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THE CHINA MAIL.
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The WENDY
HUT
BOYS OF LONG AGO.
SAMUEL.
his
He began to earn his living at, boy crept up the chimney and the age of six, and everyone call swept the soot down with ed him Sam. His mother and his queer round brush, Sam would sit two brothers worked in a coal en the floor and think of the mine, but, because Sam was such strange birds and the tiger skins. "You'll go up the chimneys when you are six," said his uncle. And Sam nodded without think ing much about it.
"Sam
One day in the middle of the afternoon, Sam and his
uncle were called to a great house, but! the other little boy did not come, In the hall of that house was one of the most amazing trees Sum had ever seen. It was a green fir tree, with candles on it and toys hanging down like fruit. Sam supposed it grew like that and it looked 50 beauti- ful that even his uncle gaped. Neither of them knew that it was a Christmas tree, introduced into the country by the friends of young. Queen Victoria.
Sam was dazzled by that won- der tree, and when his uncle told him to go up the chimney he could not believe that the time for,) work had come. He cried. But his uncle called him a coward, and pushed him up.
The soot burnt Sam's eyes and throat as he worked the brush up and down, hut he clung with fingers and toes to the rough tricks, and thought of seeing that wonder tree again made him scramble bravely to the top of the narrow way.
WENDY'S LITTI E DRESSMAKERS.
A Pretty Twisted Beret.
"A STRANGE LITTLE CREATURE.""
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
Making An Accumulator Carrier.
· SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1931.
TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.
The little fellow pictured by the side of last week's puzzle was the Fairy Post Man. His title was hidden in the puzzle, fali solu- _ì
You can make this handy wiretion of which is: less accumulator carrier from odd pieces of wood about half an inch thick. No definite sizes are iven as accumulators vary so much, but it should not be a dif ficult matter to measure your ac cumulator and cut the pieces of wood accordingly. The top dia- gram shows the finished carrier with its handle; the bottom dia. gram shows how the parts fit to-: gether.
The bottom part A should be n quarter of an inch longer and wider than the accumulator. The two ends B.B. should be the same width as the bottom part, and half an Inch more in height than the aceumulator. The four side strips can be a little less than one-third the height of the end pieces in width.
In fixing the parts together, screw the two ends to the bot tom with three screws in each, as shown in the diagrams. See that the ends are quite square with the bottom. The four side strips are fixed in position by two screws in each end. At a quarter of an inch from the bottom edges of the lower side strips, make four holes with a bradawl right through into the bottom part of Then drive four the carrier.
Counter- screws in each side.
[Made up by Hilda Salmon.] As promised last week, I am Once upon a time there lived in going to tell you how to make a the lonely part of a country, a little twisted beret, which is just | widow with her only child, a girl the thing to wear nowadays. of seven years old, whose name There are three different ways in was May. They had only one which it can be made: you can friend, an old lady about 70 years crochet it, knit it or make it out old. May and her mother often of a piece of stockinette mater-went to visit the lady. She was inl, whichever you prefer. ་ ་ -
Two pieces are
needed for the very kind, and often gave May beret: one is a long strip, about things. thirty-six inches by eight, and the other is a triangular piece of the shape shown in Diagram X.
We'll take the beret made of doll had lovely rosy cheeks. One stockinette first. Cut the tri-day May said to her mother: sunk screws should be used Mummy, can I go to the lady's throughout, so that all the holes house and take dolly?" Her must be countersunk with a rose- mother said: "Yes, dear, but be careful of the bears
do not go down the lane."
angle, making it five inches high, and four inches across the bot
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This pretty twisted beret is quite easy to make; Dressmaker tells you how
to act about it.
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She gave May a beautiful doll which May called Rosy, for the
So May put on her coat and hat, then she put her dolly's best dress on and said good-bye to her mother and set off carrying her dolly. When she had gone half way, she met a strange creature -a small man, the size of her dolly, with a beard to the ground, He said: "Where are you going, May ?" She said: "I am going to my friend's house. My friend is an old lady that lives at the other end of the country, in a green cottage. She is a kind lady." "Oh," he said, "I will walk all the way with you, if you don't mind."
