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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1992,

Long Ago Stories

Adela Of The Gates

THE CHINA

The WENDY

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them-but she never could, be cause the lords and servants kept the rabble off with their whips.

Nobody knew where she came from, and all that she knew about berself was that "her name W35

Adela was very dirty, and she' Adhu She was quite sure that stole and told fles because she somebody had called her Adela knew no better. At the age of when she was very little, and as she twelve, she was beautiful, with blue grew older she was known as Ade-eyes, and quantities of matted l of the Gates. The gates were brown hair. She often cried be cause she was hungry, or because the sun burnt her, or the wind froze her, or the whips cut her.'

the gates of Jerusalem. Adela never entered the Holy City, be- Acause she had no money to pay the fee demanded by the Turks, Hun dreds of pilgrims waited round the vates day and night, hoping that some rich man on his way to do penance would pay the fee for them. But Adela was not a pil-

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grim: she was only a beggar.

Adela grew up among the rabble of poor beggars of many nations

All she knew about herself was that her name was Adela."

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who lived on charity or by selling water outside the gates. She spoke a little of many languages, and called herself English. She liked the English pilgrims, and nobles, and the sweet fair ladies who peep ed between the curtains of their litters when they waited for hours and hours to get through the gates.

Often she tried to approach the ladies there were very low-of

One day, an old woman who had lived outside the gates for years old her to go and, predict the fu ture, for the pilgrims who passed. by. Adela acted upon that idea, at once. Sometimes she would scream like a mad creature when a fairly prosperous looking pilgrim went by.

see an eagle in the sky!" she would shout. "If it settles upon

WENDY'S LITTLE NEEDLEWOMEN.

A Geranium-Trimmed Cushion Cover.

Here is something new and at- iractive for you to make-a crash cushion cover, decorated with gay scarlet geranium "growing"

a bright blue pati

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You will need two pieces crash. twenty inches square; piece of blue cotton material, seven inches wide and six inches deep;

A pay scarlet geranium "growing" in a blue pot de- corates this crash cushion cover. Dressmaker plains about it."

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a few scraps of green linen: and some scarlet, green and blue wool. Cut a paper pattern of the pot you, honour is yours. If it Ales to the measurements given in Dia away, you will never return to your native land. Give me alms, and 1gram A, then cut the blue cotton

material to this pattern. will induce it to settle."

THE BILLY BOYS WORKSHOP.

An Ornamental Pipe Rack

This useful rack, which will hold four pipes, can be made from three pieces of quarter-inch wood-oak or satin walnut for preference.

For the back, cut a piece nine inches square, and plane it on both siden. Mark one side into one- inch square, as shown in diagram A, as a guide for setting out the curved shape. Cut out with a pad saw, and finish the edge smooth with a chisel and glasspaper. Be fore cleaning off the pencil lines, mark the centres of the three dot-k ted circles with a compass point.

Cut the shelf to the dimensions The children laughed when their given in diagram B, and make the aunt gave them a very old doll's four holes with a three-quarter house, and told them they must be with a chisel, then fix the shelf to Inch bit. Round the front, corners. careful not to break it. And real- the back of the rack with four five- ly it was peculiar enough to make

eigths-inch brass screws. The top muck older folks smile.

of the shelf should be four-and-a- half inches from the lower edge of the back, as indicated in diagram

THE OLD DOLL'S HOUSE.

It had a funny little front door, covered with blistered green paint Above this was a fanlight such as you see nowadays only on very old buildings. Its chimneys were

A

To make the supporting bracket, take à

plece of wood measuring stubby and quite ugly, and it had four inches by two inches, mark bow windows with curtains painted out one side into half-inch squares, on the inside of the glass!

and pencil the outline, as shown in Inside the house was a remark-diagram C. Cut out the bracket, able collection of tiny pieces of and finish the edges with a chlsel furniture. Tables and chairs, pic- tures, piano, side-boards, and strangely made cupboards, justlea each other in very small room.es The children just laughed at it; and Daddy himself could hardly keep from smiling. You see, every- tning about the tiny house was so bleak and depressingly ugly........... And the paint and wall-paperings were the ugliest of all!

The children compared this ugly house with their flashing bright blue and white and buttercup-yei- low doll's house, with all its pretty modern furniture, and they laugh- ed again. Of course, as Auntie ad given it to them, they did no spoil it. They just pushed it into a corner, and simply would not play with it. You may be sure that un- fortunate old house felt sadly for lorn and left out in the could'.......... Until the children fell illy

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You might make a pipe- rack like this ready to pre- sent to Father at Christ- 18. Carpenter telis " you ke to set about it.

It chanced, you see, that when the doctor came to visit them, as they lay in their cuts in the night playroom and saw the old doll's nursery, he passed through the house. Daddy, who was with him, saw the doctor go quite whitel. He Tack gasped and almost trembled as he and sharp pen-knife. Fix the brac The pilgrims often gave her it in place on the front of the dropped to his knees and without ket, in place with two screws driven

so much as saying "by your leave," through the backboard and Now cut the leaves from examined the plaything inside and alms, because they were afraid. If cover.

"through the shelf. they did not, Adela would curan the green linen, making them from out. them.

two to three inches wide and about Then he got to his feet, and talk Cuted and talked and talked....Every four Dr five leaves, and tack one listened, in pure amazement.

