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Bellefonte, Pa., June 7, 1912.
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WEAT SHE THOUGHT.
After the young woman in pink had
lured the young man into a secluded
seat under the palms on the plea that
she was too tired to dance she talked
herself hoarse without being able to
start a flow of conversation on his
part. Then he coughed.
“There — er — was something |
wanted to say,” he began, hesitating:
ly.
The young woman in pink leaned
over and adjusted her slipper rosette
to conceal her gratified surprise.
“What was it?” she murmured as she
sat up and regarded him confidingly.
“Somehow,” he said, “I feel that
you always understand me—you have
a sympathetic nature.”
“I am glad if you think so, Mr. Fril-
ler,” the girl in pink said softly.
“Oh, I do!” declared the young man,
earnestly. “It makes it easier—"
“I hope, Mr. Friller—Henry,” the
girl in pink said, looking at him with
great seriousness, “that you feel it
easy to say anything to me. Why,
we've been friends so long! It was
four years ago last January that we
were introduced!”
“Was it?" asked
startled.
“Do you think | could ever forget,”
the girl in pink asked him, tenderly.
“Oh, no, indeed.”
the young man,
“It's been a long time," agreed the
young man. “By the way,” he said
suddenly, “you know Antoinette
Graves, don't you?"
The girl in pink wrinkled her brow
a bit. “I haven't seen much of her
of late because, really, she's not in our
crowd at all!”
“Oh, is that so?" asked the young
man in some surprise.
“No,” the girl in pink told him.
“Poor Antoinette simply dropped out
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of things—she is so very odd, you
know. I feel sorry for a girl who
falls to be popular! Of course, I can't
even faintly imagine how it seems, but
1 should think it would be awful!”
“As bad as that?" asked the young
man.
“Goodness, yes,” said the girl in
pink. “You never see Antoinette
anywhere. She basn't been to a dance
for a year or so. And she wears such
funny clothes! Of course you can't
really blame a girl if she has no in-
stinct for style and doesn’t care to
keep up with things! Why, last win-
ter when every one was pawning her
rings to buy enough hair to keep up
with the styles | saw Antoinette going
around with just her own hair on-—"
“She has a lot of it,” said the young
man.
“But fancy!” cried the girl in pink.
“No matter how much hair you have
you can't do it up in style if one end
of it is fastened to your head! She
just didn’t care! And she's never had
a hobble skirt to her name. She's
gone right on wearing her last year's
tailor suit as though she felt perfectly
up to date in it. Don't you like to see
a girl progressive?”
“Er—yes,” said the young man.
“But—"
“I really don't like to say anything
that sounds like running another per-
son down,” went on the girl in pink,
in a pained voice. “That isn’t my na-
ture, as you know, Mr. Friller—Henry.
But Antoinette always struck me as
being terribly empty headed! I never
could get her to settle down to a seri-
ous talk—she would act restless or
laugh or move away.
“I think a really sweet natured girl
would take some interest in her
friends’ affairs, don't you?
“Poor Autoinette! I wonder what
life can hold for unfortunate girls like
her! They have nothing to look for-
ward to! But | try not to dwell on
suck things. There is no use in har
rowlug one’s self over the misfortunes
of others. However, I feel things so
deeply. 1 really suffer, Mr. Friller—
Henry, if 1 think every one isn't as
happy and contented as myself, I—
“But you sald you had something to
ask me?”
“] asked it,” confessed the young
man, looking red and uncomfortable.
“I asked what you thought of Antoin
ette. You see, | wanted to tell you
that she and | are ergaged!”
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Building a Poem.
#Any man on earth can be a poet if
he tries.” said a speaker at a bankers’
banquet, “and thers never was a bet-
, ter evidence than when the provost
of Dundee died. It seems that the
provost had been a fine man. His four
deputies mourned him greatly, and
after the funeral they all got together
and decided that they should write him
an epitaph.
“It was a hard matter to decide just
how four men could write an epitaph,
but it was finally settled by the agree-
ment that the inscription should be a
verse of four lines, each man to write
a line. And so they started. The first
man wrote his line. The second man
seratched his head and then added his |
line to the first. The third man thought |
long, but finally got his inspiration and
put down his line. Then the fourth, |
after much deliberation. made the final |
rime, and the epitaph ran something
lke this: i
* ‘Here lies the provost of Dundee,
Here lies him, here lies he,
Hallelujah, hallelujee,
A-B-C-D-E-F-GI'
—~Chicago Tribune.
