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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1910
Page
11
The Sewing Circle is a new department in the Boston Post designed as a homemaker’s forum for New England readers. Topics include home management, family care, health hints, baby care, gardening, and domestic problems with readers advised to write on one side of the page.
A clipped excerpt presents a poem fragment in which a speaker asks sisters to tell how to make a plain face appear pretty. The speaker claims not fat but thin and wishes to be handsome rather than witty, concluding with the attribution Leno.
Janice advises using oil instead of water to prevent picture slippage while handling frames. Topsy suggests keeping ferns moist and avoiding sunlight glare on them. Green Mountains notes white crashes or heavy linen are suitable for a boy's blouse. Also requested are recipes for rhubarb wine and tomato preserve.
A reader describes a method for crafting plaster plaques using P P and water. Steps include soaking a cutout image, dampening a tray, mixing P P with water to a cold-starch consistency, pouring over the image, shaping with cord, and trimming edges. The note includes examples with Post Magazine heads, daisies, and a gold-outlined oval.
An old fashioned mother asks for a community decision on dress lengths for three girls Eva aged 14, 36 aged 16, and ud aged 18. Each girl favors shorter styles while she advocates ankle to full length, hoping the Sewing Circle will settle the dispute.
Question from Z A G asks if facial marks left by picking pimples can be removed and whether they will persist. Medical guidance suggests time, gentle care, and possible treatments. seek a dermatologist for persistent or concerning marks.
An 18 year old petite blonde receives thanks for returning a ring and avoiding an unhappy marriage. A correspondent expresses relief you chose a different path and acknowledges the decision to protect happiness, signing ONE WHO KNOWS.
A reader urges nightly hair brushing to improve thickness, noting an aunt with enviable dark hair and no gray at forty. Another letter thanks Springfields’ egg shampoo advice and a farmer's wife for lightening hair, while a correspondent laments darkening hair and pale appearance, referencing family farm life and color preferences.
A reader thanks a column for a plaster plaque recipe and notes rough edges. A second writer plans to color the plaques after refining the plain white version and promises to report back on success.
A letter advises Edith M to let her mother read her letters and to value a mother’s guidance, noting mothers are best friends. It also expresses condolences for the death of the English King, offering sympathy across allied nations and urging English and American sisters to grow closer.
A Housekeeper asks for menus and recipes from Arcadia Ray to help feed a six member family. She notes weekly payments and rent of $9 with no gas bill, yet struggles to save about $5 monthly.
A hiding woman disguises herself as her son to rescue him from a lynch mob in a mining town. When the plan seems foiled, the boy reveals the truth, and Jake Morley, the infamous horse thief, gallops away on a gray horse, escaping as the crowd dissolves. The scene ends with the mother and son reunited while Morley eludes capture.
Dear Puella asks if a 19 year old can marry a 28 year old on 21 dollars weekly. Mildred Champagne replies happiness rests on contentment not income, urges gratitude for less hardship, and urges enduring love as key.
A woman who values money and keeps a thrifty, economical household routine can perform the work of double the wage, earning about 21 dollars a week for household duties.
A letter from a 24 year old woman asks how to marry a wealthy man who dates other girls. The adviser warns marriage cannot cure faults and urges caution, noting few cases where marriage cures a man’s flaws and mothers would not recognize him afterward.
Thomas J. Comerford Jr a leading Boston post office employee died at home after a two week illness of meningitis. He resided at 1 Grimés Street South Boston and was born a...
Charles Burrage, noted attorney and promoter, was awarded an A B degree from the University of California after a 32 year delay caused by a college prank. A snake, an owl, and a ram's horn appeared in Professor Paida's class, delaying the signs. Burrage's classmates persisted, and the French professor who refused to sign the degree died before the sheepskin was finally awarded after years of delay.
Recipes from several cooks share simple dishes. Mary E Russell offers chicken stew with peppers mushrooms tomatoes and cream gravy served on toast. Edith Kelso provides milk gravy with garrets and tongue. Mrs F Rick details minced tongue with tomato and egg garnish. A M Crocker offers an egg omelette with toast and cream, and Mrs Desma Cory shares a strawberry dessert with custard and meringue crisps.
This piece surveys summer styles featuring Chantilly lace parasols and doll like accessories once used to shade faces. It notes dainty combinations of petticoats cover and long nightgowns with ribbons from 1 to 6 inches, vivid yoke effects, fan stitch finishes, Irish crochet buttons on linen coats, and frogs as current decorative novelties on coats and gowns.
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