Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-05

@. How old is the city of Toron-
to, Canada ?-F. S. A.
A. According to the Board of
Trade Of Toronto. the city had Its
beginning in 1749 as a French trad
ing post.
O.. How can scratches be taken
out of a vanished ioor?-F. A.
A. The Department of Agricul-
ture says hat a vanished floor, IL
not too badly worn, may be renovat
ed by rubbing the scratches with a
rag dipped in linseed oil. If h
scratches are too deep for such treat
men. they may be sand-papered out
and a new coat of varnish brushed
over them. If the floor is badly worn
the best way is t remove as much
of the varnish as possible and apply
a fresh coat.
@. What sort of toys have the
most educational value for small
children PA. A. T.
A. The Bureau of Education
says that a child should be given
few toys and they should be toys of
which he can make active s The
ball is the ideal toy, as IL Is the in
strument of most games. The baby
should be given a soft, bright-col-
ored ball. and taught to play with
it. and larger and harder balls should
be given the child as soon as he is
able to use them. Thus the founda-
ton is laid for a later skill in health
giving games. Building blocks which
encourage the child's inventive ten
dency are also good. Later, when the
initiative instinct develops. the child
should be given working implements
on a small scale, such as toy brooms,
shovels, ranks, etc. Most mechanic
cal toys, and easily broken toys,
should be avoided.
@. Is there any way OF predict
ing a frost?-C. j. j.
A. The Weather Bureau says hat
frost will never occur when there is
a wind blowing OF when there are
heavy clouds nea the earth. A clear
still night soon after a rain in the
frost season is most apt to produce
a frost.
Z. How many motor vehicles has
the War Department sold since the
war, and what has it done with the
others?-A. H. +.
A. Up to July 0, 1921, the War
Department has sold a few less than
10000 unserviceable motor vehicles,
and it had transferred AZ 1000 service
able cars to other departments.
@. When was the first skirt worn?
C. H. X.
A. If you accept the biblical &C.
count of the history of the race,
doubtless Eve wore the first skirt.
for it is stated in Genesis that Adam
and Eve made themselves coverings.
The anthropologists, who believe hat
men as we know him evolved slow
ly from some lower form of life, say
that there was a stage in his develop
ment when he went naked: but it
would probably be impossible to fix
the time when men first began to
wear clothing.
@. What is Observation-Disclosures
o. 7. H.
A. The term is a vague one which
was applied to the philosophy of the
group of American writers which
centered about Concord, Massachu-
sets, between 1850 and 1880. Ralph
Waldo Emerson was the best known
of them. while Thoreau. Charming,
Alcott and Margaret Fuller were
other we'll known members of the
circle. The transcendental philos-
ophy might be briefly described as
the belief that man reaches his full
est development by fixing his mind
upon the highest and noblest ele-
ments in life and overlooking the
mean and sordid phases. "As a man
thinks, so is he" The modern cult
of the New Thought derives much of
its koctrine from transcendentalism.