Intellect Sharpeners

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21698, 13 January 1934, Page 5 (Supplement)

Intellect Sharpeners

BY C: J. WHEREFORE

ANAGRAM

In the lines given below the three spaces are to be filled with words composed of the same five letters. ' , Afy dear, have you heard how a certain Will Shakespeare Offended Elizabeth sadly at court 4 , When out of her pocket fiho drew forth an album Demanding a of the wittießt sort? But Madame, he answered, I'd willingly you. And now I am mute for one reason alone, The fact, is I'm not ir tho habit of writing The plays you have seen me produce as my own. , Believe mo, I write what my own mind devises. And hero is your book with my • poem as well, . ' I don't wont to our ties of niTection, So may I succeed where the other man fell. '

BASKET OF ROSES Miss Black is preparing to call on her friend, Miss "White, and is taking to her a basket containing 15 roses. While she is out of the room her brother removes three of them, and substitutes three others specially selected by himself. If Miss White afterwards takes three roses out of the 15 and wears them, what are the chances that all three which she wears are those sent to her by her admirer? The three roses do not differ in any way from the others, so there are no reasons why these should be taken in preference to the others.

SCHOOLBOY'S DIFFICULTIES A boy learning arithmetic at school is in the habit of writing one of the numerals so illegibly that his instructor cannot read them. He is kept in and given a sum to work out. which consists of multiplying together four numbers. Two of these are 33 and 13. One of the others 'is the square of the numeral which has been written so badly and tho other contains this offending numeral in the unit's place. Which of the numerals has brought the arithmetician into trouble?

FORWARD*OR BACKWARD

A lorry is proceeding along a country road with a velocity of 10 miles an hour. One man is sitting right at .the back and" another near the front, just behind the driver, so that the distance between them is 7 l-3ft. The man at the back asks the other for a match, and his friend throws j- box across to him. The box passes from one hand to the other in half a second. Is that matchbox, while it is in mid-air between the two men, making progress in the direction in which the lorry is travelling or is it going in the reverse direction ?

SALE OF BOOKS A bookseller had some novelsvwhich he wished to sell quickly in order to make room for new stock. An advertisement was published offering to pay postage on any package containing three books, and in this manner the whole line was disposed of in 35 packages, each of which contained three books. Now these books were by several different authors, of which each had contributed the same number. The 35 packages each contained books . by three different authors, and no two of them contained all three books by the same three authors. The problem is to discover by how many different authors were these books written.

Another problem arising out of the first, is to find the effect of changing the number of books in the parcels from three to four?

QUESTION OF EXPENDITURE Four men and their wives went to the same establishment to do some shopping, but each individual attended to his or her own business quite independently of the others. The total sum spent was £3 4s, William and Isabella, who went to the drapery department at the same time, spent the largest amount, namely 19s. Ferdinand and Mary were in the hardware department at the same time, and they spent the smallest amount, namely 13s. The amount spent by Charles and Philippa was 2s more than that spent by Edward and Henrietta. The result, however, was that the expenditure of each of the four married pairs was exactly the same. Which woman is the wife of each of the four men mentioned ?

LAST WEEK'S SOLUTIONS History in Charade.—Forgive. Dancing Class.—There are 5,080,320 ways of arranging them. In a Wool Store. —There are several solutions, nut the only one applicable is that there were 4-1 fleeces in tho lighter bale and the woolpack weighed lOlbs. Puzzle in Stamps. —Five dozen at twopence, 25 dozen at a penny, and 2 dozen at twopence halfpenny. In the second case the numbers of stamps are 50, 250, and 52. Armchair Problems.—(l) S years. descent, 1 hour 20 min, time on summit, 20min. (4) The watch keeps accurate time tor 10 hours after winding then loses 12 seconds per honr.

EXTRAVAGANT WOMAN

WIFE TO PAY £72 1 ' DRESS BILL A wife who, it was stated, had bought clothes without her husband's permission, was successfully sued for £72 18s 7d in the West London County Court recently. The defendant was Mrs. Helen Mack-low-Smith, of Westcliif-on-Sea. There was an alternative claim against tho husband, Mr. A. Macklow-Smith, civil engineer. ' On behalf of plaintiffs it was stated that Mrs. Macklow-Smith, in July, opened a credit account, and in 24 days bought goods to the amount of the claim. The account, it w«S stated, included items for lipstick, a .cliilfou two-piece suit and a crepe de chine gown. x Mr. Macklow-Smith, in the witness box, said he had forbidden his wife to incur any debts and he did not know that she" had opened a credit account. She had an income of .£205 a year and she had arranged with him to pay for. her own clothes.

'■ Tlio Judge, i» giving judgment for the amount claimed against Mrs. Mack-low-Sniith, said t lie re was not the slightest doubt that tlio account was extravagant.