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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 26, 1909
Page
9
Advice column excerpt where a 22 year old man from near Boston asks if he should stay with a younger sweetheart six years his junior. The columnist says she is too young now but will be right in four to five years and supports a modest age difference. The tone offers reassurance about pursuing love with an age gap.
The piece highlights shawl effects and oversized muffs for evening wear, plus many double color novelties in wells and a missing watteau pleat for winter gowns. It also lists New England recipes for Graham Gems Muffins and Graham Muffins with ingredients and steps, credited to Mrs. Lockhart and Mrs. Whitehouse of Woonsocket and Wellesley.
The speaker urges couples not to part over youth and to remain friends and lovers while growing together. They note aging will ease current difficulties and remind that youth itself is not a fault, quoting that to be young was heaven.
Lewis Gibson accepts a lift from a elderly farmer and shelters in a room she calls the fold. The boy shares bacon and stories about her son Willie who died, revealing her faith and loneliness as she fears living alone. An illuminated scripture about one fold and one shepherd hangs above the bed.
A Boston Post photo on Smith Street Roxbury shows a child on the way home from Tyler Street School as Thanksgiving break begins. The winner will be the parent guardian or friend who brings the original photograph to the City Editor between 3 p m and 5 p m with proper identification within five days. Lillian Stanford is identified as the girl from Tyler Street School who appeared last week and who thanked the Post for the prize.
The speaker extols Niagara Falls as a sublime natural wonder while lamenting its use to power factories and factories’ impact on nature. He imagines a past golden age and critiques contemporary harnessing of the falls for electricity and industry.
In a dim room Lewis Gibson lies asleep as a veiled visitor slips in to tuck him in. A letter on the table proclaims he has served his full penitentiary term, while a later fading moon watches a shadowy intruder depart leaving a handwritten confession of theft and remorse.
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