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THE CHINA MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT.

WENDY'S 'LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN

Getting Ready For Christmas.

A Tea-Cosy Present. Linen crash, is the foundation of the cosy, which is trimmed with a basket of gay fruits cut from coloured linen.

ten

Take two pieces of crash, twelve inches wide and inches deep, fold them as shown in Diagram A, and cut the sides in a curve. Open out, and draw

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1931,

TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

Two letters EN- and something that looked like a face visage. You saw these sketched beside last week's puzzle, an

pose you thought of the word “envisage" which was hidden. the puzzle. Full solution:

Across.

1. Animal

4. Invite

6. Unassuming

·(Cat). (Ask). (Modest).

7. Pronoun

8. Short for "advertisement"

(He). (Ad).

10. Hidden word

13. Negative

(Envisage).

(No).

14. English county

(Cornwall)..

19. Animal

(Ewc).

20. Kindled

(Lit).

A.

21. Fit to eat

(Edible).

Down.

2. End of a prayer

(Amen).

3. As far as

(To).

4. Because..

(As),

5." Animal

(Stag).

7. From this place

(Hence).

9. Distributed

(Dealt),

11. Hotel

(Inn).

12. Scatter (seed)

(Sow).

15. To be indebted

(Owe).

16. Colour

(Red).

17. Everything

(AU).

18. Reat

(Lie).

PRINCESSES OF THE PAST.

Anne of Denmark.

The Princess Anne of Den- mark was of such high birth that her feet were not allowed to touch the ground till she was about seven years old, and she was ten before she was able to walk.' ller chamberlain carried her everywhere, and this p bringing made her a very help- less little princess. Her father, the King of Denmark,

was al ways quarrelling with James 6th of Scotland concerning the Ork- ney Isles which both kings clain- ed, and at last it was decided that Anne should marry James and have the Orkney Islands as her dowry.

So about the year 1589, the young Princess Anne xet suil from Denmark, accompanied by several Danish ships. Rut her ship was blown to Norway, and the wenther became so terrible that, after a while, she could not even stay in the harbour, but wax obliged to go inland and take refuge in a small house with some of her servants. The Admiral of her ship was greatly distressed, declaring he had seen several witches sailing in a sieve on the high seas! And the poor princess was so overcome with fear that she wrote to James, saying she was in Norway and dared not put to sea again.

When a sailor from Norway delivered this letter, the young king determined to go and fetch his bride himself, in spite of the fact that his people were against so dangerous an undertaking.

to death-for having sailed the seas in sieves and thrown black cuts into the waves to make storms! The court found them guilty of having, helped Satan to

Anne of Denmark.

try to prevent King James of Scotland from marrying the Princess Anne of Denmark, and, strange to say, many of them confessed to this after they had been tortured.

* *

James 1st of Great Britain after James 6th of Scotland became the death of Elizabeth. His son,

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

A Bird's Shelter and Feeding Table.

the

This week, by special request of a "Boy of Fifty," I am giving you simple instructions for mak- ing the fine birds' shelter shown in the accompanying diagrams. The first diagram shows the finished shelter, which has an enclosed compartment in gable of the roof where a little stray bird can enter for a night's reat. Diagram B shows the framework, with the roof remov. ed. In the centre of the gable the door to the top compartment. you can see the hole which forms

TINK AND BILLIKINS TALK TOGETHER.

About Judging Competitions. Sing a Song of Tinkites

And of sharp-eyed Hut-ites Pockets full of paint!

