1931-11-28 — Page 12

THE CHINA --MAIL.

12

The WENDY

HUT

PRINCESSES OF THE PAST.

CATHERINE OF ARAGON.

Catherine was born in the win, which she must one day travel. her from to ter of 1485, and her first Letters

came

D

memories must have been the Arthur, and she was delighted

sound of cannon and the cries of battle. Her mother, Isabella of Spain, actually lived in camp with her armies because, for besieged several

years, she Granada, which was held by the Moors, and her young children livel with her in a great tent.

Grenada fell when Catherine was four years old and, when King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella entere in state, the little Catherine sat behind them, Being very beautifully attired.

a great princess, Catherine was carefully educated, especially in Latin. As she studied, or played in the hot sunshine of Spain, she often wondered what would knew become of her, for she

that some day she must marry a great king because she WOR Catherine of Arngon, a high and mighty princess.

When she was twelve years old, she WAR betrothed to Arthur, Prince of Wales, son of Henry 7th of England, und from that moment Spain ceased to be her country. But still she sat in the sun and tried diligently to love the cold grey island to

WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN

A Braid-Trimmed Cushion Caver.

Have you ever worked trim- mings with gay coloured cotton braids, Wendy girls? You can make all sorts of attractive things in this way, and one of the nicest to start on is a cush- ion-cover, like the one shown in the sketch.

You will need a piece of crash or holland nineteen inches wide and thirty-eight inches long, this will When folded in half, give you a cover nineteen inches by nineteen, before it is sewn After it is sewn, allowing up. half-inch turnings all round, the cover will be eighteen inches

square.

You will also need a yard of cotton braid, one inch wide, in each of the following colours:

odd

Catherine of Aragon.

At last, on a bright May day, and commanded her to come she loft Spain for her new coun-down. try. She sailed away in a fine ship, with many retainers and some magnificent jewels, but she was blown back by the angry winds so often that she became ill, and only reached Plymouth the following September. The people welcomed her kindly, though they were disappointed that she could not speak English, and the Duchess of Norfolk was sent to attend her.

Then the King and Arthur set out to meet Catherine on her way to London, but on the road

they encountered a number of Spanish nobles who declared it was not proper for the Prince to see the Princess before the wedding day. The King was a little troubled, but he said that Catherine must now abide by the English customs, and he was determined to see her himself, and let the Prince see her, too. So, with Arthur beside him, he rode through the storm to the house where Catherine lodged,

THE TINKITES TOY SHOP.

Making A Table Skittles Board

with them. Arthur was 14, and he wrote in Latin to his "dearly of Wales." beloved Princess Catherine replied in the same her language for, although father promised that she should are. be taught English, he did not keep his word.

rings in the centre of the crash cover, to form the first flower, and sew it down by going round both the inner and outer edges with contrasting wool back-

Isn't this braid-trimmed cushion cover pretty? Dressmaker tells you how to make it.

red, blue, yellow and green.stitching, as shown in Diagram And you must find some

C. Do the other flowers in the lengths af thick wool in contrast-

same way, arranging the differ ing shades. Cut the lengths of

ent colours prettily, and stitch- red, blue and yellow braids in

ing some of them down in oval halves, then join the ends to shape, instead of having them all form rings, like Diagram A. Run a gathering thread round one edge of each ring, and pull-it up until the circle is flattened out, as shown in Diagram B..

Tack one of the flattened

YOUR SAFEGUARD

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• keep colde at bay and give relief in CLIET DË Coughs, Catatik, Broer chitis, etc.

EVANS

ANTIISI THE THASDAT

Pastilles

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in rings.

Cut off two-inch lengths of the green braid, turn in the top and bottom edges of each, and

Rosies BEAU GED M-MANUS

Keglstend & Patent Ober

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The first diagram shows the arrangement of the board, and the skittles which are placed on a little raised platform in the centre. A hardwood hall swings from the top of a rod, which is fixed at one side of the board. To make the board, cut piece of plywood twenty inches

'Phen

prepare four pieces of stripwood for the edg ing A: two pieces nineteen inches long, one inch wide, and. half an inch thick; and two pieces the

width and thickness but eighteen inches long. Glue and nail these to- ether to form a square frame, and screw the. frame to the ply- wood base from underneath, leaving half an inch of the latter projecting all round.

