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GIRLS OF LONG AGO.

MARY - ANN.

THE CHINA

The WENDY

HUT

London would tone down

THE BILLY BOYS" WORKSHOP.

A Useful Corner Bracket.

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To make this corner bracket, you will require two pieces of wood, each three-eighths of an inch thick, twelve inches long, and six-and-a-half inches wide, for the sides; and another piece seven inches square, out of which you will cut the two shelves.

After planing the side pieces on Mary-Ann!

For two mouths London kept both surfaces, plane down the Mary-Ann in a state of mute long edge of one piece till it is six amazement, and then she saw a and, three-eighths inches wide, new fashioned public conveyance and the same edge of the other called an omnibus. The day after she saw an omnibus, her Mamma side piece to six inches wide. told her that a young gentleman was coming to dinner, and she hoped her good little daughter would play her piece on the piano afterwards. Mary-Ann blushed, and the thought of playing her piece to the young gentleman so worried her that she put on her hat, and went out—alone!

Mary-Ann was just seventeen. I don. She was always getting inte trouble, because she was always doing things she should not have done. She covered her ears with her hair when she ought to have left them bare; she took long steps

Anu "Mary

thought ske might as well ride on top of the omnibus!"

when she walked; and she would often say she was hungry! Of course, it was not "nice" for a

young lady to refer to her ap- petite, and Mary-Ann's Mammu despaired of making her "gen-

teel."

When Mary-Ann asked why she could not play cricket, and when she bathed in the river at the

By the time she reached the end of the rond she felt wicked. Then, seeing an omnibus for the second time, she thought she might as well be more wicked

still, and ride on the top of it! The driver grinned, the conductor | gaped, and the two horses.seom. ed to saigger as Mary-Ann climb. ed on.

There was one young gentleman sitting on the top, and he looked so amazed that she was overcome with shame and thought she would get down again. But she could not get down because of her crinoline.

So the young gentleman helped her, and she nearly laughed, and then the young gentleman offered her his arm and said he must escort her home.

the young gentleman's arm, and So Mary-Ann went home on

he explained matters, to her Mamma. Now he happened to be the young gentleman who was coming to dinner-but he didn't come because he thought Mary Ann much too "modern,"

"I don't care," said Mary-Ann. ed to crochet antimacassars that

The corner bracket, and some of the parts required to make it.

This is to allow for the overlap at the back joint, as shown in Diagram A.

mark out the shape of one side With your pencil carefully piece, and then cut round the out- pad-saw. side of the curved lines with a (See right hand rough edge with your chisel, diagram). Smooth down the

lay this side piece on the other and finish with glasspaper. Now

bottom of the garden without her / But she did really-and she learns piece of wood, mark round the

stockings, her Papa was so shock od that he decided to live in Lon-

NUMA.

Numa, the jaguar, moved stealthily along a narrow path in the heart of a jungle in Brazil,

which was his home.

Numa was hungry, for he had not eaten since morning, and it' was now night time. The beasts of the jungle were awake and alert, for their feeding time had urrived.

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Alligators moved lazily about in the oily, elimy waters of a near- by river. Numa dreaded these scaly monsters. Gigantic pythons uncoiled themselves from about the limbs of trees, and glided off through the undergrowth search of food. Monkeys sped through the trees, and the sloth moved slowly among the branches -upside down. Teka, the puma. Nama's enemy, was also abroad.

After he had been prowling about for some time, he came to the edge of a small clearing, in which some monkeys were run- ning about.:

Numa lay flat on his stomach, and began to worm his way to- wards them. He crept on till he was but ten feet away from them; then, with a reverberating roar, he sprang-

With shrill cries of fear, the monkeys sprang into the trees, all except one, the one, which Numa had caught.

Wouldn't It Be Funny?

If people walked upon their heads. instead of on their feet, And everybody liked the cold.

and melted in the heat

If to the celling we could climb, and stick there like a fly And children when they hurt themselves, would laugh and never cry

I houses coat but half-a-crown, and were given away with

fell up instead of down How funny that would be!

she might have one ladylike" accomplishment!

The Birthday Party..

I'm going to David's party to

morrow afternoon; I'm going to bed at seven, to make

the day come soon. There'll be a cake with candles,

I'm

and David will be nine. And I hope it rains to-morrow.

I hope it won't be fine. going to count the candles on David's birthday cake. I'll look out of the window the And if it rains to-morrow how

minute that I wake,

happy I shall be, wear my brand new raincoat

to go David's tea

To

Quack Quack!

Tommy: "A little-bird told me what kind of

a' lawyer yon? father is."

curved parts with your pencil, and saw the second side to shape.

