A Grand Concert and Socials At Fremantle Yet
A schedule of events from Fremantle includes a Grand Concert by Miss Vera Stewart’s pupils at Town Hall on Saturday December 5, plus a St Luke’s Cottesloe egg donation for Lady Ley Cottage by the sea. A social for East Fremantle Football Club at Fremantle Oval opens at p.m. sharp on October 17, and St Mary’s GFS Gymnastic display is planned for October 23 in Guild Hall North Fremantle. Additional notes cover a gift evening for St Mary’s Church October 26 and a dress and bathing costume discussion in local society pages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vera Stewart
St. Luke's
Cottesloe
Lady Lawley Cottage
East Fremantle Football Club
Fremantle Oval
St. Mary's G.F.S. Gymnastic Club
Guild Hall
North Fremantle
Burtenshaw
St. Peter’s Boys
Gallop
Elspeth Ross
St. Mary's Church
East Fremantle
Fremantle
Fremantle Hospital Tuckshop Opens With Supportive Help
The Fremantle Hospital tuckshop operates fully in its opening week with volunteer ladies reporting strong business. It aims to aid visitors by providing gifts to patients, reducing the need to carry parcels across distances. The article also notes new stockings named fluff fluff in delicate shades, cobwebby texture, and possible ladders when laundering. Black and white striped stockings pair with white kid shoes, while overseas models at imported prices attract interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fremantle Hospital
Good Taste in Perfumes and Fashion Notes in Fremantle
A Fremantle column discusses expanding plus size fashion by French designers, noting a shift from plain uniforms to varied styles. It covers a Golden Wedding at Ellen-street and a church ceremony, then moves to summer footwear trends and RSL ballroom dances. The piece ends with advice on harmonious perfume layering and brand references, urging cohesive scent schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
E. Clegg
Ellen-street
Fremantle
Church of Christ, High-street
Trev. Mudge
Color Advice by Hair Type and Complexion
The passage offers fashion guidance linking hair color and skin tone to optimal clothing colors. It notes fair-haired blue-eyed individuals look best in lavender, blue, or green. brunettes with fair skin. dark grey-haired women in grey or dark blue. Titian-haired individuals in green and browns. freckled redheads in dull blue purple white and browns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Breen
Cretonne Fashion Returns This Summer For Dresses And Accessories
Cretonne remains in fashion with outfits this summer including afternoon frocks paired with black silk lace or silver tissue and ermine. Small cretonne coats are popular and even bedroom slippers use the jaunty material. Caution urged for figures as fuller figures risk overwhelming the fabric’s flamboyant patterns.
Welfare of Women and Children Promoted by Exercise and Diet
Sir Truby King urged extensive exercise for women from childhood to motherhood and praised regular meals and natural foods while deploring frequent sweets. He warned sweets undermine digestion and blood, harming mothers and children. He cited air, bathing, and outdoor activity deficits in modern schooling and urged proper lunch, open-air play, and reliable natural milk for infants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truby King
Royal New Zealand Society For the Health of Women and Children
The
Health Association of Australia
Tate
Trudy King
Australia
New Zealand
Karitane
Plunket
Federal Labour Leader Discusses War Loan Conversions
The Federal Labour Party leader Mr. M. Chariton expresses confidence that most of the 67 million pound maturing war loan will be converted before redemption. He says the policy favors internal conversions, with a 1 percent bonus offered to encourage early action, hoping small depositors renew their holdings. A separate anecdote about a blind man and a nickel provides a local-wit finish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Federal
Labour Party
M. Chariton
Australia
Probing Apology and Rubber Heels Spark Retail Banter
A shopper asks for quarter peck apples and is told to return when the proprietor stands. Meanwhile two young hardware store clerks, absorbed in a card game, face the employer's ire as one clerk blames their rubber heels for their lack of work.
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Cecile
Shepherd
Infant Welfare Association
Pryor
Gresham
W. EB. Carpenter
Cox
Megiec
R.S.L
South Terrace
Ted Cox
Suzanne
Melisande
Monseigneur
Cretonne
Sir Truby
Labour
J. Neilson
E. Cronin
Cialty
Bryan & Son
William-Street
PV. Carr
Mandurah Road
South Fremantle
Bert Seymour
Far Sea View
J. A. Hicks
Bents
North British Mercantile Insurance Co, Ltd
P. Saunders Baker
Duke Street
Holds
Women's Service Guild Hall
Market Street
Pickering
Peel
Armstrong’s
Peel Estate
Tiffie Cooke
J. Brennan
Melbourne
Clagges
Victoria Hall
Leake &T
Griffin’s
High St
Church of England
Soldiers’ Institute
J. W. Davies
Union Stores
OIL and Color Merchants
Bolton & Sons
W.A
William Street
Fremantle Union of
School OF Music
Cantonment Street
Robert Jackson
B. Jackson
A. J. Lea Holt
Henry St
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