Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, April 22, 1910, Image 6

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Bellefonte, Pa., April 22, 1910.
Cases In Which They Are Perceptible |
to the Eye. i
*2t is not such an uncommon thing."
said a physician. “to find a person
whose pulse beats cap be plainly seen,
and yet | suppose there are but fow |
outside of the profession whe resin!
the fact. In most persons tt.
the pulse cannot be perceived. but ie
mere fact that the beating ix pervect:
ble does not mean that the pulse |
other than normal. | have come aero
a number of cases where the throbhi: =
of the wrist could be plainly seen, ui.
yet the persons rarely gave eviden «|
of abnormality in temperature. Thy |
were rarely feverish and were in wood |
physical condition generally. Pulses!
of this kind. from this view, which is
based upon actual observations «of
cases, do not indicate anything more |
than an abnormal physical condition
in the formation of the wrist veins.
“I have met with one case which wis
possibly a little extraordinary in that
it was plainer and much more distin!
than any | had ever seen before. It
could almost be heard. The artery
would rise to a point almost as large
as the ball of the little finger of n
child and would change from the
white of the skin to a blood purple
with each beat of the pulse. 1 found it
easy to count the pulse beats without
touching the patient's wrist. 1 could
see plainly enough to keep the record.
and in order not to err in my calcula:
tion 1 tested it in several ways and
found it was correct and thar there
was no mistake in my counting with
the naked eye.”
His Nerve and His Drawing Combined
Made the Editor Meek.
The editor had given the artist anu
order to illustrate the story and had
drawn a rough diagram of the kind of
sketch he wanted. It must show a
deer vaulting in a high leap over n
clump of bushes. The artist read the
manuscript, made the picture and sent
it in. (t was well done. ‘The deer was
a magnificent fellow, with a pair of
antlers that ‘he most ambitious buck
might well iw proud of. The editor
took one took ut the drawing and then
in disgust returned it to the artist,
with a letter stating that the figure
must be redrawn because “the story
plainly states that the buck was a
yearling, consequently he would have
had only spike horns and not the kind
of antlers you have depicted.”
The artist was not, however, dis
mayed. He stood pat for antlers, With
courage born of immovable conviction
he returned the drawing unaltered to
the editor and wired him: “Compusi-
tion demands antlers. Change manu. |
script to ‘three-year-old buck."* 1
The editor was struck so dumb b; |
this manifestation of uerve that he 1
actually took time to study the draw
ing. He ler hix imagination pletars |
the spike buck iustend of the majestic |
autlered beauty and meekly decided
that the artst knew a thing or two, |
so the editorial blue pencil was,
brought into requisition, the buck gai |
ed two years in a less number of min |
utes, and the periodical lost nothing |
by the change.—New York Press, i
Obeyed Instructions.
Mr. Dabbs was still out at 2a. m. |
Unable to wait calmly any louger.:
Mrs. Dabbs began pacing the hall. She |
had gone back and forth about thirty-
seven times when she heard a thump
at the back door. ; i
She walked back and peered through
the glass. It was Mr. Dabbs, all right. |
He seemed to have fallen in the mud |
two or three times.
She let him in and steadied him up,
stairs, i
“Why did you come to the back’)
door?" she asked. d
_ He collected his fugitive wits befory'|
he answered. vl
“There is a sign in front which says |
that all packages must be delivered a1
the rear,” he said.—St. Louis Post-Dis. |
patch.
i
Why Turkish Women Go Veiled.
Turkish women do wot wear veils’
because of their religion, as many sup |
it is merely the survival of au |
old custom. When the Turks still |
lived in Tartary. before the time of |
Mohammed, it was the habit of the
' men to steal such women for wives ax’
+ fortably full when it was hailed by a
"the offender should be ejected at once.
"friendly voice was raised as a benevo-
-
_ Answers.
attracted them, This led to so much,
- fighting that about the second century |
after Christ the Turks came together |
* and decided that henceforth the wo |
men should go veiled and should uot
meet men. but dwell in barems, as |
' soou as they arrived at womanhood, |
which was at about eleven years of |
age.—Mrs. Kenneth Brown in Metro-
politan Magazine. 1
mn ———
The Laborer's Thanks.
A tram car was going down a busy
street one day and was already com-
laboring man much the worse for lig-
uor, who presently staggered along the
czr between two rows of well dressed
people regardless of polished shoes
and tender feet. 3
Murmurs and complaints arose on all
sides, and demands were heard that
But amid the storm of abuse one
lent clergyman rose from his seat, say-
ing:
“No, no! Let the map sit down and
be quiet.” :
The discomfiture of the party turned
to mirth when the drunken one seized
his benefactor by the band, exciaim-
ing:
“Thank ye, sir—thank ye. I see you
know what it is to be tight!"—London
| one morning.
yond her nineteen years. On Sunda,
after their dinner bad been served b
the wife she went to the kitchen a
returned with a pumpkin ple.
