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THE CHINA MAIL.

TINKER BELL CLUB MEMBERS.

Charles Thirlwell

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The WENDY

HUT.

at Hugh's castle by Hugh's uncle, because the Count was away on feudal service to his lord.

John loved Knowing that hunting, Hugh's uncle arranged a great chase, and then the King Haw Isabella for the first time. She was not quite fifteen, vary lovely, and, riding a white horse, she dashed gaily through the sunny glodes. Still nobody thought very much about her, John of England spoke to Isabella, and when he heard her sweet voice he made up his mind that she should be his queen.

PRINCESSES OF THE PAST thought very much about her.

ISABELLA OF ANGOULEME.

Often Called Isabella de la Marche.

Isabella was the only child of Ayınes, Count of Angouleme, and she lived when the feudal system held away in Europe. The rich province of Angouleme, to which she was heiress, was held in Gef by Aquitaine which was in turn held by King John of England.

small child, she was betrothed to

When Isabella was

Count Hugh de la Marche, who lived on the borders of Aqui- tuine.

According to the feudal custom, she was sent to the castle of her betrothed lord to be educated, and was often called Nobody Isabella de la Marche.

thought very much about little Isabella. She was very beauti- ful, which was always a good thing for a princess to be, and, when she became betrothed to Hugh de la Marche, her future promised to be quite uneventful and sure.

Isabella lived happily in the great castle. She learnt to sew and weave, to hunt, and perhaps to write a little, and she em- broidered beautiful gowns ready for the time when she would be old enough to marry her feudal lord.

of Poltou.

Then Eleaner mother of the King of England, fell ill when she was travelling through France, and was very kindly treated by the people of Aquitaine and

the powerful)

Probably Hugh de la Marche.

heard about

the little she Isabella, but she took no inter- est in her. She wrote, however, to her son John, telling him he ought to come to France and make friends with the powerful Hugh, who might be useful to him. About a year later, King John went, but not with very good grace, and he was received

ful thing to be Queen of England, and she was too young to guess the consequences of John's ac- Lion.

Phyllis Irene Teale Veronic Thirlwell

Vivian Thomas

Freddy Thomas

Lilly Trink

Pauline Trink

Tilda Victor

Bobble Florence Waldon

Daphne Weir

Ella Whitehead

Arthur White

June White

Archibald Zimmern.

MR. WISE AND THE CANARY.

.

One day a little old man called was walking in the Mr. Wise woods. Feeling tired, he sat a fallen tree and was down on

John and Isabella sailed in triumph to England, but the king had made so many enemies by carrying Isabella off in this treacherous manner that, by de- grees, he lost nearly all his for- on the point of sleeping when a eign possessions, and was nick-soft voice reached him.

"Please," said the voice, "lead named John Lackland.

to a big shop where I can buy all the most beautiful fen- thers in the world!"

THE BILLY BOYS' 'WORKSHOP.

A Combined Wall Cabinet And

Bookcase.

There was only one way of taking Isabella to England, and,

This useful little article can without any hesitation, the he made quite cheaply from treacherous king took that way. ordinary deal. The cabinet will It is said that one day, when be handy for storing medicine they were hunting, he enticed bottles, while the bookcase will Isabella into a wood, seized her, hold about a dozen small books. thick wood put her before him on his horse, Five-eighths-inch and rode with her like the wind will be required for the sides, to his castle at Bordeaux. Here and half-inch wood for the they were married in August, shelves and top.. 1200. It is probable that Isabella consented to this marriage be cause it seemed to her a wonder

"Riding a white horse, Isabella dashed gaily through

the summy glades."

WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN, these, and the uppers, for the, from odd scraps of coloured fell,

A Pair Of Felt Slippers.

One of the Wendy girls wants

to make a pair of Felt Slippers, und, as we thought others might like to copy the idea, we are tell- ing you about it this week.

