THE CHINA MAIL
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ONLY A PAPER BAG.
TINK'S CROSS – WORD
PUZZLE.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1933.
The WENDY
น
HUT.
Stories Long Ago
Cicely's Manners
Cicely's mother was dead, and within the Sanctuary door, she her father never visited the dark, i saw a great lord riding by, and she strange building where the girl hailed him.
lived till she was fourteen years "Bless you, my brave gentle- uld. Other girls came and went, I man " ahe cried, "Throw off your but Cicely remained. Once Eliza-cloak to show your fine figure. 'Tis beth Woodville, Queen of Edward a sin to hide it from the poor!" 4th, lived in that cold place, and Then the great man dismounted, there her baby son-afterwards and asked her who she was. Edward 5th, who was smothered in "Cicely, the Duke of Bradford's the Tower-was born. When daughter," she replied, as she Elizabeth went away with the lit-snatched at his velvet cloak, "Am the Prince, Cicely cried because she Inot worthy of fine clothes?" had loved nursing the baby.
"Cicely, the Duke of Brad- ford's daughter,** she re plied, as she snatched at his velvet elvakt.
"I have come to claim you," was the stern reply, "I am your father." Cicely was overwhelmed with an- tonishment. The horrified Duke put his cloak round her to hide her rage, and took her to his beautiful house, where she was washed and properly dressed.
That evening Cicely sat at her father's side during a banquet of peace which he gave to the King. But alas, she disgraced herself! She plunged her hands into the dishes of rich meat and sweets, she wiped them on her hair, she paid no re-
THE BILLY BOYS' WORKSHOP.
Toy Trucks For Your Train.
This week I want to tell you how to make some railway trucks which, with the little engine. I described last week, will form a toy goods
train.
A PRETTY FRINGED SCARF.
Tink has made Wendy a very cosy scarf, and Wendy says you really must make one like it.
"The Master, an elf, spied the paper-bag boat, and cried: "Painter, give her a süvery coat!"
On the round silver pond the toy
yachts were sailing,
But small paper sweet-bag ` justį
clung to the railing;
as It fluttered, it trembled, it thought]
with a sigh,
"You'll need three-quarters of n yard of check house flannel, which costa a shilling the yard and is about twenty inches wide. Cut To make the guard's van shown this piece in halves lengthways, and: in diagram A, cut a piece of three-join the two pieces together sixteenths-Inch wood, four and anently as possible, so that you half inches long by one and three-have a strip one-and-a-half yards quarter inches wide, for the floor, long and ten inches wide. and plane this on both sides and edges. Now, from a piece of strip and one ounce of bright green, to But half an ounce of brown wool. wood five-eighths by thres-eighths make the trimming and fringe. Take of an inch, cut two pieces one anda piece of cardboard three inches seven-eighths-inches long, for the deep, and wind about three-quarters axles. Glue and nail these to the of the green wool round and round, floor, in the positions shown in dia- gram B.
Trucks to attack to the toy ragine you made last week. Carpenter tells you how to construct them, From a piece of fretwood, about three-sixteenths of an inch thick, cut two pieces to the sizes given in
..
cut
as evenly as possible. Then through one side of the folded wool,
bits of green wool six inches long. so that you have a whole heap of These are for the fringe. you do anything else, turn in the
Before
"How happy are those who can
sail, walk or fly." Then ten little fingers-and not
clean ones at that!-
Tweaked the bag from the railing
and spread it out flat. They pressed it, and folded it up
like a note,
Then pulled it, and poked it, and
made it a beat!
How cold was the water, how
rough was the wave,
But paper boat whispered, "I'll be
very brave,
"For now that I'm sailing this
wonderful sea,
But splendid adventures may hap-
pen to me."
But the ships with the engines,
and those having sails
Were annoyed, with this old paper
bag from the rails,
And they pushed it away to the
reeds on the bank,
Where it floundered, and struggled,
and very near aank, Then the sun went to sleep, and
the paper boat saw
That the shipa who had musters
returned to the shore. "Oh somebody, somebody, claim
me, I pray!" Cried poor little paper-bag boat în
dismay.
But only the night spread her wing.
o'er the pond,
spect to people, and her loud laugh | diagram C, and, with a frolsaw, cut long sides of the scarf and blan. The moon threw a beam like af
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caused her father 16 blush.
"She must read the boy's hook of manners," smiled the King.
But Cicely could not read, next morning her father read the boy's book of manners to her, while she hung her head in shame. To her surprise, she heard that she muat wash her hands well, and if her fingers became greasy at meals "Shall I have to live in Sanctuary she must wipe them secretly on her all my life?" she asked the kind shirt or tippel! butcher who used to bring meal to
"As I have no shirt, will my un- the hungry Queen and her children.der-gown do?" asked peor Cicely.
"You're anfe in Westminster "Boys have a lot to remember!" Sanctuary," laughed the butcher.
It was quite a long time before "If you came out, you'd go to pri- she learnt gentle manners, and be- son, because your father the Duke is came a gentle-lady!
powerful man, and the King's enemy. Here, I've brought you a bit of swan pic."
(Continued from Column 3.)
Cicely grabbed at the pic and ate in your train, make the floor und it noisily. She had no idea how to axles to the measurements given, behave, because nobody in that and cut the sides and ends from strange place of refuge was respon- pieces of fretwood one inch wide. sible for her. Being naturally a
Make the coupling hooks from lively girl, und fortunately possess bent naile and press them into the ing a beautiful face, she was lik-ends of the trucks. Finally give ed by everybody, and the kind but the little goods train a cont of paint cher brought her scraps from his in one or two bright colours. own table, and an old gown when
she grew out of her rags.
