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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1919
Page
23
A reader letters column laments male and female roles in early 20th century dating. Contributors debate marriage timing, financial pressures, and social expectations with sharp humor and candid personal anecdotes.
Mrs. Hutchinson offers practical tips for home sewing and care. She covers chilling cream and egg whites before whipping, lining carpets with newspaper to deter moths, mending silk or wool with a fabric patch and mucilage, easing needle work on heavy fabrics with dry soap, and prolonging stocking life by paraffin on toes and heels. She also includes fish baking tips using a heavy paper liner to prevent sticking and ease cleanup.
A celestial verse portrays the red sun fox fading as starry packs hunt across the sky. Brown owl cries signals of the sun fox’s departure while Venus and Dian glow with fleeting arrows of moonlit light. The poem ends with day outlasting night and the fox immortal.
Margery Parsons, busy with letters at a small town office, helps a soldier, Morton, colliding with Alec Parsons and Alan Morton. Their chance meeting at Overdale sparks a budding romance. Months of letters follow until two soldiers marry. Alec serves as best man at Overdale wedding. Margery and Alan depart southward to start life together.
Miss Stuart discusses engagement announcements and social decorum. She notes that public notices should be signed with name and address and sent to the society editor, while private notices can be personal notes. For a coming dinner she weighs flowers versus fruit as table decoration, preferring artistic fruit arrangements as appropriate alongside floral touches.
The Boston Post Sunday Magazine launches a new serial in the style of film direction. William Johnston adapts the technique to accelerate pace and boost interest. The next installment begins next Sunday.
A vintage fudge recipe uses two cups sugar one half cup milk a pinch of salt and four teaspoonfuls peanut butter. Cook sugar milk and salt to boil then cream in peanut butter. Beat in two tablespoons marshmallow creme off heat for smoother texture. Turn into buttered pan, cool, and cut into squares.
Edith Bradford and Bob are praised for their happiness as neighbors recount the tale of Puddine a rich creamy dessert mix. The narrator claims it makes desserts perfect from pies to ice cream and jokes about its affordability and wholesome nature urging readers to order Puddine from grocers.
Boston writer Charles Franklin Jones reflects on four great loves that shape life country home family friends and self. He uses Aunt Jenny the respected coffee maker as a parable about balance warning that excess self love can spoil otherwise good blessings and urging readers to live for others.
A compact portrait traces Stephen Girard from a French birth through a rough education to a sea captain and Philadelphia merchant. It notes his marriage to Polly Lum, the Water Witch voyage fleet, his 1810 purchase of Bank of the United States shares, and his 1814 acquisition of most of the government war loan.
Dainty dotted Swiss and figured foulard lead afternoon wear with colored stitching. Knitted sweater dresses paired with hats suit tennis. Children appear charming in pure yellow frocks while evening gowns grow more elaborate and jet fringed. Narrow patent leather belts shape capes and satin ribbon trims abound. Geranium colored box coats complement white costumes.
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