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A Problem in Pictorial Arithmetic
An Optical Illusion
way that it appears to be with
out a top. Then before you
know it the bottom disappears!
Right before youi^eyes the box
appears to change its position.
You know, of course, that it doe3
not, for the lines of the drawing
are fixed. The whole thing is just
an interesting optical illusion.
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fPO solve this problem In pic
tonal arithmetic write down
the names of the eight objects in
the order in which they are
shown in the accompanying
drawing and then add or sub
tract tne letters of each word,
according to the plus or minus
signs which separate the pictures.
The remaining letters, reading
from left to right, will then spell
the name of a very famous man.
DO you see anything strange
about this simple drawing of
a box? Perhaps not at first.
Gaze at it steadily for a while
and then blink your eyes and see
what happens.
What a queer box it is! It
seems to change form in such a
Guess These Brain-Teasers
HOW good are you at guess
ing? You can easily find
out by timing yourself in solving
these brain-teasing riddles.
1. What word of ten letters
can be spelled with just half that
number?
2. What kind of trees are used
t* pack things in?
3. What is the difference be
„ tween a jeweler and a jailer?
4. What three letters of the
alphabet can be used to describe
a man of great knowledge?
. 5. Which is the left side of a
piece of pie?
6. /What is the highest sky
light?
7. What makes the earth
quake?
8. Why i3 a doctor In good
temper when he is busiest?
9. What purchase is always
sure to be a sound investment?
The New Cross-Word Puzzle
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HORIZONTAL
1—What Island Is said to be the
burial place of King Arthur?
T—Who wrote “The Last of the Mo
hicans” ?
12— Of what atate la Montgomery the
capital?
13— What is the name Of Andre Man
mis’ biography of Shplley?
Its—t'hild's name for mother.
10—Wfeat town In Holland la noted
for its cheeses!
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17—Dissolve.
IS—Note of the musical scale.
19—On what mount was the Judgment
of Paris given.
21—English county.
23—Man’s name.
25—Prepare for publication.
27—Order of tailless amphibians.
29—Tear asunder.
90—Collection of nerve cells.
92—Specter.
31—By way #f.
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Solutions of Last Week’s Puzzles
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'j T, means left; D means down, ati(l
U means up. The bricks are
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9ft, 12R, 13L>. 111), 7D, 10D, 8L, 4U
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Answer 1o Las! Week*®
Cross-Word Puzzle
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B'our of them were two feet long and
four were one foot loug. Two of the
two-foot strips were placed end to
end to form the top of the frame and
the other two-foot strips similarly
placed to form the bottom. Two of
the one-foot pieces were used to make
the left and right 6ides of the frame.
'1 he two remaining one-foot strips
were used to join thft top and the
bottom of the frame aid were placed
ne foot from each end of the frame
to make each individual frame twelve
inches square.
A Marble Problem» It take* exactlv
six marbles or spheres of any size to
go around a marble or sphere of equal
*iie on the ground. Therefore Hillv
has seven agates. Add to thpse the
five that the other two hoys gave him
and he has a total of twelve.
*'Owllsb” Words: 1. Howl. 2. Fowl.
3. Jowl. 4. Bowl. 5. ScowL 6. GrowL
7. Cowl. .8. Prowl.
Easter Egg Problem: The two bovs
had fourteen and ten eggs, respec
tively.
Riddles: 1. Because It makes all
fall. 2. Rakers, because they sell all
they knead (need). 3. Because there
i* a C (sea) at each end. 4. Because
it would then be a foot. 5 The bed
s. ver. fi. Both have a head and
a tall. 7. Weathercock and scarecrow.
8. Because It takes four knights
(nights) to play a game. {». When
he is a dandy lion (dandelion).
35—Slight hurried meals.
37— Who is the heroine of Shake
speare's “As You Like It"/
39— Hawk-like bird.
41— A suborder of Insects with thread
like. many-jointed antennae as in
gnats and mosquitoes.
42— Plot.
40— A tile.
50— Corroded.
51— Cause to be poured forth.
63—Stem of the East Indian palm.
54— Who was the mother of the gods,
and wife of Kronos?
50— Brilliance.
68— Maritime force.
69— What battle was the turning-point
of the Franco-Prussian war?
01—Mho was hurled from Heaven by
the archangel Michael?
63— Cut down.
64— Alternative.
63—Mottled streaks In wood.
67—Newspaper paragraph.
69— Egyptian deity.
70— Complete; San Juan U the capital
of - Rico.
71— Of what South American republic
is Montevideo the capital?
73— What part of Palestine lies be
tween the Jordan and the Medi
terranean?
