BB RTO RE OR.
FOR CURE OF PNEUMONIA LIST OF 100 WORST BOOKS
Bemoraair Watcha
Bellefonte, Pa., May 3, 1912.
KIND PEASANTS OF BRITTANY
Will Willingly Share With You Con- |
tents of Cupboard and Will
Not Ask for Pay.
In Brittany all peasants carry their |
own knives; and as for forks, they
have no use for them. George Whar-
ton Edwards tells, in “Brittany and
the Bretons,” of a visit to an inn
where he met with the proverbial
+ Breton hospitality,
An old withered Breton woman sat !
at the fireside, busily knitting at a |
jersey of blue wool, and three men sat |
at a table, playing some sort of game
with dominoes. i
The men gave no apparent heed to |
our entrance, but I knew we were be |
ing discussed in their patois.
We asked for bread, butter and a |
pitcher of cider, which was forth- |
coming, but no knives were brought. |
Noting our predicament, the three |
men at once produced their knives,
immense horn-handied affairs, and aft-
er wiping them very carefully and
considerately on their coat sleeves,
they opened and proffered them to us. !
“And now, madame,” said I, “what |
shall I pay you?” i
“Five sous for the cider, m'sieur. |
There is no charge for the bread, for
is not that the gift of bon Dieu?” |
Thus it is throughout this strange |
land of Brittany. One may travel |
from end to end away from the large
cities, and everywhere meet with the
same hospitality. The peasant will
willingly share with you what he has
in the cupboard, and will not ask for |
pay.
I left an offering of silver upon the |
window sill among the balls of wool- |
en yarn,
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TRADE IN WOODEN SHOES
Scarcity of Willow Wood Has Stead- |
ied Market, Which Was Unsettied
by Overproduction.
Last year was unfavorable to the
wooden shoe manufacturers in Hol-
land owing to the keen competition
of the Belgians and a decided over-
production here. This year's pros-
pects are somewhat brighter,
The scarcity of willow wood, from
which those shoes were formerly
made, has caused the market to
steady up a little, Poplar and some
Russian woods are also being used
more extensively than heretofore.
The cost of the wod from which
the shoes are made is about $6 per
cubic meter, out of which 100 pairs of
ordinary size can be made. The
wholesale price of these shoes is 12
cents. One workman {is able to make
12 to 15 pairs in a day, from which it
can be inferred how narrow is the
margin of profit in the industry.
Relatively few wooden shoes are
produced by machinery for export,
but with thissexception all the wood-
en shoes are made by hand in Hol-
land. About twenty different tools
are required in the operation. A year
or so ago several German capitalists
started factories in this country to
make wooden shoes by machinery, but
failed. Machine-made shoes, it is
said, are not well finished, and some
handwork is always necessary to
make them satisfactory,
Wanted by McGraw.
Stone throwing by children is not
as common now as when the automo-
bile was a novelty, but it still exists,
A big limousine, occupied by a well
known theatrical man and his wife,
was running slowly down Riverside
Drive, New York, a few days ago
when a good sized rock, thrown by a
boy not more than three years old,
‘crashed through one of the windows.
. The chauffeur stopped the car and
caught the youngster, who made no
attempt to escape. The matter was
referred to a policeman by the irate
owner.
“What do yez want me to do?” ask-
ed the representative of law and or-
der. “Arrest this little lad?”
“Something ought to happen to
‘him,” protested the owner.
“Aw, well, he's only a kid. Ye can't
do much,” counselled the policeman.
“Suppose, now, ye take him and turn
him over to McGraw. He's looking
for this kind of talent.”
Expenditure Explained.
Question—Don’t you know that the
amount charged you for postage by
your campaign manager would buy
enough stamps to paper the side of
the great pyramid? The Answer—By
George! Is that what he did with
them ?—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
.
Showing the Englishman.
Englishman (patronizingly)—*“Your
school faculties are excellent, I am
told.” American (suavely)—“Well, I
should say. See the Smithsonian In-
stitution over there? Think of a build-
ing like that, just to educate the
Smiths.”—Vogue.
Defects That Cause Failure.
