The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-07-18
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Is there a law in force now that re-
quires restaurant proprietors TO allow
Mattresses n day H. each week? Are
they permitted to work these girls as
much as six weeks without a day off?
What procedure must he followed
legally to adopt a child? INQUIRER.
There is no law 10 prevent restaurant
proprietors requiring Mattresses to work
seven days a week. and there is no law
preventing the girls working six weeks
without a day on. unless such laws were
enacted in the closing hours Of the last
session Of the New York Legislature
and have not yet been brought TO the
attention OF the state Industrial Com
mission.
\ person wishing to adopt a child
may communicate with the Children's
Aid Society. los East Tw~enty-second
street, New York. II II Is a matter OF
leealizing the adoption OF n child all
ready In the home write to +. II. Opitz
Of the Children's Aid Society, who ha :
charge of their adoptions and will be
glad TO explain the proper procedure.
Kindly tell me the correct p%ronuncia-
ton of cafeteria. ] do not find II In
Webster. INQuIRER.
The accent should he on the syllable
next to tile last. But wide usage in the
West is a sanction for saying cafeteria.
The expression imam H,lliner"-can
any OF your readers tell me who orig
mated II and when? Y. y. $.
The Century. Webs,er's and the stand
ard dictionaries all give the term. Mil
liner, presumably derived from Milan
and first applied to tradesmen of that
city. first meant "A male merchant only.
says the Century. which goes on to re-
strict the present meaning to women.
An interesting note in ply fe's 5000
Facts and Fancies'' says that man mil
liner was a nickname given to Henry
III. t57i-l5sa), Kin OF France who
his time in devising new fashions in
dress
Will YOU kindly publish the signif.
canoe of the word "vsmps" as applied
to the old volunteer fire department?
JoHN +. THOMSON.
No satisfactory account OF this us'
Of 'vanp' has been encountered. TIL
late Marty Reese, custodian OF the city
Hall and a vamp, declared that thu
name arose In this way: The demijohr
used to he passed among the %voluntee
Are fighters and those who didn't relish
a swig poured their measures down tn,
legs Of their boots with the remark
Anyway. it's good for old vamps.'
Another explanation said that tn,
name came from the initial letters o
the Volunteer Association OF Mschin'
bumpers. It has also been said tina
the word may have come from the 1tal
ian vampo. vampa. which means fam,
and the vapor and heat arising from
great blaze.
. am n university graduate. hav
travelled extensively. I am "A lover o
, looks and of literature. I browse il
second hand bookstores whenever | hav
leisure. | have all my life read refer
efces to Pilgrims Progress" | know
: many of the incidents In the book an
perhaps am able to use many OF 1t
~allegorical points in writing IND CONVEX
sation. Hut I have never seen a copy o
the book. Who publishes it? Whe
WAS II last published II. n.
There We're eight new editions of Hun
vans classic issued last fall by Revel
the American Book Company. LothroI
Lee & Shepard and other houses.
II y will walk a few blocks from III
address he gives TO Brentano's hook
store he may see all Of these editions.
I have heard that a serum has bee
discovered that will cure hay fever. I
this true? Is there any cure? J. Il. G.
There have been serums for hay feve
, since 1904 and perhaps earlier. So IA
no treatment has been found that work
in all cases. Write to Percy r. jerome
l24 East Twenty eighth street, Me-
York, who is secretary Of the Unite
States Hay Fever Association. This oi
ganization examines all new remcdis
and tests their efficacy uron its men
hers. II has exact statistics of the effe,
Of all past and present treatments.
issues bulletins warning sufferers of ha
feverish zones and instructing thel
where they have a reasonable chance ,
Immunity.
In what year did Henry George ri
for Mayor and who ran against him
Did he die in that campaign or was 1t
n later year, when he was running f.
secretary OF State? Did he run twic
for Mayor? W. T.. RATHBuS.
Henry George ran for Mayor first
1856 as the candidate Of the Unite
Labor Party. The Tammany nomin,
was Abram $, Hewitt, who was electe
and the Republicans named Theodo,
Roosevelt, The following year NJ
George ran unsuccessfully FOR Secretar
of state. He was again n nomine f.
Mayor in 1897. He died In the can
paign and his son. Henry George, J,
was substituted on the ticket. The oth'
candidates IN 1897 were Robert A. Va
n, Wyck, Tammany, who was elected Be
jamin +, Tracy, Republican, and Sci
Low, Citizens Union
Years ago | read in tho I.Ond,
w Spectator a translation OF a poem fro
the German telling of n pilgrimage ma,
l,-, 90 tha IlIASOA1 Atrnin hN