Evening star., 1942-02-10

keep moving at steady walk over
the targets. Who ever heard Of a
Flying Fortress parking on a cloud
bank?
While his mind is on planes, pose
him this problem. A bombing pilot
has flown 10 miles at speed of 100
miles an hour. How fast must he
fly the next 10 miles in order to
have an average speed of 200 miles
an hour for the 20 miles?
Unless he get AS in math, he's
likely to answer 300 miles an hour.
'Taint so! If our pilot has flown
10 miles at 100 m.p.h., it has taken
him six minutes. But in order to
average 200 m.ph. for 20 miles, he'd
have to cover the whole 20 miles in
six minutes. Therefore he can't pos
sibly attain that average, no matter
how fast he flies the second 10
miles.
Next, get out deck of cards, select
three aces, three deuces and three
treys and arrange them like this
1928
312
231
Show him that the sum of each
vertical and each horizontal line is
six. One diagonal also adds up to
six: the other doesn't. Ask him to
move only three cards and fix things
so all the rows total six. He'll prob
ably wrinkle his brow a bit and do a
lot OF shifting, but the answer is
really very simple. Just move the
whole bottom row Of cards I'D to the
top!
And here's a guessing stunt which
we saw everybody 60 down on at a
recent party. Give your victim
piece of string about feet long, and
tell him to arrange it in an oval on
the floor so that it corresponds to
your waist measurement. Then pick
up the string and check the result
against the actual distance around
your equator.
This is your chance to pretend
to be terribly, terribly insulted, for
he'll probably guess you into the
stylish stout class. But he'd be just
as far off if he tried it on his own
midrif, simply because a length of
string on the floor is very deceptive
business.
If he's not sufficiently beaten down
by this time, try him on the prob
lem of the Arab and his horses. An
Arab died and left an estate of II
horses, specifying that his eldest
son was to receive one half of his
possessions, his middle son a third,
and his youngest son one-ninth.
How did the boys divide up the
horses without calling in the
butcher?
The answer? Well they just bor-
rowed a horse. giving them a total of
l8. Then each son took his frac-
tional share of the estate. One boy
got nine horses zone halD, another
got six (one-third) and the last got
two Zone ninth. The total was II
horses, so they returned the bor-
rowed nag, and everybody was salts
fled.
You Ask-We Answer.
@. I am a girl of Is, and for more
than a year 1 have been corre-
spending with boy met at sea-
side resort. He always signs his let
ters with such sentimental express
sions as Love and Kisses" Love
Always" etc. I don't like this and
have scolded him for it many times.
For while he stops, then goes back
to using them again. How can I
make him change this, or should I
just let it go? BETTY.
A.. Try asking him to stop using
the expressions as a favor to you, ex-
planning that you'd feel far better
about the situation if he would. This
is more likely to get results than
your scolding-he might do some
thing for you when he wouldn't do
it as a result OF reprimand.
If this doesn't work, and you feel
strongly enough about it to take ex-
treme measures, you can always tell
him that you won't be able to con-
tinue the correspondence if he
doesn't ease up on the sweet talk.