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THE BILLY BOYS'

MAKING A

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT.

WORKSHOP

COPPER LID.

After several years' use, the Slip a pencil through the second ordinary wooden copper lid gan-loop, hold it firmly and mark the

circle. erally wears out, and this week I want to tell you how to make a strong new one. No nails will be used, as these would be likely rust marks on the to cause clothes.

The measurements given are for a lid twenty inches in dia! meter, but they can be altered to suit a larger or smaller copper As required.. Deal boards one Inch thick are used throughout,

For the circular part of the lid, you will need two boards six inches wide and twenty inches' long, and two boards four and a half inches wide and seventeen inches long. The cross-battens A and B are twenty-one inches, long and three inches wide.

Take the four boards for the lid, lay them on the floor close together and mark over them a circle twenty inches in diameter. To do this, drive in a nail near the edge of one of the long boards at C, loop one end of a piece of string round the nail and make another loop so that it is exactly ten inches from the nail when the string is stretched.

BOYS OF

Nail the boards and battens together, but do not drive the nails right in as they have to be drawn out later on. Now, with a three-eighths bit, bore holes

right through as indicated in the top.right-hand diagram.

A number of thin wooden wedges must be, cut, each about three inches long: you will need two for each hole. These are inserted in the holes from either side, as shown in diagram D, Idriven in tight, and cut off flysh on each side, after the nails are removed

With a keyhole saw, cut out the lid to the circular line, and then plug. the nail holes with pieces of wood.

The handle is formed from a given at E, slots being cut in the piece of wood cut to the size end underneath where they fit in on the battens. Round the mid- die part, and bore holes the ends for the brass fixing screws.

The Hut Carpenter.

TINK'S CROSS

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

An Embroidered Crash Shopping

Bag

Tink has made Wendy a lovely shopping or work bag and we think the little Dressmakers will like to copy it for their mothers or big sisters. It is made of crash or hessian, lined with coloured cotton, and trimmed in front with a big circle of em- broidered flowers.

You will need a plece of crash, and a piece of cotton, both eighteen inches wide and twenty-

WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drew the letters TEE and gave the "total" of u you decided little sum. Putting two and two together, I am sure that the word the picture represented was." teetotal"-the word hidden in the puzzle. Fuil solution:

1. Continually 7. A weed

8, Jack

Across.

11. Royal Navy (abbreviated)

12. Work with needle and thread (Sew),

SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931

JAVA'S

(Constantly). (Tare).

(Tar).

(R.N.)

14. Hidden word

(Teetotal).

18. Cakes

(Scones).

23. A drink

(Ale).

25. Refusal

(No).

26. Serpent

(ABD).

28. Busy insect

(Bee).

29: French for "and"

(Et).

80. Scottish river

(Dee).

Down.

1. Animal

(Cat).

2. Thoroughfare (abbreviated)

(St.)

3. Small pie

(Tart).

4 River in Italy

(Arno).

5. Compass point

(NE).

6. Tree

(Yen

9. Devoured.

(Ate)..

10. About 4.

(Re);

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

13. Large deer ..

(Elk),

15. And BO OB

(Etc.)

16. Part of the foot

(Toe).

17. Vehicle

(Cab),

*18, Perceive

(See),

B

19. Number

(One).

Bali to:

20. Negative

(Not).

Name

21. Unhappy

(Sad)..

22. Monkey

(Ape).

24. French for "the" (masculine) (Le).

27. Compass point

(SE).

Now see what you can make of this week's picture.

12"

Wedges

A new. copper lid may be very acceptable in your house. If so, make one like this: Carpenter tells you all about it.

LONG AGO.

STANLEY.

. Stanley was apprenticed to a master silversmith. Silver had become the fashion, so his master was a very rich man and Stanley hoped to become one. Candles also were the fashion for the wealthy, and the silversmitha could hardly make silver candle- sticks fast enough.

According to the law of the silversmiths, no apprentice could work after the hour of curfew. And at that hour Stanley would creep away to the attic where he slept, and, by the light of a lump of greasy rags atuck in a hard block of wood, he would work at his secret idea while the other apprentices enjoyed themselves in the streets. When he heard his companions coming up the narrow stairs, Stanley would push his papers and pencils under his mattress, and often he would get between his, blankets fully- dressed, pretending to have been asleep.

"Slug-a-bed!" shouted the ap- undressed. as they prentices "Listen to him snoring away the hours which we enjoy!"

"Where have you been ?" mum- bled Stanley.

want to watch him going into the play I want to go in with him."

