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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 24, 1913
Page
15
In a New Bedford household Grace hides distress as Lois pursues Roger Forrest. Lois’s jealous love leads to threats and heartbreak until Roger returns with a torn note and Grace’s engagement ring. Lois watches, hopeful, from the stairs as truth and romance unfold.
Readers share experiences of dissipated husbands and marriage promises in the Sewing Circle column. Advice urges sobriety and practical living, cautions about moneyed suitors, and discusses societal pressures on women, motherhood, and second marriages.
A reader argues women are not more extravagant than men and that wives should handle money as earned. A correspondent questions costly car fares and lunch expenses, noting husbands often waste more, while wives walk long miles to work and still manage household budgets.
The sister who signed herself "Unhappy" sought advice about a vow never to remarry after her first husband’s death. She wishes to break the promise and wonders whether she is morally bound to keep it.
A correspondent signing as A Former Social Worker critiques perceived gender bias in morality. She argues a son may be forgiven while a daughter facing similar faults would face permanent social hostility, risking despair and continued dissolute behavior.
A poem recalling the Pocono woods where chestnuts husk with velvet burrs fall after frost. The speaker laments leaving the farm to study but notes the nuts ripen now and squirrels crack hard shells while woolly worms pass through without teeth. The verse ends with a wish for chestnuts by the schoolhouse door.
A homemaker offers two cake recipes with separate beaten eggs and sugar steps. One almond iced cake bakes in a round deep tin with a central hole, then a sugar and egg white frosting is prepared and applied. The second cake uses butter sugar and flour with four eggs, no milk, and rises without leavening, baked 45 minutes in a slow oven, shared by Mrs Perry of Portland and Mrs Pettingell of Revere.
A long letter from 20 year old Mildred Champagne describes loving her youth flame while married to an older, well‑paid husband. The advisor counsels loyalty, warns against meeting the former lover, and urges gratitude for a good marriage as the path to happiness and safety.
Wide white belts in kid or suede appear with new autumn gowns. Wool brocades show up even for young girls. Persian effects flood the season with keen styling. Black braids with basket weave resemble astrakhan. Pouch bags of silk or leather with pannier handles trend high. Serge frocks stay in fashion in navy. Rhinestone buttons and beaded accents from abroad add sparkle.
Oliver Cromwell wed Elizabeth Bourchier in London on August 22 1620. They exchanged affectionate letters after battles with Cromwell noting devotion and Elizabeth replying that love sustains her through absence and hopes for reunion in God’s time.
Nicholas Pappas of 28 Albion Street South End sought to escape arrest by slipping into a refrigerator. He lay on beef in the chest for nearly an hour before officers found him. Patrolmen Harvey and Matty later described him as the coolest proposition they ever boxed up.
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