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Puzzle Corner
Cryptogram
To-day's cryptogram is a quotation with the name of the author:
"SNIA UZHNWT IRSZLO ERET, SNIA. WAZLNIP DRL ZHH, SNIA DNLUETYY NE LAT LNQAI, ZY *QNG, QNFTY VY IR YTT LAT LNQAI."—"ZJLZAZU *HINEWRHE,
Pairiolic Addition and Subtraction
This is somewhat Bke the Letter Division problems that have appear- ed in this column; that is, letters have been substituted for digits 1, 2,
3.
4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 0, But, instead
10
of spelling a 10-letter word, these letters spell 3 words: Red, White and Blue. These 3 words contain DIFFERENT letters. Can you range them correctly as substitutes for the digits and letters given in the following problem,
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From 79902 deduct Red and While. Add Blue, and the answer-If you've done it correctly-will be 1770.
How Many Flah?
And here's still another from Mil- waukee, Three boys: A, B, and C. caught 27 fish. A caught a fractional part of the whole; B caught 'S more than A and C caught the num- der caught by B. How many fish did each boy catch?
Fun Will Synonyms Here are more words and synonyms to be paired eff:
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Recensible writion
affected beside
of
5
Beinhal
17
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A
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absent
Related
bemesble,
EP97 Deneriekot exantina
1table abounding
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A Lay Sermon
ST. JOHN, alone among the
evangelists, says nothley about Christ's ugony izt Gethsemane, perhaps for shame that he should himself have slept through it, But he alone records another
That the world
may know. JOHN, xvii, 23
Ikony,
the His
Master's last prayer for disciples and those to whom He was sending them.
Throughout this chapter. which it is, there sound the note of agonised yearning reaching Its climax in the words "that the world may know that Thou hust sent me." It is the Saviour gazing into the future, fore- seeing the day when the Gospel fabric will be undermined by challenges to His divinity, and pleading that these His followers may be so utterly God-possessed that the world may know).
Our world has had many great teachers, but only one Saviour, and better perhaps to-day than ever before men realise that their hope In Him rests upon the statement that "truly, this Mun was the Son of God." More earnestly, therefore, than ever we should echo His prayer for grace lo give a convincing -witness, for-to-know- His-power In one's own life is to know. and show, that He and fis Father are one.
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1939.
It's An Old
PAGAN Custom, too
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F the three great festivala Christian Easter 13 the most Important to religious men and women. It is regarded by them as the Queen of Festivals because at this season they once more feel their fall in the doctrine of immor- tally strengthened.
In the Greek Church it is a custom for people to greet each other on Easter morning with the words "Christ is risen," a salutation that is answered, "And hath appeared unto Simon."
The feast has also a strong appeal for the laity. It cele- brates the vernal equinox which from The earliest ages has offered an occasion for human rejoicing.
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The very name of the festival, both in England and Germany, derives from the Teutonic Goddess of the Spring -Eostre.
The hill fres set alight in honour of this delty corre- sponded with the Beltane Fires of the Celtic races and were celebrated with many rude rites,
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N order to procure a fortunate suminer's har- vest. It was the custom to offer particular burnt offer- fngs to the Goddess-a squirrel, the horns of a back, the bend of a horse!
It is not always an ensy matter from to distinguish Christian heathen customs, su inextricably mingled are they. The pussy willows that we gather on Palm Sunday as substitutes for the palm leaves of Syria may well have as- soclations far different from those we connect with the triumphant entry of Jesus into Jerusalem.
The Catholte priests in the old days would often distribute these snered willow wands amongst their congregations who, having burned them, would carefully preserve the ashes to sprinkle over their fields
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trivial and commonplace.
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or to hide under the enves of their
stable roofs, so confident were they that the consecrated white dust was in possession of miraculons virtue.
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In country places in Germany, Catholic cattlemen are still careful to stick willow leaves,in their boots when they drive their herds to pasture on Palm Sunday, scrupu- lously giving to ench helter, as it goes out of the barton gates, two strokes, as it were to mark its hairy rump with the sign of the cross, by this act ensuring for it, so they Imagine, a fortunate engendering.
