Here's Your Answer

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 275, 10 February 1928, Page 5

Here's Your Answer

tt EX THE SUN Service Bureau L a „i,t you with your problems, whether they relate to dress, health snd beauty culture, cookery, homecraft, travel, sport or any other of the many things on which we are all constantly needins information. Whatever your □articular puzzle may be, we will be alad to give our advice whenever possible. All communications must be accompanied by the inquirer’s name and address for publication), and sent to THE SUN "Service Bureau, Womens Page, THE SUN, Auckland. Answers will appear weekly in this column. preventing fermentation To prevent tomato sauce or any .▼run liquor or preserves from fermenting, tl?© least bit of sulphate of potassium should be added to the mixture. FOR STRAIGHT HAIR There are one or two lotions on the market which are supposed to make ware* appear in straight hair, but I am afraid that I do not. know anyor.e who baa obtained much satisfaction from tham. Neither do I know of any rteipo for making such a lotion at homa. Tha only really satisfactory way of doing without curling pins or tongs It to have a permanent wave, and in thaae days of short-cropped hair that la not a very expensive luxury, for a tew curls at sides and front are all that are required. If you do not wish to hire that done, though, it would be worth while inquiring at any chemist's to find out if they stock any reliable curling fluids. Sorry that I cannot be more helpful in the matter, for straight hair is a trial, isn’t it? GETTING MARRIED It is not necessary to give any notice of your intention to get married, if you wish to do it in a hurry and are both over the age of 21. You have only to dash along to the office of the Registry of Births, Deaths and Marriages, mtuated in High Street, tell the man in charge that you want to be married and he will give you the necessary papers to fill in. Then as soon as they

can be typed out and you have paid the necessary fees, which amount, I think, to about two pounds five or two pounds ten, you can be married. You need not take your own witnesses unless you wish, as there are usually a couple of clerks about the building who will act for you. Neither does anyone have to give the bride away, as is the custom in a religious ceremony. Certainly a civil marriage is legal and binding. You can be married with any ring you choose; the plain gold band is only a matter of custom, and not an essential design. What about one of the pretty faceted ones of gold, or platinum-casing? They are ever so smart. But surely if you’re brave enough to get married at all, you’ll be brave enough to wear an ordinary ring? CARVING FOWLS Fix the fork firmly into the breast, then slip the knife under the legs, and lay it over and disjoint; detach the wings in the same manner. Do the same on both sides. The smaller bones require a little practice, and it would be well to watch the operations of a good carver. When the merry-thought has been removed, which it may be by slipping the knife through at the point of the breast, and the neckbones drawn out, the trunk may be turned over and the knife thrust through the backbone. EARLY RISING a strange question to ask! After working all that out I have almost collapsed with brain fag, for I never was good at arithmetic. However, here you are. The difference between rising every morning at six o’clock or eight, in the course of 40 years, amounts to 29,200 hours, or three years one hundred and twenty-one days and sixteen hours, which are equal to eight hours a day for exactly ten years. So that rising at six will be the same as if ten years of life (a weighty consideration) were added wherein you may command eight hours every day for the cultivation of your mind and the dispatch of business. Now see you don’t go sleeping in, and waste my good mental efforts, young man! Do you want to know any more funnv things?