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By the time she was sixteen, Ade-one-and-a-half inches deep. la of the Gates was well known. Then one day a litter with green curtains came out from Jerusalem them on to the crash above the pot. with a company of richly dressed Draw in stems for the leaves and nables riding round it. Suddenly flowers, and work then in green Adela dashed between the legs of

stem-stitch. Then button- the horses, and Aung herself be- fore the litter.

hole-stitch the leaves in place with the green wool, and stitch down the pot with blue wool.

"Black death i Famine! Fire Shipwreck!" she screamed. "I see them falling upon my lady! 1 have power silver penny and I will avert them "

The servants. lashed at her, but a sweet face looked out from the curtains.

"Maiden, come hither," said gentle voice, "My lord, bid the ser vants to stop! This is an English maid. Girl, what are you doing so far from home?"

Adela got up from the dust, and looked at the lovely face.

"Twas all false," she murmured, "I saw nothing! But I have no home, lady-no people no country: Take me home to be your slave!" And they took her home, with them

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To complete the rack, fix two wooden button ornaments to the back below the shelf with glue and Bmal wire nails. Then fix a

Should you visit a great Museum carved rosette in the centre of the in London town, you may see an backboard, above the shelf, as old doll's house in a glass case. It shown in the top diagram. These is the one that John and Iris re-wooden ornaments can be purchas fused to play with and laughed at.led-for a few pence at most picture But clever men. say that if is the frame shops. Screw two small most perfect existing specimen of brass eyelet-plates to the back so a toy of Queen Anne's day. Over that the rack can be hung up, 200 years of age.that poor old thing is "poor" no longer. For five hundred pounds could not buy

There are three clusters of flowers, the middle 'one about three it! inches across and two-and-a-half, inches deep, the others two inches OUR SWEET MAKING OORNER. deep and two-and-a-half inches. across Pencil in "shapes like these, and All them in with lazy-dalay loops grouped in stars. Diagram B shows both the buttonhold leaves and the geranium flowers.

Pross the work and sew up the cushion-cover in the usual way. A red wool crochet chala makes 3 good finish round the edges.

Cafe Wendy's Dresamakor.

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Milk Candy....

one pint of fresh milk, and half a One pound of granulated sugar, pound of butter. Almond or vanil-

The rack could be made from or dinary deal instead of hard wood, in which case it should be given a coating of satin-walnut or oak var- nish stain.

'The Hut Carpenter.

mixture to boilding point, add one third of the milk, stir gently, and

of the remaining milk, boil again, boil again. When boiling, add half add the rest of the milk, and con-

la flavouring may be added just be- tinue to boil for five minutes. If fore the saucepan is removed from you are using flavouring, addit the fire.

now.

saucepan, and dissolve slowly buttered tin. When it has set, but Put the butter and sugar into a Pour the candy on to a slightly

over low heat. Then bring the before it is quite cold, cut it into (Continued ct foot of next column) squares.

ARCHIE PURCHASED TWO TICKETS

TO A THEATRE SO HE WOULD. NOT HAVE TO TAKE ROSIE MOVIE THAT IS STARRING FACTOR WHOM ROSIE IS ANXIOUS TO SEE THIS ACTOR IS AN 100L NOWIE ARCHIE FINDS OUT THAT

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TINK'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week's puzzle, which shows that the hidden proverb was "Better late than never.

1. Raises

Across.

6. Fifty-one (Roman numerals) 7. Fuss

6. Third word of hidden proverb 10. Severe

12. Termination

18. One who leads

16. Perform

16. Short for "mister

18. First word of hidden proverb

Serpent

21,

23. Stalks of water plants

28. Boy's name

(Lifta) (LI).

(Ado).

"(Than)..

(Stern).

(End)..

(Leader).

(Do).

(Mr.)..

(Better).

(Boa). (Reodia).

24. Comfort

(Ease)vi

26. A colour

(Red).

27. Short for "road"

(Rd.),

(Henry)

Down.

1.

Second word of hidden proverb

(Late)..

2.

Notions #05 2.

(Ideas).

3.

Shallow place where river may be crossed (Ford).

4.

Short for ""street"

(St).

5.

Not water

(Land).

6. Within the house

(Indoors).

6. Pronoun

(He).

10. "Sleep

(Slumber).

11. Last word of hidden proverb

(Never).

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15. Guide

(Steer).

17. Highway

(Road).

19. A sea-bird

*(Tern).

20. Whirlpool

(Eddy).

(As).

25. Exclamation of enquiry

(Eh).

22. Because

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Clues for this week:-

Across.

1. An enemy.

4. Young cow. 2. Birds.

9. Meaning "modern". 10. Undivided.

11. A row.

12. Short for "madam"

13. It gathers honey. 14. Girl's name.

15. Tidy.

17. Kindled.

19. Repair. 21. Not so much. 22. Call for help.

Down.

All boys like this game...

2. PоBBBB.

3. They are earth, air, fire and

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5. Makes lively.

0. The sheltered side.

7. Some of the players of 1 down.

11. "Thank you”,

10. Part of verb "to be".

18. Meaning "that is". 20. Negative.

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