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Newspaper
Cairns Post
Location
Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Date
Jun 17, 1930
Page
11
Thought for the day quotes Frances Willard on protecting the home through women’s labor and virtue. The line frames domestic duty as moral progress and calls for safeguarding home life by women's work.
May W. Fairns writes of badges and drawings sent to Bairns. Rosemary and Phease reply about sister joining and hopes for attendance at school. Vessie Lepinath Carns signs as Post.
A child from Cairns writes to Rosemary asking to join the Home Circle and Cheerio Band, sharing a birthday in February and that they are in fourth grade with teacher Miss Smyth. The letter asks for a badge and mentions a pen-name Cherry Blossom, with scattered reminiscences and hopeful tone about school life and friends.
The Barns Circle sends birthday wishes to several members including The Mountain Wat Lasoke deer the silver lini A Fisherman Day Break and Lady Weed. Each message includes a motto urging timely duty and thoughtful speech.
A boys column outlines the ideal male traits including politeness honesty and self control. It emphasizes straight talk listening questions neat appearance and effort to learn correct English and reading widely. It envisions a boy respected by peers parents and teachers and desired by society.
Story recounts Achilles withdrawing from battle to honor a prisoner exchange, Greek forces faltering without him, Patroclus wearing Achilles armour provoking Trojan fear, Hector slaying Patroclus, and Achilles vowing vengeance. The tale ends with Achilles rushing to war in revenge after Patroclus’s death.
Melbourne reports Australia’s first women’s hockey team of fourteen sails for South Africa to join a British Empire tournament with England and Scotland. The group aims for twelve weeks abroad, aided by state associations that raised most of the £3,700 needed.
The Edmonton branch of the QWA held its second annual meeting at Memoral Mall on June 11 with officers elected including Mrs Cole as president and Mrs Telford as treasurer. The report noted 17 members and one associate, an increase of two, and planned a part time baby clinic funded by the Home Secretary's Department. Sixty thousand children are born in London every year.
The article notes a likely split in women’s dress between leisure and workwear, with a preference for long slender silhouettes and shorter skirts for sports. It mentions two-piece designs, wool fabrics, and new glove materials like doeskin and calf skin, plus suede long gloves as expensive novelties.
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