1932-11-26 — Page 11

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1932.

Long Ago Stories

Robert, The Baker's Boy

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT.

Robert, the baker's boy, had a but actually they were very dif- merry eye and a sharp tongue. His ferent loaves.

cause

master was a rogue who had re- On-the day before he should have cently travelled to London be- been executed, the young lord. the country town had be- escaped in a most extraordinary come too hot for him, He had manner. And that night Robert, made bad bread and given short the baker's boy, ran away from his weight, and the consequence was master, and joined a certain young that he had stood in the pillory all man who was travelling to Spain) day while the people threw eggs on a pirate ship to get wine! This and mud at him.

young man was the young lord.

**

The baker had bought Robert In the bread which Robert had from vagabonds on the King's High-sold him were fles, keys. instru-.

way, so the boy felt that he really belonged to his master. Together) they travelled to Londen, and set! up a little bakery near the Tower, because the baker knew nobody would listen to the complaints of prisoners, and he intended selling his bread to them.

it was Robert's duty to get or ders. Had it not been for his mer- ry eye and his sharp tongue, both he and his master mght have star- ved, for the other bakers resented them. Day after day, Robert clamoured and fought round the gates of the Tower, trying to get near the prisoners. When he sawi the servants of great men buying foud for their imprisoned masters, he bribed them with the baker's gold, and they gave him their cus

torn.

Only when Robert saw the young Lord Saltford go to the Tower did he feel any pity for the prisoners to whom he sold his master's bad bread. The young lord was seven- teen, and when Robert begged for his custom he replied that he would not need bread for long because his head would soon be off..

"Robert, the baker'a boy, had a merry eye and a sharp tongue."

ments for pleking locks, tightly coiled rope, and a letter giving the name of a ship lying in the Thames.

THE DOLLS' HOUSE BAND.

There's always great excitement in

The Dolls' House nowadays,

For Teddy Bear has formed a

Bandi.

The noise they make is really

grand,

(Or so dear Teddy says!) The Dutch Doll plays the violin

In mauner quite sublime.

Black Gollie hits piano-keys, He trles quite hard, but doesn't

please,

Because he can't keep timel

"The French doll sings a scale or two."

The French-Doll sings a seale or

two,

And though she's often flat, Her beauty softens Teddy's heart, She looks

very. sweet and

amart-

He cannot tell her thuti

The Rag-Doll bangs. the tam

bourine

As hard as she can hit,

While Jumbo Anda: his trunk a

boon

For holding firm the big bassoon-

It helps him quite a bit!

Piush-Monkey bangs the big bass

drum,

Its boom is deep and low. As Teddy Bear before them stands, He takes his baton in both hands, And cries, "One! Two, Three,

Go""

Then rattling, crashing, up and,

down

First high, then iow, now stopping

The Band begins to play,

quite,

So they started together on a The drums and trumpets play all There is always hope, my lord, while it is on your shoulders," re- great adventure. When the young

night,

·WENDY'S LITTLE

MILLINERS,

Cap and Scarf For "Special Occasions."

This week I want to tell you how to make a "best occasion" cap with scarf to match, from wool in some fairly dark colour, auch as bottle green, navy, 'nigger or black. Both cap and scarf are worked in simple crochet stitch and trimmed with circles of multi-coloured wool flowers. A green set should be embroidered in light and dark blue, jade and orange. A navy Bet can have flowers of yellow, orange, crimson, lavender, and light blue.j THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP. For a brown set, you'll keep to

Easily-Made Picture Frames.

Here is a simple way of making picture mouldinga.

frames without using Each frame is made from four pieces of plain wood, to the back of which four narrower strips aro acrewed in such a way that they hold the joints securely, and also form the groove for the glass, pieture and backing.

For a frame with an opening twelve inches by eight vinches which is a good size, use wood ́onè and a half inchos wide and three- eighths of an inch thick. Cut two pieces fifteen inches long and two pieces elgt inches long, and sec that their ends are made quite square to form good joints.

The back strips are one inch wide and a quarter of an inch thick, cut to lengths that allow the side strips to fit between the top and bottom ones, as shown in diagram B.

flowers of orange, yellow, and belge, but you can use every colour of the rainbow to trim a black set!

