What Woman Is Superior To Man In The Sewing Circle
A long reader exchange within the Sewing Circle debates whether women surpass men in beauty grace intelligence sympathy adaptability or sacrifice. Contributors cite mothers Shakespeare Isabella and nurses, praising courage, purity, and devotion while challenging blanket claims of male superiority.
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Shakspere
Michaelangelo
Romeo and Juliet
Hamlet
Macbeth
Sewing Circle
Suerior
Annie Lind
Patti
Tetrazzini
Columbus
America
Isabella
Lincoln
Ueon Esther
Napoleon
Boadicea
Marlboro Street
Ween
H. Rider Haggard
Africa
Fames
Sisters of the Sewing Circle
Onsster
State House
Interesting Letters to the Sewing Circle Featured
The Sunday Post prints some of the most engaging letters to the Sewing Circle, offering readers a glimpse into community sewing notes, tips, and opinions shared by subscribers.
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Sewing Circle
Sunday Post
Timales of Halibut and Other Recipes From Sunday Post
New England cooks share recipes for timbales of halibut rhubarb pie and doughnuts with maple syrup. Halibut timbales use chopped halibut salt cayenne parsley cream and egg whites steamed in buttered molds served with egg sauce.
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New England
Sunday Post
Harriette A. Prentiss
Jaques Street
Somerville
Myrtle Street
Manchester
N. H
Old Fashioned Party Tales From Aunt Mattie and Uncle Eben
Aunt Mattie recalls farm life and old fashioned parties in New England hills. Games like Needle's Eye Postoffice and Spin the Cover lead to kisses and forfeit penalties. Supper, moonlight sleigh rides, and singing end the memory with a warm farewell.
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Mattie
Jennie Douglass
Eben
New England
Poems For Your Scrap Book Telling the Bees
A reflective scene at Fernside farm recalls a long love and the bees that tell of a death. The speaker watches the chore-girl and old man as Mary mourns her grandmother and the bees sing a farewell. The poem contrasts stable memories with loss and calls the bees to stay.
Paragraph Points on Facts Fashions
Mulberry is a good color for a waist that shows wear. The soft wool embroidery and fringe decorate Serge dresses and are among the prettiest details. Russian blouse dresses feature sheer silk crepe pleats finished with serge folds. Black satin slippers with rhinestones cut steel or jet ornaments suit half-mourning attire.
Why Your Fiancée Won’t Kiss You An Expert Opinion
Mildred Champagne offers practical dating counsel on kiss hesitancy. She notes differing tastes and health concerns can deter affection. Bad breath from tobacco or alcohol may ruin romantic moments and undermine trust, urging men to improve hygiene and consideration to solve love troubles.
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Miss Champagne
Gaelic Language Study Starts at Boston School
The Boston Gaelic School began the coming year’s work in Gaelic language and history at 1157 Washington Street. The society will hold its annual ball in Paine Memorial Hall on October 26.
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Boston Gaelic School
Washington Street
Paine Memorial Hall
Protestant Church News Delays Convention and Rally Day Planned
The Episcopal Club of Massachusetts moves its October meeting to November 6 and December 4 to avoid clashes with the general convention in St Louis. Rev. Ernest Guthrie preached at Union Church Columbus Ave and West Newton St. Rally Day marks a statewide evangelism campaign by the Massachusetts Federation of Churches with October as Rally Month. The Massachusetts Sunday School Association convention shifts to Boston October 11 in First Presbyterian Church with Bishop Edwin H Hughes to speak and institutes at 4 p.m.
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Episcopalian Club of
Massachusetts
St. Louis
Ernest Graham Guthrie
Union Congregational Church
Columbus Avenue
West Newton Street
Committee On Evangelism
Massachusetts Federation of Churches
Massachusetts Sunday School Association
Holyoke
Boston
First Presbyterian Church
Edwin H. Hughes
Boston Weather Milestones On This Date
In Boston records the highest September temperature on this date reached 88 in 1881 and 84 in 1911 the coolest 39 in 1888 and 18 the last decade’s low 44 in 1906. Rain occurred on this date in 1907 1909 and 1911.
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Boston
Beaux Brummel Star Daly Shines In Newport Anecdotes
A longtime admirer recalls Arnold Daly as a superb actor and lively entertainer. He recounts Daly at Newport telling stories and performing a poem while waves toppled him, a moment both dramatic and humorous, before Daly became a celebrated screen favorite.
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Arnold Daly
Beau Brummel
Mr. Daly
Newport
England
A Little Chat on Style for Home Patient Rooms
Guidance for arranging a sick room by Dorothy Bring recommends a bed two tables a wash stand a chest of drawers one or two chairs and a sofa. Include basins and water in the washstand and avoid carpet if possible. Remove mirrors if infectious disease. place bed to view the window and clean surfaces with hot damp cloths. Mrs A W Savoy 38 Oak street Old Town Maine.
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A. W. Savoy
Oak Street
Old Town
Ruggleston wedding sparks a hectic town return
The narrator plans a swift return to town for the Ruggleston wedding and a desire to escape country life. A lively car ride and a lunch at a smart inn follow, with gossip exchanged and outfits noted, including a tan Jersey cloth dress with belts and buckles.
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Ruggleston
Furnishing for the sick room guidance
Household Hints advises minimal sick room furniture with space for two beds if possible. Emphasizes iron bedstead, identical pillow and blanket use, and simple curtains and coverings to avoid clutter.
Marion Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenport Marriage Note
The record mentions Marion F Wallace Reid and Dorothy Davenport as a married couple with prior notes on Hazel Dawn and Geraldine Farrar. A Cecilia O remarks on youth pursuing acting. Flabjorg notes Mary Pickford talks appearing five days weekly in Daily Post and Sundays in Sunday Post.
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Marion F.wallace Reid
Dorothy Davenport
Hazel Dawn
Geraldine Farrar
Cecelia O
Mary Pickford
Daily Post
Sunday Post
Harvard Opens New Year Amid Red Tape Registration
Harvard students begin the year with a $54 bursar payment and registration duties on reopening day. They sign pledges against infantile paralysis and set their study plans, erasing memories of Bloody Monday and Yale football defeats from the schedule.
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Harvard
Cambridge
Yale
Harvard Freshmen Set to Break Entry Records as Tuition Tax Hits
About 700 freshmen may form the largest class in Harvard’s 1920 intake as new tuition rules apply. Students face 50 dollars down, 150 dollars in three payments, plus 40s infirmary tax. The class pays a new 200 dollar tuition levy, with old rates for continuing students. Dana Hall crowds form for the fees while fears of solicitors grow. Harvard losses professors Bertrand Russell and Quesada delaying lectures, the former barred from leaving England until war ends and the latter missing the first half term due to duties.
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Harvard
Dana Hall
Charles River
Plain
Bertrand Russell
Cambridge
Russell
England
Quesada
Buenos Ayres
MIT Opens New 10 Million Dollar Home for Tech Students
Massachusetts Institute of Technology opens its new $10,000,000 Cambridge campus this morning as 200 students report for classes at 9 and 1. President Maclaurin welcomes in the Administration Building lecture hall with George Ellery Hale. Dormitories incomplete. a large hall serves as sleeping quarters. Tech men moved every item without outside help, while freight delays push mining and metallurgy to Rogers basement temporarily.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge
Maclaurin
George Ellery Hale
The
Charles
Department of Mining and Metallurgy
Rogers
Boylston Street
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