1933-03-04 — Page 13

SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 1933.

Long Ago Stories

THE CHINA MATE

The WENDY

HUT

How Charles Read Signatures

my

EGG-COSY SET.

For A Wedding Present

THE NEW DRAGON

A Story For The Tinies.

The Prince was the first to see We've had a letter from a Wendy the dragon and he went home in girl saying she wants to make

a great state, and told the Princess. on the nice little wedding present for her

"It was romping about big sister-and it mustn't cost very edge of the forest," he said, "An much! We think an egg-cosy-set, extraordinary creature with wings like the one Tink has just finished It wore a bonnet, and when it saw making, will please her. We hope me it roared and flashed its four so, anyway!

eyes, and I don't mind telling you As you see, the cosy is made in that I took to my heels.** the shape of a little bungalow. You "I thought we'd got rid of ago," must buy four penny egg-cups-the dragons hundreds of years

Princess. "Whatever kind that are like small tubs, not the sighed the ones with feet-and find a box that shall we do?" will take the four in a row.

"He has been sitting under walnut tree for hours without mov-from cardboard: ing," nodded a farmer, "Let us go and ask him what he sees there."

When the Wars of the Roses were over and Henry 7th became the first Tudor king of England, the country began once again to think of trade.

When Charles saw the people But it was a terrible struggle for

at all, and approaching, he smiled, and answer many people to live

ed very shyly. Charles, who was the son of an alchemist who had spent all his money trying to change lead into gold, found himself alone and with-

out a penny. He was a strange, serious boy of fourteen.

Charles planted a garden of herbs, and was very happy!"

"In the walnut I see the signature of a head," he said, "The green covering is the skin, the shell is the skull, the white kernel is the brain. If I had a place in which I could work, I would make healing waters from the wainut to cure the ills of the head."

The farmer was so impressed that he told Charles he might live at the farm.

By the time the boy was sixteen, be had read 80 many signatures that he could make heating waters for all kinds of sickness. Daisies were for bad eyes, ferns for falling; hair, strawberries for lung troubles, daffodil roots for colds, He plant- ed a garden of herbs, and was very happy.

Everybody naked that question! the dragon dash- If you can't find a box exactly Meanwhile size, you can quite easily make one ed into the fields and trample the "You'll need five corn, and its snorting and hissing pieces of card, one for the bottom of could be heard in the streets at the box, and four for the sides and night.

Lay the four cups on the "If it ventures into the town in ende. bottom card, and rule an oblong the daytime, nothing can save us,'

Cut this declared the Prince. which takes them all in.

out, then cut two side pieces, the

由

Here's a pretty little coo

cosy set for a Wendy girl

to make for her grown-137 sister.

same length as the bottom and the The depth of the cupa,

Then one day a mysterious visi tor came and asked Charles how he would cure an aching heart. young mas smiled

Now cut

THINGS YOU CAN MAKE FROM CARDBOARD

A Model Anti-Aircraft Gam

To make this toy gün you require only a few pieces of thin cardboard and a sheet of notepaper.

For the gun barrel; cut a atrip of the notepaper to the sites given in. diagram A, and carefully roll this round a pencil, as shown at B.) Smear the edge, C; with strong ad- [hesive, and stick it down to form a tube. When quite“, dry, sup the tube off the pencil and plug one end with a short piece of dowel rod, as et D.

PAPER STRIF

An anti-aircraft gun made. from notepaper and card- board-Carpenter explains

how!

Cut out the shield, E, from card-:

Taking his gun, he went out to fight the dragon. As usual, it was lurking on the edge of the forest, board to the sizes given in the When the Prince shot it, all it did diagram, and then, with scissors was to rule up a great hood which (and penknife, make the slot F, just was round its neck and leap towards wide enough to allow the gun barrel The slot should be kim. lie felt its hot breath, be saw to slip in place. Its flaming eyes, and he had to run one and a half inches long.

Cut two pieces of card to the to escape being trodden down.

Then it was decided to sacrifice a shape and sizes given in diagram beautiful maiden to the dragon as G, for the sides of the gun mount- the people in olden days had ing. A quarter-inch strip along done, and, to the Prince's horror, the upright edge of each piece must the Princess-whom he was going be bent at right angles and stuck to the back of the shield E. When to marry-drew the lot.

Now the Princess would not let fixing the sides in place, see that the anybody see how terrified she was. edges of the shield project about. on each Proudly she walked alone to the three-eighths of an inch

side. forest. Out bounced the dragon,

The base is made from a single I with

bonnet wings, hood, and ¡quivering. But the Princess sprang piece of cardboard, cut to the sizes

Iron !

TINK'S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.

Solution to last week's puzzle:

B

1. Compass point

5. Used for lubricating

Across.

