14.
GIRLS OF LONG AGO.
LAVINIA.
THE
CHINA
MAIL.
WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.
The WENDY
HUT
Lavinia lived in the year 1710,1 Lavinia was fourteen, and she when Queen Anne was
on the could read, write and play the throne, and this is just one day in harp; also she was learning to her Efe.
make the most delicious cordials. At nine o'clock she went and She rose at seven in the morn-
her curtsy to her ing, washed her face and kands made In a very small basin of cold mother who was drinking a cup a long of chocolate in bed, and while water, and then put on blue silk gown over a very thick that lady was hoping that her daughter would be a good girl during the day the maid announc- ed that. Mr. Pippett, Lavinia's tutor, was in the study.
"Lavinia... wore a blue silk hown over a very thick petti- coat of quilted canvas which made the skirt stand out."
Lavinia curtsied to Mr. Pippett nd hoped he was well. Then lessons began. Her tutor made her read out of a book, he gave her a music lesson, and he ever instructed her to add up some household accounts.
Lavinia had dinner with her father and mother, but of course she did not speak till she was spoker to. In the afternoon, she went into the garden with her mother, and gathered white. roses. They plucked the petals. placed them in a great bowl of water, on top of which floated a little square of toast with some yeast on it, and left the liquid.to ferment.
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
Making A Garden Seat.
A strong gurilen sent, like the one shown in the diagrams, can be made very cheaply, from in. by 2 in. quartering: pieces of 2 in. by 1 in, wood: and some lengths of 2. in. by 1 in.. wood for the seat slats. A few Inths of 1 in. by 4 in. wood will also be required for the back of the seat.
CHAIN.
A Dainty "Tea-Table Set."
SATURDAY, JUNE 28, 1930.
TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
The letter beside lagt week's puzzle was D, the "face" needs no
A Tinkite wants to make a ten explanation--and the word represented was “Deface," which was
also hidden in the puzzle Full solution:--
loth and half a dozen table nap- kins as a wedding-present for her! big sister, so I hope she will like the set we re describing to you this week. It is just like the new set w: have made for the Wendy ¡Hut!
A deeper
Choose linen in some pretty pale shade, like lavender, yellow, rose. green, or blue, and eut a THE DRACON AND THE DAISY piece about one yard square for the cloth. Turn in a small hem all the way round, sew it neatly. and then rule a line 11% inches in from the edge on each side of the The land was inhabited by n terrible dragon! So strong was cloth. Sew two lines of running he that no one could kill him, and stitches along this line, using ne dit great damage. When he coloured embroidery cotton, and felt so inclined, he came down making the stitches about a quar. from the mountains into theter of an inch long. streets and made off with every-shade of the cloth's colour will be thing he wanted in spite of all pretty for this stitching-say who tried to prevent him.
coral on pale rose, buttercup on At last the king had an idea, primrose, or purple on lavender. Auke one of the side supports
"If someone will forge a tre-
Now draw a little bowl of flow- for the seat first. Saw off one
like the one shown in piece of the 2 in. by 2 in quarter-mendous chain," he said, "this ing, 2 ft. 6 ins. long; also three can be flung over the dragon's ers, pieces each 1 ft 3 ins. long head while he is in the streets Diagram A, in each corner of the Take the long piece, which is the and then he can be kept chained cloth, marking round a six-pence The person who to get the size of the flowers. Cut back leg, art, with your pencil up for ever. and try-square, mark out the posi- captures the dragon shall be heir the bowl out of contrasting colour. tions of the four halved joints.to my kingdom." Euch slot, which is 2 ins. wide by 1 in deep, is made by sawing down the lines to the required depth, and then removing the wood between with a chisel,
Carpenter tell you how to construct this useful garden scat: you cannot go wrong if you study the diagrams care- Jully.
At once all the young men be.ed material, tack it into place, and ran to make chains--- huge, sew it on with backstitching thick, strong chains of iron and steel that it seemed impossible to break. Alas! when they were thrown over the dragon's head, he snapped them as if they had been strands of silk.
"Can nothing be done to dea troy this monster?" cried thei king.
Then his daughter, the lovely princess, went into the field, made a daisy chain, and waited for the dragon to appear.
Suddenly he rushed down the street, breathing fire. Quietly and fearlessly, the princess went up to him and asked him if he would be her friend and live at peace with them all.
"It depends on how you treat me," roared the dragon.
A pretty tea-table set will make a splendid wedding-pre- sent for big sister. Dress* maker tells you how to fashion it from coloured linen.
"Look what I have brought to Work the flowers in buttonhole capture you," smiled the princess, stitch. using two or three differ and, throwing the daisy chain ent colours, and adding yellow Use green over his head, she led him to the satin stitch centres. castle
lazy-daisy stitches for the leaves, stem-stitches for the stems. At the gates he pulled a little
buttonhole three or four close at the daisy-chain, and, looking stitches for the huds, and greer round the princess was astonish-satin-stitches for the calyces. ed to behold a handsome young
man.
