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THE CHINA

The WENDY

HUT

LONG AGO STORIES

Helena And The Creeper.

On The Wall

WENDY'S. LITTLE DRESSMAKERS]

A Blouse To Wear With Your New Skirt.

You can make this little blouse out of one yard of thirty-six inch wide material, if you're fairly amall. If you want a bigger blouse, you will need one yard und a quarter!

Fold the material in half, mea- sure twelve inches away from one of the sides, and cut a strip which will measure twelve inches wide and thirty-six inches leep. Cut this, in half, so that You have two pieces, each twelve inches by eighteen. Now cut

MAIL

THE LAND OF NOD.

lave you been to the Land

Nud?

A queer place, and very odd. The way is the strangest one I

know, There are no roads, nowhere to

go!

it by the fire in the dark, Watch a red and glowing spark. And all at once you're on the way. You feel your chair begin to

sway.

Now don't look up nor say

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.

Making A Dog Kennel.

You can make this kennel out! of packing-case wood. The sizes given are right for a dog of the errier class. For a larger dog. *he measurements given in the liagrams must be proportionate v increased.

The floor consists of three lanks, two feet six inches long, wx inches wide and five-eighths an inch thick, braced together it the ends with battens two nches square. Across the mid- Ite of the floor, underneath, an- ofther batten, two inches wide and ne inch thick, must be nailed on, & shown, în diagram B.

The front of the kennel is made nehes wide, nalled to battens E, FUN!

three planks, each six

which are two inches wide and hree-quarters of an inch thick. he cross-batten F, should be free inches wide, to allow for he cut-away part at the top of he opening. Saw the two outer links two feet long and the iddle plank sixteen inches long, nd nail these close together to Fix the hebattens E and F. wo top sloping battens at the orrect angle (ninety degrees), and use them as a guide for saw- Mark out the shape of the open- ng off the ends of the planks.

ng, to the dimensions given in lingram C, and cut out with a ad-saw. The back part of the ennel is made in the same way, ut no opening is required in this art, so the centre plank comes ight down to the bottom.

word, Because, you know, it's Little

Bird

Who guides you to this curious

place,

And he'll fly off if you show your

face.

these in half, so that you have four pieces, each eighteen inches Let your head droop gently down.

Helena lived on the Saxon, for if it died she believed her

long and six inches wide. Join Shore, the strip of the British father would be lost at sea. coast attacked time and again murmured Helena.

"Creeper, creeper on the wall," them together in pairs, so that "Be strong, YOU have two long strips of by the pirate Saxons, and rulede brave, keep our honour safe." material, six inches wide and by a Roman officer. Her father One day, when she was water-hirty-six inches long. Each was on the

sea, fighting those ing the creeper, a Roman officer strip will make one paffed sleeve. followed by a number of young All this sounds a little complicat- mighty ships from the North Britons and Romana, came ed, but it isn't, really! which swooped upon the coast marching into the court.

Fald the rest of the material like vultures. Many of the "Come with us, Helena," he widthways and lengthways, and aa shown in Diagram A. Romans had left Britain because said, "The Saxons have landed, cut

and we are going South, and Sew up the side-seams, and make their Empire was so large that from there to Rome. You can- hem round the bottom through they could not govern it, and the not stay with these barbarians, which you can thread an elastic. Rome is your home now." Now join the short sides of each

"As long as the creeper lived, 30 long would Helena's family fouriah.”

Angles and Saxons plundered the

coasti

Helena sprang towards him. sleeve, Run a gathering thread Then she looked back at the round the top of one, pull up to creeper

on the wall. It was

green, and strong, and beautiful. "I cannot leave the creeper on the wall!" she cried. "It is my

| father my country ---- I cannot.

leave it to die.”

They could not persuade her, so the youth of Britain and Rome left her behind on the Saxon Shore. And one day the pirates. entered the quiet court and saw Helena standing proudly under the creeper on the wall.

"My father is still alive,” `she said, pointing to the creeper. "You cannot slay the Britons, nor their country.”

The savages could not under- stand what she said. But she looked no lovely in her white) dress that they thought she. might be a priestess guarding a holy plant.

*

"One maiden cannot do much harm," said the Saxon Chief. 1 So Helena lived among the fourteen years Saxons, and they sent her food, old. She could weave, and sew, and she tend the creeper lovingly came back from and speak two languages, and till her father she lived in a beautiful house like the sea.

Helena was

a Roman maiden. Now, on the The race of Britons lives to wall of one of the inner courts day because Helena and others grew a strange creeper which her never left their country, but grandfather had planted when went to Wales and settled there. he built the house. Into its keeping he had put the strength gathers between the ribbon, aÐ

as

new

A pretty blouse to wear with your

skirt. Dressmaker tells you how to make it.

fit an armhole, and stitch in, as shown in Diagram B, regulating the gathers to get them even. Do the other sleeve in the same way. Make a narrow hem at the end of each and thread elastic through to fit the upper arm.

"Atlant you reach a lovely

gate, and there you seem 'to wait and wail."

Each side consists of three planks, six inches wide, sawn to] a length of two feet six inches. In fixing the parts together, the two bottom side planks must first; be nailed to the edges of the foor. Then the front and back parts can be placed in position, and the bottom side planks nailed to them in turn. The other side planks can then be nailed on. The front of the kennel is set

And trust the Little Bird in tack four inches from the front

brown.

Soon you're floating through

veil

Made of flimsy swan's

pale.

end of the floor, as in diagram D,} a which shows the parts fixed to- rether and ready for the roof.

For each side of the roof, use two planks six inches wide, and

down

Here and there you see a star

SATURDAY, JULY:16, 1932.

