TINY TOTS' CORNER

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2308, 28 November 1925, Page 5

TINY TOTS' CORNER

The Jldveniures of Polly, Peter and Wallaby.

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THE WENDY HUT

BILLXION’S GOOD ACTION (But It All Wont Wrongl.) When you try to do a good action, you Billy Boys, and It doesn’t quite happen as you. expected, what do you do about it?. You know the feeling—-you sudden, ly decide that ‘TO-DAY’S GOOD ACTION has got to be done somehow or other,, so off you go in search of something really kind and useful to do. You And ‘something’ and you do it. The unfortunate part comes in when grown-ups don’t approve of your attempt, and they toll you so. Matter of fact, you’re jolly lucky if they leave it at telling you so! That’s what happened to me yesterday. Wendy was busy on the top of a very tall ladder, fixing up pictures in the Hut sitting-room. She called to me, arid said “Billy Boy, just sit on the bottom step, so that the ladder dosen’t slip, will you." I sat on the bottom step, and held that ladder firm as firm: Then, ail of a sudden, Wendy dropped the hammer-.

•‘My good action". I thought, and up I jumped-to collect it for her. You know, that floor's most awfully slippery! I skidded; so did the ladder; so did Wendy. She came down most ungracefully, waving her arms about in the air, and shouting in a vei;y un. ladylike way.

Somehow or other, she got all mixed up with that slippery old ladder, and landed on the slippery floor underneath it. I simply couldn’t help it! I laughed and laughed and laughed until I nearly cried. She looked so ’straordlnary comical,, as if she were trying to swim, and all the time getting more and more mixed up.

“For goodness sake, stop giggling, and try to help me out” she ordered at last, looking awfully red in the face. So I skated over the slippery floor, and made a frantic gxab at her heel. Then the floor gave way again, and I sat down suddenly and nearly pulled her foot off.

And there we were! Guardian came to help, but he only took a piece out of my little black suit. Tinker came and scratched Wendy’s face in sympathy; and Tlnk sat down on top of everybody and roared with laughter. At last we rescued Poor Wendy from under the ladder. Then —here’s gratitude for you—she turned round on me—“To your room this moment Sir” she said, and turning to Tluk "bread and water for his supper tonight. HE DID IT ON PURPOSE”. Whoever would have thought It?. I didn’t do it on purpose—at least NOT ADD OF IT! Billiklns.

88« « S 8 THE LITTLE GIRL NEXT DOOR.

I wouldn’t be for anything The little girl next-door. Although she wears the loveliest

frocks I ever, ever saw; She rides a pony every day, And goes to pantomimes, And parties too—oh, heaps and

heaps!—• ■And ha s the jolliest times. She’s got a doll with curly hair,. It says “Papa! Mama!” And shuts its eyes and opens them, And walks alone, quite far; Her doll’s house ha s what do you

think ? Electric light,, it’s true! And cups and saucers all to match, And proper cupboards, too. But then, she misses, on, so much! Though, course,she doesn't care Because she’s sure that there can be No fairies anywhere! She never reads a fairy nook, Nor looks for fairy rings, She simply won’t believe in them, She says they’re silly things! And if she wakes and hears the elves Tap on her window-pane, She only snuggles down, and says “Oh„ bother that old rain!” She’ll never go to Fairyland That’s why I wouldn’t be The little girl who lives next door For anything, you see! A MODEL DOVECOTE. You would like to make a Dovecot to put in the Wendy Hut garden, wouldn’t you?. Get a piece of white card, two Inches wide and five inches long; roll it up, stick the two short ends together to form a tube and mark out little doorways as shown in the diagram. Now draw a circle with a radius of two inches on an. other piece of card cut It out, and then cut through to the middle—A. B. on diagram 2. Take hold of the

, point A and bend it over to the point i C, thus making a little cone shape; ) glue A.B. along on B.C.— and there'B t your roof I Stick it on the cote, and paint it a nice hrght red. A jolly .JtoSf fli ia t», £lus short lengths ©f

straw from top to bottom, to give a thatched effect.

