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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1909
Page
3
The Star prints reader letters on love, marriage, and hardship. A worker writes seeking a principled partner and a home, while others describe neglect, loss, and longing in urban life. A unionist letter argues for collective ownership as a path to marriage and security.
A Long section of The Star prints reader letters on marriage and domestic life. Women seek a dependable partner and home, while men and women describe desires for love, fidelity, and respectable households. The pages invite replies via The Star, with several personals seeking a suitable match and a chance at a stable future.
A fragment discusses why Seattle has many single men and few wives. It asks if a man can live on a dollar a day, cover rent, groceries, and clothing for himself and a wife, and questions employment, wages, and housing costs in a city crowded with idle people and cheap housing.
A Georgetown wageworker writes to editor Star recounting years of long shifts and a strained family life. He details how leaving a fourteenth hour grind improved his health, relations, and insight, urging unhappy husbands to reduce work hours and reconnect with wives and children.
A Seattle man writes of thirteen years of marriage and seven dirty children blaming his wife for squandered funds and a rough home. He claims his wife drinks heavily and swears, and he threatens to prove his complaints in a showdown. He views young store girls and housewives harshly.
FROM WIVES editor recalls a married woman offering experience to a cranking husband. She describes a good provider who loves home yet returns from work to criticism, a neat house, and no warm word. She laments lost love and effort in trying to please him.
A CONSTANT READER shares views on home life and working women trials. She urges principled husbands to honor and protect their wives and suggests Mothers' Clubs to engage homemakers and broaden motherhood responsibilities. Divorce is not a cure, she adds, and calls for mutual goodwill.
A reader defends a shop girl and questions why women marry for a home. The writer, married since two years, shares experience from working from age 14 and praises Shop Girl No 21 for a sincere pursuit. Includes a reader signoff and an advertisement for scissors.
A brief note describes a cake recipe with ingredients and directions. It lists one cup of sugar three tablespoons butter one fresh milk two teaspoons baking powder two cups flour and instructions to mix and beat until flavorful. The writer notes it is a great favorite mine.
Independent dealers offer new and second hand items at savings. The Sandwall Co located in Beattie Washington promotes low prices and broad selection for shoppers seeking bargains.
A dated menu lists items for breakfast and dinner including cereal with cream frizzled beef waffles with syrup coffee and vermicelli soup pork chops curried apples mashed potatoes husk otash red cabbage salad sweet potato pie and coffee. A batter describes mixing 1 percent butter with brown sugar curry powder and lemon juice then a tart apple filling baked in a king dish and served cold.
A reader shares old fashioned kitchen notes from Mrs. F. A. George with several baked goods and desserts. The item lists ingredients and methods for squash pie mock mince cake Johnny cake gingerbread and more, noting two crusts for some pies and common baking directions.
Notices of meetings and social items for city women’s organizations will be printed on this page. Secretaries of all clubs and societies are asked to send items for consideration and will receive attention.
The John F. Miller Relief corps invites members to a monthly tea at Mrs Lucy Simmons 4563 South av N KE on next Tuesday afternoon. Transportation advised via Wallingford av to 8th av N E. Officers elected for the coming year include President Anna Taylor senior vice president Mrs McLean junior vice president Dora Miller treasurer Gardner chaplain Sarah Kaon conductor Margaret t guard Rhoda Adams correspondent Kate Coyle.
Catalog of affordable items including fountain pens at $1.00, sterling belts and pins, jeweled back combs, gilt encrusted sash pins, gold filled scarf pin sets, enameled collar pin sets, Turkish brooches, German silver mesh purses and bags, eNOS cigar jars, German silver toilet sets, jet lavallieres, and jeweled wart pins. Basement Salesroom.
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