ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS
Each letter or report forwarded to “ Diana ” for publication must bear the writer’s namo and address as a guarantee of genuineness, and questions that do not permit of a public reply cannot be answered. Questions should be concisely put and the writer’s nom de plume clearly written.
“ Health.”—The following is a good recipe for home-made fruit salts; —Tib icing sugar, 4oz carbonate of soda, 4oz tartaric acid, 4oz cream of tartar, 4oz Epsom salts. Put through a sieve and mix together at least three times. Store in a screw-top glass hottle. Dose, one heaped teaspoonful in a glass of watc*. In regard to your second question, in ordinary social usage it is quite incorrect to use Mr or Mrs. In the case of a business man speaking to one of his employees, or. of a woman speaking to her maid or giving an order to a tradesman, it would be quite correct.
Can any reader supply a recipe for vinegar to be made from acetic acid?
“ Anxious.”—There is no truth in the rumour.
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Evening Star, Issue 22276, 29 February 1936, Page 24
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