Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-06
INQUIRIES AND
 ANSWERS
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eeGGG GGG&eeG&e 1 tion of water to add to cider to mako vinegar
 A. Fill your casks one-third full of soft water and the other two-thlrds with apple cider. Add two quarts of yeast to each cask.
 J. H.-Does an heirs right expire ten years after the widow has sold the land? (2) does an abstract show If heirs have a right in the land or not?
 A. These are questions that can only be answered by a lawyer having some knowledge of the conditions.
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 M. w. F.-A man and wife in Massachusetts are without children. but there are brothers and sisters on either side; how would the estate be settled
 A. Beyond the fact tha. the sur ,iv0r of the marriage would receive under ordinary circumstances One- third. 1t is impossible to answer WlLnOut more QeunltneSS. -p-
 D. w. C.-Did w. J. Bryan, when he was candidate for the presi- dency, say If that the republicans won they would put .cld!ers in the larger cities to coerce or shoot down workingmen when they went on strike
 M,r dn nc cyvNh ho IA statement. He did not approve the sending of federal soldiers to pre- serve order without the officials of the state in which trouble occurred making request for fedesal help.
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 J. A. H.-Please give the names of some good books on the care of the hair and complexion, and where can they be bought?
 A. There are no such books, and no demand for them. If the head is kept clean and the hair carefully brushed, nothing more Is ordinarily needed. If ones complexion Is wrong there is something the matter with the digestion. Therefore do not worry about your complexion. but find out what ails you that 1t is not as 1t should be.
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 A Subscriber.-Please inform mo through the columns of your Satur- days Questions and Answers" to whom may I apply for position in the local fire department, and what is necessary to qualify m applicant?
 A. Any man of good moral char acter who can come up tO the re- quirements physically Is eligible. Tho board of safety members make ap- pointments. It is perhaps necessary to get next to one of them. and tEen If you are of right political faith you may be successful.
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 Good Intentions.---D you think it proIef for married woman to ~rtte friendly letters to recent acquaint- ance of the opposite gey ? Has she moral right to accept finger ring from him, or to receive attentions from him which would lead to com- ment unpleasant to her husband?
 A. Certainly not. A good wife never forgets that the honor of her husband is in her keeping. and she should not receive any attentions from a man friend which she would tremble to see her daughter receiving under similar circumstances.
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 l.. A. J.-What will prevent e wash kettle from smu,tlng clothes? I have used the kettle about seven months. and the trouble did not begin till three or four months ago. t2) Please print a recipe for canning sweet potatoes?
 A. I can think of no reason unless the tin has worn of, leaving dark ened spots. If the tin has worn of 1t was not good quality. but I cannot suggest a remedy. (2) I never saw such a recipe. Sweet potatoes are in market nearly the whole year, so 1t cannot be very desirable to can them.
 R.-when did men begin to count time by months and years ? When did the present system begin and by whom was 1t instituted ? What was the Jewish method. md how long was their year |? What is meant by ''old style 2"
 A. The Roman calendar. which has in great part beeh adopted by almost all nations, was introduced by Romulus, TBS B. c. He divided the year into ten months, comprising 204 days. His year was of fifty days less duration than the lunar year. and sixty-one less than the solar year. and its commencement did not of courss correspond with any fyed season. Twenty-Five years later Numa Pom- pilius corrected this calendar by adding two months. and Julius Caesar. desirous of making 1t moro correct, fixed the solar year as being 365 days and six hours, 45 B. c. This. the Julian calendar, prevailed throughout the Christian world till the time of Gregory III. when the calendar had ''gone wrong" ten days He therefore ordained. in 1882. that that year should consist of only thres hundred and sixty-five days. and that the year beginning each century shall not be bissextile unless it is divfsibl< by 400 without a remainder. Tn 1751 the calendar was found ,o be clever days wrong. and that number of days was dropped. thus entering on the ''nev style" as agains. the previous ''old style" The Jews generally em- pIoyed the era of the Scleucidae un. til the fifteenth century. when a new mode of computing vas sdspted by them. They date the years from creation. which they cooz,der to havs