SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1932.
THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
HUT
FRIENDS.
Long Ago Stories
William And The Order Of The Bath
re-
"I am not so sure of that," When William heard that Henry Į Bolingbroke was to be crowned plied William King of England in October 1399, But when he knew
what was he determined to go to London and required of him, he laughed, for he Bee, the fun. William was a poor loved adventure. Oxford student, a little thoughtless, It appeared that the King intend- order of and ready for everything, but he ed to introduce a new never even imagined that he could knighthood in honour of his corona- tion, and the young man with the battered head was one of the forty- six esquires chosen to receive the Order of the Bath. His injuries. would be difficult to explain to the King, because he had got them fighting in the streets against the new House of Lancaster, but he did not wish to miss an honour. So William was to impersonate him! during the ceremony. The King did not know the young man personally, but wished to secure his support.
"William..., wna knacked
down, bord, blindfolded, and carried away."
ever be anything else but a writer
THE BILLY BOYS, WORKSHOPS. WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS
How To Make A Box Stool.
This handy stool can be used for storing shoe brushes and polishing materials, as well as for a sent in the kitchen. One half of the top be part is hinged so that it can turned over on to the other part, and it has a rest on which a shoo can be placed while being cleaned.
To make the sides of the box, saw two pieces of half-inch wood, thirteen inches long. by five inches wide, and plane the faces und edges Aquare. The ends, which are eight inches long and five inches wide, should be prepared in the same: way..
A New Party Frock.
Here's t
now party frock For the legs, obtain a three-feet- for you. Dressmaker tells six-inch length of one-and-a-quarter exactly how it should be inch square wood, and saw off four
out out and made up. pieces ten inches long. Screw the Parties will soon be coming sides and onda of the box to the along, so I think we had better see legs, as shown in the top diagram, about making a pretty party-frock so that the tops of the legs come ready for your first invitation!
The one we have designed for you is quite charming and not at all difficult to make. You will need about three-mud-a-half yards of artificial silk material in some pretty pale shade-say pink, laven-1 der or blue. And you must buy some skeins of coloured embroidery silk for working the wee posies that. trim the skirt and cape-collar.
to bathe, but when his turn came sides.
he dared not enter the water.
about
"I am acting a lie!" he cried. long.
at the And, throwing himself
A useful kitchen stool, · which is also a box for shoc-cleaning.
Use countersunk one-and-a-quarter
**But Teddy's my best. friend all right?"
Oh! Isn't it lovely to have a Pal,
Your troubles and joys to share?!
TINK'S CROSS - WO
Did you find all the "fishy" things in last the solution. See how many words you got.
Across:
1. Kind of stick on which wool
was wound for spinning (Distaff)
8. One of a native New Zealand race (Maori).
10. Plans
(Plots).
11. Part of verb "to be"
(Wag);
13.
Possessed
(Had).
16.
They catch No. 6 down
(Fishermen)
22. Weird
(Eerie).
28. Not far off
(Near),
24. Stinging insect
(Gnat).
Down.
2. Mischievous sprites
(Imps).
3. Short for "Sally"
(Sal)...
4. As well
(Too).
5. Skill
(Art).
6. Caught by No. 16 across
(Fish)..
When you've told them to some-
one who'll care.
7.
At the present time
(Now).
9.
N. 16 across sometimes use this
(Rod).
And isn't it jolly, when nice times
12,
... Baba
(Ali).
come,
14. Part of verb "to be"
(Are);,
To know you've a trusty friend
who
15.
Through
(Per).
16. No. 6 down has this
(Fin).
Will thrill as you tell
17.
No. 6 down is sometimes caught
here
(Sea).
18. Pronoun
(Her).
19. Fit up (a ship).
(Rig).
20. Grown-up-hoys
(Men).
21 Sometimes used to land No. 6
down.
(Net).
The things that are and Don't seem half, so bad,
How things all went well,
And get just as excited as you!