In Bohemia the peasantry will often swallow the sacred catkins
'for luck."
The hare and the ERE, ku com- monly used by us for Easter sym. bols, are both of them fertility emblems.
Every sprouting com- reld in England testifies to the erotic mood that in spring-time takes possession of this sensitive melancholic creature, the hare.
It this same amorous disposi tion that gives us our proverb "as mad as a March hare."
Hares are qucer eldritch beasts, and in Dorset they are under suspicion of housing in their bodies the spirits of witelics, just as we suspect our prickly hedgehogs of harbouring the errant sprites of goblinsi
Trend softly, Trollo, my father
alceps still,
Ay. forsooth, but he sleeps like a hare, with his eyes open, And that's no good sigu.
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HEN Mary Queen of Scots was in prison she embroidered a device of a lion taken in a net with hares running over him. Et lepores deviclo insultant iconc. "Evel hares trample on the conquered Ilon,"
In Christian lore the hare has always been taken as representing the emotion-of-fearfulness, a mnood not entirely dissimilar to the pay- chology of a penitent sinner!
In Germany. Maundy Thursday, Sheer-Thursday, 15 called
or
Grundonnerstag, or Green Thur. • day. There are different explana- tions for this,
It is suggested by some that the day is associated with the enting of the first green salads of the year, but others consider it has its origin in the ecclesiastical phrase dies viridium, or "preening days," a reference to the custom of re- ceiving penitents back into the Church so that they may be in time to enjoy the supreme sacerdotal privilege of Easter.
A thousand pranks have been played with eggs at Enstertide. As children we would use our nursery paint-boxes for colouring them, but 10 i far better to stain the shells with the Juices of salubrious herbs.
HE thick amber-tinted
Tilquor that can be
of old onion skins gives an excel- lent foundation-colour to the eggs.
In the Middle Ages there existed a singular custom of playing at ball for tansy cakes in churches and cathedrals, The ansy is an old- fashioned yellow
the flower, aromatic leaves of which were associated with the bitter herbs to be eaten at the Passover.
It would seem that the pecullar pastime survived after the Re- formation, for Herrick wrote a graceful verse about the game:
At Stool-ball, Lucia, let us play
For sugar cakes, or wine; Or for a tansy let us play,
The loss be thing or mine,
The word Tansy is an abbrevia- tion of the Greek word Athanasio, which means immortality. and It may be this fact that accounts for Its close connection with Easter.
The leaves of the tansy are already showing at Easter, but the plant does not flower till the late summer.
The American poetess, Edna St. Vincent Millay, once spent soine months in the West Country of England.
She carried away from this visit
Of Course You Know, But Are You Sure?
1. Tell
me truly Fiorella Guardia is the name of:
A Hollywood film producer; a special Cuban cigar; a sweet queur: the layer of New York; an Italian artist,
2. Nebuchadnezzar, E familiar character in your Bible study is said to have been responsible for the:
Hanging Gardens of Babylon; Pyramids; Colossus of Rhodes: Coliseum.
3. Joseph
Conrad, who wrote those perfect salt sea stories, by birth was;
Polish; Swedish; Norwegian; German: British; Cabrian.
4. If you are that way inclined, for your amusement ecarte is a fas- cinating:
game; Greek
Picture puzzle; card French feld
sporl; drama; clandestine love affair.
5. When I was at school we had
at sharpwilted teacher who used to refer to us as drones.
Praps he
didn't know that actually a drone is
A:
Queen beo: male bec: under- sized man; male pixle; place whero aeroplanes land,
When-if ever-you
are
dis-
Union; fewer players in Valon team: fewer players in League team: Union plays with conical bail.
10. If I asiced you whe started the Salvation Army you'd flash back "Booth, of course," but when I fol- towed up by asking you which Booth, you might have to seratch your nose in thought before answering:
Evangeline: William: Bram. well; Edward: Edwin: Polly (short for Poiling).
W. M. Woodfull; Neville Car- dus: D. G. Bradman: Charles Dickens: Charles Rrade; Vicior Trumper,
Juckeys what do you reckon would be fair betting odds for any one of them? Five to one; faur to one; three to ane; two to one; evens.
