"NUTS!"

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 48, 24 August 1935, Page 21

"NUTS!"

WORD CHANGE.

Intellect Sharpeners ' .:..- All rights reserved (By C. J. Wherefore)

Readers with a little Ingenuity will find in this column an abundant store of entertainment. and amusemont, and the solving of ths problems should provide excellent mental exhilaration. While some of the "nuts" may appear harder than others, it will be found that none will require a sledgehammer to crack them. Address correspondence to P.O. Box 1177, Wellington.

In the lines given below the spaces I are to be filled with a series of words, each of which differs from the one before it by one letter, making the last 1 word quite.unlike the first and with exactly the contrary meaning. !The Sun at last has risen, its rays begin to — Through widely open window on my ■-'. peaceful bedroom , I admit that they have passed through quite a. lot of space, Some; ninety million miles, before they came into this place. I read that in a paragraph, which caught my eye one day, While I mate search for something else, and here I ought to say I never would deceive you, for no . —: have I at all, No knowledge astronomical to aid me can I call, s . I'don't read scientific works, which .; make a man feel :— ——. I've only one more thing to add, it's time for me to . THREE TRAIN JOURNEYS. A, B, and C were departing by the same train, but to different destinations. A's journey was the longest, and C's the shortest. The number of miles by which the longest journey exceeded the second was two, more than the number by which the second exceeded the shortest. The Railway Department calculates the fares for these, instances at the rate of threepence for the ticket plus one penny ' for every mile travelled. The result was that when A paid for all three tickets with a ten-shilling note, he received one penny as change. The numbers of miles in the three distances had one. peculiarity in common, which appealed to the mathematical minds of _ these three travellers. What were these three distances?-. ■ ANOTHER PROBLEM IN AGES. In a few years from now a man's age will be exactly one-fifty-seventh part.of the number of the year. A few years'"ago it was one-sixty-ninth part of the number of the year. How many years previous to that was it possible to express his age as a similar fraction of the number of the year? TWO ' CHEQUES. "A man received two cheques for sums of money, of which one exceeded.jthe other, by £74 13s Id. The first;, -cheque; showed every numeral from'l to 5 and no others, the second showed only the remaining four numerals up to 9. For how much were these* two cheques? This is much easier than it looks. :' ? ;*--W -A WINDFALL. When I met Miss Alpha a few days ago at the entrance to the Post Office Savings Bank she had a few notes in her hand, and; they'were folded small, sdithat; rib'one could have seen how many or more probably how few they were. She explained, that her father, who is.one-.of those not too ..prosperous dairy "farmers, had received a cheque for —12 3s 6d for some old cows.'which he did not consider valuable. —id'tKat he had made a present of the money in equal shares to each member of his family. > My friend explained that she was depositing her own and.her sister's shares of this windfall. I asked her whether she had the additional shillings and pence in. her handbag. Oh, it is not as simple as that," she explained. "You - see Mary owed me 10s ana 9d, and I owed, Jane 12s and Bd, and we had to settle these debts first. Then the Post Office does not accept pence, and as none of us had any of them with which to bring our amounts up to shillings, we have to keep the odd pence we received. I did ask Walter to lend me what I needec, but he says he wants all his own share and ' a lot more to buy some new clothes and shoes and a hat and several other things. The result is- that I have only pounds and not a single shilling to pay in." How many one pound notes-was Miss A carrying in her hand? .. A CHILDISH PROBLEM. Bill is a little, boy, and has 19 pennies-in his money-box, Each oi his elder sisters has also 19 coins, but they have no pence, only sixpences and threepenny pieces. The boxes belonging to Muriel and Noel contain sums of money which are multiples of ; Bill's 19 pence. The amount in Pamela's box is not a multiple oi Bill's capital at present, but hei brother contemplates spending a few pence, and when he does so the contents of her box will become a multiple of what will be left in the othei box. What are the contents oJ Muriel's and Noel's boxes, and how - many times will Pamela's box contair the value of the pennies left in th€ other box? ■■"--'■. SOLUTIONS. Anagram.—Marine, airmen, remain The word at the end is "again." Discounts.—£7 on furniture, £6 oi drapery, £5 on hardware. Crossing River.—loß, 12, and 80 pei sons paid fares of 3, 4, and 2 pence re . spectively. /.-■ Age Problems.—(l) 65, 13, and* years. (2) The ages are 15 and 11 .and the conditions described exis five years ago and in five years fron .: now. '.'"..".;>: . Consideration.—C must h&ve spen 345, because there is no other solu tion except 42, and this is unreason able. Then A and B spent 28s ane 38s respectively. Information.—This could have bee given as an armchair problem. It i not difficult to see that the motoris has travelled five-eighths of the whol distance. Therefore the authorit; supplying the information can writ the numeral 8, and as he persistentl; speaks of it in the plural the distanc must be 88 miles. Thus the motoris knows that he has 33 miles to go. THE "ALL BLACKS" HAVE "IT." Every member of the All Black team to tour Great Britain this yes is being supplied with Baxter's Lun Preserver. It is fitting that the pic of New Zealand's footballers should b safeguarded from coughs and cole and kindred ailments by "Baxter's which is as famous amongst coug preparations as the All Blacks are i the- world of football. Jjast as the • All Blacks team has 1 be balanced in its ability to attack, I defend, arid to follow through to a su cessful conclusion, so is "Baxter's" tt perfectly-balanced remedy. "Baxter": promptly tackles a cold, overcomes i and defends the system against coui ter-attack with its unique tonic pr perties. When fighting a cold be on the wi nlrig side. Take "Baxter's" and con out on top. 'Always insist on "Baxter's." So by all -chemists and stores, 4s 6d, 6d, and Is 6d.—Advt.