1931-04-04 — Page 11

THE CHINA

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1931.

The WENDY

BOYS

OF LONG AGO.

ROGER.

Roger lived in the age of the When he beau and the dandy. was nine years old, he was sent to a gentleman in Piccadilly to learn how to walk on his toes,

his how to

per- or muff, fumed handkerchief how to

with his bow hand on his heart, and how to turn elegantly upon his high red

wave

"Roger... minced to- wards the city of London."

heels. Ile had tutor who taught him other things; and when he was fifteen he went to Paris for a year, after which he returned the "perfect beau."

DJ

HUT.

scoffed the boys of Westminster School as he passed.

Roger sipped his chocolate as if he were performing the figure of dance. Then his father bowed to him, wished him good morn- his ing, and strutted away to office in Whitehall.

"I will give myself an airing." thought Roger, and he minced towards the city of London.

LIFE IN A SALTSPOON.

Go out into your garden and look at the flower-bed. How still and silent the mould seems! Yet do you know that if you took a saltspoonful of the soil there would be in it probably a thou. sand million living creatures?

Sir John Russell, the director of the Rothamstead Experimen- tal Station, where the soil is care- fully studied, tells us that men of science used to think there were 10,000,000 living creatures in a saltspoonful of soil.

Then they came to the conclu- sion that there must be

50,000,000, and now they find that it is more like 600,000,000 to 1,000,000,000.

middle of the mixture, and stir the whole with a fork to a stiff paste.

Turn the paste on to a board and knead till it as smooth and does not stick to the fingers. If too dry, a little lemon juice or water may be added.

"Look at the young beau,” whispered the people, and they

Press the cream into a nice made way for him. If they look- ed dirty, Roger flicked his hand-square block, cut it into bars kerchief at them and they with a long, sharp knife, and in grease-proof caught a whiff of his special per-wrap each bar fume a mixture of civet and paper. musk.

But Roger lost his way in the narrow streets, and suddenly a shouting and ก shrill great scream reached his cars.

"La! La! Bless me!" said Roger, as a girl came running along followed by a mob of

weavers.

The girl was wearing a gown of Indian material, and the weavers, who were always riot- ing, threatened to strip it from her back as a protest against

foreign fabrics.

"La La! Bless me!" cried Roger. And his elegant stick flashed through the air, and his snuff box caught the nose of the foremost weaver, who turned tail upon seeing the beau.

"La La! You should wear sprigged silk or dimity, my pretty Molly," yawned Roger.

He escorted the girl to her home, where he begged her

To see Roger tripping beside his father at eleven o'clock in to cut up her Dutch the morning on their way to a and

Indian calicoca

and

wear

famous chocolate house was amake quilts of them as so many thing to remember. His hair were doing. Then he minced was puffed and curled to such an back to Piccadilly.

was obliged to extent that he carry his hat under his arm. His paste buckles glittered, his stick dangled from the third diamond button of his embroidered coat, sad he flourished a pearl snuff box.

"There goes a macaroni to heels, drink his morning chocolate,"

MAKE A SENTENCE.

Can you make a sentence of three words from the following? "ALLO."

It is quite easy when one knows

how.

Here is the answer:—

"Nothing After All"

THE VERY THING." ·

me," he "La La! Bless thought "We must make new laws enabling people to sack-cloth and ashes if they wish to! I must go into Parliament." And Roger, the beau, made very good laws, in spite of his his muff, and his monstrous wig!

OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER.

Fruit Bars..

For this delicious awcet you will require a quarter of a pound of glace cherries, a quarter of a pound of ground almonds, one pound of icing sugar, the white of one egg, and a piece of citron neel.

ANOTHER GRAND "NOVELTY."

"I

arc

Those children who say would," must look carefully at the picture on this page. The four dolls in the pleture

to find their waiting for you right costumes! And this is how you do it:

Cut out all four little figures and paste them neatly on to a plain card. Then cut out the four costumes, including hats

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THE WITCH-WIFE.

She's very old and crooked,

She wears a high black hat, She lives all by her lonesome,

With such a big black cat! And if the Fairy People

Are puzzled what to do, They ask the Witch-Wife for

advice-

She gives them counsel true.

