THE CHINA
MAIL.
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The WENDY
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Long Ago Stories
Rowan And The Well Water
BAW
me,"
"Nobody
she thought, "I can't go back all that way.
But the Chief was hiding be- hind a rock watching for deer, and he saw her. Next day the Chief went to the old man and asked how his wife was.
Long ago Rowan lived in the wild mountains of Scotland, and she was quite as wild as the mountains. Her red hair was seldom combed, her old sheep- skin coat hung in tatters over her homespun dress, and, be- enuse she was always happy and liked to run over the mountains by herself, the people whispered that she was a witch who turned into a hare at dusk. Rowan well," laughed, and crept 'out at night to watch the hares frisking in to fetch that water, and she put it on the ground," said the Chief.
The people whispered
that Rowan was a witch!"
the ferns because she wanted to see if they changed into maid- ens when the sun rose. Her father beat her soundly for this, and said she would bring trouble on them.
"I do no harm to anybody." scbbed poor Rowan.
One day, when her mother sent her to snare rabbits for sup- per, an old man looked out of his hut and called her.
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"My good wife is sick," he said, "Take this bucket and run to the sacred well for water for her to drink."
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"Much, much worse," replied the old man. "Yet she has drunk water from the sacred
"You sent red-haired Rowan
Then the old man went shout- ing through the village that Rowan had placed holy water on the earth, and taken the good-| ness out of it because she was a witch and wanted to harm his wife. In fury, the people drag ged Rowan out of her father's house and made her confess that she had done a dreadful thing in setting sacred water on the earth.
Drown her!"
"Burn her! shouted the people
THE TINKITES' TOYSHOP.
"Making A Malay Kite.
To make this fine kite you will require, two twenty-four-inch lengths of three-sixteenths-inch square stripwood, and two sheets of coloured paper measuring thirty inches by eighteen inches. Take one of the wood strips,
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Carpenter explains ·to-day how you can make a jolly Malay kite-like the one pic- tured here:
moisten it thoroughly, and bend it to the shape shown in dia- gram A. This is done by hold- ing it a few inches above the flame of a gas ring, at the same time putting gentle bending pressure on the ends. The wood will give as the hest is applied, and the stick must be passed to and fro to produce an even bend from end to end. Keep the pres- sure applied until it gets cold, when it will be firmly set.
"But I meant no harm!" cried
Now cross this length over the the terrified Rowan. "I forgot. Then I was too lazy to go back other as at B, and. having brush- for more water. I am no witch!" ed the parts with glue, firmly. She was only fourteen, but the bind with thread. being careful people bundled her into a cart. to kop the sticks at right As they approached the river, angles. Measure from the cen- remembered tre to the ends of the curved however, Rowan that the earth protected witches piece. C and cut them exactly if they could get to it, s0
she equal, in order to preserve the sprang out of the cart crying:
balance. Notch the ends of both "Earth
help me!"
wood strips, as shown at D, and takes a strong linen thread round
the four ends, glueing at each corner.
She got away to the gipsit and lived quite happily with them. because they had no fear of witches
Apply thick glue to the centre] Rowan ~~and
post E. press on it one edge of | thought that she really was a witch so she never dared to re-sheet to the shape of the kite, a sheet of paper, and cut the turn to her own people.
WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN.
An Embroidered Handkerchief Scarf,
SULKY SUE
She was aulky! She was the despair of her mother and father and brother Jock. "Sue will you please do this?" Mother would say; and Sue would sulk. "Sue, will you please do that?" Father would ask; and Soo would sulk, "Sue, please mend my sock," brother Jock would implore and Sue would sulk! So you see, Sue was really rather a trial.
Now It happened one night that Sue had sulked because sho had been told to go to bed; she had sulked so badly that Mother and Father and Jock had gone off and left her quite alone in the big, old sitting-room, in one cor- ner of which stood a big, old grandfather clock.
"Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick- tock." Sue imagined that the face of the old clock looked like a very angry Mortal face, and she Have you noticed how many grew, scared. When she heard a folk are wearing gay gipsy scar-distinct sound of tap-tapping in ves "round their necks this sea- the body of the old clock, she son? It is a good idea, too, be- jumped up and examined the cause a bright new scarf makes little door below the big round an old dress look quite fresh.
An ordinary coloured cotton handkerchief, which you can buy for a few pence, will look lovely if you work parts of the pattern with contrasting coloured wools. A red, white and blue square could have some of the flowers and leaves outlined with orange and emerald green wools: a brown-and-orange patterned one might be beautified with yellow, red and pastel blue; and so on. You can use up all the odd lengths of coloured wool in your work-basket. There's one thing to remember: you must be care- ful to keep the wrong side of the embroidery as neat as possible. as the back of the scarf will sometimes show when it is fold- ed round your neck.
Diagram A shows you how to embroider one of the flowers or patterns by going round the out- side edge with small back- stitches, and working a tiny ring of back-stitches inside.
Diagram B gives you another idea. Here the pattern is out- lined with long-and-short stit-
A coloured cotton kandker. chief turned into a ham- some scarf - Dressmaker- explains het!
ches. taken close together all round, and a French knot finishes the centre. -
Diagram shows a spot out buttonhole-stitching; aul Dia lined with long-and-short
gram D shows a leaf outlined with back-stitching and filled in with short single stitches.
SATURDAY, MAY
TINK'S CROSS – WORD PUZZLE.
The letter printed beside last week's puzzle was B, and there was a ring round it, which made it B-ringed. I suppose this sug- gested to you the word that was hidden in the puzzle Beringed. full solution:-
1. Girl's naine
:
Across.
6. Another girl's name
(Ada). (Ida).
9. Inclined towards romance
10,
Because
11.
Roman numeral
12. Hidden word 15. Therefore 16. Pronoun 18. Commanded 22 Flower
".23. Competitions
1. Native of Armbin
2. Quantities taken at a time
(Romantic). (As). (VI).
(Beringed)
(So).
(U8).
(Bade).
(Iris)..
(Contests).
Down.
(Arab)..
(Doses).
(Am).
(It).
Plunges into water
(Acid):
(Robin).
(Guess).
(Arc)..
(Art).
(Die).
(Yes).
9. Part of verb "to be"
13. Bird
6. Pronoun
7.
" (Lives).
8. Sour
14. Imagine ..
17. Part of a circle
19. Skill...
20. Expire
21. Affirmative
This week, for a change, we will have a plain,
straightforward puzzle, with no hidden word or anything of that kind. Here it is.
Horror! The old clock had developed little short legs and was
trotting after. her?"
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face. Then the strangest thing happened;
"Tick-tock," said the Clock, "Don't knock, or you shock The Old Dame! What's her
name?
She's sulky!"
Sue's hair stood on end! An Old Dame living in the body of the clock? Impossible! Yet the clock face looked grimmer and gloomier than ever, and the tap- tap-tapping continued.
Sue could stand it no longer. She ran to the sitting-room door, struggled with the handle, trying to open it and get away from this terrible clock, and the Old Dame who lived in it. She struggled and struggled and struggled, but the door was fast locked. Then:
"Tick-tock," said the Clock, Why mock at the lock? It won't yield, must be sealed!
It's sulky!"
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Clues:-
1. One tipic. 5. False.
RG.
Across
8. Belonging to us. 9. Metal.
11. Seen in woods. 14. Negativo. Poem.
16.
16
17. Perform.
18, Pla
Plant which is always green.
21. Grown-up bays.
22. Not good.
23.
Preposition.
25. Greater quantity. 26, Prefix.
27. One. 28. Certain. 29. Colours.
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5
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1760.
20
22
Down.
2. Same as 14 across.
8. Sever.
4. Mistake.
b. Guide.
