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‘Caller display’ on your phone is when the phone number of their person calling you is shown on a screen on the phone while it is still ringing. If you know who is calling, you can choose how you answer. If it is a friend, you can be casual. Sometimes people are surprised when you say their name before they have told you. They wonder how you know it is them.

If you don’t know who is calling you might answer differently. Some people work in their homes and it is important that they answer their phones correctly. If you don’t want to speak to the caller, you can just let the phone ring. You can call them back later, when you are ready to talk to them.

Rubber comes from the juice of several different tropical trees. This juice is called latex. Most latex comes from a type of tree that is native to Brazil in South America, but now it is mostly grown in Malaysia and Indonesia.

Rubber was first used by South American Indians. They got the latex from under the bark of the tree, and spread it over their feet. When it dried, it was a kind of shoe. They also made latex bottles. This was done by smearing latex over clay moulds, drying it and washing out the clay.

A few hundred years ago in England, people believed in unusual cures that today we would think were very strange. For instance, if a man was going bald, he was advised to coat his head in honey and juice from vine leaves. Or, if a child had weak bones, his mother would take some snails from the garden and crush them. Then she would hang them in a canvas bag so that the juice dripped out into a bowl. Every morning and evening she would rub the juice onto the child’s joints.

Nowadays we would mostly use medicines that have been tested by scientists. However, not so long ago an article in a magazine said that a cure for baldness was to rub the head with onion and vinegar.