Sewing Circle Letters Offer Home Life Advice and Worries
Readers share cases on marriage budget, household duties, and social pressure. Letters advise frugal living, spousal sharing of earnings, and maintaining faith, with personal anecdotes on love, church, and domestic roles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sewing Circle
Boston Daily and
Sunday Post
New England
Boston Post
Couple Revisit Family Dilemma In City Slums
In a tense domestic dispute Mr Ross asserts his right to invite his elderly mother to live with them despite his wife Mrs Ross objections about space and freedom from oversight. After witnessing street cruelty they reevaluate and plan to invite the grandmother to stay, with Mrs Ross offering her room.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Sunday
Daily Post
Fred
Mr. Ross
Mrs. Ross
Ross
How to iron a skirt and mend holes
Household hints explain ironing a skirt with hot clean irons and damp fabric. Start at the sleeve, then cuff, neckband, fold the back to press fronts, and finish with dry button hole areas. Darning tips advise threading around holes to flatten edges before darn. Mrs Mae K Hoyt Box 25 Manchester NH.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mae K. Hoyt
Manchester
N. H
YONGS of UNSHINE By the Bentztown Bard
A poem by the Bentztown Bard describes a valley of perpetual blossoms and eternal summer where dreams roam. The speaker seeks the lasting peace beyond life’s struggles and imagines a homeland of beauty and amethyst light. Copyright 1915 Southern Press Syndicate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yongs
Unshine
Bentztown Bard
Southern Press Syndicate
Poems for the Grand Army Review of 1865 Civil War march
A reflective piece notes the 50th anniversary Grand Army of the Republic march on Pennsylvania Avenue Washington to reprise the 1865 review by Grant and Sherman’s armies. Bret Harte’s poem evokes the phantom army and the nation’s dead with stark elegy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grand Army of the Republic
Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington
Grant
Sherman
Johnson
Bret Harte
Prize for informal bridge game noted in confession
A letter reveals Mrs. Carrington plans to host a bridge event with a prize described as a purse and a striking hag accessory. The writer reflects on choosing between items and hints at a promised result, asking to be contacted if the prize is won tomorrow night.
New England Lemon Pie Recipe and More from Mrs Hammond
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century cookbook shows multiple recipes for lemon pie and assorted baked goods. It includes ingredients such as sugar water lemon juice eggs flour cream of tartar soda butter vanilla and nutmeg. The note credits Mrs H C Hammond of 150 Minot Avenue Auburn Maine as the contributor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. C. Hammond
Minot Avenue
Auburn
Lavender and Black Stockings Spark Boardwalk Fashion
Atlantic City notes a stocking trend as two girls first appeared with one lavender and one black stocking. The style spread with many wearing a black silk stocking paired with a colorful mate. A novelty: no sport shirts were seen among white men on the Boardwalk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic City
WN J
Boardwalk
Bowman Child Dies In Gas Inhalation During Parade
Francis T Bowman four years old at 120 Bower Street died after placing a gas tube in his mouth and inhaling gas while his family attended a Labor Day parade. A neighbor found the body and notified Medical Examiner Leary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis T. Bowman
Bower Street
Leary
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bradford
Gilead
Boston Post Sewing
Fletcher
Chas. H. Fletcher
Perenne
Astoria
F4ur Company
New York
Ory
The
the Frat Publishing Co
Maurice Ketten
John
Sohn
Ori
Grace
Hort pStoRt
Elizabeth Raddin
Paris Street
East
Boston
Dour
Grand Army
Grand Review
Phantom Bugle
Malvern Hill
Gettysburg
Chancellorsville
Pillow
Capitol Square
Dorothy
Hite
Bentley
Odd
Breeze
Brookline
Quincy
Milton
Newton
Wellesley
Salem
Standard
Household
Davis and
Wheeler & Wilson
C.c. Bowles & CO
Bedford St
Jordan Marsh Furniture Annex