ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 261, 3 November 1928, Page 22 (Supplement)

ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Eine's queries are: (a) Why do people laugh when they are tickled? (b) Could yoir identify this New Zealand shrub? (piece enclosed). — (a) This is because the mind gives a warning that all is not right and causes us to squirm, laugh and squeal in order to chase away the cause of the tickling - , (b) The name of this shrub is Cho'isya Ternatea. Miichief placed a hot iron on the machine, an course it left a big, unsightly mark*;? .she wonders if she can remove the mark so as to prevent the wood from peeling off. —Any good furniture polish, rubbed in with a pad of cotton wool and cloth will restore the piece to perfect order providing: that the iron has not burnt into the wood. ir this is the case the machine will have to be scraped down and repolished.

Billikins would like to know: (a> Under what conditions we may obtain a piece of poetry! (b) Who was Holbein?—(a) Most pieces or poetry can be obtained at the bigr book shops and in volumes at the public library, where the attendants are only too willing to assist you to ftnd the piece, (b) Most probably you mean Hans Holbien, the younger, was a celebrated painter than even his gifted rather. Hans Holbien, the younger, was celebrated painter to King Henry VIII., of England. Born at Augsburg in 1497, he died at London in 15£3. Inquirer wants to know ir a model petrol engine is obtainable in New Zealand.—To the best of my knowledge model petrol engines are unobtainable in New Zealand. Rocket asks if a book about the biography of the Duke or Uxbridige can be obtained anywhere?—l have never heard of this book. Inquisitive's query will be answered when her real name and address are received at this office.