Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-12
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC ]. H4SKIN.

Q. What was the sign of surrender
of an Indian tribe following warfare?
d. f.
A. The Bureau of American Ethnol-
ogy says that the sign of submission
or surrender of an Indian tribe follow
ing warfare was. in observed cases,
arms are laid or thrown down.
@. Has a word been suggested to
take the place of "one's'' that would
be third person, common GENDER
F. Z.
A. In 1853, Charles c. Converse of
Erie. Pa, proposed that the coined
word 'thon," contraction Of that
one" be used in that way. 1t would
solve the question of a pronoun in
such q sentence as 'If John Brown
or his wife comes 1 will give thon the
message"
Q. How large is the full grown
English pheasant?-T. F. w.
A. The male English pheasant
measures about feet in length, the
tail occupying over 20 inches. The
female is smaller and measures about
2 feet over all.
O. How much does it cost a farmer
to feed a work horse?-L. r. S.
A. Under ordinary farm conditions
the cost of feeding a work horse per
day is approximately % cents.
@. Please describe a yew tree
A. C. r.
A. The yew is a large European
tree with dark green foliage. The
leaves are long and narrow and given
off from all sides of the branch. The
fruit is in the form of a red fleshy
cup nearly inclosing the bony seed.
q. Who was the earliest writer on
dietetics?-E. b.
A. Diet was studied in very ancient
times. Hippocrates, the famous Greek
physician, was interested In dietetics.
Maimonedes, the great Jewish ply
sician, wrote a series of letters on
dietetics for the son of his patron
Saladin. These are probably among
the earliest writings on the subject.
Q. What is the approximate value
of refined scrap metalS?-N. n.
A According to data collected at
the biennial census of manufacturers,
1923, the Establishments engaged
primarily in the smelling and refining
of scrap metals other than gold, silver
and platinum reported products
valued at $35.7S5,501, an increase OF
1862 per cent as compared with 1921,
the last preceding census year.
G. When was the habit discontinued
If sending people to America to be in
dlntured servants, and girls to be
married w. y.
A. The habit of sending people to
America to be made indentured serV-
ants was discontinued at the time Of
the American Revolution. The habit
of sending maidens to become the
wives of colonists was discontinued
the latter part of the seventeenth
century or the early eighteenth
@. Are Pittsburgh Phil, the great
race horse bettorr and Tod Sloan, who
rode horses in races, one and the
same?-M J. S.
A. Tod Sloan and Pittsburgh Phil
are two different persons. Tod Sloan,
the famous Jockey, is still living. Phil
Smith pittsburgh PHIL is dead. He
was a printer before going in the
racing game.
Q. What is the origin of the title
CARR. A. B.
A The Slavic word car or tsar
ultimately represents the Latin Caesar,
but came, according to Mik1osich,
through the medium of a Germanic
language in which the word had the
general sense emperor.
Q. Why isn't the Hudson Bay used
much as a waterway?-A. K.
a. The Hudson Bay is not an i'm
portant waterway because of the
proximity of its entrance to the Arctic
regions. Past the mouth Of the strait
flows a stream often over 100 miles
wide of berg and foe ice caused by the
Arctic Current This makes naViCa-
ton difficult and almost impossible in
the Winter season. The proximity of
the entrance to the magnetic pole also
causes the compass needle to become
unreliable. The only good harbor is
at Fort Churchill.