Spelling Shakespeare's Name,
E. H. Sothern in an article in a mag-
azine on the Bacon-Shakespeare con-
troversy gives the Baconians a sound
drubbing. Because Shakespeare spell- |
ed his name in various ways the Ba-
conians have been pleased to refer to
him as a “barbarian.” dere is what
Mr. Sothern says on the subject of the
spelling of the name: |
“This is one assertion that is not de- |
nied. It is also true that Sir Walter
Raleigh, admittedly one of the most |
cultured men of the time, spelled his’
name ‘Rauley, ‘Rauleigh,’ ‘Raleghe’
and ‘Ralegh’ Sir Philip Sidney fre- |
quently signed himself ‘Sydney,’ while
Spenser often wrote ‘Spencer. Take
any of Shakespeare's contemporaries,
and we find the same thing. Marlowe's
name occurs in ten different spellings, |
Throckmorton's in sixteen, Gascoigne's
in nineteen. Percy's in twenty-seven,
while Ben Jonson wrote his in almost
every imaginable form.”
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A Good Retort, !
A Spaniard was traveling from San |
Sebastian to Biarritz in a first class
compartment with an American.
“You Spaniards are a great nation,” |
the American said. “But I can’t un- |
derstand how a nation that produced |
Velasquez and Valdes can stomach
the savage cruelty of the bulifight.”
The Spaniard rolled his black eyes
at this, inhaled a great cloud of ciga-
rette smoke and said: |
“You have In America a number of
societies for the prevention of cruelty |
to children, I believe?”
“Yes.” i
“And they do good work?”
“Oh, splendid work!”
Now the Spaniard showed his white
teeth in a smile. |
“Well, senor, such societies would |
be useless in my country,” he said. |
“The man who would lift his band |
against a little child bas not been born |
in Spain."—Los Angeles Times. |
Mental Twilight.
Mental health passes into mental dis- |
ease most commonly in a gradual way, |
as light passes into darkness. There
is a mental twilight, a borderland in|
which it i= impossible to say whether
the patient is mentally ill or not. It is |
always well for a man who undergoes
such changes mentally to consult his
doctor, and it is always well for the
doctor not to make too light of such a |
change because treatment is usually |
far more effectual in that borderland
stage than ‘t is when the symptoms
have been fully developed. The best
test of mental health is when a man
feels a conscious sense of organic well i
being, although many persons go
through life with more or less of al
sense of ill being all the time and are
not on that account to be regarded as
insane. ¢
Acoma’s Queer Graveyard.
‘What is perhaps the most remarka- |
ble graveyard in the United States ad- |
joins the old Spanish church in the an-
clent Indian pueblo of Acoma, N. i
M., and took more than forty years |
to construct. The village is situated |
high in the air upon a huge, flat top-
ped rock, many acres in extent and en-
tirely bare of soil. In order to create
the graveyard it was necessary to car-
ry up the earth from the plain 300 feet
below, a blanketful at a time, on the |
backs of Indians who had to climb |
with their heavy loads up a precipitous
trail cut in the face of the cliff. The
graveyard thus laboriously construct
ed is held in place on three sides by
high retaining walls of stone.—Wide |
‘World Magazine.
Got Through.
Among other startling statements in |
her composition on “A Railway Jour-
pey” the following was made by a lit |
tie Baltimore girl: |
“You must get a ticket, which is a |
plece of paper, and you give it to a
man, who cuts a hole in it and lets you |
pass through.” —New York Herald. |
Her First Thought.
Ella—What a dreamer she is! Stella
—I should say so! When I told her
about an accident in which a poor fel-
low lost both of his legs she said that
that was too bad, as he would not be
able to leave any footprints on the |
sands ef time.—Judge.
The National Game.
“You say baseball is your national
game,” said the stranger. “but what is
your national pastime in winter?”
“Politics.” —~Chicago Record-Herald. |
When you lose your temper you lose
your judgment. There's no precision
fn an angry decision. t
; laziness the pest day. At the same
: time every physician knows that most
| excessive smokers are troubled with
: insomnia.—Century.
| wag its tail!”—Judge.
' use wall papers and draperies of that
| tion.
Youth's Companion.
| granted, and the same statute pro-
' hands." —London Answers.
insomnia and Tobacce.
