ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, 5 December 1900, Page 59

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Scotia. — Thank you so much for your kind note and the pleasant wishes for Christmas and New Year. I sincerely hope that if our club re-opens again nest year you will join us as often as you can. Accept- my very kind wishes for Christmas and New Year, Scotia. Violet.— l am so glad, dear; accept hearty congratulations as)d earnest good wisaes for health, wealth, and happiness, as well as real thanks for all the kind things you say to me. Ceank. — T-hanks for your pleasant letter and kind (but too flattering!) remarks. Let me reciprocate your good wishes for Christmas and the New Year. I shall pass on those to the club in the next "post-bag" — and need scarcely say that if our club re-opens next year, I shall hope to see you very often in your place. Tkd. — Dear Ted, are you not "quite out- of conceit" with me? I know lam a most disappointing person just now, but really I can't help it. "So much to do, so little done" haunts me. I hope, dear, you are quite well again. So glad you were lucky enough to win such capital prizes. See what it is to have brains — I never yet won anything m such a contest! Inconku. — You don't know how sorry I am to be obliged to defer my "At home" another week, dear — it seems so horridly rude, even when it is only on paper. I can only hope that the delay may make no difference in the sweet compliment you pay nie. The Master of the Hotjse, Ban Laila.i. — It was so kind of you to write, my dear sir. 1 trust she is now with you again, as her last letter led me to expect. Housewife, Beaumont. — (1) The method of preserving fruit for which the medal of the Eoyal Horticultural Society, England, was awarded is as follows: — Pick the fruit from the stalks, put it into the bottles, put one drachm of alum into 4gal of boiling water; let it stand till it is cold. Then fill the bottles and bung them tight; put them into a boiler of cold. water and heat it to 176deg, then tie the mouths of the jars over with bladder, and seal them. (2) To make green, gooseberry wine. — Take any, number of qiiarls of unripe green gooseberries, bruise them thoroughly, and add an equal number of quarts of cold water ; let them stand a day and night, stirring occasionally, then drain through a sieve. To each gallon of liquor put 341b of loaf sugar (the best) ; put into a cask ■with a bottle of the best gin to every sgal; let it stand for six months before bottling. Tassie. — (1) Any chemist will make up a prescription for you. Cantharides is the active principle in all hair restorers. (2) Only rest and the use of elastic stockings. (3) The battle of Trafalgar Bay was fought on 21st October, 1805, between the British fleet (27 ships) and the combined French and Spanish fleets (33 vessels). Nelson gained a great victory, but at the cost of his own life. The enemy lost 19 ships. Jessie. — (1) The specimen looks like a native heath, but I shall make inquiries, and let you know later on. (2) So far as I can find out, heath has no meaning. (3) The stamp language is a-s follows: — Stamp on the left corner, upside down — I love you; stamp on the left corner, crosswise — I love another: stamp on the left corner, straight up and down — I wish to be rid of your correspondence; the stamp placed at the bottom of the right corner, crosswise — No; at the bottom, of the right corner, upside down — Yes; stamp on the left lower comer — Do you love me? on the left lower corner, upside down —I am displeased; on the left lower corner, crosswise — I .wish to have your acquaintance; on_ the right corner, upside down — Friendship; on the right corner, straight up and down.— Business correspondence; on the left side in the centre — Accept me as your lover ; left side, upside down — I am engaged; left side in the centre, crosswise — Who cares ?