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  2. BRAIN BRIGHTENERS WHAT IS IT?

    This gives clues to a thing with which we are all familiar: In marble walls as white as milk, Lined with curtains soft as silk; ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  3. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 292 words
  4. THE WINNING: ENTRY.

    Two men, A and B, are in a rowing boat. A rope 50ft. long extends from each man to a pier. ...

    Article : 120 words
  5. Advertising

    {No abstract available}

    Advertising : 400 words
  6. RELATIVELY SIMPLE.

    Two Italians entered a restaurant.One was the father of the other Italian's son. What was their relationship? ...

    Article : 23 words
  7. TREE'S HEIGHT.

    A tree is 12ft. when it is planted. It grows 3ft. in the first year, 2½ft. in the second year, 2ft. ½in. in the third year, and so on, each year growing l-6th less ...

    Article : 58 words
  8. TACKLE IT!

    All this represents one-word. Take good notice of the plus and minus signs and of what the drawings represent, and then see if you can get the word that means ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 61 words
  9. TRAIN TRICK.

    Two trains—one 400ft. long and another 200ft. long-travel on parallel rails. When they run in opposite directions they pass each other in five seconds but when ...

    Article : 66 words
  10. CURTAILED ADDITION.

    What is it from which you cut a piece off the end to make it longer? ...

    Article : 24 words
  11. ARTFUL DODGER.

    A man became such a regular I.O.U. customer at a hotel that the proprietor, tired of writing out the list each week "A Word To The Wise" will be ...

    Article : 98 words
  12. TILE LAYING.

    A man bought 24 coloured tiles, each 6in. square, comprising four each of the colours red, green, orange, grey, vellow and blue. With these tiles he set out a ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 74 words
  13. WHICH CRASHED?

    Suppose Perth and Melbourne to be 2,000 air miles apart. One aeroplane leaves Perth at the same time as another leaves Melbourne and both are on ...

    Article : 59 words
  14. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES.

    The gardener divided the plot in this way:— The shortest way for the policeman to go from the point B in his round of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 387 words
  15. MONEY MOVEMENTS.

    Can you form these six pennies into a circle in three'moves? Each coin moved must touch two other coins. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 27 words
  16. BRAIN BRIGHTENERS.

    Most people have stored away in their memory a pet puzzle that they "put over" their friends on appropriate occasion. Send ...

    Article : 108 words
  17. WHAT'S THIS?

    I fly high, I fly low; I wear boots yet have none. What am I? ...

    Article : 23 words
  18. AIRWAY SERVICES. Maylands Airport.

    GASCOYNE, from Daly Waters. 12.30 p.m., MacRobertson, Miller Aviation Co., agents. MEEKATHARRA, from Wiluna and Kalgoorlie, 3.60 p.m. Airlines, Ltd. ...

    Article : 60 words
  19. WISDOM AND WINE.

    A man had a dishonest servant who used to help herself to his wine. The bottles went with uncanny regularity and at last the man decided to set a trap. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 155 words
  20. SHIPS and SHIPPING PORT OF FREMANTLE.

    BULLAREN, m.s., 5,722 tons, from Adelaide (7.15 a.m. at F abed). Elder, Smith and Co., Ltd., agents. ARKABA, s.s., 4,212 tons, from Newcastle, ...

    Article : 265 words
  21. DEPARTURES.

    ASHBURTON, for Daly Waters, 10 a.m. MacRobertson, Miller Aviation Co. June 25. BUNGANA, for Adelaide, 6.45 a.m. Orient ...

    Article : 65 words
  22. MAIL STEAMER MOVEMENTS.

    {No abstract available}

    Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 words
  23. TRY THIS, WIVES.

    Husbands who earn £2/15/ a week are more or less fortunate; so are their wives. You may ask why; here is the reason. It is possible for such men to give the whole ...

    Article : 66 words
  24. DEPARTURES.

    SPEYBANK, m.s.,5,154 tons, for Sydney and Queensland (7.30 a.m.). Wm. Crosby' and Co., pty., Ltd., agents. DUNTROON, m.s., 10,335 tons, for Adelaide, ...

    Article : 220 words
  25. MISSING LINK.

    This is a sentence or six words, One letter is missing, and it recurs ten times to make the passage readable. What is the missing letter and the resulting ...

    Article : 37 words
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