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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Feb 04, 1929
Page
11
Mile Ehlinger, a Paris fashion expert who trained with Lucien Lelong Chanel and Patou, explains how she will craft unique frocks for Australian customers. She urges color first design second and notes slim silhouettes, precise sleeves, and tailored fits to enhance each woman’s personality and confidence.
A stitched family postcard exchange from January 1929 shows Rosemary, Heather Stewart, and friends in Cairns Gordonvale and Redlynch writing to each other. They discuss school, holidays, poetry, a missing calf, river floods, and well wishes for health and a Happy New Year.
A vintage guide promotes keeping hands white and smooth through regular care. It advises gentle washing, a rose lotion, lemon for stains, cold cream at night, nail care tools, and daily hand exercises to improve hand appearance and muscle tone.
Australian women will soon wear a fashion inspired by Paris with a distinctive Australian twist. A Paris designer, Yvonne Elifinger, has arrived in Australia and speaks of the exciting prospect of French frocks arriving and influencing local dress.
A simple clothes drainer idea using a petrol case bored with holes to drain garments. Stand on copper and run fresh water through to speed rinsing and saving water.
The Bairns Circle sends birthday greetings to Silver Stein and Peony with affectionate messages. The notes include mottos about resilience after storms and living boldly, signed by The Bairns Circle and others.
Bessie Askew of 18 Archer Street Cairns asks Nellie Anderson of the Northern Star to write to her. The request appears in a brief personal notice seeking correspondence.
A fragmented verse describes five cherubs with varying limbs and roles. One is odd man out and arms are incomplete. The birds sing as a baby is nurtured and kept warm, portrayed as a tender thing amid a cryptic tale.
Bartholomew Brock the Badger seeks a path at night using fireflies and daylight, trips over Mully Mule at a house, and meets Miss Barbara Badger. Barbara tends his wounds and they marry, beginning a life of happiness together.
Poem fragment by Ella W. Wilcox reflects longing for relief from sorrow and war's impact. It contrasts seeking sunshine and cooling winds with the ache of bereavement and exhaustion, asking where respite and solace might be found.
A letter-writer describes Girl Guides in camp sharing meals cooking in tents and using hayboxes and open fires. It covers camp routines prayers hymn singing campfires and a rescue by a Guide during a near drowning at the Norfolk coast.
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