Each slipper is made of two pleces; an upper shaped like Diagram C, and a sole like Dia- gram D. Cut out the shapes in paper first, to make sure of get- To ting them the right size. find the shape and size of the sole, pencil round your foot, laid Join flat on a plece of paper. the upper at the back, placing to- gether the two little edges mark- ed on the Diagram and stitching them neatly. This done, the up- per should look like Diagram G, and must be sewn to the sole by over-stitching all round. You, can use a pair of sixpenny ready- made soles as foundation for vour slippers if you haven't enough felt. If you make thei Holes from felt, be sure to cut

YOUR SAFEGUARD

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EVANS

Pastilles

From: Chelto every

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A forms of fan Akvare

A pair of felt alippers.. Dressmaker tells you all about them.

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right and left feet-not both for one foot.

A wee posy of flowers, made

Rosie's BEAU GED.M-MANUS

Registered U. 5: Patent Offer.

CH-DEAR! I'M SO SORRY-DADDY: IS GOING SO I'LL HAVE TO GO I'LL SURELY

MISS YOU.

forms a dainty adornment for the toe of each shoe. Diagram E shows you the shape to cut the flowers, which should be about You can sew 11⁄2 inches across, wooden beads to the centres to finish them off. Diagram EE shows the shape of the leaves. Make the posy with three or four flowers, and as many leaves, 'bunch them prettily together, and stitch firmly in position.

Diagram B shows another way of decorating slippers made from grey or brown felt. Black boot- buttons suggest the rabbits' eyes, and the wee noses are work- ed in pink wool, and the whisk- ers are black horse-hair. Dio- gram F shows you. the shape to cut the "ears," which are made of grey felt, lined with pink. They should be about 8 inches long, and 14 inches across at their widest point.

Wendy's Dressmaker.

me

Mr. Wise turned, and beheid a į canary!

What!" he exclaimed. "You must be crazy, little bird! What do you want to do with all the most beautiful feathers in the world?"

"Wear them, of course!" an-

swered the canary. "I'm not go- ing to play second fiddle to Gay Do you Peacock much longer. imagine I enjoy being unnoticed, while Gay Peacock struts about, For the sides, cut two pieces displaying wonderful plumage, of five-eighths-inch wood, two to the admiration of the little 1 tell feet one inch long and seven folks and grown-upa? inches wide. On one piece mea-you, I'm tired of it all!" sure three inches up from one

"My dear little bird," said Mr. end and draw the simple curved wise, tenderly, "you are making shape shown at A. Cut this out mountain out of nothing! with a pud-saw and smooth the edge with glasspaper. Lay this on the other side piece, mark out the curve, and cut out and finish in the same way. Now lay the two sides together and mark the positions for the two shelves, nc-¡ cording to the dimensions given in diagram B. The shelf-sup- porting fillets are strips of half- inch by quarter-inch stripwood, fixed to the sides with two

screws.

The shelves are ten inches long, the lower one being six inches and the upper one seven inches wide. Glue these to the fillets and fix them to the aldes by two screws in each end. A an inch space of a quarter of must be left between the hacks of the shelves and the back edges of the sides..

The combined wall-cabinet und book-case. Carpenter

explains how you make it. The backboard is a piece of quarter-inch wood, ten inches wide and twenty-one inches long; glue and nail this to the shelves

WOW.MY DOGS ARE SORE

FROM WALKING HOME FROM ROSIES HOUSE LAST NIGHT- I SHOULD HAVE TOLD ROSIE

I DIDN'T HAVE CAR-FARE-

I'LLPHONE HER AND

TELLHER I CAN'T

GO OUT.

TO:NIGHT-

|

Here you are, sulking because

Gay you haven't

Peacock's You have something plumage. infinitely greater - a beautiful voice! Your delightful singing rings joy to millions of little folke and grown-ups. Un- noticed, you say? My dear little bird, everybody notices you! Your sweet voice is recognised throughout the land. When you sing, little boys and girls stop

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and to the sides. The top rail D, one and a quarter inches wide and five-eighths-inch thick, must now be screwed in place.