She stirs a mighty cauldron,

And says a mystic charm, Then sells the Magic Fotion,

To keep Elves free from harm.. Whenever Goblins travel,

As often they must do,

They buy a Spell to guard them

well From

Goody

brew!

Witch-Wife's

Her house is small and gloomy,

It just inside the Wood, The Baby Elves all fear her,"

Although she's kind and good. And if you're walking by, my

deara,

And chance the Witch to see,

Don't run-just curtsey prettily,

She MAY ask you to tea!

WHAT YOU HAVE TO DO.

on

I have already told you that I want you first of all to cut out cach little doll figure, and paste all four on a plain card; and that I want you then to cut out each costume, hat, scarf, and the col- lar-and-tie, and paste these top of the figures in order to "dress" them. But before you do this "dressing", you must carefully study the faces of Mary, Jim, Sue and Pat, and de- cide which costume will best be

MARY

MAIL.

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS.

A Pretty Dressing Jacket.

A little dressing-jucket is use- ful to slip on in the morning when you are combing your hair. And you can nake one quite easily from about one and a quar- ter to one and a half yards of flannel or winceyette.

Fold the material lengthways and widthways; then cut it as shown in Diagram A. Cut down 'one of the folds for the front! opening, and lay the whole gar- ment, opened out, flat upon the table.

|

Now take a halfpenny, lay, it on the edge at the end of the front opening, and pencil round

BOLD

Dressmaker

tells you how to make this useful dressing-jacket; and the ... diagrama show you how to cut out and embroider it. the curve. Pick up the coin, lay it by the side of the first pencilled curve, pencil round again, and so on, all round the outside edge of (Take the opened-out jacket, care not to draw the little semi- circles up the two side and under- arm seams!) When you have drawn scallops all round the edges, put the coin a little above the first semi-circle, and draw another curve to get a double scallop, continuing thus all round as before. Diagram B shows you what the scallops will look like when drawn.

Sew up the side and underarm seams of the jacket, then outline the inner and outer edges of the pencilled scallops with tiny run- ning stitches in embroidery silk. Now work over the scallops, with

PAT

All these dalls are waiting for you to find their correct costumes. Cut out the dolls, stick them on a plain card; then cut out the costumes and stick the Right One On The Right Doll;

finally, colour the little figures with paints or crayons.

and scarves, and paste them in position on the dolls. Choose the costume you think each doll should be wearing. Only two of them have hats to complete their outfits, only two have scarves, and only one has collar and tie. Mix the sugar and ground It is for you to decide which com- Shopkeeper: No. I can't give almonds together and sce that plete costume belongs to each you a job. There's nothing to do.

there are no lumps. Cut the particular doll. And, when you Fat Boy: Just what I want.

cherries and citron into small have decided this, you must stick When do I start?

pieces, and stir them into the the clothes on the dolls, and then colour them with paints or What is a bow that no one can sugar mixture. Beat the white of egg, pour it gradually into the

crayons. ever untie?-A rainbow.

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suited to each. See? I have a sketch of the dolls already dress ed, which I shall put in the Corner next week.

After choosing what you think to be the right costumes, you have also to go carefully to work to paste up the figures neatly on a card; then you have to get out your crayons or chalks, or your little paint-boxes, and give a touch of colour here and there to each one.

Good luck and love to you.

Wendy.

UCKY TO GET TO THE ORE THE BOSS AS HE HATI WAS NOT TO GO „ALIA AND I SENT IN MY

RESIGNATION-BÚT.I

GOTIT IN "TIME-I'LL

CALL ON ROSIE-

CEEI ROSIE MÜST NEVER KNOW THAT THE BOSS IS THE.

