Diversions

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 58, 1 December 1934, Page 18

Diversions

.COLD COMFORT [After last year's discovery that ferrets could be infected with ithe virus of human influenza. It Is now announced that the same convplaint can *bc communicated to mice.], When 1 have a code id by doze, A complaint that I often inherit, I am cheered when the learned disclose That my ailment is shared by the ferret; My troubles I blithely defy, In fact they become a mere fiction, When I think that the ferret and I Are linked in a common affliction.

Still less can I grumble and grouse, When Science, the ever respected. Has further proclaimed that the mouse Has also been duly infected ; I snort and I snuffle and blink, I wheeze like a pair of old bellows— But ain't it consoling to think That ferrets and mice ate my fellows?

One problem remains, as of old— These experts, so clever and clannish, Are dabs at imparting a cold, But what about making it vanish? They can give it the mouse, as we see, (Which the mouse must consider a blunder), But can they remove it-from me— Is that any nearer, I wonder? —-“Lucio,” in the “Manchester Guardian.” VERY CROSSWORDS Here are a number of crossword clues and the answers, culled from k ‘The Observer” (London), and reprinted topresent readers with some idea of the mighty puzzling affair the crossword puzzle has become:—

Pure, yet no spinster (Lily). What the cook said to the pancake (P.T.0.).

A light woman: if exactly so, Torquemada puts her on the rack (Baggage). Heggs! (Exasperated). Evading the Issue (Birth Control). S.O.S. (Naughtinesses). What the sailor sits on without result (Hatch). Makes father late (Parricide). A little more than kith and less than kind (Taunt).

Limit of human understanding (Toenail).

Land of waving palms (Whitechapel ).

Mr. Robinson’s common name (Heath).

Poetical six balls (O’er). Solomon’s sluggards must have been (Syucophants). “Drink and the devil (Impale). , How many can get this bird? (Toucan) % The explorer said it to a goose in pussy’s mouth (Babot). You can’t drink out of these (Hours). Her motto might well be, “Let joy be unconfined” (Marie Stopes). Melba 'breaks into a walk (Amble). Both you and I surrender to money in the end (Yields). The Ring and the Book (not Browning), and One Clear Call for Me (Telephone). Side issue (Eve). Edible at the feast, audible after it (Tripe). The first three letters would not cover the whole < Figure). Invocation to a Manx cat for work (Opus). By Massenet out of Scotland Yard (Cid). Hobson’s choice (Ge-or-ge). Unpunctual yawn (Behindhand). Napoleon died in 1066 (Howler). Puts the parson in his place (Induction ). Is Euclid pondering over this In Elysium? (Eternal triangle). Apotheosis of the palindrome (Deified). Sarah at evensong (Psalm). Decrepit horses turned into the wood (Screws). Male theologian in a car in Somerset (Cheddar).

Sinister solver of the unemployment problem (Satan). A simple clue (Hert>). Capacity for saying the last word (Amenability).

What is it goes ninety-nine plonk? This, with a wooden leg (Centipede). Estate suggestive of vulgar incitement to matricide (Domain). Might sport with Amaryllis in the shed (Rake). The orphan has neither this—a widely accepted view (Panorama). A roughly-handled footballer may be in need of one (N.J.—-New Jersey). The piper’s twins (Tom-tom). Device for the alleviation of childbearing (Pram).