Life — November 14, 1912 — page 12: what you’re looking at

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2192 ‘LIP E : Winners of the Twenty-five Dollar Prizes H ERE are the questions propounded in Lirs’s xamination Paper and the separate answers de- cided to be the best of those sent in; also the names and addresses of the successful contestants: 1, Should a suffragette marry? Certainly not. not his ordeal. Awnprew R. Marker, Box 51, Mackay, Ipano, A man’s wife should be his ideal, 2. If Diogenes were searching America for an honest man, where would he be least likely to find him? In the admiring circle around the new baby. Mitticent Otmsten, 13502 Superior Avenue, East CLevetann, Onno, 3. Who invented the hobble skirt and why? Man, when he became alarmed by the enormous strides forward that modern woman was beginning to take. Stopparp Kine, 354 Yate Station, New Haven, Conn. 4. A man of marriageable age has sufficient income to maintain a wife or an automobile, but not both. Which should he choose and why? Both, if he wants them. Nobody goes without either of these necessities simply because he can't afford them. Watter Powers, 209 Wasuincton Street, Bosto: Mass. 5. What is the funniest thing in the world? A woman breaking laws to prove to the world that she is capable of making them. Saran F. Waters, Sacem, Mass. 6. Give a good example of perpetual motion. Tides ebb and flood, suns rise and set, And likewise so do hens; But a woman's tongue is never still, Its motion never ends. J. E. Linpsay, Jr, 707 Lincoi Pa. 7. Suggest a better name for Reno, Nev. The City of Otherly Love. Minott A, Osnorn, 239 Bravtey St., New Haven, Geratp W. Jounxsox, Lexincton, N. C. S. Define common sense. Drive, Germantown, Common sense is what I have and what you have not. It is the husband’s refuge, the terror of socialism and the education of the illiterate. F, Le Ror Maris, Witttamstows, Mass. 9. Why is it dangerous to marry a widow! It is dangerous to marry a widow, because to the guile of woman she has added the cussedness of man. Henry W. Jones, Box 75, Cuester, Pa. 10. How would you spend a million dollars to do the least possible good? Getting into society, because if I spent all the mil- lion getting there I couldn't stay. Stopparo Kino, 354 Yate Station, New Haven, Co serve the s T° seven of these contestants, checks for twenty-five dollars each have already been forwarded. It will be noticed that two contest- ants sent the same answer to question number seven, so the prize in that in- stance has been divided. One contestant sent the successful answers to questions numbers three and ten, and therefore wins two of the twenty-five dollar prizes. This contin- gency was provided for in the prelimi- nary announcements of the contest. In some cases there were other an- swers somewhat similar to those finally selected. In such instances the judges chose the answer which, in wording, brevity or some other qual- ity seemed to them better than the others. As stated last week, a number of Papers were thrown out because’ they arrived too late or because their send- ers had failed to observe the condi- tions under which the contest was con- ducted. It may be that, among these papers were answers which would have been prize winners. Our con- dolences are extended to those unfor- tunates, but, of course, it would not be fair to those who were careful to ob- FLUNKED! imple conditions to admit the delinquents to the competition. The task of comparing almost sixty thousand answers and_ selecting the best from among them has been no small one. In some cases the merits were so nearly equal that it was diffi- cult to reach a just decision, but sev- eral minds were appealed to and the final result was reached in every in- stance as a consensus of several opin- ions. To the winners’ Lire extends its hearty congratulations, and to the losers an equally sincere sympathy. They have all helped to provide for Lire’s readers some valuable infor- mation on very important topics, and both winners and losers dentally have been benefited by the opportunity to sharpen their own wits. comicbook $.cO