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Mid-Week Problems

by Hubert Phillips

IDENTIFICATION TEST

PROBLEM 1.

Mrs. Scribbler's daughters were not very succesful in their al- tempts to identify the portraits of famous poets. Mrs. Scribbler had put five portraits on the montel- Plece-those of Browneitup... Byron, Keats, Shelley and Tennyson-mid she invited eich girl to write down the names of two bi them. These were their answers?

Mabel: No. 2 is Byron, No. 3

Tennyson.

Gertte: No. 1, Browning. No 2.

Shelley.

Dlana: No. 3 is Shelley. No,

is Browning.

Puss: No. 2 is Byron and No. 4

is Kento.

Shella: No. 4, Keala, No. 1, Ten-

nyson.

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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26,

1936.

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Do you know yourself? Here is a new kind of test. Try it out on yourself or friends. Think over these situations and ask—

What would

you do if...

a friend, knowing that you detested gambling in

Each girl inve one correct and any shape or form, had, for a joke, taken out and paid for

une incorrect answer.

What number tild Mra, Scribbler assign to each post?

PROBLEM II.

NUMERICAL CROSSWORD

Ench squire is occupied by à digit:)

2 3 4

5

6

7 8 9

10

Clues: Acros

1. Hall of clue 8.

9. Three times clue 10.

6. Sen elue 1,

10. See clue 6.

Clucs: Down

The first two digits of clue i ne,

multiplied by the Just two digits.

2. Same pa 7.

3. Twice the first two digits of 1

dn. reversed.

4. First two digits of 1 ac.

versed,

7. Same as 2.

8. Twice a perfeel square,

2. A perfect square.

PROBLEM III.

A DOUBLE ACROSTIC

UPRIGHTS

70-

D'you think that, when a that h

this. is heard,

The thin-and-that's

How absurd!

LIGHTS

are coming

1. A youngster-were he Kiven

sex-appeal

A measurement in Scripture

might reveal,

2. The smallest of the stars is here

at call.

But don't be nervous-there's

no risk at all.

3. Curian" that "little gentleman"

whose toil

Shuffled a monarch of this

mortal coll.

4. A kings at home here. But, I

do not doubt,

What's greater Iban.

must stand without.

king

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in your name a sweepstake ticket which won a tremendous fortune?

Would you

(a) claim the entire amount for yourself?

(1) claim the money and devote it to anti-gambling propa-

ganda?

(c) let the friend have it?

+

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you found that a haughty nobleman,

a neighbour of yours who

always passed you by unnoticed, and fallen into the river and was in diMculties? Would you

(a) hurry away gleefully?

(b) refrain from lendinit him to hand for fear, since you had not

been Introduced, you would insult him?

(e) appreciate that he was the type who would not delan to give you a civil word, but would promptly risk his own life for

you if you were in danger?

*

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you were a woman, returning from a lecture on The Superiority of Woinen to Mea," enthusiastic but slightly fatigued, and found all the seats in the train occupied by inen"

Would you

In Olden Daies

expressions we think new and snappy were in common use. Julius Carar began one we now attribute to Moe Went.

on

Once he had conquered the British chicltalos he began to make himself pleasant to them... He told them he had come here account of the oysters of which he had heard so much while staying in Gaul

He admired some of the buildings in London. He thought the British matdens a little too much addicted to the use of wond-dain (probably it gave him the blues), but otherwise he thought then not too bad.

After a good dinner al some wealthy chieftain's private house, he would say: "Veni, ut aliquando me videas," which, translated in the way we did it at school, meant, "Come, that some time thou may'st see me." In other, end more familiar, words, "Come up and see me some time."

Bottles by the million-

N

we use them daily from infancy to old-age

OBODY knows how many millions of bottles there are in circulation. 1,500,000 new bottles are made in Britain each year.

What happens to them all? To begin where most people do begin, we must look in the nursery-to the baby's feeding-bottle, Glass-blowers who make these bottles drink as much as a gallon of beer during each shift, so thirsty is the work.