Now I go to School, and I've heaps
of friends,
But my very best Pal of all, The dear friend who knows
All my joys, and my woes,
Is not a real person at all.
lle can't say a word, but he looks a
lot
With eyes that are true
bright;
His coat's a bit worn, And his cars are all torn,
and
But Teddy's my BEST FRIEND
all right!
WENDYS' LITTLE COOKS.
French Rice Pudding.
Wash three dessertspoonsful of
The bodice la perfectly plain, eut rice, and boil it gently in one pint like the upper part of Diagram A. of milk. Stir it from time to time, l It should fit fairly closely across to make sure it does not stick to thei your chest, and just reach to your pan.
Now add the meringue top: Beat
་
Now here's one specially for the Tinies but I ex- pect the older Tinkites will like to have a shot at it as
well.
100
12
J
14. 15
10
13
Across,
in Boots,
Clues:-
5. A meadow.
O' my Thub.
7.
Where the "old woman" lived.
8. Dick Whittington and his
10. Girl's name."
12. Conmass point
13. Tap.
14. Meaning "first class"
10. Royal lady who usually appears
waist. Cut a pattern in paper first, When the rice is soft remove the to bo sure of getting a good fit. saucepan from the fire, and stir in The skirt. is cut like the lower part two tablespoonsful of granulated
and this Blso sugar, of the Diagram,
teacupful Thoughtless William was delight-
of washed led. He dressed in the young man's
should be cut out in paper first. sultanas, one of glace cherries, a clothes, and watched all night with
Diagram C shows how to cut the piece of butter the size of an egg the forty-five others. He did not
cape collar, with deep scallops at little chopped candied peel, and „a back and front.
When the mixture has cooled a speak much for fear of giving him- self away, but thought it was all a
Sew up the side-seams of bodice little, stir in one well-beaten egg, fine joke. Next morning, they all
and akirt, gather, the upper edge of put the pudding into a dish, and stood before Henry 4th and were
the skirt and join it to the bodice, bake in the oven for about a quar told that they were to bathe them-
pinning the two, carefully before ter of an hour. you stitch them, so that you get
"What a nasty vain little thing," selves as a token of their loyalty
2 ∙am 1. and purity of mind. Then sudden-
the fullness nicely regulated all the white of an egg with a table-thought the spoon. "Here ly William began to shake with
round. Bind the little armholes spoonful of castor sugar till it be-pare and beautiful silver, lifting fear. He waited for all the others flush with the top edges of the with strips of material cut on the comes a stiff white "snow," put this cream and plum pudding for my liv cross, then bind the scuiloped edges on top of the pudding, and spreading, and never thinking about my screw's of books-which meant copying
a knife. of the skirt with similar crossway it evenly with
Return beauty. And there is the princess inches prayers and poems from old parch
Diagrams D and E show the pudding to the even to continue doing nothing but look at her re- stripe. ment to new parchment. Having
to make these vindings baking till the meringue is firm and flection. Oh, I'd like to teach her a Use half-inch thick wood for the yon how no money, he walked to London, and
Cut tie crossway strips has coloured slightly on top. lesson!" arrived there three days before the King's feet, he confessed the fraud. bottom of the box, aawing it to the neat.
For a few terrible moments the sizes given in diagram B. Mark about one-and-a-half inches wide,
The spoon had not long to wait! coronation, which was to take place King was silent, Then he told out the four
corners, and, with fold, sew them on the right side of THE PRINCESS AND THE SPOON One day the princess noticed how in the Tower.
bright it was, and, holding it up, William that if he had the courage your tenon saw, cut away the wood the scallops Diagram -- then While William was looking for
There was once a little princess she looked into the bowl of the Fix the bottom in fold over to the back of the scallops somebody who would lodge him in confess he must also have the not required.
It who was exceedingly vain. She al-spoon to see how much more lovely return for lessons in writing or courage to make a good knight such place with one-and-a-quarter-inch and stitch, down-Diagram E music, he was knocked down by two as he required, and commanded him nails driven in through the sides takes rather a long time, but the ways wanted to see her reflection, she had become since last she look- results are well worth it. Bind the and she looked into mirrors, and cd in the mirror. She had a terrible. men, bound, blindfolded, and care to go into the water.
