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THE BILLY
You can
BOYS' WORKSHOP
How to Make Toy Wrestlers.
make this amusing foy out of two clothes pegs of the pattern shown in the dia- grams. The top parts of the pegs from the heads and bodies of the wrestlers," and the bot- tom parts are used for the legs.
Drill two small holes (A) through each top part and then saw off the bottom pieces as in- dicated. Each strip should be cut to a length of two inches. Now, with your penknife, whittle each strip to the shape shown at B. to form the legs. The arms, which can be made of thin.wood. are two and a quarter inches long between the centres of the holes in the ends. To get the best results, the four legs must be exactly the same length.
The best method of attaching the parts is to use wire nails, which must, of course, be of slightly larger diameter than the holes in the body. The holes in the arms and legs must be a loose fit so that the "wrestlers" are very loosely jointed. Instead of
it into a neat loop at each end,
LONG AGO STORIES.
Fabia's Little Tree. Fabia yawned as she listened to the Greek slave. She was not attending to the old man, because it did not interest her to hear how a republic should be governed, nor did she care how much of her
be corn should given to the State.
"You are not attending." said the Greek slave.
"If you would only tell me a story," sighed Fabia. "I am tired of learning my duty. I am a Roman; I never make a mistake, and I do nothing wrong"
"Your duty is of great im- portance, lady," said the slave. "Take your lute and play to me. The music will soften your vanity, and show you that you can do a great deal: wrong."
Fabia was much annoyed to hear the wrong notes come scat- tering from the lute under her impatient fingers, and the slave kept her playing for an hour. He was a very learned slave, like a number of other Greeks who had been taken prisoners by the Romans, and he had charge of Fabia's education.
When she had finished her music,, Fabia repeated
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THE CHINA MAIL.
WENDY HUT.
as shown at C. To one loop tie, WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN
a piece of strong black thread about twelve inches long, and then tie the free end of the thread to a small nail. To the other wire loop tie another piece of thread, about six feet long, to he worked by the hand.
The nail is lightly hammered into the floor, just under the edge of a carpet, and the wreat- lers are worked by movement of the fingers holding the thread. The thread, being black, will be almost invisible in artificial light.
After a little practice, the figures can be made to stand up, nails, pieces of wire may be start wrestling and lie down passed through the holes, and seagain at the word of command. cured by a little loop at each end. These antics appear very mys- After all the parts are put to- terious to people looking on, es- gether, bore small holes through pecially if they do not notice the the centres of the arms, pass a thread. The hand holding the piece of wire through, and bend end of the thread can be kept in
your pocket, out of sight.
TO HAND
24"
The Hut Carpenter.
Top "wrentiera" made from clothes-pegs. They will be good fun to surpriss people with at your party.
forgot she was twelve years old and screamed with rage, and would have thrown the little tree
poetry, then she went into the, remain during the feast — sha garden to look at her little tree. She had to stand and gaze at it for two minutes every day, and it was just beginning to interest her, for she noticed that it would soon be full of snow-white blog- soms, It was an unknown tree that the great Roman soldier, Lucullus, had brought from Asia, and it had a little story:-
Fabia was being brought up in the house of her kinsman Lucullus, and she had qvery. thing she wanted. But when Lucullus went away to battle, he promised to bring her some- thing back from Cerasus, in Asia, and then he forgot all about it. Lucullus was very fond of rich food, and a magnificent feast was prepared in honour of his return, for this great mar thought nothing of spending a thousand pounds 'on one meal. When Fabia entered the hall to welcome him, he remembered that he had promised her a pre- sent and was sorry he had not kept the promise. However, on the purple cushion beside him was a little half-dead tree,, and this he gave to Fabia, telling her to plant it in the garden.
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Fabia said nothing while she outside she was not allowed to was in the hall, but once she was
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were
"They
the first cherries acen in Rome."
the Greek slave away had not made her plant it. And he made her go and look at it every day, too.
covered with white flowers, Fabia When the little tree was
loved it. Then the blossoms fell, and by degrees the tree became hanging on long stems.
covered with little red balls They
A New Dress For Party.
Time.
As it is Party-time. I'm sure Rome of the little dress-makere! would like to copy the pretty frock shown here,
You will need about three or three-and-a-half yards of pale! coloured artificial silk material, a card of art-silk bias-binding in 1 the same colour but several tones darker in shade, and two skeins of stranded embroidery cotton one rose, the other green.
The new dress for Party Time! Dressmaker tello Jou how to make it.
two
Measure yourself from your shoulders to your waist, and across your chest: then cut a piece of material a little wider and twice as long. Fold it length- ways and widthways, and cut as shown in the upper part of Dia- gram A. The skirt is cut like the lower part of the diagram, and should be made in strips, long enough to reach to your knees and wide enough to be gathered prettily each side.
Sew up the side and shoulder scams of the bodice, and the side seams of the skirt. You can either hem the skirt edge, or bind it with the bias-binding as you prefer. Gather the skirt each side, as shown by the dot- ted lines in Diagram A, and pull up to fit the edge of the bodice. Tack bodice and skirt together, and try on the frock. If it is Hatisfactory, sow all scams neat- Iy.
Cut a square of material with sides eighteen inches long, and bind it with bias-binding. Then cut a hole in the middle, as shown in Diagram B. This is for the collar. Slip it over your head, when you have the dress on, then sew the collar to the dress, ar (Continued at foot of next column.)
were the first cherries seen in Rome! Fabia was delighted with them, and after she had oaten a handful she went to the slave.
about that, tree."
