1932-12-03 — Page 11

SATURDAY, DECEMBER

1932

Long-Ago Stories

Eleanor And The Arrow Head

THE CHINA MAIL.

The

WENDY HUT

Eleanor, the archer's daugh-In year. Then the people began ter, had green eyes und red hair to whisper together again, and -and strange stories wera say it was the fault of the whispered about her. It was maiden with the green witch's said that she was a witch! One eyes and the red hair. At last, Sunday, when Eleanor was four-Eleanor's father; drove her out teen, none of the Church bells of the house, and she went weep rang, and the doors of all the ing to the forest at night.

"I shall starve when winter .the 30 Churches were else,

she sobbed, "Unless village people turned upon the comes,"

girl and said she had brought they send me out to sea in terrible misfortune upon them.

little boat.

Then I shall

WENDY'S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

A Dress For A Baby Girl.

THE KNIGHT AND THE SNOWFLAKE

He

THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP

Making A Shoe Rack

This oak shoe-rack will be found very useful on wet days. It is meant to be placed in the bottom of a cupboard, or against the skirting board in the corner of a room.

The two rails on which the. shoes rest are made of triangular section oak stair rods, about two feet long. They can be bought at, most household stores.

Two pieces of wood, six inches square and at least half an inch thick, will be required for the ends. Mark out one piece to the sizes given in diagram A. After sawing this to shape with your tenon saw, cut out the mortise B, for the back rail, and also thej. recess for the top rail C. Cut out the slot D at the bottom with saw and chisel, and round off the top front corners at E. After

The Knight was very weary, Someone wants to make aand his heart was heavy,

a present for a baby had travelled far from his own dress as girl, so this week we'll see how land and could not find his way to make the dear little frock pic-home. Having sold his horse carefully smoothing the edges tured here. It takes just half and his jewels, all he had left all round, use this end for mark- yard of thirty-six-inch white was his armour. When he was ing out the other one, which can material.

Besides this you'll starving, he sold that also, and then be cut and finished in the need blas binding in bright yel was left unprotected.

That day sure way. low, a skein of yellow embroi-the snow began to fall. dery thread, and one of orange. Wearing only "his. thin blue that it measures eighteen inches tunic, the Knight struggled across Fold the material in half, so the plain, while the snowflakes that it measures eighteen inches danced before him, wrapped square. Then fold in half again. themselves round him, and chill- Scoop out a curve for the neck,fed him to the bone. He thought and one at the side for the arm- they were very cruel, and, al- holes. Diagram A shows the though they were silent, he felt garment opened out after it has hey were laughing with joy at] been cut, but before it is-stitched his misery. He crunched them

up.

By special request, Dress-

maker is telling you this weck how to make a pretty frock for a baby girl.

under his feet, scattered them from his hair, and at last he shouted angrily at them because he was so cold.

Then one snowflinke fell into the palm of his hand. He lifted his other hand, thinking to pound the snowflake to nothing,) when suddenly he felt that it was warm! He was so surprised that he stood still. Then the snow- flake began to burn his hand, and it tingled just like a spark till it turned to water..

"It is like a diamond," laughed j the Knight.

Here's a picture of the use- ful shoe rack about which Carpenter tells you to-day. And diagrams to explain how to make it -

"I have done nothing," de- drown!"

She climbed into an old oak clared Beaury, "Here I am, in my best clothes, ready to go to tree, and stayed there all night. Church. Tis not my fault if the in the morning she saw the ar row head! A little polished doors are shut."

stone arrow head it was, embed-

He pushed on, still holding the Ided in the trunk of the tree. II.

snowflake tightly, and it warmed had been there ever since some

his hand. Somehow he could ancient Briton had sent it sing-:

not throw the snowflake away, For the back rail, cut a the ing through

air. But

because he had become quite piece of planed oak strip, one Eleanor did not know that; she!

fond of it. So he kept it in a little and a quarter inches wide and thought it was a thunderbolt full

bottle, and when he reached half-inch thick, to the same of wonderful power. The people

home it was the only thing left length as the supporting rails. called these arrow heads thun-

to-him.

