THE
CHINA MAIL.
POLISHING THE MOON.
TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1932.
The WENDY
HUT.
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Long
Ago Stories
The Ordeal Of Alfred
When Alfred was live years old, the Norman and were always plot the Norman lord took him into hisiting to kill him. The easiest way castle as his page. Alfred's Saxon was to put poison in his wine!
father did not like his son being brought up as a Norman, but the Lord had taken a fancy to Alfred, 20 there was nothing to say..
THE TINKITES' TOYSHOP,
How To Make A Flying Toy.
Here is an interesting toy which is very easy to make. The chief parts are shaped strip of fairly atout tin, an empty cotten reel, and ah ordinary bradawi.
Obtain a strip of tin six inches,
WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN.
A Runner For Your Dressing
Table....
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Tink has made a lovely runner for Wendy's dressing-table, and we Think you would like to make one
"With mope and pails end
brushes across "the sky!".
[Oh, doesn't the Moon look lovely
and bright,
Hanging up there in the sky, all
night?
VERY
Solution to last week's puzzle:-
16. Pronoun
Across
ほっ
1. Boy's name
(Robert).
6. Distant
(Far)
7. A scene
(View)
9. Number
(One).
10. Girl's name
(Edna).
11. Part of verb "to be"
(Are).
12. Some
(Any).
18. What you sing
"(Song),
(She).
17. You should sing 18 in this
(Tune)..
18 Help
(Aid),
19. Tell
(Relate)
Down...
1. Went quickly
(Ran).
2. Metallic substance
(Ore).
3. Each
(Every).
4. Go on horseback
5. Number
(Ride) (Ten).
6. Large wood
(Forest)
moon-nights!
8.. Needed
(Wanted).
11. Ministering spirit
(Angel).
12. Girl's name
(Anne).
14. Belonging to us
(Our).
15. Rested:
If you're lucky, you'll geo. them, fty,
(Sat).
16. "Hurry
(Hie).
:
Someone, I'm sure, has a
hard time, Keeping it polished, and making.it
shinet
long and about two inches wide-co-either for yourself, or as it isn't so bad when it's nice and part of an old eocon tin-will answer present for a friend."
new
the purpose. Mark out the shape You will need about three-quar-There's only a very small bit to do. to the dimensions given in diagram ters of a yard of natural crash, One or two good little hard-working A, then cut out the propeller-shap-fifteen" inches wide, and you can
Sprites
ed piece with an old pair of acis use up ally our odd lengths of co-Cas do the job, quickly on new-
Sory.
."
In the centre of the metal strip make a hole obe-eight of an inch in diameter, and on each side of this make another hole
a little smaller. The two smaller holes Now, each time a Lord's cup was should be three-quarters of an filled, it was necessary for some-inch apart. With a pair of pincers.. body to drink from it first in orderbend each tip B.B. on the dotted to make sure that it contained notines, so that they slope downwards. poison. But Alfred was young, and at an angle, as indicated in the first] the wine soon went to his head and agram, and then round off the sent him reeling about the hall, orners with a file. and so the Lord often drank with- out having his wine tasted.
At first Alfred waited upon the Lady Maud, his master's wife. She beat him with her little whip when
Now take the cotton real and, on
his hands were too dirty to untän- gle her embroidery wool, and she he grasped the edge of the table, so that the needles coincide with Then came the terrible day when sach side of the central hole, ham- mer in a used gramophone needle threw him into the moat one day cried out, and fell back uncon- "the two small holes in the tin strip.
scious.
Amid ecenes of confusion, Al. The ends of the driving pegs thus fred was flung into the dungeon and formed should project a quarter of left for three days with only dirty an inch from the end of the reel. water to drink. Being the only Saxon in the household, the boy was accused of having been bribed to put poison in the wine. Fortun- ately for him, his master recovered, and ordered his page to be brought before him to be judged. * Looking j pale and ill, the Lord sat in the hall i and told the kneeling lad that His punishment was death.
"Lady Maud beat Alfred with a little whip when his hands were dirty."
"I did not do it!" cried Alfred. "I would give my life for my lord, but not as a punishment! Try me by the Ordeals of my fathers, and when I am proved innocent 1" will rush into battle and be killed for my lord's sake."
Because the nobleman loved AN fred, he commanded him to under- go the Ordeal of the Cross. The boy was blindfolded and two pieces of wood were held out to him; one, was marked with
the & cross,
Fi
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BEND HERE
That dressing-tobic ruaner Tink made for Wendy You can make one like it if you read Dressmaker's "instructions.
Lured wool for the trimming.
But when it is full, and looks big
and round,
It takes heaps of goblins, or so I've
found; and on
With mops, pails" and brushes,
across the sky;
OUR SWEET MAKING. CORNER NOUGAT.
can
Here is nice sweet you make for a party, or for the sweet- stall of your sale of work. If you make it for the sale of work, you must, of course, increase the quan tities of ingredients, but be careful to keep to the same proportions.
Blanch a quarter-pound sweet al- monds by putting them into hot water for a minute or two, then removing their skins. Cut the nuts Ifintq very thin slices, and beat
you haven't any wool, get penny them thoroughly into half a pound
skeins of different colours, and of black as well;
one of icing sugar. Beat the whites of
And here's a nice easy one that the Tinies can do. Clues:-
14
16
18
24]
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two eggs, mix this froth into the Turn in narrow hems along cash flavouring of vanilla essence and ruf size of the crash; you can almonds" and sugar, adding also a Jove thin selvedges as they are. thout two ounces of plain chocolato ww mark the centre of each hem, melted in a cup atanding in a pas ressure seven inches along each fot bolling water). Blend all these givedge, and rule lipes from the Jienta thoroughly with entre mark to these seven-inch wooden spoon until you-have a marks, so that there will be two stiff paste. Cover the bottom of a triangles on each edge of the run-tin with rice-paper, "and turn the her. The diagram explains exactly mixture on to it, to the depth of
at I mean.
