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Evening star., 1926-05-08
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

@. Which hen is the mother OF
a. chick, the one who lays the egg Or
the one that matches III. II. y.
A. The Poultry Division says tina
the hen that laid the egg is the
mother However, hens will mother
any chickens that they hatch.
@. Is there any city in tho Chit@1
States where the traffic goes TO the
left?-I. l.. y.
A. The American Automobile Aseo
citation says that as far as IT knows
there Is no place in the United States
or Canada where automobile train
goes to the left. This an English
custom and probably was used IL
CanaGa, some tirIe ago.
O. Are there polar bears around
the South Pole?-M. NJ.
A. Stefansson, the explorer, says
that so far as is known there are
no land animals on the Antarctic
Continent. This continent, he states,
is larger than Australia,
Q. How many gallons Of water pass
through the Chicago Canal per sec
ond?-P. w. Z.
A. The Chicago Association Of Con
merce says that the present legal how
I
| the Secretary OF War of March 3, 1925,
| is $3.50 cubic feet per second which.
| in gallons, would be about $1,000 gal
| Ions per second.
| @. Why is certain kind OF rug
called q drugget?-G. NJ. G.
| A. The word IS derived from the
/ French word ''droguet," which means
/ trash or stuff, and is applied to a
| coarse wooden felt or woven cloth fio"r
/ covering.
/ q. What is the difference betv eer
eugenics and euthenicS?-W. r. w.
/ A Euthenics deals with the better
ment OF living conditions through COZ
scious endeavOr in order TO secure eft
| cient human beings Eugenics deals
/ with race improvement through h.
redity,
! q. Can the Copernican theory b"
/ proved ?--R. Il. :.
! A. The Naval Observatory saws the
correctness Of the Copernican theor'
| is as certain as that of any scientif
| discovery ever made. II can be doub'
ed only on the ground that nothing -
| absolutely certainly known.
| Q. Why do my muscles get sol .
when play pail IN the spring -. u.
! A. Because. probably. during the
| Winter YOU have not been exercising
| the particular muscles employed i'
! throwing n ball enough 10 keep Nol.
! in good condition.
What do you need to kitotc2 Is thefs
| some point about your business o
! personal life that pu=~leS you? Is
/ there something yOu lrdHt TO kno7r
| trithout delay? submit your QueStio.
! to FTederic J. HdSkin. director Of our
| Washington Information Bureau. IL
| is employed to help you address
| your inquiry TO The Erening Star IN
| formation Bureau. Frederic J. HdSki,
| director, Washington, ID. C.. and il
| close ? cents in stamps for returu
| postage.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

Q. What will the sesquicentennial
International Exposition cost the
United States Governmental. p.
A. The Federal Government has ap-
propriated the sum OF $2,186,000 for
It's own participation and for an
auxiliary building. OF this amount
81 900 900 has been allotted for expo
sition buildings other than the Gov
ernment pavilion. The remainder is
being used to finance the displays
which Will be sent by Government
bureaus and the Army and Navy.
O. Has the famous rose window Of
the Cathedral Of Rheims been re-
stored?-S. f. G.
A. NJ. Henri D.neux. architect in
charge of the work. recently reported
that all the windows have had their
muliions and their rose work restored,
the bindings Of the glass have been
repaired or renade, and the glass
itself, for the most part modern, Will
soon be completely inserted.
Q. On a. railway journey ! saw a
party Of Japanese eating, from TIN
box, thin strips of green substance.
1t was probably d confection. Can
you tell me what it was l.. u;
A. The Japanese embassy says that
the thin strip OF green substance re-
ferred to is not a confection, but q
Japanese food made from seaWeed
and seasoned with "shoyu." 1t is
generally eaten in soup or with
cooked rice at any hour Of the day.
usually at Inealtime. The deicately
salty flavor derived from the sea =
weed, combined with the indescrib-
able taste of the "shoyu," whet the
appetite much es caviar does. III
this way it. is regarded as an appe- =
tizer o. relish.
Q. What part OF the grain Is cream
of wheat made from?-H. =.
A. Cream Of wheat is made from the
purified niddlings" of wheat. ''uri,
fed middl!ngs" is the white kernel
broken into chunks, from which the
bran has been removed and from
which the -four has been removed.
The remaining particles comprise
crea m OF wheat.
Q. Are ostrich skins ever made into
leather. II. X.
A. Leather made from ostrich hide
is made into purses, week end cases
and other novelties. Since ostrlches
are too valuable to kill for their skins
the leather IS rare and expensive.
@. Are cockleburs native to Amer
lea or have they been imported from
foreign countries > II. V. NJ.
A. The Bureau Of Plant Industry
says that there are three common spe-
cies of cockleburs: One is naturalized
from Europe and Asia and two are
native TO the United States.
9. What is the derivation and
meaning Of Paraguay? OF Uruguay?
H NJ. X.
A. Both are GuaTa nj Indian names
Uruguay means river Of waters. re
feIring to the numerous tributaries
possibly from ura quay, meaning a
| birds (uru) tail (guay) a
waterfall. which spreads like a. bird :
| tail. Paraguay means the golden
water possibly from the water f0w.
| called paragua.
Evening star., 1926-05-08
THIS AND THAT
BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL.

