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THE CHINA MAIL.
The WENDY
HUT
LONG AGO STORIES
MERAESI
Doris And The Magician
Doris lived in the most splen- came! Clad in white, his hair did city of the ancient world, flowing, followed by a great company of men and women, mag- dressed. with jewels, waving fans, and sparkling praising aloud the great poet magician.
Agrigentum. So rich and magnificently nificent was Agrigentum that there were no poor people in the city, and one of its greatest men was Empedocles, the magician.
Doris often thought of the
magician as she sat in the Tem- ple of Zeus watching the hinges of the gold and ivory door. She was a King's daughter, carried away from Syracuse when she was a baby, and the fortunes of war were such that she never saw her father or mother again. The general who captured her and her father's jewels gave her to the Temple as an offering be- cause she was noble, and there. she had remained ever since. She was now thirteen, and it was her duty to watch the hinges of the doors. Evil spirits might attack the beatiful hinges, but the people believed that a cer- tain little goddess looked after them, and Doris sat by the door as the servant of this little god- dess.
"O subduer of the winds!" eri- ed Doris. "O protector of the
Empedocles stood still and looked at Doris. It was very hot in Agrigentum, sick let me catch a little and when Doris was tired of magic from your regard!” looking at the treasures in the Then Empedocles stood still temple she would sit in the warm and looked at the little girl. When draught that
came in through he saw her vivid, intelligent little the hinges of the door and whis-face, he determined to make her per to the little goddess whom his pupil and teach her all the
wonderful things he knew.
she never saw
"I am very glad to attend you," she said, "but I wish you would sometimes show yourself.
I.
"Come," he commanded. will. teach you to read the earth and the sky, and to drive away And Doris walked down the
I hear so much, but see nothing. I disease." Yesterday two nobles talked on
ICED ORANGES.
PRINCESS CRYSTAL AND THE WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN
HERB WITCH.
The Princess Crystal went for a walk in the woods and there she saw an old woman gathering herbs. Now Crystal had been told never to talk to old women because they might be witches, but she thought this one had a nice face so she asked her what she was doing.
"Gathering herbs, my pretty," replied the old woman. "But I have found a flower that is strange to me. I don't know its name."
It was a pink flower with fluffy petals, and Crystal did not quite excited about it. know it either. But she was
"Has it she asked.
a sweet perfume 7"
the old woman.
"Take it, my pretty," replied for herb tea."
"It's no good
the middle of the flower, and im- Then Crystal put her nose into mediately afterwards she sneezed
violently.
"Got you, my pretty," laughed the old woman. "I've had my eye on you for some time."
Crystal was horrified! When she sneezed she was in the pow- er of the witches. The old herb witch led the way to a cave in
the mountain, and made the prin- cess become her servant. Poor Crystal had to polish kettles, gather sticks for the fire, and do all the other housework.
After many months, a young prince who had been seeking her saw her carrying water up the mountain side, but there was an invisible ring round her, so he could not get near her.
"How did you get into their power?" called the prince.
"I sneezed; then felt it fall upon me," wept the princess..
"I know the charm for that," replied the prince. I will throw you some pepper, and you must catch it and smell it."
the
Fortunately caught the pepper, and when princess she put her nose to it she sneezed violently,
"Bless you!" cried the prince. Then the charm was broken, and Crystal was free,
A Scarf Likk Tink's.
Tink has made herself a very pretty new scarf, and it pleases her so much that she has asked me to tell you how to make one like it.
Ordinary house-flannel, which you can buy for a shilling a yard, is a good material to use; it is soft and warm, and gaily check- ed with red, blue, or black. One yard will be enough, as you can cut the piece in halves and join the two halves together to make the scarf long enough. Use her- ring-boning for the join, and press the seam well to make it as invisible as possible.
As you'll see by the sketch, Tink's scarf is very prettily trimmed with embroidered
posies in alternate checks on the
The scarf like Tink's- Dressmaker explains how you can make it.
fannel. Get penny skeins of wool in rose, jade, lavender, royal, and yellow-or any other colours you fancy. Now draw a and leaves in every other square. little group of outline flowers You can pencil round pennies or ha'pennies to get the shares, and the leaves are just little pointed ovals worked between Diagram A shows you how the the steps, and said that Empedp-steps and followed him.
Even now people say "Bless posy will look when embroidered. cles, the magician, had drained
you" when they hear a person Give the flowers satin-stitch cen- sneeze, because, in olden days, tres in yellow wool, then work away the water from the marshy districts, and called upon the
you were supposed to fall into the rest in close buttonhole the power of witches if nobody stitch. The leaves are also work winds to carry away all wicked diseases with the black and ugly
blessed you when you sneezed. ed in buttonhole stitch. There's just one thing to remember; water, and they had obeyed him.
leave to dry in a warm place. keep the back of the work aa. There have been no epidemics
Peel this year.
an orange carefully, Treat all the sections in the same neat as possible, because it will This magician has divide it into sections without way,
show when the wind blows the but to walk through a field, and breaking the inside skin, and take Iced oranges can be coloured scarf out. the earth is refreshed and the away all the white pith.
pink in the following manner? corn grows. - Oh! if I could
of the scarf are walk in a field! Listen he till it is quite stiff.
Beat up the white of an egg | Pour a few drops of cochineal great fun to do. Pencil round a Place an into the granulated sugar, stir line of pennies laid along each comea!"
orange section on a fork — do till all is evenly coloured deep edge, and work the outlines in Doris had often seen Empedo-not prick the fork through the red, spread out on a dish, and buttonhole-stitch just like the cles in the Temple. But since Grange - dip it into the white dry before a fire. When quite other flowers. Bits of green he had drained the marsh and of egg, then put it into a basin dry, cover the sections as indi-stitching in between will suggest taken away disease from the beautiful city, she longed to sugar, and shake the sugar over
containing
granulated cated.
leaves, and give a neat firm edge. Mixed with the white iced-Diagram B shows the whole praise him as the people of Agri- it. When well coated with sugar, oranges, these bright pink ones thing quite clearly. gentum did, so she ran out on to put the orange on a sieve and look very pretty. the marble steps.
