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The Puzzle Act of the Seven Acrobats
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HERE are the seven Soof brothers lined up in a row to make their
initial bow to their audience. These brothers present a marvelous
acrobatic act, which amazes all who witness their wonderful feats.
The brothers open their act by a puzzle formation which you
are asked to figure out.
First they form a row as you see them here numbered from
one to seven. They, at a signal from the leader, Acrobat No. 4 who
has the centre position in the line, four of the brothers change their
positions so that, although there are only seven in all, they form
two rows with five men in each.
How can seven men group themselves apparently to Increase
their number to ten?
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The Cook’s Strange Recipe
A Box Full of Riddles
WITS, like tools, require frequent sharpening, and for the
purpose you will find the following brain-teasing conun
drums very good whet-stones. Just see how quickly you can
guess them.
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' 1. What kind of a fish would you expect to find in the sky?
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’ 2. What grows fastest when it is coldest?
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3. What good reason can every one give for walking on
his heels?
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4. What is the hest thing about a package of pins?
£ 6. What plant is always sure death to mice?
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6. In what way are a monument and writing paper alike?
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7. How much did the inventor of the steamboat weight?
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8. What kind of a bird has no wings, yet is always kept
In a cage?
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9. Why are the best liked dogs usually small ones?
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10. What is the most wonderful thing about the letter S?
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11. Why does an expert pickpocket never have to work hard?
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12. What one of Charles Dickens’ characters is a badly
sprained ankle like?
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13. W'hy is a man who wants to get married like a man
with a counterfeit fifty-cent piece?
Storing the Motor Cars
HOW would you like to turn
cook and see what kind of
a dish you can make by using the
following recipe?
One-sixth of apple.
One-sixth of butter.
One-quarter of lard.
One-fifth of bread.
Two-sevenths of vinegar.
One-fifth of sugar.
Follow the directions care
fully and your efforts should suc
cessfully turn out to be an ap
petizing dessert.
Solutions of Last
Week's Puzzles
KNIGHT'S JOCK NET i Calling the
three towns by their iuttitls. A.
B and C, arrange the letters to
form a triangle with A and B at tbe
base, and C at the apex. Draw a Uoe
from C to tbe base, and according
to the directions. It Is 12 miles long.
As the base line is 25 miles, it Is easy
to calculate the lines from A to C and
from C to B. which together must add
up 33 miles. They are obviously 13
and 20 miles
Pottle Problems Turn all figure P's
upside down to make them 6 s. The
problem then reads 1626 divided by 6
equals 271.
Reborn KIND tR In D).
The Droxglat'a Dilemma: The Ingre
dient in the smallest bottle was 1-6
of the total Mould and the add tn tbe
next site bottle was 2-# of the total.
Add these together and you find that
the Ingredient was 7-18 of the total
fluid and tba water wax. therefore
IMS of the total
Hidden haying: Begin at the last T
to the second row from the bottom
and from there proceed from eircl#
to circle, spelling out the proverb.
“There Is many a slip twixt the cup
and the lip.”
Anagrams: 1. Discomfiture *. Revo
lution. 3 Dictionary
Missing (.Inks: 1. Adder, t Spread
8. 1,1st. 4 Digit. 3. Top 6 Loaf 7.
FgC. & Reef. ft Tense 10. Flip 1L
String. 12. Bold 1.1 Render. 14.
Flight. 13 Ring 13 Change. 17. Nag
I'oonterfelters' Cryptogram: Follow
ing are the cities and the number of
bogus thousand dollar Mils sent to
each place; Baltimore, loft; EastoV
35; Raleigh. 80; Omaha. SO; Macon.
75; Utica. 40: Anilnw-r. Jjf»; Reading.
2-5: Dayton. 40; Cleveland 23; New
ark y>
Riddles: 1 Both are full of airs 2
Both have to t>e ground before they
can be used. 3 A dead one. 4. Doth
can chatter. 3 Because the carpenter
l« the “planer" of the two 6 fWaute
tbev make a league. 7. Fingernails.
* Roth make the corn grow i> The
letter X because it is In explicable,
16. A pig. because u -pose” more. 11.
Both can make a spring. 12. Chicken
croquets.
