BOYS OF
LONG AGO.
GLINT.
They called him Glint because his eyes were grey and shone like polished silver in his little face. The tribe found him by the sea shore living with the half wild tlogs. They knew by his straight black hair and sparkling eyes that he was one of them, so they took him, and the dogs followed.
Then it was that Glint saw the splendour of his own race, the Ivernians, in marching order.
"With his doga at his heels, Glint ran towards the warriors."
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The WENDY
HUT.
In the middle of this great tribe were the women and the children, some in rough wooden chariots, the flocks and in the rear were and herds.
With his dogs at his heels, Glint ran towards the warriors, and they laughed and gave him to the women to tend.
For seven years Glint wander- ed with the tribe along the coast of the Mediterranean, and he learned to weave and fashion wea- pons of bronze. Then the tribe marched northwards through the green forests, and when the twang of the bow string echoed through the silent glades a won- derful idea came to Glint.
"Glint," murmured the maid- ens, "Why do your eyes shine so bright?" But he tossed his head, laughed, and would not tell them.
At last, after another year of wandering, they reached a strip of cold grey water, and on the other side they beheld a land gleaming white like a priest's
robe.
"We will go there!" cried Glint. "That is our home!"
Some did not wish to cross that cold water, but others cut. down trees to make boats. After long months, the boats were fin- ished, and manned by the bravest men and women. As they were He was five years old, and all he about to set off to look at the could remember was a battle on land, a beautiful sound struck the the shore of the blue Mediter- cars of the rowers, and the cars ranean in which his mother and dropped from their hands. It father had fought. He had slip was music: the first real music ped from his mother's back and they had ever heard! True, they toddled away with some dogs, blew through the horns of ani- who had allowed him to share mals and rattled bones in dried their meals of fish and raw rab-akins, but never had they made a bits ever since.
sweet, true note. While they With shining eyes, Glint look. waited, wondering if it were the ed upon the great company which voice of a god, Glint stepped for- halted before him, and the white ward playing upon a harp. linen of the robes of the priests
"The wind singing in the bow dazzled him so that he was oblig-string taught me the way," ho ed to turn to the warriors who led the tribe. They carried stones attached to sticks, and javelins, and axes, for they had discovered the secret of melting metals; they worshipped the sun, too, offering as sacrifice the wild cherry and apple, the rich berries, and the corn which they grew, I tent.
DID MARS SIGNAL ?
The planet Mars is just now visibic in the southern sky be. tween ten and eleven o'clock at hight, appearing as a reddish point of light.
said.
"Come with us, Glint" cried the warriors in the boats.
So with sweet music did Glint lead that great company to the island of Britnin 2,000 years B.C. They settled there, and wander ed no more, for they were con-
the Martians to inform the Earth of their existence.
The newspapers of France and America declared that the people of the Earth ought to reply. They forgot that a whole forest would have to be set on fire in order that a dot of light might be visible to the Martians, even if they had telescopes as powerful as those which our astronomers
Of all planets, this is the most interesting, and markings on its face, which are sometimes called canals, have led some astrono- mers to think that it is inhabited." use.
Some youre go patches of light appeared at the edge of Mare and caused quite a sensa- tion, for some people said they were great signal fires made by
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WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS. MIKE AND THE DINNER BELL.
A Flower-Basket Tea-Cosy, One of our Wendy Girls wants to make an uncommon tea cosy as a present for her Mother, so we've thought out a specially nice one! It is made of buff crash or coarse linen, decorated on one side with a flower-filled basket worked in bright wools. -
Mike the monkey was so in terested in the dinner bell which rang in the little plantation where Sonny lived that he used to listen to it every day.
"Ding-dang. Tang tang tang !" tinkled the dinner bell.
Then a wonderful thing hap→ pened. Dinner appeared on table under the trees, and the men who worked in the planta- tion, and Sonny and his mother and father, and a fat dog, and a very fat cat only had to sit down and eat! Mike sighed. He wish- ed he had a dinner bell.
You will need two, pieces of old blanket, or some similar thick, warm material, for the inner pad- ding. Cut them in semi-circle shape, about twelve inches along the bottom and ten inches high at the deepest part. Sow the two
"It would be better than hunt- paddings together along the curving all over the jungle for fruit ed sides, and cut two pieces of and nuts," he thought. "Now if crash a tipy bit larger for the I had that bell I should always outside.
have a dinner, and I'd soon be as fat as that cat."
