ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

New Zealand Tablet, Volume LII, Issue 51, 23 December 1925, Page 25

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS

Reader.—The r proverb is an 7 ancient Latin tag: ' Audi , cerne, tace, si vis vivere in pace. : ..„ i l | | i.'i l ,i"i \ imp ■; Literally it n means: ' Keep ■ your 5 ears and v ci eyes 7 open anasyour^mouthPshut^ifsyoup^ ; ‘ want , to live in ; peace. = Good advice *it:• is too; Here is another old ; line which might have been written.. of Prohibition ; America: Furtivus potus jplenus dulcedine iotus. Vulgarly, Sly grog touches the spot. 7 Curious.— long German words are ■ comj ' e O v i ' tit i 1 - - \ E> ' pounds, as for example s Wahlverwander- - ■ schaften, which means : elective affinities. Greek . also : gives; similar long : compounds. Orthophoitopsukophantodikaitala i poro s - used to be a well-known crux in our school . days. English 'doe's I not do badly with _■. . . .; • 1 • 11 r words such: as, anticonstitutionistically, ; an- 7." tidisestablishmentarianism. And if you go into scientific terminology even hydraulic ..■ brakes will not I pull ■ you up / in* a hundred . V —‘x Til * * 1. ' ■ XT l . . \ . ' feet. For instance: XJnhypersymmatrico- - antiparallelepipedicalisationalographically. ;-v. j*o jam ~ s*r. ~5 -.- •>-••• v^&r Space forbids us mentioning'another word. v Inquirer. There are two golden rules if you want to avoid colds. We are assured that both are infallible and invaluable. : ; The:; first says: Wear no hat ; wear light clothed, take a cold shower every day, and if the . V water is frozen break it and rub yourself - .down with a lump of ice;"keep, all your • windows open, and do not let the rain keep ; you indoors. The other rule is: Keep warm; wear flannel or woollens next tho ' skin; keep your head well:covered avoid; draughts. ; If you want to be on the safe side try and observe both at the same time. ':* Wager. You are wrong we are sorry to say. Orion is not called after an Irishman named ;; O’Ryan, N The original was a famous" hun-, -; ter who: was placed among the stars' after : ; Diana had killed him by shooting him with an arrow. He. made love to her and she ' shot him by mistake. Probably she was aiming 7 at; somebody in 7 another direction when she hit him. ' Your friend ;is right r. ; : and wrong. There was a man called Arion, !t:' but he was a poet not a heretic. ~ The heretical gentleman:was named TArins/^Tu^ Aotea Roa. —When a secret is known to a person through consultation, as between ; a doctor and a client," for example, it must : -7 be kept. The ;natural law obliges persons who obtain such knowledge not ,to reveal it, even if asked in a law court.';:; Hence, a doctor, a parish priest,- a:lawyer^ ought ; 1 to . refuse “to reveal :> secrets entrusted 'I to SS£ them in . virtue of their/ office. : As to'the C second question, a person is‘bound under pain of sin not to v open for read 7 another person s letter. By the .natural law • a letter belongs to the person' who sends it until it has actually , been delivered to the person to whom it was addressed. Vide Bucceroni, Vol. I, p. 578.