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The WENDY
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STORIES OF LONG-AGO
DERCETO, THE HENNA GIRL
Ever since she could remember, Derreto had gone into the fields to gather a kind of loosestrife from which her mother pressed the juice and made henna, for the women of ancient Persin dyed their finger nails red with henna. Now, when she was thirteen years old, she told her mother that she longed to make attar of roses, the beautiful, secret
for which Persia parfume famous.
was
"You are Derceto, the hemma girl," replied her mother severely. "I have made henna all my life, and so must you. We have no roses."
Derceto sighed, and went to gather more loosentrife. She could neither read nor write, and she did not expect ever to go beyond the village and fields. She was quite happy because there were
aome
other girls gathering herbs, but she wished she had not thought about attar of roses because it worried her.
As she gathered loosestrife, she remembered the story told about the sceret rose perfume. Long ago it was said there lived in Persia a princess so lovely that she was called Sun-among-women, and, when she was married, the canal running through her garden was filled with beautiful roses. One evening, when the princess and her lord walked by the canal; a most exquisite perfume floated up to them, and they saw
MIKE AND THE MOUNTAIN.
Mike the monkey had a lovely. idea-copled from Sonny, the little boy who lived on the edge of the jungle. Sonny avemed to enjoy, the idea so much that Mike thought he would, too. So Mike hunted about | for a strong plece of wood, and this he polished on both sides by rubbing it with a big stone.
"Whatever are you doing?" asked Prim, the parrot.
"Derceto ran along the road and arrived exhausted in the next village."
what appeared to be a little oll on the top of the water. Now the sun had warmed the water all day and brought the oil out of the roses; the prince skimmed some off, put it in a bottle, and gave it to the lovely princess. That was the first attar of roses ever made.
Derceto was walking in the ditch, thinking of this, when the mes- senger rode by. The Persians had a wonderful system of carrying let- ters which, in time, was copied all over the world. They drove posts
to look for a mountain, and all the jungle folk followed,
tt
"My boak!" cried Prim suddenly, "There's mountain, Mike! It must have grown up in the night."
It was just a little hill, but Mike said it would do nicely, and told them all to stand round and watch him. Then he scrambled to the top of the bump in the ground, sat on the polished plece of wood, and told them to see him slide. Away ho went, like Sonny did on his sleigh, "Ah, this is my idea," grinned and they all shouted, and Mike call Mike. I only want a little moun-ed "Bravo!"--and Buddenly the hill tain, and then you'll see something." rose up in the air! It was Bumpus Soon the news spread all over tho the boa constrictor! He had heard jungle that Mike had got an idea, that Mike wanted a mountain, ac and wanted a little mountain, and he had made himself into one, crowds of jungle folk collected to covered himself with gram, and see what he was going to do with hoped for a nice monkey dinner! these two peculiar things. Well, Mike dragged the "ides" after him on the nice fat grass when he went
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Mike only left the "idea" and a bit of his tall in Bumpus' mouth,
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into the ground to mark certain dis- tances, and at each post stood a man and a horse ready to receive the message of letter from the man who rode up and take it on to the next post. Summer and Winter, the messengers went by like flashes of lightning.
Looking up from the ditch, Derceto now saw the horse stumble and throw the rider. The girl dart ed up to the man who told her that his leg was broken, and, thrusting a letter into her hand, asked her to
come with terror, but knowing how serious the consequences might be if the messenger failed to reach the post, Derceto ran along the road and arrived exhausted in the next vil luge. There another messenger snatched the letter from her, and left her lying near the post.
WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN
A Mimosa-Trimmed Chair-Back.
Wouldn't Mother be pleased If you made ber á chair-back decorated with golden Mimosa and its soft. green leaves?
You will need three-quarters of a yard of linen crash Afteen inches wide. Turn in a wee hem along the | edge that is to be the top, and a fairly wide one along the opposite edge. This witler hem is turned to the right side of the material, and sewn down with buttonhole stitch- ing in yellow wool. Now work another line of but- tonhole stitching
of on top the first, but going the opposite This jolly rocking horse will pro- vide plenty of fun for your small way, as explained in Diagram D; brother or sister. Deal boards, this gives rather an unusual edging' three-quarters of an ipéh thick, arc | for the trimmed end of the chair-
THE TINKITES TOYSHOP.
Making A Rocking Horse.
used to make it, and the shaped back. Parts are simply glued and screwed together.
The first parts to make are the rockers, A, which are two feet six inches long, the bottom edges curved
Now draw a big spray of Mimosa on to the crash above the fancy hem. Sketch it out on paper first,
run to the next post. Almost over*, to a radius of three feet three and transfer it to the crash by lay- inches, as indicated in the diagram. ing a sheet of carbon paper under- Mark the curved line on one piece of acath, and going over the lines with wood with the aid of a length of ing and planing the edge to the string and a pencil, and, after saw- curved line, use it for marking out
Fortunately, a Persian merchant of perfumes rode by that evening. learing that a poor henna girl had brought a letter to the post, and was still lying in the road weeping be- cause she had not the strength to I walk home, he carried her back on
his horse. And
afterwards Derceto went into his household to learn the secret of making attar of roses!
soon
the other rocker.
For the front upright, B, cut a piece of wood to the sizes given 'in diagram C, and round the top corners. The back upright is the same width, but one inch shorter, as indicated by the dotted line. Across each piece, at twelve inches from the bottom end, screw a strip of one inch by three-quarter inch wood to carry the seat.. Carefully mark the positions of the uprights on the inside of the rockers, and bore two screw holes for fixing each
Carpenter tells you -to-day hole to make this jolly rocking-horse.
