Daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1865, 1861-03-28
QUESTIONS ANA Ansyyers.

Questions and Answers.
We Gull few qlestiorss and their an
swers from the Sunday Times and Aess.
anger:
QuestiOa:--What diet is most healthy,
and what would you Fecommeud2
-4HstVeT:-A plain and substantial one,
emitting pastry, fresh cakes, new bread, &c.
Qn6Sfio1:-ls coffee slow poison, as
some persons sny.
-4nspey;-Not unless taken immoderate-
| lv. Moderately imbibed il is a gentle
stimnlant and retArds the destruction of
tue tissues. With coffee, less solid food
can be eaten and the usual health AID
strength m0intnined. F{5zf5 a.
| QuestioHs-Does vinegar make person
thin, aud is it unhealthy?
| ARSgsr:-The excessive use Of vinegar
will produce avNriety of malndies, and of
course lennness is an inevitable result of
confirmed disease.
| QuestiOn:-Do you consider violin play
uganaccOmplishmenY Lord Chesterfield,
l.believe, said not
| 44RsueE:-It is Au accomplishment, of
course, If the nrt be acquired 10 mastery
manner. 0r.linnryl violin playing is vulgar
aud little better than nuisance. Lord
Chesterfield is about US good authority in
social matters. now, as Aristotle is in
philosophy. Tue principles of both are
"bchipd the age y
QuesdSa:- What effect, if any, upon The
system does fTee-nse of lem0ns tnuse2-
~ son OF niue IS much addicted to iLe cat
ing ofthe same, and | fear its effects upon
his health.
Ansrer:-An over-use of acids of any
kind is as .deleterious to the health as nn
over.use of sweets either tend to o,destroy
the digestion.
QueStion;-Whatis IS your opinion of board
ing schools for childrep2F z
'AHStrET:.-As u general thing, iveo have a
poor opinion of them. Under the parents
eye, and in the ssneiA4ions of a Isirttinus
home, the child most truly deYeIorcs buttI
morally aud phYsivullv. Divorced from
the happy and sacred influences nf home.
the worser instincts of child's nature are
100 apt to ind free way,, and the hfIGc+
uons which should, and, supported by
home Influences, do control aud reptess
them to hecppls dull and exert no. active
agency in n+lleeaFly formation of theirchar-
actcr.
QueStion;-To whom is due the credit of
having first applied steam power snccess-
fully to the propelling Of vessels?
-lHs'rer:2The credit of priority in this
great work is now conceded to James
Watt. Robert Fulton, however, undonbt-
edly made the first practically successful
application of steam power to the pronul-
sion of vessels available for travel and
traffic.
QWesfion:-lftwo persons are married at
the ages of sixteen without the knowledge
of their Pnrents. can said parents separate
them agniust their will, and if so, have
/! they ony claim on each other?
/ 4nsrers-Msrriage is civil contract BY
J L..
| the. parties mnst be of full age. By tile
/ Statute females are not of age until their
: eighteenth year, nor men till their twenty
\ first, Prior to those periods parent owns
4 the time of child, and has an absolute
I right to dispose of it, as to him shall seem
! fit, provided he requires nothing of the
ctild contrary to law or good morals; con-
!. seqnentlY parents can separate minors who
| haYe gone through the form of marriage.
I Although, however, parents have a proper
1 ty in their children until the attnintnent,by
4 them of their minority, tue law, in the iu-
/ terest OF morality, holds marriage COM
pleted by minors to be valid and binding.
QHsStion:Els there any good book pnb-
lished which could gRin a knowledge of
mercantile transactionS2 II SO, inform me
! the name .5-i4
-AnS,rEr:-None that we know Of, and if
I there were it would be practically useless
| Mercantile affairs must be leaned by ex-
1 Periencc, md are best learned by begin.
uing as shop-boy, aud by diligence, hon.
esty. sobriety. and mn intelligent use of
circumstances and opportunity working up
to the top OF the ladder, aud .'head of the
| firm.n is
QWestion:-Does starch Mhiten the skin,
and is it injuriousto health2
Anslser:-lt temporarily whitens it, but
many Of the cosmfrigs are ultimately in
the skin and emUsrass the action of insen-
si6le Precipitation which keeps the skin
soft aud healthy. fl#
a strange specime,l Of the. kind. known