The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-07-02
QUERIES AND
ANSWERS

Query-Having seen in your last SUM
days edition your advice in regard to
am taking the liberty Of writins to ask
for information thereon, as 1t seems to-
fill long-felt want i4s
My hair is a chestnlt brown. Can nets
one, and at what prlce2 BY answering
you will greatly oblIge, Mrs. D. NJ
Answer-The nets can be gotten from
Mr.. A. Luebbert, No. 81 East Broad Street.
Richmond, Va. The prices run from five
to twenty-five cents. Az
Query-Will you kindly tell me the 4
best way to bleach an ecru linen dress
color? 7 should like to know in next
Sundays, paper II possible as I am in 1
q little hurry. 81 Mrs. M X.
Answer-Put your dress to soak ovor-
citric acid, borax and Bshavings Of Ivory
soap have been added. Rinse next morn
Ing and, II possible, spread on the grass
In INT, the sun Several treatments like this
bleaching linen leave It on the grass +
until the dew falls. The sun is your
best agent. I'm a.
column the sSrest way to k ysas b aasey
packed for winter use? I wish to pacx
mine in July or August. have tried two
or three times and have failed each time.
m pIsven Il, the strong rancid taste which
Answer-one sure way is to make nal 4
PRIME ~. str strong enough to float an esg,
make 1t into rolls of about pound each:
wrap each roll securely in a clean. thin
cloth, put In a stone jar and cover we'll Il
with the brine Place In a cool dry
The butter, when opened, will be found 5
to have slight skim. This being scran-3s
cd on with knife, 1t will be found to
DO both fresh and sweet. 55'7 II
In the Valley OF Virginia, where largo
Quantities Of butter are handled for mar
ket, the only prncaution taken is in evell-a
mess ms o. OF ,tomper At and thorough work.
and milk Fe from tS rs fbxa ttysr drgP
this is done and the butter is sailed.
packed and well-coyered in an entirely
dry. cool place. 1t Will remain sweet
for an Indefinite period OF time = Al.
Query-will you kindly publish In the
columns co.., ms, OF your paper q poem by Henry
"Forset Forset!. It : f,r wa'e app pesles
sometime during the past winter:
An Mnsw yer query Is published in the
send It to tho Woman's Page Of the
Times Dispatch. It is probably published
IN Dr. Van Dykes Music and Poems, 3 4
present. ~
Query--what is tho legend of. Perse-
phono and the pomegranate seed
Answor-When Persephone was Is''i IN
Hades, whittier Pluto had carried her,
the god with the Observation-Disclosures that
Jupiter would demand her release, gath
cred a pomegranate and said to her:
'..Loye. eat with mo this parting day Of
me pomegrnnnate seed" and she ute, Her
To- demand Persephone's release. and the
King of Olympus promised she should bo
thing during her, detention in IIadss
AS, however, she had eaten pomegranate
seeds her return was impossible. Jean
inIelow IN her poem, "Persephone." re-
| fers to this legand In the lines which
| say: IA.
Low laughs the dark king on hi.
IT gave her OF pomegranate coed"
And chant tho maids OF Emma STILL
70 fateful hower@ beside the ril,
The daffodil, tho dafodlli'
Query--NYhat was the name. In ord-
nary, OF Petrarch's Laura?
AnswerzHer name IVA, was LAURA de
Ayignor, and she died Of the plague In
1875
Query-whatis the English law Of tina
| road?
tho left the opposite az the American
rule Hence the English epigranl;
"rhe law OF the road Is 9 paradox quite,
riding q ,bs aryftns you a0 asa sure
II you so to the right you SO uress.A