Bellefonte, Pa., August 2, 1912.
THE FIFTH STENOGRAPHER.
(Copyright, 1911, by Associgted Literary
Press.)
Mr. Benjamin Holbrook, of the firm
of B. Holbrook & Company, jobbers,
had been absent from his business for
three weeks, and therefore entered
his office resolved to get back into
harness as speedily as possible. After
wading through a mass of accumu-
lated correspondence, he rang for his
confidential stenographer. She failed
do appear. A second and a third ring
‘were equally barren of results. Mr.
‘Holbrook grew indignant. With a sav-
‘age jab, be touched another button
on his desk, and in & moment Wat-
son, his chief clerk, stood at his el
‘bow.
“Watson,” he demanded, “why
doesn’t Miss Gayley respond to her
call?”
“Miss Gayley
you were away.”
“An office romance?”
“Yes,” responded Watson with a
smile. “Smithers, one of the book-
keepers, is the other guilty party.”
“Well, he got a sensible wife, con-
found him. Give him a ten per cent,
raise. At the same time he robbed
me of a good stenographer just when
she had become efficient and valuable,
Jt strikes me these cases are becom-
ing pretty frequent in this office,
aren't they, Watson.”
“This is the fourth in three years.”
“Exactly,” agreed Mr. Holbrook.
was
married while |
dng to her one day, he on the one side | add to it a tablespoonful of boiling
of the big, flat office table, and she | water.
confess to himself that she did not
look it.
“Have you had any experience in
this capacity?” he asked,
“None, whatever,” she answered.
“But 1 have a good education and
have fitted myself carefully for such
a position, and 1 feel 1 can meet all
the requirements set forth in your
somewhat unusual advertisement.”
“It was a little out of the ordinary,
wasn't it?
“Yes.”
“But there was a reason for
During the last three years |
lost no less than four stenographers
through matrimony. It was a desire
to secure some one who would view
business as other than a stepping-
stone to marriage that prompted that
ad.”
“l can safely say that there is no
prospect of my making such use of
it,” replied Miss Holmes.
A trial showed that she was well
equipped for the position. Mr, Hol-
brook reflected, also, that he had
never recognized so many good quali
ties in an applicant before. He there-
fore engaged her, and in a few weeks
found reason to congratulate himself;
for she developed an efficiency even
above that of her very efficient pre-
decessors. In a few months he began
to regard her as indispensable, and
it.
found himself regretting that she was | tomatoes in quarter inch. slices.
near him in office hours only.
And then it came.
on the other, facing him.
grasping for some solution to a
knotty business problem, he allowed
his mind to wander. The plainly
have,
He was dictat- |
While | drippings; dip each slice in crumbs, |
' How Rubber is Cured.
. Rubber reaches the market in almost
, every possible shape and color. In most
, cases the queer names in the market re-
| ports are mostly descriptive. Thin, pale
| crepe, for instance, arrives in long strips,
, generally about four feet long and eight
to twelve inches wide. It varies in thick-
ness from one-sixteenth to one-half an
inch and has a roughish surface, from
which the name crepe is derived. This
{ rubber is pale yellow in color, and when
HEN we shall bulld our house
“Ifs walls shall be the quiet
background for the loveliness of life,
hung over with the few records of our
own: and other's growth made In the
playtime of art: its furnishings the prod-
uct of that art's more serious hours: its
implements from kitchen ware to dress-
Ing table touched by the sane and hal-
lowing hand of purpose and taste.
—Wiltlam IL.
| be used.
Price. | Hard, fine Para is prepared by native
| labor of the Amazon by dipping a so-
| called paddle in the rubber and then
| holding it in the smoke of a fire, which
| hardens the coating of milk. The paddle
| is then dipped again for a second coating
WAYS OF SERVING TOMATOES.
There is no more delicious fruit-
vegetable, if it may be so called, than
the tomato. Sliced after peeling, the
rich coral rounds may be dressed with
a large biscuit, generally Weighing about
sny favored salad dressing, or to
| sixty pounds, has been built up. The
' operator with a knife then slits the bis-
of place with peaches and cream. | from the paddle. Rubber so prepared
Tomatoes are served with rice, | contains a large proportion of moisture,
macaroni, as escalloped dishes with | but is stronger than any of the planta-
crumbs they are delicious baked, | tion rubbers. .
stuffed or fried. From the come large supplies of
| clean, black rubber, coagulated originall
Fried Tomatoes.—Cut smooth, solid | i, Jarge blocks and then cut up into small
Dry cubes to permitit to dry and ripen. The
| each slice and roll in crumbs, dust Congo also ships rubber in ish sau-
with salt and pepper. Beat an egg, | collected directly from the tree, the
lish a nce being caused by small
Have a hot frying pan with | Portions o the bark adhering.
by the natives digging a trough in the
| earth and running the latex into it. In
time the mass in the foagulates
from the outside, forms a hard skin, and
| finally becomes hard
then in egg. put into the hot fat and
{ry brown on each side.
| Tomato Hagh.—Chop cold meat fine,
throughout. But
held up to the light is quite transparent, | must suffer.
