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Dunstan Times, Issue 3133, 4 September 1922, Page 2

Flowers which are so wilted thai ninety-nine persons out of a hundred would throw them away as worthless may be revived through the magical powers of boiling water. This is one of those "household hints'' that were known to our great grandmothers, hut yet have to he "discovered" afresh hy every generation. Few people seem to know of it. Perhaps you have some beautiful roses which are drooping very dejectedly, for all they are in fresh water. All you have to do is to scrape the stems, so that the. hot water will soak all through the fibres. Put the flowers into a dee]) and narrowish jar or vase, and pour boiling water into the jar until it just covers the stems. In a. little while you will have the flowers as fresh as if just cut. The boiling water must not touch the blooms. The Slate of Illinois has decided' to build a new kind of orison. Its sliape will be round, and every prisoner's cell will be on the outside, so that light and air may fill it. In most prisons the cells get little of either. Nor is it only the physical health of the inmates of this prison that will lie looked after. Their characters are to be trained as well. Good behaviour will win privileges, one after another, until at last the man or woman who has passed through all other grades will be promoted to the Honor Farm, where there are no restrictions noon liberty in the shape of walls or iron fences, where the occupants are put on their honor not to run away. Clothes actually worn by Norsemen of the 12th. 13th, and 14th centuries were discovered in an ancient churchyard, in Greenland. It was the custom to bury people there in their best clothes. Trees were very few in number in so cold a climate; wood could not be spared for making coffins. By a marvellous chance mainy costumes were found fresh and well preserved enough to be put together. The Nors-emen of the Middle Age« are shown by these discoveries to have worn long flowing cloaks reaching to their feet; on their heads they wore tight hoods with tails faffing down their backs. Such hoods: are well known to have been part of the costume of those centuries in Italy, France, and England.