same

Next, make the small square frame, as shown at B, from three-eighth inch -strips of

wood, one inch wide, and screw this frame diagonally in the centre of the base, Then cut a piece of wood nine inches square and fix this on top of the small frame with fine wire nails.

one

To hold the tall rod, cut block of wood two inches long, one and a half inches wide, and inch thick. With a five- eighths inch centre-bit bore a kole through the centre of the block, then glue and screw it to the middle of one of the side The strips and to the base. two left hand diagrams show the position of the block.

gather them slightly, as shown in Diagram D. These green strips, stitched between the flowers will suggest leaves. Work stems in thick green wool backstitching.

Wendy's Dressmaker.

I MUST NOT TELL-ROSIE THAT THE BOSS AND OFFICE BOY ATE SOME OF THE CANDY SHE MADE FOR ME AND THAT THEY ARE BOTH ILL

WHY-YOU DARLING

BOY: YOU SAY YOU ATE ALL OF MY

CANDY-

TANKER BELL CLUB.

New Members.

I. Baradas. Gwyneth Lloyd Jones, B. Latham.

Margaret MacFayden. Joan MacFayden. Lionel Remedios.

Alfred Remedios.

Renaldo Sequeira.

BILLIKINS' ADVENTURES WITH A

FOOTBALL.

Practice Game That Went Wrong.

Hullo, Billy Boys! This letter is specially for you, because only boys really understand about football. And my "adventure" has a lot to do with football- too much, I'm thinking now!

John came to stay in the Hut, Well, You know John? No? he's a special Billy Boy friend of Wendy's, and Wendy sald: "Billikins, lad, I want you to keep John happy and amused while he is. with us."

Catherine, whp was sixteen now, was horrified at such bar barous manners, chilled with the cold, afraid of these people whose language she could not speak. But at last she veiled her face and permitted the King to come up to her room. She anw a stern, mud-splashed man, who welcomed her to his realm and then told her to take off her veil She obeyed because his voice was

Of course I was keen as mus- kind. Then he smiled ht her, tard! It happened there was a and sent for the Prince of football in the Hut. I shan't tell you, why it was there, but per- Wales. Poor Catherine could do

soon a tall, pale japs you can guess.

And the nothing, and youth entered the room, and she football seemed to be asking for a "try out." You know the way was able to speak to him in Latin.

The Prince told her that he footballs have when they're sit- and the King had come to conting still and no-one is kicking duct her safely to London, she them? So John and I said we'd her have a practice game in the field replied that she would do best to learn the ways of his at the back of the Hut. country, and soon after they were married with great pomp.

Arthur did not live long, how ever, and eventually Catherine married his brother, who became King Henry the Eighth.

The rod is a two-foot length of five-eighths-inch dowel rod, rounded at the top with a hole in the centre of the top to take

A jolly game of table skittles. Carpenter tells you how to make it.

a stout screw. Pass the screw BCrew-eye, the through a small stem of which is bent as shown To this bent in diagram D. part bind one end of a piece of fine string, and tie the other end of the string to a driven into the wooden ball, as shown in the diagram. The atring should be just long enough to allow the ball to clear the top of the framing” A.

acrew-eye

The skittles, which can be made from three-quarter-inch be about dowel rod, should three and a half inches long. In- stead of making the skittlos, you can buy a box of one dozen, brightly coloured, at almost any toyshop.

Before painting the board and rod, 'mark nine circles about one inch in diameter, where the skittles stand, as indicated in diagram-€, "and paint these dif- ferent colours.

YES, DEAR! IT WAS

DELICIOUS-1 COULD HAVE EATEN ANOTHER BOX OF (T-IT WAS

SO GOOD -

The Hut Carpenter.

That football was the best evér. A big, fat, bouncing thing, that invited you to kick it over the moon. I didn't kick it over the moon. 1 kicked it to John instead. But the silly duffer wasn't ready. The ball hit him right in the chest, and down he went! John didn't howl. He's too much of a sportsman for that. But he DID look a bit queer when he got up. Stagger- ed round rather, and said he thought he'd better go.

"Oh dear!" I said, all worried "You don't seem a bit happy and amused!".

once.

.