Cut the four shelf supports from half-inch by quarter-inch stripwood. These supports, two

THE KEYFLOWER.

MAIL.

A Legend Of The Cowship.

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.

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How To Make A Tennis Dress.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1930.

TINK'S CROSS WORD

PUZZLE.

The other name for the Sun is, of course, Sol, and if you added

"A tennis frock, please! has the letter M on to this word, you said "Solemn," although you did been the request from several |not spell it correctly. However, solemn was the hidden word in last little dressmakers lately, so we'll week's puzzle, the full aclution of which is:-

see how to make one this week. You will need about three yards of white linen, piqué, or casement- cloth for the dress, which is made in two parts: a fairly close-fitting bodice that reaches to the hip? und is belted at the waist, and a skirt which was three. flat pleats each side. The pleats make the dress look very trim, and allow plenty of room for jumping after difficult shots!

Measure yourself from your shoulders to your hips and across Once upon a time, a young man your chest; then cut a piece of called Jan set out to find the material twice this length and half famous Keyflower. He had been i na wide again. Fold width ways told by his grandmother that and lengthways, and cut as shown every thousandth cowalip which in the upper part of Diagram A. bloomed in the field was a Key making a squate neck-opening door in the rocks behind which the material, sew up the side flower that could open a secret and curved armholes. Open out untold riches were stored. Every seams, bind the neck and arm- Spring, countless lads and lasses holes with crossway strips of hunted for the Keyflower, but so material, and well press all joins, far no one had found it.

The skirt, which is about three, Well, Jan had the virtue of times the width of the bodice, is patience. He counted the cow-made of two pieces of material slips in the field till he came to joined together each side. the thousandth, which he held the bodice to the skirt at centre close against a rock. Nothing back and centre front, and then happened, so he began all over again, thinking he must have started with the wrong cowslip.

After many days, he found the Keyflower! As he held the cow- slip to the rock he heard a crack- ing sound; then the rock split, and he beheld a cave filled with gold, silver, and precious stones. Full of delight. Jan walked amongst these riches, filled his pocket, his hat, and his handker- chief. At last, so anxious was he to get all he could that he threw away the Keyflower and grabbed the gold with both hands."

Alas! This was his undoing! No sooner had he dropped the cowslip than a terrible wind blew him out of the cave, and he found himself in the field with nothing in his pockets,

Jan's greed had broken the charm. For it was written that whoever threw away the Key- flower to carry more than his due of wealth should lose all the good things that patience had brought him?

MY DREAM SHIP.

of which are shown at B.B. are I wish I had a little ship fixed to the sides, in the positions : To sail the silver sea, countersunk screws. indicated in the diagram, by brass With silken sails, and flag of gold, Round off And room for treasures in the

hold, indicated. The sides are fixed to the front ends of each support as

screws as shown at A. gether by means of one-inch

screws will be sufficient, placed about three inches apart.

Four

wood for the shelves, and mark a Now take the square piece of diagonal line across it, dividing it into two equal parts, edge of one of the shelves, an the curved shape of the front Mark out

shown in the bottom diagram, and then repeat the curved line on the other side of the diagonal line. Saw the wood in halves on the diagonal line, and, after cutting the front edge of each shelf chose up to the curved line, finish with a chisel and glasspaper.

Plate the shelves in position, and fix them by fine wire naile side piece.

Make a small hole so that it may be hung on a wall. (D) near the top of the bracket

That all belonged to me!! from hour to hour, through

ripples clear,

I'd drift across the blue, Away from dull old Everyday,

I wish I had a little ship

To land of Dreams-Come-True.

What jelly fun 'twould be! They'd be a truly helpful crew, I'd take my puppies, One and Two,

We'd sail to reefs of coral pink,

Because they're fond of me.

Perhaps, if we were VERY good,

And hear the mermaids sing; We'd see the Ocean King!

I wish I had a little ship,

I'd run away from school! Instead of learning history, Or French, or verbs, or three-

times-three,

I'd cut through billows cool.

FOLD

C

1. Number

4. Tree

7. Brilliance

8. Jou

9. Hill

Across.

(Two). (Ash).

(Radiance),

__(Add)............

(Tor).

10. Pronoun

(Me)."

11.

Part of verb "to be"

(Am).

13.

Musical note

'(Re).

14. Hidden word

(Solemn).

18. Rabbit's cousin

20. Pronoun

22. Compass point

(Hare).

(U8).

(SE).

23. Another compass point 24. Case 25. In what way?,

(NE).

(Box).

(How).

Down.

1. Public vehicle

(Tram),

2. Walks through water

(Wades).