, which proves its purity and accounts for | ach ought to be the first care.
| the very high price obtainable therefore, disease shows its symptoms in head or
| The so-called sheet rubber is similar to | heart, blood or liver, the stomach should
crepe, but slightly thicker and not so | be first examined for the cause of the
transparent. It is prepared in a different | disease.
| manner, and, unlike crepe, must be put Discovery was made to match the dis-
through the washing-mills before it can | covery that many diseases, remote from
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i and again smoked, and so on until quite |
There are some forms of animal life|
which are nothing but a stomach. All
other parts and organs are dwarfed or
rudimentary; the stomach is the center
of being. As a matter of fact the stom-
ach plays a vastly more important part
in the life of the highest type of animal
life, man, than is generally recognized.
The stomach to him is the center of ex-
istence, for man is primarily a stomach.
Starve him and he weakens in brain and
body. Feed him with innutritious food,
and blood, and muscle, nerve and bone
For this reason the stom-
Pierce's Golden Medical
the stomach begin in the stomach, and
that when diseases begin in the stomach
they must be cured h the stomach.
“Discovery” is a specific for diseases oi
the organs of digestion and nutrition. It
strengthens the stomach, heals weak
lungs, purifies the blood.
Women at last had the ballot and an
oily politician was after the suffragette
many cream and sugar vies in honor | cuit down one side in order to remove it | oR
ppeal to the hand that rocks the
cradle,” he
“Cut it out, ” interrupted his pal. “This
is a fashionable audience and there ain't
|
|
i
The Gold Coast ships rubber prepared |
a mother in the house.”
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Straight
furnished office faded from his vision. | ‘ith 1 d . i |
i "| season with butter, salt and pepper; | THSLY :
The table became a dining table, cov- | put in a baking dish and pour over } sis kind of Jabber holds the Moisture | Bad Backs
ered with snowy linen upon which | cooked tomatoes that have been well | WIC 3 was Arigina by Bp Se lak, and,
silver gleamed and crystal sparkled— | ceqqoned. Add a ltie butter and | piTe RE SC PP re Gvory coast, | BELLEFONTE RESIDENTS ARE LEARNING
such a dining table as one sees In & | your if Jiked, not omitting a Mavor- | the French Sudan, and in the Sierra| HOW TO EXCHANGE THE OLD BACK
“Four in three years, of which your
own case was the first. Matrimony is
& noble institution, Watson, but it can- |
not be allowed to play hob with this
wo
business the way it has been doing.
1 propose now to get a stenographer | |
rh site him at the
who will regard this office as some. | he saw her sitting oppo m {
thing more than a stepping-stone to
marriage. Miss GQGayley's successor
must be at least thirty-five years old.
You wil! advertise at once for a lady
He Allowed His Mind to Wander.
confessing to that many summers, If
you cannot find her, I'll have to get a
man—but I prefer the woman, if she
exists.”
Benjamin Holbrook had never been
me. ried. At the age when other men
take unto themselves wives, he had
‘been too busy smoothing the path of
the newly established firm of B. Hol-
‘brook & Co. over the thorny ways
‘which infant industries must travel.
Matrimeny, he had reasoned, must
wait upon success. Success he had
finally achieved, and now it waited
upop matrimony. If questioned, he
would not have been able to say
whether he had eluded matrimony or
matrimony had eluded him, but now,
at the age of forty, he was forced to
confess to his friends that while it
was still possible in his case, it did
not seem very probable.
Being a bachelor, he had never
been able to fathom the mental
processes which led & girl to abandon
a comfortable salary in his office for
the purpose of sharing the salary of
u male worker in the same office, and
in much less degree had he been able
to understand the line of reasoning
which led the aforesaid male worker
to persuade her to de so.
In employing office help, the head
of the firm was able to discern merit
at a glance. All his male subordi-
nates had good qualities. The four
women who had reigned in brief sue-
cession in the office were all well en-
dowed in this respect—so well en-
dowed, indeed, that four of the male
subordinates had discerned their merit
even better than the boss, with the
result that for the fifth time in three,
years that gentleman, with all a
bachelor's dislike for change in the
existing order of things, faced the dis-
agreeable prospect of becoming ac-
customed to a new stenographer. It
was this fact, coupled with the knowl
edge that there were yet several un-
married men in the office, all with
good qualities, that led him to issue,
his edict concerning the age of the
next woman who should grace his es-
tablishment.
