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THE CHINA MAIL

The WENDY

HUT.

THE PATCHWORK" QUILT

Mother is making a Patchwork

quilt,

Oh, such a beautiful, colourful

spread!

Snippets of crimson and snippets

of green,.

Orange and yellow, with purple

between.

It's really the loveliest quilt I've

вест

And she says it's for my little

bedi.

SATURDAY, JULY 9, 1932

TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week's puzzle-

Long Ago Stories

Pengwern And The Stone Carpet

Pengwern the Briton hung; though Pengwern knew nothing about the Roman town seeking about the laying of pavements, and had never seen one, till the work. As he lingered round a Romans built their town, his house which was being built, a Roman came up and asked him what he wanted.

"I would like to make a carpet of coloured stones like the one you are putting on the floor of your house," replied Pengwern.

الالفة

Pengwern tried for many days....and the stone car pet grew in beauty.

"I have the same magic in my fingers as you have, only I have never thought of using it."

fingers ached to get hold of those fragments of coloured stone and shape them into flowers, fruit, and animals as the Romans did.

"Your friends will laugh at you. coloured if you play with our stones and build a beautiful house," grinned the Roman.

"But they do not laugh at. you," sighed Pengwern. "Why is it that you can scent your hair, and make carpets of stones, and also fight and rule the land well?"

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS, THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP

A Skirt With "Braces".

Making a Light Step Ladder

A Wendy girl wants to make This useful ladder can be made A specially nice skirt that she of deal seven-eighths of an inch. can wear with little blouses, so thick. There are six treads, and we hope all our Dressmakers will a top cross-rail which allows the be interested in the one we are ladder to be placed against a describing this week. It is made window frame, as shown in the of woollen material in any pretty first diagram: shade you fancy, and the novel The first parts to make are!

are five "braces" are embroidered with the two sides, which wool flowers.

feet nine inches long and three

Oh, it grows fast, can't believe.

my own eyes! And as she stitches the red,

green, and gray,

Stories sha, tells in her own dar

ling way,

Each tiny patch spells a memory

23. Employs

24. Encountered

26. Refreshing, drink

A cross.

Found out

(Detected).

8 Beam of light

(Ray).

9. Go on horse-back

(Ride).

10. Blunder

(Err).

11 Monkeys

(Apes).

12 Tree

(Elm).

Mother is making a Patchwork

quilt,

14. Negative

(No).

15. Short for, "doctor"

(Dr.).

+

17. Serpent

(Asp),

19. Frult

(Figa).

21. Girl's name

(Una).

(Uses).

(Met)...

(Lemonade).

Down,

1. Terrible

2. Spike of corn

(Dreadful).

(Ear).

3. Part of a wheel

(Tyre),

4. Stuffs

(Crams).

(Tip).

6. Garden of the Bible

(Eden).

7. Fortaken...

(Desolate),

13. Rope for catching cattle

(Lasso)..

16. Ascend

(Rise);

brown,

18. Sometimes called the "American

lion"

(Puma).

20 Jewel

22. Boy's name (abbreviated)

(Gem). (Ned).

And clues for this week's puzzle:——

G

gay.

Swifter and swifter her needle

Ales.

Mother was making a Patchwork

quilt,

Isn't thrilling

ed it quitei

she's finish-

All the bright patterns are

'neatly sewn down,

You'll need two pieces of and a half inches wide. Mark Buttercup, amethyst, emerald, material, each about thirty-six out on one piece the slanting inches long and fifteen inches lines which give the positions of the treads. Each pair of lines, which should be placed according to the dimentions given in dia- grams B and C, should be exact- ly seven-eighths of an inch apart. With your tenon saw, cut through the wood on the sloping lines to a depth of one-eighth of an inch, and chisel out the wood between the saw-cuts to form slots one-eigth of an inch deep. Saw the bottom end of the side piece to the same angle as the slots, and then shape the top end as shown at C. Mark out and finish the other side. piece, in the same way, and make sure that the slots in the second side slope the reverse way when the two parts are placed side by side.

A specially nice skirt with "braces." Dressmaker tells you about it to-day. deep. These measurements will "Come and place the stones in make a skirt to fit a girl of about| my pavement; then you willjeleven or twelve. Lay them flat learn for yourself," replied the together, then fold, and cut a

shown in Diagram A. The

Roman.

