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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1914
Page
13
Nine of ten Greater Boston dance hall owners report the season as the poorest in years as old-time glide dances gain popularity anew over tango one-step hesitation maxixe and fox trot.
At Revere Beach three halls closed for the season as the popularity of new dances declined. One hall remained open offering glide dancing four nights weekly while limiting old dances to two nights. Initial turnout of over 2500 for glide dancing prompted the shift, but managers fear continuing the two old dance nights will drop as demand for old dances rises.
A poetic exhortation urges steadfast singing to ease life’s trials and guide toward love and light. The verse promises courage, trust, and resilience as a path through darkness, with a final note of lyric devotion. Also cited is a government botanist’s calculation on cotton seed potential and a remarkable wheat yield from a single grain without special care.
Readers discuss marriage and motherhood roles in New England homes. A wife who helps and a childfree musician reflect on balancing art, society, and domestic duties. The column urges daughters to learn homemaking while fathers provide, to restore traditional family priorities.
Dr. Howard Moore of Newton Hospital argues for eugenic marriage shaped by education, love, and proper posture. He favors marrying around 20 to 25, trains women for motherhood, and links happiness to love within a eugenic framework while urging broad social education rather than laws.
A reader laments deriding motherhood and warns against neglecting family life in favor of careers or material pursuits. The piece urges kindness to women choosing motherhood, contrasts lives of workers and elites, and ends with a moral on sowing and reaping and appreciating humane uplift.
The Sunday Post prints a selection of compelling letters from sewing circle members. Readers share craft tips, project ideas, and community notes, reflecting hobbyists’ voices and local interest in needlework.
Cornelius N Bliss Jr announces a $200000 Rocke feller Foundation gift to the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor. The donation will fund pensions for widows with dependent children over the next ten years the first major private appeal in a campaign to test private funding for relief efforts.
Harvard begins its 279th year with about 5000 students, half undergraduates, half in professional schools. Tuition of 94 dollars per student is due to bursar Charles F. Mason by sunset. Freshmen numbering 650 arrive, reside in Smith Gore and Standish halls, and begin with breakfast and an Appleton Chapel service by Professor Josiah Royce. President A Lawrence Lowell welcomes the 1918 class at the Harvard Union tonight with Major Henry Lee Higginson and Dean LeBaron R Briggs speaking.
A collage of home recipes includes a tomato chili sauce, baby cookies, doughnuts without cream tartar, green tomato stew, and spiced fruit preserves. The notes attribute several dishes to local homemakers with full addresses in Roxbury Lynn Athol Portland and Boston areas.
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