Glue and screw the top of the cabinet, the sizes for which are given in diagram B., to the sides and top-rail 'D. Then cut three pieces of cornice moulding to size and glue them under the overlapping top, cutting the ends of the moulding flush with the track of the cabinet.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1931,

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drew a number of T's at the side of the puzzlo, and so I suppose you had no difficulty, in Anding the hidden word- "tease." Full solution of puzzle:-

Across.

1. Shrill cries

(Screams).

7. French for "ather"

(Pero).

8. Not rich

(Poor).

10. Stem of a water plant

(Reed).

11. Not false

(True).

12. Girl's name

(Ena),

18. See

(Spy).

14. Hidden word

(Tense).

16. Compass point

(ESE).

18. Mendow

(Lea).

20.

Another compass point

(NE)

21. Devoured

(Ate).

23. Medical man (abbreviated)

(Dr.).

24. Came down

(Descended),

27. Expression of denial.

(Not).

28., Put on

(Don).

Down.

1. Observed

(Seen),

(Create).

2. Make

3. Colour

4. Suitable

5. Small piece

6. Liquid food

7. Make believe

9. Name for a fox

16. Prefix meaning "before"

17. Same as 1 down

19. Garden of the Bible

21. Play a part

22. Conclusion

25. Therefore

26. Transact

(Red).

(Apt).

(Morsel).

(Soup).

(Pretend),

(Reynard),

(Ante).

(Seen).

(Eden).

(Act).

(End).

(80).

(Do).

The way

Now you see a letter and an object. these are arranged should suggest to you-something you would not like to be called yourself. What is it? The name is hidden in the puzzle.

10

12

19

234

25

← This represents something hobody likes to be

what is it?

Clues:--

1. Ocean.,

Jewel.

b. Auction.

Across,

6. Shut nolally. 1. You and I.

11. Conjunction. 12. To live.

13. Hidden name,

17. Where the sun sots. 1f, Chopping tool. : 21. Possess.

23. Paid attention.

playing and listen,

You capti- |

1. Not quick.

Down

2. Another name for the kidden

one,

3. Same as a scrois.

4. Extra.

6.

Only. 7. Birds.

10

10.

12, 201

Near. 14. โร

for "oditor."

Is indebted.

15. Well-known boys' school.

16. Cham.

18. Conjunction.

20. Elevan.

22. Pronoun.

"Oh!" said the canary, happi-

ly, I didn't

To make the door, cut a piece of quarter-inch plywood to the size indicated. To this glue and serew two upright and two hori- zontal panels cut from three-vate them. Your delightful voice ly. "I didn't know that. Real- eightha-inch wood. The bottom panel should be half an inch wider than the others. -Glue lengths of fancy beading in the angles of the door as shown in the first diagram, and fix a wooden button ornament in the centre.

A small lock can be fitted if desired, and a keyhole cut in the side panel as shown. Cut shal. low recesses in the side of the door to take one-and-a-half-inch hinges, which must be screwed in the recesses and to the side of the cabinet.

Finish off the cabinet with two coats of light oak" or satin- walnut varnish stain.

The Hut Carpenter.

GED WHIZ! TO-NIGHT IS THE COLLEGE DANCE AND I CAN'T GO TO IT-.

impresses them so much that they run home and tell the big folks to come and listen to the wonderful melody."

Mr. Wise smiled, and rost, "I'm glad I've made you happy." he said. "Good-bye, Pittle bird!”

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.

KAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

ROSIE-DIO YOU KNOW.) "THE COLLEGE DANCE

IS TO-NIGHT? I'M SORRY: BUT I'M

ILL-

Ozu!NOW SHELL GO AND DANCE WITH ALL

THOSE RAH-RAH"BOYS-

I'M CERTAINLY

TRAVELING IN HARD LUCK-

THIS BROADCAST OF DANCE.

MUSICIS COMING FROM THE UNIVERSITY WHERE THE ANNUAL DANCE IS

GOING ON-

OH! I CAN SEE HER NOW IN SOME GUY'S ARMS-

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