The "special occasion" cap and scarf, worked in simple crochet alitch, and decorat- ed with gay wool flowers. Mulliner tells you about the Beti

Make a perfectly plain little cap

To fix the parts of the frame in double crechet,, like the one we together, lay the four front pieces described a week or so back, just flat on the table, and well glue the to fit your head. Then lay a joints. 'Next, glue and screw the saucer measuring four inches top and bottom back strips in across on the side of the cap. Go place, leaving grooves a quarter of round it with white chalk, and out- an inch wide, as at C.C. Fix the line the chalk-line with cotton, to other two back strips in the same presorve the shape of the circle. way, leaving a quarter of an inch Fil the circle with little flowers, worked in "daisy" stitch, as shown in Diagram A. Diagram B gives you the full-size flower. Mix the colours. nicely, and give some of the blossoms orange eentres, others yellow..or green. Tiny single-atitches in jade wool between the flowers will complete the circle. When you've filled it in, pull out the white tacking-s cottons and the little cap is finished. You can see by the sketch how it should be worn- with the flower-trimming over your left ear!

The scarf is a strip of double- crochet, eight inches wide and long enough to tie round your neck with the ends overlapping in front, as shown in the picture. A flower- circle, to match the one on the cáp, is worked at each end of the scarf.

Wendy's Milliner.

MIKE MAKES A BED.

11

TINK'S CROSSWORD PUZZLE.

Did you manage the rather more difficult puzzle last week? Here's the solution. Check your own by it, and see how nearly right you were."

9

12

2.

Across.

All plants have these'

7. Favourite vegetable

9.

Precious stone

11. Cook

12. Gloss in a window 19. Before

To colour

27. Fruit that grows on a vine.

(Roots).

(Bean).

(Opal).

(Bake).

(Pane).

(Ere).

15.

(Dye).

16. 24 down has often done 21. Workers in the garden

this. (Shone),

(Gardencra).

25. Girl's name

(Ada).

23. Pronoun

(You).

(Grape).

Down.

1.

Westminster

4.

((Abbey)..

2.

21 across use these tools

(Rakes).

3.

Number

(One).

4. Summit.

(Top).

5.

6. Famous newspaper street in

London

(Floet).

8.

Organ of hearing

((Ear).

10. Some

(Any).

-14. Move

(Go).

17. Possessed

(Had).

18. French for "No"

(Non)..

19. Boy

(Lad).

20. For

(Pro),

21. Merry

(Gay),

22. Fragment of cloth

(Rag).

23. Organ of vision

(Eye).

24. King Sol

(Sun).

2

Another tool. used by 21 across (Spade).

4

*

10

Now a moderately easy one for everyday. Clues:-

cushion, covered It with the sock, and smoothed the handkerchief over the top.

"I don't see how it's going to. keep you warm," said. Frim.

"You wouldn't, dearie," scoffed Mike, "Nighty-night"

Then he stretched himself on top You will find it interesting

of the handkerchief, shut his eyes, to make picture frames,

and waited. But he didn't get and they are very simple to:

warm at all. All night he shiver- do, as Carpenter explains.

ed and shook, and his teeth chat- It was unusually cold in the tered. He was glad when the sun each side, as clearly jungle, and Mike the monkey came out in the morning, so that shown in diagrahi B. An enlarged shivered at night.

he could hop about in it and get

groove on

plied Robert. "I make good bread,"lord returned to favour, he was ac But-with the first, faint dawning view showing how the back strips)

The soldiers at the gate roared companied by his friend, a young Bu with laughter, because they knew man with merry eyes and a sharp tha. Robert's bread was made of tongue, whose true story nobody Band and bad flour, but Robert got ever knew.

permission to serve the young lord.

Poor

Satin Toffee.

light,

The noise all dies away.

Across

1. You play this game with

stick and a ball. 7. Two.,

9. Paying out (money, etc.),

12. Father's boy!

13.

Men

play billiards with this.. 14. British Dominion (abbreviat

ed).

10. You sed this 'a football

field.

20. Caloured.

OR

21. Pleaty of this on a football

field on awet day!--- 22. What you do with a spade. Down

2.. Not closed. 8. A tir

tin.

