OUR PUZZLE CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 19840, 14 May 1927, Page 22 (Supplement)

OUR PUZZLE CORNER

Here is another word-building puzzle for yon children. The five little couplets given below will each suggest to you some word which is often used. A.ll the words are made up of the same letters, and if you turn the letters about properly, you will soon find the words. 1. To gaze with horror or surprise. To look with fixed, wide-open eyes. 2. Grief and sorrow wo betray; We ’re. not there when you are gay. 3. “Weeds” folk cry, and make much ado. So we are, but we’re useful too. 4. Taxes we arc, and nobody likes us; Not even the folk who have to collect us. 5. A cheery flower, in colour white, Or yellow, pink, or purple bright. Answers: I. Stare; 2. Tears; 3. Tares; 4, rates; 5. Aster. His Champion Story. “And did he live to tell the talc?” asked a listener, after the story of a man’s amazing adventure had been told. “Oh, yes!” replied the story-teller. “And he has done nothing else since.*’ Off His Guard. “I say, old chap, didn’t I borrow pounds of you last week?” “No, you didn’t.” “How careless of me! Could you let me have it now?” The average height at which migrating birds fly is 350 ft. There’ are still eight countries in the world without railroads. In Lancashire there is U superstition or belief among the miners that if they have a bath it is unwise to wash the back. There is a deep-rooted impression that this would cause weakness. I The model liners th'at are shown in the windows of shipping offices may have cost anything up to £4,000. They arc outwardly true scale models of the vessels they portray. A fibre rope that is unsinkable has been produce’d in Holland. The rope includes a core of “foam rubber” that has a specific gravity only one-fourth as great as that of cork. Wedding trousseaux for well-to-do brides, which formerly included dozens of garments of wool and cotton, can now be packed into a fair-sized suitcase. As crepe de chine has replaced the cotton and wool, however, the’ cost is much the same as it was.