Watson's advertisement brought
but one applicant to Mr. Holbrook—
a handsome, somewhat sad-faced wom-
an, whose gown of black well became
the slender plumpness of her figure.
“l am Miss Holmes,” she stated
simply. “I have come in answer to
your advertisement for a stenogra
pher.”
“Thirty-five years of age, or old.
er?’ added Mr. Holbrook.
“l am able to meet that condition,”
‘was the calm reply.
The brad of the firm wae fapeod tn
| home;
rect methods.
| She came out of it .n confusion.
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but Miss Holmes faded from
the picture not at all. In his reverie |
dream table—and then Benjamin Hol |
prook, bachelor, aged forty, came |
back to earth with a rush. He was in |
Jove, He was certain of it, despite the
novelty of the sensation,
Mr. Holbrook was accustomed to a- |
«Wiss Holmes, can you still safely |
! gay that there is no prospect of your |
making business a stepping stone to
marriage?’ he asked suddenly. i
Miss Holmes was also in a reverie,
*“]—1 think so,” she
Eas).
“Then there is a doubt?” i
“Yes; there is a deubt,” she ad-'
mitted.
“1 ask you to give me the benefit of |
managed to |
“Oh, 1 am not thinking of resign-
! ing.” she protested. i
“I am not asking you to give the |
business the benefit of the doubt,
Miss Holmes; I am asking you to give}
it to me. 1 dé@sire you to resign Can't
you see what 1 am getting at? I love |
you. | want you to be my wife.”
“Wouldn't that be playing hob with
the business?” she asked after a!
pause, smiling through her blushes.
Mr. Holbrook rose from his chair
and started toward her. She fled to
the door in a panic and paused with!
her hand on the knob.
“The business is inured to such ex- | E
periences by this time,” he laughed,
still going toward her. “You must re.
member that my own romance has a | §
quartet of precedents right here in the |
office. However, it shall be the last; |
for my next confidential stenographer |
shall be a man.” |
Miss Holmes covered her face with
her hands as he reached for her. ]
“If that is the case, B—Benjamin,”
ghe murmured, “you might begin to
Yook around for the man.”
FIRST CLEAN THE SYSTEM
Thing to Do in the Instant That the
Presence of Tuberculosis ls
Suspected.
!
\
The fever of consumption is not pri-
marily due to the presence of the tu-
bercle bacilli in the system. Indeed,
unless there are ether conditions
which cause the bodily temperature
to rise it is inclined to be sub-normal.
One of the interesting revelations |
of modern medicine is the fact that |
these germs may exist a long time in |
the human body without there being
any rise of temperature whatever. |
This is plainest seen in a tubercular |
abscess, but it is also seen in the
many cases in which for long periods {
there is no fever. What does cause |
the fever in the earlier stages is a dis-
ordered state of the alimentary canal, |
The stomach and bowels become de- |
ranged and full of toxins which, be-
coming absorbed, poison the system '
and cause the temperature to rise, For |
years it has been the practice of the
writer to reduce any temperature to
normal, especially during the first |
stages of the disease, simply by wash- |
ing out the stomach and effecting a |
complete cleansing of the intestinal |
tract. Later on the fever is due to |
the absorption of broken-down lung
tissue and to ptomaines, and so is
quite another story.
When, therefore, tuberculosis is sus. |
pected the temperature should be!
taken and if fever is present the per- |
son should invariably go to his phy- |
‘sician and have his digestive tract
thoroughly cleansed, when by proper |
diet and outdoor life he will be able |
almost certainly to overcome the pres- |
ence of the tuberculous germs,
Celestial Swats. |
Mrs. Willis—I suppose that in heav:
en we will be disappointed in not find: |
ing certain people there. |
Mrs. Gillis—Yes. But we'll be morg |
disappointed at finding certain other |
aenple there — Puck, |
| ful of cold water, add to the
der, then lift and carefully place in a
{ Cut rounds of stale sponge cake, lay
| yolks, then fold in the whites.
ing of onion juice. Brown in the oven | Leone neighborhood the natives collect !
