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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1950)
JE riffled HEI PARTY AAAGIC . HLGING Can You Figure Out This? A PACK of paper match la equipment for what can be V an ImprasslYS party trick. Pick up the pack and open it to show tt contains nothing except paper matches. Than, close the pack and set tt upright, that Is. en end, on the table. The pack re mains erect after you hare taken your hand away. Finally you pick up the pack . ones mora, open It and show that ' It eon tains matches and nothing . -else. - . Tour friends win try to pern . form the balancing trick and fall unless they-hit on the secret, It Is: After yon show the matches tn the pack, torn it toward you and bend one of the matches down-wardl-aj you hold the pack tn your left hand, use the right forefinger to close it and the left hand, wia hide the bent; match. With practical) the same mo tion, the right hand closes the pack bat the single match pro trades. When yoa set the pack on the table, It stands there Uke an easel, for the extended match stmt as a support. As you pick op the pack again, open It with the right hand, and simultaneously push back the . bent match with the left thumb. Thus you Immediately show the pack with an the matches in their proper , places. Of course, this mystifies only if an the spectators are in front of you so that the supporting match Is hidden from rlew. , DOAKE3 went to s "white elephant" rum mage sale put on by children of the neighbor hood to raise money for their elubTbey had cleaned out attics, and there were a number of oddities. He selected three small, mexpenslre articles a widget, a badget and a midget The badget cost three times the widget and the nudget cost three times the badget. If Mr. Doakes paid for all three articles with a bin and received only a coin In change, what did each article cost? M pn jiqod I f TV1 se n pn noo J jma tn pas Dm e Sp am vm tt Woe MI tmmawr THIS IS DESIGNED TO A-MAZE YOU 1 r wm- r r CRYPTIC BIRDS T the alphabet was transposed. and A became D, B became F, O became H, etc, what six com mon birds would be represented by the following: LNVDZZEV. 3. LEFTCL t ORLQNR. 1FZDHXFTLJ. ' 8.NODLZTCP. . NODLLKV. e 'Sumiis t - piwai f "mrmm t. wu t ons i aT A Poet Said This Is Our Doorside Queen v ; OOETZC tribute JTla Is paid by Wil- v nam Cullen Bry ant in An Invito- K lion to tht Coun try to the subject of this dotograph, Make-the picture appear by start ing with a pendl at dot 1 and con tinuing an un broken Una front 1 dot to dot oonsee - utiraly. When tl7 BATt reached dot 6d and completed the drawing, - Junior readers can enjoy coloring tt appro prlately with crayons or col ored pencils. Whet is pictured T m mm io ANSWER SoiaUoa of lumber panto lw wfetr Bi U MM. II 10 8 If eiw j 5 lit' "av. ','.V 1 2 6 S3. 2S hu. i 35 38 I '60 63 6M 65 3. t3 ,3H 36. f62 66. liTgAS: ' j 'H HIKE'S only one door to this labyrinth designed by Julian Geroer. Whether you use it as an entrance or an exit, the proba bility is that youH get lost in side, for it offers a challenging problem. . Suppose you start inside, at the central chamber (X). Take a pendl and draw a line to de note your route as you try to reach the exit. Can you make it without running into dead-ends and hating to double back orer any part of tt? GRAVE QUESTION TBB following inscription ac tually appears on a grave stone in the churchyard of Den ham, Buckinghamshire, England. It contains an error. See how long it takes you to detect it. - to the memory f Vf. EDWABD FOUNTAIN Of This Parish, Who Died On the 28 th Oct. 1823; AGED 68 TEARS Also of Mrs. SARAH FOUNTAIN BIS WIDOW, WHO DIED ON THE 33rd SEPTEMBER 1812 AGED 83 TEARS By ettis Smith "THIS is a eron-number. The 1 diagram at left is to be filled In with figures to which clues are girsn below. If yoa get them correctly, they win interlck vertically and hortsontaQy. ACROSS 1. A man and bis wife bad 4 married daughters and each daughter had 4 children. How many in tha whole family f . a. Tour nose would be a foot If It were now many Inches loogT ft. Only number of two digits that begins with "e" and ends with "x". 6. A two-year-eld century. 7. The first "teen" number. 9. 13 plgl, S3 ducks, II Chick ens, a bat that doesnt ewunt, al together equal how many chick east 11. What the weak-wffled. 205 pound woman weighed after one week of dieting. 14. 1915X1H-1 18 equals? 18. A floor number that you seldom win find tn a skyscraper. 17. Bow many States tn the Union before Arizona was ad mitted T DOWN t. The number of days tn a lunar month. . 2. How many trees did a ranger hare it he planted S3 rows, 20 trees to a row, and had one left orer! 3. The "count" in boxing. 4. Number of different letters used in: Ins brown fox Jumps over the lacy dog. 6. Riddle: How many peas In a pint? 8. The number of misspelled words, in: Their Is no smogg la White wasMngtun. 9. Adds eren tot wo. Snow utel 10. a mathematical symbol which is also a type of food and a Greek letter. , U. Voting age In New Tork. 12. Next term in the series: 38, 2S, 14. 13. Ton wrote a check June 12, 1950, No. 17, for 381.40. How many times did you write the figure 1 on the check? 15. M time what. Is 83437 (Answers elsewhere in page.); It's Your Move J QoH 1,1 "1 i-J ImwJI aum Law. I iO eta 11 H rn 3jnneRM ewT! ' sbHsawl TOAT old-time game draughts or checkers Is as fasdnatrng as erer, as prorea oy tne wiae Interest It has among youths to day. If you want to Inprova your game, try working out problem : like this, contributed to this pus- ' ale corner by Millard Hopper, national unrestricted champion. White, morlng first and op the board, Is to win in four mores. How? He must of course compel Black to make certain mores. Those are Black kings on No. 18 and 19. White has only one king, on No. 9. ioi-n mvk aH . aRait
