ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

Auckland Star, Volume LIX, Issue 225, 22 September 1928, Page 2 (Supplement)

ASK THE WITCH DOCTOR

j Athletic's queries are: (a) Who Is It that organises the Labour Day sports on tlte Auckland Domain? (b) Who won the 100 yards under 10 event and in what time last year? — (a' The Akarana Club (amateur athletics) organise the sports for the Labour Day Committee. <b) In the 100 yards primary school scratch race A. Denny vliajiield:- came first, time 12s. Dolly Warden asks: (a) The current value of the American dollar. < U How i many books has Ethel Turner written, and which was the greatest success?—(a) The American dollar is worth approximately 4/2. (b) Ethel Turner's greatest success is probably "Seven Little Australians," and altogether she has written more than a 5 books. Romany Queen asks.- (a) Where could 11 buy black paper? (b) How to transplant passion fruit.— (a) To the best or I my knowledge black paper is unobtainable 'in Auckland, (b) Passion fruit are trans--1 planted when the plants are about vou.- . inches high. Most people arc transplanting them now. The plant should be lodged In a small hole made in the ground with a stick and earth pressed all round them They should be planted at the foot or a trellis, to which the vino can cling. Questionnaire says: (a) t have made some gunpowder according: to a recipe in a book, but I And that it is not nearly so Mack as the powder used in Chinese crackers. Why is this? (b) Where can I obtain 8 good book on nreworks, and how to make them also. Please state the price.—(a) The Chinese cause their powder to become black by introducing a colouring medium, (b) information may be obtained from any encyclopaedia at jte public libraries. '

Argument Wants, to know the speed or the fastest mail train in tne world.—-The British Great Western Railway lias beaten si! world records for a 100-mile run at SO miles per hour. Gardener says that last year her suapdragons behaved rattier curiously, and as'is lor the reason.—Snapdragons usually flower in the summer, and when tliey have finished nowering die off. Most probaMy your plant was a freak, living long-er than is usual, but not having the strength to fully bring out its flowers. They are jruod only for one season. Woodland Fairy inquires: a' What nialces tiio am come out of a cat's fur vvhon you rub if: (b) What are volcanoes and bow are they formed?—fa) Sparks Jump from pussy's fur to one's ha; id, when certain conditions prevail, owing to the charges of electricity on the fur earthing themselves through one's body. (L) A volcano Is rormed by the masses of molten rock Inside the earth forcing an outlet on the earth's surface When this lava has cooled and the process been repeated possibly manv time? the huge mountains that we see to-day are built up. J Inquisitive asks: Ca) Who invented sewing machines,, and In what year? <bl What makes us dream?—(a) The Qrst sewing machine was really invented In 17 02 by an Englishman named Thomas Saint, but the nrst satisfactory machine was built by Elias Kowe, an American, in 1841. (b> The most complete answer l could give to this question is—anything that disturbs the brain. You understand that when we sleep cir braid ceases to ruuctlon. thus causing- us to lapse into unconsciousness. if, however, anything happens which calls on a certain part to become active, then the braia naturally has to work, and so causes us to dream it Is very probabld thougrh that (luring the night we have many dreams whicb we canuot remember on waking,