The WENDY HUT

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIX, 1 February 1936, Page 10

The WENDY HUT

PAST AND PRESENT STORIES

THE MAN FROM MILAN Tlio young Frauseo was a sight for lirod eves! Wonderfully dressed in Hue velvet slashed with gold, with a eloak of rose-coloured satin embroid-

(•red with pearls, a- hat with a plume, jewels iu his ears, perfumed, oiled, his hair dyed bright red, he. walked with an elegance which took the breath away. in the gardens of Hampton Court young' men and maidens from kitchen and stable hid behind bushes to watch the young man from Milan pass by with'the ladies and gentlemen of the Court, of the young Queen Elizabeth. Everybody n London was talking about his clothes.

“The man from Milan carries a walk-ing-stick,” said somebody. Then all men wanted walking-sticks, for Milan set the fashion in dress, elegance and perfumes. "Have you beard that the Milaner wears perfumed gloves and ribbons in bis hair?” whispered one pc-rsan at another.

Then perfumed gloves became the rage and all the people wanted frangipani, the celebrated scent made by an

Italian botanist of that name. “Do you know that tire Milaner- has silk stockings?” said another, How the news spread! Silk Stockings, linen undergarments, handkerchiefs, slashed sleeves, embroidered gloves and the most exquisite scents came from Milan, and the Milaner wore them with such elegance that the people gaped. Soon Englishmen became as elegant as these Milaners and the tailors and hatters who made their clothes for them began to be called Milaners. Then, because words of another country usually become changed when they are adapted to our language, people soon spoke of milliners. At first a milliner was a man who brought new fashions into the country, then one who made head-dresses, and, after a time, women began to call themselves milliners, set up shops in which they sold hats and bonnets and astonished everybody by their success. Now we usually think of a milliner as a woman —but men Still make women’s hats!

JERSEY FOR A BABY A girl wants to make a knitted jersey for a baby, so we have designed one which we think will please other girls as well.

You will need two and a half ounces

Dressmaker tells you how to knit a nice little jersey like the one sketched.

of three-ply wool, a pair of number 8 needles, and a set of number 10 needles with points at both ends.

BACK AND FRONT Start at the lower edge of the back with the number 8 needles. Cast on 04 stitches, knit into the backs of the stitches for the first row, and do 20 rows of ribbing in 2 plain, 2 purl. Now knit in stocking-stitch (alternate rows of plain and purl) for eight inches, then begin to shape the armhole, At the beginning -of the next 2 roWs east' off 4 stitches and continue on 50 stitches for 21 inches. Then, with the right side facing you, knit 14 stitches, cast oil' the following 28, and knit 14 to the end of the row. Continue on these last 14 stitches for lj inches, then cast them off. Join the wool to the neck edge of the other side and work to match. Knit the front in the same way and join the two pieces at the shoulders, Now, with three of the number 10 needles, and with the right .side facing you. pick up 104 stitches round the neck of the jersey. Knit 12 rounds of 2 plain 2 purl ribbing and cast offlooselv. THE SLEEVES Start at the cuff with two of the small needles and east on 38 stitches. Knit I'f inches in ribbing, remembering to work into the backs of. the stitches in the first row. Change to the bigger needles and work in stock-ing-stitch, increasing on every knit row by working into the front and hack of the first and last stitches until you have 48 stitches on the needle. -Knit 51 inches on these 48 stitches, then east off 2 stitches at the beginning of every row until 1(! stitches are left.. Cast these off and work the second sleeve to match. Srw the sleeves into the armholes flat, join the side and underarm seanis together and press under a damp cloth with a warm iron.—Wendy’s Dyess-' maker.

THE BILLY BOYS’ WORKSHOP

A WORKING MODEL WINDMILL

This week, by special request, I am giving instructions for making a working model*of a tower windmill, chiefly from pieces of fret wood.

The tapering tower is eight-sided,, built up with eight pieces of fretwood cut to the dimensions .given,, in dia| gram A. These side strips are glued and nailed to two octagonal-shaped' pieces, B and C, after the edges of the strips have been carefully planed to a bevel (D.D.) so that they fit together nicely. Cut the two parts B and C. . from square pieces of wood of the sizes given, after the octagons have been marked out with the aid of a pair of compasses and a 45 degrees set-square-. The larger piece, B, . must have a circular hole cut in the centre, as shown. When fixing the strips A in place, glue along the edges as they come together. The doors and windows' can be painted on afterwards. To make the revolving cap of the ’windmill, cut two pieces to the shape given at E, and glue and nail these to the back and front edges of the base piece, F, which should be cut to the sizes given. Slightly bevel the front edge of this part so that when one of the pieces, E, is fixed in place 'it will correspond with the slope of the tower, as shown at G. The roof of the windmill head can be made; of thin two-ply wood or stout cardboard. Fix the windmill head in place with iv small bolt which passes through holes made in the centres of the parts C and F.

