ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3034, 8 May 1912, Page 63

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Constant Subscriber.—A very simple method of entertaining one's friends at an afternoon tea is to write out a story bringing in the names of well-known papers and magazines, such as the Field, the Sphere, and so on, leaving blanks for tho names of the papers. Each guest is handed "a copy, and has to fill in tho blanks with tho right names. Another idea is a "treasure hunt." All sorts of little, articles, thimbles, coins, mutches, grains of rice, lumps of sugar, etc., are put about the room in places where they can be seen without it being necessary to move anything, and each guest lias to write down as many as she can find and the places where tihey are. It is surprising how things that one would think could not be missed escape observation. From 20 to 40 objects may be thus used. Lex.—The following is a method of cleaningwhich I e lieu Id think you could safely use for your goatskin rug. Dissolve one bar of soap in two gallons boiling water. Put two quarts of this into a tub or pan containing about two gallons warm wafer. First rub out the dirt and grease spots with the strong soap liquor, or, if necessary, with fuller's earth. Then put the rug into the tub containing the weak soap liquor, and well wash and punch it. Throw away this first liquor, and mix another lot with the same proportions of warm water and dissolved soap, and again well wash the rug. Mid so continue until it is perfectly clean. Then rinse well in cold water to take out the soap, wring out, shake, and hang to dry with the skin side towards tho stmT but not when the heat is scorching, or the skin will become hard and brittle. It should, while drying, be frequently shaken, a.nd hung up first by ono end and then by tho other.