3 MARCH 1928, Page 20

General Knowledge Questions

OUR weekly prize of one guinea for the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded, this week to Mrs. Cruse, 48 Fernleigh Road, Winchmore Hill, N. 21, for the following :—

Questions on Choosing a Wife—in Fact and Fiction

1. Who married the elder of two sisters when he preferred the younger, and why ? 2. Who chose his wife " as she did her wedding gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but for such qualities as would wear well " ?

3. Who fell in love with, and determined to marry, a young lady whom he had never seen, through hearing her talked about and seeing some of her writings

4. Who said that he chose his wife " because she wasn't o'er 'cute. I picked her from her sisters o' purpose, 'cause she was a bit weak, like; for I wasn't a-goin'. to be told the rights o' things by my own fireside " ?

5. Who chose his wife to spite his family ?

6. Who tried to train up a girl of thirteen to be his ideal wife, and rejected her because she cried out when, to test her powers of endurance, he dropped hot sealing wax on her arm, and fired an (unloaded) pistol at her petticoats ?

7. What sea-captain allowed his crew to choose his wife for him ? 8. What clergyman chose his wife according to the directions of hjs patroness, and what were those directions ?

9. Who having engaged himself to a lady for whom he felt both affection and respect, could not overcome his disinclination to the married state, and finally offered the lady an income in lieu of a husband /- 10. Who refused to marry a young lady whom he devotedly loved because of 'a clause in her uncle's will, obliging her husband to take her name with her fortune ?

11. Who, with the assistance of his housekeeper made out a list of four eligible ladies and proposed to them all in turn ?

12. Who advised his son to be very careful to choose a woman of sense for his wife because " there is nothing more fulsome than a she-fool " ?

13. Who announced his choice of a wife in the following words : " All my hopeful visions bein' crushed : and findin' that there ain't no credit for me nowhere ; I abandons myself to despair, and says, Let me do that as has the least credit is it of all ; marry a dear sweet creatur' as is wery fond of me, me bein' at the same time .wery fond of her ; lead a happy life, and struggle no more again the blight which settles on my prospects "

Answers will be found on page 886. - -