I. New DIAMOND. Cures. 4. Chute. 5. Alibi. 6. Terns. 7. Loose. 8. Dance. 9. GEOGRAPHICAL ZIGZAG. North Carolina. Cross-words: ANSWERS TO ALL THE PUZZLES IN THE MARCH NUMBER were received before March to from Judith Ames Marsland-" Midwood"-R. ANSWERS TO PUZZLES IN THE MARCH NUMBER were received before March 10 from Robert L. Moore, 7-Ruth Adele Ehrich, 7-Ralph P. Barnard, 8-M. W. Johnstone, 8-Margaret Thurston, 7-Agnes L. Thomson, 8-Isabelle M. Craig, 7-Harmon B., James C., Glen T. Vedder, 7-Nellie Adams, 7-Philip Franklin, 8-Dorothy Belle Goldsmith, 8-Courtland Weeks, 7-Florence S. Carter, 7-Thankful Bickmore, 8-Theodore H. Ames, 7-Mrs. W. G. Hafford, 7-Gladys S. Conrad, 3-Margaret B. Silver, 3-Horace L. Weller, 2-Guy R. Turner, 6-Elizabeth B. Williams, 3-Claire Hepner, 6-Elizabeth J. Parsons, 2-Janet B. Fine, 4-John Martin, 3-Mary Lorillard, 2-Katharine L. Drury, 2-Dorothy Bowman, 5-Edna R. Meyle, 4-Henry Seligsohn, 5-Elizabeth Heinemann, 3-Kathryn Lyman, 5-Emily L. Abbott, 5George B. Cabot, 4-Joseph B. Kelly, 5. ANSWERS TO ONE PUZZLE were received from M. F.-F. C. S.-H. F.-E. E.-L. R.-W. E.-E. T.-D. W.-M. Y. R.-B. K.-W. L.B. H.-G. R.-B. B.-M. D.-M. B.-B. M. NUMERICAL ENIGMA I AM composed of fifty-two letters and form a quotation from Lowell. My 24-15-52-7-30-37 is a clown. My 35-1-26-8-2851 is empty pride. My 12-5-20-42-10-39-3-21 is a rambling composition. My 16-40-13-48-27-25-44 is non-professional. My 33-18-17-29-32-11-31-43-49 is formed. My 19-34-45-36-23-9-46 is protection. My 38-50-4 is the call of a bird. My 14-6-2 is flowed. My 22-47-41 makes a winter sport. ESTHER DEMPSEY (age 16), League Member. CHARADE My first is a creature decidedly small, PRIMAL ACROSTIC OF CONCEALED NAMES (Silver Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition) IN each of the following sentences a feminine name is concealed. When rightly guessed and written one below another, the primals will spell the name of a president of the United States. 1. That teacher made linear measure seem easy. 2. She wore a bonnet tied with blue ribbon. 3. The odor is very sweet. 4. Pedro sees the monkey. 5. The lean organ-grinder begged for money. 8. The man handed him a license. (Silver Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition) EXAMPLE: Triply behead and quadruply curtail unimportant, and leave consumed. Answer, imm-ate-rial. In the same way behead and curtail: 1. Simple, and leave human beings. 2. Inflammatory, and leave an aim. 3. A period of forty days, and leave hastened. 4. A manager of another's affairs, and leave a despicable fellow. 5. According to the principles of mathematics, and leave to edge. 6. Control, and leave maturity. 7. Written names of persons, and leave a boy's nickname. 8. Relevancy, and leave a metal. 9. Pertaining to parts under the skin, and leave a kind of lyrio poem. 10. Pierced with holes, and leave a preposition. 11. Continuous bendings, and leave a large tub. 12. To free from prejudices, and leave an epoch. 13. Pertaining to a phonotype, and leave a negative adverb. 14. Wavers, and leave evil. 15. Unsettled, and leave a vehicle. 16. Monarchs, and leave before. The remaining words are all of the same length and their initial letters spell the title of a play by Shakspere. FANNIE RULEY (age 14). TRANSPOSITIONS (Silver Badge, St. Nicholas League Competition) EXAMPLE: Transpose to forfeit, and make part of a shoe. Answer, lose, sole. insect. 11. Part of a window, and make part of the neck. 12. Part of a doorway, and make misfortunes. 13. A sound, and make a memorandum. 14. To whip, and make a game. The initial letters of the new words will spell the name of an English poet. MARGARET WADDELL (age 13). I. UPPER LEFT-HAND SQUARE: 1. Speed. 2. A Greek letter. 3. A twig. 4. A pronoun. 5. Earnest. II. UPPER DIAMOND: 1. In prestige. 2. Uninteresting. 3. Immense. 4. An animal. 5. In prestige. III. UPPER RIGHT-HAND SQUARE: 1. In an automobile. 