ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 97, 26 April 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

' Yachtsman would Be pleased to know wliere lie could obtain the plans of a ~2lt •mullet boat and what would be flic cost.-— There are no special plans or a ~.-root mullet bdat„ each builder using- bis own. I am forwarding- address where you may 'obtain the Information you require. The cost should not be very much. Anxious wishes to know bow. to get rid of a small scar on the face. —Consult a medical man. He will be able to operate and stitch the flesh together to form only a very small scar. Pcet asks —(a) Wlio. wrote "Curfew imust not ring to-night?." (b) "The Green Eye of the Little Yellow God"; —(a) "The Curfew Bell" Is an American schoolgirl's version of an English legend associated

war with the parish church or Ghertsey. The poetry is not good, but 'the poem is often recited owing to the interest or its story,, enough even this is wrongly told. - The writer of the piece was Rose Hartwickr, born in Indiana on July IS, 1,350. Bight years before her birthday Albert Smithhad embodied in a play the legend of a girl who saved her lover's life by clinging to the clapper of the bell which was to sound tile hour or his execution. The play, which was. called "Blanche Harlot,'*, was produced at the Surrey Theatre. During the' Wars of the Roses, Blanche's lover,. Neville, had been captured by the YorMsrs, but was reprieved. The pardon was late in coming and Blanche delayed the hour or the execution by clinging to the clapper or the bell. In lier version of the story Rose Hartwick changed the name or Blanche to Bessie and' staged the incident in the Civil War with Cromwell as the granter or the pardon. (b) This poem was written by Joan Milton Hayes'. N.B. —No more than two queries art ■answered for any one person at the game time.