A £100 WAR-PUZZLE CONTEST.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1410, 12 June 1915, Page 4

A £IOO WAR-PUZZLE CONTEST.

The editor of Everylady’s Journal has hit upon an ingenious scheme, which combines instruct tion with amusement—a warpuzzle contest along original lines, with in prizes. The editor has issued a list of some thousands of places that have come into more or less prominence in the war zone, these places being chosen from maps published in The Times History of the War in volume form, and therefore authentic. At the head of the names in each country is a brief explanation of the principles governing their pronunciation, with the correct pronunciation given in brackets after the place. This puzzle-list is worth obtaining if for no other purpose than that of knowing how these various names should be pronounced. The amusement, however, ir connection with this prize puzzle contest lies in the fact that each month nine ot these places will be represented in Everylady’s Journal in picture form, till the contest closes. The person who interprets correctly the greatest number of pictures will receive a cash prize of ,£SO, whilst over 100 other prizes in cash and kind bring the total prize money up to / too. The first set of puzzle pictures appears in Kverylady’s Journal for June, and any reader of this paper may enter for the competition who buys the magazine locally' for sixpence. If unobtainable, send 3s in postal notes to T. Shaw Fitchett, 376 Swanstou Street, Melbourne, and the magazine will reach you every month by post for a halt-year. The June issue of Kverylady’s Journal, it might be added, is an excellent number of this popular woman’s magazine. One of its leading features is a symposium on the question of whether the war should stop the amusement of women —dancing, tenuis, hockey, attendance at football matches, and so forth. To this question such noted people as Madame Melba, Chief Justice Madden, Dr Fitchett, Admiral Creswell, etc., reply.