“What's that?" asked the L. and M.
“] made a pumpkin pie yesterday,”
| his wife answered timidly.
He attacked the confection with a
knife and fork, but could not make
! much headway and was about to de-
clare himself when Ruth announced:
“I have another in the pantry, dear.
Your mother sent one over yesterday.”
She then produced the second pie,
which was as tender and appetizing as
| the first had been tough and unsavory.
“That's semething like it.” he said
patronizingly. "Of course you couldn't
expect to become expert at once, my
dear.”
The girl laughed. “You're eating tho
one | made now,” she said. And in
her diary for the day is written:
“An ounce of prevention Is worth a
pound of cure”—Portland (Me. Exz-
press.
The Hip Joints.
The cup and ball socket and the air
tight valve were first used in the hu-
man body. If our hip joints and arms
were not provided with air tight sock-
ets we should get too tired to continue
our work for any length of time in
just holding these limbs togetier by
muscles. [It Is the pressure of the air
which holds them in place, and thus
all physical effort is avoided. In the
various air tight joints and sockets
found in the human body one may find
nearly all the mechanical principles in-
volved in the air brake or the use of
compressed air for a thousand differ.
ent things Some may aver that na-
ture did not discover ball bearings. a
mechanical device which has revolu:
tionized the vehicular world. But the |
principle is almost developed in the
bail of the leg bone and the socket of
the hip. which are made so smooth
and are so well oiled that they slide
backward and forward with practical-
ly no friction.
Marrying For Votes.
Marrying for votes was a device of
old time British election agents. As
the law stood before the reform uct
of 1832 widows of freemen on marry-
ing again made their second husbands
freemen and therefore voters. At
election times widows were couse-
quently paid handsomely to go through
a formal marriage with a voteless
bachelor, who, for a consideration,
similarly agreed to support the cand!
date. The pair were married, the man |
voted according to Instructions, and
then he and his wife, standing on
either side of a tombstone, said,
“Death us do part.” With this literal
fulfillment of the matrimonial vow
they regarded their marriage dissolv-
ed. At the last election in Bristol be-
fore 1832 a hundred women gave votea
to men.
: A Literary Light.
| A short time age n well known wrii.
er of London, remembering that he
d never read the noncanonical books,
‘went out in search of a copy and in
one bookshop nfter another drew
blank. At last be went fo his own par
ticular newspuper shop, which also
dealt in Bibles and light literature
“Have you the Apocrypha?’ he asked
For a moment the young woman be
hind the counter was puzzled: then,
brighteninz. she said, “Is it a weeklr
or a monthly?" TRE 2004
Acres and Bible Letters.
It has sometimes been stated tli
there are more acres in Yorkshire than
there are letters in the Bible. A per
son hearing the statement for the firs
time is inclined to doubt it, bur it is
true, all the same. Authorities differ
as to the exact acreage of the county.
one giving !* as 3,882,848 and another
as 3.771.843. But the number of let
ters in the Bible is said to be 3.560.
480, so the acres beat the letters, with
something to spare. — London Notes
and Queries.
On the Wrong Side.
A temperance missionary in Glasgow
left a few tracts with a young woma
Calling at the same
house a few days after, he was rather
| disconcerted to find the tracts doing
duty as curl papers ou the head of the
damsel to whom he bad given them
“Weel, my lassie” he remarked, “1 see
ye have used the tracts I left wi’ ye.
but,” he added in time to turn con-
fusion into merriment, “ye ha' putter
them outside instead of inside your
head."
The French Hern.
The French horn. or cor de chasse, is
regarded by some musicians as the
sweetest and mellowest of all the wind
instruments. In Beethoven's time it
was little else than the old hunting
horn, which for the convenience of the
mounted hunter was arranged in spiral
convolutions to be slipped over the
head and carried resting on one shoul
der and under the opposite arm. The
Germans stiil call it the waldhori—
that is, “forest Lorn.”
No Occasion For Alarm,
8aid a nervous lady to another lady,
at whose héuse she was making a call,
“Are yon not afraid that some of your
children will fall into that cistern in
your yard?" i
“Oh, no,” was the complacent reply.
“Anyhow, that's not the cistern we ge
our drinking water from.” -
He Didn't.
“Do you believe in signs?”