(N.E.)

(Oil).

(Bait).

(Elegance).

6. Fishermen use it

8. Grace and refinement

9. Grow old

10. Definite article 13. Fruit tree 15. Girl's name 16. Not young 17.

Preposition

(Age). (The).

(Pear-tree).

(Anne).

(Old).

(OE).

Down

1. Nothing

.(NII).

2. Animal with a trunk

(Eléphant).

3. Animal that leaps

(Kangaroo).

4.

Devoured

(Ate)..

5. Poetic way of writing "over" (O'er).

6. Bleat of a sheep

(Baa).

7. Frozen water

(Ice).

10.

Number

(Ten).

11.

(Ere),

12. A colour

(Red).

13. Cooking vessel

(Pan),

14.

(Elf).

4

6

Before

RO

Kind of fairy

2

18

a

18

Clues for to-day's puzzle:--

Not bad.

Across.

7. To govern.

8. Children who live at school, 11. Termination. 12. Animal 138

Falso statement

16. One.

14. Call for help.

17. Within.

18. To accomplish.

19. Preposition.

&

20. Looka with wide-open eyes.~

Down

1.

To rovolt,

2. Degree in quality.

3. Belongir to us."

4. Aged,

6. Actions.

6. Flowers.

9. Vegetables,

10. Fowla' sleeping-places.

15. Girl's name.

16. Follows neither.

ALI-BABA'S OIL JARS.

20

THE PRIZE PENNY

As I was going down the street,

I found a shining penny.

And I was very gind, because

Till then I hadn't anyt

I looked to right, I looked to left,

Behind, and then before.

But no-one came to claim my prize, Which pleased me even more!

I met some friends along the street,

And told them of my finding. They all agreed 'twas lucky, though

1 didn't need reminding!

Wee Jane and Tom, and Jack and

Kit,

And Joan, and Baby Paul,

Came crowding round.

I' wished

And oh!

I'd pence to give them all. And then I had to spend my prize. And that was MOST exciting! The things inside the toy-shop

looked

on to its hack, and found, to her given in diagram H. Cut out the

corner pieces, then make of four amazement, that it was made

elight cut along the dotted lines and All day the Princess struggled bend over the edges at right angles. Finally cut the with the dragon, and by evening she Glue the corner joints, and cut little and picked a two ends of the box to the correct found out how to control it. Then angle pieces of thin card to stick! the four corners to bunch of wood-sorrel from his size. Cover each piece of card- she drove it calmly back to the Inside

board with casement cloth like this: Prince's stable.

strengthen them. After the glue garden.

aeut a piece of the material a tiny "This has the exact shape of

"It's a queer young body!" she has set, stick the gun mounting in heart," he replied, "I will make you bit bigger than the card, and run laughed. "It's made of iron and the centre of the base.

Lay tin.

To hold the gun barrel in place, out of the Having come a concoction which will cure you of a gathering thread round it. heart trouble."

the card in the centre, pull up the earth, it has to be fed on oil and cut a strip of thin stiff card, about the dolh will be petrol, and it is hungry! As long a quarter of an inch wide, and bead Now that mysterious visitor was thread, and

shown at Henry Tudor! He Look Charles to fixed firmly to the card.

as it has plenty to eat, it is never it to form an angle, as

Glue this part to the back of "I am evidently alone for some his court and gave him a magni- another piece of cloth, the same tired, never requires any sleep, and K

a wash and brush-up the shield just below the slot, and good reason," he thought, "Perhaps|ficent still-room in which to work. prize as the card, with an extra half only wants It is to make me think. I can see So Charles lived on the King's inch all round for turnings, and sew now and again. I think I can make to the underside of the gun barrel. Finally, give the finished toy a coat that the people of England are sick bounty, for he would never take this on top of the covered card, hid-it quite useful."

He became ing the raw edges underneath. She Lamed the new dragon so of grey paint. and tormented by plague and all money for his curce.

The Hut Carpenter. ila great-great-great-] manner of ills due to the Wars. the greatest chemist of his day, and Diagrams A and B show the two completely

They most certainly DIDI Many now quite Now, my father declared that God revived the art of curing by signa- stages. When you've covered all five great-grandchildren are

them together with harmless. We call them motor Then remove the saucepan from the of the old oil jars are still to be has given a cure for every ill. If wures which was carried on in Eng-cards, sew

coloured embroidery thread to make cars.

fire and stir in two teaspoonsful of seen in Crate, the island in the vanilla Cadence, or any other Mediterranean Sea, as well as the box. If you are able to get a

other places, and some of them are ed in huge iron tanks, some of them so huge that you wonder how people being as big as fair-sized lakes. Even the tanks on the steamera that managed to move them.

