SEALING WAS AT PICNICS

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1687, 29 June 1904, Page 2

SEALING WAS AT PICNICS

If you want to amuse friends at a picnic, or have left the corkscreAv at home, as usually happens, tell them that you can draAv a cork cut of any bottle Avithout a corkscrew. Of course they Avill laugh, but very, soon it will bo your turn to smile.

Take a piece of sealing-wax and hold one end of it over a lighted match until it becomes soft; then let some drops of the wax fall on the cork in the bottle. As soon as the cork is covered with wax you must press the piece which you hold in your hand against the cork, and you must hold it there until the Avax is quite dry. Then it Avill be easy for you to draAV out the cork by using the stick of wax Avhich adheres to it in the same manner as you Avould use a sereAV. No matter how firmly fixed the cork may be, it Avill almost immediately 31 eld to the pressure. You must, however, take care not to> Avrench the stick of wax' aAvay from it while you are drawing it out, and vou must also see that the cork is perfectly dry before you put any Avax on it.