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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1918
Page
11
Letters from three readers and two anonymous contributors debate whether a young woman should pursue office work or domestic skills to attract a husband. Emphasizes homemaking, cooking, and practical household training as key to marital success while noting business experience can aid managing a home and finances.
The Sunday Post prints some of the most engaging letters to the Sewing Circle showcasing reader opinions, craft tips, and community fashion interest across the column.
Wilhelmina Stitch laments wartime scarcity and changed manners as a knight's polite routine collapses under food rationing. The narrator recalls smoother courtship before war and questions if generosity will return after conflict ends. The piece highlights social strain, shortages, and shifting gender norms in 1918 Canada.
A poem celebrates dogs showing steadfast loyalty to loving owners and defending friends. It contrasts faithful, humble dogs with those who feign affection for gain, ending that dogs, though dumb, embody a high ideal through conduct and creed.
Territorial poems and biographical blurbs honor soldiers, sailors, and war auxiliaries. Edward Shearson earns a Joffre kiss for aiding fretful France children. Ted Parsons, age 25, claims eight German planes down in Springfield. Norman Wilkinson innovates U boat camouflage. Masaryk likened to Wilson as a statesman leader. Knox Oak memorial dedication noted in Warren arboretum.
A fragment from a wartime etiquette column discusses a social visit by Mabel and her husband showing a stylish coat and hat. It also offers guidance on polite behavior in hosting guests and on introductions and handling photographs and engagements with emphasis on tact and propriety.
The description notes a coat with waist belt through side slits allowing the sides and back to hang straight. A high collar and tortoise-shell cuffs in tan, plus a violet and tan hat complete the ensemble. The overall tone reflects period fashion details and coordinated color scheme.
Eleonora Sears rode Radiant to defeat professional horsewoman Mrs. Walter H. Hawley on Twi light at the Newport Horse Show, a victory she valued more than any previous success.
A collection of old fashioned kitchen instructions outlining an egg omelet with milk butter flour and salt baked in a water bath, plus a quick nut loaf batter with flour sugar baking powder lard milk and nuts, followed by graham rolls using sour milk soda and butter with hampered garbled text attributed to Mrs Roy Spaulding of Plymouth New Hampshire.
Miss B G Thurston provides a kitchen timetable listing cooking times for various foods. Old and new potatoes and carrots give different minutes, vegetables such as cabbage onions beans cauliflower turnips and parsnips have specific times. Meats priced by weight include lamb pork chicken fish turkey veal and mutton with per pound or per animal times. Baked goods cover wheat and graham rolls while peas and corn have minutes ranged.
The Massachusetts district lodge of the Order of Vasa with 8860 members of Swedish birth met in Springfield for its 19th annual convention. They passed a resolution pledging support and loyalty to President Wilson and the U S government in the fight for democracy and freedom.
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