He said he might be amused later on, but he didn't think he'd ever feel happy again, and per. hups he'd better go indoors ut

and Wendy wasn't happy amused either when John stag. gered into the Big Room where she and Tink were sewing. But Tink was. You can always trust Tink to see the funny side of things.

"John!" she giggled, "You DO look funny Has Billikins been amusing you?"

Then Wendy made a dive for Tink and me, shoo'd us into the field, and started to give "first nid" to poor John.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1931.

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drew beside the puzzle the letter A and four P's, The word those letters were intended to suggest to you was "appcase" which was hidden in the puzzlo. Full solution:—

1. Mislay

5. Monkeys

9. Insects

10.

Remainder

11. Not strong

Across,

(Lose),

(Apes).

(Anta).

(Rest).

(Weak).

12.

The oak is one

(Tree).

14. Hidden word

(Appense).

16. Belonging to him

(His).

17. Large animal of the deer family (Elk).

19. Part of verb "to be"

(Am).

20. A limb

(Arm).

22. Pronoun

(Me).

Command

(Order).

(Dark).

26. Portable shelter

(Tent).

Down.

1. Grass-plot in the garden

2. Number

29.

26. Not light

3. Go on letters for the post

4. Scottish 'river

5. Skill

6. Read

7. Compass point 8. Stalk

18. Listened to 14.

Purpose

15, Tree

16. Not soft

18. English county

20. Where Noah lived

21. Came face to face with

23. Conjunction

24. About

(Lawn). (One). (Stamps).

(Eak). (Art).

(Peruse).

(ESE).

(Stem).

(Heard).

(Aim).

(Elm).

-(Hard).

(Kent).

(Ark).

(Met).

(Or).

(Re).

Now you see two lettera and something that looks like a face. Think of another word for face, join this word on to the two letters, and you will have the word we have hidden in the puzzle.

N

Cluck!--

1. Animal,

4. Invite,

What English word does this suggest to you?

Arrows,

6. Unassuming.

7. Pronoun.

3. Short for "advertisement."

10. Hidden word,

13. Negative.

14. English county,

19. Animal,

20. Kindled.

21. Fit to ext

Down.

2. End of a prayer.

3. As for

4. Because.

Animal.

From this place. 9. Distributed.

31.

Hotel

12. Scatter (seed).

15. Tu be indebted

10, Colour,

17. Everything.

18. Rent.

we could play indoors, and for

behave like

once.

sane people for Quite haughty, she was! And John looked amused at last! That's what comes of trying to keep folk happy and amused, my lads! Snubbed right and left. and kept indoors. for the

noon. Lack-a-day, ah me! reat of a perfectly glorious after.

Now Tink can't kick a foot-She couldn't keep serious even ball straight to save her life.then. "And I'm m-m-most aw-goodness sake would we try to But she wanted to try. She fully sorry if I've smashed any

"Oh, it's you, Tink." grum- tried! Over the hedge went the thing." ball. into the garden the other

then we heard abbed Mr. Farmer. "Well, some-

thing is side, und

sure to happen when horrible CRASH!

"Tho cu-cu-cumber frame, you and Billiking and a football

"You know, Billiget into a field together. piped Tink.

a new frame." kins, old Mr. Farmer's cucumber Wendy I'll send her the bill for We went and told Wendy, frame. It's just the other side of the h-b-hedge!"

She took away the football, said

That Was 4 bit awkward. "Shall we go and look for the ball and find out the damage?" I asked..

"N-n-no! Perhaps we'd better leave it alone," she answered. Little cowardl

But it wasn't left alone for long. Out trotted old Mr. Farmer. He didn't look happy and amused either!

"Who's been kicking footballs into MY cucumber frame?" he (just like Father bellowed Bear).

"I-I-I-have," giggled Tink.

SHE MUST NEVER KNOW THAT THEY ARE IN THE

HOSPITAL, IT WOULD BREAK

HER DEAR LITTLE HEART-

WELL YOU DEAR! I'VE GOʻT ANOTHER BOX HERE-TR

SOME I WANT YOU TO TAKE THIS HOME-TOO

Tell

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Cheery-ho.

THE TINKER BELL CLUB.

Billiking.

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.

'T THINKIM GONNA JOIN

THE BOSS AND THEN OFFICE BOY-

GEE! IT'SĄ GOOD THING I DIDNT EAT ANY OR I'D

BE THERE –

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