Here is a hint for fun in the home circle, with a basket of eggs, a sheaf of pencils, and a prize for the best rapid design. There is room for two contrasting faces on each egg.
ANSWERS BY ANAGRAM
What did “Henry Wadsworth Longfellow” do for America?
He Won half the New World’s glory.
What was the happy result of patriotic “sentiment” in our colonies during the Boer war?
It sent men.
No. XCIII.—THE FIVE STRAWS
Take five straws, each about four inches long, and a shilling, and arrange them so that by holding an end of one of the straws you can lift them all.
The diagram given above shows how, by properly interlacing the five straws, the shilling may be so inserted as to form a wedge which locks them all together.