So they went on down the road, till they came to a cottage and that was where the lady lived. They rang the bell, and the lady said: "Come in."
So in they May said: "This is my friend, I met him down the road."
tom; find the middle of the long strip and sew it to the triangle so that it looks like Diagram 1. You can either hem all the raw edges, went. began to carn
the pr bind them with matching wool
tape.
his living at the age of aix."
a little chap and as agile as an eel; he was hired out to his uncle who was a chimney sweep.
Sam went to London with his uncle, and thought he had got He into a very exciting place. did not like chimneys, they look- ed to him very dark and ugly. But he did not suppose he would get much blacker than his two little brothers, who crept into the smallest holes in the coal mires and picked out the bits which the men could not reach,
Early in the morning, Sam, his uncle, and another little boy used to go to magnificent houses where there were birds in glass cases, and tiger skins spread out on the fioor. And while the other little
THE LONELY WORKER.
On the side of a hill, pictures. quely coloured by the rays of the setting.sun, a solitary worker toiled.
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But they were told to go out by the back door, and in the street a gentleman stopped Sam and asked him why he wept.
"I'm too black to see the tree," sobbed the little boy. "I'm six." Now it was that gentleman who made Parliament pass a law orbidding little hoys to go up chimneys. Then he sent for Sam, and asked him what trade he would like to learn. Thinking of the wonder tree, Sam said he would like to be a gardener. Ho became a famous gardener, too, for everything his fingers touch ed prospered because he always had the beauty of the Christmas Tree in mind.
JUST FOR FUN.
The heret will now look like Diagram 2. Put it on your head. like Diagram 3, and cross the long ends A and B behind your head, tucking in the ends each side. If you tuck them in firmly, there will be no feur of them be coming untwisted, and so the cap will keep on quite snugly all day. Diagram 4 shows you the back view, and I really think you'll be pleased with your work, if you do it carefully.
These sketches show the finished accumulator car- rier; and the parts before they are assembled.
bit before inserting the screws. The lady said: "Hello" to him, For the handle, obtain a piece and they made friends. After of stout leather strap, about one they had talked for a while, the inch wide and twice as long as the lady made some tea, and they sat carrier. At half an inch from down at the table and had some each end of the strap, bore a hole tea and cakes. When they had large enough to take the stem of finished the little man told them a stout round-headed screw about a story about himself. He said: five eighths of an inch long. "When I was born, I was in my Screw the strap to the sides of mother's hands when a big bird the carrier, as shown in the first flew down and carried me away. diagram, after making a silt C, in I lived with the bird till I grew the strap with a sharp knife. big, when one day a witch came This will enable the strap to be The knitted and crocheted caps and made my mouth into a bird's slipped off at any time without are made in just the same way, beak. When she had gone removing the screws. only of course you will have to escaped and that's how I came To finish the carrier, take off work the strip and the triangle here."
the leather handle and give all the yourself. Alternate rows of plain and purl knitting will be the best time for May to go home. The nish stain.
He went on talking till it was work a coating of dark oak var- for the knitted beret, and treble lady said good-bye and May went crochet gives the best results for here with the man. When she the other one. The triangle is got home, she told her mother easily made by knitting or cro-about it, and the man lived with cheting three rows of the bottom them for ever after. width, then gradually decreasing
up to the top point.
The measurements ́given can,
Just for a bit of fun and amuse ment, ask dad or mum or others naturally, he adapted to fit dif of the family how to pronounce ferent heads, and if you like you the word a-n-y-saying "How do can make a little scarf to match. He struggled up the slope, so' steep that it might have been the word. They will answer. cor- you pronounce a-n-y,' spelling
Wendy's Dressmaker. called a cliff, dragging behind
rectly. Then ask how to pro- him a carcase, perhaps twice as large as himself, from the valley ounce m-a-n-y, in the same way by spelling it. They will again below where he had killed it.