Draw the basket on one piece of crash; this is four inches along the bottom, three and a half inches high, and about five inches along the top. The lower edge comes three inches up from the edge of the material. fill the basket with flowers like
The Flower-basket tea-
and diagrama to show you how to work the crábroideries.
Now
this: pencil round a farthing; then place a penny on top of the farthing circle and pencil round that; draw several flowers this way and group them prettily the sketch gives you the idea.
Now you're ready to work the basket. Do a row of vertical satin-stitches close together along the lower edge, making them about a quarter of an inch high. Then work horizontal rows of stitching across the basket, as UNO shown in the Diagram. pale brown wool for this part of the work. When you've gone) right across all
the way up, weave in and out with vertical lines, using wool a few shades darker, and going over two strands of the horizontal rows: and under two. Diagram C gives you the idea; you must make the upright lines about`a quarter of an inch apart.
"
But the bell lived on a shelf in- side the little wooden house — a very, very dangerous place in- deed. Mike asked Prim the par- rot what he should do about it.
"You must go and capture it," said Prim. "Beautiful parrot princesses, and rich food treasure are always to be found in danger- ous places."
Mike turned up his nose at par- rot princesses, but food treasure | was another thing, and he looked and looked at it all spread out on the table. Then be had a good idea.
"That cat and dog walk up to the table directly the bell rings," he thought, "So why shouldn't I? It's a magic bell, of course, and it's easier to eat the dinner it gives than to run away with It." So the next day Mike walked up to the table, and, before you could say coconuts, Sonny had popped him under a hen coop! Mike went cold all over, and he couldn't eat any of the delicious dinner, supper, tea, or breakfast that Sonny brought him. So he got thinner and thinner til at last he was able to creep through the bars of the hen coop and back to the jungle.
"I told you to capture the bell— not the dinner!" cried Prim.
"No magic dinner belle for me, replied Mike. "Nuts and fruit are far better!"
SUEL
THE BILLY BOYS" WORKSHOP.
Making A Toy Tug Boat,
To make this Interesting toy boat you need only four odd pieces of wood and a length of fine elastic. The boat is driven by a stern paddle wheel, which is revolved by the twisted elastic.
Make the hull (A) from a plece of quarter-inch wood, six inches long and two inches wide. With a saw and chisel, shape the bow as shown in the diagram, and also the two rear corners at the stern. Cut out the part B and finish the edges square with a chisel. Now cut out the two slots C.C. each three-eighths inch wide and one- sixteenth inch deep. Near the outer edges of these slots, make
Carpenter tells you to. day how to make this interesting_toy~a minia- tura Lug-boat.
two holes to take the top parts of two wooden knitting needles- these to be about five-eighths Inch long, with the knobs on the ends.
Cut the part D out of quarter- (inch wood, and, after making the hole for the funnel with a three- eighths inch bit, fix it to the bull with four fine wire brads. The funnel is simply a one and-a- quarter inch length of three- eighths inch dowel rod, pushed into the hole made to receive it.
The paddle wheel is made from two pieces of wood one-eighth inch thick, cut to the sizes given In the bottom right hand” dia- grams. Across the middle of each cut a slot one-eighth inch wide and half an inch long. Now turn these parts at right angles to each other, push one part on to the other, through the slots, and the little paddle wheel is formed, as shown in diagram E.
For the motive power, obtain a piece of one-sixteenth inch. elastic and tie the ends together. Loop this twice round the wooden pegs at the stern of the boat so SOLUTION.
MORY
JIM
PAT
"Here you see Suo, Mary, Jim and Pat dressed in their correct costumes."
handle to the basket, as shown in that a strand goes across each the picture.
Press the embroidery under a damp cloth with a very hot iron. Sew the two halves of the cover together on the wrong side out, and slip it over the blanket pad ding. Make a lining of casement cloth, slip this inside, and join the outer cover to the inner lining along the bottom.
When the basket is finished, work the flowers, using two con- trasting shades for each. The inner circle is worked with lazy- daisy stitches in one colour, as shown in Diagram A; and the outer circle is worked with but tonhole stitches in another shade, Diagram B shows the completed flower. Work jade green leaves between the blossoms — Diagram A little wool loop on top, and a D shows you how the lazy-daisy row of slanting wool stitches stitches which compose the leaves along the straight edge — and are placed. When all the flowers the cosy is finished, and leaves are finished, sew
Wendy's Dressmaker.