The windmill shaft, H, is a piece, of quarter-inch dowel rod about four Arid a half inches long, to the end of which a boss is fixed for holding the saiL arms. The boss can easily be made from a long cotton reel with the.ends,' sawn off. Slots a quarter of an inch; 'wide, at right angles to each other are cut out in one end to take the ‘sail arms, which fit in, one above .the 1 other. Diagram K shows how theseslots are arranged, one being hut across a quarter of an inch deep, the other half an inch deep. •* v 1 :

Stripwood, a quarter of an inch, Square, can be used for the sail arms* the edges being bevelled at an angle of 4b degrees to give the necessary setting i for the sails, which should be 'cu|t. . from two-ply wood. They are five and a half inches long and two inches: ) wide, and are glued and nailed to the s arms. The arms are fixed in place in the boss by means of a long thin screw

driven .Centre, of each: fthd into thfe end of The ‘shaft; f - f riio-holes/ in ,‘tife parts-,; E,”t6’ -'tijfke jthc Windmill "shaft,imu&'be;bored, 1 ' for the; shift slopes ;down, fmiff front ftp back;,.;as‘_shown;iri>the second.diagram, go that- the. sails, are; parallel to; the face of: the 3 1 ower A; The: t base Ward gn whitli 'the'tower "Sfaiids is a piece, of quarter-inch' wood, eight inches square. Build a little gallery, with a handrail, round the ' tqWey 'above - ? tlie,. main entrance door,’ as - sliowit in the - first diagram. Odd pieces’ Of : fret'wood epu bo iisrtli for the platform, and, the supports fdr tliis and the . posts ' for vtfia rail can ho cut from quarter-inch stju&Ja sti ipwcod.—The Hut Carpenter.

TINK TELLS MORE. PARTY TRICKS

The tricks I am going to tel] you, Clan, are. hot a bit liko. those Billikihs wrote abbut last Week.,' They ’are really more like games and I am sure you will have fine .fun With them during the party season. ' Only you and one special friend nuist be : “in the know.” V- The rest of' the party must be left guessing until the tricks are- explained to then!. : Tliought reading; Announce to the company .that ' you wll go oht while they cHikise ahv ’object in ‘the room add, on returning, you will, bv reading your friend’s .thoughts;' knOW what it iis. Thh 'jbbjpct' .‘selected,•• you arp called into the. fo.onv'nnd jyonr friend' touches one thing after another, Without saying a word, until at, last 'he touches the chosen o»o and you’.immediately say “That’s it.?’ He;’ can foiic'h 'tts many or as 1 few aS 'he likes—in fact the rest of the : party . may, ..even, decide how many. The trick is that immediately before touching The -.chosen object lie must Touch .'something black.’! : aV: More thought reading. Let' your frieiid go front the room tliis time. He has to say, on return, what the company has chosen for dinner next day. When, lie conies in, you say, jn au entirely expressionless voice, “la it so-and-so?” ' Aud continue thus as long as you like. Then mention something 1 with winge, saying “is it'.goos.e?* —•for instance—and the next thing mentioned afterwards is the chosen dish and he will at once, s'ay "“Xes,’V You 'can mention as mdny or ’as few things hs the party Hkes. / Stick touches.' More thought reading! : ■ Your friend Vhjys. a 'small stick, you go from the room and, while standing outside the closed doof—-not with your eye to. the key-hole!—Say on which member of the party the stick rests. The friend in the rooni, lightly touching someone on. the, head with ■ the stick, ..calls' put “stick... touches” ' aiid you reply “let- it touch—any number of times. At, last he allows the Stick to rest on, the head bf ; ;dne‘ person and calls “stick rests —on; whom?” You immediately give the nanie pf, the person. The trick is simple. Both of you carefully nofc the last persyfn who speaks before you go out of the room. That is', ilie;‘pefson on whom the stick will rest. ,1. I hope you will enjoy tits 'tricks, Tink. ' ' T-T' f Tl

i’.S.—By the way, a new competition wil be annoupced next week.

INDOOR AND OUTDOOR GAMES musical Magic . This is a fine party game if you have a piano and someone who can play. As ah alternative to the piaqo, everybody can whistle or hum;* ■ ’ One.'/'player is. told'to go out of the i'ooin jand, re-eijtering-. when the music starts; pick ,'up an object and' carry ft to the doort the window r or a chair..• • • Berore tne . music strikes up, the company decides that the absent one is t 6 come in, pick up, say, a cushion and plhce it | behind the settee. Thijs settled, the niusie starts and in walkjs the player wfio looks round ?l ahd then , .some object,.- ; If: ,>1 i? tlfe cushion—or whatever has been.i chosen '—the music.'is-played softly;, if it if not the ;correct article the piano is played loudly;;’.. ’ ■ ~T. .f! > ! According to whether music ts soft or load, the player keeps, the article or chooses another. He ; will kupW when he is -fight by the softening- ojf the music, ;? v i;•: ! VC-VA .AAA - '

Having found—in this instance—thp cushion, the player ipay make for the door. At once the niusie. thunders forth, but • when he turns to' the' settee' it grows softer and, softer.. In .this- way the fun continues, the player being directed what to do by the volume 'dfsoundfrohi-thepiaup* ' ‘ Thq wiflher (of;- the game is the pert son who perforins the set task in the shortest time;-,each having- one. turn.

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