The Guild did not permit Stanley to work for his master

"Stanley

...

would work at his secret idea while the other apprentices enjoyed themselves,

Church festivals, or after twelve o'clock on feast days, so

"To Drury Lane Theatre!" On they cried. "We saw the King go in to the play. And Nell Gwyn, crying Sweet oranges, offered his Majesty one, and he accepted."

civil

"The King is always civil," thought Stanley, "But I don't

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sleepily to the attic. His com- panions called him "slug-a-bed," but he was very good natured, so they did not make his life so hard as they might have done. Yet Stanley dared not tell them his secret, for they were such a riotous set that they would have dragged him into the streets and forced, him to leave his work. Nor could he go to his master with his idea,, for so great was the competition between the silversmiths that he was afraid his master would use the project for his own advancement.

When his seven years of ap- prenticeship were over, Stanley's father paid fees to the Guild, and thus the young man became

a full citizen and silversmith. Then he did a most daring thing. He spent most of his money on buying a good suit of clothes, and then, with his papers under his arm, he lingered in Saint James' Fields till he saw King Charles the Second come out to play the popular game of pall mall. Stanley bowed low,. and the King, who was always ready to speak to his subjects, asked him what he desired.

It is intended to suggest to you the word we have hidden in the puzzle.

1. Gone by.

Claes:-

10

24

E

K

2

·

19

4

*

What English word does This suggest to you?

Across.

4... Girl's name.

7. Animals with long necka.

8. Conjunction.

9. Exclamation of query."

10. Hidden word.

16.

Pack.

18. Possessive pronoun. 20. Girl's name. 22. French coin. 23. To free.

24. Land, buildings, etc.

Down

1. Same as 1 across...

2. Young woman.

him

3. Same as 8 across.

4.

Whether.

Then Stanley showed some beautiful designs of silver beds, chairs, and stools, and the King was so enchanted that he immediately ordered several. Soon ali silversmiths were mak ing silver furniture, which be came the rage. But Stanley's

on all these occasions Stanley designs were the best, and he be- would yawn, stretch, and go came the King's silversmith.

Rosie's BEAU

GED MEMANUS

Registered U. S. Patent Office.

I'M SORRY-LOVE-BUT:1 WAS.

GOING TO CALL YOU

YOU KNOW THE

TO A DINNER

UPLE OF BU

I MUST CALL ÜPPE

ARCHIE AND SEE IF HE

15 GOING TO CALL

ON ME TO-NIGHT-

5. Action.

6. Remains of a re.

11. Fublish.

12. Twelve inches (abbreviated).

13. Preposition.

14. Water pitchers.

16. Will-o'-the

17... Whims.

19. Recky peak.

21. Contend.

GEE! Į KATE:T

ROSIE IF SHE

WAS ONLY

TO

FISH

FOR

BREAK HER

four inches long. When these are folded, the bag will measure eighteen inches wide, and twevle inches deep. Take the crash first, fold it, and preas it flat. Then place in the centre front a plate measuring about eight of -nine inches across Pencil round the plate, and you will have the outline for the embroidery. Now take a penny, a shilling, and a sixpence, and, laying these hap- hazardly in the circle, pencil round them; make the different circles almost touch each other here and there, and arrange them all as prettily as you can. F in the big circle like this, and embroider the little circles with coloured wools. You can use up all the odd lengths in your work- box, for the more shades you use,

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the better will be the effect. Work the rounds to represent flowers, doing some of them in straight-stitches, like Diagram A, others in lazy daisy stitches, like Diagram B, and the rest in buttonhole-stitches, like Diagram C. Give all the blossoms yellow satin-stitch centres, and work jade green lazy-daisies here and. thera, to represent leaves..

Pross the embroidery,. and sew up the sides of the crash to form a bag. Sew up the lining in the same way, slip it inside the crash bag, and sew the two together. Make handles out of two strips of crash, lined with coloured cotton. A line of wool-couching round the bag, about an inch down from the top, makes a nice finish.

Wendy's Dressmaker.

The pretly embroidered crash shopping bag which Tink has made for Wendy. You can make, one like it, if you read Dressmaker's instructions.

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.

GEE! THERE GOES THE PHONE- I THOUGHT IT WAS THE DOOR- BELL NO ONE MUST KNOW THAT I'M COOKING SOME FISH FOR MYSELF-1 DON'T WANT ANYONE TO KNOW I'M BROKE-

NOW I DON THE FISH CLO

PHO

OH-HELLO' ROSIE DARLING" HOW ARE YOU DEAR?: WHAT'S THAT?

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