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BOYS OF LONG AGO.
CLARENCE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
HUT.
come to the ale-house for a meal overheard her.
WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS
Making A Wedding Present.
A Wendy girl has asked me to suggest something she can make as a wedding present for her grown-up sister, and I thought
OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER.
Cream Caramel Toffee. Put one pound of granulated sugar into a, saucepan with ก piece of butter the size of an
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
Making A Box Kite."
To make this fine box kite, you will require four straight strips of light wood, two feet four inches long by one-quarter inch square; four pieces of five sixteentha inch by thrée-six- teenths inch stripwood, each sixteen and a half inches long; and two pieces of coloured paper measuring four feet two inches long by ten inches wide.
Take the strips of coloured paper, turn over the long edges. for one inch, and glue down the folds after inserting a length of fine strong string in each fold. the ends of each paper strip with When completed, glue together
form continuous bands eight a two-inch overlap, so as to
wide. Now fold
one of the nicest things would bag and allow the sugar to melt inches
slowly. When the sugar has
of a small tin of sweetened con- densed milk, and stir carefully till the mixture boils. Do not splash it up against the sides of the saucepan. Allow the cara mel to simmer over gentle heat for a quarter of an hour, and see that it does not burn. Pour it on to a buttered tin, and, when set but not cold, mark it into small squares.
crense
equal sticks.
each
glue one of the long parts, and at The outer edge of each (Continued on Neal Column)
soon as the saucepan is removed from the fire, and stir them well in.
an afternoon tea eloth, with four · quite dissolved, add the contents each band to divide it into four little table napkins to match. The set I have chosen is like the one Tink made for the Hut sit ting-room, and it really is pretty! The cloth is made from one yard of thirty-six inch wide Clarence was employed in an
linen. Turn up and tack an ale-house, where he scrubbed and
inch-wide hem all round, and be ran errands for Dame Loveday Now this man was a witch-careful to mitre the corners neat- from sunrise to sunset. He was finder. He had recently come fourteen years old, and his from Scotland where he had mother, a widow, supported her-assisted the King-afterwards self by selling herbs to the James the First of England-to apothecary. She walked miles find the witches who had been over hill and dale to obtain these responsible for the storms at sea herbs, but she kept her small when James had sailed to Den- cottage very clean and every mark to marry his bride. night Clarence went home to sleep.
Then suddenly his mother fell sick, and could no longer gather herbs. There was scarcely any
It was a fine Summer's even- ing, so the witch-finder visited the cottage.where Clarence lived, and saw the boy washing clothes in the garden. Clarence had a great white lather of soap suds in a tub, and his lips moved silently as he worked. After watching him for a time from behind a tree, the witch-finder suddenly grabbed him, accused. im of setting charms to sink ship at sen, and carried him away to prison.
When Clarence was brought before the judge he thought all, was lost. Nothing would induce him to admit that he had con- Bulted a witch, because the black draught had cured his mother. He declared that he had only been washing clothes that even ing, and not making a storm in the tub as witches did; if his lips had moved, he said it was because his mother was ill and he was "Clarence had a great
nervous. white lather of soap-suda-.
For
hours they questioned in a tub."
Clarence; then the great judge, money for food, and, in his an-
who believed him to be innocent, xicty, Clarence did a dreadful ordered him to be tried by weigh thing. He consulted an olding. So they took him to the woman who was supposed to be a Church, put the huge brass-bound witch In return for all the Church-Bible-on-one side of the money he possessed, she gave scales, and Clarence on the other. him a black draught which his The boy weighed down the Bible, mother, was to swallow fasting, therefore he was declared inno and taught him three strange cent and set free. words which he was to say to himself all day.
Clarence duly whispered the words, and Dame Loveday was frightened when she saw his lips moving silently all day long.
"I hope that boy has no evil power," she remarked one even- ing, and a stranger who had
THE SILVER FEATHER.
Long ago, when it was the fashion to invite fairies to christenings, a certain King ask ed the Lady Moonlight to his little daughter's name-day feast. The fairy arrived in a silver chariot drawn by silver geese, and she gave the Princess the name Moonblossom, and offered her a feather plucked from one of the geese as a present.
"If she is in trouble, let her throw the feather to the wind and I will come to her assist ance," smiled the Lady Moonlight as she drove off
The King and Queen were dis- appointed, because they had hoped the fairy would give the Princess great beauty, or riches, or magic: jewels. They wonder ed what she would do with her feather,
Well, Moonblossom grew quick ly, and she often looked at the V feather. When she had tooth ache, she nearly threw it to the
Good for Your Cold
"And take a holiday to-morrow to recover yourself," said Dame Loveday. "Here is a nice basket of food, for you, in case I had anything to do with your trial?"
So Clarence and his mother walked happily home together, but never again did the boy con sult a witch! ::
wind again, when she was caught in the rain with her new dress on; and once when she lost her way in a wood. But each time she thought it as not quite worth while, because something worse might happen. So she waited and waited. She grew into a lovely maiden, and still she kept her silver feather. Then a number of Princes asked Moonbossom's hand In marriage, but she would have none of them because she thought they all wanted the precious christening present
"What shall I do with it?" she sighed.
And then it rained, and rained, and rained, till in despair Moon blossom threw the feather to the wind and asked for a fine day "Now I've done a Billy thing," she thought as she walked in the sunshine," "and, meeting ono. of the Princes who wished to
Rosies BEAU
GED IF MANUS
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An afternoon tea-clotk. with four small table- nápkins to match, makes a l' splendid wedding - present for grown-up sister. Dress" maker explaina how make the sel
to
ly as you come to them. Go over the tacking with running- stitches in blue or green embroi
ery thread, making each stitch about a quarter of an inch long, and leaving one-eighth of an inch between. The running stitches are to be on the right side of the cloth. When you have worked all round, put in an other row immediately under the first, as shown in Diagram A.