“Failures which a man makes in
. his life are due almost always to
. some defect in his personality, some
weakness of body, mind or character,
will or temperament. The only way
to overcome these failings is to build
up his personality from within. It is
only those efforts the man himself
puts forth that can really help him.”
—John D. Rockefeller.
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Physician Teils of Successful Use of
Camphor in Practice
Since 1906.
There have been and still are many
varieties of treatment for pneumonia.
A long list would be required to indi-
cate all the medicaments which have
been employed against it. Some even
| copsider that this affection is an ail-
' ment which has a definite cycle.
They are ¢’ the opinion that no medi-
cation should be adopted which might
act on it and disturb its development.
the proper course to take being one
of “expectation,” or better, a thera-
peautique armee more particularly de-
signed to combat complication.
Dr. Serbert, in the Muenchner Medi:
zinische Wochenschrift, describes the
remarkable results which he obtained
in the treatment of serious cases of
pneumonia by means of strong doses
of camphor. He first had occasion to
use it in 1906 in a case of double
pneumonia, where the patient was
also suffering from typhoid fever. He
therefore practiced a subcutaneous
injection of 12 centimeters of cam-
phorated oil (20 per cent.) recently
sterilized. The results obtained on
the pulse and respiration and gen-
eral condition were extremely satis-
factory. He renewed this dose every
12 hours, and he found after three
days the trouble had disappeared.
Dr. Serbert has since employed the
same (reatment in 21 cases, one of
which was extremely serious, since fit
was a question of double complicated
pneumonia in a woman seventy-two |
vears old. All these cases recovered.
It seem certain that the camphor pro-
duced these effects, since there was
no real crisis, the cure being gradual
and slowly effected. — Philadelphia
North American.
WEALTH OF THE NATIONS |
United States Does Not Make Tre- |
mendously Good Showing in
World's Financial Column,
For all its vaunted wealth the Unit-
ed States, in so far as per capita ratio |
goes, does not make such a tremen- |
dously good showing in the world's
financial column. The wealth in the
United States in 1910 was estimated
at $125,000,000,000, by far the greatest
amount credited in bulk to any one
country. Yet the per capita wealth
was only $1,359. Great Britain in 1909
was worth $88.725,000,000, each person,
according to the census, thus getting
$1,972. France, with $82,000,000,000 in
1910L kad a per capita wealth of
$2,070; Germany had $63,500,000,000,
with a per capita of $1,000. Russia's
total wealth was $60,000,000,000, Lut
its enormous population dragged the
per capita down to $400, while Swit-
zerland, with a total wenlth of only
$3,030,000,000, has a per capita rating
of $866. The per capita division in
Sweden amounts to $402 out of a total
of $2,197,000,000. Switzerland, in the
last few years, made a 20 per cent.
gain in national wealth. The average
per capita wealth in the 26 cantons
ranges from $1,885 in Geneva to $279
ifn Tessin. Switzerland thus stands
very high. The population in 1821
was 1,885,229, so that in 90 years’
time it has not doubled. France, it
will be noted, stands at the head of
the nations with a per capita wealth
of $2,070. That the United States,
with its enormous total, does not rank
higher is because of the rapidly in-
creasing population. France, on the
contrary, has reported a diminishing
or at the most a very slowly Increas-
ing population, so that the money ad-
vance has become greater than the
birth rate.
The Crewless Ship.
The German Naval league has just
tested the work of an inventor of Nu-
remberg, a ship to run without a crew,
The transmitter with a mast similar to
that used in wireless telegraphy com-
mands the ship, which works systemat-
fcally during a period of hours. The
ship turns to right and left, backs and
comes to a stop as if run by a man In
the engine room. Multicolored lights
show the maneuvers to the men
ashore, This practical invention is now
under study in the German navy. Pri-
marily destined for use in connection
with the discharge of torpedoes, it is
now under expert consideration as a
medium for the control of dirigible bal-
loons. Kites provided with phosphoric
apparatus and steered by Hertzian
waves will be a new accession to the
German army.
Chance for One-Armed Man.
