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THE

CHINA MAIL.

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

A Kitchen Shelf And

Rail.

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The WENDY

HUT

BOYS

OF LONG AGO.

JACK IN THE GREEN.

All was ready save the hour and that would come with the dawn. Before he went to bed in the hay loft, Jack gave a last touch to the wooden cage which he hat made and twisted with ivy and holly; there would he time in the morning to finish it off with budding branches and fresh green leaves. Jack,

"Dat danced Jack, his geren rape fard to his sprightly little figure."

OVO

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

A "Best Dress" For Little

Sister.

A Wendy girl wants to make a "best dress" for her little sister, so we've thought out something specially pretty and dainty, as as you will agree when you have studied the picture. The frock takes about two yards of thirty- six-inch material, and looks best in muslin, or samething equally dainty.

Measure the child across her my masters and mistresses! A lessing on your crops and seeds.

chest, and from her shoulders to her waist. Cut a piece of mater Away to the woods for the May-ial twice this size, with a little pole!"

As they went shouting through the village, with Jack dancing in front of them and welcoming in the Spring, people in cottage and mansion tumbled out of bed. donned their best clothes, and hurried to the village green to see the arrival of the Maypole. How they cheered when it ap poured! A tull, stripped tree. drawn by thirty yoke of oxen, garlanded with flowers, rounded by a gay company of lads and lasses, and preceded by the leaping, fantastic figure of Jack-in-the-green!

Sur-

as shown in Diagram A. scooping over for turnings. Fold and cut

out a little for the neck and curv-

A

B

The "beat dress" for lit- tle sister. Dressmaker CX- plains how to make it.

THE LAND OF NOD.

Gently gently → on tip-toe

not speaking, Finger to lips

n-creaking,

not one

toe

Enter with me the strange Land

of Nod,

You never have seen a country

so odd.

What's that in this queer street

silent and still? Oh, only the shadows who dance

a quadrille!

No,

- someone is sitting asleep on a stool,

Look closely, bend nearer, it's

young April Fool!

How lovely his raiment of apple How soft his complexion of roses

green silk;

Suppose while he's sleeping we

and milk;

played him a joke? But what should we do if per-

chance he awoke!

Let's leave him, and glance down

this bright lighted pit, The home, I believe, of the old

Tell-Tale-Tit.

Look, there he is dreaming and

flapping his wings;

I wish I could hear what the Tell-

Tale-Tit sings! See, there on

the gum trec hangs the cocoon. In which these strange people have hid the blue moon: And there by the cross roatis is

Father Time dozing,

I never expected his eyes would

be closing!

In that patchwork cottage lives

old Tittle-Tattle, Who talks day and night like an

incessant rattle;

Stop under her window and listen

awhile,

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ing the armholes as indicated.But mind you don't giggle, or The skirt which looks like Diagram B before it is is joined on.

You've laughed!-they're awake!

titter, or smile.

"Spring has come! Good luck : my masters and mistresses! A blessing on my lords and ladies!" Then they set up the Maypole, and Jack-in-the-green, who was allowed many liberties, begged kisses from the pretty girls, frightened the old women by whispering that the witches were ctealing the milk, and tickled · with a long green branch the lads who were building the bon- fires. All day he danced and sang of Spring, enting little of the food provided by the lord of bodice and skirt: then her the Sew up the side seams of the manor. And when evening came, and the happy, boisterous bottom of the skirt, and run a crowd left off dancing round the gathering thread round the top Maypole and collected near the edge. Poll this up-to fit the bonfires, Jack-in-the-green jump-

lower edge of the bodice, pin the el fearlessly over the flames, and two together, regulating the full-

ness carefully many followed him to rid them-tack them. Try the wee frock Ko, and selves of evil spells and misfor- tunes which the fire burnt away

on little sister, then if the length The as they passed over it.

is right and the gathers are even, sew hotice and skirt firmly together.

who was twelve years old, had some misgivings, for never he fore had he been chosen to play the part of Jack-in-the-green.

It was a wonderful May Day, Early next morning, on the but only one man in that crowd first day of May, there was guessed that the little Jack-in- great noise outside the cottage. the-green was a genius at mirth

"Jack-in-the-green! Jack-in-making, and that the-green!" shouted a large crowd

of young men and maidens.

