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PUZZLES

STORIES

Quilting Isn't

By MADELINE CORSE

TARTING

u patchwork, Ray- quilt, begging coloured bits of material from mothers, grand- mothers and nunts, setting small stitches into straight scams, one way to have fun being nseful.

A patchwork quilt may seem like a lg undertaking,

begins with only

triangles of

frin

Bilractive colours,

but it small 1wo material in Sew them

together, and there's a square. Minke a few more squares, then new all the squares together to

That's make a large block,

good start, and not very difficult either.

If you have mastered the sew. ing machine, stitch the straight neums with No, 10 colton, but if you sew by hand,

Letter,

No 50

be a pattern to

There must follow in making your quilt. A

HOBBIES

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A Bad Sport

GRETIN

CHURN DASH PATTERN.

OND 5" BLOCK CONGISTS OF..

4-SQUARES

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great many quilt patterns are like an outside border, use the nine-patch, loves third of the large block, that each large posting it along the border.

of nine

varialkan.

of the

which means

block is made up smaller squaFUS,

CHURN DASH [a

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simple

It's a

FLUTTER WHEELD

QUILT MAKING WAS FUN FOR GRANDMOTHER, AND CAN ALSO BE FUN FOR TEEN-AGRAS.

AND THE QUILT YOU MAKE WIERY. LAST FOR MANY VEURE OF LEBEN SERVICD

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Although plain green and Wheels pattern, but you require are pug fewer blecks than the Chum vole peint pieces dested, other colour combine Dah pallern. The total amount west-pink and at work is practically the same. Uns can be Rep rope bright blue and soldi

and plain or ved print 1ɔliter.

light

An Indian _Logond

1960:

GAMES

CRAFTS

GIFT OF FIRE

Rotold by LEE PRIESTLEY

"Hush Husi:!" said the Pine

LONG and long ago when Tree, bending under the weight

the world was young,

of snow. "If a secret la told, It

it was a dismal, cold place. Is a secret no longer."

The sun shone in the blue

The wind shook the Pinc

sky, to be sure, but there Tree's branches and snatched at was no fire on earth. When the eagle feather in the hair of all rain fell or the snows of Manapis. The wind went

the corners of the winter locked the forests around

and prairie in icy hands, world. Perhaps the wind would

help him. the then

Red Indians shivered in their buffalo

"O Wind," said Manapls, "do for you know the secret of fire?"

"Who-o-o... whoo-d-o...

destroys 1cils

secret, a

the wind answered. sceret,"

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robes and longed warmth and light.

Manupis, the son of a great "Only if your hands, Mona pls, chief, was strong and young so and the Sun will give you are!"

Krently

that he did not ruffer old The wind laughed then. "So

from the cold,

But the

blue

of

men of the tribe sat with chat. the trees received the gift," tering teeth and stiff, Angers Inside the tepeen. There must be some way. Mannpis thought, to bring the gift Bre to his people.

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ANAPIS could not believe

Male held up his hands

broke

JOKES

ZOO'S WHO

GIANT HORNED TOAD

OF SOUTH AMERICA BARKS AND BITES LIKE

AFRICAN PORCUPINES

A DOG..

EEET LONG REPTILES RULED

THE EARTH FOR ABOUT FIVE MILLION YEARS.

GIRAFFES CAN DELIVER A TERRIFIC · BLOW BY USING THEIR HEADS AS SLEDGE

HAMMERS....

ON LIVING LONGER

He chlu upon his chest

with GROW QUILLS THREE the pondered

problem, tutil his muscles ached

last he was. into the the strain. At the interlining from slipping out Mannpis wandered

forest. The cold wind rattled forced to drop his arms to his of the pine sides, trembling with pain. He proper balance between light top. Tufting at Intervals keeps h

of place, and dark-coloured paielies, You need more pleces

the through an The Snited quilt should be the icy branches

the sunumer make a quilt block in Flutter

trees did. The Wind sald the the received from 72 in 1 inches wide, and tree as he passed. Perhaps the could not hold out his arms all

said Mana- Pine Tree bad may be 90 to 108 inches long, tree could help him.

"O Pine Tree,"

the zeeret

A. Did that mean that depending upon your preference,

A flounce or valance may be pis, "do you know the

tree had the gift of fire now? but are?" ved to finish tho

Was it locked inside its branches de of ually a binding is

which it held out to the sun all material like the backing. Blass

summer? ୧୮୯ wide 11 inches trips

the around machine-stitcheri is an- Wheels Platter nine-paleh pattern.

is most quilt on the wrong side, and quaint idea, dating back to the other nine-patch easy-to-make.

