1932-01-09 — Page 12

WENDY

The WENDY

HUT.

ANNOUNCES OUR GREAT PUZZLE COMPETITION ·

WHAT IS WRONG WITH THE PICTURE ?

PRIZES FOR LONGEST LISTS OF "MISTAKES ”

WONDERFUL CHANCE FOR TINKITES TO. WIN A PRIZE.

Wrong

There are prizes for the children who discover most ings about the competition picture, and make the neatest and most Teful lists of them.

Now about the Picture. Many things are wrong with it, as you ill see at a glance. The Goblin Artist has made the "mistakes"

pose to test your keen eyes and brains.

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We have a list of all the "wrong things" here, and the children send in lists most nearly corresponding to ours will receive the zee-longest list wins first prize; second longest list wins second

e; third longest list wins third prize.

We shall check each entry list very carefully, so please WRITE ATLY AND CLEARLY. Because, you see, the judging is going

be a very big task without the need to puzzle over bad writing

untidy lists.

You must number the mistakes as you put them down, like this: Boy "blindfolded" over you a present of two "mistakes" mouth instead of eyes. but there are many more, and it will take all your wits to find

Cat with dog's head. And so on! You see, I've made them!

THE CHINA MAIL

VENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN

A Fruit Basket Pin-Cushion.

Here is a lovely present to make for Big Sister or Best Friend a pretty pincushion, which will be an ornament. to the dressing-table. It takes the form of a little lady selling apples and oranges, the baskets full of "fruit" serving as cushions for the pins.

You'll need a little penny doll diagram A shows the kind I mean with a china head on a sawdust-stuffed body. You must

SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1932. TINK'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE.

The group of letters beside last week's puzzle consisted of BR. a line of E's, and a large E. If you said the letters in this order, you said the word "breezy" which was hidden in the puzzle Full solution:---

Across.

1. To devise 7. Number

8. Another number

9. Invite. 12. About

18. Hidden word

15. Behold!

(Contrive).

(One);

(Ten).

(Ask).

(Re).

(Breezy)

(Lo).

16. What you see with

(Eye)

18. Part of verb "to be

(Are).

20. Buay Insect.

(Bee).

22. Dared

(Ventured)

23. Put into one total

(Add).

24. Drink

(Ale).

Down

1. Animal

(Cow).

2. Upon

(On).

3. Close to

(Near).

4. The thing

"(It).

6. Extremely

(Very).

6. Compass point

10. Perceive

11. Works with a lock

18. Made a hole through

14. Striped anima!

(ENE)..

(See).

(Key).

(Bored);

(Zebra).

15. Flows from a voleano

(Lava).

17. To give up

(Cede).

19. Conclusion

(End),

21. Slippery fish

(Eel)

If I were you, I would spend at THE 'BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP. least two evenings roughly mak

need only some pieces of strong To make this fine fort, you

cardboard, some glue, and a sharp penknife for cutting out the parts.

ing out your list as you "spot"A Toy Fort Made From Cardboard. the wrong things: then on the third evening you can make a fair copy to send to me. No use hurrying a job like this, you know. Besides, think of the fun you'll have when you keep find- ing more "mistakes" after you think your list is complete.

NEAT WORK WILL COUNT! That is to say: "if two or more children each find the same number of "mistakes," the prize will go to the one whose list is cleanest, neatest, and beat writ- tex.

Suppose we'd better have a fow rules to keep you on the right lines towards winning prizes. So here we go:-

1. Your list must be sent in by Saturday, January 16, ad- dressed to. Wendy, c/o The. Editor, China Mail,

2. Your name, address and age must be clearly stated on your entry.

3. The list must be signed by a grown-up relative or a teacher, as, guarantee that you have found each "mis- take" absolutely alone and unaided.

4. The work MUST be neat. Untidy, "massy" lists will be disqualified.

Isn't it a lovely Competition, to enjoy doing it? So I'll leave children? And aren't you going you with it now, just giving you a parting wish for luck.

Love to you!

Wendy.