3

man was

sewn,

as you

That's young Busy Body beating -Which way did we come?

the drumm! There's wild Helter-Skelter, and

all the Nightmares Prancing and leaping out of their

lairs -

vanished! I told you whisper and creep:

It's

to

Land of Nod's gone we've just had a peep.

but

PRINCE'S FINE EXAMPLE.

always does well.

He believes in the old proverb, "Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might." Whether he is speaking at a dinner, visiting a hospital, or carrying out one of these business visits for the Empire, he puts his heart and soul into it.

SATURDAY, MAY 2, 1931.

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drew a chest with the letters ER printed on it. This, as you discovered, was intended to represent the name of a well-known English elty-Chester-which was hidden in the puzzle.

Here is a useful kitchen shelf, | Full solution:- with a rail for tou-cloths and pegs for holding a washing-up mop on one side and a cleaning brush on the other.

Ordinary deal, half-inch thick, con be used throughout. For the back, saw a piece sixteen inches long and six and a half inches wide. Plane on both sides and along the edges and then, with a chisel, round the two bot- tom corners.

The shelf is sixteen inches long and seven inches wide, planed on both sides and edges,

Carpenter tells you how

tu make this useful kitchen shelf; and the diagrams will help.

For the supporting brackets A.A. two pieces of wood each six inches square, will be required. Mark out the surface of one piece into one inch squares and then carefully outline the shape of the bracket as shown in the lottom right hand diagram. Also mark the dotted circle which gives the position for one end of the rail. Cut out roughly to the outline with a pad-saw, and finish with a chisel and glass- paper. Use the finished bracket as a pattern for marking the shape of the other bracket, which can then be cut out and finished in the same way,

In the side of each bracket, make a hole at an angle to take about two inches from the top.:

a short piece of three-eighths- inch dowel rod. These form the pegs on which mops and brushes can be hung.

When fixing the parts together. screw the shelf to the back part with four strong screws, and then fix each bracket in place! with two

screws through the back and two screws through the shelf.

serew in each

For the rail, obtain a length of; three-quarter-inch dowel rod and

side brackets. The rail is fixed length to fit nicely between the cut off a piece of sufficient

end, the holes for the screws be in place by one ing deeply countersunk, as shown at B. and afterwards plugged. When set quite hard, the filling i can be chiselled off flush.

Lastly, obtain two brass eye- let plates, as shown at C, and screw them to the back of the shelf, one near each end, as shown in the second diagram.

The Hut Carpenter.

Bind the little armholes with contrasting coloured cotton bias binding. and make strolling player named William round the neck with the same opened the British Industries a casing The Prince of Wales recently Then out danced Jack with his the morning, he found Jack-in-the centre front of the neck which, it is hoped and believed, Shakespeare. At two o'clock in hinding. Leave an opening in Exhibition in Buenos Aires, green cage fixed to his sprightly the-green lying exhausted near a binding through which to thread will do a great deal to help Bri- Hittle figure. As soon as he saw dying bonfire, and he picked up

a ribbon which will pull up the tish trade in Argentina. the young men and the maidens the boy and carried him to the

fullness, and can be tied in a with green branches and spring inn.

pretty bow wiith long ends Whatever he does the Prince flowers in their hands, he felt he "Will Shakespeare hath need hanging down over the bodice. was no longer Jack the rat- of thee to play his parts," he

Now for the final touches-the catcher's son, but the real Spiritushed.

gay butterflies which are em- of Spring.

Thus did the little Jaca-in-the-broidered on skirt and bodice "Spring has come!" he cried, green play many parts for the front! Diagram C shows the "Spring has come! Good luck iramortal poet.

shape of these, and you'll find it quite easy to draw a butterfly on naper in ink, Then, if you place the drawing under the muslin, OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER. | salt, and half a pound of golden you can go over the outlines with by his future subjects, but even evidently thinks his visit will be a sharp pencil. Embroider the butterflies in bright coloured by foreigners, and an American a success, for it went on to say: Set the saucepan over gentle silks, outlining them with stem paper the other day, referring "Some British products can beat heat and allow the contents to or chain stitch, and working the

to his visit, said "the Prince is ours hands down, and it would dissolve slowly, without stirring. spots on the wings with satin no mean salesman," and declar- be well for

us to look to our When the engar has melted, stitch. bring the mixture to boiling measure

