Part 1 — THE GIRL'S OWN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS COMPETITION.
Reading edition
Readers will find full particulars of this Competition—in which everyone has a chance of winning either a prize or a certificate, and the certainty of largely adding to her stock of information—by turning back to page 14.
Questions 25-36.
25. Who was the monarch who once attended a rehearsal of his own funeral?
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26. What is the largest palace in the world used as a residence?
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27. What is the exercise most conducive to physical beauty?
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28. What was the first street ever lit by gas?
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29. How fast can one read, when reading silently?
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30. What famous philanthropist was known as the "Nightingale of the House of Commons"?
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31. How many hours a day should we give to sleep?
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32. What is the most famous signal ever made to the British navy?
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33. What useful discovery was made by lighting a fire on the sand and using pieces of natron (sub-carbonate of soda) to support the cooking-pot?
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34. What are the "Borrowed Days" and how do they come by their name?
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35. What is the simplest and least troublesome of all cookery processes?
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36. Are there any extinct volcanoes in Great Britain?
The answers to the above questions, Nos. 25-36, together with the answers to questions 37-48, which are yet to appear, must be sent in on or before January 27, 1899.
Address to The Editor, The Girl's Own Paper Office, 56, Paternoster Row, London, E.C., and at the left-hand top corner of the envelope or wrapper write the words "Questions Competition."