SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1932.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
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MR. AND MRS. MOUSE.
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CROSSWORD PUZZLE.
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Long Ago Stories
Alice Spitfire
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP. WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS
A Footstool Any Boy Can Make.
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A "Patchwork" Playtime Frock.
A playtime frock, like the one Any Billy Boy can
coat very little make this sketched, will handy little ́stool, from odd pieces money, as the bodice is made from of packing-case wood, about five-about half a yard of plain cotton eighths of an inch thick.
material, and the skirt and little For the uprights, you will re-puff sleeves are made of patterned quire two pieces measuring nine cotton "patches." Small sister Inches by seven Inches, as shown will be delighted with the frock if in diagram A. Smooth both sides of each piece with your plane, and then, with pencil and ruler, mark the shape of the cut-away part B, and the alota C.C. The depth of these slots should equal the thick- ness of the side bars, D.D. With was your tenon gaw, cut out the slots have and the part B, and finish the rough edges with a chisel. Make Alice thought this was a splen-sure that both parts A are exactly were in the service of a lord. Alice did idea. She told all the girls the same size. made candles, and her brother. Gil-and young men about salary, and The next parts to prepare are bert cleaned up the grease dropped they decided to ask the lord for the side bars D.D. which you will on the floor and brought it back to it. Instead of going quietly, Alice notice are twelve inches long and the big room where the candle worked herself up into a temper, and, leading the other young ser vants, she flounced into the court yard and demanded money,
Alice was a hot tempered girl, who seldom thought before she acted. She and all her family
girls worked.
salt ration, and this money You must called salary, salary."
"The salt!" she cried. "We will have the salt, instead of our food, and clothes, and house-room, and alo!"
Now the lord's servantu had plenty of good food, were carefully tended by the lady when they were ill, and were paid amall sums of money. Everything went well till a foreign barber crept into the household. And he made the ser-only a little gold, which he kept
vants discontented, and told Alice she ought to ask for salary.
"What may that be?" demanded Alice.
"Alice Spitfire stood in the market place with her. Angers pinched in the pillory."
"The salt," replied the barber.
The lord laughed. Although he was rich in goods and land, he had
in a barrel in his cellar in case war broke out and he would be obliged to arm and feed soldiers for the protection of his country.! He told Alice she was .a foolish maid, Then she screamed and kicked, so the lord called to hig steward and told him to put her in the finger pillory till her temper was tamed.
Alice stood in the market place with her Angers pinched. In the pillory, and all the people jeered at her, and asked her how she liked: her salary. The girls poured cold water over her, and the boys: tickled her nose with feathers, and she was so miserable then that- never again did she ask for salary. But from that day she went by the name of Allee Spitfire.
OUR SWEET MAKING CORNER,
How To Make Marzipan.
Put half a pound of loaf sugar and half a gill of water into a sauce- pan. Set over gentle heat so that the sugar melts slowly, then boil the syrup for ten minutes. Stir in half a pound of ground sweet al monda mixing them thoroughly in
Plane each piece of wood on both sides and bradawl, edges. Then, with carefully make two screw holes in each end, a quarter of an inch from the edges, as shown in the bottom diagram. Fix the side bars to the uprights, as shown in the top diagram, with one and a
three inches wide,
A very easily-made foot- #tual. Carpenter · expidius. how it is constructed.
quarter inch screws, so that the ends of the sides come flush with the uprights.
The "patchwork" playtime frack. Dressmaker tells you how to make it and it will be great fun to do!
love!" said BET. Mouse, "We'll stay! And
now I'll have my tea."
Said Mrs. Mouse to Mister Mouse: "I alinost: think, my dear, It's time we took a larger house This one's too small, I fear! We really haven't room to breathe,
You must admit it's s0.... Our eighteen children seem to need
A deal of space, you know!"
Said Mister Mouse to Mrs. Motise: "My love, I'm sure you're right! And as I don't believe in fuss,
We'll move this very night!
I bear there are some nice new flats Beside the Big Oak Tree,
So while you pack the furniture,
I'll go along to see.”
Said Mrs. Mouse to Mister Mouse: "Perhaps..well..wait a bit..
In these hard times, now don't you
think
We'd be unwise to fit? The children would lose all their.
friends,
I'd miss my neighbours three,"
"My love," said Mister Mouse,
"We'll stay!
And now I'll have my tea!"
SEVEN LONELY CARIBOUS.
The caribou is a species of American reindeer, which until a you give it to her as a Christmas short time ago, was thought to be present. And you'll have the extinct. But rumours came from greatest fun meantime collecting the region of the Upper Red your patches!