The dominant characteristic of to-
bacco is the fact that it heightens blood
pressure. The irritant action by which
it does this sometimes leads to still
more harmful results. Its second ac-
tion is narcotic. It lessens the connec-
tion between nerve centers and the out-
side world. These two actions account
for all the good and all the bad effects
of tobacco. As 2 narcotic it tempora-
rily abolishes anxiety and discomfort
by making the smoker care less about
what is happening to him. Butitisa
well known iaw of medicine that all
the drugs which in the beginning less
en nerve action increase it in the end
Thus smoking finally causes apprehen-
sion, hyperescitability and muscular
unrest. Here this inevitable law seems
to give contradictory results. Every
physician knows that an enormous
amount of insomnia is relieved by
smoking. even if it is at the expense of
Meanness of Mose.
A typical southern “mammy” entered
the office of a well known attorney
and. after mopping her shining brow
with a bandanna handkerchief, said to
the man at the desk.
“Ah wants t' git a divo'ce f'om mah
husban’, Mose Lightfoot.”
“On what grounds?” asked the attor-
ney.
“He's jes natchelly wufless,” was the
reply.
“What is your husband's occupa-
tion?"
“He jes sets roun’ de house all day |
and p'tends to mind de baby.”
“Does he take good care of the
child?
“'Deed he do not! He's too lazy.
Dis mawnin’' he tried to make de dawg
rock de cradle by tyin’ its tail to one
ob de rockers.”
“Did the scheme work?”
“Land sakes, no! Mose am so evah- |
lastin’ grouchy dat he couldn't speak
enough kind words to make de dawg
Yellow Writing Paper Easy on Eyes.
Oculists have often called attention
to the fact that the eyes are easily fa-!
tigued by the reflection from white pa- |
per, especially when the surface is un- i
der a strong light. Since green is |
known to be the color most restful to
the eyes, it is a common practice to
color in libraries and private studies.
For writing paper, however, green is
an unsatisfactory color. It imparts a
reddish appearance to the writing and
makes it hard to read. Yellow writing
paper is not open to the same objec-
In strong daylight it is softer
than pure white paper. and in artificial
light is not too dark. Black letters on
a yellowish background show clear
and distinct. Many mathematicians
use yellow paper in figuring long and
difficult calculations, and many writers
have adopted it for manuscripts.—
Articles Marked “Patented.”
We are all accustomed to see a pat-
ented article marked “Patented,” with
the date of the patent. It is doubtful,
however, whether one in a hundred
who notices the mark realizes its im-
portance to the patentee. The statute
on the subject makes it the duty of all
patentees or those holding under or
making the patented article for them to
apply the mark “Patented,” together
with the day and year the patent was
vides as a penalty for not making that
“in any suit for infringement by the
party failing to so mark no damages
shall be recovered by the plaintiff, ex-
cept on proof that the defendant was
duly notified of the infringement and
continued after such notice, to make
use or vend the article so patented.”—
Scientific American.
Music and Appetite,
The majority of the great musical
composers had appetites on an equal-
ity with their talents. It is told of
Handel that when he dined alone at a
restaurant he always took the precau-
tion to order the meal for three. Once
on asking, “Is de tinner retty?’ at a
restaurant, or a tavern, as it was then
called, where he was little known, he
got the reply. “As soon as the com-
pany comes,” and astonished the waiter
by seating himself, with the remark
“Den pring up the tinner; I'm de com:
pany.” The appetite of Haydn was
yet more voracious. He delighted In
dining alone and always finished the
meal ordered for five persons.
Curious Beshives,
In the village of Hoefel. Silesia, there
are a number of beehives in the shape
of life size figures cleverly carved in
wood and painted in colors. The fig:
ures were carved more than a century
ago by monks of the Naumburg mon-
astery, who were at that time in pos-
session of a large farm in the district.
The beehives represent different char-
acters, ranging from Moses to a mili-
tary officer, a country girl and a night
watchman with a spear.
The Fastidious.
“Catch any fish on your trip?”
“No, and 1 can’t understand why.
Had a $200 outfit. Had the right kind
of hooks and the latest thing in files.”
“Maybe you weren't wearing the
right kind of bat.”"—Washington Her
ald.
She Did.
“Jack proposed to me while turning
the music for me at the piano.”
“Ah, 1 see! You played right into his
Cv. —
Hurt not others with that which
Rapid Transit.
The accommodation trains or Ger
many seldom fall to provoke the wrath
of American travelers. One of them
thus vented his feelings In a letter
morning | saw from the car
a square forty acre field
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1 looked out. We had now arrived by
a direct line at the far corner of the
field. And the old man. having mowed
along three sides. was there, whetting
his blade.” —Youth’s Companion.