Screw the ends of the rall into derbolts, and imagined that they!

"Is that all you have brought the slots, B, with one-inch brass had never touched the earth. Sew up the side-seams, and back?” laughed the other screws, after countersinking the Eleanor dug it out of the tree bind the armholes with bias Knights.

holes in the rail so that the with the knife, which hung from binding. You can, either bind "Yes," he replied, "It showed beads of the screws are flush her leather girdle. Then, clasp the bottom edge to match, or you me that after the snow came ing it in her hand, she ran back can turn up a neat hem. Next the sun and it brought me safely to the village, just as the King fold the dress at the middle of back,” and his Court rode by to hunt in the neck-opening in front, on the Then the little. bottle cracked the forest.

nside, and make a tiny tuck two and out stepped a lovely maiden "A thunderbolt, your Grace" inches 1 ng. Measure half an who held out her hands to the cried Eleanor, flinging herself on inch away on the left, fold, and Knight,

chiselled flush after they are her knees before. the King's make another wee tuck, two "I was under a spell," she smil-screwed in place. horse. "Twill lift the mourn-inches long. Do the same with ed, "and could not be freed til The two end pieces and the ing from

the country-'twill the opposite side. Then crease somebody loved me enough to back rail can be stained and make peace!"

another fold, half an inch away bring me to his home. I did not polished to match the triangular Now, that very day the Pope but only sew this down for one think that anybody would ever rails. A section of one of these had threatened to give John's and-a-half inches. Finally, sew care for a little snowflake!" rails is shown in diagram G... erown to Philip of France. And another one-and-a-half-inch tuck That is how the Knight found

"A thunderbolt, your Grace". cried Eleanor, flinging her- aclf on her knees before

the King's horac."

But the people were 30 the King was so terrified that on the opposite side. Diagram is lovely bride. And those who frightened that they would have when he saw the arrow head, he B shows you what the tucks will had laughed at him felt very ducked. Eleanor in the pond, had determined to give in to the look like from the front. Make small! not the priest come out and told Pope's demands, hoping that the five similar tucks on the back of then that England was in dis- thunderbolt would bring him the dress. Now bind the neck- grace because King John had

success. offended the Pope. His Holiness

had put an Interdict on the country, and no bells

Eleanor

He took it greedily opening to match the armholes

with the wood.

The two triangular rails are imply fixed in place with a one- inch screw in cach end, as shown in diagram. A. Any projections

at the ends of these rails can be

TINK'S CROSS - WORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week's puzzle:-

Across

3. Boy's name (abbreviated)

6. One side of a leaf of a book

7. Before8...

8. French for "and"

(Ted (Page). (Era). (Et).

9: 6 down should be this

(Sharp).

10. Between the shoulders and the head (Neck).

12. Footwear

(Shoe),

14. European country

(Italy).

16. Because

(Ag).

∙∙17. A great deal

(Lot).

18. They contain kernels

(Nuts).

(SOS),

Down.

19. Call for help

1. You should never be this for school (Late).

You sit at this in school

2.

3. What the schoolmaster does

4.

Blunder......

5. Make low-spirited

6. You write with these at school (Pencils).

11. Garments

12. Auld lang

13.

Ontmeal is made of thêm

16.

Also

(Desk).

(Teach). (Err).

(Depress).

(Coats).

(Syne),

(Oats).. (Tho)

This week we'll have a rather more difficult one, be- cause a Tinkite has said: Everyone in the family loves

doing the puzzles but they're very easy, aren't they?" Perhaps you'll tell me if you would like an easy one and a hard one on alternate weeks. Then I shall know exactly what to do f

7

5

10

20

19

224

21.

25

Clues for this week :-

Астова,

2. All plants have these

Favourite vegetable

9. Precious stone 11. Cook

12. Glass in a window 13. Before 15. To colour

10. 24 down has often done this 21. Workers in the garden 25 Girl's name

26. Pronoun

27. Fruit that grows on a vine.

Down.