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joint. Fix the two uprights to one rocker first, as shown in diagram D, but he was cured of copying Sonny, and then screw on the other rocker. and he never went near a mountain! again,
"Thank goodness, we haven't got ideas," said the jungle folk, as poor panting Mike sadly looked at the bitten end of his tall.
OUR SWEET MAKING CORNER.
The seat, E, which is eleven (Continued at foot of next column)
A chair-back protidly em- broidered with a spray of mimosa. Dressmaker ex- plains how to make it.
a steel kitting needle. Work the stems and leaves in back-stitch, using green wool; Diagram A shows the back-stitch. Then work the mimosa flowers in yellow wool satin- stitch, as shown in Diagram B. Diagram C given a "close-up" of the embroidery. It couldn't be much simpler, could it? But the finished chair-back will look really lovely, and you can use the same design to trim a cushion-cover or a table.'
runner.
Wendy's Dressmaker.
inches long and six inches wide, is nitted between the uprights and screwed to the cross-pieces on which It rests. The foot-reat is twelve inches long and two inches wide, and is screwed to the rockers.
SATURDAY MARCH
TINK'S CROSS - WORD PUZZLE.
The letters arranged beside last week's puzzle were ISS and three U's. Probably you guessed that they were meant to suggest. the word "issues" which was hidden in the, puzzle. Full solution: Acrons.
Orders
4. Hidden word
6. Animal
7. Head covering
9. Numeral
10. What you see with
(Commands),
(Issues).
(Cat).
(Cap),
(Ono).
(Eye).
11. Sometimes caught by.. 6 across
(Rats).
14. Part of verb "to be"
(IB).
16. Compass point.
(NE).
17. Preposition
(At)."
18. Holds within
(Contains).
Down.
2. An employer
(Master).
3. These girls have uncles and ants (Nieces).
4. Boy's name
(Ian),
5. Utter, in words
(Say),
6. Funny
(Comic).
8. Nuisances
(Peats).
(A)
18. A cup of...
*(T€).
15. Therefore,
(So).
17. One..
(An),
12. Insect
Now I wonder if this week's picture reminds you of an ornament you sometimes see in a garden? Remember that the face of a clock is called a "dial," and then you should have no difficulty in discovering the hidden word which the picture represents.
感
"This represents a gardin armament.. Can you guess it's name?
Clues:--
Soon.
Across
7. Part of verb "to be."
8. Roman numeral.
9. Meadow.
10. Pronoun.
12. One of an ancient race. 14. Ripped
16. Girls.Name.
16.
23. Transact.
Word.
24, Roman numéril. for 160. 26. Shines at night. 27. Not up.
CLOUDS.
It's grand to stand upon the Hill,.
Against the clear blue sky,
And watch the piles of soft-grey
clouds
Go helter-skelter by.
So fast they come, and faster go. They take your breath away; The mighty armies of the Mist,
Decked proud in bold array.
And as you stand and guze up there.
All sorts of things you see
|
2. Birds,
A., Before.
5. Tidy.
Down.
and, pepper.
s.
6. Glossy-leaved shrub.
8. Frozen water.
11. A collection.
13. To praise.
15. Precious stone,
17. Short for "editor.”
20. Mid-day.
21. Covered with 8 down
22. A limb,
95. Number.
Rolly by upon the spreel Their mighty limbs, and swollen
heads"?
Are clear as anything; And in the Wind across the plain
You'll hear the song they sing.
And next the clouds will roll away
To show a Magic. Land,
A. place of Make-Believe, that all
May see who understand. For everyone who likes can view These sights, as they flash" by Though stodgy, folk just laugh and
Bay:
"Absurd-It's only sky!"
THE TINKER BELL CLUB.
The bead and tail parts must now A band of jelly Giant-Men be marked out on two pieces of of the saucepan too much, and be wood divided up into one inck sure the heat is low.
squares, as shown in diagram G. Now bring the fudge to the boil; Cut out the parts with a pad-saw, boll for five minutes, stirring all the, and, after smoothing the edges with, * time with a wooden spoon, then re-"' a_rasp_and glasspaper, glue and move the sauce-pun from the fire. screw them in place.
Simple Chocolate Fudge,
Take four
penny bars" of plain chocolate, and grate them up as anely as possible. Now put one pound of granulated sugar into a saucepan, with half a teacupful of milk, the grated chocolate, and a piece of butter the size of a walnut. Stir together over low heat till the sugar has completely dissolved and there are no lumps in the chocolate, but be careful not to splash the sides plain.
SO ROSIE IS GOIN' OUT. WITH SOME GUY WHO HAS A BIG CAR SHE'S JUST LIKE ALL GIRLS.
MONEY MEANS EVERYTHING TO THEM;
THERE HEUSCHED GOING
Allow the mixture to settle down, Cat the part F to fit between the and and beat it with the wooden spoon uprights, underneath the seat, till the whole becomes thick and col-fix it in position by three screws feets. in mass.. Turn it on to a driven' in through the seat. buttered dish, pat into shape, and A coat of bright enamel, in one colours, will give cut it into nice little wedges before or two different it is quite cold. A few nuts or the horse a smart appearance. Abd almonds may be added to the fudge when the paint is quite dry, the when you remove the saucepan from seat can be lightly padded, and a the fire, or even some seedless bridle added, as shown in the fret raisins, but it is quite as delicious diagram.
The Hut Carpenter.
TMM GON' TO WORK
HARD ON THIS NEW JOS AND MAYBE I'LL BE PRESCINTY OF THIS FIRMU OME-DAY
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