1933-01-28 — Page 11

SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933.

Long Ago Stories

THE CHINA MAIL.

The WENDY

HUT

Agnes And The Mistletoe

and of

Christmas candles, Agnes lived during the Wars of light the

a bunch the Roses. When she was five years was horrified to see old, her father's house had been mistletoe on the altar steps.

done destroyed by the Yorkists, and the

"Who has

this terrible Ittle girl who only knew that she thing?" he cried. must always be faithful to the "I have, faltered Agnes. "Oh Lancastrians had been carried father, I have put the mistletoe away by an old woman who made there because it has never touched charms and sold them secretly earth, and is the symbol of peace From that time, she Was the und love." witch's nerving mald.

"A wicke, pagan plant!" cried the people.

But Agnes did not like creeping out at night to catch spiders and frogs for the witch, and when she was fifteen she made up her mind to escape.

The people regarded Agnes as a witch. so they nover allowed her to enter the Church. This grieved the

"Agnes

put the mis- tletoe as near the altar os possible."

poor girl so much that she deter

mined to make her peace with the Church before running away. She thought Christmas would

be the

DO

"THE SAD STORY OF.. CHRISTOPHER CRAB..

Christopher Crab never believed anything he was told:

THE TINKITES TOYSHOP Making A Toy Windmill.

WENDY'S LITTLE COOKS.

Queen Elizabeth's Nouie Biscuits.

These delicious biscuits with. funny name wore made in the days

of Queen Elizabeth, and the old recipe says that they will keep for a year.

Take some stale bread, cut off, the crust,crumble the bread as finely as possible, put it before a fire to dry, then sift it. You should have ja quarter of a pound of dry, sifted {bread; Now take a little more than a quarter of a pound of ground almonds in Elizabeth's time the almonds were pounded in a mortar, but now you can buy them ready for use.

You can make this jolly windmill Mix the bread and ground al- with a few odd pieces of fretwood,manda in a basin, with a teaspoon- For the ipl of ground ginger, who table. "I know better," he used to mur and some cotton reels,

sugar, and mur when his grandfather told him mill house, cut two pieces of their spooneful of castor to hide under rocks in Summer, fretwood to the sites given in dia-cough-lemon juice to enable you to because things called children were gram A, to form the front and beat the whole to a stiff paste. back, Cut out the doorway in one Continue to beat the mixture with hunting for him everywhere.

"Rubbish" he used to smile when part only but mark out the windows a wooden spoon till it is quite The windows are smooth, then shape it into small, flat his vul told him about Ashermen's on both parts.

painted in when the toy is finished. biscuits, and dry rather than cook nuts, baskets, and crab paste.....

"As a flower could eat me up," At a distance of one-and-a-quarter them, in a slow oven on a slightly he grinned when his mother told him inches from the top of each part, greased tin..

In Elizabeth's day, nouie biscuita never to go near the sea anemones, on the contre line, make a hole to

a wooden knitting were cut in the shapes of birds, who were really animals disguised take part of

and hearts, and no as Rewors to tempt baby crabs and needle, which forms the shaft, S. almals, stars

Cut the two sides to, a length of doubt the children enjoyed' them other little fish to be their dinners.

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:

THE USEFUL LOTUS.

So, Christopher Crib went his seven-and-a-half inches, and a width then as much as you will now. way, and that took him to the rocks of two-and-a-half Inches. Nail where the anemones lived. They them between the front and back of looked just like flowers with all the mill house, as shown in the first their pretty tendrils waving about diagram.

a plece of ...Now cut in the water. Christopher Crab. would not belleve that these tendrils to seize him and carry him to a were really nasty tentacles, waiting!

mouth in the middle of the flower.

"Hallo," he laughed, "You are pretty! Can you open and shut like dalsies?"