Mark out another circle on card, with a radius this time of Inches, cut it out as before, and glue the cote on to the middle of It. Now get a round stick, about the thickness of a pencil, and nine Inches long. Glue it on to a piece of wood two inches square, and, finally, attach it to the cote. n n tx ts n n

Would you like some trees to put here and there in the ‘grounds’?. Take a sheet of heavy paper or thin card about six inches wide and eighteen inches long. Divide it into four equal parts, lenthwaya, and draw four tree shapes,, as shown in diagram 3. Now cut away the Shaded parts, and- paint both side a of the card green; bend along the dotted lines, and glue the ends together. Now get four or five rough twigs, three Inches long carefully split one end of each, and push the bottom edges of the trees into these slits. (Diagram 4). This gives you quite a realistic little ‘grove’ of trees, and, by enlarging or reducing the measurements, you can make either big. ger groves or smaller clumps of shrubs and bushes. The Hut Carpenter.

THE NIGHTMARE. Something strange happened when Theodora wont to stay in Granny’s house, Granny said it was a Night, mare, because Theorflora had eaten quite two suppers, but Theodora said it wasn’t a Nightmare at ail. See how unti.dy your beautiful kitchen looks”! cried Theodora. "It couldn’t have got like that by itself”. Granny said Priscilla had left it in that dreadful state and gone to bed because her rheumatism was bad Priscilla was so old and so deaf that she couldn’t hear or remember anything at all. So Theodora wondered and wondered, and never even guessed that she had started it!

You see all tlio thing’s In Granny’s house wore very old* and they had never seen a little girl like Theodora. So when she came running down to the kitchen, with a mirror in one hand, and a pair of scissors in the other, she gave the Kitchen Folk a splendid idea. “Priscilla”, cried Theodora, “please cut that nasty little point off the back of my hair. Granny can’t seo it”. ‘No time to polish mfrrors”. re. plied Priscilla, who hadn’t the least Idea what Theodora had said. "You ought to be in bed”. Theodora sighed and went to bed, and she slept till the frying-pan woke her up. Yes! There was the frying, pah sitting on the bed with the garden shears beside it, a dish-cloth was humped up like a little tent, and the flue brush was peeping over her pillow.

“Wev’e come to cut your hair,” said the shears. “I’m tired of clipping the hedge, and I’m going to stay with you always now.” “And I’m tired of frying soles,” said the frying-pan, ‘So I’m going to be your mirror, and sit nicely on your dressing-table.” ‘And I’ll never dry another plate,” said the dish-cloth. “But I’ll live in your little pocket and be your hanky The dear flue brush will tidy your hair.”

Then the saucepans and jirons, and all the Kitchen Folk came crowding round Theodora, and she jumped out of bed ,and began shooing them downstairs. Oh, it was dreadful! The frying-pan would get in front of her face, and the shears would try and clip the hair, on her little white neck. At last Theodora gave a frightful scream and they vanished and Granny came in and said it was Nightmare!

WENDY’S LITTLE HOUSEKEEPERS Home Made Cream Cheese “Cream cheese is the very easiest thing to make, Children” said Wendy, “and it requires no cooking. “Allow one pint of milk to go sour, and leave it to stand for about three days. If the weather is cool it is a good plan to add three tablesponfuls of 'vinegar to the pint of milk to help it to curdle quickly; but in hot weather it will usually ‘turn’ without help. When the milk has set to a sort of jelly* put It into a clean, fine muslin bag. Tie the bag up, and hang it on a nail with a basin underneath it to catch the drops of whey. -“The whey will take about a day and a half to drop out of the cheese Now place your cheese on a plate, salt it, put it lightly together with a wooden spoon, and serve it with biscuits In a little dish prettily decorated