These froth-blowing glass-blowers suggest another kind of bottle- the beer bottle; amber-culisured because long research proved that that was the kind of glass men prefer to see their beer through,

Claret bottles, burgundy bollies, champagne bottles, lager bottles. whisky bottles.. beer, wine, spirit and similar bottles neriumt for 10 per cent, of the output.

For fun and fashion

with

(a) feet insulted it no one elfered you a sent? (h) fervently pray that one would offer you his seal so that you

might say, "I'm as capable of standing as any man, thank You'

Schooldays remind us of other bottles; the stone ones filed tej be only too wiling at that minut to be thought the weaker) ginger-pop. It's strange that ginger-beer never seems to taste so good vessel if only one of them would got up and let you sit as it did in those days! Then there are the lemonade, sodn-water, femon- squash-all the different kinds of mineral water bottles-including those with the little glass ball in the top which are in such great demand by marble-players.

down?

"Oh, come on and have dinner with us. This is my house, isn't it? What do 1 care how mad the wife gels?"

The health of a nation can be judged by its bottle output figures. Doctors and chemists are guod customers for bottles, Feminine fashion. 40, inuences the sale of bottles-scent bottles, nail-polish bottles, hair- Jution bottles--there's a big demand for them all.

What other bottles Are there? Auk bottles of course And the lore cupboard, displays a galaxy of bottles. Bottled fruits, bolled sweets, balled, pickles, bottled salud ell, bottled sauter, bottled beef, ex- tract

the 1st goes on.

The Vacuum nask 15 Knother special bottle, useful for giving you a bat

drink when it is dificult to get one otheryghe,

Even when the day is over we are not finished with bottles. Up to bed with us comes the hot-water bottle.

To Chart Currents

Life would be Inconceivable with- out bettles. Think of the part the Ink bottin plays in human affairs.

By floating bottles out to sea and watching where Whey Ko, experts have been able to chart ocean eur- rents. By floating bottles out to sea castaways: have saved their lives.

The American Harkness Asintic Expedition sout an SOS this way when the members of the party !found themselves stranded between Borneo and the Philippines last

year.

There is another side to the pic- ture. When bottles are broken they may cause serious injuries, pune- tures and read accidents, Left In

in hot dry undergrowth they start fires.

weather

MID-WEEK PROBLEMS PROBLEM I. IDENTIFICATION TEST

A

No. 1. Byron. No, 2. Shelley,

No. 3. Tennyson,

No. 4. Keats,

No. 5. Browning.

PROBLEM:H.

NUMERICAL CROSSWORD

398

45 63

797 1521

PROBLEM III. ..

DOUBLE ACROSTIC,

CU B. IT

STE RISK

A

M 0 LE

P A L ACE

Light 3-The "little gentleman

in black velvet," al- leged to have been responsible for the

death of Willium UI.

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ACROSS

1 Nol really unfair, this, as a clue, and yet not fair, either, Is a little drink taken here? It is, with a distinctly unseber result.

10 Mude ma real mad: She had a

Jur, of course.

11

as your calte?

I hope so.

12 What Canute did, but not to

the waves,

13 This space might just as well

be inside.

15 Latitude which the

doesn't let the crew take.

captain

In

17 A three-cornered affair

which nearly all appear in the

scene.

10 Coes high in the air.

21 Call a tle bird in.

22 Went through slowly with one "end coloured.

24 Our French is not remarkable

27

at the start. Follows

the bride in church and transports her afterways. 28 A curious animal to be trucked

to a puma's lair, surely?

29 Not so much thunder in the air. as the other way about, seeni- ingly.

30 Stop.

DOWN

1 Throw into confusion.

moral is obvious.

2 Truly this may be n test,

4 Conceive,

6 Covers for the sash.

• Cutter.

Tho

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7 Make a revised statement. 0 Damp article in decay.

Give the company some money for a hanky (one spelling),

14 The part of the bruin that n

mutinicer occupies..

10 The charm that starts to go one

better.

18 "It's a noun," that's what he is

(anag.).

20 Men who have a pull in certain

races.

21 Back.

23 This colour is largely metalllc. 25 It isn't an infection, and yot

it is. 20 As it was in the beginning.

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