SNARING THE SUN

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 18, 22 January 1937, Page 5

SNARING THE SUN

WOMAN DESIGNS HOME Set amid the beautiful young gum trees which abound around Killara, Sydney, is an almost completed twostorey house, built of cream bricks and with a bronze tiled roof, and in another fortnight or so it will be inhabited by its designer, Mrs. Jessie Madsen, who is her own architect and interior decorator, states the "Sydney Morning Herald.!' Because Mrs. Madsen was. designing this house. to be her own home, she spent many months in making final decisions about different features, and because she has not hurried she has now the thrill of seeing her own dreams realised in a modern house built with beauty of line and yet retaining its utility. The house faces south, and stands well back from the road. One of the first features noticed upon approaching it is the south-west corner window, which is ten feet long and set in a steel frame. This window is fitted into the corner of the house, which holds yet another striking feature, a sanded cement spiral staircase, with a solid brick balustrade, which winds up into the upper floor. The long, narrow window lets the maximum of light and air into the stairway, and, quite apart from that, has its aesthetic value, as .it is so placed that flowers set on a low table at the turn of the stairs will have the glass panes behind them. A south-east corner window in the main bedroom balances the design, and at the same time lets all the sunshine into the room and does not obstruct the view. Making as much use of the sun as possible has been one of Mrs. Madsen's ideas in planning her house, and so the back verandah has a flat roof with wrought iron railings and doors opening on to it from the main bedrooms, so that it forms the ideal sun porch. PRIMROSE KITCHEN. With a woman's true knowledge of just how important is the kitchen of a house, Mrs. Madsen has paid special attention to hers. There is not an inch of waste space. All the cupboards are built in, and instead of the stove resting on legs, and so wasting space, it rests on cupboards for storing saucepans. On either side of the stove are more cupboards, which are enamelled primrose colour to tone with the rest of the kitchen. Even the ironing board has its own" little built-in compartment. Another utilitarian feature which serves both the kitchen and the bedrooms above is a chute, which allows all the soiled linen to be sent straight down to the laundry, which, with the garage, forms a basement at the back of the house. In the loungeroom, where even the bricks of the fireplace are pale biscuit colour, to continue the general colour scheme, there are sets of bookshelves on either side of the fireplace, and at the lower corner of one is an inconspicuous cupboard, which holds the Wood, and has another door, which opens into the garden, and so does away with the necessity of carrying the wood through the house. Throughout the house are polished tallow-wood floors, whose lovely honey colour forms the background, with creamy woodwork for the furnishings of the whole house. Thesfe are to be carried out in beige, brown, and green, and, although repeated throughout the house, will vary considerably, a different colour predominating in each room.

Readers with a little Ingenuity will find In this column an abundant store of entertainment and amusement, and the solving ot the problems should provid* 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. NON-MATHEMATICAL PUZZLE. In the lines given below the first two spaces are to be filled with words composed of the same letters. The word required for the space in the last line is much longer, because it uses all these letters and also all those in another word, whjch is found elsewhere in the verse. He writes to say he has his wireless set Not working badly, that's not saying much. It will, when some improvements he can get. to any mild adjusting touch. He over the varied stuff he hears, Cornet and harp and fiddle every day, With flute and 'cello ringing in his ears, That's what my writes to say. A QUESTION OF ALLOWANCE. Mr. Fair had been accustomed to paying his daughter an allowance of a certain number of pounds per annum. When she married a man, who was not particularly wealthy, not only did he continue to. do this, but he increased it by an amount per "annum, which would have been equivalent to five shillings a week, if the-payments had been made weekly. Later on he increased it again by the same amount per annum, and this was equivalent to one-sixth of what lie had been paying her before he granted her the second increase. Does this mean that the daughter gets as much as a hundred pounds a year from him? • THE STOREKEEPER'S PROBLEM. J I had made a small purchase in a country store, for which I handed over a silver coin, and the storekeeper gave me change equal to one-third of its value, all in pence. When I remarked that he seemed to have plenty of pennies in his drawer, he laughed and replied: "Did you see those five young men in a car, who stayed in the township for half an hour? I think they must have been deciding a bet or playing some game. Each one came here and bought something, for which he banded me nothing but pence, and each one in his tuna paid me an amount which exceeded that of the one before him by the same number of pence.. The total was ten times as much as the first man spent, and the pennies I have given you are those which I received from the last but one." What amounts did each of the five men spend?. COUNTING SHEEP. Two men in a car had to stop while a farmer put some sheep and lambs through a gate, and they tried to count them. Their results were not quite the same, although the difference was small enough to satisfy most persons, but they preferred to ask the owner of the sheep how many there were. They found that they had both overestimated the number,' the first by oneeighth of its amount, and the second by one-ninth of it. Then one of them remarked that ewes seemed to have very few lambs, but the farmer laughed and said that they had 90 per cent, of them. "What you do not seem to notice," he added, "is that there are more than 50 wethers here," and he appeared to be rather amused at what he said. Was he telling the truth? A BILL FOB REPAIRS. Three men. Ananias/ Mandeville, and George Washington, Were driving in. a car, which did not belong to them, and they met with an- accident. They had to pay to the owner the cost of all repairs, but when they saw the bill, which was for an exact number of pounds without shillings or pence, they disputed the ■ amount.' The repairer, who had a sense of humour, then sent in an account, which showed every item separately, making the total just one penny less than that shown before. These men agreed to contribute amounts proportional to their ages. The fiction supplied by Ananias is that every tiine he put down four pence, Mandeville had to pay seven pence, and again every time Washington put down nine pence, he himself had to supply five pence. What are the ages of these three'men, and what was the amount they had to pay for repairs. A MILD GAMBLE. All the men in a'certain office formed a syndicate to buy tickets in a sweep. They succeeded-in winning one of the smaller prizes, which came to an exact number of pounds, but they had to pay a small sum for expenses, before dividing the. net profits equally among all who participated. The . result was a number of shillings, which exceeded the number of meri by 141. Each man received a .sum which ended with ten pence. How many men participated, and what was the amount of the prize they won? SOLUTIONS. Holiday.—The scores were 54, 55, 56, and 57. ' Entertainment.—He underestimated them, there were nine who did not pay- ' It Never Did Rnn Smooth.—lt is evident that Y stands for E, and U. and C are two other vowels. The system is to write G for A, H for B, I for C, and so on through the alphabet. The interpretation is: "Where were you? I waited at the corner for nearly an hour." Problem In Ages.—There can not be more than three children in each family, because otherwise the problem would be hopelessly indeterminate. In each the age of the second eldest is inevitably 12, but it can happen in several ways so that the answer to the question asked is obtained without finding the ages of any of the others. Armchair Problems.—(l) Seventy-five trees. (2) In the morning M's speed was 40 miles per hour and N's was 25 m.p.h. In the afternoon- both did 30 m.p.h. Th& statement about time of arrival is valueless, because, we do not know time of departure. Therefore the distance remains unknown,' but the answer to ( the question about speed is obtainable' without. it. ,