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The

LONG-AGO STORIES.

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BELESIS, AND THE LAST KING OF ASSYRIA

enents.

Belesis had been captured in My kingdom cannot fall unless the battle when Sardanapalus went out river Tigris becomes my to fight the rebels. Because the boy Why should I fight when my walls was noble, and had a mark on his are strong, and the Tigris is my neck resembling a star, he was friend? Go out on the walls and taken to the place, and Sardana- palus made him one of his pages. Month after month, Belesis stood behind the King of Assyria, waving

bunch of peacocks' feathers to prevent the lies from settling on his master; and he thought an- xiously about the rebel army in which his father fought and which surrounded the city of Nimus.

It seemed strange to Belesis that Sardanapalus should eat, drink, per- fume himself, paint his face, and spin the most exquisite wool for his amusement, while the enemy was at his very gates. And, because he had a star, a birthmark, on his neck, an the Assyrians worshipped str.

dared to address

. Belesis, "why do -g while the enemy is cumped round your walls?"

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"O Belesis, son of a rebel," amited the indolent Sardanapalus, "have you not heard the ancient oracle?

HULLO, SHOES CALLING.

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"As ke stood 021 the magnificent walls of the eity. Belesis heard a great cracking sound."

flowers, to show that he was not forgotten. That's why you throw

Of course we are very important,shoes at weddings. for where would your feet be with out us? We are not going to tell you we are made from the hides of animals, because you can see for yourself that a cow can lie on wet grass and her skin protects her from the damp. And this same skin, when tanned to leather, keeps your feet dry. But we'll tell you why shoes are the symbols of luck.

Shoes were symbols of all sorts of things. Long, ago, people took them off their feel as a mark of respect when entering a house, just as boys take off their hats to-day. They also gave shoes to sign bar- gains. In the days when a bride was bought by her husband, the girl's father gave the bridegroom & shoe to show that he had no more authority over his daughter, and gave his rights to the bridegroom. Shoes have always been mixed up with weddings.

Long age, people thought there were hundreds of gods, and all these gods seemed to be jealous of one thing or another, so men pacified

Shoex are 50

necessary that all them with some object, just as you give a sweet to a crying baby. At races have thought them something weddings, when everybody was gay. more than just coverings for the some god was quite likely to turn feet, and have made lovely stories up his nose. So somebody threw, about them. You have heard about him a shoc-a really good shoe from Cinderella's shoe, and the seven his foot-or beautiful fruit, or fresh league boots, and flying shots, and

THE CHINA

MAIL.

WENDY HUT.

look upon my strength, Belesis, non of a rebel."

Then Belesis put down the bunch of peacocks' feathers, and left the palace, He despised this feeble, pleasure-loving king who had brought his country to ruin.

"And made me a slave," thought Belesis. "If only I were outside the walls, carrying my father's spear!-}

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

Making A Plate Draining Rack.

Here is a useful plate rack which you can make for the kitchen. It can be made to hold fifteen plates, like the one shown in the top din- grum, or a larger or smaller number as required.

O Tigris, how can you remain faith- To take fifteen plates, the side ful to so miserable a king?"

vaïla A.A. must be eighteen inches Then, as he stood on the magal | long, and these can be cut from ficent walls of the city, Belesis heard | wond half an inch thick and one and a great cracking sound and much half inches wide, as shown in shouting. He ran on the top of the diagram B.

wall, and saw a "gap from which the To set out the positions of the stones were falling and water rush-slots, mark a line on each piece at ing into the city. The

Tigris, a distance of five eighths of an which had overflowed its banks, had inch from one edge, as shown in undermined the walls, and was mak diagram C. Along this line, start- ing a way for the enemy to enter.

"Sardanapalus!" cried

"Sardanapalus, come out and all the people in the city.

us!"

Belesis,

and lead

Even Belesis, son of a rebel, could not bear to see his city fall to the Persians who were assisting the rebels, and there was still plenty of time to

But save it.

when Sardanapatus saw that the Tigris had deserted him, he gathered to- gether all his treasures and jewels, and, taking a torch, act light to his beautiful palace. When Belesis, saw the flames mounting to the sky, he was so overcome with anger that he shouted to the Persians and the rebels.

"Come in and save the city!" he cried. "The last King of Assyria is unworthy of his crown!"

LONG-AGO CHILDREN.

The Little Girls of Long-Ago, Walked out sedately in a row. Each one demure in frilly gown. They gravely trotted up and down; They coudn't skip or run, and oh! In Puddles they might never go.

Diagrams to help you in making the useful plate draining rack about which Carpenter tells you to-day.

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WENDY'S LITTLE MILLINERS.

A Fashionable Cap From An Old Hat,

This week, Children, we're going to show you how to make a pretty little cap out of an old felt hat, or some soft woollen material if you haven't a suitable hat.

