ASK THE WITHC DOCTOR

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 40, 16 February 1929, Page 2 (Supplement)

ASK THE WITHC DOCTOR

Thistle Down asks: (a) What is a quirk way or making: bobbed hair grow thick and long;? (b) What does "universal emancipation" moan? — (a) Perhaps the best way to aid the growth or hair is to often rub into the roots of the hair a little of a mixture comprised of one ounce or cantharides and six ounces of castor oil, scented with eau de cologne. (b) Emancipation means freed from bondagre, so that universal emancipation would most probably originally mean the freeing- of all slaves. Emancipation is also used in rererence to religion, when people wore rorced to believe in only one church—the church or the country in which they lived. If it were referring to cburch matters it would mean that, every one has freedom to believe in whatever creed they choose to follow.

O.A. asks for a g-ood cure Tor a* headache.—There are many ways or relievinga headache. Bathing the head with either very hot or very cold water is one wav which orten gives relief; then ag-ain there are many remedies sold bv chemists which have the desired effect, but the only real way to cure headaches which come orten is to find out the cause of them and remove the cause.

«th* ! *f t !». ,t6 w °»ld like to know: (a) \Nhy is it that one part or a rivpr is saltv ™Z the . r place is qn'te fresh water? (b) Who invented the piano? — (a) Parts m * rivers become salty because of their mixing- with the sea water, ir the i?ml IL* s, ! ,!rs " is " r ">" and its level is a little below higij \ Vu i,.j. , lliU . k at rull U(lc

Hie sea flows in and so carries salt water up a certain length or the river. The river above that mark to which the sea water penetrates would or course he uninfluenced liy the salt waier. (b) This was answered in the Budget or February 2, 1020. Argument asks: What is the greatest number of wickets taken in a match by any player in a Test between England and Australia? — l'irteen by \V. Rhodes Tor England, v. Australia, at Melbourne. iOOi; seven Tor 5 0 in the llrst innings and eight lor d 8 in the second.

Quizzy asks: Is there a town called Koogong, and where is it?—l have never heard or Koogong, neither Is it mentioned In the main graphics used here. However, It may be the name or some unimportant village. Gipsy wants to know: (a) Do mushrooms have seeds? (b) Who was the man who built the first pyramid In Egypt?— (a) Really, we could say that mushrooms have seeds, although they are not quite the same as the seed we see on ordinaiv flowers. Small cells rorm on the "(rill'" or the mushroom, and when these rells develop tiny stalks on which spores rorm, they fall to tbe ground and send out delicate threads, until at last the spawn is formed, rrom which the mushroom is grown, (b) The pyramids are considered to have been built by order or the Egyptian priests and kings thousands or ve'ars berore the birth or Christianity. The mummined bodies or dead Egyptian king- and rich men were placed in the pyramid so that they might be. preserved. J.S.B. wants to know: (a) How to press flowers. (b) What other poet besides Wordsworth was a poet or Nature? — (a) The simplest way to press flowers is to place them between the leaves of an old book and stand a heavy weight upon it. (b) Many other poets besides Wordsworth wrote but none is so renowned as he for this type of poetry.