Pengwern could hardly believe waist-band is shown in the up- his ears. But he knelt down on per part of the Diagram; it is the ground, took a handful of four inches deep, and long enough coloured marble which had been to go comfortably round your cut into small pieces, and set waist. Like the skirt it's made about making a dog's head. To in two pieces.

his shame, he could not do it. Saw up the 'side-seamna of skirt His first thought was to destroy and band, then join them to the floor, his second to run away,gether, gathering the skirt a lit his third to strike the Roman tle each side to make it At the who had shamed him. But he band. Ham the skirt, and turn saw the Roman smiling, and in the top of the band. Now cut great sorrow came over him. the "braces," three inches wide "What is the matter with and long enough to go comfort- me?" he asked, "I fear nothing,ably over you shoulders. As you yet I cannot trace a dog's head in see by the small sketch, they cross over at the back. Turn in stones.".

The treads, which are four inches wide, have to be sawn to different lengths, the bottom one

A light step ladder may be, very useful in the garden. i You can make one like this

if you try,

The

And I'll have it on my bed to-night!

beautif'lest quilt in the whole of the town,

And I'll have it on my bed

to-night!

OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER

Ginger Fudge

For this you will require a quarter of a pound of preserved ginger cut into small pieces, one pound of grandulated sugar, a plece of butter the size of a small legg, and half a pint of mink,

Put the milk, butter, and sugar into a saucepan, and heat. slowly, stirring all the time for milk is liable to burn. When the sugar has dissolved, bring thể" mixture to the boil, still stirring, then add the ginger and mix rell. Remove the saucepan from the fire, and beat the fudge with 1 wooden spoon till it is thick and creamy. It is the beating that really makes the fudge. When it begins to collect in a made round the spoon, turn it on So a greased plate, pat it into a nice, block, and leave to cool.

་ ་

"Because you have not learnt the raw edges, hem neatly, and to control yourself," said the work flowers and leaves down Roman. "Temper is no good; each. Diagram B shows how you "You think of nothing but perseverance is everything. Try do the embroidery. Penny-sized

again."

circles, buttonholed round, make fighting and hunting," smiled Pengwern tried for many days, the flowers, the stems are work- being Afteen inches and the top the Roman. "What is the good and, as his fingers became more ed with back-stitching, and the one ten inches long. Each tread of a floor of coloured stones to gentle and experienced, the stone leaves are lazy-daleles. Ask a is one inch shorter than the one (Continued from previous Column.) carpet grew in beauty. The Bri- friend to pin the straps in posi-immediately below it. They are those who live in mud huts?"

tons carne and looked at this tion when you are wearing the fixed in position by stout nails. The treads should be planed "When I am a man, I will build floor, and they did not laugh at skirt, then you'll be certain to driven in through the sides, as level with the back edges of the houses like yours," replied Peng-Pengwern because they knew he get them in the right place. shown in diagram D.The top sides, and the front edges should

the When you are sure the position and bottom treads should be be slightly rounded. wern. Look at those dogs on was learning some secret

To complate the ladders, screw secret of patience and persever-is correct, sew the straps to the fixed first. carpet-the your

workmen

For the cross-rail E, cut a piece two struts (F) between the ends ance which was the power of the skirt. A little pocket, embroider- have made their heads wrong." Romans.

ed to match, is stitched to the of wood, one foot six inches long of the sides and the back of the Pengworn became A great right side of the skirt. Now the hall of the Roman's

and four Inches wide. Round the bottom tread, as shown. These maker of coloured stone floors. Next week we'll see how to corriers and screw it to the slop-struts are eleven inches long, one house was being covered with a Even to-day there are a number make a pretty little blouse to ing ends of the side pieces, as inch wide, and five-eighths of an

inch thick. beautiful pavement across which of them beneath our pavements, wear with it.

shown in the diagrams.

(Continued in Next Column.)

* The Hut Carpenter. And, al-waiting to be uncovered. hunting dogs raced.

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Wendy'e Dressmaker.

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WHEN SHE FINDS

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PLAY THE

SAXOPHON

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UPSETITS

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5. Point

Clues:-

Aeros

1. Paid attention.

12

8. Fall of rain, etc.

9. Upright,

11. A. limb.

13. Fairy-tale giant.

14. Bita,

16. Short for "sister."

17- Animals, 19. Fruit.

22. Number.

THE TINKER

15.

호

1.. Васниво..

Down,

2. Roses have them.

3. Preposition, ...

1. Sheep.

5. Wicked Roman emperor.

6. Remains of liquor.

7. Fruit of a palm.

10.

To be too humble.

Once more.

12 Stone worker.

15. Part of verb "to be."

18, Rested: ·

20. Compass point

21, Prefix.

BELL

CLUB.

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Name Address Age:

Date of Birthday

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