Evening star., 1926-12-03

q. Does the President Of the United
! States have to pay his own grocery
I bill. or Is there an allowance for this?
IF. c. H.
! A. Mrs. Elizabeth Jaffray, former
housekeeper at the White House. says
that the food bill is the only expense
connected with the White House
which a President of the United States
must pay personally out of his salary.
with the exception Of the amount nee.
essary for personal clothes for himself
and his family.
B. w.
A. A recent article in a marine
publication says, 1.-The majority OF
marine underwriters concur in the
Judgment that lightning is a sea peril
| on the basis that a marine policy not
only covers fire. such as Is likely to
result from lightning. but also In
cludes loss or damage from all perils
Of the sea-"
@. According to the rules Of eti-
uuette, does the lady sit to the mans
| right at the dinner table?-O. w.
A. The woman occupies the seat to
i the right of the man with whom sne
! goes in to dinner.
@. What kind of a school is the
Principia in st. Louis?-R. II.
A. It Is a junior college. co-educa'
tfonal. and limits its enrolment to
| children Of Christian Scientists. IT
was founded in 1898. 1t has no con
nection with and receives no support
from the Christian Science Church.
N. i M. IS tho sui u
A. It IL very fertile. Only nve.
| eights Of the whole area OF the re-
| public is occupied, and the cultivation
| of the land Is carried on under OLD
| methods. Bananas are the principal
crop, but rubber coffee, cocoa, COCO
nuts and sarsaparilla are important
| crops.
q. Was Gen. Nelson A. Miles q
West Point man?-C. l..
A. Gen. Miles entered the military
service a civilian in September, 1861.
He recruited a company Of volunteers
and was made q first lieutenant. He
was then % years old. At the age OF
| "a he was a brigadier general, and at
| 26 q major general. At the close of
the Civil War he was made a colonel
in the Regular Army. In 1880 he won
a brigadier generalcy; in 1890 he was
general, 1900.
@. Do people eat as many dough
nuts as they did formerly?-C. S. B.
A. The president of the American
| Institute of Baking says there is
very great increase In the doughnut
i business. "This may be due to the de-
| velopment of automatic machinery for
making doughtnuts or it may be fun.
/ = %r,1Iy 60 Ofh a.
son, such perhaps the high energy
value of the food, it's relative cheap
ness and its appetizing flavor"
| O. Can a member Of the House of
| Commons in the British Parliament
resign, as a member of the United
States Congress CANA. N. G.
| A. A member of the House Of Com.
mons cannot resign his seat, but may
| ask for some other office of profit un
der the crown and so vacate his seat
under the act Of settlement. The
usual procedure is to apply for the
stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds
or the Escheatorship of Munster or
some other nominal office. whereupon
the seat is declared vacant and writ
to fill it issued.
Q. What are the important aids to
air navigation?-R. S. S.
A. The first aid to air navigation
| must be the extension to the air pilot
Of relatively the same help as fur
nished pilots on the seas. First is the
lighting of the airways. Next is the
weather communication system be-
tween at least those stations at which
| aircraft alight; then the radio beacons
the radio markers, the radio tele
phones for direct communication with
i - Ill 80 fvr fcrn 70 ion h nj
| conditions ahead along the route, il
| the radiophone is found to be the best