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THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP
THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
HUT.
Making A Wireless Loud-Speaker Cabinet.
This week, by special request, I am ging instructions for making a neat cabinet for В wireless loud-speaker. Ordinary deal can be used, that for the sides being three-eightha-inch thick, and that for the top and bottom parts half-inch thick.
The sides had better be pre- pared first. For these, two pieces of wood, each fifteen inches long and six inches wide, will be re- quired. Carefully plane these on both sides and edges. Now from a strip of half-inch square wood, cut two pieces fourteen inches long, and four pieces nve and a quarter inches long. Glue and nail one of the long strips to one of the side pieces ot 2 distance of half-an-inch from the front edge, as shown at A. 'Then glue and nail short pieces to the top and bottom of the sice, so that the ends come flush with the upright fillet, as at K.B. The top and bottom faces ul these short strips must be quite flush with the edges of the side pieces. Treat the other side piece in the same way.
For the top and bottom of the
WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN
The Nightdress-Sachet Gift.
A nightdress-sachet made in the shape of a big water lily will be a lovely present for your best friend. You will need half a yard of pale green linen for the leaf, half a yard of white linen for the flower, and three-quarters of a yard of white lawn for the lining. You'll also need skeins of stranded embroidery cotton white, pale green, and yellow.
Draw the complete shape of leaf and flower on a sheet of paper, following the measure- ments given in the diagram. Then cut out two shapes like this for the foundation of the Bachet, using the white lawn. Next, draw the lily on to the white linen, and cut that out. Finally, cut out the leaf from the green linen.
Tack the loaf in position on one of the lawn linings, and tack the lily on top. Join the leaf to the lining by button-hole-stitch- ing the two edges together with green thread,, turning the raw
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cabinet, cut two pieces of hal inch wood to the sizes given in diagram_ C. With a small plane, round the front and side edges
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of each piece, as at D, and finish smooth with glasspaper At a distance of five and a half inches from the back edge of each parl, glue and nail a fourteen-inch length of half-inch square wood. The ends of these pieces must just fit between the other filler pieces when the parts are put to gether, as shown at E.
THE CAPTIVE LIZARD:
Once upon a tine, a poor girl' called Afline caught a tiny wee lizard on an old all. She put the lizard into a falnut shell and kept it as a peti But it soon grew too big or the walnut shell, so Arline put it into an old shoe; and when it grew too big for that, she kept it in, a basket.
LONG AGO STORIES.
The Golden Grasshopper.
Ion was a Spartan boy, and, although his father was very rich, the lad was given no luxuries. He made his own toys! - little bows and arrows — and was often allowed to auffer hunger and thirst so that he would be strong and brave..
Until he was.seven years old, he lived in his father's fine hduse, but on his seventh birth- day he went to the public school to be educated. Early in the morning, carefully bathed and dressed, Ion appeared before his father.
The side pieces are fixed in position with screws driven into the bottom fillet pieces from
Now the lizard was very love- underneath the baseboard, as Iv; it 'shone like an emerald and shown in diagram F
After its eyes
were like diamonds. wards, two or three screws can Arline was very fond of it, and be driven/in from the bottom of when it asked her to let it go the side pieces, to give aided she pretended not to hear, but strength. The top can be screw cave it an extra specially nice ed to the side fillets in the same inner. Next day it asked again, way.
It will be noticed that the hear.
but still she pretended not to cabinet will take à fretted front grown so big that she had to put By the evening, it had exactly fifteen inches square. it in the cheat where she kept which is quite large enough for wood for her fire. Soon it grew ordinary cone units. These fret too big even for the chest, and ted fronts can be obtained quite then Arline became afraid and son," said the father.
a gift for you, my cheaply in a variety of designs, said it could go.
"Some. but if you want to make your
thing to make. you remember own it is not a difficult matter Arline." replied the
"Alas, I dare not go now, that we, the Spartans, are al lizard old as the sun, and therefore s8
Ion... dashed into the yard where a number of strange little boys were playing.!"
"I-have
to cut one out of three-pty wood, "People will be afraid of me and great. If you always remember with a fret-saw. The front must kill me. be glued and nailed to the fillets. long that you must keep me for always behave.nobly."
You have kept me so that you are a Spartan, you wil as at G.
ever,"
"Yes," nodded Ion. "I know Then all Arline's life seemed that my hair will be cut off to to be given up to the lizard. She day, and perhaps I shall have to worked hard, to earn a little welk barefoot, but if I cut my
te her out of house and home. money, but gradually the lizard feet on a stone I will not cry."
"And if your master takes.
To give a finish to the front of the cabinet, cut four pieces of angle beading, like that shown at H, mitre the corners, and glue it in place round the edge of the fretted front, as at K.
For the back of the cabinet, -cut a piece or four-ply wood the same size as the fretted front. and fix it in place with two small brass hinges.
Finally, give the finished cabinet a coating inside and out,
He knocked down the partition your cloak from you on a bitter- in her cottage, and hay curled up lý cold day, clench your teeth to with his mouth poking out prevent them from chattering," through the door and his back continued his father. "Run to reaching the ceiling. Arline had keep warm! Look at this grass- to sleep under the stars, and she hopper." went bitterly.
"I have brought the lizard to hopper in lon's small hand, and He placed a golden grass- of light or dark oak varnish this by keeping it captive, there the little boy was amazed at such stain.