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\ TN an uptown garage, there ore six separate storage rooms, five
> 1 of which are occupied by automobiles. In the diagram they are
>4». marked A, B. C, D and E and are arranged as shown. The owners
of cars D and B are leaving town, and their cars will not be needed
j* for some months. The owner of the garage, therefore, desires to put
jfefr these cars into the lower right and left rooms. There is, however,
. room for only one car in each compartment, and compartment No. 2.
) which opens into the street, must be kept vacant.
In now few moves can you change the locations of the cars, so
that E will change places with B and D with C? It can be done in
twenty moves. Perhaps you can do it in less.
Cut cardboard squares and letter them from A to E, place
ttiem as shown above, and move them from square to square until
I, you get cars A and E in spaces No. 1 and 3, respectively, and cars
j t). C. and B in spaces No. 4. 5 and 6 respectively.
§ Solve the Jumbled Word Square
HORIZONTAL.
J—Cloak.
5_\Vho wrote "Uncle Tom § Cabin"?
10—What Portuguese navigator dis
covered the Cape of Good Hope?
14—Spoken
IN—pertaining to tbe polea.
16—What ecclesiastic is celled "the
gloomy dean"?
n—What Italian city is famous for
Its leaning tower?
18— Of a point in space.
19— Proceed.
20— Lyric poema.
21— Rag.
21—Printer's measure fplu ?
24—The greatest part.
2V—Elongated fish.
24—.Who collaborated with Addison
In publishing "The Spectator"?
28—Diminutive of Magdalena.
30—Needy
81—Prepare* for publication.
85— Mistake.
86— Daybreak.
37— In what country is Stockholm?
38— Chinese weight.
89—Mountain lake.
4 0—That Is here present.
41— Note of the musical scale.
42— Who was the wife of Parle
whom he deserted fcr Helen T
44—Snakes.
Oopmiti Itb. Prettier Padlnte, sea
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MANi a weed will quickly
grow in a garden that is
not carefully cultivated, and,
like an ogre in a rage, choke
all the vegetables and flowers,
making useless all the work of
the gardener.
This eryptogrammic sentence
contains the four words that
form the word square, the
words of which are spelled
with the sixteen letters writ
ten in alphabetical arrange
ment on the blackboard.
Can you find four words
and arrange them to form a
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Anagrams
TO find the hidden anagram In
each of the following jingles
transpose the letters of the
words that are printed in capital
letters to spell the anagram
word indicated by asterisks.
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Twas Jimmie’s birthday, and
that was why
His schoolmates gave him bONE
THUMPS;
He stood for the ••••*••••• and
didn't cry.
Although their blows raised
lumps.
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Said Tom: “How ’bout ••••***••
for dinner tonight?”
Mary smiled as he asked her
the question.
“Sure,” said his wife, tn a tone
of delight,
“Many thanks for the bully
suggestion.
“You know, though, it’s no good,”
reminded his spouse,
“Kept waiting too long, no come
early.”
But it was PAST EIGHT when
Tom entered his house,
And the stuff was so cold he
was surly.
TWIST a large handkerchief in
the form of a rope. Hold
the two ends, one in each hand
and without letting go of either
end, tie a knot in the center of
the handkerchiefs.
“Impossible!” you will exclaim.
It is easily done, however. Put
the rolled handkerchief on a
table. Fold your arms and pick
up an end in each hand and then
w ithout letting go of either end,
unfold your arms and the knot
is tied.
The New Cross-Word^ Puzzle
4— Puffed up.
5— Engage in boxing.
*—Infant.
7—Old Latin (abbr.)
S—Wfco wrote "Lohengrin"!
9—Having a Jagged edge.
10— What King of Argoa was ore of
the bravest Greeks before Troy?
11— What is the missing word ■
China is an easterly peninsula
In South Asia?
12— Crows old.
13— Enthusiasm.
22— Hebrew name for God.
23— What English college town Is lo
cated on the Thames River op
posite Windsor?
2ft—Scattered, as seed.
27—Who wrote "Main Street"?
