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MATHE CHINA RM AIL.

The WENDY

HUT

LONG AGO STORIES.

Blue Arrow, The Rain Maker

Blue Arrow was the only son of Silver Arrow, the rain doctor. Now, in the land of the Redskins rain was one of the most import ant blessings that the gods sent to men, for without it there was no maize for Winter. But some- time it did not rain for a week on end, and if the maize were young and tender the sun would burn it up, and then there was famine.

When Blue Arrow was about fourteen, there was a drought in the land, and many Indian Chiefs

"Like a mad creature Blue Arrow danced round the feld."

came to Silver Arrow, the cele- brated rain doctor, because none of the other rain makers had been able to produce a shower. But Silver Arrow had been ill for weeks, and he knew he was not yet strong enough to go out and get the rain to come, because

it was a terribly fatiguing busi- neas, and only those full of strength and energy could do it. So when all the chiefs appeared with valuable gifts, Silver Arrow turned to his young son, and told him he must go and make it rain. "My father I have never done so great a thing I may

fall," murmured Blue Arrow.

"With courage, and strength, and faith, everything can be ac- complished," replied Silver Ar-

.row.

So Blue Arrow promised to try. First he fasted for a whole

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day and spoke to nobody; then he went into the field where the maize was dying, and a great company of people followed him.

Throwing off his father's cloak, he began to dance. And, as he danced, he worked himself up in- i to a great state of excitement, and beat on a dhum to Imitate thunder, and rubbed two sticks together till he made # spark which he said was lightning. Then he took a 'clay pipe which was perforated at the end, this he filled with water from a skin bucket, and through the littlo holes he

blew out the water, saying it was rain. But no rain came from the sky, though Blue Arrow continued his dancing and supplications hour after hour.

"I am the rain maker!" he cried, and he believed that he could induce the rain to fall. *The earth is parched your children will starve but I, the rain maker, call you!".

Like a mad creature he danc ed round the field, blowing water. from the clay pipe and looking at the sky. When he saw a little cloud appear,

he grew wilder

still, and the people shouted mad- ¡ ly.

At sunset the rain came. Like a silver sheet it fell upon the exhausted boy lying in the field, and the chiefs carried him honic to his father.

"I am Blue Arrow, the rain maker," thought the lad happily, "All my life I will bring rain from the sky for my people, and we will have no famines."

TINK INTRODUCES A NEW

"POETESS."

I

A few days ago I had a letter from one of my Wendy Girls, saying pleasant things about our Corner, and asking for a Litera ture Competition some day. should think what she really wants is a Poetry Competition, because I'm sure you will agree that she is extraordinarily good at making up verses. She sent me a little poem about the Cor- ner, and, though she didn't ask me to put it in, I take it that she won't mind because it's really a nice little poem. Here it is. I wonder if you feel the same about the "Wendy Hut"?.

Rosie's BEAU

JAMĄ

GERMANUS

PLEASE DON

MOVE IT-

WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN.

A Tulip-Embroidered Pochette.

Wouldn't you love to make a pretty pochette with a gay trim- ming of coloured tulipa? Tink thinks you would so I'll tell you how to do' it.

FOLD UP

FOR

The tulip-embroidered po chatte. Dressmaker tells you how to make one like.

it.

blue or black material, fifteen, You'll need a piece of very dark inches long and nine inches wide; A piece of sateen the same size buckram or stiff canvas for the for the lining; and a piece of interlining. You must get also Penny skeins of embroidery wool, in red, yellow, and bright.green,

"

FOLK.

for the tulips and leaves; two patent fasteners to close the pochette: and a length of green. wool tape for binding the edges.