Now cut four big coloured flowers from a scrap of cretonne, and tack one in each corner of the cloth. Let the flowers be different kinds you might have a red rose in one corner, a sun- flower in another, a poppy in an other, and a big pansy in the fourth. Buttonhole-stitch: each flower down with embroidery thread, as ahown in Disgram B; sew on leaves cut from the cretonne, and work in stems with satin-stitch. The flowers will look richer if you outline parts of them with thick embroi- dery threads in stem-stitch.
The little table-napkins are cut from another. yard of thirty- six inch-wide material, divided equally into four, which gives you four nine-inch squares. Turn up half inch hems on each, tack and sew with coloured running- stitches, just like the big cloth. Then work a different cretonne flower in one corner of - each, like those shown in the sketch."
Wendy's Dressmaker.
marry her, she told him all about it.
"Well," he smiled, "It will prove that I don't want your feather, because I'm quite ready to marry you without it.".
Moonblossoma married the Prince, and later on ahe set the fashion of not inviting fairies to feasts because they gave such strange presents! She also in- vented the word Moonshine --- meaning something of no use, --- and you'll hear that word used to-day if you listen for it.
DADDY AND TO SPEND AT: SURF
TO COME
To make nut caramels, add chopped nuts to the mixture as
By stirring in half a pound of desiccated coconut when the toffee is cooked, you can make a delicious coconut cream candy.
TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
The word hidden in last week's puzzle was "solaces," as you probably guessed when you saw the picture of the sun (sol), the card (ace) and the letter (8). Full solution:-
1. Hidden word
6.
As far as
7. Smallest particle
8. Solitary
9. Whether
Across,
(Solaces). (To).
(Atom).
(Alone).
(1f).
11. Pronoun
(Mo).
12. Devoured
(Ate).
13. Animal 15.
(Ass).
Another animal
(Ram).
17. On
(Upon).
19. Beloved
(Dear),
.(US).
22. Assent
(Consent).
Dowr.
1. Fish
(Bole).
(Lanes).
(Ate).
(Co).
(Emit).
21. Pronoun
Z. Narrow roads
8. Same as 12-across`.'..
4. Company (abbreviated)
5. Give out
6. Less wild
10.
Plants
18. End of a prayer
14. Certain
16. Fuss..
18. Not in
20. Because
(Tamier). (Forms),
(Amen).
(Sure).
(Ado).
(Out).
(AB).
Here's a nice easy one this time. The picture at the -side of the puzzle will certainly suggest to you a quite com men English word which we have hidden in the puzzle.
(B
Forsakes.
12
:
What English
19 10
this suggest to yox?
Clues:
Across.
-7. Kernal in a shell." 8. Unpopular rodent. 5. Negative. 11. Hidden word. 13 To exist 15 Boy
18. Girl's name ready.
21. Work with needle and thread.
Used with
J
Down
Indefinito article,
2. What a "daffodil grows, from,
3. Preposition.
4. Conjunction.
6.Short-sleepain
6. Thoroughfare, (abbreviated),
0. Pen-point.
10, Number,
12. Mountain, chain.
14: Gentlewoman;"
*16, Part" of' verb:
17. Moisture.
18. Noah's
19. Scottish tire
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SATURDAY, JULY
INDIGESTION
* Shaanteguei Isan à directly invo able influance on the whole ne Your system, especially on those nerves which' tfect tisa dignative: organs,"
Dr. P. Rodari,
Prof. of Med.
Frayed Nerves
Narva-calla!!
cause all this trouble
Farily induced fatigue, distaste for work, difficulty in concentration, lack of appetite, fitful sleep, loss of weight- all these may be signals that something is wrong with the nervous system. The only logical way to overcome these complaints is to go to the root of the trouble-the nerves. Strengthen those nerves with Sanatogen-the. finest tonic food obtainable. Sanatogen feeds the nerve cells with the exact pro- portion of those elements-glycero- phosphate and albumin-from which new nerve-strength is derived. By so. doing Sanatogen conquers all symptoms of nerve-weakness.
A well-known London physician saya:
Saratogen gone stnight is the core of well- being, viz.: the calls, and bullde these vi into a permanent and solid famic of health," Start taking Sanatogen to-day. You will soon notice its wonderful influence on your health; your nerves will no longer trouble you, you will sleep better, and your appetite will immediately improve.
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of the body. Numerous complaims 'aro cated by ene and the ans thlag: Nerys,
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band should be one inch from short distance in the usual the ends of the sticks, and there fashion.
should be a space of ten inches between the banda, as indicated in the first diagram. Before glueing the sticks in place, slight- ly notch each one at a distance of five inches from each end to receive the notched ends of the crosspieces A.
To prepare the cross-pleceš, take two of the pieces of strip- wood, place them together and drive a fine wire nall through the centre, turning the end of the nail up underneath. Treat the other two pieces in the same way. Notch the ends as at B, open out the cross-pieces, and fit them in- side the kite. They must not fit too tightly or they will split tho paper. If they are too long, shorten them slightly and deepen the notches. The flying line is tied on to one of the long strips in the position indicated at c.
To fly the kite; let out about twenty yards of line and get someone to throw up the kite a i..
The Hut Carpenter.
Finé Wire Nail
Carpenter tells you how make this fally boz-kite.
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