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THE CHINA MAIL.

WENDY HUT.

Above all things, Dionysius So ended the famous Dionysius the Tyrant desired to be a poet., but again and again he was bit terly disappointed when his gained no prize in the competitions held in Greece. He

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of Syracuse. All that is left of him to-day is his name and his Ear,still listening in the huge quarry.

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

Making A Saucepan-Lid Rack.

This useful kitchen fitment can be made from wood half an inch thick. As you will see from the first diagram, the rack is in- tended to hold six saucepan lids of varying sizes.

For the two sides you will need two pieces of wood, one foot eleven inches long and six inches wide. Taper both pieces as shown in the top right-hand diagram, and, after planing the sloping edges, mark on one piece the positions of the slots for holding the lids. To do this, mark a line A two and a half inches from the front edge at the top. Now mark a point on the line three inches from the bot- tom, and from this mark five

TINK'S CROSS WORD

PUZZLE.

Last week you saw a picture of." Dick," the youngest of three." I wonder if this suggested to you the title of the Shakespearean play, "Richard the, third." This title was hidden in the puzzle. Full solution.

Across.

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THE EAR OF DIONYSIUS.

In the tremendous rock near the quarry where prisoners were once kept is the Ear of Dionysius, the Tyrant of Syracuse. This entrance to a huge cave is shaped like a gigantic human ear, and is called the Ear of Dionysius be- cause the old story, says that the tyrant caused the prison to be that he shaped like an ear, so might listen, unseen to his pri- soners, and hear even their whis- pera. At the top of the cave is a small room hacked out of the rock, and here Dionysius learnt the secrets of the prisoners who collected in the great cave to es- cape rain, bitter wind, and the blazing sun which poured down on them in the quarries.

man who became their leader, who built their magnificent walls. who turned Syracuse into a famous workshop where engines for hurling stones were made, and who made it the greatest fortified city of Europe. though the fame of his rang in many lands, his power only seemed to bring him fear and hatred.

But, name

It is said that he made the Ear where he spent many hours listening because he was afraid- of the prisoners-who could not· possibly harm him.

He never trusted his head to a barber, but burnt his beard himself in the flame of a little oil lamp. So suspicious did he become that at To-day, if you murmur softly: last he would not allow even his Dionysius, are you there?" the wife or his children to enter his echo thunders out clearly, prov-private apartments till they were ing that nothing uttered in that searched to make sure that they had no concealed weapons. But cave can be private.

A strange man was Diony- his fear did not prevent him from slus. Of humble birth and poor, stealing the golden mantle from he entered Syracuse in the army the statue of Jupiter, on the pretext that it was too warm for of Hermocrates, and was left for dead on the battle-feld by the for the god in summer, and too Syracusans. And this was the cold in winter.

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Pretty "Waitress Aprons.

A Wendy girl has to help to serve teas at her School Party, and has asked me to tell her how to make a pretty little apron to wear over her dress. Perhaps all of you would like to know?

Here are two patterns, both at-

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WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS. and skirt is made from two triangles of material-a small one for the top, a larger one for the skirt. Measure yourself to get an idea of the sizes; and I think it would be a good plan to cut out the triangles in paper first of all. Arrange them as shown in Diagram A, with a folded strip of plain material be tween for the waistbelt, and stitch both triangles to this waistbelt. Hem all the edges, sew a loop of the belt material to the top point of the upper triangle, to slip over your head, and the apron is finished.

The second one is made in

Two pretty little "Waitress Aprons." You can make either quite easily, if you read Dressmaker's tvalruc- tions.

tractive and easy to copy. Choose gay flowered voile or printed cot- ton, and buy about one yard for either apron.

The apron with pointed yoke

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Dionysius never trusted his head to a barber, but burnt his beard himself in the flame of a little oil lamp.

used to send his brother Theo- dorus to Olympin to repeat his poems in his name, and at last, when he was sixty-three years old, newa reached him that he He had been awarded a prize. was overcome with delight, cr- dered a banquet to celebrate the occasion, and ate so much that he died during a violent attack of indigestion!

much the same way, but the! shapes are circular. Diagram B shows you just how they are ar- ranged. Instead of hemming all the edges, you could bind them with bias binding to match the

waistbelt.

