ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
W.S. (Hntt).-(t) No; the coffin as it leaves the mortuary chapel is not put into a fire; (2) there is a plain morticed white pine casket enclosed in the .ordinary coffin. When the coffin leaves the mortuary chapel the inner casket containing the lxidy is removed and passed into an incandescent chamber or oven, tho fierce hcijt from which gradually converts tho casket and its contents'to ashes. It is somewhat similar to the oven you mention. (.1) Yon cannot separate the ashes of the body from those of tho casket. (I) Cremation usually is cheaper than burial.
"Dorothy."—The Tesult of the first applo recipes competition was advertised in our issue of April 10. A list of prizewinners in all four competitions will be published shortly.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 206, 20 May 1918, Page 4
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128ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 206, 20 May 1918, Page 4
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