«nd serve hot. | rubber from the same trees, but give aj
Tomato Mayonnaise.—This sauce is t deal more pains to the preparation. |
delicious and goes well with broiled | resulting product is known as "Sierra
fish, cold meats and vegetables. Stew | 290 hzuis onary oe rib '
half a pint of tomatoes, soften one | oo cus young als, So os in Te
teagpoonful of gelatine in a teaspoon: | gon, that of an orange to that of a man's
hot toma | head. The rolling process is done while
to, stir well and rub through a sieve. | the strips are fresh, and they become one
Let cool, beating occasionally, then | compact ball. Rubber treated thus is of |
add a half pint of mayonnaise. It a reddish color, for which reason the
gives the sauce a beautiful pink color; balls are known as “red niggers.
heaped in cucumber cups or green
pepper cups and served with fish or
—Finest Job Work at this office.
| cutlets it decorates a dish effectively =
Bilious people have a sorry time. Their
lives are Jercucally divided into three
| periods: time when they are coming ,
down with biliousness, the time when !
| they are down, and the time when they
| are geiting over the attack. Dr. Pierce's
| Pleasant Pellets cure biliousness, and
I sick and bilious headaches. They cure
one of parsley, a half teaspoonful of | to stay, and do not make victims of the
salt, and a dusting of cayenne. Bake | pill habit.
in a hot oven 20 minutes and serve in — : ‘
the same dish. —If you see it in the WATCHMAN, it's
true. And not only true, but it's all
and is pleasing to the palate as well.
Tomato Farci.—Cut four tomatoes in
halves, place in a frying pan in hot
fat, the cut side down; cook until ten-
baking dish. Pour over a little olive
oil, a tablespoonful of chopped onion,
1
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Does r back ache, feel weak and
painful?
Do you suffer headaches, languor and
s the urine discolored, passages irregu-
lar?
T'he kidneys are calling for help.
Sick kidneys cannot do their work.
Give them the help they need.
Backkache is generally k ache.
Tocure it you must cure the kidneys.
Use a tested and proven kidney remedy.
Doan's Kidney Pills have stood the test.
A remedy especially for kidney ail-
ments.
Convincing proof in Bellefonte endorse-
ment:
‘ Mrs J. | Tavior, 19 3 ater § St., Belle
onte, , says: “Wet just as -
ly of Doan’s Kidney Pills to-day as 0)
two yeurs ago, when we ly recom-
mended them. y are procured at
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from backache and kidney trouble, On
several occasions since t t
en Doan's Kidney Pills and they have al-
est benefit, We
recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills to other
kidnev sufferers at unity.”
For sale by all rs ho 50 ents.
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, New York,
sole agents for the United States.
Remember the name—Doan’s—and take
no other. 57-26
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ABINET
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3) NE deed may mar a life,
And one may make it;
Hold firm thy will for strife,
Lest a quick blow break ft,
—Richard Watson Gilder.
LEFT-OVER CAKE.
Ways of using 'e‘t-over cake are
well to keep in mind, as often a few
pleces of cake combined with other.
tirings will make a most palatable des-
sert,
Peach canape is one pretty dessert.
on each a half of a peach, pour over a
little of the juice and heap on a table.
spoonful of sweetened whipped cream.
Trifle.—Cut stale cake in slices and
gpread preserves between them. Lay
in a deep dish and heap whipped
cream over the slices. Garnish with
a few berries.
Sponge Cake Porcupine.—Cut large
squares of stale sponge cake, place
in a pudding dish, moistened with
sweetened orange juice. Blanch a few
almonds and press them, sharp end
up, into the cake. Pour over a soft
custard and chill before serving.
Mock Plum Pudding.—Soften two
cups of stale cake crumbs in a quarter
of a cup of hot milk. If the crumbs
are dry they may need more. Add to
the softened crumbs a well-beaten
egg, a half cup of sugar, a fourth cup
of molasses, a fourth cup of stewed,
chopped prunes, three-fourths of a cup
of raisins, two teaspoonfuls of mixed
spices, a fourth of a teasponful of
soda, a half teaspoonful of salt, two
teaspoonfuls of lemon juice and a
fourth of a cup of flour. Bake in a
moderate oven 45 minutes. Serve
with an egg sauce. Separate the
yolks from the whites of two eggs,
beat well, add a fourth of a cup of
sugar, a teaspoonful of vanilla to the
Serve
Ladies’
Cures
at once.
Berry Whip.—Fill a dish half full of
stale sponge cake. Sugar a quart of
berries, mash them slightly and pour
over the cake. Beat the whites of
three eggs stiff, add three tablespoon-
fuls of sugar and beat in gnough Ler-
ries to color and flavor.
Heap on the dish and serve with
cream.
A delic'ous dessert may be pre
pared with sponge cake over which
is poured a soft custard flavored
strongly with coffee.
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The
that
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
Pants
SUITS
| that we are
selling for
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they were
$3.00,
$4.00
and
$5.00
Suits.
ABOUT
SIXTY
OF THEM
LEFT.
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