2$—What Is the ancient name of the
Island of Milo?
29—What was the title of Andre
Maurols' biography of Shelley*?
32— A unit of germ plasm.
33— Denoting a purpose.
34— Trap.
3ft—Who wrote "The Inferno”?
37—Who Is the author of “Major Bar
bara"?
89—0\ erthrowtng
4ft—Indian tree.
43— Gaseous element (abbr.) found la
the sir.
44— Two-masted square-rigged ves
sel.
45— In what country are Tobolsk
and Irkutsk?
47—What collective name Is applied
to the three Fates?
4 S—Monarch*.
50— Kxaminat Iona.
51— Toward
52— Street urchin.
53— Maritime force.
54— Soon.
50—Child's playthings.
57—Circular plate.
5*—Possessive pronoun.
• 1—Allow. ^
65—What State (abbr.) Is called
-Tar Heel"?
Answer lo Las! Week's
Cross-Word Puzzle
«n—'Title o« reepect.
4 A—Sluqjbered
47—The bow ot • Ship.
4*—What cereal 1* eaten tty the
greatest number of people?
4 9—What Marshal of France de
. fended Verdun and Alsace dur
ing the World War!
ftl—Vgt.
52—Analogous (abbr.).
55—Unit of work
SO—A city In Ohio.
59— Hindu queen.
60— In what Southern State (abbr.)
Is rice produced?
61— Behold
62— Ireland.
63— On what river is Stratford.
Shakespeare's birthplace?
• 4—What judge was connected wild
the famous Dred Scott case?
• 5—Get up.
17—What Fvitlah general command
ed the first tank attack aeainst
the Germans In tha World War?
•I—Denominations
• 9—SCysta.
TKRTltAL.
1— Ancient Egyptian racn
2— Melody.
S—What celebrated scientist dla«
covered n cure for hydrophobia?
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Can You “Frame” the Fish? oj
MARTIN
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STUDY carefully the position of » TT 11 1 • I* m • 1
the fourteen fish and then A M Q fl H 1/01*^ hlOT irl f* IT
draw five lines so that they will £A XX (111 li ft H HI 1 V X X I lift
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How to Play £
Adjective Letter ;
By Edward Longs! ret h and
Leonard T. Holton.
¥F a hostess cares enough about
* the success of her party to
take a few precautious before
hand, the adjective letter is one
of the best devices to ward off
incipient ennui.
The letter, containing a thou
sand or more words, is prepared
in advance and usually discusses
the party of that evening, using
the names of all the guests and
perhaps some of their absent
friends and enemies. The letter
also contains a description of tho
time and place, the sort of party,
the habits and clothes of tho
guests, and so on. But beforo
each noun a space is left blank,
waiting for a descriptive or
qualifying adjective to be filled
in later by the unsuspecting
guests.
When the moment teetqs pro
pitious. the hostess asks each
guest in turn for an adjective,
particularly one ef an unpleasant
and uncomplimentary nature.
Not knowing what it is all about,
the guests will give such adjec
tives as “odious," “hideous,"
“snivelling," “second-rate," which
the hostess writes into the letter
in the blank spare before each
noun in turn as the guests call
them out
The hostess then announces
that the guests have helped her
write a lovely account of them
selves and her party. She reads
it verbatim, and it probably
sounds something like this:
“The odious Olive Onion hav
ing decided to entertain her
snivelling friends at her hideous
home invited them to a second
rate dinner. The first to arrive
were the fiendish Mr. and Mrs.
Richard Rook, etc."
Any touch of formality that
threatened to deaden a homo
party is thus thickly dissipated;
the party is bound to become live
ly one w ay or another.
CopntitL list b» lion * Sc»««tm. Im
A Puzzle Problem
rlE puzzled foreman of the
Buzz Saw Planing Mill has a
mahogany log to cut into three
equal pieces. Each must be as
long as the other and each must
be three-quarters of tho whole
plus three-fourths of a yard, and
at the same time must be three
quarters of its own length plot
27 inchek.
Perhaps you can help the per
plexed foreman. How long is the
log and what is the length cf em:h
piece to be?
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