The San Francisco call., 1909-10-11
Answers to Queries

Y.
What is the verse as TO the birth of children
on different days Of the week: the same to
marriages.
Monday, fair of face;
Tuesday, full OF Gods grace;
Wednesday, merry and glad:
Thursday, sour and sad
Friday, Cody given;
Saturday, work for a living;
Sunday. ne'er shall know want
So ends the week and there the
end on it.
Mondays child is fair of face.
Tuesdays child is full OF grace,
Wednesdays child Is full of woe,
Thursdays child has far to go,
Fridays child is loving and fair,
Saturdays child works hard for a
living,
And child that is born on Christ
mas day
Is fair and wise and good and gay.
AS to maria ges-
Monday for wealth,
Tuesday for health,
Wednesday best day of all
Thursday for crosses,
Friday for losses,
Saturday no luck at all.
= Observation-Disclosures City. What Is the
origin of the superstition that horseshoe nailed
over a door will keep out the evil spiritf
There is a legend to the effect that
the devil once asked St. Dunstan, who
had a reputation for shoeing horses, to
shoe his one hoof st. Dunstan who
knew him, tied him tightly to wall,
but Intentionally put him in such pain
that he begged to be released. St.
Dunstan, who had been so much an
noyed on a previous occasion by the
devil walking around his anvil while
he was at work, that. he took his tongs,
red hot, out of the furnace. seized the
annoyer by the nose with them and led
him out of the shop. st. Dunstan
promised to release him on one condi-
tion, and that was that he would never
enter any place whero he saw a horse
shoe displayed.
NAMES AND THEIR MEANING-E. T. H.
Sacramento. Cal. What do the following names
mean2 Alcatraz. Farallone Tamalpais. Yo-
semitic, Tuolumne. Atlantic
A1catraz means pelican; FaraIlone is
from farallon (needle) and means
small pointed island, as applied to the
islands near San Francisco bay: Tam
alpais is country of the Tamales. -
the name of a tribe of Indians in Marin
county in the early days of California;
Yosemite is grizzly bear; Tuolumne is
a corruption of talmalamme, which
means group of stone huts or collec-
tion of wigwams: Atlantic, the name
SIN I'll " LIS OCCd0, Is IIOIu the GTGek
and means the sea beyond Mount Atlas.
AGE-J., Napas, CAL Does person who
tells ''fb in regard to age In applying for
marriage license commit legal wrong?
The law says that in applying for a
marriage licence the applicant must
answer certain questions under oath
and among these is "the ages of the
parties" From this it is apparent that
the question as to age is a material
matter. and any one who swears falsely
as to a material matter in legal pro-
ceeding is guilty of perjury.
WILCOX Oakland. Cal Are
person?
They are not. Ella Wheeler wilcox
was born in tombstone Center, Wis, in
1855 and Dorothy Dix, which is the pen
name of Elizabeth Merriweather Gil
mer, was born In Montgomery county,
Tenn. in 1870.
FIVE DoLLARs-F. R., Fort Brag, Cal.
Where was s5 piece bearing date OF 1859. and
mint mark &C coined?
G.. C.. stands for the Carson City
1870. Coins Of that denomination were
issued from the mint at Charlotte. N.
c.. the mint mark of which is c.. in
the year given
IN THREE sTATES-subscriber. city, Is
there place called Piney Flats in Tennessee:
Arkansas City in Kansas and Lebanon In In
diara7
Yes. Piney Flats. Sullivan county.
Tenn: Arkansas City, Desha county.
Kan. and Lebanon. Boone county Ind.
/. TWO AUTH0RS--L.. X, Lodi, Cal. Who
wrote The Wide. Wide World and "Old
Heideberg?'' ~
The first was written by S. Warner