8. Belonging to him.
7. Same as 27 across.
10. Foes.
12. Border.
13. Marvellous things.
15. Food cooker,
17. Beloved..
19. Come in.
20. Black wood. 24. Number. 25. Insane,
please, and I'll never be sulky
One terrified plunge landed her into the middle of a wild-rose again." bush, and there she stuck! The hair, her stockings; she couldn't torns clung to her frock, her
move an inchl
"Help," screamed Sue, as at last she wrenched open the door and fled through the hall into the garden beyond. Horror! The short legs, and was trotting old clock had developed little, after her. She rushed through the garden. She gave a fright ened look over her shoulder: of an Old Dame peeping out of sure enough, there was the face
leaving one inch of margin to
the clock's body. Somehow, the turn over and glue down over the
face ceemed familiar to her; yet linen thread marking the sides of
"it was such a very ugly, dis- the kite. Treat the other side in
In Diagram E you get an agreeable, sulky face that Sue a similar manner, allowing one effect filling for a large surface: was quite sure she had never inch of overlap in the centre. divide it up into squares with seen it before. thirty-two
Yes, she had, inches long, and the line is se- Stick three or four paper diacs stitches of wool in one colour, though! It was the face she saw
It's Bulky !" :* cured so that, then the bridle is over the crossing of the frame- then work cross-stitches in win the mirror every morning She was on her knees by this taut, the line is facing the cross-work, and at the bottom end of different shade at every place when she brushed her hair! It time. "Oh she sobbed, "Please ing, as shown in the first dia- the straight post. These parts where the long stitches meet.
was her own face! But how let me go home; please don't fol. gram.
are where the bridle is secured. Press the embroidered square, ugly it looked how sulky low me any more, I'm frighten- With a fine bradawl make a tie it loosely round your neck as She sped to the woods beyond ed, and I'm sorry really hole through the centre stick shown in the picure, and I am the garden, and still, the clock, sorry. I hate the sight of my
(Continued at foot of preceding sure you will be pleased with it,
and the Old Dame pursued her. own ugly face as I see it in the column.)
(Continued as foot of next Column) ; Old Dame. One more chance!?
just above the crossing, and also through the same stick about one inch from the bottom. The bridle
thread 日
Off went Rowan, for she was always ready to do a kind action. But on the way back she put the bucket on the ground for a mo-
The kite does not require a ment while she reated. Then tail, and will rise in the lightest suddenly she snatched it up Freeze. again, and looked frightened.
YOUR SAFEGUARD
EVANS
The Hut Carpenter..
Rosie's BEAU
GED M-MANUS
YOU SEE-DARLING-
BUSINESS IS SO GOOD
TO W
BUT LISTEN-ARCHIE! ITS' MY NIGHT TO WEAR THE DRESS- SUIT-1"""TOLD MY SWEETIE I'D TAKE
HER TO THE
SHOW-
RE
Wendy's Dressmaker.
BUT | PROMISED-ROSIE LAST WEEK I'D HER TO THE OF
HAVE A HEART-SL
Then came the mocking volce again:
"""Tick-td:k,” said the Clock, "Don't rock, or the frock Will be torn on the thorn -
ARCHIE IS SUCH A GOOD SCOUT: I DONT WANT HIM TO FEEL BAD- BUT GEE, IF I CALL OFF MY DATE MY GIRL WILL GET MIGHTY SORE
The face of the clock changed at Sue. And the face-of the Old completely; it seemed to smile Dame changed completely too. It looked like the face that peer- ed back at Sue from the mirror on those mornings when she was on her very best behaviour! Gently leading the way back to the house, the Clock beckoned Sue to follow. Once more in the peaceful sitting-room the Clock pointed to a little work-basket in the corner:
Tick-tock," said the Clock, "Mend the sock for poor Jock, Make it neat! You are sweet Not sulky!"
POOR OLD FAL I REALLY OUGHT TO LET HIM HAVE THE SUIT.
TO-NIGHTAJ CALL ON, ROSIE AND SEE IF I CANT GET OUT OF "MY DATE-
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