THE CHINA MAIL.
12
The WENDY
HUT
LONG AGO STORIES
LILY-OF-THE-AGATE-
BLACK-PETALS
She was called Lily-of-the-h agate-black-petals because
several weeks.
When she was quite well again, her father came and spoke to
cry, and pulled her out of she the pond, but she had hit her was so lovely. She was a little head so badly that she was ill for Egyptian girl, with a pale golden skin, blue eyes, and hair agate- black like the seu at night. Everybody told her she washer. beautiful, and when she Was "Lily of the - agate - black - thirteen years old she liked no- petals, what will you give the thing better than sitting on the gods for returning your senses stone edge of the pond in her to you?" he asked. father's garden,, and looking at her reflection in the water..
"Oh fish! Look at my agate-black hair!" alt c laughed one day.
"My Hair, which ін my strength and beauty," murmur- ed Lily, who had been thinking about this payment for several days.
Then her father took her to the temple, and her lovely hair was shaved off close to her head. Lily watched the priest put her hair into the scales, then her father put pieces of gold into the other side of the scales till the balance was true.
"Give me meat for the sacred hawks," murmured Lily, "and bread for the fish."
So, with the gold which had weighed against her hair, meat was bought for the sacred hawks of the temple, and Lily and her father watched the keeper throwing the meat up into the air for the birds to catch,
"Oh fish, look at my agate black hair." she laughed one day. "I am so lovely that the gods will always smile upon me and give me all I desire, Come] future." and play with me!"
+
"You have paid, my little Lily,",
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
Making A Hat And Coat Rack.
This useful rack would look! best in oak or satin walnut, but quite a successful one can be made of ordinary deal.
The rack is two feet six inches long, four inches wide, and three-eighths of an inch thick. Plane the wood on both sides and edges, and cut away the four cor- pers at the ends to an angle of forty-five degrees.
The centre ornament, which is! half an inch thick, should be cut to the dimensions given in dia-
Here's a nice hat-and-coat rack which you can make if you read Carpenter's instructions and study the diagrams.
gram B, and carefully planed on both sides. Cut away the two top corners to an angle of forty- five degrees. The horizontal part is simply screwed on to the back of this centre, as indicated in diagram R, leaving an equal amount projecting on each side,
Mark
Another way of fixing the rack "Oh, hawks, 'tis my strength to the ornamental centre is indi- and beauty you are eating in re-cated in diagram C. In this case, turn for giving me back my two picces of wood are used and health!" cried Lily. "I thank the ends are glued and screwed you, and I will not be vain in into recesses, as shown.
out the recesses in the centre piece to the dimensions given in out to a depth of three-eighths of tenon saw and chisel, cut them
en inch. Be very careful in cut. ting these recesses to see that the horizontal pieces fit properly, and that they are in a straight ine when fixed. By fitting it together in this way, all the parts of the rack will be level at the back.
LOST
- A BEARD !
The King of the Bearded Gnomes was spoilt by his beard
I don't mean his appearance, but his character! He had a wonderful white bearl of which he was very proud; but the other, Gnomes in his kingdom had white beards toe, and this annoyed the King so much that he decreed that he alone should wear one. He ordered all his subject i Gnomes to shave their beards- and then the trouble began!
The King's beard grew and grew and GREW until it began to grow out of his Kingdom into the next!
WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN) Two Ships A-Sailing."
ON CHAIR-BACK AND CURTAINS !
We've gone all "nautical" in the Ilut, Wendy girls, and I wish you could see the jolly chair hack and curtains we've made un der Dressmaker's instructions. Tink says you" really "must make some like ours, so I hope you will. Here's howl
Ordinary fifteen - inch - wide Fresh will do beautifully for the chair-back, and you will need three-quarters of a yard. Turn narrow hems along the top and bottom edges; the sides,
in
Dressmaker tells you how to do these novel appliques of ships on chair-back and curtains.
