Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, May 06, 1910, Image 7

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    Bellefonte, Pa., May 6, 1910.
STARTING A FASHION.
At the end of the year 1781 Leonard,
hairdresser to Queen Marie Antoinette,
was confronted by an alarming situa-
tion, and with the fulfillment of this
dread event would fall his credit. But
wih his native “Gascon quickness”-—
as Leonard puts it in his “Recollec-
tions" —he proceeded to save his repu-
tation,
“Madame,” sald he one day to the
queen when he saw that the fall of her
hair was imminent, “the high head-
dress is becoming very common. It is
long since the bourgeoisie has taken
possession of it, and now it is the turn
of the common people.”
“Good gracious, Leonard, what ave
you telling me? Do you know it
grieves me to hear it? Those head-
dresses were so becoming to me!”
“And what headdress would not be
come your majesty? 1 have carefully
thought over a total revolution in your
majesty's headdress. | have even had
your portrait drawn with the new ar-
rangement | have in view, and, as |
expected, my august sovereign by
adopting my innovation would be made
younger by six or seven years.”
“Do you mean fit, Léonard? The
headdress you have in mind would
make me look younger?”
“] do not see what your majesty
could gain in that, for many women of
the court would take on years to re-
semble the queen of France.”
“Oh, I do not deceive myself, Leon-
ard. 1 shall soon be twenty-seven,
and at that age a style which makes
one look younger is nlways favorably
received.”
“Well, madame,” leonard continued
quickly, while placing a miniature be-
fore her majesty’'s eyes, “see this por
trait. It is a striking resemblance. It
is your majesty. but ten years young-
err
“What do | see—the hair cut a few
inches from the head?”
“Yes, madame, it will be, if you are
pleased to consent to it, a colffure 3
Penfant, and you will see it taken uw»
with as much enthusiasm as all those
that 1 have created for your majesty.”
“You are right, Leonard. It is
charming. In truth, | am but cighteen
with my bair dressed like that. But
to sacrifice my beautiful hair!”
“Your majesty will have the satis-
faction of seeing all the ladies of the
court, all the iadies of France, sacri-
fice theirs.”
“But if the style changes?”
“Who would dare to adopt a new
one without your majesty's having
first set the example? If some ambi-
tious hairdresser amid the myriad
of weaklings who swarm in Paris
should dare undertake such a change
I would have him reduced to atoms by
the Journal des Dames. He would be
a ruined man.”
“But | prize my hair very much,”
said the queen, with an air of hesita-
tion, still looking at the portrait. Yet
1 am dying to have my hair dressed a
Penfant.”
“Well, madame, since | have been so
fortunate as to find a style which
pleases your majesty | must tell you
all. For the last two weeks all my
waking hours have been devoted to the
service of my sovereign in the attempt
to make an agreeable thing of sn im-
perative necessity.”
“What do you mean, Leonard?"
“Your majesty was saying a little
while ago that she prized her hair, and
1 can easily understand it: but, unfor-
tunately, her hair does not prize her.
Before fifteen days it will have entire-
ly fallen out if this very day we do
not apply the infallible remedy—the
scissors.”
“What's that you say?’ exciaimed
the queen with veritable fright.
“The least painful of truths, madame,
since what 1 propose to your majesty,
while forestalling a great misfortune,
is entirely to her taste.”
“Come, Leonard: no more delibera-
tion. Cut it, but do not cut it too
short.”
“Just enough, madame, to give back
to the roots of the hair the vigor it
was beginning to lose.”
The queen's beautiful hair fell under
Leonard's regenerating scissors, and
two weeks afterward all the ladies of
the court had their hair dressed a I'en-
fant.
Let no one say there is no diplomacy
outside the king's cabinet. It is at the
bottom of all human combinations.—
Youth’s Companion.
A Losing Game.
“1 lost $2,000 last night,” observed
the noted lecturer, who charged 50
cents a word for his oratory.
“How was that—poker?” inquired the
man who didn’t care much for lectures
anyway.
“No. Talked in my sleep,” replied
the lecturer, wiping away a tear.—
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Suspicious.
“John,” she said after dinner.
“Yes, my dear.”
“Is the drinking water at your office
flavored with cloves?'—Buffalo Esx-
His lordship, mindful of the gener:
discontent then prevalent, answered:
Oh, it would be a
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sovereign Lis
erary Man,
Once upon a time a certain Turkish
literury wan living in Constantinople
flected in no way against the politics
of the state, and he had broken no
laws, He was even given time to
work under
translation with him. Arrived at the
prison, he was given pleasant quar-
lator worked arduously.
When the work was done he was, to
his astonishment, instantly liberated
and presented with a large sum of
money. Upon further inquiry as to his
treatment it was explained that the
sultan bad become interested in the
story as it appeared from day to day
and was too impatient to wait for the
end. He wanted to read all the rest of
it at once! Truly. there are certain ad-
vantages in being a sultan.
Its Resemblance to the Hovering of the
Kestrel In the Air.
As the kestrel is to the clouds so i=
the trout to the crystal waters. Both
kestrels and trout display that magica
poising as if suspended by invisible
threads—only now and then, when
cross currentg are encountered, is i
sign given to show that life itself 1s
not in suspense.
A brief agitation of the kestreis
wings, a swishing of the trout's tail
the cross current is weathered, anc
bird or fish poises motionless again
And as when walking along we re
pulled up in ever fresh wonder by the
sight of the hovering kestrel, so we
must needs pause on a bridge when
there is a trout in the stream below
He looks his best poising with head
to the stream—a shapely form agains
the background of smooth brown peb
bles and waving emerald weeds Lean
ing over the bridge with eyes on the
trout a vision is conjured—an ullurine
fly drops en the water, then a sluck
line tightens, there is a song from tho
reel, a rod bends, there follows u daz
zling dance of vermilion spots against
the green of the bank.