The Hut Carpenter.
fore I am obliged to look after it," she thought.
a gift. He had noticed that some At, last she had nothing left father's house wore golden grass- of the men who, came to his but her shoes and, as the terrible hoppers bound in their hair, but lizard was hungry, she offered what could he do with one while him these. Then he was sud he was learning to use arms, read, denly transformed into a splendid write, paint pictures, and do Get some Brazil nuts, shell, became a palace.
prince, and. Arline's little cottage
gymnastics? Work the outlines of the petals them, peel them, and chop them
"I was under a spell, Arline,
edges under as you go, and work; OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER, the veins on the leaf with green hack-stitching. Then button- hole-stitch the ly to the leaf foundation with white thread.
Here is a very pretty "water-lily" nightdress sachet which you can make for a friend's Christmas present, Dressmaker ex plains all about it.
with back-stitching, and do the little stamens in yellow satin stitch.
Turn in the raw edges of the
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Brazil Creams.
"That grasshopper is to re-
SATURDAY, JANUARY 2, 1932.
TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
The ether name for a pile is, of course, hemp; and if you added "heap" on to the letter C. you made the word "cheap" which was bidden in the puzzle last week. Full solution:—^.
12.
Across.
1. Disentangles
8. Follows neither
(Untangles). (Nor).
10.
9. Large animal of the deer family (Elk).
Girl's name 11. French for "friend"
Hidden word
(Ada),
(Ami).
(Cheap).
19. Used with a pen
(Ink).
15. Kind of fairy.
(Elf).
17. Largest amount
(Most).
19. False god
(Idol).
20. What you hear with
(Ear).
22.
Pronoun
(Us).
23.
Fuss
(Ado).
24.
Within
(In).
25.
Lazy person
(Drone)..
Down.
L
Ail of.one mind
(Unanimous).
2. Incline the head.
(Nod),
3. Traces
(Tracks).
4.
Unusual
5. Sprang
6. Tree...
7. A miser
14. Negative
16.
Behold
(Novel).
(Leaned),
(Elm).
(Skinflint).
(No).
(LD).
18. You shed this when you cry (Tear).
19. Metal
21. Same na 23 across
(Iron).
(Ado).
Now see what you can make of the arrangement of letters beside this week's puzzle. They should suggest to you a word which means "windy" and which is hidden in the puzzle.
BR
EEEE
العم
Clues:-
19
ופן
17
What English word does this suggest to you.
Αέτους.
1. To devise.
7. Number.
8.
Another number,
9. Invite.
12. About.
18. Hidden word,
15. Behold!
16. What you see with. 18. Part of verb 'to be," 20. Busy insect.
22.. Dared.
28. Put into one total 24. Drink.
Down
Animal Upon. Close to. 4. The thing.
5. Extremely.
6. Compass point.
10. Perceive.
13.
11. Works with a lock.
Mado a hole, through. 14. Striped animal. · 16. Flows from volcano. 17. To give up.
19. Conclusion.
21 8ppery fish,
as finely as possible on a board. till I could find somebody who mind you that you are a Spar- Now mix them with three times would be kind to me even when tan," said his father. "We are were silly and said goodbye. His "My golden grasshopper I· their quantity of fine icing sugar, I became a burden," smiled theach a great people that the heart was beating fast, and his will be brave like you," he and add sufficient, white of egg prince. "Now our troubles are Earth herself is our mother. eyes felt queer, but he tossed his thought. "You are alone in the to make the whole into a stiff over, for you shall be my prin. You are a son of the Earth, the head, waved his hand to his field, but you don't cry.I am paste, mixing first with a fork ceas and we will be happy for grasshopper comes out of the father, and dashed into the yard a son of the great Earth like you and then kneading with the
Earth, and this one is to remind where a number of strange-my little golden grass- hands. All this can be done on the board.
ever."
you that you must be worthy of little boys were playing. Your Mother Earth, and your country. Never do anything to disgrace either."
"I never will," murmured Ion. Then his father took him to
Cut the cream into small pieces, and shape each plece ac-boils, put into the saucepan an cording to your fancy. While earthenware jam-pot containing they are drying, prepare some some pieces of plain chocolate, chocolate coating like this: Put letting the water come half-way the public school, and gave him As soon as the into the care of a young man a saucepan of water on the stove up the jar. to get hot. Just before the water water boils, remove the pan from about twenty years
of age, the stove, and stir the chocolate whose duty it was to teach Ion. (Continued at foot of next Column) with a wooden spoon until it is "Take off your sandals," melted, keeping the jar still in laughed this young man, and the hot water, of course,
run into the yard where the second white layn lining, and Dip each cream separately into boys are playing ball.". leaving an opening along the has cooled slightly, drain it a wondering if he could say good- slipstitch it to the sachet-top, the melted chocolate when it So Ion took off his sandals. bottom edge so that the might-little against the side of the jar, bye to his father, whom he might dress can be slipped in and out and leave all to dry on a china not see again for many a long
Wendy's Dressmaker. Idish in a cool place.
day But perhaps only girls
GEE! I JUST SAW ROSIETA
IN THE SWELLEST
COAT GEE! I WISH
COULD AFFORD
A COAT LIKE THAT FOR MY WIFE.
MY DARLING"
ROSIE IS ALWAYS
IN THE HIGHTH
OF FASHION-
Thopper!"!
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
dress
Date of Birthday
Cut this out, and send it to Tinker Bell, c/o The Editor, China Mail,
OH.ROSIE,DEAR! YOUR COAT IS JUST
GORGEOUS
HRY IT ON, BESSIE
WHILE I ANSWER +1
THE PHONE-)
HEAR IT RINGING-
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