SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1932.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
HUT.
Little one,
SLEEP.
Cradle Song.
When will your sleep be won?
For above you the gloomy night Lica in wearisomo and shadowy
light,
Then, when your eyelids close in
sleep,
For above the stars do perp
TINK'S CROSS – WORD
8. Therefore
PUZZLE.
Solution to last week's puzzle:—
Across.
1. Cry
3. Boy's name (abbreviated)
6. And so on (abbreviated)
(Sob). (Bob), (Etc.).
(So).
(Air).
Angies keep watch over your bed, While I try to soothe your troubled
head.
10. A friend
(Ally).
12.
De Janeiro
(Rio).
13.
A bone
(Rib).
16. N. 18 across, is one
(Bone).
17. Gathers honey.
(Bee).
18. Part of verb "to be" 19. Also
(Am). -
(Too).
(Yet). (Ned).
While 'shepherds look after their
sheep.
9. Atmosphere
Long Ago Stories
Joanna Of The Rainbow
A KNITTED JERSEY FOR BABY BROTHER.
A Wendy girl would like to make a knitted woollen jersey for her two-year-old brother, and we hope everyone will be pleased with the one sketched here. Even if you've only just begun to knit you will be able to make this jersey, because it is very simple. It takes four ounces of four-ply wool, and you use number eight knitting needles.
The back and front are made in exactly the same way. For the front, cast on seventy stitches.. Knit one, purl one, and continue from till the end of the row. Re- peal until you have two inches of ribbing. then continue in plain Joanna was small and merry, goods coming on board for the knitting for the next eight inches. continue from to the with long straight golden hair Queen and the great ladies of the In the next row, knft one, purl
court. There were marvellous one, and
Repeat, till you. which she wore in the tightest of lamps with wicks.
There were end of the row, plaits, but she was lame and could also time-sticks-candles made of have two more inches of ribbing, little different coloured wax which burnt and whole front measures twelve only hobble about a
for so many hours, a colour for inches deep. Cast off, and crutches.
ench hour. And of course there the back in the same manner. Her father, was a sailor, who were quantities of lace, velvet, oll, sailed his ship, the Rainbow, be-wine, pins, plates, tween England and France in the things.
on
and other
Queen's service. King Henry 4th's) In those days the sea was dan- second wife was French, and she gerous. There were pirates. every required a number of things from where, the food was terrible, and the Rainbow was so small that
France, so the Rainbow was always she felt every rise and fall of the
at sea.
"Summer and winter, Joanna would lie there, laughing and talking with the sailors."
Now Joanna sailed in the Rain-! boy until she was sixteen. She
waves. Many people pitied Joanna, but she always smiled, and said she was making the bust of it.
work
There was always trouble about shipping duties, too, and the Rain. bow had the same trouble as other ships. The tax collectors came and looked at the goods, and there was always something wrong. Sometimes a bale of velvet was missing; then a dozen lamps or a cask of wine; and occasionally a case was opened and there was no thing at all in it; Joanna's father anid the French sailors were too clever for him, and had kept the. goods. Then, perhaps, the Rain-! Low would be searched--but no-
THE SLEEVES. thing was ever found. The tax collectors knew Joanna, and she
Cast on forty stitches, and work laughed and joked with them when in plain knitting for six inches, In they searched her father's ship. the next row, knit one, purl one, Then Joanna's father took her and continue from to the end of the
The finished jersey being worn by a small boy; pud diagrams to show you how the knitted parts are put together.
to London to see if she could be row. Work two inches of ribbing cured by a witch, and the awful like this, and cast off, Make the news came back that the witch had second sleeve in exactly the same given the girl dragon's eyes to eat way.
and she was dead. Her father Put the pieces of knitting on a was so distressed that he sold the blanket, lay a damp cloth on top.. Rainbow, and was never heard of and press them carefully with a again.
warm iron. Lay back and front
In a little shop in a narrow together, and jola them on the atarted by having a little cradle street there suddenly appeared a shoulders for one inch each side. en deck, but the cradle grew as merchant and his daughter. She Then stitch the sleeves in place Joanna grew, and by the time she was called Joanna, and she was along the shoulders, as explained in and had long straight the wee diagram. Finally join the was sixteen It was a good-sized golden hair, and a pair of good sides of the jersey and the sleeves. elm box nicely carved at the edge. strong legs. What a joy it was to Sew four buttons on the back of the Summer and winter, Joanna would her to run about and dance, after shoulder, two each side, as shown lying in a cradle for years and hid by A-B and C-D on the larger dia-
merry,
lie there, laughing and talking ing the goods which now filled that gram, and made buttonhole loops with the sailors. She was known nice little shop! Sometimes she on the front shoulders to corres- as Joanna of the Rainbow in a laughed to herself when she re- pond.
membered how the sailors had And that's all! Of course, the great number of French and Eng-carried her and her cradleful of ittle, jersey will do equally wall lish`ports,
Toll, and silk, and velvet to the
Qor
a small sister. She loved to see the beautiful ghore!