Carrie the cashier carries on hei
work from behind counter Of fake
circassian walnut.
Carrie herself is not altogether
genuine. but no one minds that, least
or all the gentleman patrons of the
| restaurant.
These get their change and a smile
from Carrie; only few grouches
hand her the exact amount called for
by articles of food consumed.
Day in and day out she sits there
on her high stool, clanking the cash
register and shutting forth coins and
smiles. AS far as our observations
so. she is a permanent fixture, too.
One would as soon expect the cash
machine to be absent as to miss Car
rie from her accustomed seat. where
| she presides with all the verve OF
Venus and the wisdom OF Minerva.
If you should mention, in an un
guarded moment, the name of the
latter goddess to Carrie, she would
chide you for giving publicity to a
face cream. Greeks are not among
Carries familiars.
Her efforts, rather, have been di
rected toward the study of life on
the spot. Gods and GoddesseS play
in so far as men and women may
resemble those tabled creatures
which no doubt many of them do
since the former were only mental
images Of the latter.
x i, * 4
Carrie would be astonished, too. II
she were to be told 0et no one tell
herd that she is past master in
the art Of making people feel at home.
No doubt she would look at you in
extreme astonishment, wondering
what brand Of apple sauce" this was
you were handing" her.
Carrie simply fulfills her mission
as born restaurant ca shier. She
knows nothing of psychology, or
character reading--she simply is q
psychologist by necessity, and a
reader OF character through putting
one and one together, thus dexterous-
ly making two.
No one, therefore. least Of all yondei
slick drummer, can slip anything over
on Carrie. She is proof against all
such. Her fame has preceded her, and
even the slickest travelling salesman
no longer tries it.
Every one accords Carrie her due,
which is to be recognized as a real
good pal Of the moment. and to be
let GO at that. There is something
honey about Carrie that makes all
feel at home.
Especially men.
Women. somehow do not take
such a shine TO her, although all
admit her winning ways. Carrie IS
popular. and d popular woman always
has a hard row to hoe, as the saying
is. with her own sex.
Carrie knows her business. that is
all.
Carrie has deep brown hair, and
deeper brown eyes, and cheeks pink
with the hues Of the true dawn, and
a smile like the radiance Of the sun
itself. With all these beauties there
Is a touch OF shyness, almost Of
sadness, that distinguishes her among
a thousand restaurant cashiers.
= :: x :;
1t is a. safe bet that no lonesome
male who ever ate breakfast III
Carries restaurant ever forgot the eX-
perience. It may have been years ago,
life may have brought forth many
changes, but in the back of their
memories they carry a beautiful
picture, sitting framed among the
lumber that cutters up the place.
1t is a photograph OF Carrie. OF
course.
She sat there on her stool on the
cold days, when the snow swirled
Evening star., 1926-05-08
The Fifth Day of Strike.