'As this was Lavinia's firat at- tempt at making the white rose jcordial her father loved. she could not sleep that night for excite- ment. So, in the dark, she ate
Make the table-napkins about some carraway seed comfits, al-
15 inches square, hem the edges though these were intended to be
"Princess," he said, "I was and add a row of running stitches taken in Church on Sunday to pre-
doomed to be a drugon till some all round each as a border. Work vent her from coughing during
The front leg. A, is halved at body showed me kindness instead a design like Diagram B. consist the sermon-which lasted an the top for a distance of 2 ins. of hate, and only you have done ing of one flower and two buds,
and slotted at the bottom, 11⁄2 | it. You have saved me?"
with leaves and stems, in one At last she fell asleep and ins. from the end. The two cross
You can imagine the amaze-corner of each, and the set is tight little bodice was nipped well dreamed that good Queen Anne pieces. B, are both halved at the ment of the princess and you finished. in at the waist and finished round had given her a lovely
can guess the end of this story!
petticent of quilted canvas which made the skirt stand out. The hour.
the neck with a lace frill.
HULLO! LIGHT CALLING I
toothrick!
silver ends as shown, and the four parts of the side support are then nail- ed together, as shown in the second diagram. Make the other side support in the same way, but be careful in marking out the two uprights to see that the slots for the cross pieces come on the inside.
Then man made rush lights, and candles, and olive-oil lamps, and paraffin lamps: then he saw natural gas springing up from
THE WIZARD.
Te lives in a Tower C Right up in the sky,
It is halv-
The top back rúil Ian Light! I do not think you can describe ll.ht, except by say-cracks in the ground, and he cap is a piece of 2 in. by 2 in. ing it is the opposite of darkness. tured this in tubes, and wondered wood. 3 feet long. Man has always wanted the op-if he could make some like it. Of ed at each end and nailed posite of darkness so much that course he made it after a time, to the tops of the back legs. The he has worked and worked till now and some people thought he was bottom back rail D, is of 2 in.. by going to blow up the world with 11⁄2 in. wood, and the two cross- he can produce it at will!
Kas! But he only lighted streets stays E.E. are of 2 in, by 1 in Now I must go back a long way and houses with it.
wood, each 3 ft. long; these are to tell you about the first light
However, this wonderful light nailed inside the back and front
Where no one can bother,
He's busy all day
Wendy's Dressmaker.
SKIPJACKS.
1. Making merry.
8. Preposition
10. Pronoun
11. As far as
12. At once
14. Scatter seed
15. Hidden word
(Laughing). (Pain).
Across.
7. Bodily or mental suffering
(At).
(Ye).
(To)
(Now),
((Sow).
(Deface),
19. Mountain in Sicily 21. Boy
(Etna).
(Lad).
22. A. colour
(Red).
23. Secure
(Safe).
Down.
(Lean).
2. To a higher position
(Up).
3. Merry
(Gay).
4. Hasten
(Hie).
5. Within
(ln).
6. Develop
(Grow).
9. As well
(Too).
(Toe).
13. Not wanted in the garden 14. Frighten
(Weeds).
(Scare).
16. Twelve inches (abbreviated)
17. One....
(Ft.).
(An).
1. Not fat
11. Part of the foot
(Odd).
18. Large animal of the deer family (Elk). 20. Queer.
An ordinary English word is represented by this week's drawing and this word is hidden in the puzzle. See if you can find it.
Clues:-
1. Scorns. 7. Because.
Across.
8. Preposition.
D. Exclamation.
10. Insects,
12. Not present.
14. Gone by,
16,
15. Devour
17. Ocean.
16. Before.
What English word doct
This picture represents ?
19. Neise the lion makes. 20. Unhappy.
21. Rect.
OUR
SWEET-MAKING CORNER.
Coconut Creams.
1. Jack...
Down..
2. Part of verb "to be."
3. Puis on.
4. Prefix meaning "before."
6. Negative.
'G. Bushful.
10. Hidden word.
11. Scuffs.
12: A generation.
13. A thick, dark, olly liquid. 11. Requests.
16. Used when camping-out.
WENDY'S LETTER CORNER.
In hot tropical countries, where! there is plenty of sugarcane to And no one may spy!
supply it with food, there lives a
| My Dear Tinkites, wonderful beetle. It is called a
Our numbers are increasing, and With potions and pills, skipjack, and has obtained this
Put one pound of granulated every mail that reaches the Hut For he is the Wizard
name from a marvellous acrobatic sugar into a saucepan with one always brings a bunch of letters for Who cures Fairy ills,
feat which, under certain con-teacupful of milk; put the pan on me.
the stove and stir the contents Quite a number have entered for If a gossamer wing
ditiona, it is able to perform.