And Agnes was hurried out of

"Yes they nodded; "Come close the Church to the street, where a crowd soon

collected and shouted and look at us, dear little Christo- that she must be ducked in the ice-pher Crab,”

118. punishment for "I'm sure they won't squirt out covered pond taking heathen

nasty poison that will make me sacred place.

giddy" thought Christopher Crab.

earth.

*

has

mistletog into

"I thought it was holy," wept "They are too pretty to do that." Agnes,

So he went closer. One of the never touched!

anémetes stretched out a tentacle to. morning, and ] "The maiden is right," cried afwish him good commanding voice, "Onec mistletoe Christopher Crab held out his claw. And then there WAD no more. was considered huly, but now it has

a bad nume. It can do no harm Christopher Crab, and he was never unless it touches earth, because seen again! That anemone had its roots are in the tree and it lives sprayed him with poison, all its ten- anair. Let the maiden go free.tacles had closed over him, and the

I will be responsible for her."

As the speaker was a learned knight, beloved of the people, Agnes was handed over to him, and he

Brouth was having a good dinner.

"Where's Christopher Crab?" ask- ed the others.

The old crabs shook their heads

look her to his mansion, where the and bed towards the anemones. ladies gave her food and clothes, but the little crabs wouldn't believe On Christmas Day, when the bunch then. Of course it was very for of mistletoe was hung to the cell-tunate for the anemones ing to prevent it from touching they d to have something for

earth, the knight gave Agnes the kias of peace beneath it.

FEATHERED "RECORD

BEATERS."

My

dinner.

berausc

Carpenter, has drawn thonë -

sketches to show you exact-

:

ty how the jolly for wind- nill should be constructed.

thicker wood, eight inches long and six inches wide, for the baseboard. and fix the walls of the little house to it by fiue brada driven in from

underneath:

Cut the four sails to the sizės given at B from plywood one- sixteenth of an inch thick. The

The lotus of China and Japan is, perhaps, one of the most useful plants in the world.

In the first place the white root, which looks like a tursin, is edible and has a very pleasant, taste,

Thon the seeds, which resemble almond nuts, are also eaten with great relish, and the pods are sliced and eaten raw,

The atome of the leaves are used for mats and basket work and the icaves themselves take the place of paper and baskets, boing gold in packets Ilke our paper and card. board plates in the markets and streets. Practically everything portable is wrapped in latus leaves during the heat of the summer. In fact, the lotus is a been und a blessing to men in China and Japan, as it must have been in Egypt in the bygone days: Every atom is useful, just as the coconut and its tree are of valué.

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At the Feast of the Lanterns, rehl lotus plants and flowers are floated on the lakes, after being illu

Then minated with little candles, the water presents a fairy-like scene because it is one mass of lighted lotus flowers.- * * - - *

No wonder the Chinese babe an

expression, that means "The Lotus

siLife and Life is, the Lotus !!!

a two sail army ate pieces of quarter F. and, after pissing, the end of

inch by three-sixteenths-inch strip the shaft through the

wind, at speed of no less than

other hundret miles an hour.

Antiher marked bird was proved wood, seven inches long. In the hope, glue on a small wood washer. to hate travelled from England to gentre of each ann cpt nalot half Fix the cotton reel to the centre Years age, it was only possible to South Afrien in under a fortnight.way through the wood as shown at of the shaft with a small screw.

The driving shaft E is another best time of the year to ask for guess at the distances flown by and all another flow from Scotland C. Press the parts together after giveness for having lived under the birds when they moved from cok to India in record time.

gluing the joint Fix the nails to piece of wooden, knitting needle, witch' roof. Now, the witch used countries to warmer ones, but now

As for height, airmen have rethe ends of the urms with fret with a cotton reel glued on in the mistletoe berries for some of her men have proved that birds ported that they have met ducks and workers" fine brade, as indicated in centre and a wooden handle fixed 'on charms, and, thinking that mistletoe thousands of miles in less than a waders flying high above the Alps sketch B. the rear end. Tie a piece of thin

Not and other mountain ranges. was a holy plant because it had been week,

Now obtain a cotton reel, saw it string round the two pulleys to used by the Druids, Agnes went into

Men in one country mark, gen-all birds travel high, however, for in halves, and fix the sail arms to form a driving band.

