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@. Who is the national women's golf
champion?-J. X.
A. Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page of
Greensboro. N. c., holds the champion-
Ship.
@. Does one man direct the Commu-
nifty Chest campaigns in all the cities9-
(. z.
A. Each Community Chest campaign
in the individual cities where such activ-
tiles are conducted has director.
@. Is the flesh of the giraffe edible?-
A. 1t Is faVorite African delcacy.
@. How did the term, journeyman,
come into use for mechanic or crafts
man?-P. r.
A. In this obsolete sense, journey
meant day or days work, and a Journey
man was one who had served his
apprenticeship and worked for another.
especially by the day.
@. Was Julia MarloWe married before
her marriage to E. H. Sothern?-F. R.
A. In 1894 she was married to Robert
Taber, who had been her leading man
in her first appearance in Romeo and
Juliet, Subsequently they were sepa-
rated and in 1900 she secured a divorce.
@. Who was Armida?-C. K.
A. In Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered"
she was ~the beautiful woman sent by
Satan to beguile the crusading Chris
tians Rinaldo, who had Succumbed at
first to her Establishments, converts her
to Christianity and they marry The
story was used in operas by Lully, Gluck,
Cherubini and Rossini.
@. What was the first medical journal
published in the United States?-E. G.
A. The first medical journal published
in America was the Medical Repository.
a quarterly which was founded in 1897.
G. What is the origin of the word
alfalfa?-M. K.
A. It is derived from an Arabic word
meaning best fodder.
@. What is Falernian wine?-H. M.
A. 1t was one Of the favorite wines OF
the Romans, so called from the Falernian
Field, the district in which it was grown
in Campania, Italy. 1t is described by
Horace as, in his time, surprising all
other wines then in repute.
O. What proportion of the telephones
in New York City are French phones?-
j. K.
A. Out of a total of 1,59S,l87 tele.
phones, 1O24,937 are hand sets or
French phones.
O. Is it true that Germans are for
hidden to accept the Nobel Prizes?-
w. K
A. All Germans have been forbidden
to accept the awards. AS a substitute,
the Third Reich has instituted national
prizes of its own, which consist of
$4,000 each.
@. Please describe the Esquiline Hill
j. H.
| A. This is the highest of the seven hills
of Rome. 1t is between the Viminal and
Caelian Hills and is 246 feet in height.
Under Augustus it was laid out in pleas
ure gardens known as the Gardens Of
Maecenas. Soon after it was the fash
ionable residential portion of the city.
Virgil. Horace. Maecenas and Propertius
we're among its residents. The baths of
Titus and Neros golden palace were on
| the Esquilinus and many ruins have been
uncovered only to be destroyed in the
erection of new buildings. The Esqui-
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Rome with fine streets and buildings.
@. Where does green, black and oolong
| tea come from?-C. F. l.,
A. Most of the green tea comes from
Japan and China. The black tea comes
| mostly from India, Ceylon. Java and
Sumatra, while oolong tea is from For
mosa and China.
| @. What is amber?-B A. S.
A. Amber is a fossil resin from trees
Of the pine family. 1t is so old that most
| of the species producing it are now
extinct. 1t occurs in irregular masses
| usually of small size but weighing up to
| Is or i8 pounds. Along the shores of
the Baltic Sea, especially in East Prussia,
| mining for amber has been carried on
| for two centuries. Shafts are sunk
| through a superficial stratum of mari,
sand, etc, finally to a layer of green
| sand so to go feet thick. In this green
sand is stratum to feet thick Of
blue earth in which amber nodules
occur so abundantly that so or so square
rods yield several thousand pounds.
G. Who is called the Wordsworth Of
| music?-W. H. J..
A. Edward Mcdowell the composer,
is SO called.
! @. Why is the outline Of the moon
| sometimes visible when there Is a new
moon?-M. B.
! A. 1t is due to earthshine. On clear
nights the light cast on the moon by the
earth makes the surface slightly visible.
O. How long a line would it take to
go over the Great Pyramid, reaching the
earth on each side?-W. A. c.
A. A line stretched over the sloping
| sides and over the top from earth to
earth. would measure 1864 feet, with
SO feet resting on the fiat top.
upon a field made ready for burning and
] carries the kindled flame across the
cleared field.
THE dead almost never appear TO
| neople. but animals see them frequently.