Diagram B shows you how to hold the cloth, and you will see which portion to embroider

the top end which folds over the lower turned up edge. Draw the tulip outlines with white chalk, and go over them with white cotton running-stitches, to fix the patterns. Diagram A shows you how the embroidery is done; three or four rows of stem- stitching in green will form each leaf, and the flowers are worked" with long-and-short stitches taken close together. If you mix the red and yellow. wools, you'll make those jolly Parrot Tulips that look so gay,

Press the work on the wrong side, and tack the two together; finally put the sateen lining on side when you've finished; then place the buckram on the wrong the buckram, and slip-stitch all edges with the green wool tape, three together. Bind all the turn up the bottom end, and sew the double sides together to form fasteners to the the pochette. the flap and the of the pochette,

two corners of Stitch patent bottom corners

Wendy's Dressmaker.

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

Making A Wall Cabinet.

You can make this useful cabinet from packing-case wood, planed to a thickness of three- "eighths of an inch. You will no- tice from the diagrams that the cabinet is twenty inches high and eighteen inches wide.

Cut the two sides to the dimen- sions given in diagram B; plane the edges square, cut away the top front corners, and, with a pad-saw, cut the curved shape ut the bottom of each. With your set-square, mark the positions of the three shelyes, as indicated by the dotted lines. See that these lines are in exactly the same positions on the inside face of each side.

For the shelves, cut three pieces of wood eighteen inches long and five inches wide, and plane two of them to a width of four and three-quarter inches, Now nail the sides of the cabinet to the shelves fix- ing the widest one at the top, and leaving a space of seven inches between, as shown in dia-

A wall cabinet like this will be very useful in the house. You can easily make one if you follow Carpenter's instructions.

gram C. The front edges of the two lower.shelves should be flush with the front edges of the sides. say!!

Cut the back of the cupboard from a piece of quarter-inch Tell plywood and nail it to the backs of the lower shelves, as indicat- suged in diagram D. "Weren't

THE MUTINY OF THE KITCHEN "Look at me look I What was I used for last? me' that?"

gesterf the Kettle.

"Making toast." mildly

you?”

"I think," remarked the Toast- ing Fork, raising himself wearily from the kitchen store where he think, Mr. Saucepan, it's time had been reposing, "I really something was done about it." pan, and the rest of the Kitchen "Hear, hear!" cried Mr. Sauce-

Folk in one breath, "And so say all of us.".

"Let's form a Committee and thresh this question out tho- roughly," suggested a Bright Young Thing who went by the name of Egg-Whisk. "We must be firm this time; we must teach that we will not be misused in Polly Anna, once and for all,

this way."

"But," whispered the Copper Kettle, who was near black through neglect, "Poor Polly Anna is really doing her best you know. It's hard for a little woman like that to be left in charge of the kitchen while her Mother and Cookie are both ill Let's help her instead, shall we?" "It's all very well for you,” rapped out Toasting-Fork.

GEE-THERE'S

THE LAND LADY- SHE MUSTN'T,

CATCH ME.. COOKING MY BREAKFAST:

ed Toasting Fork, "Making toast "Will you listen to her," mock indeed. No Madame Kettle,

I was used for poking the fire!" I was not used for making toast;

And I muttered Egg-Whisk moodily, "was use to amused the baby if you please. Look how the pretty wheels go round Polly: Anna said, to Baby Billy! And Baby Billy looked and made the wheels go round himself and here am I, an utter wreck, and my life. And the Bright Young I'll never beat an egg again in

Phing dissolved into tired sobs.

Saucepan, "Not so very long ago,

And look at me," put in Mr. was the neatest, smartest thing

The two side posts for the doors, EE must be glued and low slots cut in the inside edges nailed in place after having shai-

to take the hinges. Use one of the hinges as a guide for mark ing out these slots, to get them the right width.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1932.

TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

Last week we drew beside the puzzle two letters RE. But we turned them round, so that they represented the word hidden in the puźźle RE turned. See? Full solution:-

Acroes.

Came to pass

7.

A melody

(Happened). (Tune).

8.

Roman numeral for 6

(VI),

9.

Short for "right"

(Rt.),

10.

Roman numeral for 4.

(IV).

11.

A continent

(Asia).

13

Hidden word

1. Vegetable

15. Regard with respect

Понт

1. Fluttered over (as a bird) 2. Short for "pint"

8. Follow 4. Whole

5. Compass point

6. Broke into parts

11. Book of maps

12. Joint of foot and leg

(Returned). (Leek). (Esteem).

