RIDDLES
Q: When is snow untruthful! A: When it lies. Q: Why is wireless like a flower? A: Because it fades. Q: When is a king not a king? A: When he is a sovereign. Q: Which rose never dies? ' A: The rose of a watering-can. (Sent by Betty Howard, Timaru.) FUN WITH BROWN PAPER A good deal of amusement may be had from a piece of thick woolly brown paper. Warm the paper, place it on the table, and then brush it briskly in one direction with a clothes brush or the sleeve of your coat. Now hold the paper near your nose, and you will feel a cobwebby sensation, due to the electricity that has been generated on the surface of the paper. If you do this in the dark where everything is still you will see a spark pass between the paper and your nose, and will hear the crack. Electrify the paper again in the same way and place it against the walL It will adhere without falling. Another experiment with the electrified paper Is to draw a ping-pong ball along a polished wooden table, by the attraction of the electrified paper, without allowing the paper to touch the ball. An interesting game can be arranged by having two balls and two players, with electrified sheets of brown paper, who compete in a race of the balls across the table.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 13 (Supplement)
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234RIDDLES Timaru Herald, Volume CXLII, Issue 20587, 28 November 1936, Page 13 (Supplement)
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