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CHINA MAIL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, 1930.
The WENDY
HUT
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
A SMOKER'S TABLE.
To Give to Father.
Plywood is chiefly used in the con- struction of this useful little table which is kept as simple as possible so that young carpenters will have little difficulty in following instructions,
WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS | Life is so complicated,
SOMETHING QUITE NEW.
Beads Made from Paper!
Have you ever tried to make beads out of paper? It is great fun, and quite casy, once you know how! Brightly coloured papers are the best to use, but brown or white will do, as you can paint the beads when they are finished. If you can get hold of a news paper poster the kind that has big red and black letters on a white ground- this will make very attractive red. white
and
black beads.
Cut the paper into strips, as long as you like and about an inch wide, taper ing to a quarter of an inch at each end. Diagram X gives you
you the idea.. New
take a steel knitting-needle in your left hand, and with
with your right hand wind the paper strip round and round the needle, beginning as shown in Diagram A. and 'continuing until the bead is formed. See Diagram B. By rolling the paper thicker in the middle, or at one end, you can vary the shape of the
MOUSEY MOANINGS!
If you've been born a Mouse;" It's really very difficult
To find a comfy house, As Mr. Mouseykin complained
To Mrs. M. his spouse!
As soon as you have got a place,
And start to settle in, Before you've had a breathing space
The troubles all begin. "If this goes on much longer, dear,"
Says Mousey, "I get thin!"
For first there's usually' a CAT To hunt you, day and night;
And folk set TRAPS the heartless
things,
It's not a bit polite!
Why can't Cooks let you eat their
cheese?
You only want a bite!
And that is why poor Mousoykins
Are ever on the go.
"They hope to find a sheltered apoy" To make horre you know.
It somehow seems a shame that they
Are always bothered sol
2*Squares
Paper beads threaded to form
a pretty necklaco; and some diagrame which will help you to understand. Dressmaker's instructions for making the deads.
bead. Pasta down the end of the paper when you have finished the strip, and roll on a fresh strip it the bend isn't big enough. When you have tried few times, you'll be able to get all the beads about the same size. Let the paste dry, slip the bead off the needle. and start the next one.
If the beads are made from coloured
they will
perhaps be ready for threading just on they are; but if you went to make thera brighter, push them back on to the needle, and dab them here and thero with vivid paints. You can varnish them afterwards if you Hke
The little sketch shows a pretty way of stringing the finished beads: thread them
an a. narrow cord, four each side, putting amell
wooden beads in between and knot similar wooden beads at in- tervals along the rest of the cord. A small cotton-reel, covered with paper ta match the beads Diagram C
CAN
be made into an offective teasel to 'com- plete the necklet.
Wendy's Dressmaker.
And that is why poor Mauzeykins are ever on the go; they
hope to find a sheltered spot to make a home you know!"
Here is a pretty little picture which you can colour with your paints or crayons. See how attractive you can make it?
The
The Smoker's table — a fine present for Father. diagrams will help you to make it.
Each leg is sixteen inches long and is made with two strips of half-inch wood, one plece being 'one and a half. Inches wide and the other one inch wide. Screw the wide piece to the edge of the narrow picce, as shown at A, setting the screws about three inches apart and deeply countersinking the holes.
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For the sides of the table you will require four pieces of three-ply wood, sixteen Inches long and
twelve inches wide. Mark out piece with two inch squares-as in din- gram B, which shows half of one side. With your pencil carefully. mark the curved shape, and then repeat this on the
other
side of the centre line C. The best way to do this is to copy the outline on a piece of tracing paper, which can then be reversed for marking the curve on the other half of the ply- wood. Cut the part out with a trotsaw and smooth the edges with glasspaper. Having finished one side, place it on each of the other places in turn, mark out
the curved shape, and cut out and emooth the edges as before.
Glue and screw the sides and legs together, as shown in diagram A, the edge of one side overlapping that of the other side. Place the screws about two inches apart, and see that the paints do not go right through the sidea of the lega. Along the top edge of each side glue and nail a ten-inch length of half-inch by three-quarter-inch wood, as shown at D.D.
For the table top use a piece of four- ply wood, fifteen inches square. Round off the edges, and, after smoothing with glasspaper, glue and screw the top in place. Use eight screws, one the middle of each piece D, and one driven into each leg. The position of these
screws la indicated in the dis- gram.
Fill up all the screw holes, chisel the filling off flush, rub the table all over with fine glasspaper, and finish with two coats of dark oak varoish stain,
The Hut Carpenter.