“No. A dentist's sign reading ‘Teeth
Extracted Without Pain’ fell the other
day just as I went under it and knock.’
ed out two teeth of mine”
‘swords through. It might fall down
Both were young, and one was beautiful.
The crown of her hat was big enough
to fit the head of the colossal statue
of Athena on the Acropolis at Ath
ens. They were talking of love and
marriage. Most young couples while
dawdling talk either of love and mar-
riage or platonic friendship, the mun
taking the ground that it is impossi-
ble, the girl that it is the most desir
able form of affection between the
sexes.
“As for me.” be said, “when I marry
1 prefer a girl whom 1 can love with
my whole heart and soul.”
“Then youn must get one with a
strong personality, good judgment anid
an excellent mind.”
“1 wish nothing of the kind. Give
me a girl with a pink and white con
plexion, a pretty pair of rose lips and
not too much brain.”
“Well, I declare!”
The Practical Method Adopted by a!
French Scientist. !
At the beginning of the nineteenth
century the French Academy of Sci- |
ences offered to give a prize to the
first person who would solve the fui
lowing problem: If you tuke a vase |
full of water and put a stone or an:
similar body in it the water will flow
over. If, however, you put into it =n
fish, the volume of which is equal to |
that of the stone, it will aot flow over |
Explain this phenomenon. i
Learned essays on the subject pour- |
ed in frow all quarters, but the prov
lem was not satisfactorily solved in|
any of them, and consequently the |
was vot awarded. i
In the following year the same ques- |
tion was again propounded, and for |
five years answers continued to pour |
in to the academy. Then it sudden:y |
occurred to one of the academicians |
that, after all, the problem might oe |
incapable of solution, and he det: |
mined to make a test for himself, !
Filling a vase with water, he pu! |
a stone into it and saw that the water |
flowed over. Then he took out the
“She must not only be stupid, but
must prove herself stupid. No; 1 will!
I wh | oF and put into it a fish. the volume
not even trust her to do that,
prove her stupid myself.”
“You don't mean what you say.
How could you love such a girl?”
“1 love her already."
She cast a quick glance at him, the:
bent her eyex to the ground. She hac!
been under the impression that he hac
been falling in love with her. She wa.
at a loss to know what this meant
Had xhe a rival?
“A man doesn’t wish the counter-
part of himself in a woman, Her io
tellectual gifts repel him; her feminine
stupidity delights him If she i:
strong he looks upon her as he woul! |
a wan. If she is weak he longs to
protect and comfort her.”
“This dunce that you love, is she" -
“She Is not a dunce judged by a
{apes have wept over their young ones
proper standard. There must be one
standard for men and apother for woe-
men. A muan-—-a real man-—-wouldn't
know how to take care of a baby-—at |
least he wouldn't do it the right way.
When | was a boy my mother left me |
one afternoon to mind my little sister. |
eight mouths old. 1 wished to go and
play. If 1 could put the baby to slean |
1 would be free. 1 blew in the little |
thing's eyes, forcing ber to shut them, '
1 kept up this process till she went to |
sleep. You see, 1 didn't know any- |
thing about babies.” t
She thought awhile before saying.
“It seems to me that was rather clever |
~for.a boy.” 1
“But you couldn't lay it down as a |
recipe for putting babies to sleep” |
' “No. 1 suppose it wouldn't do al- |
ways.” 4
“Will you kindly tell me.” he asked.
breaking away from the topic of con-
versation, “how you women make |
those big crowned hats stay on the
tops of your heads” 1 don't under- |
stand” whysthey don't slip down over |
your eyes. If 1 wore one of them I'd |
have to cut holes to see through.”
“Well, you see, we women have a
lot of hair and all that to fill them up.”
“Oh, 1 suppeszed there was some
patent contrivance for the purpose.”
“We have hatpins, you know." !
“You mean those rapiers with conch- |
man's buttons for hilts?” fo
“They must be long to go through |
the large crowns.” ; |
“1 see. Would you mind unsheath- |
ing yours and letting me see the inside
of your hat?"
She removed the hatpins and. tak- |
ing oft her hat, showed him the inner |
crown,
“Why. the diameter is two or three |
inches less within than it is without!” |
“1 don't understand you." i
“This part inside is smaller than any
man’s hat. There is a false inuer
crown.”
“There is a difference, isn't there?’
“1 should say so.”
“1 didn't know that."
“Better put it on again and the
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over your eyes.”
“1 dare say.” pouting. “you consider
me very stupid.”
“I have not left it to you to prove
yourself so. | have done it myself
You know I said I would.” ;
“In the case of the creature you
wished to marry.”
“There is 1 method in my madness.”
“will you kindly explain wherein
the method lies?"
