WHAT DO YOU SEE?

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 221, 18 September 1930, Page 10

WHAT DO YOU SEE?

INTERESTING COMPETITION,

FOB OBSERVANT HEADERS.

SEE "STAR" TO-MORROW NIGHT.

Things are not quite .so plain as they seein. For instance, there is considerable kudos awaiting the person who can picture the Venus of Milo exactly as she was before she lost her lovely arms, U looks simple, but just try it. Then, again, there is the classical case of the "Laocoon." In the restored, group. the arm in which, the father holds the body of the python is stretched out and upwards' at' arm's length. The correct attitude is for the arm to be bent at the elbow. If you make two sketches, one of the , group as restored'and one with the arm bent instead of straight out, you , see at once the fault of the restoration. .";.

Tfieni again, anyone who has ever, been in, a.-courtof law will have been struck 'by the astonishing discrepancy between the accounts given -by difterent persons of a precisely similar set' of oircumstanoes. The inexperienced inight think someono,was lying, but it is simply a matter of difference in the powers of observation—what they call "the equation."

"Star" readers will have a chance of noting this wide diversity in the ability .of different < persons to describe what they think they see. In to-morrow night's "Star" there will appear" a photograph of a figure in the act of doing—exactly what it is doing.is the task the reader can set himself, or herself, if he Or she wants a chance of winning, a ten-shilling prize. - /• In.the photograph the background will be painted out, but the figure "itself will be left untouched, and the competitor ia asked to describe what the figure is. actually doing, and to give such particulars as he or she, would if describing tfce matter to a friend. After having described what the figure is doing it would be wise to give an estimate of his, age, and any other particular that would elucidate the picture. The prize goes to the person describing most correctly the action of the figure. It is of course understood that the decision of the Competition Editor roust be final. . '; -, > Full particulars will be published in the .'■ to-morrow evening. • \