"Yes, I-can make a mistake," she admitted. "I made one
...
little Roman girls learnt in the That was the sort of lesson days when Lucullus brought the cherry tree to Europe.
ARCHIE! DARLING! I'M GOING WITH.) DADDY. TO NIGHT-HE HAS TO BROAD-CAST-LISTEN IN
AND I'LL SPEAK TO YOU WANT YOU TO TELL ME. HOW MY VOICE SOUNDS.
WOW! IT'S STARTING. TO RAIN. I'M LUCKY TO
HAVE A COAT, I GUESS,
WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING OUT ON A NIGHT LIKE THIS?
RÉSULT OF PUZZLE COMPETITION.
THE PRIZE WINNERS.
The Puzzle picture which ap- peared on this page on January 9th has proved a great success and the large number of entries received has kept the Hut friends busy for a few days,
The list of "wrong things" shown in the picture numbered 42 but no one was successful in naming the exact mistakes.
The best list sent in nearest to the Goblin Artists' "mistakes" showed 38 errors, two children having, the same number of mia- - takes. Eileen Miller and Jessie Cameron, while Dorothy Salmon with 33 "mistakes" is the next on the Prize list. The three prize winners have to be complimented ing and Wendy hopes they will on their neat and beautiful writ- like their prizes from the Wendy
Ifut.
Prize List.
1st & 2nd Prizes (tle). Eileen Miller ... (11) Jessic Cameron (13)
3rd Prize. Dorothy Salmon. (9)
THE PRINCESS AND HER MAID OF HONOUR.
Once upon a time there was a very great Princess. The fame of her beauty spread far and wide, and Princes came from all over the earth to ask for her hand in marriage. But she would have none of them, and when she heard that two celebrated Kings
"You must pretend to be me," said the Princess to her loveliest Maid-of-honour. were on their way to her court she determined to play a little trick on them.
she said to her loveliest maid-of- "You must pretend to be me," honour. "While you are talking and choose the one I like best." to them, I will stand behind you
SATURDAY, JANUARY 23, 1932.;
TINK'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
The English town name hidden in last week's puzzle was Sunderland. "You guessed this, I suppose, by the picture which showed the letter S — underland, Full solution
Across.
22. Rodents
1. Child's cot
(Crib).
4. Rind
(Poel).
7. Packing cases
(Crates).
8. Gladness
(Glee).
10. Peruse
(Read).
12.
Prefix meaning “against"
(Anti).
15.
Hidden name
(Sunderland).
19. Poem ..
(Ode).
20. Near
(By)..
21. Pigs' house
(Sty).
(Rats)
23. Employed
(Used).
Down.
1. Part of a wheel
(Cog)
2. Frozen water
(Tee).
(Bread).
(Peril).
5. Compass point
(ESE).
6. Boy
(Lad).
9. Powerful in sound
(Loud).
(Aunt).
13,
Beak
(Neb).
14. Endeavour
(Try).
16. Not sweet
(Sour).
16. Tidy
(Neat).
17. Requests
(Asks).
18. Coloured
(Dyed);
3. Food
4. Danger
11. A relative
Who can guess the King's name represented by the picture at the side of this week's puzzle? Perhaps the Tinies will be rather uncertain, but the bigger boys and girls will soon think of it. It is hidden, as usual, in the puzzle.
MY NAMES
ALF
SO
Clues:-
15
a
23
What famous King doel this suggest to you ?
Across.TM
Sece.
Bird.
Foolish.
Footwear.
i plane.
Hidden hamC, Afternoon,
18. Unhappy.
17. Short for "barenet."
19. Quick.
21. Ocean.
22. You do this with your eyes. 23. To blunder.
24. Express in another language.
they both addressed the lovely Well, the Kings arrived, and maid of honour together, and then started fighting because to them. they were so jealous of each other. The poor maid-of-honour Prince entered the room, and,
Then R handsome young, screamed, and the true princess after watching the Kings, and tried to stop the fighting, but the the maid-of-honour for some Kings told her to get out of the time, he went over to the Prin-
way,
This was a terrible shock to the Princess, for she had thought she would be recognised at once. Now she saw for the first time that it was only her name that. gave her power and made her famous. She was very sad, and went and sat on a stool, while the two Kings listened to the really didn't know what to say weeping maid-of-honour who
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ranging one point at the back, one in front,
shoulder and one over each
Embroider little roses, like the one shown in Diagram C, on corner of the collar, adding lazy- the skirt, and work one in each daisy, stitch leaves.
Wendy's Dressmaker.
OH, YES. DARLING! I WOULDN'T MISS 17 FOR THE WORLD-
WANT TO STEN TO OUR RADIO.
селя.
cess," he laughed. "She's look "Go and help your poor Prin- ing at you with most pitiful eyce."
you, and get her out of the dif- "Go and ask her if she'll marry
THE
Down.
1. Cooking venucis,.. Tribo leaders.
3. Slippery fish.
2
4. Situated in the interior of a
6.
country.
S
Sometimes used in milk
7. Anoth3,
name for the sun. 10. Wicker basket with lid.
8. Affirmative reply.
12.
Boy' name,
14. Fertile spot in desert,
15. Gone by.
18. A weed.
20. Afternoon meal.
21. Same as 21 across,
ficulty that way," suggested the Princess.
me," murmured the Prince. "I "I don't think she would suit
much prefer you, though you are only a maid-of-honour. Be kind go and help her!"-
confessed the trick she had play Then the Princess laughed and ed. Nobody was more surprised than the young Prince, but the two Kings went sadly away. Princess married him, and tho
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