(CTTON BATTING have cut out 20

often used as an luterlin- whipped down on the front by days when housewives churned

Litir

and 20 their own butter. If you study When you

patterus Flannelette Simple quilt will see that pieces of plain the design, you

puffy, but is just as effective as those mate sil: black, you begin by sewing the average quilt. there is a plain three-inch square Peces of white for each 18-inch 1, une "bat" being enough for hand.

each of makes the quilt

Whip the seams difficult, and the teenage girl in the centre. The four corner together one triangle

bulkiness who completes just one patch- to avoid pieces are lite the small pattern

square, together

an old thin werk quit has proved herself ranked A, and the remaining blue and white, joming the long ratisfactory.

she has done smart because are like the small Mal four streh squares, and sew Another lining s pallern marked B.

them together to form a larger cutton blanket.

Any of unstarched material some creative work, maka square, which then becomes one carefully,

corner of the quilt block. Five may be used for the backing- of these larger squares, and four unbleached or "factory estion." and mom pink print squares, will com or plain while. But your quilt

back in plete your 18-inch block,

four piece

Measuring:

of each of cardboard patterns

the the three pieces shown in diagram and mark with pencil wron side of the on De material, cutting about a quarter

vilside the pench of an inch mark to allow for seams. sure your diagonal edges are vo a true bly, and handle the trees with gentle hands so the none of the edges will stretch or ravel,

1

to form

will be daintier

Plains strips of white anasterial colourful if you fur inches wide are suggested Fretty shade used in the quilt

to set the Flutter Wheels quit block together. A good berdor

is the corner sure or pinwheel quilt, alternating with squares; "peater around the edge of the of the pink print

Filter Wheels is an especially PUZZLE ✰

colours, 10 good pattern for small scraps of

different

The finished blocks will ba nine inches square, and may be

plain white ny et together with strips two inches wide,

If yus which case you try to keep a

Pixie O'Scow! Needed Help

-He Had Tos Much Work to Handle-

By MAX TRELL

"DON'T suppose," said Pixie

O'Scow) to

Lindow-boy with

Kharf, the

the turned-

about name, "that you'd cure to help me to do some of my work

this morning?"

Knutf, who just happened to neel Pixie O'Scowl, down by the Big Oak on the other ste

of the Squishy Marsh, said:

kind of work do

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Pixie Knarf to follow him. They walked across fallen tog until they came to a by two formed sort of cave moss-covered rocks leaning

"What

Instead of

mean?"

answering, O'Scow motioned

QIL

cach other. Pixie O'Scowi went Inside and Knarf went in after him.

Top of Rocks

The cave was dark until Pixle Scowl turned on three or four glow-worms who were banging

SCRAMBLED SENTENCE

are

If you belong to a club, cut pieces patchwork but your friends to help you to sew some with extreme care and ask your of the patches together. That's

a quilting party, and it's fun!

FACTS AND THINGS ABOUT ILLINOIS

POSERS

1. What outstanding com- Word do not appear in their

this sentence modity is associated with these Kansas, California, correct order in

Con Illinois.

you lates: about

Wisconsin and Michigan? traighten them out?

to to Illinois Springstid, Van- dalla Lincoln, led move capital

Is a baby squirrel called squirrelette, or a

the the then Abraham rising pup, a fight a young, from lawyer, stale

GUESS WHO?

This than was

is parents died

kilten?

3. Is the first stripe in the United States flag red or white? penguins found at born in 180V,

Are

Equator, or when he was the North Pole,

nly two years old, but in spite South Pole?

having

of

no

father

5. Why

do we

wash

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and mother water?

to help him

He became

brilliant

student and

later was a world

writer

poems stories.

RIDDLES

1. What PURS this way and that way in a bed?

2. What is it you seldom touch, but often have to hold? or

3. What vegetable is it that the outside, and you throw away

He cook the Inside, eat the outside melancholy and throw away the inside?

4. What part of tendon I and many of his poems, such as The Rain and Dew Department. was unhappy and

kind of shoes ore misery. He died in 1849.

bucket into the pool and drew "The Ruven." reflect his life of in France?

ut a bucketful of water.

"Pour it i here. orderest was he? Pixie O'Scowl.

the bucketlu!!

Knari poured from the top of the rocks. They of water into the keg through

ttle the open top.

Have

a soft light, like

could

CC now

lamps. Knar!

ANSWERS

5. Who

What crocheted?

