Evening star., 1932-05-20
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

have the paper that Is to be soaked OF
on the water side. In this way after
they have soaked for a couple Of hours,
the particles OF paper may be detached
by using q pair Of tweezers.
@. How much space does the average
office tenant occupy?-B. NJ.
A. The National Association Of Real
Estate Boards says that less than / 900
square feet OF once space is used for
the usual tenant.
@. How many railroads enter Chi
cago. Ill, and Toledo, Ohio?-R. A.
A. Thirty-four railroads enter Chi
cago. and 1s enter Toledo.
Q. Which are the three largest is
lands In the wo-ld?-H. H.
A. If the island continent of Aus
tralia Is Included, it heads the list The
second in size Is Greenland, and third
is New Guinea If Australia Is ex-
cluded, Borneo must be added as third
in size.
@. What Is the present form of gov
eminent Of Greece?-K. s.
A. Greece is a republic The present
constitution Of the Greek Republic was
published September %, 1925. 1t was
revised In November of that year and
proclaimed June 3, 1927. The Legis-
lature Is composed of two houses of
Parliament whose $50 members are
elected by direct, universal and secret
voting on the basis of proportional rep
resentation, and the Senate whose 120
members are elected partly by the peo-
pie, partly by the Parliament and the
Senate In common meeting, and partly
by corporations of different professions.
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President for five years. The cabinet
rises and falls as other European cabi-
nets on the party system.
O. How long does it take an Hitter
ate adult to learn to write?-R. D.
A. In the Moonlight Schools there
were few mountain women who could
not write simple letter after three
weeks instruction. Many learned in
less time.
@. What is a farthingale bench?-
P A.
A. 1t is broed-seated chair without
arms made in the reigns of James I
and Elizabeth to accommodate the
hooped skirts or farthingales of the
women of that time.
@. Please give examples of Gothic,
Norman-Gothic, Renaissance, Roman
eSQue and Byzantine architecture In
Washington, D. C.?-H. E. K.
A. Gothic: (Enghsh) The Washing
ton Cathedral, Mount st. Adams, Wis
consin avenue and Woodley road. Nor
man-Gothic: Smithsonian Institution,
the Mall. Renaissance: Library OF Con-
greSs, Capitol Hill. Romanesque, Sac
red Heart Church, Sixteenth street and
Park road northwest. Byzantine: The
Catholic Shrine (CathedraD Catholic
University, Brookland, D. C.
@. Are the f1ngerprints of identical
twins alike?-T. @.
A. The term identical twins means
identical in appearance Identical
twins are always of the same sex.
Usually even such minute items as the
fingerprints OF the right hand of one
twin are more like the right hand prints
of the other than like those of his or
her own left hand ones. Occasionally
one Of a pair of identicals is right
handed and the other left. In such
cases the right hand Of the right
handler is usually a perfectly good re-
versed carbon copy of the left hand of
the left-hander.
@. Please give a short history of the
Bank OF France?-J. v. r.
A. The Bank of France owes its ORR
gin to Napoleon. It was founded on
February 13, 1900. It does not belong
to the state, but to private sharehold-
ers. At the time of its foundation IL
had a capital of 10000, 900 francs and
this was raised by degrees to I82, 500 900
francs, which has been the capital Of
the bank since 1887.