Official denial in London that there
has been anv secret conference be-
tween Premier Baldwin and Strike
Leader Thomas looking to q possible
adjustment of the troubles beSettln9
Great Britain has not stopped reports
Of efforts to bring about a settlement.
Rumors to that effect continue to cir
.ulate, though without any apparent
ground
The two official organs, the Gazette
AND the British Worker, are engaged
in Il duel Of declarations. An official
conmunique published in the latest
issue Of the Gazette declares: An
organized attempt is being made to
starve the people and direct the state,
and the legal and constitutional as
poets are entering upon new
phase" The labor organ denies that
the calling of a general strike is an
attack upon the constitution and
says there is no constitutional crisis. >
Moves of a practical nature are
similarly made by the opposing sides.
The government enrols $4,000 extra
policemen TO guard London and the
strike leaders prepare 10 call out
10000 900 more men. whom they char
sCteriZe as the second line Of de
fanse." These men include electricians
and if they all respond to a call the
power plants of Great Britain will be
seriously crippled. which will affect
not only transportation but refrigera-
ION and thus the preserving of food
supplies. Already, according to this
mornings reports. electricians in nine
teen of London's twenty eight bor-
ough power houses quit work, but
hey were at once replaced by volun-
teers.
1t is becoming evident that there are
TWO factions in the labor party, the
more militant and the more conserva-
live. Ramsay Macdonald, former la
Dor premier is leader, it would seem,
Of the moderates. and is even now
trying to induce the miners to relax
heir obstinate attitude in their wage
demands. This would seem to be a
practical method of reaching a con-
clusion. Still the government has
formally declared that it will not make
any move toward resuming negotia-
tions unless and until the general
strike order is rescinded and those
who are now on strike in response 20
it return to work
The general strike is an effort at
coercion to compel the government
OF Great Britain TO intervene and by
its own act adjust the wage dispute in
the mine industry by continuing The
subsidy to the mine owners or by
granting a subsidy TO the miners
themselves. Premier Baldwin and his
fellow ministers have with the assent
of Parliament refused on constitutional
grounds to permit the government to
he forced into Intervention The is
sue now is greater than the settlement
Of the mine strike. Il is the mainte-
nance of constitutional government in
Great Britain.
Evening star., 1926-05-08
SHOOTING STARS.
BIZ PHILANDER JOHNSON
Placid Ease.

Placid Ease.
Amid his grandeur slept King Tut
11nheeding eff" or land" or but
The World rolled on with storm and
stress.
He dozed in comfort, none the less
perchance he dreamed, as Hamlet
said
Men may when waketul llle mas lieu
And in imagination spent
The hours in revelrous content.
And we who all inertly dwell
In splendid safety, guarded Well
Are free from care and danger
But"
Fate whispers, sos your old King
Tut"
Evening star., 1926-05-08
THE INFALLIBLE ONE. MISTER
BY FRANK II. SInONDS

