WHAT WAS SHE DOING?

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 246, 18 October 1933, Page 16

WHAT WAS SHE DOING?

ANSWERS MANY AND VARIED.

WIDE INTEREST DISPLAYED IN PUZZLE

Dear Boys and Girls,— Our recent "What Is She Doing?" competition created a very large amount of interest and entries were very heavy indeed. The photograph was actually an incident in a girls' sports event— the thread-the-needle race. Unfortunately, however, several hundred entrants decided that this was what the girl was doing. The judges held a council of war, and eventually decided to award prizes to those who sent in original answers which were consistent with the expression on the girl's face. Many and various were the answers sent in, and they ranged all the way from "shaving" to swimming breaststroke," whilst a 39-year-old child (!) decided that she was rolling a cigarette, although the Croc, had to eat that entry as a breaker of Rule No. 1. Another meal was provided by the entry of a ten-year-old Raetihi boy, who sent in his entry but forgot to say what the girl was doing. Special thanks are sent to the Ponsonby reader who had come across the same picture published in another journal and sent it in, although refraining from suggesting a title. The winning solutions were:—"About to sneeze' (3), Taking her first fish off a hook," "Screwing corners of handkerchief prior to taking grit out of eye," "Looking into a mug prior to taking a drink," and "Tying her necktie," whilst the remaining prize went to a competitor who wrote out a brief but interesting storyette about the girl and what she was doing. One can quite Imagine older readers scorning the nursery rhymes as being intended for little children only. After undergoing treatment, however, rhymes can be rejuvenated so they will appeal even to modern young people. Elsewhere on this page an example is printed showing how lines from severed nursery rhymes have been joined together to form an entirely new verse. A little alteration is sometimes necessary when constructing these jumbled rhymes, but those who enter to-day's competition should alter the original as little as possible. Boys and girls are going to have splendid fi\n modernising nursery rhymes, so take up your pencils at once and perhaps /\ J ir \l your up-to-date verse will bring you ty]QA9*>^ one of the cash prizes offered.