Then spell Taking no notice of us what answer correctly. ever, he gamely struggled on with deny in the same way, asking his tremendous burden until he how it is pronounced. And then reached his home. At the foot you can smile at the answer they: of one of its walls was an ant give. To be successful there must hole, and at the opening of this be no hesitation between the ques hole he deposited his burden. An- tions as that might put them "on
their guard." other ant then came to help him, and together they managed to get the grub into the hole, and
WANTED TO KEEP IT.
Little Dick went to the village draper's to buy a tape-measure for his mother.
"How long does she want it? asked the shopman."
Dick looked at him in surprise, "Why," he answered, "she wants to keep it."
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DISTORTION.
The Hut Carpenter.
WENDY'S LITTLE COOKS.
Shortbread. Fingers.
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Cream together in a basin a quarter of a pound of butter or nargarine and two tablespoonsful Distortion always occurs in auf granulated sugar, using photograph when (1) a lens of wooden spoon for beating. Work too short a 'focus has been used; in gradually hai? a pound of self- (2) when the camera has been raising flour. Mix well, turn on tilted in trying to "snap" a tall to a board, roll out the pastry building, or copying subjects once, and cut it into fingers. which have straight vertical Have ready a sheet of greased lines, the lines, in such a case, paper, or a flat greased tin, place being towards one end of the pic the fingers on this, prick them ture; and (3) when a single lens with a fork, and decorate each is used for subjects having with a nice long slice of candied straight marginal linea, there will peel, Cook in a moderate oven to appear bent outwards or inwards, a golden brown colour. according to the position of the step in the lens.
A DOG STORY.
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er sold her to a neighbour zeroga the river Rhine. At first she showed no dialike to the change, but after some weeks had elapsed she had five fine puppies, and the new home didn't seem as good as the old home where she had been so long, so she decided to undo what had been done...
One night, after waiting till | every one but herself had gone to bed, she caught up the nearest puppy and swam across the river, depositing it in her old kennel. In the morning her old master discovered her beaming with "smiles," with all the five puppies around her. Touched by her ac- tion, he arranged that she and her family should remain with
It is the same "house" feeling that causes many a Family Christmas gathering, and the spirit of "Home, Sweet Home" is very much in evidence in conse quence.
Across.
2. First part of hidden name
6. Number
(Fairy). (One).
8. Every, one
(AN).
10. Tidings
(News).
12. Mimica
(Apes).
13. Preposition
(To).
14.
What you hear with
(Ear).
16.
"Thank you
(To).
17.
The ground
(Earth).
19.
Married lady's title
(Mrs).
21.
Baba
(All).
23. Second part of hidden name.
(Post).
24.
Region
(Area).
25.
Afternoon meal
(Tea).
27.
28,
Third part of hidden name.. Sailors' stories.......
(Man).
(Yarns).
Down,
1.
Disdain
(Contempi).
2.
Not many
(Few).
3. Part of verb "to be"
(18)..
4.
Snappy bark
(Yap).
5.
Large breed of dog
... (Alsatian).
7.
Meaning "new" or "modern"
(Neo).
€9.
Permit
(Let).
11.
Ocean
(Sea).
12. Sk#
(Art).
15.
Part of verb "to be"
(Are).
17.
A literary composition
(Essay).
18.
Injures
(Harms).
20. Small kind of deer
(Roe).
22. Meadow
(Lea).
26. Conjunction
(Or).
Here's something fresh for a change. If you look
very carefully at the drawing beside the puzzle, you will probably be able to think of the word we have hidden.
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16
16
10
What English work hout this represent?
Clues:-
✓ Acreas
Down
1. Help.
2. Grip.
3. Slope.
1. Terrified. 5. Tree.
6. A quantity.
8 Girl's name.
9. Devoured.
10. Examine closely.
18. Hidden word.
10. Musical note,
17. To live
18. You and I.
19. Historical period. 21. Pronoun.
22 Looks with wide-open eyes.
4. Add up.
5. Violin.
Oller.
II. Carriage.
12. Part of verb 'to ba 14. Organs of hearing.
15. Animals.
20. Preposition.
21. Pronoun.
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