ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Auckland Star, Volume LXI, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 2 (Supplement)

ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Airman asks where tie could obtain a "Spirit of St. Louis" aeroplane building outfit. —There are .advertisements in some American magazines, but to the best 01 my knowledge none Is on sale in Auckland. mason wants to know—(a) How to clean marble which has been exposed to the weather, (b) What is the best paint- for an iron railing?—(a) Try scrubbing it with good soap and water, (b) It would be advisable to obtain your #aint ready mixed, although the main ingredients for such a work would he English oxide and 0il Quizzy wants a cure Tor an ailment, the symptoms or which she describes, (b) The address of Sally piilpps, a Fox News i-ilm star. —If your ailment is as bad as the tone or .vour letter seems to signiry I would advise you to consult a medical man. The .symptoms seem to point to indigestion, quite a good cure for which is a teaspoonrul of baking !soda taken in a tumber or hot water eatfi morning berore breakfast. (b) To the best or my knowledge this star will receive letters. Her address is care Fox Itudio, Hollywood.

Interested asks —(a) What is the motto of the training: College and what floes it mean in English? (b) What does the motto Per Angusta ad Augusta mean? — (■a) The Training- College motto is Totis Viribus, which means "With all our Might." (b) Per Angusta ad Augusta means "Through Trials to Triumph." Puzzled asks —(a) Who was the first person- to invent beds? (b) When a star rails what becomes or it? —(a) This is a very difficult thing to say Tor as long as man has had the need I'or beds he has %iade them Tor himself; beds in fact came in with civilisation. The Asyrians, Medes and Persians had beds or stone, wood or metal, and rurniture decorated with inlays or appliques or metal, mother or pearl or ivory. Throughout the centuries different types or beds have been used, but the origin of all beds lies far back in the ages,, lost in the mists of antiquity. (b) What most people call falling stars are really not falling stars at all, but are merely stones or balls or iron or other elements railing towards the earth from' other stars at great speed and becoming incandescent by the friction caused by our atmosphere. They glow as they fall and consequently are able to be seen. Often these meteorites never reach the earth but are burnt to (lust by the friction whilst they are quite a long way up in the air. Sometimes, however, they reach the earth and are able to be collected. Much or the dust in the air, especially in the higher parts, is caused by this meteor dust.