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Show Novelty Watch BY WALTER KING jyjAKE this novelty yourself from a piece of cardboard about 24 Inches square and a brass paper clip, the kind shown In the picture. pic-ture. Draw a watch in ink on the cardboard making the dial of the watch slightly larger than the full THE WATCH PUZZLE PAPfl CUP USED FOR PQ1HTER I- . h stretch of the two arms of the paper clip when opened out. Push the two points of the clip from the back of the card through a hole made in the center of the watch. Open out the arms of the clip to form two hands which make a straight line and cut the dial in two. " , The problem now is to move the hands around so that they cut the dial into two halves which contain numbers adding up to the same total, 39. Solution: The hands should cut between 9 and 10 and between 3 and 4. Logical . When Mr. rsrown returned from his day's work in the city, he found his 8-year-old son, Harvey, riding his new bicycle while his 6-year-old sister Betsy ran wearily wear-ily along beside him. "Harvey," cried Mr. Brown, indignant in-dignant at his son's selfishness, "please explain why your sister must run along beside you while you keep on riding?" Harvey replied: "Because Betsy doesn't have a bicycle," he answered. |