TINK'S CROSS – WORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week's puzzle':

9: Upright

11. A limb

Across.

7

1. Paid attention 8.. Fall of rain, etc.

(Attended).

(Shower).

(Erect).

(Arm)..

(Ogre),

(Gnaw).

(Sis).

(Asses).

(Orange); {

(Nineteen).

13. Fairy-tale giant 14. Bite

16. Short for "sister"

17. Animals

19. Fruit

22 Number

1. Because

2. Roses have them

3. Preposition

4. Sheep

Down.

6. Wicked Roman emperor.

6.

Remains of liquor

7. Fruit of a palm

10. To be too -humble

11.

12. Stone worker

Once more

15 Part of verb "to be"

18. Rested

20. Compass point

21.

Prefix

(48).

(Thorns).

(To).

(Ewe).

(Nero).

(Drege).

(Dates).

(Cringe).

(Again).

(Mason).

(Were).

(Sat).

(NE).

(En).

Another "plain" puzzle, which I believe you like better than "hidden word" ones. Clues:-

15

3

10

11

12

18

19

Ro

22

23

WENDY'S LITTLE COOKS.

Potato Sausages.

Mash any cold potatoes you Saw happen to have, shape them into

The land, you think, cannot bene four inches wide, the narrow

far.

All those little silver lights

Are beacons shining on the

heights.

Now and then you feel a bump,

It makes you give a funny jump. But settle down, it's only mills On the top of grey cloud hills. And you touch their whirling

As

arms

you cross the Big Bear Farms.

J

-

Then it's all so smooth and soft, That you know you're up aloft. Oh, the hush there's not a

sound, You're far away from solid

ground,

At last you reach a lovely gate, And there you seem to wait and

wait,

But if you cross your hands and

fect

They'll let you in that country,

sweet.

links being at the top.

the planks to a length of two little sausages, and roll them in

Here's a fiue dog-kennel which you can make if you road what Carpenter has to say about it, and study

the diagrams.

24

Clues:

Across

1. Animal

4. Girl's name.

7. Chose.

8. A

eup of

6

B. Poetic way of writing 'aver.

10. Dog's foot.

13. Musical note.

14. Compass point.

16. Ocean.

18. Frozen Water.

20. Eile bed.

City in China.

23. Not

24.

Not cold,

Meaning and so forth.'

1. Surprise.

2.

Observe,

3. Smack

4. Took food.

5. Consider.

Down.

6. Sea east of Italy,

11. Because.

12. You

You and I.

15. Re-sound,

17. Pain,

19. Devour.

21. A cereal plant.

Locs are ready, place them on a lish and keep them hot in the oven. Fry a little parsley in butter and put this on top of the potato sausages.

Have ready an egg for each Gather round the neck open- And if you don't they'll send you feet six inches, and before nail- !

person; the eggs should be boil- back and power of his family, as long shewn in diagram C, making ing. Take a piece of coloured

ing on the lower overhanging flour. Now heat a little buttered for five minutes, so that they the creeper lived, so long sure that the finished binding will ribbon, one inch wide and a yard With what appears to be a smack! ones round off the corners, as in a frying pan and fry the pota-are neither hard nor soft. Take would Helena's family flourish, just at the base of the throat. long, and crease it along the You gasp, you jump, you say hown in diagram A.

toes slowly, first on one side, them out of their shells carefully, a bow, centre. Find the middle of the Now only Helena was left to tend Tie the ribbon ends in

Give the finished kennel two then on the other. They should without breaking them, arrange oats of good paint, and cover he a nice brown colour, and you hem round the potatoes, and put he roof with tarred felt to keep must add a little more butter little fried parsley on the top the inside dry in wet weather. when necessary to keep them of each. Serve hot with mus-

The Hut Carpenter, from burning. When the pota- tard.

Oh dear!

it, and she watched it anxiously. which will hang down the front blouse front, and sandwich the "I've been on a journey queer- When it drooped the gave it of your blouse and make a pretty

"I'll try again, for it's very odd, (water, and she ran to look at it finish.

That I couldn't get into the Lam the first thing every morning.

of Nod!"

Good for

your Cold

Keep Doctor away EVANS PASTILLES they protect your throne (and siva reist in cases of

moble, cockar sand ontwerk:-

EVANS Potillas

Wendy's Dressmaker.

Rosie's BEAU

GED M-MANUS

175 AWFULNICE OF YOU TO CALL-ARCHIEĮ

DARLING-YOU'RE

JUST A DEAR-

(Continued at foot of preceding column.)

OH-ROSIE! I'M SO SORRY

TO HEAR THAT YOU MUST STAY IN THE HOUSE ON' ACCOUNT OF A BAD COLD- PLL, CALL THIS EVENING DEAR-

WHY ITS NO' TROUBLE-DEAR-

I JUST JUMP IN

A TAXI AND I'M HERE IN NO TIME-

WELL-MY DEÁR-

MUST BE GOING

I'M TERRIBLY SORRY ROSIE HAS A COLD- BUT IT'S LUCKY FOR "ME-I COULDNT TAKE HER OUT-1 HAVEN'T - EVEN GOT A DIME FOR CAR-FARE-

GEELITS BOME, WALK TO HER HOME I MUST COOL OFF AS ROSIE THINKS

ALWAYS COME OUT HERE IN

A TAXI-

BUT AUNTIE-WAIT. AWHILE. I KNOW ARCHIE WILL. BE

ONLY TOO GLAD.

TO SEE YOU HOME

WHY-ER: AH-YES!

HOW AM I EVER GOING TO

NOW TURN

MILE

FOR

indicate.Inc.

luth rights re

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