Part 1 — THE GIRL'S OWN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPETITION.
Reading edition
For particulars as to this interesting Competition, in which every reader will find it for her advantage to take part, see page 14 (No. 979).
Questions 13-24.
13. When did the pianoforte first come into use?
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14. What is the most polite nation in the world?
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15. What is the nearest star to the earth?
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16. What philosopher of antiquity married a shrew?
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17. What flower, in the middle of the seventeenth century, became the subject of a popular mania?
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18. What is the best soil on which to build a house?
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19. Did anyone ever swim across the Channel from England to France?
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20. What great lady once in a temper cut off her long and beautiful hair and flung it in her husband's face?
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21. What is the origin of the name foolscap as applied to paper of a certain size?
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22. Have flowers ever been used as time-keepers?
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23. What famous relic of antiquity on its way to this country nearly found its last resting-place at the bottom of the sea?
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24. Who was the famous carrier who gave rise to a proverb by always making his customers take the horse nearest the stable door?
The Answers to these Questions, Nos. 13-24, together with the answers to questions 1-12, which have already appeared, must be sent in on or before the 30th of December, 1898.