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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 09, 1915
Page
13
The Boston Post Sewing Circle discusses whether a wife should share a $5000 legacy with her husband. Advice urges equal partnership but warns wealth changes power dynamics with personal anecdotes on family finances and independence.
A 1015 copyright note from The Press Publishing Co. presents Maurice Ketten arguing that a wife’s financial independence would lead her to dominate the family, concluding the entire $5000 legacy should go to the husband as head of the family. The text also mentions letters to the Sewing Circle printed in the Sunday Post.
Fashion notes describe new colors including charming grays and yellow for evening gowns. Pale felt hats suit autumn, velvet is in for winter hats, deep cloth to silk hems trend, dainty waists in soft fabrics, longer winter coats, cavalier slashes on children’s dresses, and tailored suits with full circular skirts remain in vogue.
A twenty first century style riff on city life versus rural life. A rustic traveler mocks city noise and charm while city folk long for countryside peace and the farm offers simple pleasures. The verse contrasts town glare with country air and ends by favoring each lifestyle for its own type.
Cream butter and sugar with an egg then add milk flour baking powder cinnamon nutmeg vanilla and cocoa to form batter and bake in gem pans. Also a corn cooked in milk dish from Plainfield with scraped ears, salt pepper, flour, egg, baking powder and milk to a thin batter then griddle brown.
The note claims many vegetables aid health. Spinach aids kidneys, dandelion greens help kidney trouble, asparagus purifies blood, celery calms nerves and relieves rheumatism, tomatoes aid liver, beets and turnips stimulate appetite, lettuce and cucumbers cool, beans strengthen, onions garlic leeks chives and shallots boost circulation and digestion. Red onions diuretic. white raw onions help insomnia. onion soup viewed as restorative. Mrs. G. W. Dow Portland Maine.
A Sunday Post Magazine feature pictures a community turning a cluster of private yards into a shared park. Residents collaborate to plant trees, install benches, and design paths, transforming a fragmented block into a unified green space. Local families and volunteers lead colorful events to celebrate the new park.
Poem fragment recalls Prince Vortigern sourcing a stronghold in Wales. Merlin orders builders to excavate basements revealing two dragons beneath the lair. The verse urges driving Wrath and Hate with perfect justice and the heart’s truth to banish beasts and end the threat.
Dorothy A presents Elsie visiting details with plans to view a new evening wrap made of mother-of-pearl waterfall velvet. The piece features a shawl collar and muff cuffs, pale lavender lining, and a pearl hair ornament with osprey feathers in cream tones.
Mildred Champagne answers a reader about a young woman who flawedly alternated between two men. The girl breaks with the first, rekindles with the second, and repeats the pattern until both lose interest. The advice urges genuine commitment and warns against playing with two lovers.
The message expresses relief and a plan to meet again tomorrow with a courteous farewell. It conveys warmth and expectation for a future interaction.
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