Pin

3. Strange

(Odd).

4. Insect

(Ant)"

(Scorn),

6. In this place

(Hero).

11.

Exclamation of sorrow

(Alay),

12. A juke

'(Mere).

15. Exclamation of surprise

(Oh),

16. Pronoun

(Me).

17. Small cask

(Tub).

19. Stitch

(Sew),

21.

Therefore

(80).

23.

Negative

(No).

The tennis frock about which Dressmaker tell you to-day. The diagrams will help you to cut out and make it

pleat the material each side until it fits the edge of the bodice, tak. ing care to get the pleats even. Tack down the pleats from top to bottom, as shown in Diagram B, and tack the skirt to the bodice. Try on, and, if the dress hangs well, new.bodice and 'skirt firmly together.

This sounds a bit complicated, doesn't it? But if you go careful- ly and slowly, you'll be able to manage it quite well.

Hem the bottom of the skirt. Make an inch-wide waist-belt, stitch one end of the belt to a plain white buckle and work two or three eyelet holes in the opposite end. Draw two crossed racquets. Diagram C, on the front of the bodice, and embroider them in white or coloured threads. Press the frock well-and put it on! Wendy's Dressmaker.

Then ?

called to her four.

5. Contempt

I wonder who knows the name of the strange little animal we have drawn for you this week. He is encased in bony armour, he can burrow into the earth, and he lives in South America. His name Is hidden in the puzzle.

Do You Know the

funny animal?

Clues:

Across.

1. Recollects.

B. Part of verb 'tu be.' 9. Fasten.

10. You and 1.-

11. Regret.

13. Pronoun.

11. Dispatches.

10. Hidden word..

20. Boy's name.

21. A row.

22. Animal,

24. Soft paw of an animal.

25. Because.

26. Conjunction.

A

28. Compass point.

29. Not so much.

A proud mother visitor's attention Your-old daughter, who was play- ing with a doll's-house on the hearthrug. Suddenly "Mr. Butcher," the wooden master of the establishment, was found to be missing, and after ten minutes* search was discovered under the

fender.

30. Above.

Aloof.

Kitty had been naughty, and her father deemed it necessary to

"Mrs. Butcher" was carefully lifted out of the house to face her administer vigorous correction wooden spouse.

before setting off for the city. "So you have tum home!" re

That an impression had been marked the little one in her most made was apparent when, on his Farcastic tones, on behalf of the

"Hm" went on the little one frigid politeness: "Mother, your gentleman made no reply.

ing, Kitty called upstairs with scornfully, "I wonder you didn't husband's home." say bis'neas kept you!"?

'Johnny: "What did the bird driven in from the back of each And oh!-at night-time, when I go wooden lady. The equally wooden return from, business in the even!

'say?"

Tommy: "Cheep, cheep. Johnny: "Well, a duck told his what kind of a doctor your father is."

Certainly,

Father: "You never heard of a man getting into trouble by fol lowing a good example."

Jobnny: Yes, pa. The coun terfeiter:

The Hut Carpenter.

To bed, it sometimes seems My little Dream-Ship's waiting

To bring me magic dreams!

there,

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A Family Addition.

Mother (giving arithmetic lesson): "Now, take the Smith family. There's mamma, papa, and baby. How many does that make?"

Smail Son: "Two and one to carry

Dowa.

1. Not cooked.

2. Before.

His

2. Same as 13 across.

4. A little hill.

5. French for "and."

1. Border.

7 Perceive.

1. True.

12. Newspaper term.

14. Self-satisfied.

16. Sude.

10: Terrify,

17. Elevate.

18. To let' (house, land, etc.).

19. Command.

23. Preposition.

20. Jame as 20 across.

27. Transact

OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER.

Peppermint Ice.

Put one pound of granulated sugar into a saucepan with half a teacupful of water,

Set over gentle heat, and when the sugar

of desiccated coconut, and boll to boiling point. Add a teacupful has dissolved bring the mixture

for ten minutes, stirring gently all the time with a wooden spoon.

Take the saucepan from the fire, add a small teaspoonful of popper: mint flavouring to the contents, minutes, then turn it on to a beat the mixture well for a few buttered dish, and leave to cool. Cut into hars, and wrap each in. greaseproof paper.

Moral

"Bless me Asion

said Tommy'e grandfather, "and do you mean to tell me they never use the strap at your school now?"

Never replied Tommy: "We have morál suasion in our school!"

"What's that?" asked grand- father.

"Well, we get kept in, and put to stand in a cornet, and locked out and locked in, and made to write a thousand words,and scowled at and jawed at, and that's all