CORKS EASILY DRAWN.
If you want to amusei friends at an evening party, tell them that you can draw a cork out of any bottle without a corkscrew. Of course they will laugh; but very soon it will be your turn to laugh. Take a piece of sealing wax and hold one end of it over a lamp or gas, jet until it .becomes soft; then let some drops of. the wax fall on the cork in the bottle. As soon as the cork is covered with wax, you must press the piece which you
hold in your hand against the cork, arid you must - hold it there -until the wax is quite dry. Then it will be easy for you to draw out the cork by using tha stick of wax . which adheres to it in the same manner as you would use a screw. No matter how firmly fixed the cork may be, it will almost immediately yield to the pressure. You must, however, take care not to wrench the stick of wax away from it while you ate drawing it out, and you must also see that the cork is perfectly dry before you pour any wax on it.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 713, 17 October 1914, Page 7
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202CORKS EASILY DRAWN. King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 713, 17 October 1914, Page 7
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