“I told you I wished a stupid girl for
a wife. Could there be anything more
stupid than a girl wearing one of thes»
hats on her head and not knowing how
it is kept on the top of her head?" ~
There wax a slap with one hand.
a caress with the other. She may have
been stupid about the hat. but she
was bright enough to catch his “meth-
od” and. catching it, held her tongue.
Indeed. from this point she ier him
to do all the talking. He took her
hand and whispered a number of love:
ly things in her ear.
They had been married long enouzh
for the problems of life to loom up.
such as winter coal bills, gas bilis,
doctor's fees and other items that wiil
always. be coming up without being
expected. Notwithstanding her stu.
pidity she proved a good manazer.
But at the end of the first year one
day her husband received a bill fur a
new hat the amount of which aston.
ished him. He remounstrated. :
“I thought it very cheap.” she ras.
“Cheap! Are yon so stupid as to bux |
a thing merely because it is cheap? |
“I thought you loved me for my &tu-
pldity.” she replied. hauging her hen.
He Got His. :
A cynical old bachelor who Grmiy
believes that all women have some-
thing to say on all subjects recently
asked a female friend: :
“Well, madam, what do you hold on
this question of female sulfrage?"
To which the indy responded calmly:
| the water again tlowed over,
. ery, and the result was that the offer
| sold Ly fx mistress, who bad tended
| young soko upe used to ery with vex-
Cation if Livingstone didn't purse it in |
‘bis arms when it asked him to. |
| which a nuntsmnn's rile had injured
stone, filled the vase again with wa- |
of which wns the same as that of the |
stone, and saw, to his surprise, that |
He told the academy of his discor.
of a prize wax at once withdrawn.
Weeping Animals.
Travelers through the Syrian desert
have seen horses weep from thirst. A
mule has been seeu to cry from the
pain of an mjured foot, and camels, it
is said. shed tears in streams. A COW
it from calftiond, wept pitifully. A
Wounded apes have died crying, and |
slain by hunters. A chimpanzee train-
ed to carry water jugs broke one and
cried. which proved sorrow, though it
wouldn't mend the jug. Rats, discov-
ering their young drowned, have been
moved to tears of grief. A giraffe
begun to cry when approached. Sea
lions often veep over the loss of their
young. Gordon Cumming observed
tears trickling down the face of a dy-
ing elephant. Aud even an orang ou-
tang when deprived of its mango was
s0 vexed that it took to weeping.
There is littie doubt, therefore, that
animals do cry from grief or weep
from pain or annoyance.—Harpet's
Weekly.
Soaked.
“What time is it?”
“I don't know
“Isn't your watch going?”
“Worse— it's gone."—Cleveland Lead.
er.
Travelers Guide.
ENTRAL RAILROAD OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Condensed Time Table effective June 17, 1909.
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No 1 No5No 3 {No 6 No Ho 2
a.m.!p.m. p.m. Lve, Ar. p.m. p.m.ja. m.
#%61% Bs % 20| BELLEFONTE. 5 10% 03) § 40
715, 706 Nigh. L357 45 82
7 20(¢7 11! 18 51, 4 47/10 21
727 718 S845 441913
729 | 843 4389
7337 23 © f8 39 4 34/19 09
737 728 836 429/905
7 40/17 30! 8 34| 4 2069 02
7 42/17 33 f8 32 4 24/00
7 46 7 38! 8 29| 4 21/18 57
74867 40) 'f8 26/ 4 18/18 54
7 ler 46 “8 18 4 0318 48
80 754 812 1008
8 05! 7 57, ~ 810 401 841
8 10/ 8 2 ...| 805 356836
{N. Y. iver R. R.)
11 40 8 53/........ Jersey Shore......... | 309) 782
1215 930 Lve. 2351720
Hz 2 11 ® | 230 650
730 650 L183 11%
10 10! 900......NEW YORK.......... | 900
p.m. a.m. Arr Lve. a.m. p.m
Schedule to take effect Monday, Jan. 6, 1910
WESTWARD i EASTWARD
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and with whom perfect feet will be the
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Could parents be brought to realize
the importance of starting the child's
foot right, there would be little or no
Sufiering in later life from foot blem-
ishes.
As nature forms the child's foot,
each toe lies flat and straight thus pro-
viding the human foot with the power
to balance the body, the spring to
make walking easy.
Unfortunately few children reach
maturity without cramped, pinched
and misshapen feet. This is usually
caused by shoes sold by unscientific
shoemen to thoughtless parents.
The Pla-Mate Shoe is designated by
students of the human foot to allow
the bones and muscles to grow in
the shape that nature intended.
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