“I'm looking for a one-armed man,”
sald the patron of a New York restau-
rant. “If you know of a man who has
only a right hand I can make him a
good business proposition—one that
will save him a lot of good dollars and
save me the same amount. His right
hand, however, must be a No. 7%.
“It’s this way: Several months ago
I sprained my ankle and for many
months was obliged to lean heavily on
a cane. To protect my left hand I
wore a glove on that hand, but did
not use one on the right. The result
was that I wore out dozens of left
gloves, but the right hand ones I nev-
er put on.”
One From Papa.
“Papa,” asks the litle boy, “why
do they say a woman is ‘setting her
cap’ for a man when she wants to
marry him?”
“Because, my son,” explains the
father softly, “if she sets her bonne:
{or him she knows blamed well the
vrice of it will scare him to death.”
Judge's Library,
Suggestion 1s Offered Tha: Some
Wise, Broadminded Man Make
Up the List.
There are some who have a passion
for making lists of the “greatest,”
! the “best” men, books, paintings,
musical compositions. There is a fa-
mous list of the 100 best books, and
| any one reading them night and day
| to the exclusion of others would be
! a tiresome prig.
i A list of the 100 worst books drawn
up by a man of true critical acumen
{ and catholic taste, a human being,
| would be much more to the purpose,
| although it would include some vol-
{ umes now ranked as classic and in-
| valuable. Charles Lamb's essay on
| books is too familiar for quotation.
M. Anatole France alluded to Gabriel
Plequot of Dijon as a man who, writ-
| Ing volume after volume about books,
| Yet wrote no book. Oscar Wilde di-
| vided books into three classes—books
| to read. books to reread and books
| not to read at all—and among the last
, he included Thomson's “Seasons,”
{ all John Stuart Mill except the essay
on liberty, Hume's England, “all ar-
| gumentative books, and all books that
; try to prove anything.”
To tell people what to read is, as a
rule, either useless or harmful; for
the appreciation of literature is a
| question of temperament, not of teach-
| ing; to Parnassus there is no primer,
| and nothing that one can learn is
, ever worth learning.—Philip Hale, in
| Boston Herald.
SHOES MADE OF SNAKESKIN
i
Fashionable Women of London Being
Tempted to Conquer Their
Aversion to Reptiles.
From all reptiles the ordinary wom-
| an shrinks in disgust. Yet fashion-
able women are now being tempted
to conquer their aversion to the ex-
| tent of wearing snakeskin shoes. One
, of the smartest boot shops in the
| west end of London is “featuring”
these shoes; but up to the present it
seems to be uncertain if the fashion
will really establish itself on wide-
spread lines.
| Choice of quite a variety of skins
| is offered. There is the dark and
| heavily-marked skin of the deadly
| cobra, or the lighter skin, with its
{ more delicate pigment markings, of
| the rapacious python. The skins of
the viper and the boa-constrictor have
| also been made up.
Snake skin is very soft, pliable, and
| durable. The shoes are expensive,
| of course, for the skins are not too
plentiful, but this tactor should rather
| commend itself to smart people, as it
renders it much more difficult to copy
| the fashion on cheap lines.
Broken-Hearted Dog.
The Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals in Monticello, N.
Y., will exercise its authority by put-
ting an end of the sufferings of a little
cocker spaniel named Buttons, which
has apparently lost its mind, following
the death of his master. The little
dog for years has been the steady
companion of Louis McGrain of New
York, who succumbed to tuberculosis
here last summer. Buttons since the
death of his master has been grief
stricken, and has refused to be petted
or to take food from friends of Mr.
McGrain. After she had roamed the
streets for several months the ani-
mal’s half starved condition was
brought to the attention of the soci-
ety. It has been decided that the
only way to solve Button’s problem is
by taking its life,
The pill habit like the opium habit is
dan, It means slavery to
the burden increasing with the years. Dr.
Pierce's Pleasant Pellets do not create
the pill habit. They cure and a pill isno
more needed. They arc very small in
size. The dose is small, one being a laxa-
tive and two a cathartic. Their effects
are permanent. Try them.
Why Women Suffer
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