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CHINA MAIL CHRISTMAS SUPPLEMENT, 1931.

A PUZZLE WITH CARDS.

ROM a pack of cards take out three twos, three threes, and three fours. Arrange these as follows:-

3 .4 2

4 2 3

2 3 4

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Puzzles for Puzzlers

opposite to each other. Pull tightly and you will find that two little ridges will stand up across the handkerchief; the penny is be- tween them. Continue to pull tightly on the two corners and you will find that the penny is safely wedged between the ridges, and then you can hold up the handkerchief vertically, without letting the penny fall.

A TIME AND DISTANCE PROBLEM.

It will be seen that the pips on the cards add up and down, across, and diagon- ally to nine, except in the one diagonal which totals, six. You have to move three cards Two engines, 40 miles apart, are ap- so that the total will be nine when the pins|proaching each other at the rates of 25 and are added up vertically, horizontally, or 35 miles an hour. Determine the time and diagonally.

place of their meeting?

THE MALTESE CROSS PUZZLE.

Is it possible to cut the star shown be

low into four pieces, and place them inside a frame so as to form a perfect Maltese Cross?

HANDKERCHIEF AND PENNY PUZZLE.

Spread a white handkerchief on the table. In the centre of the handkerchief place a penny. Now, without touching the penny, pick up the handkerchief and hold it vertically without letting the penny fall.

See that the penny is in the centre of the handkerchief. Then pull on two corners of the handkerchief which are diagonally

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BURIED TREES, PLANTS AND

FLOWERS.

1. Do you prefer nuts or oranges? 2. Did you ever see a bee chasing a butterfly?

3.If you put out the light you will find the whole place dark as midnight.

4. I hope you found Miriam a pleasant companion.

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day?

5. Which do you prefer, Livy or Taci-

6. Did Norah eat her dinner yester-

7. When I was seeking an agent I an- swered seventy-nine advertisements.

8. A person who could act in so dis- honourable a manner is not fit to be called

a worthy member of society.

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9.-Though poverty may be considered

DECAPITATIONS.

1: I am increasing in size. Behead me and I am an aquatic exercise. Behead me again and I am due. Behead me again and I am part of bird. Behead me again and I am an affix. Curtail me and I am a preposition.

2. I am a species of a grain of wheat. Behead me and I am to inflame. Behead me again, and I am to eat. Behead me again : and I am a preposition.

What am I?

Some more than the mere whole my

whole contains;

Remove the whole, and some of it re

mains!

THE GHOSTLY COIN.

The blending or ngnt and dark con verging rays, as shown in the illustration below produces an extraordinary optical

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illusion. Cut out the diagram and paste it on a card, then stand with your back to the a bane. money is not necessarily its anti-light, and holding the card by the lower dote.

10. Is not a person sitting in that ex- posed verandah liable to take cold?

Solutions will be found on page 21.

right-hand corner, giving it a continuous re volving movement in either direction and the ghost of a silver coin, as large as a six- pence, or larger, will appear.

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Christmas shopping is as important an event to-day as it was in the early Victoria » period, although fashion has considerably changed as this picture shows.