The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-15
facts of Interest
.Eor the Hou5ewue.

All COInTnuTlCdtiOHS dQOI " A''o
department must be written in ink and
accompanied by name. and address.
Both will be held confidential.
Correspondents will please write the
names of their places of residence in
full. Letters go astraY daily because
the address is given merely as Getty"
There are forty-five Of these United
States and many cities in each State.
No. T.
20. D. H" desires to know what Will
remove pencil marks from a photograph.
Tell her to wet a piece of clean cloth or
cotton In wood alcohol and wash face OF
print This will remove the lead from
the marks, but not the mark left by the
scratch Of the pencil.
'E. L. of date April Is, can obtain
the book on coloring photographs at
James H. Smith & Co.'S Gil Wabash Ave
nue.. There are many books on this sub
ject published, but they all contain about
the same informat ton. The subject of the
book is Painting and Coloring III Water
Colors," by G. L. Bossemeyer, and costs
80 cents. =. J. u.
No. 2.
In reply to Jerome I will say that |
grew up, so to speak, among cats and
rats We know that even the most fas-
tidious cat considers a mouse dainty
morsel, but it Is an established fact that
seldom q dog and but few cats will eat
rats, and when they do they become poor
and sickly, as described by Jerome IT he
would get some catnip ana set It out
where the cat could nibble at and roll IN
it, he would see decided Improvement.
r chi rko offpcta6 similarly
to IAN Admirers parrot. Battle the
legs and feet freely in common kerosene
oil. and be sure that the bird is free
from, vermin. NJ. J. DEB.
To 'Free Lance'-October 20, 1859, oc-
Cured under the 9th degree of Libra,
sign Of Jacobs son Reuben and birth
sign of George Bancroft, S. Il. ColeridSe,
Lord Nelson, William Penn and Ger
yantes. 1t is a social and commercial,
and esnecally q judicial sign. Librans de-
vote themselves to their undertakings
and usually win success. but not often
great degree Of excellence.
"Der babie' was born November II.
1901, under the Goth degree Of the sign
Scorpio, the sign Of Jacobs son Simeon
and the birth-sign of Oliver GOLDSMITH,
Roscoe Conkling, Edwin Booth and
Helena Modieska Scorrio is the sign of
sex. and therefore Of clothes. Scorpio
naonle are conservative, generous but
proud, and, under proVocatlon, Vlndlc-
tive Good actors and managers OF SUB
ordinate ties. while themselves obedient to
superior authority
The sex of applicants for my service
should be stated.
J. s., Court Astrologer.
Anropos of query propounded by H. M.
T, anent the authorship of the follow
ing. viz: Let me but write the songs
of n nation. I care not VINO makes its
laws" I respectfully beg leave to suggest
that I believe it to be mlsquoted In the
rinth edition of 'Bartletts Familiar
Cuotattons.'' at page ISL one Andrew
r. thn MARQUIS of Montrose, the Earl of
Rothes. etc, is credited with inditing the
following:
IT knew n very wise man that believed
If n man were permitted to make all the
ballads he need not care who should
mike the laws of a nation"
I presume this is the quotation alluded
to. ~ : : 49,
7, rcnly to "E. W. C.'s'' criticism Of
NV n,Iotation from Hamlet" I would
1;Ise to state that the quotation appears,
rs 1 hrst wrote it. in two editions of
Sbatesneare in my possession ."rhose
friends thou hast and "Grapple them
to thy soul with hoops Of steel" One IS
London edition. edited by William
Gaaroa clerk and William Alais Wright,
ISIS. the other edited by Homer 3.
snrar,,e Am, Phi. D.. 1885. Pope sub
stituted hooks for hoops, and it is often
nnoted so. It seems to me hooks is the
more logical word to use with grapple.
lold French, grape hook; French.
'.grappin." a grappling-irono merely
quoted the speech as 4 founn II IN tne
hook Such discussions will naturally
arise. ana Sc. w. C.'s" friendly criti-
cism will not come an,:ss, inasmuch as
It calls attention to passage that seems