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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?
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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:
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try to the subject
of this dotograph,
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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
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crayons or col
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' 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.);
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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.
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