ANSWERS

Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 45, 16 November 1929, Page 30

ANSWERS

1. Many, many years ago- a great. Ambassador visited the city of Sparta, and told the ruler there what, a wonder-; ful place he thought it, but that he found it so strange that such a splendid city should have no.,walls to protect it. “Wait until the morning,” said the Ruler, “and then you will see.'” When the morning came he took the Ambassador to the spot where his soldiers were drilling, and were drawn up in lines of battle. Pointing proudly to them he said: “There are the walls of Sparta, and every man is a brick.” (2) Until they are 150 years old. (3) There are over 5000, British Isles. ' . '

(4) Rice, which normally takes only one hour to digest after being eaten. Raw eggs taken an hour and a half, and boiled eggs twice as long- Boiled meats take less time to digest than roast. , * (5) The letters of the English alph.v bet are about 2500 years old. and no one man Invented them. They developed gradually from ancient picture signs, like the Egyptian hieroglyphics.