The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-05-14

facts Of Interest -
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Correspondents will please write the
names of their places of residence IN
full. Letters go astray daily because
the address is given merely as CITY.
There are forty-five of these United
States and many cities in each State.
HEAD AND CUT TO COME. ..........
Kindly inform a regular reader of your
column where I could get a book OF
chords for the parlor organ IN all the
keys. L. G. R.
Referred to musicians.
years I shall remain such until shall
have overcome my Observation-Disclosures
loathsome-habit Of snoring.
Can you or some member Of your eff
ficient faculty furnish method of relief?
Ten thousand or more of our city's two
millions Of people will welcome some
practicable reply. BACHELOR.
Pass a. broad elastic band under yous
Jaws and over your head to keep your
c1,,,f 1yI
keep their mouths open. By and by you
will break up the habit, forcing the nasal
passages to do their rightful part of l-1c
work.
L. Would you please tell. me how
could get rid of such tiny spiders that
can hardly be seen flying about the
rooms?
. Also what could remove flower
germs I have fern that is full Of them,
and have tried to clean it, but could
not
g. Then, would you please tell me
where could get a book about a Mod.
ern Coal N1ine,'' as I am about to write
an essay about 1t? M. A. *.
l. Sweep the walls and brush out the
corners. Then set an open pan of am
monia in the room. close all the windows
and doors, stopping UP the cracks and
leave the room shut up for some hours.
The fumes will destroy insect life.
g II you mean the tiny brown specks
upon the underside of fern leaves you
will injure the plant by removing them.
They are the seeds Of the fern, AID add
to, not detract from, its beauty They
will fall off Of themselves when over
ripe.
3. know of no sucn book Inquire
at q bookstore or the public library.
am a lover of fancy pigeons, and
have n few pairs. but seem to- have con-
siderable trouble or poor success in
breeding. as the young birds always die
in the shell.
The pigeons sit their proper time all
right, but as soon as they begin to pick
they die.
It seems as If the shell is too hard.
and the inner tissue of the egg will not
permit the bird to work its way out
BY giving me a little advice on this
subject, you will greatly obliSe me-
II. S.
The trouble is peculiar and interest
ing Will not some constituent who has
been successful in rearing pigeons come
to our help?
I bracket the two queries next on file
because both treat of the same thing.
And this, although one comes from the
East. the other from the West Both are
written by students. 1t is odd mat the
hov and girl should have been moved to
write upon one subject, and that one SO
unusual.
The young man asks:
Did Iauncelot and Elaine have son?
What was the name? When and where
was he born? r. >.
The girl has much more to say and with
more feeling:
Please don't think me impertinent, for
T don't wish you to consider me so. but
a1c you sure that Sir Galahad was the
son Of I4auncelot and Elaine? I think
not In Tennyson's Holy Grail it is
suggested that he might be the son OF
Sir Launcelot. but at the same time it IS
Giscredited there. as soon as 1T IS men
toned, and it would be Impossible even
as young as Sir Galahad was at the time
OF his knighting, to have been the son
of Elaine, whom Launcelot had met but
very few years before Galahad appears
on the scene am just out or high
school. where we studied the Round Table
very carefully and I have gone still
more deeply into it since my graduation,
for / am a great devotee Of Arthur and
Liz people and I don't want any OF
them-particularly THE Lily Maid
c,andered. So you'll excuse me, won't
yor? I am not able to get at my Mallory
this evening or I would try TO make
''i'''ss 80 9 : NJ. b. S.
Perhaps before / write this you have
..Sot att your History OF FRINGE Ar
thur" by Sill. 7. Mallory di7o), and read
there part III, y that Elaine was the
daughter Of King Pelles, and. as r. Cob
lam Brewer, III. D.. in his Readers
Handbook of English Literature" puts.
t. '.the unwedded mother CT Sir Gala
had Sir Launcelot du Lac being his
father. Brewer adds, commenting upon
the Lilly Maid Of Asto!at, Of Tenny-.
sor,'s "Idylls': .Knowing that SirsLaunce -
lot was pledged to celibacy, she pined ana
died