One row of such ancient jars is bring the oil across the ocean are composed of most beautifully carv-large enough to hold ten thousand ed specimens, all of which stand for more gallons,

As for the tanks used to store over ten feet in height, mearurc

I can read His signature in the land for hundreds of years after. plants, I can help to cure this land

and make it prosperous."

It was Summertime when Charles,

A

set out to read the signature on the dows, and flower border on

the

plants, and he lived like a hermit in "walls" of the house, using gay

box in the first place, you must take OUR SWEET MAKING CORNER flavouring you like. Let the mix it to pieces and cover each section as described.

Now for the "cosy" purl.

Cut

Brazil Fudge

Those of you who have been to the pantomime and seen the large Jars of the "Forty Thieves" may have wondered if they DID have such jars in tho old days.

So varied and exciting. Tin-Soldiers, marbles, or a top,

To choose made me despair... So in the end I bought some aweets, Which all my friends could share!

ture stand till it is quite cold.

Meanwhile shall and chop two cupaful of Brazil nuts. Add these to the cold mixture, turn the whole the woods. Soon people began to scraps of wool, then sew the four two pieces of grey or fawn cloth for

This is delielous, and well worth on to a board, and knead with your know the quiet boy who, in Winter, pieces of cloth together. Measure the back and front of the bungalow,

an inch bigger the trouble of making. To three hands for about a quarter of an begged for bread at the farm the top of the back and front, and making them half houses, and they whispered that he up the sides of the points, then cut than the long sides of the box. Cut cupsful of granulated sugar allow hour. Then beat the paste into a even more than that round the mid-petroleum, these are even bigger, a strip of red cloth to fit between two ends from the same cloth, half nearly one cupful of milk. Put a firm square block, and cut it into die, and are capable of holding and are really more dangerous had the healing touch.

when empty than when filled.. When "He begged me

for a drink of these, to make, the roof which must an inch bigger on tree sides than plece of butter 'the size of a small pieces with a long sharp knife. A several hundreds of gallons of oil.

Ali-Baba's jars were not quite so. "empty" they are actually FULL.of buttermilk," said a milk-maid one be stitched on. This sounds a bit the ends of the box, and rising to egg into a saucepan, add the sugar small kaile makes a ragged edge, market day. "And, seeing that my complicated, but if you look careful a point at the top, as shown in and milk, mix, and bring slowly to but a long one can be pressed right large, but were still big enough to deadly fumes that would ignite and eyes were gore, he gathered the ly at the pictures you'll be able to diagram C. Embroider door, win-the boil, stirring all the time with a through the fudge making the contain the thieves, according to result in a terrible explosion were

wooden spoon. Boll till a little squares look far more "profes- the story.

a naked light brought within a few... blue flowers of eye-bright from the manage beautifully.

(Continued at fool of Column 2.) tried in water forms a soft ball,sional,"

Nowadays, of course, oil is storyards of them. road-side and made them to a paste

Wendy's Dressmaker. which has cured me.”

WELL YOU CANT.

BLANE HIM FOR THAT BUT I'LL SEE THAT HE

HUH! ROSIE DIDN'T SKEM A BIT SORRY

KANS

EVANS' Andpectio Throat PASTILLES azy good for your. Throat Dodon al

· over the world caucía- mend them, knowing the efficient way do which they relleva colde, cough, casarth, inflamed and septici throats.

Rosie's

BEAU GED IT-MANUS

UNKNOWN TO ARCHIE,

ROSIE AND HER DADDY ARE GOING ON THE SAME SHIP TO JAPAN WHERE ARCHIE 15. BEING SENT ON BUSINESS BY HIS BOSS- WHO IS AWARE OF THE SECRET-

MR SELLENBUY ARE YOU SURE THAT ARCHIE WILL BE ON THE BOAT? HE SEEMED UNHAPPY WHEN HE SAID GOOD-BYE

SAILS YOU FOLKS) HAD BETTER BE

GETTING ON THE

BOAT YOUR

SELVES

E-KNOW WHAT I'LL DO I'LLİ JUST MISS THE BOAT-ILL

TELL THE BOSS THE TAXI

BROKE DOWN WHO'S THAT AT

THE DOOR,NOW?

OH- HELLO, BOSS-

WELL. HURRY UP.. NO TIME TO LOSE TM GOING DOWNI TO THE BOAT

WITH YOU· COME ON

THIS WILL BEA WONDERFUL TRIP FOR YOU WE WISH I WAS

GOING INSTEAD

OF YOU

EVANS Pastilles

1913, King Features Syndicate; fri

ABOUT ME SAILING-

GOSH; I WISH I

COULD GET OUT

OF GOING-