(Hovered). (Pt.)..

(Pursue).

(Entire).

(NE):

(Divided).

(Atlas)..

(Ankle).

This week you see an object, a number and a letter,

www

two words is hidden in the

I wonder if you can guess what these represent? Try! The name of the thing puzzle.

ΙΟ

T

Clues:-

Across.

L. Used by sailors.

6. Till.

7. Watchful.

18

5

1

to

10

14

Soldiers use it. that is it?)

10. First part of hidden name.

11. Affirmative.

13. Boy's name (abbreviated), 14. Second part of, hidden naine. 15. Neat and tidy.

16. Danger.

18. Liberate.

and took most of my enamel with

Shell fish.

Down:

Opposite to plain in knitting. 3. Insect

4. Thoroughfare (abbreviated).

5. Noiseless.

8. Commander.

9. Tree,

11.

Still,

12. Fashion.

14: Story 16. Nothing.

-17 About.

4am

Toasting-

it), to say nothing of potatoes fork, quoted the toasting-fork Why, I was even used to whack she think I am a pudding and soup and suet puddings! from the kitchen range. "What's

steps...

"Hush-sh-sh," muttered the Egg-whisk. i hear foot-

lump of coal the other day, basin?" and he anorted disdain-. because the hammer wasn't fully.

teach Polly Anna that one thing handy and nicely dented I am in consequence! "Yes we must is for one purpose; that there is everything must be in its place." a place for everything and

4

The Kitchen Folk were quiet came into the kitchen and looked as little mice when Polly Anna

about her.

To make the doors, cut two

"Well spoken, chirped a small pieces of three-ply wood to the voice from the kitchen sink. "I'm "I could have declared I heard sizes given in diagram F. To here, you know!", and the little them talking," she said sleepily » each piece glue and screw two Nutmeg Grater pooped up his to herself. "I remember every upright rails and two horizontal, cheerful countenance. "I've word they said. And," she look rails, cut frohs three-eighths granted lemon peel and orange ed around around at the dejected inch wood. Use small counter-peel, and salt and cheese and Kttle objects, "They're quite the plywood back into the rails, Anna's finger as well; but I've and hang them on their right sunk screws, insert them through onions, and a little bit of Polly right too. I'll clean them up,

and see that the points do not not seen a nutmeg for many a hooks, and use them for their come through With a small long day she SCRAPES nut, right purposes, "od, e the doors so that they At nicely, if I cleaned myself and hung my plane, carefully trim the edges of mega with a desert knife! Now and then screw them to the self up on the hook. in bright blue enamel saucepans hinges. A small latch can be fit- that ever lived in a kitchen. I've ted to the left-hand door, and a heen

used lately for ing. toffee, for bolling milk door, as indicated in diagram A. mak handle with catch to the other (which bolled so

thorough- The finished cabinet can be -ly that it. boiled

away, varnish stained or painted.. (Cotinued at foot of Column 6 & 7.)

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OUT WITHO

YOUR REN

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PAYIN

NOW.

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THE GRIP UNTIL

The Hut Carpenter."

FLL JUST SET THIS PAN GENTLY IN, MY SUITCASE SHE MIGHT LOOK THROUGH

MY CLOSET AN DRESSER.

DOLLARS

LEASE

"That's the idea," cried a chorus of relieved voices, "We'll selves on the right hooks, and if clean ourselves and hang our the Fairy Godmother of the Kitchen Folk comes along to night we'll ask her to write labela for us!"

Polly Anna's sleeves were rolled up, hot water was drawn, and those poor neglected Kitchen Folk had such a spring-clean as they had never had before.

No sooner said than done.

When Polly Anna surveyed them proudly, as they all hung bright and shining on their right hooks, she smiled and said: "I certainly heard them talking!"

SO! WHAT ARE YOU LOOKIN' SO SUSPICIOUS ABOUT AN WHAT ARE YOU HIDIN'

MIND,

OU?

OH; EH-AH NOTHING

YOU SETTLE