NOT TO GO TO: AUSTRALIA-

ONE WHO TOLD ME

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TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drow beside the puzzle the lettera EX and an ISLE. This picture was, of course, intended to represent the word exile which was hidden in the puzzle in an unusual way: The first letter of No. 10 down was E: the third of No. 13 across was X; the third of No. 11 down was I; the second of No. 18 across was L; and the first of No. 22 across was E — answer: Exile! Full solution of puzzle:-

buttonhole stitching in the same silk-you can use cream silk, or some pretty pale colour, like lavender. ping, or blue, Diagram C shows the work in progress,

or

Cut away the material outside the scallops with tiny, sharp. pointed embroidery scissors, sew ribbons to the two top edges of the neck opening to tie in a pretty bow at the throat, press the embroidery and the wee gar- ment is finished.

Wendy's Dressmaker.

OH YES! YOU SEE I'M SO IMPORTANT IN THE FIRM THAT I DO AS I LIKE-I JUST

TOLD THE BOSS THAT I WOULDN'T. GO TO'OLD

AUSTRALIA AND OF

COURSE HE HAD.

TO GIVE IN TO.....

ME-

DID YOU GET MY WIRE TELLING YOU THAT YOU ARE NOT TO GOT AUSTRALIA?

YES-SIRU. CANCELLED THE TICKET-

1

Across.

1. People who play the organ 7. Work hard

-8. Enemy

12.

11. Steam-ship (abbreviated)

About

13. Neurest

14. Observe

(Organists),

(Toil).

(Fno).

(SS).

(Re).

(Next):

(See).

16.

Animai

(Ass).

18.

Fall heavily

(Flop),

20.

Transact

(Do).

21. Preposition

(Of).

22,

Organ of hearing

(Ear).

24.

Another name for Ireland

(Erin).

27.

Protective

(Defensive).

Down.

1.

Away**

(of).

2.

Indefinite article

(Ax).

3. Possessive pronoun

(Ita).

4.

Therefore

(So).

5.

To weary

(Tire.)

6.

Smooth and glossy

(Slack).

9. Upon

(On).

10.

Fish

(Eels).

11.

Not flexible

(Stiff).

14.. Foot-wear

(Shoe).

15.

Withered

(Faded).

17.

Painful

(Sore).

19.

Child's name for father-

(Pa).

21.

Number

(One).

23. Kind of deer

(Roe)..

25. Whether

(IF).

26. Part of verb "to be"

(I8).

Now try to think what word the 'little picture beside this week's puzzle is meant to represent. You see the letter Faltered. Perhaps this will suggest the word to you. Anyway it is hidden in the puzzle like last week's word, the first letter being the first of No. 1 down; the second the first of No. 8 down; the third, the third of No. 11 across; the fourth, the third of No. 9 down; the fifth, the first of No. 15 down; the sixth, the first of No. 20 down; the seventh, the last of No. 5 down; and the eighth, the last of No. 17 down.

T

10

2

113

10

13

14

19

20

T TARE

停

16 777

What English wood does. this suggest to you...

Clues:-

Across.

3. An agreement.

7. Part of a railway track.

10. As well.

11. Lubricated,

12.

Not down.

13. Conjunction.

14. Mischievous kind of fairy,

16. Exclamation.

18. About.

Aamati.

19. Not

21. Hotel

23. Cotton spool,

24. Couse.

THE

Down.

1. To and...

2. Nothing.

4. Preposition.

G. Bravery.

6. Spinning toy.

8. Illness.

9. Allow.

14, Flower,

15. Organ of hearing.

17. Contained.

20. A colour.

22. Negative.

TINKER BELL CLUB.

I want to become a member of the "Tinker Bell Club," and I promise to do one kind action every day. Please send me a "Tinker Bell" enrolment card.

Name

Address

Age

Date of Birthday

Cut this out, and send it to Tinker Bell, c/o The Editor, China Mail.

MOH! THATS

WONDERFUL

DEAR-

STAV 199

AFTER I FOUND OUT THAT YCA WEREN'T GOING-DARLING-1

CANCELLED MY TRÍP ALSO- OF COURSE IT WOULD HAVE

·BEEN A WONDERFUL BUSINESS DEAL BUT I WOULDNT LEAVE

-YOU-

GOOD! 1.MADE A MISTAKE!:

YOU ARE TO GO TO

·CHINA - SO GET

A TICKET RIGHT

YOU ARE JUSTA: WONDERFUL,

BIG BOY-

O-U!

ITAV

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