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STORIES OF ANCIENT SICILY
POLYPHEMUS.
THE
CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
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Out in the blue sea washing, marry him. In his jealous rage, the coast of Sicily are several Polyphemus watched for Acis, huge rocks, and flowing from one and, next time he saw the shep. of them is a little silvery thread of water a current in the sea. The children playing on the sand tell a strange story con- cerning these rocks. When night falls, they point back at the shadow of Etna, and tell the babies that if they do not hurry home they will meet Polyphemus -and-his-sheep. But the babies only laugh, and say that Poly- phemus is blind now and cannot aco them.
Polyphemus, the legend goes, was the chief of the Cyclopes, the giant, one-eyed workmen of the god of fire who lived in the heart of Etna. He had a black cave on the slopes of the moun- tain, and here, he lived with his sheep. Like all the Cyclopes, ho had one round eye in the middle of his forchead.
Now under the almond trees which also grew on Etne lived a shepherd, called Açis, who loved a little water nymph named Gala- ten. Alas, Polyphemus also loved the sea-maiden, but she was ter- rified of the giant and refused to
"Polyphemus flung
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great rocks at the shepherd
and crushed him.” herd on the shore waiting for Galatea, he flung some great rocks at him and crashed him. But Galatea changed Acis into a little stream-which flows from 'beneath that rock for ever.
WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN | other 21⁄2 inches away from the fold. Next measure 21⁄2 inches along the short edge of the
A Nightdress-Case For Your Very
Own Room.
The nightdress-case for your very own bedroom will look pretty if you make it of cream linen, embroidered with flowers in coloured silk or wool. You'll "waht a piece of material thirty inches long and, twelve inches wide; also skeins of embroidery thread in rose, blue, yellow, la- vender, and bright green.
.
Fold the linen into three parts, lengthways, so that you
will know which part you have to. embroider. Look at Diagram B and you will see that the right- hand ten inches folds buck on the middle ten inches, and the left-hand ten inches folds on top of the middle ones this is the flap 'to embroider.
Measure 21% inches in from the left-hand edge, and pull two threads right across; then men- sure 5 inches along, and pull two more threads."
This leaves an-
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The nightdress-case as it should look when finished; and a diagram to help you in making it.
When Ulysses, the Greek hero, visited Sicily with twelve of his sailors, he went to see Polyphe mus, who invited him into his cave and naked him his name. Ulysses said his hame was No- body. Then the Cyclopes ate six of his companions! There was
no escape, because Polyphemus snt at the entrance of the cave. But Ulysses thought of offering him wine, and, when he had drunk all the Greeks' had in their goatskin bags, the giant fell asleep. Snatching a 'brand from the fire, Ulysses then put out the giant's eye. His cries awoke the other Cyclopes, and they ran to the cave asking who was hurting him.
"Nobody is hurting me!" roar. ed Plyphemus.
"If nobody is hurting you, the gods have sent you pain which you must endure," replied the Cyclopes. And they returned to Eina
Then Ulysses and his sailors tied themselves beneath the sheep. Polyphemus stood at tho entrance of the cave vowing to cat them all, but he felt the sheep press up against him, and so he let them out. Thus the Greeks escaped.
though
But Polyphemus, blind, "still worked for the god of fire. So grent was his strength that he could lift mountains, and tip enormous cauldrons of lava upon the island.
Strange to say, he loved his sheep and they loved him. At night, leaning upon a pine tree which he uses for
a staff, he is said to ramp down to the shore with his faithful sheep and bathe near the rocks which he flung at Acia.
If you're a bit puzzled by all this, the Diagram will make it quite clear!
Darn a strand of green thread along each of these drawn. thread lines, going under two threads, and over five. When you've finished this, draw round pennies and ha'pennies, arranged on the places where the lines crose, to get the shapes for the flower embroideries. Work these in mixed colours, doing some in buttonholing, and others with backstitching. Give all yellow centries, and add green, lazy- daisies here and there, to sug- gest leaves. Diagram A gives you a close-up of the work.
Finally, turn in a very narrow hem round the three sides of the flap, and work over in green blanket-stitching.
Join the two sides of the underneath flap, to make the pocket that will take the night- dress, press the case. carefully, and it is ready for your very own
material, and pull two threads just as far as the ten-inch fold: finally, pull two more threads, broom. inches away from the last two,
Rosie's BEAU
BY
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Registered U.S. Patent Office
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UNTIL TO:NIGHT-
Wendy's Dressmaker.