When you
are
All day long Court Barbers were busy cutting it; but as fast as they cut, it grew again. Then the Royal Chainmakers were or- dered to attend the Court toeing selvedges, will not need make chains to chain the Gnome hemming. Now draw out a ship King to his throne, for the like the one shown in Diagram weight of his beard was dragging A, making it about three inches him away into the next Kingdom wide along the bottom, and four
inches high. too.
Well, one day, although the satisfled with the outline, trace Court Chainmakers had made the ship on to the crash, by plac stronger chains than ever, and ing a piece of red carbon paper screwed the Gnome King down underneath, the drawing, greasy to his throne as tightly as they side down, and going over all the could, the chains broke and outlines with a steel knitting- the Gnome King, and his beard needle. When you remove the disappeared into another world! paper, you'll see a beautifully Now the world he happened to clear picture on the material, all fall into was one in which there ready for you to embroider. had never been any snow. It was Trace the outline for the second quite nice, really, but the sun ship in the same way.
Continued at fool of next column.)
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 1932.
TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE,
Last week we drew beside the puzzle an object, a number, and a letter -- the object was a bell, the number was ten, and the latter. was T. Bell Tent! And the words bell tent were hidden in, the puzzle. Full solution:-
1. Used by sailors 6. Till
7. Watchful
Астова
10. First part of hidden name
11. Affirmative
(Compass). (Until).
(Alert). "
(Bell).
(Yes).
13. Boy's name. (abbreviated) 14. Second part of hidden name ..15. Neat and tidy
(Sam).
(Tent).
(Natty).
16. Danger
(Peril).
18. Liberate
(Release).
.Down..
1. Shell fish
(Crabs).
2. Opposite to plain in knitting
(Purl),
8. Insect...
(Ant),
4. Thoroughfare (abbreviated)
(St.).
5. Noiseless
(Silent).
(Leader).
(Elm).
(Yet).
(Style).
(Tale).
(NI).
(Re).
8. Commander
9. Tree
11. Stal
12. Fashion
14. Story)
15. Nothing'
.12 About
A nice easy one now? All right. Hero are three feet what measurement do they represent? Answer hidden in the puzzle as usuni.
Clues:-
19
9
10
-
G
14
What measurement due this suggest to you?
which the
Clues:---
Acrest.
1. Extinct bird. 4. Gone by.
7. Number.
8. Not down.
0. Flest part of hidden answer. 10. Sheep cry.
11. Prefix meaning "before."
Ringlet
12.
Uso fine crewel or tapestry wools for working. You'll need him not to get rid of it, just for three skeins: one of chestnut- the sake of the little sick child.
brown for the sails, one of black For a long time the Gnome for the masts and hulls, and one was silent, then he said with a of bright jade-green for the igh, “Very well — I kuppose I water on
ships' are must keep it then; after all, it's sailing. Outline the sails with my own fault for being so self-back-stitching as shown in Dia-
gram B, then fill them in with! Then, strangely enough, his long-and-short stitches card suddenly stopped growing. close together, as shown in Dia. 19. Grows old. A short time after, the True Testam C. The masts and hulls are Wizard came to him.
outlined with black stem-stitch-
ish."
Is
"Good morning," he said, "I'm the Give-you-a-wish-mun. there anything I can do for you! to-day ?".
The Ghonie King smiled eager ly.
"You can only have one wish,"
"All day long the Court Barbers were bieg cutting the Gnome King's beard." shone always; and so strong and "Oh. YES." he cried, "There golden was it that it made some is! First of all I wish to lose people very ill because they just my beard, and secondly: white to look at for a change. broke in the Wizard. longed for something cool and To one little girl, particularly, "Dear, dear! what a pity the sight of what she imagined sighed the Gnome. "Well, the to be snow was more than wel best thing I can wish for is that come, for had it not come at that snow may fall once a year in this moment she might have died. sunny land, and my beard must Of course, when all this queer, stay where it is." white stuff suddenly spread over the trees and house-tops, every The ornamental half-round one was delighted, and when they beading should be about three-discovered a tiny figure in the cightbe of an inch wide, cut to middle of it all they hailed him the required lengths, and fixed with delight. by glue and fine brads. Mitre the ends, as shown at F, so that neat joins are made. A fancy fret can also be glued and pinned (Continued at foot of preceding column.)