Each butterfly shoulded that he takes seriously his markets lest they slip from our point, stirring occasionally, and inches across.

about two and a half job of salesman for the Empire. hands." Have ready a teacupful of boil till a little dropped into cold may cut them

If you prefer, you This is fine testimony, and it chopped, preserved ginger. Cut water becomes brittle.

out of coloured would be a splendid thing for muslin, and applique them in

our country and Empire if every a quarter of a pound of butter Now stir in into small pieces, place in a ginger, pour the toffee into a

the chopped position with matching silk one of us did our work in the

hutton-holing.

same spirit. saucepan, and add one pound of buttered tin, and leave to set.

The American paper which thus spoke so well of the Prince ever.

Delicious Ginger Toffee.

Demerare sugar, a dessertspoon-

ful of water, a good pinch of

BACK

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BY

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Registered US Patent Office

Wendy's, Dressmaker.

GEE! THIS THING OF PRETENDING TO BE SICK IS MAKING ME

REALLY ILL-! CANT. STAND IT ANY

LONGER-

THIS IS TOUGH LUCK FOR ME.

THE BOSS SAID IF YOU DIDN'T GET BACK TO WORK IN TIME-HE WOULD SEND ME AND I HAD MY MIND SET ON THE

TRIP-

HUH?

This is recognised, not only

Let us see to it that whatever we do we try to do so well that no one can possibly do it better. If we all have that idea and carry it out, the prestige of our country will stand higher than

TM'M GOING BACK TO WORK-I'LL TELL THE BOSS I CAN'T GO TO CHINA AND IF I GET FIRED 1 CAN'T HELP IT- I'LL NOT LEAVE-ROGIE-

P'LL GIVE YOU FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IP YOU'LL GO BACK HOME AND JUST LET L ME GET THAT JOB TO GO TO CHINA -

WHY-!

YES!.

13. Hidden name

Exclamation

Across.

1. Fascinute 9. Region

(Captivate).

(Area).

10. Old

(Aged).

11. Mark left by a wound

(Sear),

12. Number

(Nine).

(Chester).

18.

(Ah).

19. Follows neither

(Nor)..

20. Preposition

(Of).

22. Jeer

(Gibe).

24. Belonging to you

(Your).

26. Large bird

(Emu).

28. Devoured

((Ate).

29. Gave up hope

(Despaired).

Down,

1. Box

(Case).

2. Part of a circle

(Are).

3. Fruit

(Peach)

4. Jack

(Tar).

5. Large vehicle

(Van).

6. Nimble

(Agile).

7. Number

(Ten).

8. Garden of the Bible

(Eden).

13. Sound of bells

(Chime).

14. Compass point

(ENE).

15. Therefore.

(So).

(Try).

(Route).

18. Same as 10 across

(Agod).

21. Boy's name (abbreviated)

(Fred).

23. Public vehicle

(Bus).

25. Used for rowing a boat

(Oar).

16. Endeavour

17. Road to be travelled

27. British Dominion (abbreviated) (S.A.).

Now

you see three letters and - you study the drawing carefully I am sure you will be able something else. If to guess the word we have hidden in the puzzle. To help you, it means "to make or become_deeper."

Dee

B

2

。

What English work does

this suggest to you?

Clues:-

Across.

1. Citizen of Amerien.

8. Sensible.

5. Number. 10. Rest. 11. Declare..

12. Hidden word.

15. Taps,

17. As far as

18. About.

1. Conjunction.

20. Scheme,

22. Room in which

played.

Батся

Arc

1. Animal.

Down.

2. Young girl.

3. Come in.

ir

4. Same as 18 across.

5. Small bays.

6. In Ittle while.

1.

Fresh.

11. Become visible.

13. In good time.

14. Ccase.

10. Heard in a band.

20. Father.

21. Negative.

THE

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.

OH! YOU ARE BACK- I THOUGHT YOU WERE VERY SICK?"

YES- I'M BACK TO

WORK-THE BOSS

WANTS ME TO

GO TO CHINA

AND-

WELL-!

WELL-THIS IS THE BEST BIT OF LUCK I EVER HAD IN ALL MY LIFE- FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS AND I DON'T HAVE TO GO TO CHINA-YEA, BO!

EVANS Pastilles

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