Mind Sharpeners

Southland Times, Issue 22038, 10 June 1933, Page 19

Mind Sharpeners

Answers to the Mind Sharpeners appearing in the page on Saturday, May 27: Whats and Whys. 1. An umbrella. 2. The crust of the earth. 3. Thanks. 4. His foot. 5. Because he handles the ore (oar). 6. Tomato. (12 marks, 2 each.) Hidden Country Puzzle. Answer: Italy. (3 marks.) Balloons Puzzle. Planets, planet, plane, plan, pan, an, a. (3 marks.) Baking Puzzle. Stove. (2 marks.) “Swallowed” Puzzle: 1 Swallow, 2 wall, 3 wallow, 4 wallowed, 5 all, 6 allow, 7 allowed, 8 10, 9 low, 10 lowed, 11 owe, 12 owed, 13 we, 14 wed. (7 marks, J each.) Words in Two Letters. 1. Eyes (i i). 2. Wise (y y). 3. Ease (e e). 4. Edie (e d). 5. Katie (K T) or Ivy (I V) or Alice (L S). 6. Owes (o o). (3 marks, J each.) Poetry Puzzle. 1. Hickory, Dickory, Dock, The mouse ran up the Clock. (Nursery Rhyme by Thomas Heywood). 2. “I should like to rise and go „ Where the golden apples grow. (from “Travel” by Robert Louis Stevenson.) 3. “I sprang to the stirrups, and Jorris, and he; I galloped, Dirck galloped, we galloped all three.” (from “How They Brought the Good News from Ghent to Aix, by Robert Browning.) 4. “Many things Nokomis taught him Of the stars that shine in heaven.” (from “The Song of Hiawatha” by Longfellow.) 5. “Tiger! Tiger! burning bright, Through the forests of the night. (from “The Tiger,” by William Blake). 6. “’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” (from “The Visit from St. Nicholas” by Clement C. Moore.) 7. “‘O Oysters, come and walk with us!’ The Walrus did beseech.” (from “The Walrus and the “Carpenter” by Lewis Carroll.) 8. “The gingham dog and the calico cat, n Side by side on the table sat. (from “The Gingham Dog and the Calico Cat” by Eugene Fields.) 9. “Water, water everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” (from “The Ancient Mariner,” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.) 10. “The ploughman homeward plods his weary way, And leaves the world to darkness and to me.” (from Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. ) (30 marks, 2 for each added line, 1 for name of poem and author.) Quotation Puzzle. “Manners are the happy ways of doings things.” (5 marks.) Tree Puzzle. Hickory. (5 marks.) Midden Word Puzzle. Veil Acre Cafe Arch Team Inch Over Nest Answer is Vacation. (5 marks.) Word Exploration. You had no trouble this week, my cousins—tho words were fairly straightforward and easy. Only one cousin, however, actually identified the sturgeon as the fish whose roe forms the basis of that great delicacy, caviar—that was Cousin Nancy Stevens, who also discovered that it was also used in making isinglass. (30 marks.) Results. Cousin Edith Mclnnes 91J ” Molly Hynd 91 ” Margaret Jellyman 86 ” Aileen Henderson 82| ” Pat Henderson 821 ” Peggy Hodge 71 ” Nancy Stevens 68 ” Zoe Smith 63 j ” Phyllis Rule 63 ” Lilian Todd 624 ” Harry Smith 55 ” Pattie Smith 49 ” Daphne Shields 484 ” Violet Robertson 48J ” Ellen Donnell 31 ’’ Agnes Stewart 15j ” Evelyn Saunders 7 Comments. The majority of you found these puzzles particularly easy this week, the poetry one, of course, giving the most trouble—the only one nobody guessed being the sixth one. It surprised me that quite a lot of you had trouble with the two-letter puzzle, due to a misunderstanding of what was required, I think. You are very painstaking, cousins, and the amount of pains you take fills me with admiration. Please do not cramp the answers —this makes the markin'* so much more difficult for me. Leave space between each puzzle. —COUSIN BETTY.