he finds some American doing a tas,-
which has escap ped great renown. no,
---7---.55..55s..rr...- smaller on that aCcouN'
! and doing the J@b in such fashiO:.
! as to make even American efflCienCt
seem more tolerable and less material
Herbert Hoover was such a man 81
his days of Belgian relief.
No one can fix the limits. define the
function. measure the usefulness oH
this sort of American on the job. He
may prevent wars. bully great nations
or merely introduce ordinary common
sense into an atmosphere in which
secular and traditional divisions make
anything but passionate recrimination
| impossible.
. But what he does az his best is to
! supply a basis for confidence; he :
the man whom all trust: he Is. in
/ sense, the trustee of reason and fair
play. 10 whom in the last analysis
all refer because all believe in the
! honesty and simple good faith Of the
! arbiter
OF this sort is Smith of Dover
! y. H., later of Harvard. and O.
many far and famous achievements
at the American bar. For more than
| two years he has sat on the hi!'
/ where the old Turkish Conquerors
| used TO watch the plain; he has quier
! ly, unobtrusively, efficiently rescueG
| Hungarian finances and stabilized
/ Hungarian currency. He has proteCt
ed the lIungarians from the designs
as well as the suspicious of the little
| entente. His guarantee of the il.
| justice Of certain suspicious has KEEP
| invading armies at home. Disarmed
and helpless. with three open frontiers
| which invite. Hungary has escaped
n fhrnafC u{a
! because in the last analysis there was
! the 'Infallible One. Mister" sitting
/ on the hill hard by the thousand-ye
| old Coronation Church. in the RococCo
ministry Of finance, and giving the
| best of him, all of it--and it is both
a good deal and a high best--to the
| job in hand.
| Simple. shrewd kindly witha
neither buying gold bricks nor selling
| green goods. Smith of Dover has sat
on the old hill of Buda and done for
one country service the value OF
which can hardly be exaggerated
! And if YOU think of Budapest, the
| most romantic capital of the las
feudal state in Europe. nothing is a.
once so appealing and so satisfyins
| as the thought that there. amidst a
the relics of grandeur and evidence
! of past greatness. in the most Eu.
/ ropean thing left in Europe. one
Smith of Dover sits calm and con
| petent, prepared TO raise the salary
OF the regent or forbid tho advance
of the armies of the little entente
as once he might have decided tha
| Harvard would not play Dartmouth,
during the season or that. in the
/ Yale game, Brewer would carry the
| ball.
! We have no viceroys and no pro
| consuls: most of the best representa
tives we send abroad never figure I'm
our diplomatic list; Europe knows
| them on the whole far better than do
| we at home. But of the gre9r
servants of the European reconstruc.
tion who have done honor TO thei,
own country in doing service for other
| nations. far and away not the leg 81
| is jeremiah Smith of Dover. 100 per
cent American, without one single
Fourth of July brag in any one Of
the percents.
Copyright. 1920
Evening star., 1926-05-08
The Criminal 2 Per Cent.
From the Fort Worth star-Telesram

From the Fort Worth Star-TeIegram
Associated criminologists, after 40. e.
600 tests. have arrived at the gener-
alization that per cent of the peo-
pie commit 90 per cent of the crimes.
Such a conclusion carries the corol-
larry that it is possible to ascertain
within reasonable limits whether or
not an individual belongs to the
criminal . per cent without waiting
for him to show 1t by committing Il
crime.
We are not yet ready for it. but
some day social knowledge will make
it rule to isolate potential Grim
inals before they become actual
criminals. That. and the progress
which will continue TO be made IL
correcting mental attitudes and
habits that produce criminalitN
eventually, will dispose Of the prob
lem.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

An author who courts attention by
calling himself socialist" may find
himself embarrassed when q crisis
arises which compels him to submit
10 being taken seriously. George Ber.
nard Shaw has a situation before him
which cannot be disposed of by a
hippancy.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

An author has refused thousand
dollar prize, explaining that he regards
prize contests as unfavorable to lit
erary development. Anyhow. what IS
n mere thousand dollars to a really
successful author?
Evening star., 1926-05-08

People are walking TO work in Lon
don. The human element disturbs
the calculations of mechanical experts
But it is the human element that must
finally be depended on for the faith
and determination that keep affairs
moving.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

Delay in presentation of American
deb,,tante at court is deplored. The
dressmakers are compelled to suffer
along with the rest Of the general pub
liz IN the present crisis.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

Whatever may happen, the King of
England will remain popular. owing
to an intelligent realization that he Is
wishing for the best and that if any
thing goes wrong it is not his fault.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

Uncle Sam still retains the attitude
Of the person who is Interested in what
may happen next in Great Britain
and is in obedience to the radio an
nouncer's admonition Please stand
Evening star., 1926-05-08

The obscure Government worker
looks forward to a modest pension.
The fact that this is the richest coun-
try on earth is not accurately reflect
ed in his affairs.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

Ancient cities are constantly being
announcements of the up-to.date realty
development all the more attractive
hv comparison.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

Pennsylvania will bring the =" wet
dry issue" directly into politics. Old
John Barleycorn is trying to assert
himself as bigger man than William
Penn himself.
Evening star., 1926-05-08
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Evening star., 1926-05-08

All the great minds of England are
agreed on one point: The situation Is
serious.
Evening star., 1926-05-08
The Perennial Bar.

