Evening star., 1940-03-11
Huskin's Answers
To Readers Questions
BIZ Frederic J. Hdsktn.


question OF fact by writtng The Epe-
ming Star Information Bureau, Fred
eric J. Haskin, director, Washington,
D. c. Please inclose stamp for reply.
@. When was the first baseball game
played at night?-D. H.
A. The first game under electric lights
was played on June 2, 1853, at Fort
Wayne, Ind.
Q. What is the unit rule with-Fegard
to political conventions?-L. D.
A. The unit rule conformed to the
States rights antecedents of the Demo-
cratic party. 1t simply meant that a
delegation must cast its entire quota of
votes for one candidate. The delega-
ton could not vote separately under the
unit rule.
@. Is there any State in which the
whipping post is still used as a form of
punishment?-S. T.
A. Delaware retains the whipping post
as punishment for criminals and in
Maryland it is the penalty for certain
crimes.
@. How large a crowd gathered in New
York City to see King George and Queen
Elizabeth last summer?-S. r. T.
A. 1t was estimated by the New York
City Police Department that 3,5O0OOO
persons participated in the welcome to
their majesties
@. Is it true that typewriting was at
one time considered too strenuous for
women to undertake?-L. S. G..
A. When the New York Young Wom-
ems Christian Association decided to
lnaugurate tipping course for women
public opinion was aroused The plan
was referred to as "an obvious error in
judgment" and the managers of the
school were called "well-meaning, but
misguided ladies'" 1t was feared by
many that the female mind and consti-
tuition would break down completely .
under a six-month course in typing In
spite Of these objections a class of eight
young women typists was graduated in
1881.
O. Which of the mistresses of King
Louis XIV entered a convent?-A. G. D.
A. Louise de La Valliere became the
mistress OF Louis XIV in 1861. She bore
hlm tour children, of whom two died in
infancy. In 1867, in the same act which
legitimized her daughter she was cre-
ated duchess Finally she was re.
placed in the Kings affections by Nine.
de Montespan and in 1874 she retired
into Carmelite convent.
@. What are the requirements for OBJ
tanning postal delivery for a village?-
J. R. B.
A. According to the United States
Postal Guide, community may be given
| village delivery service if it has adjusted
| postal receipts of at least IS 5000 for the
preceding fiscal year and has a popula-
tion of $500 or more residing in terri.
tory possessing the requisite civic i'm
provements.
| @. Is the character of Amelia Sedley
| in Vanity Fair based on a real per-
! son?-L. T.
A. She was said by Thackeray to have
been drawn from three women-Mrs,
Brookfeld, his mother and his wife.
@. Did James Corbett ever fight a
Negro named Peter Jackson?-T. Y.
! A. James j. Corbett fought Peter Jack.
son on May 81, 1891, at San Francisco,
Calf. Corbett won the bout by de.
cision in the 61st round.
|
| awarded the Pulitzer Prize after his
death?-C. H.
A. Wilfred Courtenay Barber foreign
correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
died of nlalarial fever in Adds Ababa in
1885. For his dispatches on the Ethio-
plan war he was posthumously awarded
the Pulitzer Prize in 1896.
@. Is Federal income tax deductble
from District of Columbia income taxi
r. C. E.
A. The District of Columbia income
tax law does not allow any deduction for
taxes paid to the Federal Government or
to State government.
@. Who wrote the poem beginning "If
I were hanged on the highest hill, moth
er o. mine"?-L. c. B.
A. Rudyard Kipling is the author Of
the poem Mother O. Mine"
@. In what year were women first
permitted to serve on the jury in the
State of New York?-C. V.M
A. Jury service for women was inau-
gurated in New York September /, 1887.
=. Did advertising originate in the
United States?-E K. B.
A. The. history of advertising is traced
to the use of signs and village criers in
Palestine. Rome, Greece and in Western
Europe during the Middle Ages. The
invention of the printed form opened
the first real era of advertising and as
early as the 18th century printed cir
culars were distributed in England de-
scribing service books offered for sale.
@. What was the Peasants War?-T.
E. G.
A. This name was applied to the in
surrections of the peasantry of Southern
Germany in the early 10th century,
especially to that of 1924 in Swabia.
Franconia, Saxony and other German