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Pretense on Society Lunches and Wedding Bells
A column critiques elaborate social displays by Boston society women and their husbands, arguing pretentious weddings and luxury hospitality reveal moral decay. It laments hollow frocks, staged receptions, and the strain of maintaining appearances over honest domestic life.
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Lane
Younghusband
Young Charl
Misss Blueblood
D. Cotton Avenue
James Cheek
DR. Quack
Bass
New York
Fiy Indy
Mother Goose
Younghnstand
Charley Starvation
Binehlood
Ste
Leonell
Wiley
Ashame
Dretence
Sok
Mary
Long Island
West
Julian Gordon
Cotton Avenue
Fiymiouth
James Cheok
Evita
Quack
A. B.C
Mr. Brass
Mr. Fats
Anaeanil
Jenraing
Tuttle