From the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch.
The plan for an early adjournment
Of Congress may be wrecked on Muscle
Shoals.
Evening star., 1926-05-08
No Rivalry.

From the South Bend Tribune.
We wonder If there Is much of a
contest for coroner Of Williamson
County, IN
Evening star., 1926-05-08

From the Duluth Herald.
An alien should live in America at
least a year before denouncing
darned foreigners.
Evening star., 1926-05-08
Sport and Politics.

DpOFI anu VKttHV0'
why don't you quit work and go
fishing?"
"I'd like to- answered Senator
Sorghum. But none of my constitu-
ents are fishermen. If I want to re-
main popular as a sport enthusiast
I've got to keep on playing golf.''
Evening star., 1926-05-08
Fashion on the Capitol Dome

Fashion on the Capitol Dome.
Miss Freedom hears the various
probes
And sighs, "I'll watch my shape.
They may remove my flowing robes
And dress me in red tape
Jud Tunkins says a film star is
sometimes obliged to have a good
press agent to counteract what is said
by his wife's lawyers.
Grass Widow.
What is a grass widow?" inquired
the stranger in our country.
"One who collects alimony, an
swered Miss Cayenne. "She made hay
while the sun shone."
No Selection.
My radio has won my heart
AS tunes are set afloat.
I once took music a Ia carte.
It's now served table d'hote.
English beverage experts say that
tea has a wonderful kick in it. It had
in the days just before the Revolution.
Spring Song.
Old themes are bringin'
Loveliest lays.
The frogs are singin'
"Hoppy days.'
DE man dat can't make muffin
else" said Uncle Eben, makes
trouble
Evening star., 1926-05-08

@. Why is certain kind OF rug
called q drugget?-G. NJ. G.
A. The word IS derived from the
French word "droguet," which means
trash or stuff and is applied to =.
coarse wooden felt or woven cloth for
covering.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

English beverage experts say that
tea has wonderful kick in it. 1t had
in the days just before the Revolution.
Evening star., 1926-05-08

@. Why do my muscles get soi .
when 1 play ball in the Spring?-C. /.
A. Because. probably. during the
Winter YOU have not been exercising
the particular muscles employed in
throwing ball enough 10 keep NoD
in good condition.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1926-12-02
DR.. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
BY DIR. FRANK CRANE
The Historical Ash Heap

COME psychologists have been tracing life by digging
\ around in the Kjokkemmoddngn Qaugh that off, 1t
kitten middens'') Of the British coast.
They have found dung heaps which prolific in nforma
ton about the people who lived in the far distant times
when they accumulated
These dung heaps composed mostly of shells There
oyster Shells and shells of mussel and cookie shells
These shell fish would think of living with each other
and hence they have been gathered by They
formed by those parts of their meals which the early
and women found it impossible to eat.
Strong prehistoric ancestors they drew the
line at oyster shells
pieces of pottery implements of and wood and
times burned earth and stones
From all this the Investigators made fair picture of the
gentlemen and ladies who formerly inhabited the of the
British Isles and ate shell fish.
Spurn the dung heap Some day when this civilization
shall have passed and earthquakes glaciers shall have
moved New York and London and with few remaining
civilization shall have sprung up perhaps the
of Africa their savants will be pokng around in
garbage heaps to what manner of men
From the skeletons of rats and other eXterminated
animals they will decide that ate these lively
creatures.
Tin will be proven be Ford cylinders, and bricks
with advertisements burned into them will show the kind of
books we had
New York ragpicker has gone of business because
he says do enough clothes to make
the investigation of their refuse profitable
But cheer up Fifty thousand years from waste
heaps will be considered valuable historical documents
Copyright.