ILLINOIS CITIES Four Illinois cities are hidden in this rebus. Careful study of pictures wil the words nud SENTENCE: Abra- HCRAMBLED

young bring them to light; ham Lincoln, then a rising Into the Keg

lawyer, led the night to move the illinois state capital from Vandalia "More water! Keep pouring to Springfeld.

Pixie O'Scowl. GUESS WHOT Edgar Allan Poe. Wheat: And standing it in cald

1- Oranges. POSERS: poured several

into the cheese. Automobiles. 2 pup 3 around the edge of the pool were Knart

It was alle. Red. At the South Pole. Be

quit plainly.

In the centre of the cave was

a puol of water.

four or Ave fat wooden kega bucketsful of water There was also a bucket with a keg, until finally rope attached to

mort

the handle Then Pixte O'Scowl took a big cause most kinds of dirt standing next to one of the kega. spoon out

crow.

diapolve in water and water is safer than of his pocket and most cleansing quida

water.

He

1--A river. 2-Your RIDDLES: started stirring the enrinkled

wolt and In some

tongue. Sweet.com. The lef "This is the Rain and Dew sprin

they looked ter N. Black shoes are Department, my boy," said Pixle pepper (at least

pepper). Whenade.

CITIESI Springfield lot of work the salt and

ILLINOIS O'Scowl. "I've got to do here this morning I was this was done, he tasted a bit

"Hmm, tastes just cogin: Princeton: Vandalia.

DIAMOND: Then he went expecting to get some help from of it. Pixie MeSnooze. But, as usual, ratne he said.

and got something that lookedi

from the he went off to take a nap,"

ike a meal-grinder and Dew back of the cave. "What's the Rain

Knarf

Kuart he said to Department?"

"Now,"

keep turning the "you just handle of this rain-machine."

Knart had never seen any. thing like this beforet As fast the 43 Pixie O'Scowl filled cain-machine with water from keg-and as fast as Knor! Fixle turned the handle out came

asked looking at the kegs and the bucket and the pool of water in the middle of the cave. "Here's where we sald Pixie O'scowl.

make it."

"Make it?" sald Knart. "Everybody,"

O'Scowl, "has seen

sald

the

rain-drops the most beautiful raindrops in and dew-drops. But can anybody the world! Pixie O'Scowl just make a rain-drop? Can anybody piled them up in a corner of make a dew-drop? The answer Pil is not They're made right here, the cave unul at last, when the in the pool, keg was empty, he put thent Dip that bucket please, and fetch me some water, all in a big Come now! If you're going to sack over work, you've got to work!!

sack, threw the and his shoulder

"Thanks for the hurried off. help," Kharf heard him calling "This is just enough for his a smajl shower!" Knart can him, to see if he was

While he was saying this Plxis. back. Oscowl had rolled up

alsaves Then he took the top off after

O'Scowl

one of the- kes. Meanwhile going to put them in a cloud Knarf, not knowing what was But Pixie Sense to happen, dipped the appeared,

SILE SPEE CHICAGO ERATO

EGO

CRORSWORD:

CAIRO

RULE

KU BOTG

PFLERE

just dis

ILLINOIS. KAVERI) - Sangamon; Kankakee; Rock,

THERE,

PRINCE

+

-H

PATCH

CROSSWORD

A silhouette map of Illinois forms a base for this crossword puzzle:

ACROSS

4

15

1 Illinois' city of flood

Regulations

7 Hawalian garland

A Haughty bearing

10 Eternity

11 Ceases

13 Courtesy te

DOWN

1 Crinkled fabrics

2 Symbol for gold

3 Middlewestern state

Bamboo-like grass

5 Willows

9 Decaya

12 Palr (ab.)

ILLINOIS RIVERS

Rearrange the letters in cach group of mixed up words below three names of lo form the rivers In Illinois:

NO GAS MAN EKE AN AKK CORK

Manopla

By BESS RITTER Hurrying.

battery. a storage down like

of small branches from the pineVERY 10-year-old child has

The result is the disease premature aging.

tree. He raw nothing. Perhaps E a life expectancy of 650 the fire was inside the branch years, according to Prof. I. 5. How coukl it

reached? Simms, of Columbia University.

be

If he rubbed the two branches The fact that no one lives, that and together would that wear away long is not due to germs

rub viruses, but because the body's the outer bark? Could be

system chemical away the wood until he came own

to the stored Are?

TANAPIS rubbed the two bits

MA

of wood together. He rub-

her until he was very

tired.