The gently. When the sugar has dis- the painting competition. fs torn during flight,
Everyone, at some time or
solved, boil the mixture for about results will appear on this page that was not the natural light of did not satisfy man. and he uprights as shown in the second The Wizard's good plaster
other. has seen one of our own five minutes; then draw the soon. day. I think it must have been tried to make one which was not diagram.
Will soon put it right.
beetles that has got turned on his saucepan to the side of the stove, Now get as many of your little grass set ablaze by the heat of
For years he worked, so hot.
For the seat, cut five 3 ft. With magical charms, the sun! The flames went leap trying to put electricity into a lengths of 2 in. by 1 in. wood and
And many a spell,
back. There it lies, on the road and sift in enough desiccated coco-friends to join the Tinker Bell a thick, creamy Club. Tell them to fill in the form ing over the ground, turning night glass
or pavement, making frantic nut to make cage and make it run nail the ends to the side supports There's nothing he can't do
on this page and send it to me. into day, and, although man was
through a wire at his command. as shown in the first diagram, so ferrified of this light, he made up And, you know, he's done it that the slats are equal dis- his mind to capture it and tume Those mysterious twins, Light tances apart. One of the slats, F; it...
and, Fire, are the most precious should be nailed across the front After a long time, he found out friends of man.
of the sent as shown. that a bit of wood soaked in melt-
Now, from some 1 in. b. in. But, although you' have captur- ed fat would light bis cave ated me in a glass cage, you do not laths, cut about 18 pieces, each night-and that feeble light float really know what I am. Perhaps 12 in. long, and nail these, at a ing in a shell was the first of all some day you will find out more distance of 1 in. from each other, our lamps!
about me! Good bye!,
(Continued at foot of next Column.)
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you should be a member of
THE TINKER BELL CLUB.
All you have to do is to faithfully keep this
promise and sign this form:
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Name(Master or Miss
Address
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Cut this out,
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to Tinker Bell, c/o the China Mail.
To make sick Elves well.
All day long he's busy.
Till night shadows grey chase swift o'er the sunset,
To wipe it away.
Then, wrapped in a mantle
The
Of spells and surprise, Wizard goes flying Through star-patterned
skies!
A BIRD'S NEST.
efforts to regain its natural posi-mass. tion. With its legs in the air it Stir well, and pat the cream With love,
struggles and wriggles, often with together into a block in the sauce- little success, and it might have pan. Then, using a spoon, take to remain like that for a long out little heaps and put them on time unless some kindly passer greased paper to dry. by helped it to its feet..
Half of this mixture may be
The
Yours,
WENDY.
Not so vith the skipjacks, coloured pink with cochineal, or ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS Should one of them happen to get brown with strong cocoa. overturned, it la provided with colouring should be stirred in FLORENCE:-I sent your enrol-
LIKE CIRCUS.
means of quickly getting over its while the cream is hot. dificulty. It Immediately bends back the two exremities of its body, then, suddenly straighten- ing itself again, it gives a little upward spring, turns a somer-circus?
Why is "Sunbeams" like a
Because it is full of chaff to
Why is "Sunbeams" like an octopus?..
Because once it gets you, it] won't let you go. ·
A bird's nest is really some-sault, and comes down upon its thing to admire. The small feet! As it is springing it gives make you laugh. builder has no tool, such as a click, which can clearly be knife, nail or bodkin. Neither has heard, and for this reason it has he ary glue to join his work to- been given another name, that of gether. The only tool is his little "clicking beetle." beak. But still, the nest Is always beautifully finished with- in and without.
What human, who has every implement and means of art, could build a nest like this bird?
to the cross pieces C and D, so
Mike: What fruit is red when is green?
But there is something still mora wonderful about a skipjack On each side of its thorax there is it
Pat: Nothing, of coursel little "amp." Immediately anything touches the beetle these Mike: Why, don't be silly-a "lamps" become aglow with bril- blackberry. liant yellow light, and look just Pit
like the tiny lamps of miniature Why do no girls cry on the last motor cars, day of term
that the tops of the laths come These lamps are not, as Because they are too busy flush with the top edge of C. might have been expected, to help breaking-up to break down.
After trying the seat to see the skipjack to find its way in the G that it is quite firm, give it a coating of dark green paint, and, when quite dry, it will be ready to take the place in the garden
On The Hut Carpente
dark. They were given it by If you had no money on a wet natur as a certain means of day, why should you be glad if the startling and driving off barometer went up? enemies. How wonderful are the Because then there would bd tiniest creatures, made by Google, some change in the weather.
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ment card to the address given, but it has been returned as the name of the street is not known. Perhaps you have made a mis- take. Please fill in another form showing your correct address and I shall send your card.
HELEN:-Yes, Bend in your stories and riddles to me and I will look them over.
STANLEY:Anyone up to the age of 16 can become a member of the Tinker Bell Club,
JOSEPHINE:-Thanks for your
letter. I shall be pleased to re- ceive a story from you, but can promise that it will be print Ked, as our space is limited.
JUDY:Just have patience and
walt ill your birthdar cAMAR... round. I shall not forgot, you
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