27. I wouldn't travel on any ship you skippered if you didn't know that à lan-
18. If you've got nothing much to do tu-day sit down in a quiet corner yard was a and count the number of times your heart beats. Assuming you are more or less normal, you'll And that in a day it beats round about:
1000 times; 20,000; 100,000; 150,000.
75.000;
10. Examining my pet octopus at
11. "Water, water everywhere," is close quarters other day, I was
followed by the words:
And not a drop to drink; Aud none of it drinkable: But you can't drink 11: Nor any drop to drink; And no whisky to go with it.
Depth-Anding Instrument; Cross- piece near the fap of the mast; in- strument for gauging distance from the land: rope: salior making his first trip.
20. In this game lacrosse, the eroase the:
Bat; racquet; ball; goal; vampire; annoyed spectators.
20. If you wanted the word mean just the opposite to "always" you would
Interested to discover that octopi, pick: breathe through their!
Gills; mouths; suckers; eyes; legs; toes; or maybe they don't breathe at nil.
20. Good King Weneelas...hero of that song that just about every- was the king waltz body has heard
12. I bet you've often danced the light fantastle to the tunes of
of two written by the man they call
the Waltz King, whose surname s
Strauss and Christian name is:
Johann the Younger; Johann
the Elder; Richard; Joseph.
of:
..
Saxony: Cambria; Prussia; Austria;
Monte Carlo.
Bohemla; France;
21. And knowing that much about
13. Here's a little history-sorry, him you will almost certainly know
Mr. H. G. Wells; I should say polson: that the century in France hasn't lind a king for:
50; 60: 70; 80; 90; 198; 200 years, 14. All self-respecting ships have cussing the Three Graces you are home port and the home port of that ultra-respectable ship, the Queen Mary, in:
discussing the daughters of
Venus; Jupiter! Neptune: Penelope; Medusa; 112 G. Grace.
7. Riparian is a word with whleh you Immedinely asseclate:
A hot house; a river; a person of old age; the art of boxing: one who menda something.
8. If you don't know your re- ligious history you haven't a hope of knowing that Saint Stephen was the firat:
Man to scale Mt. Ararat; Sunday School teacher; person into the land of Erynt; Chris- (lan Martyr; heathen to be- come converted.
9. An outstanding difference be tween Rugby Union and Rugby Lengua is that:
No goals are scored in Leaguoj manslaughter is foul Ja
Was the:
which he ruled
8th: 10th; 12th; 14th; 16th: 18th.
White's 22. One
Snow umong famous Seven Dwarts has a habit of Jumbling up his words. He Is:
Sneezy; Doc: Dopey; Grumpy: Happy.
news-
Southampton; Belfast; Gilox-
23.-The gow; Plymouth; New York;
Vulgate, as your Liverpool.
papers have been informing you late- 15. Sing that
"O-Manly, is: Konk River, dut Of Man Niver, he must know something; he don't say noth- Ing," and you are singing about river:
Mississippi, Missouri; Orinoco; Murray: Amazon; Danube; Hudson
16.
You've seen tens of titips en- tering this port, though it's a moot point whether you've noticed that they fly the flag of the country they pre entering from!
The anchor; the foremast; the stern the main; the funnel; the skipper'a watchchaln.
17. An excellent book is The
| Cricket on the Hearth, written, as I
expect everyone knows, by:
The common people of Rome: a Latin version of the Scriptures; a bird that feeds on carrlou; the galo to Athens; a Latin his- torian.
24. Alven an audience with the Pope you would not be doing the right thing unless you addressed him an!
Bire: Your Holiness) Your Holy Majesty: Your Majestic Holiness; Your Majestyt Birj. Your alighness; Your Lordship.
25. Apart from unprintable names A person who deliberately lights a fire Juxt for the personal pleasure of watching it burn and destroy might be called a
Firo-eaters pyrex; pyromaniac;
Charconitet nakonmarilac:
blaztatj
flaming cow.
