Evening star., 1924-11-15
ANSWERS~@TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN
Q. How many automobiles are paid
for in fuH when purchased and. how

Q. How many automobiles are paid
for in fun when purchased and. how
many are bought on tine?-E *.
A. The National Automobile Deal
ers' Association of ST Louis, Mo. says
that so per cent OF the automobiles
are bought on time payment, and 20
per cent are bought for cash.
q. Do MeXicans serve avocados as
Americans DON H. NJ
a. The Mexican News Bureau says
that by far the most frequent method
Of consuming agqcates, or avocados.
among the people of Mexico is TO. cut
them open. remove the seed. then
sprinkle black pepper and salt over
the flesh and remove with spoon or
blunt knife. OR even the fingers and
mouth without the aid OF an imple-
ment of any Kind. Sometimes dash
of lime or lemon juice is added if
handy. A favorite method of util-
i2ing the fruit is in the shane of a
paste OF soft agucate flesh and other
substances, including no inconsider-
able a mount of pepper. This Is called
"Guajimole," and is usually eaten
with meat. applied like mustard. But
the vegetable butter" as the natives
call II, with no other condiment than
salt and pepper, is the usual manner
Of consumption. And when fully ripe
there are few fruits that can compare
with it.
Q. Which is the hardest tissue in
the body?-V. g.
\. The enamel Of the teeth
q. What is a silver fox?-K C n
A. The name silver fox, as COM
monty used by furriers. includes the
dark phases of the ordinary red fox.
variously called -sitver, silver gray
silver black, or black. The color Of
the red fox of the Northeastern
StatHs ard OF its allies ofothe colder
parts OF North America varies from
red TO black, and these extremes with
the gTadations between them form
four more or less distinct phases.
known respectively as red, cross or
patch, silver and black
Q. What is the diameter Of the
NORTH star?-H. f. L.
A. The Naval Observatory says tho
diameter of the north sctar is prob
ably somewhere in the neighborhood
Of 20,000,000 miles.
Q. Has any one ever constructed
machine which, when screwed to
steel structure. caused the build
ing to rock by means of vibration =
r. S.
A. The Bureau of Standards says
that any vibrating mechanism will
tend to set up vibrations in a steel
structure to which it is attached.
provided the free period of oscilla-
tion of the structure Cor of some Of
its parts) is the same as that Of the
mechanism. Excessive vibration in
buildings containing reciprocatinS
machinery can sometimes he greatly
reduced by changing the speed OF the
machine slightly so as to throw it
out OF step with the building
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Q. From what is tapa cloth ma la ?
F T NJ -
A. This material is made from the
bark of the wild mulberry. 1t is
| heatep,out with wooden mallets and
decorated with designs made from
vegetable dyes. A canopy of tapa
cloth is used by 4 widow in Wani-
CELIA when she crawls on her hands
and knees to make her daily visit to
her husbands grave. She is hidden
from the eyes OF the villagers by a
canopy of tapa cloth.
Q. Please give exact date OF the
! assassination of the Austrian arch
duke at Serajevo-M. c. II.
! A The Austrian archduke Francis
Ferdinand. and his wife. the Due h e IS
of HohenberE, Serbia, were assassi-
mated at Serajevo on June IS. 1914
Q. whaa Isl. thes aveTage. er distance
that homasTg pigeons ifs in a. day
T. D. s.
A. The Department bf Asriaalture
Says that the distance that pigeons
will fly in one day depends on the
weather as we'll as thein breeding.
| Young birds in good weather will fly
about 600 miles in from sevensto aine
hours. and flights of 500 miles in one
day have been made by old birds
Q. What was the date of the first
| engagement in the World War;
! NJ. c. r = go :
A The earIipst eucs remsp+s w (