Scanning pictures quaint. Tell a tale of judging

Efforts of the "Clan"; Watching out for "amudging" And for paint that "ran." Shed a tear for Goblin

Trying hard to please. But he started wobblin'

Then he did a sneeze!

with

the

four pieces of two-inch" by one- For the corner uprights cut. and-a-half inch batten, each ten but Wendy stopped him and told Billikins wrote that, my dears, inches long. Saw the top of me to carry on ench to an angle of forty-five de-story... grees to allow for the slope of Our Goblin wanted to judge a the roof. The floor C, which painting competition himself. should be of half-inch wood,Said he had measures fifteen inches by thir"Show," and anyway it was HIS announced the teen inches, and on top of this, competition; We said: "No, at the four corners, the uprights you're not competent," (just are nailed or screwed. Cut the like he said we would) "But you side strips to length from two can help if you like." inch by half-inch wood, and nail these to the uprights and also to the edges of the floor.

Now cut the two gable enda out of half-inch wood, to the dimensions given at B, and, with a pad-saw, cut out the large cir- cular hole in one end, and an- other one just below it to take a piece of half-inch dowel rod for a perch. Nail the gable ends to the uprights at a distance, of seven inches from the bottom ends. The upper floor 'F is the same size as the lower floor, but has its four corners cut away to

fit the four uprights. It is nail- ed to the gable ends.

Ench side of the sloping roof, which measures nineteen inches long and eleven inches wide, can be formed from three or four planks of three-eighths-inch

end. The edging boards G can equal amount of overlap at each wood, nailed in place to allow an

he cut from half-inch wood to the

So he helped!

After the Pixie Postman had delivered the last-of-all batch of entries, Wendy gave Billikins a great pile of paintings, and said: "We've sorted these into 'best," | 'second-best,' 'third-best, and 'fourth-best" Will you go very carefully through each lot with the Artist, and take out a dozen for final choice?"

off he trotted with the Artist to the Villakina, went through

(Continued at foot of next Column.)

Dressmaker tells you how

to make a pretty ten-cosy like this, to keep in your "gift cupboard" until Christmas,

ting the lower edge of the busket your design on the piece that is to be the front of the easy, get- about two inches up from the lower edge of the crash. Dia- ments, and you will easily bo gram B gives you the measure-

a pencil. able to, sketch in the basket with

inches from the top edge of the Rule a line one and a half

basket and another one inch from the bottom. Then work between the edges and these lines with satin-stitch in thick; brown wool. Outline the sides of the same wool, then cross it with the basket with back-stitching in diagonal lines about apart. Little cross-stitches over one inch all the places where the two sets of diagonal lines meet will keep them in place. The Diagram ex- plains all this quite clearly, and shows you how nice the finished basket will look!

Cut some apples, pears, and oranges from suitably coloured long. Nail these under the ends inches long. Also cut two green linens, making them about two and a half and, three and a half the first diagram. of the roof planks as shown in vine leaves from

green linen. The small finials K can be fash-piled in the basket, with the Arrange the various fruits as if ioned from pieces of one-and-a- leaves each side, then tack them quarter-inch square wood, five in place. and sew inches long. These are nailed to wool back-stitching.

round with in turn are screwed to the top together, make a lining, and put triangular pieces of wood which

roof can be covered with a piece When you've joined all

Seam the two sides of the cosy corners of the roof edging. The in an interlining of wadding.

three

James left his kingdom secretly Charles 1st, was the king who dimensions given in diagram H, of tarred felt, held down at the neatly together, stitch a green and reached Norway safely, but abolished torture from these except that one of each pair will edges by pieces of narrow fath cord round the edge, and the

had great difficulty in finding Anne. One stormy night, he came upon the little village in which she lived, and Anne wept for joy, and told him how for months she had lived on course food and almost in darkness be- cause there were very few can- dles, and she was nearly perish. ed with cold. Very gallantly Jumes carried her off to Copen- hagen where they were married. A little later, they set out for Scotland and the young queen thought her troubles were over.

But other terrible storms over- took them, and they were almost wrecked before they arrived at Leith. Then James decided to look carefully into the matter. because there were strange stories in Scotland concerning the "witches" who had raised storms to destroy him and his bride. Some of these "witches" were ar- rested, tried and eventually jut

Good for your Cold

VANS

Keep

the Doctor away. by the occasional tree ot EVANS' PASTILLES They protect your throat and give relief in case of colds, coughs and catarch, „Jayna Ohmachete ovocyte bars. afede ba Magined dan Forest

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ANTISEPTIC TERDAPA

Pastilles

islands.

