Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-10-24
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 Box 22-Your Bavarian coin is not of value here. .-
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 Electric-More than one thousand street cars are running in St Louis. More than three thousand are run ming in Boston,
 H. J.-How shall I make good paste for scrap book?
 A. To a pint of smooth flour paste, rather thick, add one teaspoon full of powdered alum and ten drops of clove oil This will keep it moist and also prevent it from turning sour. ...
 Jane-Please print the best method of cleaning lace curtains?
 A. They should be soaked for at least an hour in cold water in which little borax has been dissolved be- fore putting them into warm suds. This takes out the smoky odor and softens the dirt.
 B. D. F.-My feet are tender and perspire freely; what can l do to remedy the troubles?
 A. The feet are made very tender by precipitation and need careful at- tention each night. After the bath put into basin of cold water a few drops of arnica and let the feet remain in this for ten minutes, dry carefully and dust them with carbo- lated talcum powder.
 R. E. S-Please tell me how to ap- ply oakum to a kitchen floor?
 A. Dissolve five ounces of glue in an iron kettle and then add six pounds of oakum mixed with enough water to have the mixture spread nicely. Apply as hot as possible, then go over the flooor with oil in which small quantity of dryer has been added. Floors prepared in this man ner look nicely and dry hard within one day.
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 Troubled-If a young man calls in 2 the evening and stays too late how may a girl let him know that 1t is time to go home?
 A. If there is clock in the room, let your eyes stray toward it at short intervals. Allow the conver- sation to flag. Show less animation and let your interest in the conver- sation appear little perfunctory. When all these failed one girl said: ''I am enjoying your call very much, but have father who holds as an article of faith that a house should be closed at II o'clock, so won't you come and see me again soon?"
 F. B. J-Please tell me something about the Salt River Valley? Do any kinds of crops grow there?
 A. None grow except by means oi Irrigation. Dams are built across Salt River and water is conducted tC the land through canals, ditches and laterals. When the water is applied vegetation immediately springs forth Only for month or two is vegetation at standstill, and from four to si1 crops of hay can be harvested in one season. It is believed that the valley was irrigated and farmed in pre- historic times by a race of people who have left behind them traces O their canals and ruins that mart the sites of towns
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 T. E. L.-Please tell something O. the beginnings of the practical tele phone?
 A. It was on February 12, 1877 that Professor Alexander Graham Bells articulating telephone wa tested by experiments at Boston ant Salem, Mass, and was found to con vey sounds distinctly from one plac, to the other, distance of eighteen miles. This telephone was widel, exhibited in this country and Europ, during that year, and companie were established to bring 1t int general use. Edison's carbon "lou; speaking" telephone was brought ou in 1878. It is not worth while goin; into details on the subject of priorit, of invention. The examiner o patents decided July 22, 1883, tha Professor Bell was the first inventor