PUZZLeS FOR SCHOOLBOYS.

Clutha Leader, Volume XL, Issue 70, 10 March 1914, Page 1

PUZZLeS FOR SCHOOLBOYS.

"What is the NinrbylP Wllel'd is InjibreckP What regiunmt Wears show instead of boots? What Wrt of a bird is called a cUddyP Where ie the Trough b f IloWlatid? Why do you see stars it you bump your head?

These are some of the 190 questions, divided under 18 separate heads, \vh c:i hare been presented to the bays of Kin;; William's College, Isle of Man, in S general knowledge paper by way of an advance Christmas present, and campare well with the rest (stated a recent issue of the 'Daily Mail'). The whoio paper can only increase the adult admiration for boys. What Encyclopaedias the Manx youths must be! When one of them has discovered whv, when, where, whom (and if) "Ciive kissed upon the eyes and moutli and brow," he is fitra'gtway flung into science to name the discoverer of the barometer, and, having weathered this nue.stiou, the crux arises, "What or where are Piou-Piou and .Bhang?" which being settled, the exact purpose of a hyp.someter and goniometer has to be >"spounded and the local of "The Ladies' Breeze" indicated.

Then the paper enters upon 12 questions concerning noses, noses which were "sharp as a pen," and "trimmed beits and buttons," and "looked red and raw," and "must pant while lips lrust curl," and so on until after all their enumeration and elucidation and appropriation and allocation it would seem that a boy could do nothing mora for any nose but blow it.

Then he could tackle "The Red Leas of Barbadoes, what are they?" and declare what Sove-p'gn* hu associated with "Doa-kel>ne V and "Raw Hide*," And probe the meaning of charm, prism, atavism, catechism, dualism, hedonism) Larfymsm, modernism, realism, gclu* m «&4 syllogigou