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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1910
Page
11
Charity Kent, daughter of a country soap maker, arrives home at dusk with a heavy suitcase and contemplates her social standing. A stranger approaches as she recalls her friend Lucile and a romance with John Taney that has changed her plans and the life she wanted.
A humorous poem critiques the gap between preaching virtue and personal behavior. The speaker contemplates rebuking neighbors for small sins while recognizing his own repeated faults. An inner voice mocks moral pretense, ending with a vow to silence such preaching.
Charity resists her mother and a rich Tansy suitor as John Taney defends his soap family. He confesses his father rose from poverty to the hard soap business, while Charity recalls her father was a poor soft soap man driving a cart. The scene juxtaposes wealth, class, and desire.
The article notes hats remain low-lying with small coiffures and shawl collars on coats. Egyptian embroideries, beaver hats with large tulle rosettes, and the sailor collar gain popularity. Rich operatic cloaks show kimono sleeves while badger aigrette and large feather wings trend in headwear. White fox and ermine furs dominate evening wear. Shadow Chantilly under white chiffon and satin ribbon roses appear in vogue.
Instructions describe making choux style batter with water butter flour and six eggs, baked at high heat for twenty five minutes in small greased tins then cooled. A cream filling is prepared from milk eggs sugar and cornstarch or flour, then layered between cake rounds. General delivery Stoneham presents the recipe and name Hattie Pmdmonds.
A simple cookie or cake batter recipe lists two eggs and shortening with light brown sugar raisins and walnuts. Spices include mace and soda dissolved in warm water, with salt and flour. Drop spoonfuls onto a buttered pan.
Turbot a la Creme recipe details how to boil halibut or cod and flake it. Parsley and onion stock is thickened with flour then combined with cream or milk and butter. Layer fish and sauce in a buttered dish, top with bread crumbs, and bake until brown. Provenance Manchaug. Mrs Ida Bessettier.
A home style fish pie method with filets rolled in seasoned flour then baked under a potato crust. Oysters add liquor and lemon juice with butter, simmered briefly before topping and browning. Miss Ida M York of Biddeford Maine listed.
A reader asks if she should reveal her feelings to a handsome man who adores her. The advisor counsels honesty, warning that keeping quiet sustains a deceit and could hurt him later. she should calmly express her true feelings at the next visit and end the pretense.
An 18 year old writes of two years with a man two years older who has given gifts including a ring. She notes his frequent calls but admits she cannot love him enough to marry, signaling a breakup or unresolved relationship.
The 21st Massachusetts Christian Endeavor Union convention will be held in Springfield from September 27 to 30. This marks the third time Springfield hosts the state union. The first meeting is set for Tuesday with officer elections on Wednesday. Grace Chapel at Point Shirley Winthrop will stay open this winter for the first time under Rev. Stanton’s summer-into-winter oversight, with Rev. Edward Norton, pastor emeritus of Bethany Congregational, in view.
MAR WZ next name Wa 29 Molly No 30 Grace No 61 Frances. Others will follow with a daily name.
Church in Quincy will supply the South Congregational pulpit until a new pastor is found. A Christian Socialist Fellowship will open Oct 1 in Huntington Chambers Room 230. Lexington Historical Society marks Theodore Parker’s birth with memorials at First Church Lexington Monday at eight. Rabbi Stephen S Wise to speak. Universalist pastor Clarence Eaton leaves Medford for Bellows Falls Oct 2. Alfred Williams Anthony of Bates College elected to American Baptist Missionary Union board. he and Thomas Barbour go to India next month to visit missions in Burma Assam South India and Free Baptist stations in Southern Bengal.
The Rt. Rev. Joseph G. Anderson auxiliary bishop of Boston will visit St. Peter's Church Meeting House Hill tomorrow afternoon to administer the sacrament of confirmation to a large class of candidates at 3 30 o'clock.
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