(OH-I'M SO ANXIOUS
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THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP..
Making A Doll's Seesaw.
A Jolly Toy for Little Sister. For the long arm A, cut a piece of one-inch square batten two feet long, and plane it on all sides. At an-equal distance from ench end, bore a hole through with a half-inch' bit.:
Make the uprights B.B. from 'wood half an inch thick, cut to the sizes given in diagram C, and bore a half-inch hole through the middle of euch. Saw and plane the two blocks D andE to
TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
The subject we drew last week was a watch, and the letters were ER, so of course you looked for the word "watcher" which was hidden in the puzzle. Solution:
1. Fairytale giant
5.
Across.
Greatest number
9. Region
10. At one time
11. Preposition
12. Rest
14. "One ..
(Ogre).
(Most).
(Area).
(Once).
(To).
((Sit).
(An).
15.
Hidden 'word
(Watcher).
20.
Besides
(Else).
22. Part of verb "to be"
(Were).
24. Also
(Too).
26.
Follows neither
(Nor).
27. While
(As).
28. 30.
Three lettera acknowledging a debi (1.0.U.). Same as 14 across
(An).
(Test).
(Pads).
Down.
(0xt).
31. For fear that 32. Soft cushions.
1. Cereal plant
2. Increase
3. About
4. Where the sun rises'
. 5. Insect
6. Upon
7. Mark of a wound
8. Number
(Grow).
(Re)
(East).
((Moth).
(On).
(Scur).
(Ten).
13.
Frozen water
(Ice).
16.
As well
(A186).
17.
Level
(Even).
18.
Part of a flower
(Petal).
19. Graceful green plants
(Ferns).
21. Part with accidentally
(Lose).
23.Thoroughfare
(Rond).
25. Therefore
(So).
(It).
29. To a higher position
"(Up).
28. Pronoun
I am sure you will easily think of the month repre- sented by the drawing at the side of this week's puzzle. Almost too simple, isn't it? The month-name is hidden in the puzzle.
1. Fucl.
Do You Know which month this picture represents?
Cluck:-
ACTORS.
4. Small flap.
7. Queer,
8. Completed.
9. Boy's name (abbreviated).
10. Concludes.
11.- One.
12. Pronoun.
13. Hidden month-name,
16. Precious stone,
18. Possessed.
-20, Nobleman.
21. Dovoured.
22. Crafty, 23. Ball slowly.
AND REMEMBER- WHEN WE GET TO THE DANCE-YOU ARE TO DANCE WITH NO ONE
BUT ME-
Down
1. Vegetables.
2. Garden of the Bible. 3. Jain.
4. Weight
5.. Conjunction.
6. Most excellent.
B. Animal,
12. Large room.
14, -Talk.
13. Girl's name.
16. Dislike exceedingly.
17. Chum,
19. Moleture,
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size, and nail them to one of the arm A with small screws, the uprights B as shown, after and nail narrow strips of wood
I which nail the other upright to on each side, as shown in the
the blocks.
top diagram. Cut the part F from a piece of l
Screw a wooden drawer knob to
wood half an inch thick. Make the top of the uprights as shown, a small hole through the centre, | and paint the finished toy in two and fix it in place" by a stout or three bright colours.
screw driven into the block E.
The base of the toy is made from four pieces of half-inch wood cut to the sizes given at G. Two of the pieces are half an inch narrower at the sides then the other two, as indicated by the dotted lines, and these nar rower ploces are nailed in place between the two wider pieces. Plane the top and bottom edges of the base flush, and then nail on the part F with the uprights in position. Push the arm A between the uprights and pass a piece of half inch dowel rod, two inches long, through the holes to form the pivot of the Scean. A mall knob screwed into each end of the dowel rod will prevent it from slipping out. To make the seats, cut two pieces of quarter-inch wood live inches long and three inches wide. Bevel the back edges slightly, and nail on the parts H which are cut to the sizes given, the centres being cut out with a fretsaw. Fix these geats to
BYE- BYE. LOVEY-
TOODLE
1000
The Hut Carpentor.
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How to make jolly toy for the small "sister doll's see-sato.
HOW DOES THE OTHER GUY LOOK?
HELLO-ROSIES WON'T BE ABLE TO GOTONIGHT I'DON'T
LOOK SO GOOD-.
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