The roof is made of two pieces the cold woods and cut a bunch of erally by a ring, the leg of a bird, passengers on steamers have often the flanged part of one half by wire mistletoe from an oak. On Christ-and others watch for this bird in scen migratory birds flying a few brads, as shown at D. From a thick of one-eighth-inch fretwood, cach This must be mas Eve, she took it to the Church some distant country usually round feet only above the tops of the wooden knitting needle cut: a piece three inches squire.

There were polès covered with

a district frequented by others of wave thereby taking advantage of four and a quarter inches long, for glued in place when all the other holly and ivy in the streets, and its kind..

the only bit of comparatively still the shaft, and fix one end in the cot work is done..

The finished windmill can be evergreens and holly over the doors

A few years ago, a Lapwing was air, whilst above them blew strong, ton reat with a small screw, 08 Agnes of the houses.

Pass the end of the shaft painted in two or three bright sad reported to have flown across the adverse winds that would have kept shown. because she had no part in the re- Atlantic in something like 24 hours, then stationary dr even blown them through the hole in front of the mill colours. joicings, but she crept into the having travelled, with a following back.

house, slip on another cotton reel, Church and put her mistletoe as

near the altar as possible.

wae

As she

was going away, a priest came to

GOOD TO YOUR

THROAT

Rosie's BEAU GED.M-MANUS

The Hut Carpenter.

TINK'S CROSS-WORD

PUZZLE.

¦ I hope you didn't, And last week's puzzle too difficult? thought it might interest the older boys and girls to look up in their history books some of the names and dates I set them to find. Here is the solution-do tell me if yours agrees with it..

Across

2. One of those who invaded Britain

In the 5th and 6th centuries (Angle), Henry 8th was sometimes called

:

6.

"Bluff King ..."

7.

Roman numerals for twelve. (XL).

***** (Hal).

8. The Spanish Armada was one (Fleet).

11. Part of verb "to be"

(Are).

12 Allow....

(Let).

14. He was King of Northumbria In the year 617

(Edwin).

16. Not young

(Old).

18. A colour

(Tan).

20. Pronoun

(He).

(Too).

28. Negative prefix

(Un).

24. Cruel Roman emperor

(Nėro).

26. One of the Northmen who invaded:

Britain in the 8th century (Dane). 26. Peas in a......

(Pod).

Down.

1."" Pronoun

(She).

21. Also

2. The King who burnt the cakes (Alfred).

Childish name for a horse -(Gee),

10. High Priest of the Bible

3.

4.

The dimension to which anything

is extended

(Extent).

5. Command

(Bld).

2. Guided

(Led). (El).

13. King who signed the Magna

Charta

•

15,

Queen of England; from 1702 to

1714

(John).

(Anne).

17. National emblem of Wales

(Leek).

19. A relative.

(Aunt).

21. Spinning toy

(Top).

22. Uneven

(Odd).

manage.

20

Now a very easy one which the Tinies will be able to

Clues:-

Across

12

3

1.frog- Jumping game.

4. You play cricket with this.

6. You play this at No. 8 down.

7. Nobleman.

9. Serpent

for teal

18. There are 365 in a year.

11. Jam

10. Animal.

16. Rushed.

10. Sharp.

20. Affirmative word.

21. The remainder.

12

16.

10

Down

1. Part of the face.

2. Grow old.

3. Festive gathering.

4. Teddy

. Toy that spins.

8. Concludes.

You do this to puddings when

18.

mixing.

12. A flower.

14. Invites.

16. Giri's name.

17. Number,

18. You do this at a party when there are good things on the table.

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