Cicely was quite happy, but'
rather pert.
One day, as she stood
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out a window opening, (D) in cach plece. These parts form the sides of the van. Now cut two pieces E, and glue and nail them to the for the ends to the sizes given at
Fix the two sides in place. floor as shown in the firet diagram. Cut a piece of fretwood for the rool, which is the same size as the floor, glue it on, then cut a piece of quar ter-inch wood, shaped as shown at F. and glue this on the roof, In the centre.
The wheels can be cut from a piece of one-inch round rod, as de- scribed last week, and fixed loosely to the ends of the axle bars with fat-headed nails.
To make the little wood-carrying truck, cut the floor and axies to the same sizes as those for the guard's van, and fix the parts together a shown in diagram B. For the
Dressmaker explains how you may make a pretty #carf like this-from a piece of check flannel and some wool!
bright silver wand.
(Continued at fool of next Column.)“
of wool and fold them in half, Push your crochet hook through the hem
17. ... and pepper
20. Good garden, soil
22. A meadow
23. Mid-day meal
Solution to last week's puzzle:--
2. Jack and
5. Girl's name .....
Across
(Jill). (Ida),
7.
... meal for porridge
(Oat),
9. Refreshing party drink'
(Lemonade),
12.
Short for Royal Air Force
(R.A.F.).
13. Implore
(Beg).
15,
What you see with
(Eye).
(Salt).
•
(Loam).
(Lee).
(Luncheon).
Down,
.. (Milk).
2. Bread and .....
(Jam).
3.
You cut this in slices and spread
with butter
(Loaf),
(Ate).
6. Prefix....
(De).
8. Short for advertisement
(Ad.).
10. Substance from which metal is
extracted
(Ore).
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Riding ponies.
(Nags).
13. Favourite vegetable
(Bean).
Stan).
15. Give him an inch, he'll take an... (Ell). 16. Pronoun
18. Drink
(You). (Ale).
15
1. Most people take it in tea
4. Took food
14. Short for Stanley.
16. A lion is sometimes called this, (Leo). 21. Military cross (abbreviated) (M.C.).
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11.
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of the scarf in the wrong side, quite Then in a swift second that water) close to the edge, slip it through the was spread
some folk had shed- Orange peal barges, many match
boxes old,
Were painted in silver picked out
with gold.
loop of wool you have made, add With strange-looking vessels that draw this through the material. Now pull the ends of the wool over and through the loop as shown in diagram A. Pull tightly, and the wool will look like Diagram B. Dia- gram C shows you what the piece of fringe will look like on the right side of the scarf. Go along both Of gnomes, and of pixies, and ends of the scarf in the same way. elin-folk sweet
Along the ends, two squares up The Master, an elf, spied the from the fringes, work funny little
paper bag boat, pine trees
And oach had a captain, for this
was the fleet
to complete the trim-And cried, "Painter, give her a ming. Diagram D shows you how these are done the trees are green "And name her The Chocolate Joy,]
silvery coat! satin-stitch, and the trunks are
for I know You will find "That yesterday that was her And The Chocolate Joy was bought
heavy, cargo!"
by & prince,
"tree trunk", cut a plece about four ket-stitch them down, using the inches long from a branch of a tree, brown wool. Turn up the short brown slem-stitch and tie it on the truck with two sides and tack, but don't blanket- pleces of string, as shown in dia-stitch them. gram G.
Put on the fringe with a crochet hook, this way. Take six strands (Continued in next Columu.)
If you want to include coal trucks (Continued at foot of Column 2.)
DO YOU RESLIZE THAT ARCHIE WAS AWFUL SURPRISED AT YOU
BEING SO PLEASED WITH HIM GOING TO JAPAN?
WELL ROSIE DON'T CARE FOR ME. SHE WAS OVERJOYED
WITH THE IDEA
THAT I'M GOING,
AWAY-
it quite easy to draw the triango- lar trees directly into the squares on the flannel, and they won't take very long to embroider.
Wendy's Dressmaker.
And oh the adventures she'd hadi
ever since!
This week's clues:-
Across
1. Compass point.
5. Used for lubricating.
6. Fishermen usa It
B. Grace and refinement. 9. Grow old."
10. Definite article. 13. Fruit troa. 10. Girl's name.
16. Not young. 17. Preposition.
1. Nothing..
Down.
2. Animal with a trunk.
8. Animal that leaps.
4. Devoured.
5. Poetic way of writing 'over".
6. Bleat of a sheep.
7. Frozen water.
10. Number,
11. Before.
12. A colour.
13. Cooking vessel. 14. Kind of fairy,
THE DEAR BOY HE DOESN'T KNOW THAT I HAD DADDY GET HIS BOSS TO SEND HIM TO
JAPAN AS WE ARE GOING AND
ARCHIE WILL BE ON THE
SAME BOAT ·
WON'T HE BE SURPRISED
WHEN THE BOAT IS OUT AT SEA AND I WALK RIGHT UP AND KISS HIM?THE
DARLING-
THE BOSS SAYS. TO BE READY TO SAIL NEXT WEEK, HOW ABOUT IT?
I'LL BE READY-
ROSIE- I NEVER THOUGHT YOU SE SO CRUEL-YOUR ATTITUDE LEAVES ME WITH NO ALTERNATIVE BUT. "TO GO":
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