There he
Wendy's Dressmaker.
YOUR SAFEGUARD
EVANS": Antisepta 22*Theront Pastilles. They
a bay, and Catarrh Besn
EVANS Pastilles
look very pretty on the table in These are delicious, and they little coloured paper cases.
white
Rosies BEAU
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Registred U. S. Patent Office...
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THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
A Tool Rack And Shelf.
This simple rack, which can be fixed to the kitchen wall, is intended to hold the ordinary tools which are in oonatant de- mand for household purposes. Keys also can be hung from the rack, and the shelf at the top will take the oilean and other small articles in everyday use.
For the top and bottom of the rack, use wood battens two inches wide and one inch thick. A piece two feet long will be re quired for the top, which should be planed or all sides and then
marked out for the three slota, as
SATURDAY, APRIL 9, 1932.
TINK'S CROSS – WORD ! PUZZLE,
The name of the creature drawn beside last week's puzzle was "Armadillo" puzzle, full solution of which is:-
and this name you probably found in solving the
1. Mimic
5.
Out-building
Across.
8. Part of verb "to be"
9. Monkey
10. Name for a fox
13. Hidden name
19.
Behold
20. Put on
21. Within
22. Old
24. Departed
26. Nobleman
27. Poema
(Mock).
(Barn).
(Are).
(Ape).
(Reynard).
(Armadillo).
(Lo).
(Don).
(In),
(Aged).
(Gone).
(Duke).
(Odes).
28. One who sees
(Seer).
29.
Portable shelter..
(Tent).
Down.
2.
Boatmen use it
(Car).
3.
Best part of milk
(Cream),
4.
Use with a lock
(Key).
5.
Cry of a sheep
(Baa).
6.
A month
(April).
A colour
(Red),
Słota 2 wide
11.
Dishes of raw vegetables
(Salads),
12. Truthful
(Honest).
14. Scamp
(Rogne).
15 Viper
(Adder),
16.
Perform.
(Do).
17.
A bar of gold
Aingot).
18.
Material
(Linen).
28. End of al-Peke
(Eke).
26. One of 27 across
(Ode).
Carpenter tells you to-day how to make this useful tool-rack for the kitchen.
shown in diagram A. Cut a piece eighteen inches long for the bottom part,B, and clamp this to the top part, right in the cen tre. Now, with tenon saw and chisel, out out the three sluts in Iboth pieces at the same time, making them half an inch deep.
Cut the three uprights of the rack, which are twelve inches long, from two-inch by half-inch wood, and plane them to size. The ends of these parts should fit nicely in the slots, and must be fixed to the top and bot- tom. by screwe driven in through the back.. The shelf is two feet long and three inches wide, and is simply fixed to the top rail with four screws...
Here's a nice, easy one. Of what English word does the arrangement of letters beside the puzzle remind you? The word is hidden, as usual, and the clues are:-
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19
What English word dies this suggest to you?
Through countryside and town, 'Cross rivers, over commons
wide,
Up hill, then swiftly down.
One day we went to Cariada,
And once to far Peru;
Give the rack a coat of varnish stain, and allow it to dry before fitting the hooks and tool clips. The best kind of hook to use is shown at C, and about one dozen of these should be sufficient. For holding such tools as screw-In China drank a cup of tea drivers and bradawls, spring found very convenient. Suitable clips like that shown at D will be place for the clips are indicated in the top diagram.
the rack to the wall, screwing Use mirror plates, E, for fixing one to each end of the top.
The Hut Carpenter. WILLY-WALTER WOODEN HORSE I've got the MOST exeiting
horse,
His name is Willy-Walter, and
I love him lots and lots!
He's white, with huge red
spots!
His tail is also blue;
And when I'm feeling sad or
CTO
Why, this is what I do!
I jump on Willy-Walter's back, Then, quicker than It takes to And "Gee-Up Horse!" I cry;
· · tell,TM
Around the World we fly. It's One-Two-Three, and OFF we
go,
Then called at Timbuctoo And though the Grown-Up-Folk
Would Bay
We couldn't get so far And that we never leave the
house-
YOU KNOW WHAT GROWN-
UPS ARE.":
Clues:-
Acroes.
1. Came to pass.
7. A. melody.
8. Roman numeral for 6.
0. Short for "right."
10. Roman numeral for 4.
11.
A continent.
13. Hidden word.
14. Vegetable.
15. Regard with respect.
Dawn.
1. Fluttered over (as a bird),
2. Short for “pint."
3. Follow.
Whole.
B. Compass point.
6. Broke into parts.
11. Book of maps..
12. Joint of foot and leg.
THE TINKER 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's Tinker Bell" enrolment card.
Name
Address
Age.
Date of Birthday .
Cut this out, and send it to Tinker Bell, c/o The China Mail.
OH! IS THAT YOU··
ROSIE? HOW
ARE YOU?
OH-DADDY!MR-MARGIN CALLED AND WANTED ME TO REMIND YOU OF
YOUR ENGAGEM FOR LUNCH:
WITH HIM HES PERSISTENT-
HE CALLED FOUR TIM
BY JOVE
OH-I'M SORRY- BUT DADDY IS) NOT HOME YET. IS THERE ANY- THING | CAN DO TO HELP: MR- MARGIN ?
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