ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 5, Issue 182, 13 June 1916, Page 3

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Our Correspondence Editor supplies the following answers to queries from readers: — Housewife wishes to know how to avoid spiders spinning cobwebs in the corners of the kitchen —Housewife should have her kitchen built round, and the diliiculty will be at once overcome. Flossie writes rather a pathetic letter. She has been engaged for eight years, and now that her nance has been put away for ten years' imprisonment, she wishes to break off the engagement, in order to have a chance of getting married before she draws her Old Age Pension. Should she return the presents V—lt is usual to do so, Flossie; but as you tell me that the gifts consisted of a ring which your liance subsequently pawned for eight bob and sold the ticket for a pot, nine lioxes of assorted chocolates, which went the way of all chocolates, eleven treats to the darkest seats at the pictures, and a pug dog, since deceased, custom might be waived in your exceptional case. Lady A. writes: "When should I plant sunflowers 'f " —Never. Enamoured, who encloses a photograph of his intended, says that he has heard that May and Juue are unlucky months during which to marry. JJo I agree 'l—l have looked at the photo, and 1 agree that the >:imo superstition would apply to Hie other ten months.

(Other replies are held over, partly for lack of space and partly for lack of queries, j