WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 21 October 1933, Page 9 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

LINEN SET FOR DRESSING-TABLE. A Wendy girl wants to make a set of embroidered linen mats for her .dress-ing-table, so this week we’re going ,to tell you how to make one like Wendy s! You’ll need half a yard of thirty-inch-wide linen in your favourite pastel colour, and penny skeins of stranded embroidery cotton in green, rose, blue, white, yellow and black. Cut a strip of linen, thirty inches long

and twelve inches wide, for the long runner. Then cut the remaining material into three mats—two square ones with sides six inches long, and one oblong six inches wide and twelve inches long. Be sure to measure the linen very carefully, and pull out one thread wherever you are going to cut, so that you haye a guide for straightness. Turn narrow hems round runner and mats, then work a row of short running-, stitches on top of each hem on the right side, using the black thread. Now run a rose-coloured thread in and out of the black stitches, as shown in diagram A. This make a pretty and easily-worked borderingTake a plate measuring about five inches across, place it in the centre of a small mat, and pencil around it. This gives you the outline of the'flower-gar-land with which the mat is decorated. Next take a penny, a half-penny, and a sixpence, lay these on the pencilled ring in a nice group, and pencil round them too. Repeat twice, and work the circles

to represent various little flowers using the rose, blue, and white threads. Give some flowers petals of daisy-loops, work others in stroke-stitches, others in buttonhole stitches. The white and blue flowers have yellow centres, the rosecoloured ones are centred with black. Next work the outside of the circle between the flower clusters with green stem-stitch, and embroider pairs of green daisy-loops on either side to represent leaves, as you see in the picture. Draw and embroider a similar garland on the second small mat, and do one on each end of the larger mat. The runner can have four garlands, one at either end, and the two others near the.centre. Wendy’s Dressmaker.

THE HAPPY LAND. NO CHEAP LABOUR FOR TONGA.. The Tonga Islands in the South Pacific are also called the Friendly Islands, a name given to them by Captain Cook on account of the friendly reception the inhabitants gave him when he landed there in 1773. The people have deserved their name ever since and are ruled over by a Queen named Salote, who has won for herself a great reputation for her judgment and good government since she ascended the throne in 1918. Queen Salote has foresigh; and courage, too, and has shown it recently in her refusal to allow cheap labour to be introduced into her islands bj the Japanese. Any Japanese can come to the Tonga Islands for six months, but for no longer, under a law that has recently been passed by her Government. Life on these islands must be a happy one. The climate is perfect, the people are all Christians, mostly Wesleyans, and the Budget is balanced. The natives enjoy free education, free medical attendance, and free dental treatment. The islands have been recognised as a Protectorate of Great Britain since the end of last century, and the High Commissioner of the Western Pacific helps the Queen and her little Parliament of 23 members in governing the 30,000 inhabitants on these friendly islands.

Two Englishmen bound for New York had sat side by side on deck chairs without exchanging a word. On the third day one of them fell asleep, and his book came down on the deck with a thud. It also broke the ice. The other man picked up the book, and the following dialogue took place: “Thanks very much.” “Going across.” “Yes.” “So am I.”

JOKES AND RIDDLES. Say these quickly six times: - : - 1. Gaze on the gay, grey bridge. 2. Soiled shoes and-socks shock Susan. 3. The sea ceaseth and it sufficeth ps. 4. Strange strategic statistics. (Sent by'Rennel Robinson.) # / # * Q.— Why is a hole in a wall like an angler ? - . A;—Because it is. a fissure (fisher). Q.—What plant is a stage mountain made of ? A.—Shamrock. Q. —Why is a nobleman like a book ? A.— Because he has a title. Q.—When is a person like a rich pudding ? A.—When he does not agree.with you. Q. —Why is a straight-forward man like a pin ? A.—Because he has a head and always comes to the point. (Sent by Rennel Robinson.) THIS WEEK’S BEST LETTER. A “MUSSEL” PICNIC. Well Wendy, we went to the reef; this afternoon and cooked two tins of musselsand brought home a' large pickle -jar full. For a while we played on the stretch of sand until the water was off the reef enough for us to get to it. When it was off far enough we had to walk through water knee deep, but that made no difference. Mum made a fire while we children fetched the mussels ready to be cooked. As it was windy there was a heavy sea, and just as I got on to the reef along came a wave which gave me a bit of a fright as my back was to it. We had to feel for the mussels in water half the time because the reef was under water everytime a fresh wave came in. Having filled our two baskets we took them to the shore where we emptied them into a tin. Mum then cooked them and while she was doing this wC took our chance to obtain more. We secured two more baskets full, and by that time the other mussels were cooked and ready to be shelled and put into the jar. Cooking them at the beach saves the trouble of carrying home a lot of useless shells.

We did not try to get to the reef for abput half an hour, but when we did we found our crossing place too deep, so we made for the shore. Luckily only one of us got wet, and that was not much. We went back and helped Mum shell the mussels, which were then cooked, and when this was done some of us climbed upon high stones while the rest rambled about the beach. About three o’clock we started on our home,ward journey after a happy afternoon. —“Red Berry,” (Molly Black, Mokau.)