74— Color of a chestnut.
VERTICAL.
1— What Arabian Nights hero pos
sessed “The Wonderful Lamp”?
2— What state fabbr.) Is called “The
Mother of Presidents"?
S—Short for Abraham.
4— Boys.
5— What city In Nebraska Is called
the “Gate City”?
6— Nominating.
7— What protectorate of France and
Great Britain in Africa was cap
tured from the Germans In Feb
ruary, 1916?
8— Crude metaL
9— Imbricates.
10— What Russian czar bnilt the city
now called Leningrad?
11— Hebrew name for God.
12— What large manufacturing city of
North France was bHri for twelve
days by the Germans in 1914. and
thereafter unsuccessfully be
sieged ?
14—In what city or a hundred
mosques did the good Harun-al
Rasehid hold sway?
18—Compound found in the purging
flax.
20—Celebrated opera by Verdi.
22—An affluent of the Rhine.
24—After what son of Jacob was the
third hook of the Old Testament
named ?
26—Folds under.
28—Item In one's assets.
51— Omits.
53—One who domesticates.
56— Stalk or support.
38— What Indian chief was known as
“the friend of the White Man”?
40—What Swedish engineer built the
Monitor ?
*2—After what trapper and explorer
was the capital of Nevada named?
43— Not the same.
44— Necessitate.
4-"—Girl's name.
47— In what state Is the Great Sait
Rake located?
48— What French physician discovered
the plasmodtum that causes ma
larial fever?
49— In any event.
52— What ancient country was the
home of the Larins?
55— What brother of Moses was the
first Jewish high priest?
57— Gompiete: The highest peak In the
Garpathian mountains is called
Hich -?
60—Girl's name.
62—A nerve; combining form.
6r—Greek letter.
i;s—Monsignor (abbr.)
TO—Child's name for father.
72— Upper Ontario (abbr.)
A Hidden
Saying
SOME one once said that
“words were invented to hide
thoughts.” At any rate, they can
be so used, for you will find this
puzzle of a hidden saying a good
example. See if you can solve it
by selecting a certain word from
each sentence to form the quota
tion in question.
1. They should take who have
the chance and they should keep
who can.
2. Your life is what you make
it.
3. It is no art to find the
mind’s construction In the face.
4. The wise man always takes
time by the forelock.
5. “Peace on earth towards all
men of good will.”
6. Self-preservation is the first
law of nature.
7. The sun dial marks only the
hours of sunshine.
8. “Seek and ye shall find.”
9. Be the master of your work,
not a slave. •
10. The shadow's of night fall
quickly in the tropics.
11. Accidents will happen.
12. “United we stand, divided
we fall.”
13. The ages are behind us.
14. There are times when you
must take the will for the deed.
What Is the “Open Sesame”?
Can You Guess This Rebus?
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THIS drawing of the young lady
whose chief divei'sion is writ
ing to her many friends who live
at distant points, is a rebus, the
solution of which consists of
guessing her name.
Study the picture and see how
quickly you can correctly guess
her name.
A Magic Egg
INHERE are many easy tricks
• that can be performed with
eggs. Here is one that surely will
enable the conjurer to give his
audience a surprise:
The magician shows his audi
ence two pitchers, both of which
contain water, one being full and
the other about one-half full.
The conjurer places a fresh, raw,
unbroken egg in the latter
pitcher (the egg can be gaily
colored) and the audience is sur
prised to see th4 egg lloat. No
fresh egg should do that!
Next the magician picks up
the pitcher filled with water and
proceeds to fill the other pitcher
to the brim, pouring slowly and
carefully. As he does this he
gives his audience another sur
prise. The egg slowly rises until
it is about half way between the
top and the bottom of the pitcher
and there it floats, suspended, as
it were! Here is the secret:
One piteher is half-filled with
a strong solution of salt and
water. The egg is put in this
and floats. Then this pitcher is
filled slowly and carefully with
the fresh water contained in the
other pitcher. The egg being too
heavy to rise, remains floating on
top cf the salt solution.
A Jumbled Word Square
WORD squares are always in
teresting puzzlbs which any
one can make. Added interest
can be given to such a puzzle,
however, hv re-arranging alpha
betieallj’ all the letters that spell
the words* forming the square.
Write down one A, two B’s,
one D, three E’s, two M’s, four
N’s, two O’s and one S and then
see if you can re-arrange them to
spell the words of a word square
consisting of four words, each
having four letters.
Oicyrlsht 1329. Prcmlei SynJlcat*. Inc.
How to Balance a Coin
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HERE is a trick of balancing a coin on the edge of a glass which
will enable the amateur magician to impress his audience with
his accuracy and steadiness of nerves.
