THE "JIGSAW "CRAZE.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 523, 2 June 1909, Page 3

THE "JIGSAW "CRAZE.

'British society runs after new things, lik©' any, Greek. Its latest craze is' for'" jigsawsl".: You will not find 'the-term "jigsaw" res'olved in Webster, or Johnstonj or any other dictionary, so let'me mention without further parley, preface or preliminary, that it'is a generic name for. any .sort of puzzlo. One Anno'/Austen has opened in a fashionableMayfair 'street'-what she calls a "Jigsaw Exchange." ; It is said to fie the most popular resort iti, London .this season; .To An'ne, Austen's Exchange flock all of any.social importance. There they exchange' the . which they have riddled the night before. for fresh ones, and straightway dash wildly off with their.?Jiew : acquisitions':'anxiously.; scrutinising' •the same as they.dash. .'Sometimes.they dash out' so blindly that they dash against folk coming in, and then there is a crash. People who aroiin'the'country" or'yachting ibolorig.to l the Exchange- a?i they might belong to a nb-rairy-Trpayiilg ■ up to . five guineas for a six months' havo, the puzzles te.them : by-post. ,Tho latter, run in.jail, brands';.;from stiff, algebraical problems' for' ■ assailinent by' Cabinet '.Ministers'','.;company, promoters,,', etc.7 to ;easy propositions of the "Where : was. Moses, when'thp,. light : went out?" order,'"for jttie '',• benefit'of .morphinomaniacal duchesses. The difficulty is to find' an honest and Reliable referee competent an,d : willing to give'judgment' between contending jigsaw ."solver's;-/ A painful story, is going the rounds .of a' hpuse-party':iembroglio..which arose as a result of fourteen different guests, male and female, explaining one puzzlo. in .fourteen different .wajs.':.' Thp. third .footman, .who wassekcted owing to his brain :rjower to' arbitrate ih the matter,; gave a.decision, and..it<was' afterwards -discovered- that ho stood in with-the winner. Now there is talk of the entire household being "warned : off" Anne Austen's Exchange for the remainder of th'b-seasori:— ' V'