Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-16
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
The other grace is to keep your smoke
from peoples faces"
BY FREDERIC J. HAsKIN.

The other grace is to keep your smoke
from peoples faces.
Q. Which are the oldest Indian reser-
A. The Oldest Indian reservation is
the one at Indian Mills. N. j., estab
lished in 1853. Other old ones Of con-
siderable size are the Navajo Reser-
walton largest in the United States
and the Seminole Reservation, IS miles
southeast Of Fort Myers; also the Grow
Reservation In Montana.
@. When was a cracker bakery first
established In this country?-L. j. T.
A. AS far as any authentic record
shows, the first cracker bakery in the
United States was that Of Theodore
Pearson at Newburyport, Mass. He be-
gan business in 1892 and his speciality
was o large cracker which was known
both as a pilot" and as ships bread.
Joshua Brent was Pearson's first great
business rival. He erected an oven Tor
cracker baking at Milton, Mass, in 1901.
He was succeeded by many other
cracker manufacturers. The crackers
were first made by hand. During the
years between 1910 and 1865 the me
chanical process employed in making
crackers underwent remarkable de-
velopment. Prior to 1910 the use OF
machinery In the cracker-making proc
ess was practically unknown. Even
then the dough was still worked up ana
put into the oven one piece at time.
Machinery was finally invented which
took the dough after 1t had been pre-
pared by hand and rolled into thin
sheet which, as 1t passed over a sort OF
endless belt, was cut by stamping ma
chine which works automatically.
O. Who invented the jinrikisha?-
A. The Rev. Jonathan Goble, an
American Baptist missionary, invented
1t in 1871. He was in Yokohama at the
time and devised 1t as vehicle in which
his invalid wife might take the air.
@. How should poinsettia be treat
ed so that, it will bloom again next
| Christmas PM G. 3.
A. The care of poinsettias Is rather
involved. Florists handle them along
| the following lines: When the plants are
through Towering, the 1st Of January,
the stock plants are selected and placed
under the benches for at least 10 weeks.
Here they are allowed to become dried
but the wood should never shrivel.
They should be kept at temperature
of SO to so degrees. About the middle
of April the soil should be taken on
and the plants ported in new, rich soil.
They are then cut back considerably
and placed on q sunny. bench where
they will get some bottom heat. New
growth will start almost Immediately,
and this furnishes material for cuttings.
AS soon as the cuttings are rooted they
/ should be potted carefully, so that the
roots are not injured. A good flbrous
loan, to which has been added about
one -fourth the bulk of well rotted cow
manure, makes an excellent soil for
poinsettias During the Summer they
may be plunged out of doors in full
sunlight. They should be repotted fire.
quently so as not to become pot-bound.
The temperature should never 60 below
SIS degrees at night. As soon as tho
plants begin to show color the tenn
perature may be increased 10 or is de-
grees. The plants should be fully de-
veloped the early part Of December.
@. When will the new harbor Of
Peru be completed?-G. A.
A. The new port, which is being con-
structed at Callao, will be finished in
the Fall of 1880. This will give Peru
one Of the most modern and one of the
! best equipped ports on the western
coast Of South America.