Then she dropped a strand of smiled her father. "Now let us liagram E, and, with a small her lovely hair into the water return and give bread to the holy and the fame fish swam eagerly | fish." round it. Lily believed that Lily walked home with her those fish were the habitations little head shaved of its black of good spirits, and she worship beauty, and all the people knew ped them. She thought the gods that she had been paying the sent spirits to earth, and that gods for a blessing they had sent these spirits hid in cats, hawks, her, lions, doves, grasshoppers, wolves, and a number of other to the centre panel, as shown in creatures who walked about do- ing the will of the gods.
the top diagram.
Give the rack two conts of var- Now some of the fish snapped nish stain, and allow it to dry, at Lily's hair, and, in her ex- before fixing the four hooks. citement, the girl lost her bai- ance, fell into the pond, and Finally, screw two eye-plates to struck her head on a rock which the back of the rack, as shown in had been placed at the bottom to the top diagram, by which to shelter the fish from the suit hang it on the wall,
Fortunately, the gardener who was tending the fig trees heard
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له منفی
"Oh, it's all very well for you wailed the Gnome King, "But I simply CAN'T go on like this — I MÚST GET RID OF MY
BEARD!"
GEE! I MUST CALLON ROSIE, BUT NOT TOO EARLY THIS EVENING- SHE
MIGHT WANT
·TO GO TO -DINNER AN' I'M BROKE-
•GEE: I WISH LHAD ANOTHER DIME THAT PIE LOOKS GOOD-
01932, King Feinturei:
Then all the people besought
Two tears rolled down his cheeks. They were queer tears, for they washed his beard away with them!
"That's all right," said the Wizard cheerily, "You put your own wish last. I knew you had become unselfish, and so I grant- ed them both."
The Gnome was pleased, the Wizard was pleased, and the people were delighted!
WILLIE DO ME A FAVOR~WILLYOU-? PHONE ROSIE AND TELL HER I WAS CALLED OUT ON IMPORTANT
GEE. I WISH ROSIE DIDN'T LIVE SO FAR OUTIN THE COUNTRY: IT SURE IS A LONG WALK”
BUSINESS AND WILL NOT SEE HER UNTIL
EIGHT-
taken
ing, and the hulls are filled in with satin-stitch afterwards.
-
The "sea" is made by wavy lines of stem-stitching you can easily draw them in with a pencil after the ships are worked
and two lines of stem-stitch- ing taken close together will form one ripple.
When you've finished ther chair-back, you're sure to want
13. French for "the" (feminine), 14. Second word of hidden answer. 15. Conclusion.
17, Ascend.
20. Numbor. 21. Notion.
1. Short for "doctor,"
2. Finished.
7. Same as across.
3. Protects.
6. Precious stone,
9. Pruit.
10. Hidden in the ground.
11. Flattened fold-as in a skirt.
12, Vehicle.
18. Wild beast's home. 18. Girl's naine.
to decorate other things in the to plain casement curtains as same way, and a good idea would shown in the sketch, be to embroider ships as a border
Wendy's Dressmaker.
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YES-MISS ROSIE-HÉS RUSHED WITH BUSINESS HELL BE AT-
·YOUR HOUSE AT EIGHT O'CLOCK-
ARCHIE DEAR-I'M SORRY YOU COULDN'T GET HERE EARLY- WE HAD A LOVELY DINNER AT HOME WE HAD CYSTERS: BISCUITS RO
SPINACH APPLE PIE TEAFICE
FINE- WILUJE
THATS TOO BAD-BUT-I- HAD
MUCH WORK