Or as we come to the bridge on =
winter's day we think we hear a
mighty plashing of water over the
pebbles, which turns out to be the
play of thirty or forty trout, the piay
of the last round of some water tour
ney. As they come to the surface, roll
ing and wallowing, their great fa!
sides look twice as big as when secn
through the clear water. They almost
make a dam across the stream as they
jostle each other, seeking for the
choicest places on the spawning bed
—London Standard.
“Berlin, Germany, U. 8."
“Say, is this letter addressed right?”
asked a subject of Germany, holdin:
up an elaborately decorated envelo!
before the eyes of a postman the other
day. The latter surveyed the writin:
closely. There were a name, a stree:
and then the city and country, “Berlin
Germany.” Below were written in bo.d
characters the letters “U, 8." "Ou
you don't want ‘U., 8." on there.” re
marked the postman. “Berlin, Ger
many, isn't in the United States.” *!
don't mean United States by ‘U. 8S.”
remarked tue man from Kaiser Wil
helm's land. “1 mean ‘up stairs
This friend of mine fives on the sec
ond floor.”—Buffalo Commercial.
Easy.
“Sir Arthur Conan Doyle,” said na
writer, “sat at dinner on his last visit
here beside a lady who asked leave tu
consult him about some thefts.
“ ‘My detective powers,’ he replied,
‘are at your service, madam.’
* ‘Well,’ said the lady, ‘frequent sod
mysterious thefts have been occurring
at my house for a long time. Thus
there disappeared last week a motor
horn, a broom, a box of golf balls, a
left riding boot, a dictionary and a
half dozen tin pie plates.’
**Aha,’ said the creator of ‘Sherlock
Holmes," ‘the case, madam, is quite
clear. You keep a goat.’ "—Exchange.
His Little Pun.
An inveterate wit and punster asked
the captain of a craft loaded with
boards how he managed to get dinner
on the passage.
“Why,” replied the skipper, “we al
ways cook aboard.”
“Cook a board, do you?” rejoined the
wag. “Then | see you have been well
provided with provisions this trip, at
all events.” —London Graphie.
Hoot Awa’, Mon,
An English clergyman, talking one
day with a Scottish brother of the
cloth, remarked facetiously. “Well,
David, 1 believe, after all has been
said, that my head could hold two «of
yours.”
“Mon,” returned the other, wiih
ready wit, “1 never tocht before that
your head was sae empty.”—Bostun
Transcript.
Progressing.
“How are you getting on as a news.
paper artist?"
“Rapidly. They now allow me tw
draw the crosses showing where the
tragedy occurred.”.-Cleveland Leader
Noble Effort.
“Cholly has brain fever.”
“How did he get it?"
“He met a girl who kept saying.
‘Just think!" And Cholly tried to.”
Pearson's Weekly.
matic
bassy.
“While there he happened to think
of another friend. an American, who
had gone to Berlin about three years
before to represent an American con-
cern and wopdered how be could get
a trace of him.
“Nothing is easier, said the em-
bassy secretary. ‘Just wait a moment.’
“He wrote a note and handed it to a
messenger.
“*‘We shall know all about your
friend within fifteen minutes,’ he said
to us,
“Sure enough. within that time the
messenger reappeared with an answer
From it the secretary read that So-
and-so bad arrived in Berlin ou such a
date three years previous, that be
lived at a certain address, that be had
gone the week before to a little town
fn the interior, but that he was ex-
pected back within three days.
“Well, be turned up on the day the
police said he would be back, and we
had dinner with him.” —Detroit Free
Press.
Served Him Well.
During the early days of the career
of William Allen White, when he was
charged with the conduct of a country
paper in lowa, he one day received a
call from an indignant contributor,
who bitterly complained that matter
of his, long before submitted, had not
been published.
“Softly, my friend,” said White in
his most soothing tone, “Really | must
offer my best thanks to you for those
features. They have served me well
From time to time when | get to think-
ing that this sheet is a pretty poor one
to inflict upon a long suffering public
1 look up your stuff and read it care-
fully, a process which enables me to
perceive how much worse my paper
might be, wobereupon | become real
cheerful. Please don't take them from
me.”—Clevelund Leader.
Roots,
SPRING AILMENTS are blood diseases—they
arise from impure, impoverished, devitalized
blood. That Hood’s'Sarsaparilla cures all of
them is proved by more than forty thousand
testimonials
Groceries.
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Barks, Herbs
That are Known to Possess Great Medicinal Value
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Why; Mable Stayed.
Being upbraided by her mother for being
the lowest in her class, little Mable ex-
claimed in tones of injured innocence: —
“It ain't my fault. e girl who has al-
ways been at the foot left school.”
Lacked Something.
“Dey say dat dis yere radium can
turn a cullnd pusson white,” said Un
cle Rastus, “but it cain’'t make a com
plete an’ finished job on it onless it
kin wipe out his appetite fo' policy.
pu'simmons an' possum.”-—Washington
Star,
TAKeNEVERY, SFRING—""One ‘spring 1 was
feeling bad, and could not do my housework
for a family of three. [took Hood's Sarsapa-
rilla and it did me so much good, I have taken
it every spring since.” Mrs. J. Johnson, Man-
chester, N. H.
Hood's Sarsaparilla
Is Peculiar to Itself flit makes people well and keeps them well.
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