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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 06, 1940
Page
14
The author laments idle unoccupied life and the misery of constant talking in confinement. He contrasts quiet, purposeful activity with chatter and calls for virtuous living marked by mercy, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience as a guiding ethos.
A pairing of a Mortimer Collins line asserting that happiness and pleasure require pain, urging gratitude for suffering as a means to truly know pleasure. The aphorism frames pain as a necessary contrast to joy.
Dear Jeanette. I write again after a long spell and share news from Gordonvale. I note Cairns Post results, show plans, and cinema chatter. I recount visits from relatives, family changes, illness, and hopes to meet old friends like Glenville Pike and Edna recovering from hospital.
Dear Miss Bakerville the Cairns Post prints a warm reply from Jeanette to a reader. She expresses pleasure at hearing from Cairns relatives and mentions Baby Phyllis and the Home Circle. Jeanette recalls meeting recently and notes she had measles and hopes for a quicker future letter.
Princess Juliana and her family have moved to The Hague and London during the war, sharing open family spaces with Queen Wilhelmina and Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret. In London, Prime Ministers and their wives face a general post of moving duties, while Mrs. Chamberlain and Mrs. Eden prepare new homes. The piece also notes home-made jewelry trends as women adapt to wartime life.
A reader column offers several brain teasers and notes on history and measurement. It asks to order coins by size and compare celestial bodies, while referencing The Three Fates and The Three Musketeers with a final hint that answers appear on the last page.
A simple Swedish apple soup combines four and a half cups apple sauce with four cups boiling water cinnamon sugar and salt. Simmer ten minutes and serve hot or cold with lemon slices and a dusting of cinnamon.
The Bairns' Circle sends birthday greetings to Sumert Violet Cashmere Bouquet April Shower and Golden Butterfly with mottos praising friendship, peace, and virtue. Each note wishes many happy returns and ends with a brief personal blessing.
A Paris made Charmesan face powder promises to restore youthful tones to worn complexions. It claims to make older looking skin appear years younger with a simple application, appealing to women of all ages and the fashionably young alike.
Paris Charmosan face powder comes in all shades and suntan. A big double size box priced at 2/6 is sold everywhere by chemists, drapers, and stores, with wide distribution.
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