Lalout one inch. Dip a knife into, Take
a'penny and ha'penny, boiling water and press down and lag these in the triangles, and smooth, the top of the sweet, then penell round them, moving the cover it with another sheet of rice coins about, and pencilling round, paper. Leave in a warm place to dry slowly. When set, cut the nou- until the triangles are filled in.
Now you are ready to work the gat into small bars. If for sale, flowers, using the different circles Rp each bar in grease-proof To work the toy, place the reels guides. Diagrams A and B paper.
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A flying toy-for use, out of doors-which Carpenter tells you how to make.
when she saw him wiping his other was not. Alfred prayed that 'mouth on his blue silk tunic. So he might stretch out his hand and Alfred learnt to wash in the horse-touch the cross, which would prove trough directly after meals which him innocent. If he touced the he ate with bis fingers, assisted by other plece of wood, it was a sign on a bradawl, take a yard of One show the two ways of doing the
a hunting knife. And when he was
fen, the Lady handed him over to her Lord, who taught him to ride and: hunt.
J
that he was guilty, and could save him.
nothing string and wind about eight turns embroidery-the first with stroke- round the reel. Slip on the tin stitches, the second with lazy-daisy
COME TO CHICAGO,
Across
3
3. Fruit with a stone in it.
7. Sweet-smelling flower.
D. A monkey.
10,
Rather sour fruit,
11. Meaning "afternoon". \
12. Conclusion.
13. Took food.
15. Because..
16. A lawn is covered with it.
to
18. Poetic way of saying "ever", 19. Where the boes live. 21. School table.
க
"Noan's
5
Down
2 Part of verh 'to be'.
4 Makes, lame.
5. Ou.
6. Repair.
B. A tree.
11. Favourite fruit:
13. Old
14. 8 down is one.
15. Another tree.
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17. A sweet flower or a green vege-
table. Within.
Alfred touched the cross! And, strip, bent corners downwards, let-stitches. Gives some of the now- Although many strange things in his, joy, his master kissed him ting the bradawl and pega passers orange satin-stitch centres, and have been said about Chicago, the Now Alfred had a quick mind, he and called him his dear son.
through the holes, as shown in the some pale yellow Single green city still remains a very wonder- was strong and brave, and so, by
first diagram.
Hold the bradawi lazy daisy stitches here and there ful place indeed, well worth study (Continued from previous column), trucks and shops within that small
A number of railway stations, area of one and a half square miles.. the time he was fourteen, he was use and should not be tried inside in the left hand, slightly above your will suggest leaves When you've ing among the great cities of the the Norman Lord's favourite com-the house.
head, and pull the atring sharply single-stitches" in black wool all
finished all the flowers, work little world.
all the great wholesale and retall It is like peeping into an ant's nest panion. He used to treasure up The angle for bending the cor- The propeller strip will then soar
Situated in the State of Illinois, į business houses, the leading hotels to peer down into the streets from all the funny stories he heard, and fers of the tin strip may easily be into the air to a height of from over the background, Alling in the it is nearly a thousand miles from and public buildings are, however, the top of a skyscraper hotel. tell them to his master as he stood experiment. The more acute the twelve to twenty feet, and come to paces between, as shown in dia- New York and is the greatest rall crowded within an area of about There are over 600 buildings of 15 behind his chair at dinner to ser angle, the higher the flight.
earth again, some distance' away,
gram C.
way centre in America. With its 1% square miles. Enterprising and more storeys in height, and on that his silver tankard' was never The bottom diagram shows a pro-jin quite a graceful manner. This
Press the embroidery carefully, suburbs, Chicago stretches along builders have tried" recently to the South Side are the Union Stock- empty. The Lady Maud also was peller strip of a different shape toy, of course, is meant for outdoor and the runner is ready to grace the shores of Lake Michigan about spread out the city more, and so yards, established in 1865, which your own or a friend's dressing-40 miles, and three lakes-Calu-save congestion in the busiest parts are by far the largest in the world. met, Hyde and part of Wolfe. He You can have no idea of the nam- Here half a million animals are Wendy's Dressmaker actually within the city limits. ber of people, motor-care, lorries, sometimes Housed a
fond of Alfred, and he had jewels which also gives a very good, Aight.
and fine clothes to wear.
Many people envied Alfred, and" whispered that the Lord would... give him an estate when he was twenty-one if he fought well in bat- tle. But many other people hated
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Continued at foot of Preceding table.
Column).
WELL I HAD TO
HOCK MY WATCH TO BUY TICKETS TO THE TRACK MEET TO-DAY- BUT ROSIE MUST NOT FIND IT OUT-
I MUST CALL UP
ARCHIE TO SEE
WHAT TIME HEJBY
19 GOING TO):
WHY ROSIE DARLING-
ITS ABOUT ONE
LOCK MY WATCH S IN MY
VERY WELL DARLING -
BUT DONT FORGET
TO BRING YOUR
WRUS
HUH?
WHO CAN
THAT BE
ON THE
PHONE?
holi
King Feinira.