Preparing For the Wedding.
There was to be a wedding in east-
ern Kentucky. Many of the mountain
eers would be there. Early in the
morning of the nuptial day Bud Higb-
tower was noticed filling an old No. 12
shoe with slugs and nalls and plaster
of paris.
“Wot you doin’, Bud?" drawled Sim
“Kan't you see wot I'm doin’? I'm
makin’ moonshine sperrits out’n cheese
scrapin's.”
Sim chuckled.
“Gettin' good an’ ready f'r th’ wed:
din’, 1 reckon.”
“1 reckon.”
“Goln’ to throw it at th’ bridegroom.
maybe?”
“Goln' to throw it at him, maybe.
but it ain't goin’ to hit him. It's goin’
to break th’ face of Snipe Tolliver an’
do it accidental too. I been layin’ f'r
that ther Snipe f'r a right smart spell.”
And he drove an extra railway spike
in the bardening mass. — Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
The Powdering Closat.
When capricious fashion ruled that
ladles should wear only white bair-
the color supplied by nature being
of no importance—the operation of
putting on the powder made special ar
rangements necessary. These took the
form of a special room or cabinet, and
pains yourself.
fn every house of any pretension a
small chamber was set aside for the
exclusive use of powdering the bair
A curtain divided in the middie. a
powdering stand to bold the bow! of
powder and possibly a stool were all
that the closet contained, and throug’
this curtain the lady whose head wax
to be powdered protruded her head. the
maid standing on the other side and
“throwing” the powder at her bead by |
means of an powder puff. To preserve |
the eyes and complexion a mask was }
held 10 the face Unfortunately. no ii
Justration of a “powdering closet’ |
seems to have been preserved —Couner
de Loudres.
Why Lincoln Helped a Bug.
President Lincoln was waiking with
a friend about Washington and turned
back for some distance to ussist a
beetle that had got on its back and lay
on the walk. legs sprawling in al. |
vainly trying to turn itself over. The |
friend expressed surprise that the pres
fdent, burdened with the cares of a
warring nation, should find time to
spare in assisting a bug. |
“Well,” said Lincoln, with that bome- |
ly sincerity that touched the bearts of
millions of his countrymen, “do you
know that if 1 had left that bug strug-
gling there on his back | wouldn't |
have felt just right. | wanted to put |
bim on his feet and give him an equal
chance with all the other bugs of his
class.”—Kansas City Star.
The Family Skelton.
“Pop. us boys Is going to have a min
strel show.”
“Yes. son.”
“Well, can't we have the skeleton
old Mrs. Gaddy says you've got in
your closet to rattle the bones?"—Bal-
timore American.
. Profiting by the Occasion.
“I met Pantonfle just now. He'saw-
fully bad; can hardly eat anything and
drinks nothing but water.”
She—And didn't you like to invite
him to dinner?—Pele Mele.
Consistently Dressed.
Mrs. Fuclose—Isn't my new decollete
gown great? | tell you, I'm in the
swim now. Mr. Fuclose—You are cer
tainly dressed for the part.—Philadel-
phia Record.
Wouldn't Let Him Die.
Bella—He sald he would kiss me or
dle in the attempt. Della—Well? Bella
—He has no life insurance, and 1 pitied
his poor old motber.—Philadelpbla Tel-
egraph. .
Certainty is the father of right and
mother of justice.— Pope.
The Real Reason.
Freddie—Mamma, me face Is dirty.
Please wash it. Mamma — Freddie
where iu the workl dv you learn to
say “me face.” like a little street
arab? Why don't you say “my face is
dirty?" Freddie—Because your face
isn’t dirty.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
His Efforts,
“What did you do to eatch that cold?”
“Oh, ran after it for a couple of Mar-
athon sprints and then finally overtook
it by borrowing a friend's racing car.”
~Baltimore American.
The Necessity Removed.
Baker—Manning's operation bas been
postponed indefinitely. Barker—Wiy's
that? Baker—His surgeon's wife has
inherited a large fortune.—Life
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Medical.
Endorsed 1 at Home.
SUCH PROUF AS THIS SHOULD CONVINCE
and you may be sure he is
convinced or he would not do
2 J one's experience when it is
ney trouble. Whenever 1 hear
com of disorders, 1 advise
at of 's Ki Pills
that they will have a effect.”
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