Wendy's Dressmaker,
YOUR SAFEGUARD
I EVANS Antheptia Throat Partiles. They koep colds as bay and ive relief in case of Courha Catarrh Broo chitis, etc.
EVANS Pastilles
Theres. Mada in kugland ho * Sweaters of the Lavapoo Turdas Minaplink..
Rosie's
BEAU GED. M-MANUS
I'LL BE BIG AND CALL ROSIE UP- SHE MUST BE WORRIED SICK OVER OUR QUARREL-
SHE PROBABLY HASN'T SLEPT A WINK-
OH! I JUST CANT WAKE THAT CHILD
UP NO
THE TINKITES' · TOYSHOP.
A Toy Sack Truck.
THICK
The toy sack truck, and diagrams to explain how it is made.
Go to sleep my little ono,
Oh, when shall your sleep be won!
Little one,
When shall your sleep be won? · Then the stars shali peep
Over the shepherds and their sheep, The weary night will pass quickly
away,
And the dark shadows will not stay. In the nursery mice do' creep, While everything human is fast
asleep.
The rooster is roosting in his pen, And so is the spotted brown hen, Sleep my little one,
Oh, when ahall your rest be won?
TAMARA JEx.
Age 12.
(Continued from previous column) For the wheel axle, cut, a piece of one-inch-square wood to the ength indicated in the bottom diagram, and cut out the two slots to a depth of a quarter of an inch. Those stota fit over the sides of the truck. A single one-and-a-half- Inch screw through the centre of each slot will be aufficient to hold the axle firmly in place.
To make the truck end, F, saw a piece of half-inch wood to the sizes given, and round off the two with your chisel. front corners
Most boys will find this toy truck quite easy to make. For the sides,Now obtain two small iron brac- kets, about half-inch wide, and A.A., you will require two pieces screw these to the board F, and
of wood, three-quarters of an inch also to the sides of the truck, as thick, one-and-a-half inches wide, shown in the first diagram, Be- fore doing this, plane the back and twenty-four inches long.
edge of the board to a slight angle, Plane each piece on sides and so that, when screwed in place, it adges, mark the positions of the is in line with the ends of the side slots B, B, B, and cut these out pieces. The brackets will have to with your small saw and chicol.be bent over alightly in order to Now, with a sharp. penknife and the board at the required angle. chisel, shape the handles, and
To complete the truck, obtain smooth them with glasspaper. Saw wooden wheels about three and a the bottom of each side, piace at half inches in diameter and screw alight angle, as shown at D.
.
The three cross bars, E, E, E, which are nine inches long, anould be cut from a strip of one-inch by half-inch wood. Screw them in the slots so that the ends come flush with the sides, as shown in the first diagram.
these to the ends of the axles. Before passing the screws through the wheela, slip on a large washer against the head of cach.
Give the Anished toy a coat of bright coloured paint, and paint the axle and wheels black.
The Hut Carpenter.
THE TINKER BELL
CLUB.
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Name Address
Age
Date of Birthday.
Cut this out, and send it, to Tinker Bell, c/o The Editor,
China Mail.
20. Still
21. Boy's name (abbreviated).
6. -Lad
.7. Vehicle
Down.
1.
Its capital is Bangkok
(Siam).
2. Capital of Germany
(Berlin).
4. Capital of Norway
(Oslo).
(Boy).
(Car).
11. Capital of Portugal
(Lisbon).
18. Famous Italian city 14. Wager
(Rome).
(Bet).
15. Sra that sounds lifeless 16.
of Biscuy
(Dead).
(Bay).
16
Clues for this week.
Across.
1. Kind of stick on which wool
was wound for spinning.
8. One of a native New Zealand
race.
10. Plans.
11. Part of verb "to be." 13. Possessed.
16. They catch. No. 0 down.
22. Weird.
23. Not far off.
24. Stinging insect.
5
120
Down.
Mischievous aprites.
3. Short for "Sally."
4. As well,
5. .Skill..
6. Caught by „No. 16, scross,
7. At the present time.
9. No. 16 across' sometimes” -080.
thia.
12.
Baba.
14,
Part uf verb to be."
15. Through.
16. No down has this.
17. No. 6 down is sometimes
caught
18. Pronoun.
here.
19. Fit up (a_ship).
20. "Grown-up boys.
21. Sometimes used to land No. 8
down.
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