2. A fruit. 3. Fatigues. 4. Open to view. 5. Musical signs. IV. LEFT-HAND DIAMOND: 1. In prestige. 2. A drinking vessel. 3. Sin. 4. To work steadily. 5. In prestige. V. CENTRAL DIAMOND: 1. In prestige. 2. A period of time. 3. Snares. 4. To imitate. 5. In prestige. VI. RIGHT-HAND DIAMOND: I. In prestige. card. 3. Panic. 4. Before. 5. In prestige. 2. A VII. LOWER LEFT-HAND SQUARE: 1. To stop the progress of. 2. To be sufficient. 3. Tests. 4. Public. 5. Plagues. 5. In VIII. LOWER DIAMOND: 1. In prestige. 2. A mineral spring. 3. A garden tool. 4. To join to. prestige. IX. In the same way transpose: 1. To weary, and make a dress. 2. To wander, and make above. 3. Naked, and make an animal. 4. A residence, and make a direction. 5. A minute orifice in a body, and make a stout cord. 6. Recent, and make a story. 7. Apparel, and make to boast. 8. Dreadful, and make a kind of excursion. 9. Answers the purpose, and make poems of a 2. Permission. certain kind. 10. Handles awkwardly, and make a winged Tears. LOWER RIGHT-HAND SQUARE: 1. Transparent. 3. Consumed. 4. To turn aside. THE DE VINNE PRESS, NEW YORK 5. MARJORIE K. GIBBONS (age 15). ST. NICHOLAS VOL. XXXIX JULY, 1912 No. 9 FOR THE PENNANT OR, BATTLE-SHIPS AT TARGET-PRACTICE EVERY boy who reads this might have been rather Some of the ordnance men in the department probably felt that way about it. At any rate, they would not believe it. But President Roosevelt, who knew a good deal about shooting, halfway believed it, and decided to find out for sure. He ordered some special tests made to try out the shooting, and, sure enough, as good shooting goes, they could n't shoot! Our fine gunners, of whom we have the right to feel proud, no longer shoot at a bull's-eye. Like Buffalo Bill, they have moving targets; and battle practice, held each April and September, is as much like a real battle as it is possible to make it. At night practice, however, the targets are stationary. When the fleet goes to battle practice, to the Southern Drill Grounds, about 100 miles off Hampton Roads, it separates, for convenience, into divisions of four battle-ships each. Each division fires on separate ranges-or firing courses-about twenty miles apart. When the signal is received from the flag-ship, each division starts out in search of the “enemy.' After a division passes a ship known as the "range vessel," they get their first sight of the targets. A signal known as "general quarters" has been sounded on each ship, and every member of the ship's company has gone to his assigned "battle-station," which is the place to which he would be assigned in a real engagement. Old methods were quickly and thoroughly changed. What is known as "continuous aim,' that is, keeping the guns on the target all the time, instead of the old method of aiming them after they were loaded, soon became very popular. The number of "hits per minute" piled up so rapidly as to be almost unbelievable. This was smooth-water shooting, however. So when shooting in rough water was added to the re- The firing vessels are not allowed to know the quirements, the big scores took a tumble. But speed at which the targets are towed, or how far the former training had served the men splen- away they are. This must be mathematically didly. They had learned how to shoot rapidly. worked out. The course which must be followed So, with intense competition, the scores soon be- diverges enough from an exactly parallel course gan to grow again. To-day, from what we know to that made by the targets to necessitate workfrom foreign reports, our shooting is better than ing out new ranges every time the guns are fired. that of any other nation, and, in addition to this, At the battle practices, the ranges are often the distances of the targets are much greater. about 12,500 yards, or over seven miles-the Copyright, 1912, by THE CENTURY Co. All rights reserved. |