If you

use an old hat, cut the brim away from the crown, and then cut right through the brim so that you have a long trip of felt. Place this round your head, and cut nway any extra felt; the strip must

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These little drawings ex- plain how you make fashionable cap out of an old felt hat.

just reach to the lobes of your ears, and it should be about five or six inches wide. You can stretch the felt a little, if it is 'too narrow, but go very carefully so that you don't pull it into holes,

Now, from the crown of the hat cut a rather long semi-circle for the back of your cap. Diagram A | and B show you the shapes of the head-strip and the back, and you, can experiment in paper first to be sure of getting a good At.

With some bright-coloured wool work an edging of buttonhole stitch- ing all round the curve of the semi- circle, and along the inside edge of the strip; then join the back and the strip by putting the two button- holed edges together and sewing them with the same wool. Diagram A shows you what the back of the cap will look like when you have done this.

Now work a band of coloured wool flowers right across the back edge of the cap, bringing them up each side of the front strip, as indicated in the sketch. Diagram D shows you the stitches to use.

ing one inch from one end, mark points, spaced as indicated, and at

If the cap is a little bit too loose, each point bore a hole with a three- you can gather the back slightly be- eighths-inch bit. Now, using a set- fore the embroidery le started, and square and. a ruler, mark lines at a the stitches will be concealed under- The Little Boys of Daya-Gone-By,silght angle from the edge of the neath the flowers and leaves. Were not as free as you and I.

Wendy's Dressmakter, In trousers long nad jackets tight, They must have looked a funny

OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER. sight.

While dreary lessons made them

day.

stay

In stuffy schoolrooms all the

good

When bed-time comes, and I've been And done my homework as

should,

Then Grannie comes upstairs, you

know, And tells me tales of long-ago, And doesn't it seem odd that she Was once a Little-Girl-Like-Me?

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and how magic shoes,

French children put their shoes for Father Christmas to fill. If you look at your own shoes, and think where and where they've come from they've taken you, they'll tell you stories all day long. Good-bye!

wood trip to meet the holes, as shown in the diagram. With a tenon anw, cut away the wood be tween the lines, and clean the edges of each slot with a chisel. Finish both strips in the same way.

Chocolate Milk Toffee.

Put a breakfastcupful of milk into a saucepan, and into this break two large bars of plain chocolate.

For the end supports, which should be five-eighths of an inch thick, cut two pieces of wood mea- suring five and three-quarter inches Stir over low heat till the chocolate long and two and a quarter inches has melted, then add one pound of wide. Mark out the shape on one granulated sugar. Stir slowly l dimensions given in the sagar has quite dissolved, then piece, to the diagram D, and, with a tenon saw bring the mixture to boiling point, and chisel, remove the parts not re- and cook till it begins to get thick. quired. Use the Anished end as a When a little tried in cold water pattern for marking the shape on hardens into a ball, it is ready. the other place, and cut this out in Turn it on to a buttered tin, and the same way.

Just before it sets, mark it into squares the size of a caramel.

The glotted rails are fixed to the end pieces by two galvanised nails

For a shorter rack, holding only in each end, as indicated in diagarin E. To keep the rails rigid, nail a eight or ten plates, the cross piece strip of wood underneath, in the F would not be necessary. middle, as at F.

The Hut Carpenter."

SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932.

TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

At the side of last week's puzzle we drew the letter O, a pin, and the letter E. This picture probably suggested to you the hidden word opine. Full solution:-

1. Preposition

3. Lenvag out

7. Grows on a tree

9. Not thin

10.

Conjunction

12. Belonging to me

18. Hidden word

Across.

17. Fowis' sleeping place

21. Preposition

(At).

(Omits).

(Leaf).

(Fat).

(And).

(My).

(Opine).

(Roost).

19. Fruit

(Lemon).

(To).

22. Cook by boiling slowly

(Stew).

24.

Moisture

(Dew).

26.

Part of the foot

(Heel).

Down.

1.

Exclamation of sorrow

(Alas)

2. Number

(Ten).

3. Preposition

(or).

4. Whether 2.

(In).

5. Least wild

(Tamest).

6. Pigs' pen

(Sty).

8. Fusa

(Ado),

(Lion).

14. Fore part of a boat

(Prow).

15. Negative

(No).

16.

Measure out

(Mete).

18.

Work hard

(Toil).

19. Pounds, shillings & pence

(L.S.D.)..

20. Cat's cry

(Mow)

23. You and I

(We).

11. Wild animal

In the puzzle this week is hidden a word which means "Sends cut" or "Publishes." Perhaps the arrangement of letters at the side will help you to cover the word.. Clues:-

ISS

Clues

1. Orders,

15

16

What English word doel. this suggest to you?

ACCOSE.

4. Hidden word. · 6. Animel.

10. What you see with.

11. Sometimes caught by G across."

14. Part of verb 'to be?

16. Comptas point.

17. Preposition.

18. Holds within.

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DOWNL

2. An employer.

3. These girls have uncles and

aunts,

4. Boy's name.

6. Utter in words.

6. Funny

9. Nuisance.

12. Insect.

13. A cup of

15. Therefore.

17. One.

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