WENDY HUT.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 11 February 1933, Page 9

WENDY HUT.

LONG AGO STORIES

THE TRUE STORY OF ARTHUR EARL OF RICHMOND

The second wife of King Henry 4fli was the beautiful Joanna of Navarre, the young widow of the Duke of Bretagne, and she had eight children when she became Queen of England. Now Joanna's second son, Arthur, was a very beautiful little boy who loved his mother dearly. King Henry took a great fancy to him and wished him to be brought up at his Court, but the French would not allow this. However, when the little Prince was twelve years old. he came to England on a visit to his mother, and with great pomp and ceremony King Henry created him Duke of Richmond. The handsome French boy enjoyed the holiday tremendously, but soon lie was obliged to return to his own land. “I will never forget you, my mother,” wept the young earl when he was saying goodbye. “When I am a man I will return to this country, for am I not Earl of Richmond?” So Arthur went back to France, little dreaming how he would return to England. Soon afterwards, Henry 4th died, and his son Henry sth became King. Queen Joanna then found herself in a difficult position, for after a time her stepson made war on France, and at last

came the great battle of Agincourt. Arthur, Earl of Richmond, fought against Henry sth and was taken prisoner.

It was exactly twelve years since Arthur had visited England in pomp and glory, and when he returned as a poor prisoner he was exceedingly sad. He begged that lie might be allowed to see his mother before going into captivity. This request was granted, and, battle-stained and weary, the handsome young Earl was taken into Joanna’s presence. He looked round the beautiful room, and, seeing a mag-nificently-dressed lady seated in the chair of State, he fell on his knees before her and kissed her hand. “Twelve years since last we met,” murmured the lady in the chair. “But I have never forgotten you,” whispered Arthur. Then the lady told him to salute her court, and Arthur went to each lady in turn. At last he came to a verystately lady standing near the door, and she suddenly flung out her arms and cried: “Unhappy son, do you not know me?”

For a moment Arthur was amazed. Then he recogfiised his mother and clasped lier in his arms. “I placed one of my ladies in my chair to see if you could he misled,” said Joanna, “Alas! Twelve years is such a long time that I forgive you vour mistake.”

Then she gave the young man a bag of gold and a quantity of beautiful clothes. And Arthur, Earl of Richmond, went calmly into captivity in the land where his beautiful mother was called the Witch Queen.

THE TINKITES’ TOYSHOP TOYS MADE WITH CORKS To make the little toys shown in the diagrams, you require only a few' odd corks, some matchsticks, and some long pins. You will also want a sharp penknife and a small tube of glue. For the windmill, shown at A, take two corks, one a little larger than the other, and fix them together with a pin and a little glue. Cut the base from a thin piece of fretwood, and clue the large cork in the centre. Cut the four sails from a stiff white postcard, and glue them into slots cut in a small piece of cork, B. Bore a hole through the centre of this piece of cork so that it will revolve easily on a pin, C, driven into the top cork, as shown. 'file quaint little bird, shown at D, has a body made from a large cork from which wedge-shaped pieces have been cut, as at E. Cut head and tail to the shapes shown, from pieces of cork about one-eighth of an inch thick, 1 and glue them in place. Matchsticks i form the legs, which arc glued into holes made in the cork. For the base. F cut a slice, about one-eighth of an inch thick, from a large cork, make two holes for the legs, and fix them in with a touch of glue. A large cork will be required for the body ofthe dog, shown at G. Cut the head from a circular piece of cork, as indicated at H, and glue it to the narrow end of the cork. Cut the tail from another piece of cork, and make a notch in it so that it can he glued on as shown at K. Two matchsticks cut iii halves will do for the legs, the ends of which arc pushed into holes and fixed by a touch of glue These little toys can be made to look diiite smart if coated with bright coloured paint. The eyes and other

larkings on the heads can be suggested r ith black paint-.—The Hut Carpenter.

HAVE A “DRESSING-UP” PARTY! A Tinkite who wants to have a fancy-dress party, but is afraid there won’t be enough pennies to buy-ma-terials for dressmaking has sent. an. S.O.S. to the Hut folk. So we want to tell you about a jolly dressing-up dance we had in the Hut last Christmas. It took the form of a competition, and was such fun that I’m sure you would enjoy arranging one like it. In one room we laid out all sorts of things that could be used to make fancy dresses—old tablecovers for cloaks, curtains for trains, coloured crepe paper, old hats, shoes, cardboard, and so on. Then each guest was allowed to take three or. four things, and had to construct his or her dress then and there! Goblin Artist has sketched three of the dresses that .were made up. just to give you an idea of the possibilities of the. scheme. Red Riding-Hood wore an old red, table cloth which made her cloak and. hood. She kept on her ordinary frock, but made a little paper apron to go over it, and she carried a basket filled with goodies for her grannie! Miss Almond-Blossom wore Tink’s dressing-gown, with coloured crepe-

