DO YOU KNOW?

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 614, 19 August 1933, Page 8

DO YOU KNOW?

Where Does the Sun Go at Night? The sun never sets. It is visible at every hour of the day from some part I of the British Empire. The earth rotates like a top, and night means ! that the part of it which was fronting the sun during the day has turned its back on it and cannot see it. ! Dces a Poker Set in Front of a Fire I Help it to Burn? ! Theoretically, yes.- It provides a route for air currents to travel. These by bringing fresh oxygen to the fire help the combustion of the fuel. j Could a Man Live on the Moon? ' Astronomers say no, beeause they believe there is none of the things there that would support either the animal or vegetable life which we i know on the earth. j How Did Cinderella Get the Glass j Slipper on Her Foot? i She never wore one. The word i "glass" arose through a mistake of j the man who translated -the story : from the French into English. He mistook the word "vair," meaning fur, for "verre " meaning glass. When the story was written fur slippers 1 were the monopoly of royalty. Why is the Bow o'f a Man's Hat on j the Left Side? ' ' In the olden days men wore plumes as distinguish'ing marks on their head- i dress. They often had to fight at a moment's notice and it was impera- ' tive that nothing shuold interfere with their right or sword arms. The ! plumes were therefore v/orn on the \ ; left side, and the modern position of 1 ! the hat bow is merely a survival of ,• that ancient custom. j 1 i