26. Five horses in a 'raçe are equally good and are ridden by equally good
Seldom; often; occasionally; never; sometimes,
30. You can't clolm to know much about the Greek myths if you don't know that Medusa was one of the:
Furies; Gorgen; Fates: Musex;
Harpies.
31. Zagazig is a:
Town In Egypt; mountain railway line; French comedian: brand of cigarette papers; inebriated gentle MAD,
a. Member that lachrymese, glucose, heart-rob picture cnited Sonny Boy. with Al Jolson in it? You do? Well, you'll remember that the sonny boy in it was:
Jackle Congan: Jackle Cooper: Freddie Bartholomew; David Lee: Tom Brown; Joe E. Brown.
33. Tut, ut. you haven't read the story of San Michele by Dr. Axel Munthe you deserve to lase, two points for not
knowing the story is laid in:
Spain; Brittany; Corsica Capiti FranceLombardy; Michaeimas ka
lande.
34. The Jewish New Year, I held In the month of:
January; Decembor: Octaberi Juna; Röptember; August; FebruRTY,
23. Normally the President of the United States of America is elected for:
Life; two years; three years; four ymes; co long as he can pay his rent. 38. If the skipper of a ship told you to get into the bows you would find the bows!
"Amidships; astern; where the en- Kine-room was; in the crow's-nail: forʻard; backward.
37. If you were correctly described a minstory it would be because you were:
Underdred; ald; under the era of Zl; very peaceful; threatening: witty. 16. If you lived in what je colloqulaily known as Tin Pan Alley your line of business, most likely, would be:
Galvanized' fron; kitchen utensil Haberdashery; banking; munie; ple ture production.
(Anstoers on Paye á.)
Football, like stoolball, come first to England as an "Easter game played for tunsy cakes (says the Circulator of Useful Knowledge, 1825)
three
memories-tho particular songs of the skylarks at dawn, the open heads of the daisies in the blaze of noon, and the smell of "ansy in the rain" at twilight.
There exist in England some old Easter customs. For time out of mind maidens on Easter morning bave had the right to lift men " in memory of the Resurrection.
This practice of "lifting." or
"heaving." has never received the whole-hearted support of the more distrustful of the clergy,
It is on record that even the long shanks of Edward I were made to suffer this pretty indig nity at the hands of Queen Eleanor's maids of honour.
The miniers of Durham stil claim. It is said, the privilege of taking off the shoes of their women on Easter Monday, and on Easter Tuesday the more frolicsome of their dames do for them the same qualified service.
'In Denmark and Sweden so strong are pagan memories that Green Thursday is called Sker- torstap. or Holy-Thor's-Day, while at Oldenburg, in Germany, the
palms of Palm Sunday aro de- corated with liftle cakes made into the shapes of birds that, with sweet secular songs, are supposed to be prophesying the coming of the spring.
The mediaeval Christians were fond of baking edible Easter cakes shaped like cars. These they stuffed with honey and called them Judas cars, and the better to spite the Jews, made a practice of caling them with enormous gammons of bacon.
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N the high mountain valleys of Switzerland no church bells are rung during the greening days"-thut is on Maundy Thursday. Good Friday, or on the Saturday of Holy Week,
The grave peasants remark the hallowed silence as they drag down their last loads of stored hay from the chalets above the timber-line, and forgetting their Protestant traditions will often be heard to say that "the spirits of the beils have gone to Rome to fetch back the Pope's blessing! "
Turn Morning Tiredness into
Morning Freshness
Drink delicious
CHESS PROBLEMS
Nos. ·97-98
Problem ND. DI
> Piece
White
7 Pieces
While to play and male in two.
Problem No, DA
Black
• Pieces
812 8
B
White
0 Pieces (Compuned in the 18th century. This has, the characterulle ono outstanding variation.)
End Game Black
4 Pieces
COMIR
28 D
White
4 Pieces
SOLUTIONS TO LAST WEEK'S PROBLEMS
White to play and win
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Nu. 15 No. 96 1. Q-84
B3xQ
2. RI-Kich
K-KI
2. Q-Q5c
P-K18
2. Q-Q5chi
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- and note the Difference!
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