Q: CHAPTER IX

DOCTOR PATSY

Next morning Uncle John and the Weldons--including the precious baby--went for a ride into the mountains, while Beth and Patsy took their embroidery into a sunny corner of the hotel lobby.

It was nearly ten o'clock when A. Jones discovered the two girls and came tottering toward them. Tottering is the right word; he fairly swayed as he made his way to the secluded corner.

"I wish he'd use a cane," muttered Beth in an undertone. "I have the feeling that he's liable to bump his nose any minute."

Patsy drew up a chair for him, although he endeavored to prevent her.

"Are you feeling better this morning?" she inquired.

"I--I think so," he answered doubtfully. "I don't seem to get back my strength, you see."

"Were you stronger before your accident?" asked Beth.

"Yes, indeed. I went swimming, you remember. But perhaps I was not strong enough to do that. I--I'm very careful of myself, yet I seem to grow weaker all the time."

There was a brief silence, during which the girls plied their needles.

"Are you going to stay in this hotel?" demanded Patsy, in her blunt way.

"For a time, I think. It is very pleasant here," he said.

"Have you had breakfast?"

"I took a food-tablet at daybreak."

"Huh!" A scornful exclamation. Then she glanced at the open door of the dining-hall and laying aside her work she rose with a determined air and said:

"Come with me!"

"Where?"

For answer she assisted him to rise. Then she took his hand and marched him across the lobby to the dining room.

Answer the following questions:
1. Where did Beth and Patsy go?
2. Of which building?
3. What did they plan to do there?
4. Who took the baby?
5. Where did they go?
6. Where?
7. Who did the girls meet that wasn't walking well?
8. Around what time?
9. What did Betsy wish he would use?
10. Who got him a chair?
11. What did he have for breakfast?
12. Did the women seem pleased with this?
13. Was he stronger than before?
14. What proof did he offer?
15. Was he going to be a guest at the hotel?
16. What caused him to walk poorly?
17. From what?
18. Where did Patsy plan on taking him?
19. How did she lead him?
A: 1. a corner
2. the hotel
3. embroidery
4. Uncle John and the Weldons
5. went for a ride
6. the mountains,
7. A. Jones
8. ten o'clock
9. a cane
10. Patsy drew up a chair for him, although he endeavored to prevent her.
11. a food-tablet
12. no
13. no
14. yes
15. yes
16. He hasn't got his strength back
17. an accident
18. the dining room
19. She took his hand
Q: Unlike the Spanish milled dollar the U.S. dollar is based upon a decimal system of values. In addition to the dollar the coinage act officially established monetary units of mill or one-thousandth of a dollar (symbol ), cent or one-hundredth of a dollar (symbol ), dime or one-tenth of a dollar, and eagle or ten dollars, with prescribed weights and composition of gold, silver, or copper for each. It was proposed in the mid-1800s that one hundred dollars be known as a union, but no union coins were ever struck and only patterns for the $50 half union exist. However, only cents are in everyday use as divisions of the dollar; "dime" is used solely as the name of the coin with the value of 10, while "eagle" and "mill" are largely unknown to the general public, though mills are sometimes used in matters of tax levies, and gasoline prices are usually in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon, e.g., $3.599, sometimes written as $3.59910. When currently issued in circulating form, denominations equal to or less than a dollar are emitted as U.S. coins while denominations equal to or greater than a dollar are emitted as Federal Reserve notes (with the exception of gold, silver and platinum coins valued up to $100 as legal tender, but worth far more as bullion). Both one-dollar coins and notes are produced today, although the note form is significantly more common. In the past, "paper money" was occasionally issued in denominations less than a dollar (fractional currency) and gold coins were issued for circulation up to the value of $20 (known as the "double eagle", discontinued in the 1930s). The term eagle was used in the Coinage Act of 1792 for the denomination of ten dollars, and subsequently was used in naming gold coins. Paper currency less than one dollar in denomination, known as "fractional currency", was also sometimes pejoratively referred to as "shinplasters". In 1854, James Guthrie, then Secretary of the Treasury, proposed creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins, which were referred to as a "Union", "Half Union", and "Quarter Union", thus implying a denomination of 1 Union = $100.

Answer the following questions:
1. What type of system is the US dollar based on?
2. Is the Spanish dollar the same system?
3. through what legal means were monetary units established?
4. what was it called?
5. What was $100 dollars referred to as in the 1800s?
6. was there a union coin?
7. what did exist to equal a union?
8. what are used today to represent fractions of the dollar?
9. why are gas prices in the form of $X.XX9 per gallon?
10. when else is a mill used?
11. what kind?
12. are coins or paper money more comonly used today?
13. what are coins also known as?
14. what did a $25 gold coin represent?
15. what term was used in the coinage act for naming currency?
16. what year was the Act?
17. what is .10 represented by?
18. what did James Guthrie propose?
19. when?
20. what was his title?
A: 1. decimal
2. no
3. an act
4. the coinage act
5. a union
6. no
7. patterns for the $50 half union
8. coins
9. to represent the mill
10. levies
11. tax
12. the note form
13. unknown
14. Quarter Union
15. eagle
16. 1792
17. dime
18. creating $100, $50 and $25 gold coins
19. In 1854
20. Secretary of the Treasury
Q: Carol and Susan are very good friends. They are in the same class at school and they often go to each other's home on Sunday. Now they are both eight yeas old. Carol's mother has got a new baby. Carol is very glad to have a little sister, so she is always talking about her to Susan. At first Susan is very interested in the new baby because she does not have any brothers or sisters. But after some time she begins to get tired of Carol's keeping on talking about it. She also feels a little jealous of her friend. One morning when the two girls meet at the school gate, Carol says to Susan cheerfully , "Do you know, Susan, my baby sister has put on about half a pound in weight this week?" "That is not very much," answers Carol. "I know a baby that puts on ten pounds a day." "Oh, that can't be true!" answers Carol. "Whose baby is it?" "An elephant's," says Susan.

Answer the following questions:
1. Who has a new baby?
2. Is Carol jealous?
3. Who is?
4. Why?
5. Does Susan have any siblings?
6. Are the girls good friend?
7. Where do they meet?
8. Do they go to the others home on Fridays?
9. How much weight did the baby gain?
10. Over how long?
11. What did Susan say about that?
12. What put on more weight?
13. How much weight did it put on in a day?
A:
1. Carol's mother
2. no
3. Susan
4. Carol keeps talking about the baby
5. no
6. yes
7. at school and home
8. unknown
9. about half a pound i
10. a week
11. that it's not that much
12. an elephant's
13. ten pounds