Sewing Circle Letters on marriage and moral urges
The Sewing Circle in the Boston Post features letters on home life and moral challenges. Readers seek advice on social ostracism after a past indiscretion and on maintaining marriage vows while facing gossip and temptations.
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Household Hint for Brush and Beans Tip
When the rim of wire hair brushes loosens and tacks fall out substitute by cutting a pin to tack length and nailing in a half teaspoon of baking soda. Put the baking soda in a pot of beans before baking to aid digestion. Mrs. M. E. Dorward Methuen Mass.
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M. E. Dorward
Methuen
Mass
Nobody's Doing Much Says I’m Content to Go Along
A dated verse notes contentment with staying quiet and minding one’s own business. The speaker reflects on past happiness and hope for the best, saying they are “not doin’” much but still consider it perhaps meaningful. The piece is a light, reflective quip from 1915.
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Miss Champagne
Somerville
Cambridge
Lynn
Tomato Stuffed Chicken and Veal Rounds
Cut 5 or 6 smooth washing tomatoes into rounds the size of a quarter. Fill with salt pepper and butter, bake an hour. Season cold chicken or turkey with salt pepper dip in butter egg and crumbs fry until brown. Serve on toast with white sauce. Also good with veal. Mrs O R Whitney 173 Coyle Street Woodfords Me.
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O. R. Whitney
Coyle Street
Woodfords
Ghost Garden Beside the Sea
A coastal garden ruins sit between lowland and highland with rocks guarding a sea edge. A thorny belt encloses the square slope where weeds grew from graves of roses and still lie dead. Once laughter and weeping echoed for lovers whose eyes turned seaward a hundred years ago.
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Lowland
Highland
Windward
Lee
Brother Bill A Cape Moral About Sacrifice And Courage
In a Cape town wind and waves drive villagers to aid a sinking ship. Tom volunteers with two companions to rescue a sick man, despite his mother’s pleas. They save him at sea. the captain reveals the rescued man is Bill, prompting joyful, reflective closure.
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Cape
Tom
Bill
Kipling
Helen’s New Double-Faced Sports Coat Adorns Style
Over the Wire notes Helen has bought a striking double-faced auvelyn sports coat in dark huntsman green outside terra cotta inside. The coat’s long back flare shows red at the hems, with front buttons loops and red-trimmed cuffs and collar. She pairs it with a Scotch plaid homespun skirt and a green felt Puritan hat with terra cotta ribbon and silver buckle, likely worn tomorrow.
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Auvelyn
Huntsman
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