seven inches from the floor, and a cleverly shaped sleeve.
Richard Harding Davis is celebrated for his distinctive short stories and the Boston Sunday Post Magazine selects his best pieces for republication. The second series installment titled The Men of Zanzibar will appear next Sunday.
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