So William's life was changed and The top of the stool is formed edges of the collar in the same way, ponds, and everything that ried away.. The poor student
to the neck of the bright, because she thought her "My face is upside down!" she each then sew this thoug his last day had come. But the poor Oxford student became one of two pieces of wood,
thirteen inches long by four-and-a-dress, taking care to get the right face was getting more lovely every screamed. "My face has gone up- twhen he was released in the room of the first Knights of the. Bath.
minute. Her mother, the queen, side down all of a sudden" of a young man who had a battered Continued from previous column.) on
half inches wide. Plane each piece edges of dress and collar together.
both sides,
She looked and looked into the Diagram B shows you a "close was most distressed about it, but carefully head and a broken log, he became
cut away the part at one end to square up the edges. Screw one up" of the little round posy that is the little princess became more vain bowl of the spoon. Sure enough, face more than once a day, and so more hopeful. The young man was
her face was upside down! She she grew out of her vanity, N lying on a rich velvet couch, and he form a step half an inch deep for piece in place, and, after screwing embroidered in each scallop. The every day.
so pleased Now about this time somebody was so upset that she could not stop But the spoon was the heel of a shoe to rest against. on the two hinges, lay the other stitches are quite clearly shown, and "A poor student," he scoffed. "Is Screw this block in place, so that it piece on the fixed part and screw they're our old friends-lazy-daisy, invented silver spoons, and the first crying till somebody brought her a with the trick it had played on the silver spoon was sent to this little mirror and she saw that her face princess that it has kept it up ever: that the best you could do for me?" is out of sight when the hinged this also to the hinges, as shown in satin-stitch, and stem-stitch.
A ribbon-sash, to tie round your princess. Every day It found its was all right.
since. Just look at yourself in the "He is the same build and height half of the stool top is shut.
For the shoe rest, saw and plane waist with the bow in front, com- way to her mouth, and heard what
That spoon has played me a bowl of a spoon, and you'll have the. she said.
horrible trick," the sobbed.
same shock as the little princess up a piece of one-inch wood to the pletes the dress.
Wendy's Dressmaker.
After that, she never looked at her I had! Then sizes given in diagram A.
appeared extremely annoyed.
Give the finished stool two coats
as you," smiled one of the men,) "and he resembles you in face. of dark oak varnish stain.
Time is very short-be must watch' to-night. Students will do anything... for money."
The Hut Carpenter.
und ends.
the top diagram."
and
MR-ARCHIE.
PHONED TWICE TO-DAY-
"EVANS" Antiaptie Taroni PASTILLES "acta' good" for you
Throat Doctors all over the world recom
mend them, knowing
· the afficiant way, in
which; they releva
coils, couglia, catarth.. inflamed - and esplic.
pa
- throats,
pool Throes Hosptiske legen
Rosie's BEAU GED. M-MAMUS
› NOW LETS SEE- WHERE AMT TO
DELIVER THEM?
ONLY TWICE? ) THINK HÉ 15 HORRID- WHEN HE PHONES AGAIN-TELL HIM I'M STILL OUT-
was shock!
(Continued at foot of next Column.) |
DID YOU
CALL- BOSS?
L
in Fairy Tales.
in Wonderland.
17. You Down.
· 1.
What the covering for the ple pic was made of,
3. What Little Bo-Peep lost.
4.
Jack
could eat no fat
9. Wrathful.
11. Perhaps Cinderella danced this
dance, with the Prince." 14. Some. 15. Frozen water.
1.DID-TAKE THESE FLOWERS TO THIS ADDRESS JUST LEAVE THEM - THERE IS
NO ANSWER-
FOR MISS DINA MITE GEE, SHE LIVES IN TH APARTMENT
AS ROSIE
GEEL) HOPE ROSIE SEES ME-SHELL THINK I'M CALLING ON THIS GIRL THAT „MAKE HER JEALOUS
EVANS Pastilles