Cut the baseboard, which is cardboard one-eighth-inch thick. twelve inches square, out of

The cardboard for the other parts may be half that thickness, with the exception of the raised floor, A, which should also be one- eighth-inch thick.

Cut the four walls, two twelve by three and a half inches, and two nine and a half inches by three and a half inches. Near the right-hand corner of the front wall, cut out the opening B, which should be exactly half the depth of the wall. Glue the four walls. together at the corners, and strengthen the joints with small angle pieces cut from thin card.

The raised floor should be cut to size so that it fits nicely be- tween the four walls. To sup port it in the centre, glue on the under side a piece of cardboard.

The Fruit-basket pin- cushion present: Dress- maker tells you how to make it.

have also some thin cardboard, cotton-wool for stuffing, and scraps of gaily coloured silks and ribbons for the clothes.

First make thres tubes of thin card, like Diagram B. Two of them are two inches across and one-and-a-half inches high, for the baskets; the other is two- and-a-half inches across and three inches high. Make the doll s wee frilled borinet-a strip of (Continued at foot of next column.)

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Here's an easy one! You see a letter and a sign, and

I want you to try to think of the ordinary English word represented by these. It is hidden in the puzzle.

X=

1. Colour.

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Our Competition Picturs. What is wrong with it. Make a list of all the mistakes you can find, and send it to Wendy

To-day Carpenter explains how to constrict this-folly toy fort from cardboard.

tube, one-and-five-eighths inches long, and glue angle pieces of thin card along the edges of the floor underneath, and also to the walls. Then glue the walls on to the baseboard, leaving a space two and a half inches wide at the front, as shown at C.

The fort building is formed from a single strip of cardboard cut to the sizes given at D.

the two doorways which have to be cut out. Before sticking this tower in place, cut a square of cardboard to fit inside and fix it at one-and-a-quarter inches from the bottom of the tower, as in dicated at K.

To make the incline, cut out the parts and N. Glue these together, and then fix them to

Mark out the door and windows the front wall and baseboard. and, after cutting half through The overhanging end of the part the card on the dotted lines, bend, which la glued to the tower, it to shape and glue the edge E forms a little drawbridge.

shown in diagram P, to form the embrasures round the tops of the wall and towers. Cut the strips to the lengths required, and glue them in place..

to the edge F. Glue the buildNow cut out some strips, as ing to the floor; glue it also to the walls, on the back and one aide, in the position shown in the first diagrams Bend the small tower to shape from a piece of card cut to the sizes given at G, The finished fort can be paint- and glue it in the position shown.ed, or else covered with brick or

The diagram of the entrance stone pape tower is given at H, and shows

1.

The Hut Carpenter,

What English word does

this suggest to you.

ribbon gathered to fit the back of her head with ends to tie under her chin; then add a black ribbon bodice twisted round her shoulders and tiny puffed ribbon aleaves. Now wedge her into the central tube, pushing in cotton- wool to keep her firm, Make a gathered skirt to conceal the foundation, sew it round the doll's waist, and make a muslin apron to complete the costume.

Cover the smaller tubes with coarse linen to represent basket- work, fill them with cotton wool, and make a lot of wee silk fruits made from an inch-wide circle of to pile on top. Each fruit is ribbon, gathered round, filled with wool, and pulled up to form a tiny-ball, with a stitch of black thread in the centre. Fill one basket with oranges" and the other with red and green fruits to suggest apples. Pile them on top of the cotton-wool, sew them

THE TINKER

Clues:-- MissAcross,' 1.- Hasten.

3. Strike.

6. Flower.

6. High-priest of the Bible.

-- 8.

10 Ridden word, Meta 18. To' higher position..

14. Became visible,

18,

19,

20.

in geography lessons.

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2. Boy's

8. Birds.

name.

4

Spinning toy

7.

light 9. Smail Island. 11. Regretted. ..12... Precious stone..

14. A limb..

15 Seed of fruit. 16 A colour. 17. Loud noise.

firmly, and then attach a basket on either side of the doll as shown in the picture.

Wendy's Dreanmaker,

BELL CLUB.

I want to become a member of the "Tinker Bell Club, and I promise to do one kind action every day. Flease 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,

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