If you have any material left over, make a wee mob cap to match. This is just a 'circle of material, gathered round the edge, and sewn to a head-band of ribbon, as shown in Diagram C. It will look very sweet if you have long ends to the ribbon, 80 that you can tie them in a pretty how at the back of your head! 1

Wendy's Dressmaker,

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I WOULD, LIKE

TO SEE-ROSIE-

I JUST CAN'T STAND

HAVING ROSIE ANGRY WITH ME-ILL RUN

RIGHT OVER TO HER HOUSE AND ASK FOR HER FORGIVENESS-

SORRY-BUT YOU WILL.. HAVE TO KEEP YOUR LIKENESS AS MISS ROSIE HAS DONE GONE

OUT

1. Serpents

(Asps).

4. Notion

(Idea).

8. Title

(Sir).

10. Insect

(Ant).

11. First word of hidden title

(Richard).

15. Depart

(Go).

16. About

(Re).

18. Thanks

(Ta).

20. Second word of 'hidden title

(The).

21. Compass point

(NE).

22. Put into one total

(Add),

24. Not high

(Low).

25. Pronoun

(You).

27. Girl's name

(Ada),

28. Third word of hidden title

(Third).

29. Twenty-four hours

(Day).

30. Pronoun

(She).

Down.

(As).

(Sir).

3. Conceited person

(Prig)

5. Challenge

(Dare).

6. Termination

(End).

7. Preposition

(At)

9. Exclamation of query

(Eh).

12. Small bed

(Cot).

18. Part of verb "to be"

(Are).

14. Remained-

(Stayed).

17. Be on guard against

(Beware).

19.

Fuss..

(Ado)..

(Nod).

(Lads). (Kid).

1. Because

2. Same as 8 across

21. Incline the head

23 That which ought to be done (Duty).. 24. Boys

26. Young goat

Now if you say to yourselves the letters printed be. side this week's puzzle, you will say the word we have hidden.

UN

Y Y

Clues:

10

what English word does

this suggest to you?

Across.

1. Disorderly crowd.

3. Summit.

G. Not early.

6. Hidden word.

10., Ripped.

12. Proppsition.

14. Compass point.

15. Conjunction.

.16. Girl's name,

18. Part of verb "to be."

10. Came back.

YESSUM! HE LEFT

TEN MINUTES AGO: |_ HE SAID HE HAD A

'DATE WITH A LADY" AN WOULDN'T BE BACK

Dawn..

1. Small carpet.

2. Not sharp.

Irritate.

Deep hole in the ground. Gained.

8. Anger.

9. Disturb.

11. Boy's name (abbreviated).

13. Form.

15. Substance from which matol

is extracted.

17. Preposition.

18. One.

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other points up the line, at al distance of three and a quarter inches apart. At each of these points, bore a hole with a one inch bit, and then rule parallel lines igining the holes with the Hloping edge of the wood, as. With shown in the diagram. your tenon saw cut out the slots; which will be one inch wide Smooth the rough edges of the slots with a chisel, and finish with glasspaper. Use the finish- ed side as a pattern for marking out the slots on the other picce; then cut out and finish this in the same way.

For the bottom of the rack cut a piece of wood to the sizes given in diagram B. and with your plane slightly bevel the two side edges. Nail this in place at a distance of one inch up from the lower edges of the sides,

Cut the top C as shown, mak- ing the slope at the sides to cor- respond with that of the up- rights. Bore a half-inch hole in the top, as indicated and nail it in position.

OH DEAR! AFTER ALL- IT'S MY FAULT THAT WE QUARRELED-I'LL GO

·TO HIS OFFICE AND

MAKE UP WITH HIM”,

OH INDEED!

WELL YOU NEEDNT TELL HIM

1 CALLED

The finished rack is intended to hang on a nail in a corner of the kitchen.

The Hut Carpenter.

The saucepan·lid rack, and diagrams to make quite clear Carpenter's in structions for fashioning it,

HERBERT IF ANY ONE CALLS FOR ME TELL

THEM HAVE A DATE WITH A LADY AND

WILL NOT BE BACK-

NOT HOME; EH? I'M NOT JEALOUS-

BUT I'LL HANG AROUND JUST TO SEE THE GIGOLO

SHE WAS OUT WITH -

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