The WENDY HUT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 3 January 1931, Page 9

The WENDY HUT.

BOYS OF LONG AGO

FLAVIOUS Flavious was twisting laurel leaves into garlands with which to adorn the spears of the Roman soldiers on the morrow. He was fourteen, and he had been born a slave, but he had never beheld his master, the great Roman gcenral, whose triumph was to be held the next day. “Look behind. Remember that you are but a man.” Attius, another young slave, was repeating these words over and over again, and Flavious mused upon them. “I am a slave,” he murmured. Not a man.”

Till night he worked at the garlands; then he fell asleep upon the stones in the barrack yard. Early in the morning

lie was roused by an old slave, and then he saw that the court was full of soldiers decking themselves for the Triumph. “Attius is sick,” said the old slave. “You are young and beautiful, so you must take his place in the chariot.”

Like a boy in a dream, Flavious bathed with the soldiers. Then the old slave nibbed him with musk, fastened a beautiful leopard skin round him, and gave him a crown of golden laurel leaves to hold.

A great din rose from the streets as Flavious walked towards a magnificent chariot drawn by four white horses, and, as lie stepped in, he looked down upon the procession which was about to march through Rome in honour of the victorious hero. He saw the Senators of Rome; the soldiers; the spoils heaped upon wagons; gold and silver flashing between statues and spears; tattered standards and jewels; white oxen with gold-tipped horns; elephants and giraffes from the conquered land; priests and lictors. Then the conqueror stepped into the chariot, and, amid wild cheering, the Triumph started. Flavious looked at his master, who was arrayed in a purple toga embroidered with gold; he carried a branch of laurel, and his face was flushed with victory.

“Look behind. Remember you are but a mail.”

For several hours Flavious continued to whisper the words into the ear of the hero lest the latter should become mad with pride. The boy’s arms ached from holding the golden crown above the victor’s head, and suddenly his own head reeled. “Remember you are a man and give me my freedom!” lie cried. He expected to be dragged out of the chariot and thrashed by the lictors. But the hero’s head was reeling, too! Lifting his hand to obtain silence, he gave the slave his freedom, and tossed him the crown of golden laurel. Then the Triumph continued, but Flavious stood in the cheering crowd clasping the crown to his heart free!

WENDY’S LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

SLIPPEE-BAGS FOR PRESENTS

Pretty slipper-hags form charming presents, and are quite simple to make. You can have one with a drawstring round the top, and another with a foldover flap and an outer pocket to take a polishing cloth. The pull-up bag is made of a strip of linen, eleven inches wide and twentyfive inches long. Fold it in half and do-

w up tlic sides of the bag, and turn in an inch-wide hem along the top to form a easing for the cords which will pull it up. A bag of this shape is nice to put slippers in when you're going to a party! The second bag is also made of linen. You need a piece ten inches wide and twenty-four inches long; and another piece six inches by four inches, for the pocket, Fold the material as shown in the small diagram, and bind the inside top edge with bias binding. Then bind the two sides and the top flap, making a long flat envelope. Sew press-studs on the flap and the inside of the hag. Turn in the edges of the pocket, bind the top, and. sew it in place on the bag. You can embroider initials on it before stitching it on if you have time. Tuck a polishing cloth into the pocket, and the bag is finished. Wendy’s Dressmaker.

THE BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

MAKING TOY ANIMALS

This week I want to tell you how to make little toy animals for the Noah’s Ark you did last week. Odd pieces of fretwood, three-sixteenths of an inch thick, are required for the elephant and the horse; and pieces oneeighth of an inch thick for the duck and fowls.

For the elephant, take a piece of fretwood four inches by three inches. Mark out one side of this in half inch squares and then carefully outline the animals with a pencil. The squares will help you to get it right. Now cut out round the pencil line with a fretsaw, and smooth over the rough edges with

tine glasspaper. Make the base from a piece of wood three inches long and one inch wide, and cut a slot one-sixteenth-ineh deep across the middle of one side to fit the bottom of the shaded part A, which can now be glued in place. A piece of wood two-and-a-lialf-inelies square will he required for the horse, which you must draw in pencil and cut out in the same way. The sizes for the base are given in diagra'm B, which shows the slot into which the bottom of the model is glued. Outline the duck, cockerel and hen on pieces of one-eighth inch wood, marked out in quarter-inch squares, as indicated 1 in the diagrams. After cutting out the birds with a fretsaw, round the parts C with a file, so that they can be glued in the holes made in the bases. Cut these bases from oiie-eighth-ineh wood to the sizes given at D. As the animals are intended for a Noali’s Ark, you should, of course, have two of each, and you can use the cutout one of each pair before it is glued to its base for marking out the other one. Now, with your paints and brush, you can colour the animals. Although only a few creatures of the Ark are shown, many more can be copied from picture books, the outlines being enlarged or reduced on to the fretwood by means of the squares, as shown in the diagrams. Another way is to cut pictures of animals from newspapers, paste them on to pieces of fretwood, and, when

quite dry, cut them out with a fretsaw in the usual way. The Hut Carpenter. TINK’S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE “Laze” was the word hidden in last week’s puzzle; as no doubt you guessed when you looked at the picture beside it. The letter L was followed by three letters A and a final E —lase. I told you the hidden word was not spelt quite the same, but was pronounced in this way. Full solution: Across 1. Condemned to exile (Banished). 0. Preposition (To). 7. Pronoun (She). 9. Used in georgraphy lessons (Map 1 ). 10a. Hidden word (Lazg). 11. Progressive pronoun (Its). 13. Animal (Ass), 10. Gifts (Presents). 18. Conjunction (Or). 19. Gives up hope (Despairs). Down. 2. Remains of a fire (Ash). 3. The thing (It). 4. Therefore (So). 5. Girl’s name _ (Eva). 7. Sea-going vessel (Ship). 8. Besides (Else). 9. Stingy (Mean). 10. Go bv (Pass). 12. Not false (True). 14. Disturb (Stir). 16. Soft food (Sop). 17. Historical period (Era). This week you’ll have to hold up the puzzle to a mirror to discover the meaning of the little picture at the side. When you, have done this, you should have no difficulty in finding the word we have hidden in the puzzle. Clues: Across. 1. Entices. 7. Vehicle 8. A great deal. 9. Comfort. 12. Region. ' 13. Hidden word. 14. Pronoun. 17. Hanging down. ■

Down. 1. Agreed. 2. Baby’s “thank you.” 3. Special pleasure. 4. Not dirty. 5. Preposition. 6. Not sitting. 10. Kind of lily. 11. To burn! 15. Negative. , am-;: 1(3. Roman numeral for six. OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER MILK CARAMELS To make these delicious sweets, you will require a piece of butter the size of a large egg, one tablespoonful each of golden syrup and castor sugar, and a large tin of sweetened condensed milk.

Melt the butter slowly in a thick saucepan, add the golden syrup and sugar, gradually pour in the condensed milk, and stir all together. Bring the mixture slowly to boiling point, stirring all the time. It easily burns, so see that the heat is not too great; it is a good thing to put an asbestos mkt between the flame and the saucepan if you use a gas-stove. When the mixture is a thick cream and golden in colour, try a little in cold water; if it sets, the caramel is ready. Pour it into a buttered tin, and cut it into cubes when quite set but before it is cold.