WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

Taranaki Daily News, 10 February 1934, Page 21 (Supplement)

WENDY’S DRESSMAKERS

FANCY DRESS FOR A GIRL. * Here's the girl’s fancy dress we promised you I To make it- you will want crepe, paper in brown, red and green. Begin with the cap, which represents the sealing-wax blob that keeps the parcel safe. Use the red paper for this—cut a strip fourteen inches deep and long enough to go round

your head. Sew the ends together,. and run a gathering-thread round the tube five inches down. See diagram A. Pull up the thread and flute the top of the cap prettily, as shown in the picture. Diagram B shows the “parcel” part of the costume, for which you use the brown crepe paper. Cut a piece twice your length from shoulders to ankles and the full width of the paper in the packet. Fold lengthways and widthways, scoop out a shallow curve for the top of the dress, cut seven inches down the top fold, and curve the sides as shown. Sew up the side-seams, and rim gatheringthreads round the neck and round the bottom of the garment. Now cut strips of red paper about one-and-a-half inches wide, and tack one. down the centre - back and one down the centre-front of the dress—these are supposed to be the ribbons that tie. the parcel. Cut some big holly-leaves from the green paper, and some holly berries from red paper, and. paste thpse. in the centre of the parcel. A big white cardboard label, with “A. - present, from Santa Claus written on it, must be tied round your heck, when the dress is on; also tie another, paper ribbon round your waist, as shown. 'Wear a pair of long brown cotton gloves, and a pair of brown cotton stockings over bedroom slippers. Wendy’s Dressmaker.

A STORY. A FAIRY WENT TO MARKET. (Sent by Merle Druce.) Once, upon a time a fairy named Sylkie lived in a tiny house down in,the fairy wood. She was a busy little person, and worked hard at spinning •. gossamer threads which she got from the spiders, and weaving them into lovely, delicate silks and satins for the Fairy Queen and the ladies of her Court. Having just finished; a large order for a great many inches of moonbeam silk (and everyone knows how fine that is), she made up her mind to take a holiday .and go dotvn to • the fairy market for the day. First she cleaned up her little house, and made everything bright and shining. Then she wrote a notice to say when she would be back again, which she pinned to the outside of the door so that the ants, who are the fairies’ milkmen, would know when to call. There were all kinds of lovely things in the market, and the goblins who sold them were running here and .there,' attending to the wants of their customers. On one stall there was a white mouse, with a pink nose, for sale. “Oh.!” cried Sylkie. “I will buy that mouse, please. He can run my errands and clean my house.” “Yes, ma’am,” said the little goblin in charge of the mouse. “He is a very, good mouse. Shall I send him for you ?” “No, thank you,” replied Sylkie. “He can walk behind and carry my basket; it is getting rather heavy.” Next she bought a pretty bird, whose feathers were blue and gold and red, and a little cage, too. “I shall hang it in my window,” she said, “and he will sing to me while I am at work.” The next day the little white mouse ran about the house, cleaning, sweeping and dusting, but when the evening came,. Sylkie, who was very, kindhearted, took him to the open door and whispered in his ear:— “You-may go:home now, little Mouse. Run away, quick.” The mouse jumped I head over heels for joy, and was out of sight, in a moment I “Well, well,” sighed Sylkie. “He wanted to go, I know, but he was very useful in the house.” Then off she went to see her pretty bird, and gave him more food and water. He sat on his perch in the little cage, and would not even look at. the food and water that Sylkie offered. “Poor thing,” she said. “I must let you go, I suppose, or you will die.” So she opened the door of the cage and watched the bird spread its beautiful wings and fly away. But next morning Sylkie was wakened by the sound of a lovely song just outl- - her window. She peeped out, and there sat the bright bird singing the sweetest song she had ever heard.. .When she went downstairs to clean the house, and get her breakfast ready she found, to her great surprise, that everything was done. The house was as clean as a new pin, and her breakfast was all waiting for her. She ran quickly to the door, and was just in time to see the little white mouse running away home. KIDDLE. What seven letters did Mother Hubl bard use when she found the cupboard i was empty ? —0.1.C.U.R.M.T. • (Sent by Iris McCoard.)