GET ARCHIE ON THE PHONE- I HAVE IMPORTANT NEWS' FOR HIM REGARDING HIS TRIP TO CHINA-HE'S AT OUR DOWN-TOWN OFFICE-
SAY-ARCHIE! THE BOSS. WANTS TO TALK TO YOU ON THE PHONE-HUH?
YES
SIR!
TELL HIM THE PHONE DONTS ANSWER-SO HELL THINKIM OUT ON BUSINESS-KLL GIVE YOU A DIME FOR
DOING THIS FOR ME -
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angle of the paddle which is thus weld in position as shown in the diagram. The paddle is turned round until the rubber is twisted as far as it will go, before the boat is placed on the water.
TINK'S
CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
At the side of last week's' puzzle we drew two letters T inside the letter G. T's in G, you see! And this sketch probably suggested to you the hidden word - teasing. Full solution:-
Across.
2. Our own houses
(Homes).
6. Ocean
(Sea).
7. Possess
(Own).
8. Preposition
(To).
10. Porform
(Do).
11. Hidden word
(Teasing).
14. Depart
(Go),
15.
Relations
(Kin).
16. Negative
(No).
18. Outer edge
(Rim).
20. Skip
(Hop).
21. Exclamation of sorrow
(Alaa).
23. Fruit
(Lime).
24,
Small island
(Isle).
25. Used in cooking 26. Try the flavour of
(Oven).
(Taste).
Down
1. Employ
(Use).
2. Dislike very much
(Hate).
8.
Pronoun
(Me).
4,
In a short time
(Soon).
5. Termination
(End).
9.
Tree
(Oak).
10.
Loud noise
(Din).
11.
Works hard
(Toils).
12. Rest
(Sit).
19.
Kind of sprite
(Gnome).
14. Corn
(Grain).
17.
Uncloses
(Opena).
19. Used in brewing
(Malt).
(Hive).
22. Same as 6 across
(Sea).
23,
A great deal
(Lot).
20. Bees' home
We have hidden a word in this week's puzzle, too, but not in the usual way. The first letter is the first of No. 10 down; the second is the third of No. 19 across; the third is the third of No. 11 down; the fourth is the second of No. 18 across; and the last is the first of No. 22 across. The word means one who has been long absent from his native country I tell you this just to help you a little, The drawing at the side of the puzzle will probably suggest the word to you.
ISLIE
MAN
25
What English word doct
this suggest to you?
Clues:-
Across.
1. People who play the organ.
7. Work hard
8. Enemy.
11. Steam-ship (abbreviated).
12. About.
13. Nearest.
14. Observe!
16. Animal.
18. Fall heavily..
20. Transact.
21. Preposition.
22. Organ of bearing.
24. Another name for Ireland.
27. Protective.
1. Away,
Down.
2. Indefinite article.
8. Posscasive pronoun.
4. Therefore.
5. To weary.
6. Smooth and glossy,
2. Upon
10. Fih.
11. Not flexible.
14. Foot-wear.
18. Withered.
17. ́Painful.
19. Child's name for father.
21. Number.
23. Kind of deer.
25. Whother.
26. Part of verb 'to be,'
THE TINKER BELL CLUB.
I want to become a member of the "Tinker Bell Club,”:
and I promise to do one kind action every day. Please send
me a "Tinker Bell" enrolment card.
Name
Address
Age.
Date of Birthday
Cut this put, and send it to Tinker Bell, c/o The Editor,
China Mail
To make the little boat. look more realistic, a mast can be fit ted. This consists of a two-and- a-half-inch length of fine wooden knitting needle, with a piece of thread tied near the top and fastened under little staples made front pieces of an ordinary pin. The Hut Carpenter.
GEE, WHAT AM I TO DO? IFI HAVE
TO GO TO CHINA-I WON'T SEE ROSIE AND IF I TELL THE BOSS I CAN'T GO-
I'LL GET FIRED-THEN I WON'T HAVE ANY MONEY? FOR CAR-FARE TO
CALL ON
ROSIE-
GEE! 1-FEEL SO BLUE-I'LL CALL ON ROSIE SHE ALWAYS MAKES ME FEEL
HAPPY-
GEE! I HATE TO ANSWER TH PHONE-BUT IT MIGHT BE ROSIE-I'LL HAVE TO ANSWER IT-
ARCHIE-ARENT WE HAPPY?
I HOPE NOTHING WILL EVER HAPPEN TO PART US - NOTHING WILL) WILL IT BES
DEAR?
NOT EVEN IF I HAVE TO STARVE, MY DEAR!