-

1. Westminster

2.. 21 across use these, tools 3. Number 4.- Summit

6. Another teal used by 21 across 8. Famous newspaper street in

London

9. Organ of hearing

10. Some

14. Move

17. Possessed

18. French for "No"

The Hut Carpenter.

18.

19

OUR SWEET-MAKING: CORNER.

20

21.

Lemon And Almond Caramel.

22. Fragment of cloth 23. Organ of vision 24. King Sol

COME TO CONSTANTINOPLE,

Let's sail up the Bosporus and visit one of the most famous and picturesque cities In the world, shall we?

Constantinople is the capital of the Turkish Empíré, and stands on a series of small hills, almost facing the magnificent harbour known as the Golden Horn, which • is some four miles in length. It is claimed indeed that Constan- tinople is enthroned, like Rome, upon: seven hills.

As its name suggests, the city was founded by Constantine the Great, and was made the new seat of government on the eleventh of May, A.D, 330.

It sprang from the old town of Byzantium, and there are still a few residents who look blank- when you say Constantinople. They prefer to call the city by Its ancient name even after 1600 years!

The city has been the scene of: from Eleanor, and rode on The little inverted tucks will are pencilled in very easily. Work

Put one pound of lump sugar saucepan from the fire, and stir many terrible battles, and has Soon afterwards the Interdict shape the top very prettily, and the head and body in yellow but were to was lifted.

When the Church you can make more or fewer tonhole-stitch, adding a wee tail into a saucepan with half a pint he juice of one lemon into the fallen into the hands of enemies ring, and no services were to be bells rang out, the people carried tucks; if necessary, to fit the neck just a single stitch will do for of water, and stand it over very caramel. Try it again in cold of Turkey many times.

To-day, it is a very modern- held in the Churches.

in triumph to the of the baby for whom you intend his. The beak is indicated with low heat till the sugar has dis-water. If it does not harden at

two stitches in orange and the solved. Do not stir this mixture once, boil it up again, still with-place, with the usual trams, Then England was plunged in- Church, saying that she was a the frock.

buses, taxi-cabs and large shops. to morning. There were no wed white witch-that is to say.. a. The embroideries are great egs are orange stemi-stitch, with at all, but be very careful that it out stirring

Have ready a cupful of dried But the many domed mosques and dings, and the dead were buried good witch!

fun to do. To draw a chicken, single stitches for the claws. A does not turn or become die- without prayers. The people All the rest of her life, she lay a penny on the material and black french-knot eye completes coloured When a syrup has peeled almonds. Pour the syrup the picturesque quaye and older crept about like frightened rats, was called the White Witch of pencil round it, for the body the cheery chick. Work a pro- formed set it simmer slowly till on to a slightly buttered plate, parts of the city make the nobody ware bright colours, the Thunderbolt, and people Then put a sixpence in the right ession of them round the frock,t boils. When it begins to bub scatter the almonds quickly over visitor forget the march of le, try a little in cold water. If the top, and allow the caramel to civilisation and live again in the never a bell rang out, and there came to her from all over the position for the head, and draws you see in the picture.

it anaps quite easily, remove the set. was neither music nor feasting country for advice. This state of things lasted for

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Tround that. The beak and legs

SO ROSIE THINKS THAT I'M S THE MAN WHO WAS AT THE RAILROAD STATION WITH. THAT MOVIE ACTRESS, JUST BECAUSE THE NEWSPAPER SAID HE WAS VERY

HANDSOME

BEUNDA - TOLD YOU

"EVERY TIME HE

JUST TELL HIM,

TO TALK TO HI

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Wendy's Dressmaker.

WELL I CANT SAY

BLAME HER FOR THAT THE DEAR LITTLE DARLING-

past.

BUT THAT DOESNT STRAIGHTEN THE MATTER OUT- SHES STILL ANGRY. I'LL CALL HER AND SEE IF SHE IS WILUNG. TO LISTEN TO REASON:

SHE

SLEEP?