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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 18, 1917
Page
17
A reader asks about compulsory marriage for bachelors and extends it to women, urging conscription into matrimony. Respondents address old age obligations, discuss keeping or giving money to relatives in need, and advise maintaining finances. The exchange includes views on wives, charity, and personal duty within family.
Readers are invited to contribute letters to the Sewing Circle department of the Sunday Post, with all women readers urged to send their notes and ideas for publication.
Dorothy visits Madame’s and selects a plain morning frock in French blue linen priced lower than others. The design features a V-shaped front seam, full skirt, orange buttonhole stitches, black satin ribbon at the neck, and tight sleeves with matching trim.
If you come home from theatre with a wrinkled skirt, turn it inside out and sprinkle the wrong side with water. Brush lightly and hang on a clothes dryer overnight. The next day it will resemble a hot iron press. Miss C. EF. Morrison, 220 Border Street, East Boston.
A poem in war era tone portrays boys in furrows and field work joining the nation’s cause. It blends pastoral farming images with marching regiments and a ragtime lullaby as they lift their faces to the sky and keep ranks ready.
New England Housewives share Sunday Post recipes for potted shad and graham rolls. Potted shad layers fish onions spices then vinegar covered with dough baked until bones dissolve. Graham rolls mix molasses sour milk soda graham and white flour, bake in hot rolls.
Letters discuss red snow likely from protococcus algae, a Boston cooking school for women, US citizenship penalties and voting rules, conscription ages for Canada and the US, navy enlistment age, flying a foreign flag at half mast, and Cuban tobacco quality with soil and climate effects.
An advertisement extols silk underwear as the key to poise and luxury for modern women. It claims Kayser Italian Silk guarantees the finest Italian silk and warns buyers to look for the Kayser name on every piece.
A motivational verse urges action and resilience. It calls for bold effort, heart, mind, and soul to make life true, embrace growth, and feel as a brother to the ground amid doubt and night. It champions rising, leaping, running, and shouting with confidence.
The note cites historical highs of 88 degrees in 1882 and 1903, with a 42 degree cold snap in 1915. It records a warmest value for May 18 in 1889 and notes rain in Boston on May 18 only once in the last decade, in 1910.
The note recalls Nicholas II born in St Petersburg on May 18. He became czar after his father’s death, witnessed coronation tragedy, and abdicated in April 1917. It notes his vast wealth and lands, and that his early life included a grand tour and a near assassination in Japan.
A domestic etiquette note advises women to keep gloves on during formal calls with hosts and to rise and depart upon ending a visit. It recommends a brief cordial handshake and goodbye, avoiding lengthy departures or discussion of leaving.
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