...

4. Young

goat.

5. Boy's name.

6. Animal,

8. How old you are,

10. Game played on horseback, *1*kernels.

31. You crack them to get the

14. Cunning.

15. Monkey,

10. Jowel

17. Join 18. Queer, 19. Pull;

on.

"I shall have to make a bed like warm. are screwed at the corners Is Sonny's," he said, shown in diagram D.

Prim thought he was hopping And he went to the edge of the for Joy, and she was so cold that One method of ornamenting a jungle, climbed tree, and watch she went frame, is shown in diagram Aed Sonny making his bed.

to see if she could pick When he remembered the young OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER. fire, and pour the toffee on to a on each corner, and a turned but and Mike could see him through Sonny. Then she few home in square wooden rosette being glued Sonny lived in a wooden hut, stayed a long time looking at up a bod. She couldn't, but she lord's sad eyes, and saw the beetles

well-battered tin. and bits of Blick in the bread, Ro-

With a knife ton fixed to the middle of each rail. the window. Dear, dear, what a great glee and asked Mike he bert felt uncomfortable.

keep turning the edges of the toffee Another form of ornamentation, lot of things he put on that bad! would sell her his bed for a store over into the middle of the tin, to shown at E, consists of a square Mike went nearer the hut when of nuta. prisoners! If good food were sold to them, the soldiers helped them-

prevent them from getting hard. wooden ornament at each corner, Sonny went for a walk, helped him- Put one pound of brown sugar When the toffee is cool enough for and strips of half round fancy self to a cushion, a sock, and a "You're so old that you're colder is all a question of inside and out selves to it first. But the soldiers into

"Certainly, dearie," he smiled, saucepan, with a good you to touch, take it in your hands beading fixed round both edges of Handkerchief, and made off with than I am, and I like to do a good side. Wake me in the morning!" never took Robert's broad.

Then Robert had an idea! At of butter the size of an egg. Allow satin. Break it into rough pieces,

tablespoonful of water and a plece and pull it till it looks like golden the frame.

them to his tree.

deed.” And night, when he made bread with his the sugar to dissolve slowly, then or roll it into a rod and cut it into groove, together with a backing of laughed, "Watch me make my "Now watch me go to bed. small. He scratched his car all

The glass and pictura at in the "I shall never be cold again," he

The jungle folk simply screamed master, he put aside special loaves boll the syrup till a little tried insation cushions with a knife dipped thin plywood as at F. the whole bed!

"Thanks, very much," said Prim. with laughter, and Mike did feel for the young lord. They looked cold water becomes brittle, stirring In boiling water.AT exactly like the others, for they gently all the time.

being kept in place with fine wire Prim the parrot and Fopper the wiggled into the cushion, put the thought about a bed having an out- She crept down under the sock, night, wondering why he hadn't were made with the same bad flour.

Put a little olive oil on your tacks. hands before touching the toffee.

porcupine watched, and they were tip of her beak on the sheet, and side. Of course, jungle. The Hut Carpenter. very envious. Mike plumped up the said, "Nighty-night, deariel This haven't!

GOOD TO YOUR THROAT

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Rosie's BEAU

GEOM MANUS

OHEYOU DID

SEE THAT ARTICLE:

THE IDEA THAT ROSIE THINKS I'M THE MAN, WHO SAID "GOOD-BYE TO THAT MOVIE ACTRESS IS SILLY-ESPECIALLY WHEN THE PAPER. SAYS HE WAS A SHORT, FUNNY, LITTLE GOY-

YES BUT I DONT SEE HOW ROSIE COULD

INK THAT MAN WAS YOU UNLESS SHE IS BUND LISTE

IF THAT IS HER OPINION OF ME- SHE CERTAINLY HAS AN ODD IDEA OF

HOW I LOOK-

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HERE COMES. MR- SQUAWK-I WONDER IF HE SAW THE ARTICLE IN THE PAPER?

HE HANDSO

MAN ESTY

A MYSTERY- LETT ADONIS

IDST SOC

OH I DIDN'T SEE THA PAPER HAD DIDN I KNOW WHY RO

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