Evening star., 1932-04-13
ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS
BY FREDERIC J. HASKIN.

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ment. Address your inquiry 70 The
Evening Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric j. Haskin, Director, Washington
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@. What athletic event has brought
the largest gate receipts?-W. J. F.
A. Frank G. Menke, an authority on
sports, says that the biggest gate re-
ceipts in the worlds history for an
athletic event were at the Dempsey
Tunney fight in Chicago, in 1927, with
receipts Of $2,65s,660.
O.. Who sells property In Canada for
delinquent taxes?-E. S.
A. Such sales are made under the
provincial secretaries Of internal rev.
enue.
@. How can mice be kept out of an
organ?-R. w.
A. The Wurlitzer Co. says that clos
ing up the organ openings with wire
mesh will check the mice from enter
ing the organ without injury to the
tone. Care must be taken to see that
there are no mice inside the organ
when this Is done.
@. Who actually wrote the preamble
to the Constitution Of the United
StateS?-A. L.
A. In none Of the relatively meager
records of the Constitutional Conven-
l.. el1fK .f &
the Constitution definitely established
The delegates debated proposed plans
until on July 26> substantial agreement
having been reached, a Committee on
Detail was appointed to prepare for
NAL draft Of the document This COM
mittee, the personel of which is un-
known, reported on August draft
that included a preamble and % arti-
cles, embodyiug 43 sections. Debate
continued until September 8, when a
new committee to revise the formal
draft was named This committee in
cluded Dr. William Samuel johnson,
Alexander Hamilton, Gouverneur Nor
ris, James Madison and Rufus King
Its work is believed to have been large
ly that of Gouverneur Morris. That is
as nearly as the authorship of any part
of the final text of the Constitution can
be identified. 1t may be said, however,
that the great document was in reality
not written, but was builded slowly and
laboriously as a great edifice might be
constructed, with not piece Of mate
r.al included until it had been shaped
and approved, all the master artisans
having hand in the task.
Q. What is the average standing
space an individual requires?-M. M
A. From l to 112 square feet per
gether.
Q. Does ice evaporate below a melt
Ing temperature?-J. B. w
A. Water in the solid form vapor-
izes. as is demonstrated by the fact that
ice left for few days at a temperature
below zero will lose considerable weight
by vaporization.
Q. Are mamma dolls" of recent ORR
gin?-M. D.
The Doll Book" by Laura Starr
says that dolls that could say papa"
and mamma" were invented in 1924
These that opened and shut their eyes
were invented few years later.
Q. When was the first Ladies' Aid
Society tormed?-O. V. N
A. What is said to be the earliest is
spoken of in the ninth chapter of Acts,
from the thirty-fifth to the fortieth
verses, describing Tabitha or Dorcas,
who with other saints and widows de-
voted their time to serving the dis
treSSed of the early Christians. min
lSterlng to the sick and afflicted and