A JIG-SAW PUZZLE
MAN AND THE WORLD. AN INTERESTING PARABLE. As a preliminary to the address on “Some Thoughts on International Affairs,” delivered by Mr W. A. Whitlock at the Napier Rotary Club. Rotari.au Dr Sutton enunciated an interesting parable that is laden with significance at this juncture of world affairs.
The father of a little girl, lie said, hit upon a good method whereby to teach the child the principles of geography. Ho first of all allowed her to study a map 0 f the world, then he tore the map into fairly small pieces and handed the pieces to the child so that’ .she might fit them together, after tho manner of solving a jig-saw; puzzle. To tho father’s intense, astonishment the child returned after a very brief interval with tho map of the world restored. All the pieces were there, and not one was out of place. “How did you manage to clo it so quickly?” he asked.
“You see, dad,” said the child, “it was quite simple. On the back of the map there was a large drawing of a man. When, I got the man right, the world was right.”
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Gisborne Times, Volume LXXX, Issue 12263, 26 May 1934, Page 10
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