ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 77, 31 March 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Lady Mary says: (a) Please tell me which is most essential to man and beast, meat or heat, (b) From what source Is the surname Howell originated?—(a) Meat is more essential, as by eating: meat we obtain heat, especially rat meat, which contains a large amount of oil, ror oil Is a great producer to body. <b) The most fumous historical bearpr of this name dates from the loth cenwry. and was the name of a Welsh Prince. Love to Know inquires: (a) What people lived in England before the Briton*. <10 Who were the llrst people to live in the world?—(a) A3 far as can be jxaced they were Iberians, and were from tile deserts or the East, followed by an invasion of Celts. These people were dark, swartliy people, possibly Phoenician in origin, (b) The origin or man is still very obscure. It is commonly asserted that we descended Trom some man-like ape such as the chimpanzee or orang-outang. At any rate we may assume that the creatures who scattered stone tools over the world must have been closely aWn to the beast. There

were early men or sub-men running round Europe four or five hundred thousand years ago. What is known to-day of early man Is the merest scrap of what will be found out later on. Radium wants to llnd out: (a) Wbat chance has a boy of 17 years got of getting- a job on a tramp steamer, and what is a good Job to apply for? (b) Why are Germans called "Huns"?—(a) Your best plan is to interview a representative of some shipping company. In this way you will receive reliable and first-class information. (b) The Germans earned this name for two reasons. Firstly, their war tactics and actions could be compared with the original Huns who were the people of Tartar or Uryian stock who, in the 3rd century, 8.C., seem to have dominated the whole of North- Asia, Trom the Ural Mountains to the Straits or Korea. Unsurpassed as horsemen and archers, moving rrom place to place with marvellous swiftness, capable of enduring any hardships and brave to the extreme of ferocity, they speedily overcame their civilised foes. Secondly, some time before the Great War the Kaiser himself compared his army with the Huns or the olden days, and or whom he spoke in complimentary terms. Birkdale: Kearly 7000 is your second answer; the first cannot be answered.