CHILDREN'S CORNER

Hutt News, Volume 1, Issue 5, 21 June 1928, Page 1

CHILDREN'S CORNER

TJNCLE BILL'S LETTER. Dear Children, —1 am sorry to say that few of you have so far written to me on the -subject of the doll's house that 1 mentioned to you last week. Well, there's no particular hurry for a little while. Mrs Uncle Bill has had the ceiling of the dining rooni papered, but has lent the ladder to the "Evening Post." If you look very hatd in that paper you will .find a laddergrani somewhere. Uncle Bill is very pleased that he was the first to introduce these fascinating puzzles to the children of Lower Hutt. Your poor old Uncle managed to get his feet very wet last night and is now , sitting with them in a bath of mustard and water. (Not mustard and cress). It is rather hard work typing in your bath. Try it, but do not let anyone see you, or they might think that'the typewriter will suffer. Mustard and water are not really good for typewriters, you know, they prefer oil. Mrs Uncle Bill thinks that the children of Lower Hutt are very slow! They evidently cannot write—perhaps writing i& not taught in the schools now. They cannot draw —not ,even water in a well. Poor children, they cannot do anything! Now why not show her that she is wrong? Who wants to see his name printed in this space as the author of the best letter on "GAMES"? Who wants to see HER name printed in this column as the authoress of the best letter to Mrs Uncle Bill on "What I do on Saturdays"? Let me whisper to you this piece of news, don't tell anybody, but a friend of Uncle Bill's will probably give a prize for the two best letters if there are a large number of them! Win a prize. Well, the mustard bath is getting rather cold, so I will leave it and you. Sit down right away and become fam- • ous as a writer (way) —Yours, UNCLE BILL. ANSWERS TO LAST WEEK'S PUZZLES. Sir Edwin do Tudor had sixty miles to ride. - . ; The average speed is twelve, miles an hour; not twelve and a-half as most people would think. In connection with the two aeroplanes, the man must have paid £500 and £750 for the two, but as he sold ; f them for £600 each, making a total of [ £1200 he lost £50 on the transaction. THIS WEEK'S PUZZLES. A country baker sent off his boy with a. message to the butcher in the next village and at the same time the butcher sent off HIS boy to the baker. One boy Tan faster than the other, and P.C. | Bigfopt saw them pass at a spot J720 yards from the baker's shop. Each stopped ten minutes at his destination,. and then started on the return journey, when it was found that they passed each" other at a spot 400 yards from the butcher's. How far apart are the tradesmen's shops? • •. *' • • A young lady of my acquaintance had three fragile teacups and challenged me to put ten lumps of sugar in them so that there would be an odd number of lumps in every cup. Can you do it? ■»-.'■» * • » A guest at a party asked someone to give him eleven pennies, which he placed in a group on the table. He then asked the guests to remove five coins from the eleven, add fouT coins and leave nine. We all thought that there were ten left, but we were wrong. What is the answer? * * * * * Nearly everybody knows that a Magic Square is an arrangement of numbers in the form of a square so that every row, every column, and each of the two diagonals adds up alike. You might, for instance, make each of the rows and columns and the two long diagonals add up to 34. Now the puzzle is to construct a magjc square of 9 squares so that each side etc. adds up to fifteen, but the figure 8 must appear i in the centre square of the top row.

I ■ : THE BOY WHO. DROVE THE SUN HOBSES. , This is a story I heard in the far I away sunny land of Greece. Countless years ago there lived in Greece a young, strong lad wbo.se name [ was Phaethon. He lived with his mo- ! ther on the edge of a fine big forest but his father, he did not know, because he was Apollo the god of _ the sun who each day drove the fiery horses of the sun across the sky. One day he set out to visit his father and after travelling all day up a steep and slippery mountain, he came to the palace of the sun and entered its golden gates. There he saw his father seated on his throne end on his head shone a crown of sun-rays so bright that Phaethon was almost blinded. His father was so overjoyed to see him that he promised the boy anything that he wished ±'ot. The boy jumped with excitement and wished to drive the sun chariot across the heavens. Because he had promised, his father let hinm go and jumping into the chariot, Phaethon drove out into the broad blue sky, but alas, he was only young and the horses, missing the strong hand of ApoHo, bolted, and flew so close to the world that green fields and hillsides, cities, big and small, were burned to cinders. Frightened lest the whole world would be destroyed, Jupiter, the chief of the Greek" Gods, hurled a thunderbolt at the horses to cheek them but it struck the terrified Phaethon on the shoulder and glistening with fire, he plunged into a wide grey river and was swallowed up in its cool waters.