paper trimmings pinned on; then she chose a scarf for her sash, and stuck two big paper chrysanthemums behind her ear. She made her fan from cardboard, covered with crepe paper. The Pirate (I expect you can guess who he was, can’t you? Yes, it was Billikins!) wore a striped football jersey, a short frilly petticoat over his blue shorts, and a coloured scarf for a waistband into which he could stick his cardboard pistols. He had a pair of Wellingtons to suggest sea-boots, an old bolero for a waistcoat, and a spotted Handkerchief tied round his head. Bits of black sticking-plaster adorned his face, as you can see. There now, I hope you’ve got the idea! It really will be the greatest fun, and it’s rather nice- to award prizes for the., best, efforts—just .wee. things for the fun of it. Wendy’s Dressmaker. ■ •. " OUR SWEET-MAKING CORNER - RAISIN CANDY This is really a delicious fruit fudge,

quite easy to make. Throw one pound of seedless raisins into boiling water, take them out at once, and put them on a tin plate to dry by the fire. The raisins should not cook, but they must swell and get fairly hot. " Now put one pound of icing sugar into a saucepan with a good tablespoonful of hot water, and dissolve the sugar very slowly. Boil thq syrup for five| minutes, then remove the saucepan from the fire, add the raisins a few at a time, and beat the mixture well with a wooden spoon. When it is quite thick, drop it in little heaps- on' a buttered dish, and leave till quite cold.

THE TOWER THAT LEANS TOO FAR!

You’ve all heard of the leaning tower of Pisa, I’m sure, but have yqu heard that it may come crashing to the ground almost any day now? For centuries it has stood, leaning perilously over on one siefc, but now experts say that things have gone too far, and one more inch may bring it tumbling down, perhaps to injure many citizens of Pisa. Even when the tower was being built, I’m told, it started to sink and to sway.' Since then, it has slowly but surely leaned further over until it is now sixteen feet off balance. The Italian Government quite natur.ally want the tower to remain, for, thousands of tourists have visited it since it was built. In fact, the steps winding up to the top of this 180 feet edifice have been worn thin by the countless feet th,at have trodden them! Th<? leaning tdwer of Pisa was commenced in 1174, but, because of the difficulties caused by the shifting subsoil, it was not completed until 1350, when it became the Mecca of all lovers of beautiful buildings. Pity the poor people of Pisa if their -beautiful tower falls; because they practically live by making small replicas of it, selling pictures of it, and ■guiding toprists over it!

'TINK’S CROSS-WORD PUZZLE Solution to last week’s puzzle:— X, ’ " ACROSS ; " V-C----1. You spread it on No. 9 down. (Butter). 0. One who hoards his money. . • (Miser).,, 7. Preposition. (To),-. - 8. Natives of Arabia. (Arabs). 10. Short for ‘etcetera.’ (Etc).. 12. Mud. _ (Mire). > IS. Very small portion. (Atom). 15. Afternoon meal. (Tea): 16. Arrives. - (Comes);. 18. Preposition. (At)., 19. You draw it over the window at night. (81ind),,.. 21. Sometimes eaten at No. 15 across. , \ (Pastry), Ai DOWN -c----1. Prefix meaning “double.” (8i).,. 2. of America. (U.S.A.). 3. Period of time at school. (Term). ■ 4. Distinguishing feature. (Trait). 5. To seat again. . (Reseat); - 6. The Tinkites’ is “one kind act. every day.” (Motto).T 7. You drink No. 15 across from this. - (Teacup). 9. You eat this with No. 1 across. ' (Bread). 11. You use these for doing your Hair. -, (Combs). ■* 14. Sugar does this in hot tea. ■ (Melt) • • 17. Title. ■ 20. Short for New York. (N.Y.). , ' **A Now let’s have one for the and girls, shall we? I think yop ~ will find it interesting. Clues: .. /. ■ ACROSS . 2. One of those who invaded Britaifi‘„‘, in the sth and 6th centuries. rB 6. Henry Bth was sometimes called-* “Bluff King —.” 7. Roman numerals for twelve. 8. The Spanish Armada was one. %£ 11. Part of verb “to be.” 12. Allow. - 14. He was King of Northumbria in the,. year 617. 16. Not young. 18. A colour. , /irb 20. Pronoun. . . , 17. Zm 21. Also. 23. Negative prefix. *-«- 24. Cruel Roman Emperor. _ , . r;; 25. One of the Northmen who invaded Britain in the Btli century. 26. Peas in a . —4— DOWN 1. Pronoun. - 2. The King who burnt the cakes. 1 A-; 3. Childish name for a horse. _ ’;T 4. The dimension to which anything:’, is extended. 5. Command. ‘ - - 9. Guided. . .CZr TO. Ijligli Priest of .the Bible. • • - v-F-; 13. King who signed the Magna’ Charts, 15. Qinjen, ;of,‘ England from 1702 to • . 1714. p- £ 17. National emblem of Wales. 10. A relative. « 21.. Spinning toy. . 'p*'l.":’ !;., ’ “ 22. Uneven. • •