"By special requcal," Carp to make this birds' feeding

Rosie's BEAU

GED. McMANUS

Registered V, 3. TAMI

BUT-ITS ONLY

CANDY- HONEST!

he only nine and a half inches

nailed on,

enter tells you to-day how table and shelter.

ARCHIE DARLING - I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKED MY CANDY- I WANT YOU TO TAKE HOME ANOTHER Box

DATS ALL RIGHT-. LUG- HAND IT OVER-WE KIN

EAT CANDY.

"Gift Cupboard." cosy is ready to go into your

Wendy's Dressmaker.

The supporting post for the shelter should be at least two inches square, This must bo wedged into a hole cut to fit in the centre of the floor, and fixed with long stout screws, four pieces of wood six inches Then he skidded; then he sneez Cut the paintings, and trotted back. long for the supporting brackets, | ed. as shown in diagram M, and after bevelling the ends, screw one of these to each side of the post and to the bottom of the floor.

To give a rustic appearance to the shelter, pieces of rustic pole, Ins used for garden arches, can be sawn in halves lengthwise and nailed around the floor edging as shown in the first diagram, and the finished shelter should be treated with creosote.

The Hut Carpenter.

This week you see a letter and something that is used

in a rowing-bont. You can soon guess the animal name represented here, can't you?

B

Clues:--

1. As well.

13

H

t3

What English word

docs.

this suggest to you

Across.

4. Frozen water.

5. Truth.

0.

. Nogative.

Hidden animal nuate.

11. Preposition. 12. Pronoun. 14. Animal,, 16. Conclusion.

17. Discern.

18. Withstool.

THE TINKER

Down

1. In company. 2. Preposition.

J. The thing.

4. Shut in.

6. In a little while.

7. Garmeni,

D. Feathered friends.

10. Cook in the oven.

13. Compass point. 15. Perceive.

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.

Whether the skid or the then he flopped. sneeze did it I don't know, but paintings flopped too.

and the All over mixed-up, while, we flew round the place they went, beautifully seen any more till it was all over. like demented

You'll quite understand there them!

bees rescuing was a bit of a scramble going on in the little old Hut. That's

See It?

The Teacher: "Tommy,

you

had to start all over again! In to you.

Then' Wendy, the Artist and I why we had'nt much time to talk haven't done a stroke of work this were extremely morning and I've told you again and

We

the end, we had to get Cookie, busy and Billikins was ex-again that the devil finds work for Carpenter and Gardener to give tremely quiet IN THE VILLA- idle hands to do. Now take your

-we were so rushed. KINS! But not Billkins! He wasn't

copybook and write that out twenty times.'

1

IT'S WONDERFUL CANDY- DEAR-BUT- REALLY-I MUSTN'T

DEPRIVE YOU OF IT BUT IF YOU INSIST-

BE QUICK ABOUT IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO GIT FLOWERS AN NÓT

BE ABLE TO SMELL'EM

hand

Love from Tink.

GEE! I ONLY TAKE IT TO KEEP HER FROM EATING IT IF SHE KNEW "THE BOSS AND THE OFFICE BOY ARE.. IN A HOSPITAL FROM THE LAST BOX!

SHE GAVE ME SHE'D

NEVER GET OVER IT-

LISTEN TO THIS- LAST NIGHT TWO CROOKS HEID UPA MAN AND TOOK A BOX OF CANDY AWAY FROM HIM-THEY ATE THE CANDY AND BOTH, ARE NOW IN A HOSPITAL

IN A CRITICAL CONDITION-

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SERVES

THEM RIGHT-

GEE! THIS IS A DARK NEIGHBOR-

HOOD-1 WISH

I WAS HOME- /