Then he looked closely at the no fre. branches. There was He rubbed his hand across one hot! of the branches. It was Then there was fire inside! If he kept rubbing, he could open a way for the Bre to escape!

anti Mampis rubbed fasler terler. Soon his breath was coming in short, panting gasps.

not He was ro tired he could

o on. Then a tiny gray wisp of smoke rose from between the two pieces of wood. He rub

The gray ted faster, harder. wisp thickened.

Then upon one of the branches Manaps saw a glowing red

coal

fret A

of Llew softly upon the coal

eye.

rung

Your Party Apron

SQUARES

LFTEN you have wished for,

He OF

As

a party apron to make the

the wind might have done. He task of serving sandwiches a tot dropped shreds of pine

The around it.

pni glowed.

A tay tongue of fame lick- As ed at the bark shreds. Kanapis

Well, hero's

bark more glamorous coal blinked one you can make yourself.

need to be an You do not

to scaunstress accomplished make the apron sketched here. sewing machine is not needed, Of course, machine sewing 14 faster than hand sewing, "but be there's so little stitching to

be done that

the apron can

plied fallen branches upon it. more and more Are came from the wood where had been stored.

it

"I am grateful, O Sun. I am grateful, o

Wind," Manupls raid. "Now there will be fare in will the tepees. The old ones warn their old bones. Now the secret is told, it is a secret no longer."

Definition

As a result, people lose their life expectancy by as much as if eight percent a year. Even we were able to prevent some of the loss of vitality, we might live to the age of 125, or even to 100 years old.

aru

Normal aging, scientists beginning to believe, is really "premature" aging. So old age should be tackled just ke disease and now is the ilme to.. start.

4

Medicine has increased life expectancy almost 80 per- cent in the past century. Once

our

but

at

n person grew old at 35, now people expect to live least to the age of 85, and the average length of life is grow-

Ing greater every year,

YIPPEE

HEH,

HEH/

Most of this is due to

the

made by either method in less gain over diseases of childhood.

than an hour.

When science conquers diseases squares, of old age, such as hardening ue pattern. of the arteries, then we'll real-

By using four-inch you can enlarge

Cut the apron organdy

material.

from colouredly live to ripe ages.

Swiss Prof ur dotted

Columbia, already

Sew a full rule around the some

apron.

Sherman, H. G.

discoveries

of

has made

alonst this

rata,

the

times This may be reatly-pe. He has found that made which can be bought at a when given four nation counter,

made.

or it can be amount of vitamin A that they sunily need, extend their age

work

For the band, cut a trip two by 10 percent.

This is a small beglaning and Inches wide and 30 inches long. Fold in the centre, turn in raw we don't now if it will

every edges, and sew to top of apron, with people, but boys and girls that it lon't The ties will be long enough to who eat their vitamins

going to hurt them. 10 make a large, uffy bow at the day can be sure

back.

the

and

Willie was called upon by the teacher who was training elass to describe animals objects. Wille was asked describe a kitten.

It

"A kitton," sald Wille, "Is ai ball of fur with four legs. runs real fast after nothing and stops before it gets there."

Vory Bad

She: "Things are in an awful thape."

He: "What things?" She: "Pretzels."

Rupert and tné Sketch Book-19

DO-IT

Play

By Dale Goss

SWAT

THINGS TO MAKE WITH MATERIALS AT HAND

BALL

1.Cut a piece of CLOTH to fil around a RUBBER

BALL.

4.Wrap band

at one end of chain

around the ball.

5.Tis end of rubber bands to a TREE

DIAMOND

CHICAGO, largest Illinols, the

word

city in centre of this

The diamond.

second word la "a pronoun," third "a steeple," alth "muse of poetry," and sixth "soli-orteem."

#

CHICAGO:

Rupert peeps anxiously on to the station platform. A train is standing: there and is signalled to go. Some of the doors art open, but at first there is no sign of Rosale, "I must find er." he thinks, as he moves for-

Here, come beckons her urgently. out, you've no business in there," he calls. "We must go back to Mts. Pig this minute " But Rosalie doesn't move. "These seat cushiona feel nice, she says calmly.

I think I'l ward to look into the carriages, can't run any more. Almon & Once he finds her, and be

her

rest here!** ALL RIGHTS REINNVED

3.Loop 11 rubber bands together with slip knots.

Z.Fasten cloth around ball with RUBBER BAND. trim away ends of cloth.

BRANCH and SWAT veta TENNIS RACKET

PINGPONG PADDLE!