Children's Corner

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 13, 23 August 1928, Page 6

Children's Corner

Answers to.Last Week's Puzzles. 1. The :- diagram below shows how this was done. .

2. i'h.e Ist is 8, 2nd is 12, 3rd is 5, either experiment or let x be the niimand 4th.is 20. To get at this, you can ber and work it out by algebra. 3. The solution of No? 3 is given below. You will find on investigation that the condition has been observed, though "at first sight you would not think so. 0 14 13 3 ! 11 5 6 S . 7 9 10 4 12 2 1 15 4. This is really only a catch. From SIX take IX and S ) ~ IX „ X „ I )will remain , ,', XL '.', L „* X ) 5. The catch in this puzzle is in the words "and half an egg over, for if you take the half of an uneven number, you will get something and a half as the answer. The woman started with 15 eggs and left half of them and half an egg . over at the first house. Therefore she left S eggs and had seven in her basket. Then she left half of these and half an egg over (4) and had 3, leaving half of these and half an %g (2) she had one for herself. New Puzzles for This Week. 1. Crossword puzzle:— '' Our Own Crossword Puzzle, especially written for the children by Uncle Bill. If any children like to send their attempts at solution to Uncle Bill, Box 29, Lower Hutt, or leave them at the Printing Office, the names of those who are successful will be published in next week's '' News.;' Answers to be sent in by # Monday next.

3. Once upon a time a worthy merchant of Bagdad was gathered to his fathers leaving the whole of his wealth to his thTee sons. Part of this legacywas in honey, there being exactly 21 barrels, seven quite full, seven half-full and seven quite empty. The merchant had left instructions that each son should receive exactly the same amount of honey, and exactly the same number of barrels. . It was ddcided that no honey was to be transferred from one barrel to another on account of the waste involved. In the middle of the argument, each of the three brothers found that he had an objection to taking more than four barrels, of any one kind: full, half-full or empty. How did they make a correct division of their legacy? " .

I DOWN— 1. a root 2. *not written 3. a street in Petone 5. things you got with downs 6. the end of the.finger aiid the support of the house 7. coinage used extensively in America. S. useful for razors. 9. a kind of juice 11. meaning ''new" famous as part of the name of a ship. 12. things we hate doing 15. beautiful ladies famous in fairy- * tales . . 17. to waste away; also the name of a tree • 18. the tree itself 21. To take a little drink ■22. to be putt in front of a word so that it will have the opposite meaning 23. boil them and you get two cclebreated entertainers 24. where the sluggard was told to go--28. betwixt which and the cup was many a slip 31. Add butter and you have a flower 34. Compositions of David 35. eaten by babes 36. a bone in the arm 37. an article much objected to by the good people of Boston. 38. possible the most common word in English. 39. sometimes it Thymes, but more often it doesn't. 40. in. here and in there 41. used in poetry to mean wind 45. a cry of sorrow 46. a bound; sometimes dizzy or frozen 49. ' a dwelling place 50. a kind of lift 52. unless in a foreign tongue 53. the little one was blue 5 k we fll travelled in one once 50. a useful part of machinery; also a river in England SS. a common set of letters often found after the name of an accountant.

* CROSS— 1. name of a fable celebrated in old y times. 4. applied to a lamb (see Bible) 8. not easy t 10. -what "vve experience when we go to : the dentist's. . 12. Avhat comes before to-morrow 1(5. tire plant from which, we get a dye 20. something that- in grammar is called "gender" 21. crime 23. '' pro nobis'' 25. an international uncle 2(i. a little piece of floor covering 27. he has gone 2!>. something that is mightier than the sword 30. part of a notice often seen in an emptj r house 32. the name of a book by Kipling 33. and this is what the game cause* 35. what you do before you take 38. a discreditable ancestor 42. not dark in colour 43. a standard; a word much used by scientists 44. a little bit 47. a kind of soup— rather thick 48. a river in Great Britain—associated with Mary in poem 49. a very curious word, used for Hullo. 51. often misused for laid 54. the accompaniment of pans 55. to imitate 57. applied to, a girl who is a kind of hoy 58. something that caused trouble in. a garden 59. second part of the name" of a famous picture 60. what all those who sit for examshope to do" 61. character of the mouse 62. "in a beautiful "