As you see by the diagram, the Lake in Minnesota, that a magnifi- bodice is cut from a plece of cent caribou had been seen in the material a few inches wider than the wilderness of bog and marsh land. width across sister's shoulders and
For a while, famous, hunters re- twice her depth from shoulders to fused to consider these rumours. waist. Fold widthways and even as we might refuse to bellevé lengthways, and cut out a little that a giant lived in a castle near square for the neckline, and small Birmingham Finally, however, curves for the arm-holes, as shown two biologists set forth to proye in the picture. Open out, sew up that the last caribou was indeed the aide aerma, and bind the neck dead and gone, and that the old opening with biss-binding to match trapper who had spread.. tho the material.
| rumour was wrong! :, - ** Stitch the patches for the skirt
For days they tracked, and then, together, making a strip for the in the stillness of a misty morning, back and one for the front-both they beheld a solitary caribouf long enough to reach from waist Tremendously excited; they wait- to knees and wide enough to make ed for hours, shivering with cold the skirt stand out quaintly. Join and nervous tension, and at last the strips down the aides just like they saw six more of the animals. an ordinary skirt. Gather along Seven lonely caribous, the last the top edge, pull up to fit the end of a noble band, living a frugal of the bodice, and stitch the two life in the wilds, and dodging their together. Then bind the hem of natural enemy the wolf every hour the skirt with cotton bias-binding of the day and nightl like that on the bodice.
After photographs were taken, the biologists returned to New York, and now they are trying to induce the Government to take steps to protect the seven lonely reindeer,
The wee puff sleeves are strips Diagram. E gives the dimensions of patchwork about fifteen inches for the top of the stool which wide and six Inches long. Join the overlaps the sides and uprights short edges of each, gather up the
If you cannot tops to fit the armholes and saw let us hope they will succeed. for half an inch. obtain
a piece of wood eight them in neatly. Make narrow and that the Caribou Family, will
The salt!" scoffed Alice. "Into the syrup, and continue to boil inches wide, use two pieces four casings along the lower adges and survive. deed I eat salt at my lord's table, for a further five minutes. Remove inches wide. After planing the thread these with elastic to make expensive though it be! We elt the pan from the stove, allow wood all over, slightly round off the "puits."
Wendy's Dressmaker. below the salt ceffar, because we the contents to get cool, then all the edges with a small plane.
Fix the top in place with French mix in the unbeaten white of
are humble folk, but my lord gives one egg. Return to the stove, and nails about one and a half inches salt to us as he gives it to you." cook until the mixture becomes long. When doing this, see that an of varnish stain. A good covering "Aye, but the salt can be money," thick and leaves the sides of the equal amount overlaps all round. for the sent is a piece of plain Give the stool a good rubbing linoleum Axed with small tacka. explained the barber. "I have pan clear, stirring all the time. learning. I know that the ancient Turn on to a buttered slab, knead with glasspaper, especially round or of course you can pad the Romans served their soldiers with until perfectly smooth, and make the edges of the top, and it will be top and cover it with fancy rations of salt and bread and the marzipan lato a block or cut ready for painting, or for a coat material if you like
Continued, at foot of previous Col.) necessary things, but later on they it into aquares. gave them money: Instead of the
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24
25
27
Across.
You play this game with a stick
and a ball
Two
9. Paying out (money, etc.)
12. Father's boy!
(Hockey). (Pair). (Spending). (Son).
13. Men play billiards with this [(Cue); 14. British Dominion (abbreviated) (S.A.). 16. You see this on a football field (Goal-Post),
2. Not closed
4. Young goat
20. Coloured....
(Dyed).
21. Plenty of this on a football field:
on a wet day 1;
(Mud).
22. What you do with a spade
(Dig).
Down,
(Open).⠀
3. A tin
(Can).
(Kid).
5. Boy's name
(Eric).
6. Animal
(A88).
8. How old you are
(Age).
10.
Game played on horseback (Polo).
11. You crack them to get the.
kernels
(Nuts).
14. Cunning
(Sly).
15. Monkey
(Ape).
(Gem),
(Add).
18. Queer, 19. Pull
(Odd).
(Tug).
Clues for this week :
Летони
16. Jewel
17. Join on
1. A day of the week, 6. Serpent. 8, Wound.
11, 365 of No. 4 down. 14. Boy's name (abbreviated). 10. Where Noah lived. 17. Baby's cloak,
21. Opposite of No. 4 23. Pronoun.
25. Number.
20. Indefinite article: 27. Mid-day,
28. Where No. 20 down sets.
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2) Flow back (tide).
3:4Therefore.
4. Twenty-four hours.
5 Animal,
7. Same aa 10 across.
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9. You turn it to get water,
10. End of a prayer.
12. Where: No. 20. dawn' rises
13, Part of verb to
15. Symbol.
18. Wild an
Wild animal.
be.'
· 19 Another way of spelling "show,"
20. The earth resolves around. it:
Insect.
24. Same as No. 3 Down
26. Because.
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