All the apparatus the magician needs is a glass, a coin and a
strip of paper. He put$ one end of the strip of paper on the edge
of the glass, and, holding it on a level, balances a coin pn it.
Now the conjurer challenges any one in his audience to remove
the strip of paper without disturbing the coin in any way. This
appears to be so easy that the challenge is quickly accepted. Al
though many attempts ate made, all of them usually result in failure,
for, as usual, there is a trick to it, with which the audience is not
familiar.
Now the conjurer shows his spectators how easy it really is. He
takes hold of the loose end of the paper and holds the strip up until
it i3 in a vertical position with the coin, which i3 still balanced on
the rim of the glass and weighing down the other end of the strip.
The magician gives the strip a light, sharp blow in the middle with
his disengaged hand. If the blow is accurately struck it will dis
lodge the paper from under the coin, which still remains balanced
on the rim of th« glass.
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THERE Is an old puzzle of the
safe-blowers who found a
three-fold combination lock,
which opened when the word
“PYX” was formed. Here, is an
other brain-teaser of the same
kind in which a familiar word
must be used by turning the dial,
so that the letters will spell the
needed word which is the “open
sesame.”
The turns are first to the right,
then to the left, and then again
to the right. The safe will then
be open. There are not many
words that can be spelled with
these three letters. Can you find
the right one?
How to Play the Game
of “Lottery”
THE game of "lottery,”
which is a corking game for
a crowd, is played with two
decks of cards, one red and one
blue, or some other contrasting
colors- The red deck is shuffled
and cut by a player, who is se
lected (by cutting or otherwise)
to be the banker. He lays out
one row of three cards from the
red deck, face down, and then
below them another row of three
cards, face down. He then put3
the red deck with all the remain
ing forty-six cards face down to
one «ide.
The bankar then takes up the
blue deck and deals them all out
as far as they may go around
the table to all players. Another
way, and one which creates more
thrills, is to auction off the blue
deck to the players, auctioning
two, three, four or five cards at
a time.
After the blue deck is disposed
of among the players, and not un
til then, the banker places the
prizes on the six red cards that
are lying on the table face down.
On the first three cards in the first
row he places valuable prizes.
On the second three cards he
places nominal consolation prizes.
If the cards are to be dealt
and not auctioned, it i3 obviously
only fair that the turn to be
banker should rotate, one turn
for each player, and that a limit
be placed on the prizes, the same
for all bankers. The three high
prizes may, by agreement, be ^
given a value higher than one |
* dollar, but not more than three J
dollars for the three, while the *
three consolation prizes should
have a value of less than one
dollar for tha sum of the three.
Of course, the value of the prizes
need not be high, but there
should be a great difference
maintained between the first
three prizes and the second three.
If the cards are auctioned off,
—which is the way to get the
most fun out of the game,—it
need not be played more than
once, and a good auctioneer will
see that the bids aggregate a
high total value. Then the six
prizes should equal in value tha
total amount of the bids made
by all the players for the cards
in the blue deck. The bids are
written down on a piece of paper
by the auctioneer or an assistant;
the names of the bidders are re
corded, with the amounts bid.
When all the bids are added up,
the prizes may be placed on the
six cards in any way that will
use up all the money that is bid
for the cards in the blue deck.
There should always be a wide
difference between the value of
the three grand prizes and the
three consolation prizes.
After the blue deck is disposed
of, the banker takes up the red
deck, which minus the six c«rds
laid out as the lottery prizes, con
tains now forty-six cards, and
one by one he turns them up,
•putting them in a pile face up
before him and calling each card
as he does so.
The players holding the bin®
cards which match the red cards
discard their blue cards on the
red cards as they are turned up
by the banker. When the rrd
deck ha3 been run through, all
the blue cards have been dis
carded by the players except the
six blue cards which are still
held. These are the lucky win
ners of the lottery. But which
wins the grand prize?
The banker then turns up the
red card, which has least priz®
value. The player holding the
blue card to match it wins this
prize. Each one of the remain
ing lottery cards is turned up un
til at last the one remaining lot
tery card*is the grand prize and
remaining blue card matches it
and wins the highest prize of all.
It is a tremendously exciting ^
game, especially when the blue
deck is auctioned in a large k
party.
One by one the red cards are
called out as they are turned up, /
and one by one the blue cards
fall beside their mates until all S
but the prize cards are turned I
up. i
The excitement grows intense
when only two cards remain, un
til finally the last, two prize cards if
are turned up and the decision as
to who is the luckiest of all is told 1
by the cards and by Fate. F
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