THE OLD TRUNK
Reading edition
This department we believe is destined soon to become one of the most popular features of the magazine. Not only shall we spare no pains upon our part, but we also earnestly ask your co-operation in providing puzzles of all shapes and descriptions to bewilder and tangle the most ingenious of intellects. To each of the first three persons who shall correctly solve all the following puzzles, we will give a year’s subscription to Young Folks Magazine, to be sent to any desired address.
The following are the names of the first three persons to solve correctly the puzzles in last month’s number and who are, therefore, each entitled to a year’s subscription to Young Folks Magazine:
Amabel Jenks, Lawrence Park, Bronxville, New York.
Ethel Olive Bogert, 85 West 34th St., Bayonne, N. J.
Flora H. Towne, 178 Francisco St., Chicago, Ill.
Perfect solutions were also received from many other young people and, as we offer the same inducement for this month, we hope to hear from them again.
The correct answers are given below.
1. Feldspar.
2. Independence Hall.
3. Kinglet.
Bluejay.
Robin.
Blackbird.
Crow.
Woodthrush.
4. Alice in Wonderland.
5. Saratoga.
6. Beaver.
Bear.
Weasel.
Puma.
Deer.
Otter.
Seal.
Ferret.
Elk.
7. Donkey.
Turnkey.
Monkey.
Whiskey.
Lackey.
Turkey.
AQUARIUM
In each of the following sentences are three fish. Can you catch them?
With difficulty she found her ring among the array of carpets.
The multitudes harkened: the vesper chimes had sounded.
So, leaving Elba’s shore, they turned the ship’s keel homeward.
—Flora Linwood.
DIAGONAL
When you have guessed correctly the following eight-letter words and placed them one above the other in the order given, the diagonal from upper left to lower right-hand corner will spell the name of one of the very first men to explore America.
An inscription.
A kind of force.
A system for conveyance.
Quiet.
Agreeable.
A species of monkey.
Kinship.
A charm.
—Warren Lee.
TWISTED RIVERS
The names of the following rivers do not run as smoothly as they might. Can you straighten them?
Nnmgaahoeol.
Nkyou.
Zaanom.
Heirn.
Lodacoor.
—Burt L. Watson.
ENIGMA
I am composed of eighteen letters. My 9-16-2 is that which covers the greater part of the world. My 3-6-8 is an abbreviation and a title. My 15-4-12-18 is something from which water is obtained. My 1-10-15-4-17 is a gem. My 11-7-13-18 is to quiet. My 5-14-12-4 is part of a shoe. My whole is a well known author.
—Edith Irene.
My number, definite and known, Is ten times ten told ten times o’er; One-half of me is one alone, The other exceeds all count and score. —Selected.
DOUBLE CROSSWORD ENIGMA
In bump not in hurt, In deep not in dirt In alas not in cry In rare not in nigh, A fruit and an animal here you find If to think and to search you are inclined. —Ruth.