Democrat ald Beiletonte, Pa., July 25, 1913. like, for these folks are so very apprecia- tive of the slightest favor shown them. When too poor to pay in money, or feel it “not proper” to offer it, they in some way manage to let one know their feel- ings. I have already some very hand- some pieces of brass—all gifts of patients for whom I have been able to do some- thing. But with all I can’t see how any one should become enthusiastic over In- dia—as a people, a more sordid, uninter- esting lot of people would be hard to find any place. There are very few with any of the better qualities. Every vice known, in the worst form, is found here, and so many besides, I have stopped locking for them. Their brown skins, unusual clothes, and silences, give an ef- fect of interesting undercurrents that to us, always seeking for the new and strange, seems well worth a more inti- mate knowledge. But the brown skin-~-nature’s proviso against these too direct sun rays here, used by the wearer as a shield, on ac- count of laziness, for dirt and disease of the worst kind. The unusual clothes— worn, because easy to mytke, easy to put on, and worn until they drop off, stiff with grease and dirt and the mysterious silence of the general people, covering minds as shallow and blank as a wayside mud-puddle and much like it if stirred up. Truly God is good to give such hot suns to this land, else famine and plague would be greater than it now is; the close huddling, the awful practice of us- ing the streets for any and all kinds of refuse, no toilets, little water, added to much laziness, make a splendid combina- tion, if one is looking for bacteria, and as that is my chief occupation in life you may know here is a wide field in which to operate. One in my work could never grow discouraged—too much of the new for that. But am just telling you of what is “under” the “beautiful ex- terior” over which most of the sight see- ing public rave. All they would have to do to have their disillusionment com- plete would be to stop amongst the na- tives for a month’s visit. We Americans celebrated the Fourth ' I of July with a dinner party with our Pittsburgh friends across the way. We tried to be patriotic by wearing the stars and stripes but altogether it was a most “safe and sane’ occasion as the weather continues too hot for any but the quiet- est gayeties. Later—Heigh oh! A wonderful black cloud coming out of the east has brought us relief. We have had twelve hours of steady rain and oh, what joy it means to the poor animals dying of thirst and to some of the natives on 4th water rations. To give you an idea of how hard it rains here; of course all the trees, shrubs and garden truck are planted in trenches to catch and hold what water does come— a sort of irrigation system, as it were. Now the whole compound is filled with tiny rivulets and at the extreme lower side is quite a pond in which, I am told, can be caught many sand fish, if one cared to try, as these fish live in the sand excepting when the rains come, when they appear on the surface. Hard fish story for you Centre countians to credit but true nevetheless. My “Punka walla” is glad of the rest she is having for I need no fanning this day of rain, but dare not allow her to leave the compound, fearing the sun will break through the clouds and in a few hours we will be again at burning heat. You can’t imagine what a few day's change in the weather will produce in this country; last week I was fussing about the intense heat and hoping for rain, well, we are surely having our lion’s share of it now. India never does any- thing by halves as far as the weather is concerned; when the sun shines, every- thing else is apt to run to cover, likewise, with the rain, five and six inches in a few hours and changing everything to murky stickiness. One's scissors, hair pins, etc., rust over night, silver you would never recognize—looks as if paint- ed black, clothes will mildew while wait- ing to be worn, and anything in leather grows such a covering of mould that it looks as if badly in need of a good shave, and with insects eating holes in all kinds of books, papers, etc., it would seem that the intense heat would be more pleasant than what the cooler, wet days bring. Occasionally, as today, we are es- pecially favored; this is exactly like an ideal home April day, the thermometer registering 78 degrees and the atmos- phere so clear that the temples miles away seem as though directly behind our compound. The boys playing marbles and flying “hand birds” as they call kites here, would remind one of home if it were not for the camels and monkeys wandering about amongst the vari-color- ed clad multitudes loafing about the streets, We have just come from the English club where we heard a fine concert by one of the native regimental bands. One ’ ! ‘ can hear good music here every day; | pianos soon go to pieces from the mil- dew, so they are a scarce and expensive luxury to possess. ! I learned today on inquiry, what all | the natives were constantly chewing. It may interest you to hear some of it; | especially if you could see the men, women and children going about, their jaws in perpetual motion. The habit here is worse than the detestable “chew- ing gum” in the States, only these people chew the native leaf of the beetle tree. This leaf is about three inches long by two wide, moderately thick and made crisp by being kept in water. “ It is then spread thick with a red paste called “Ka” on top of which is spread a lime paste over which tobacco is sprinkled in a fine dust, lastly, beetle nuts are chopped with a pair of nippers like men sometimes carry at home to clip the ends off cigars, the whole is then folded into a triangular shaped wad and is ready for use. It pro- duces a red stain to the saliva and when I first noticed the mouth of one of my servants thought his gums were bleed- ing, but soon learned differently. The taste grows on one, I am told, for we have had a hard time breaking some of our native nurses of the habit. The effect on the teeth is most disastrous for after a short times usage they become a brownish black in color. The taste of the “Pan,” as it is called, is curiously not unpleasant; I tried it, for my own curios- ity quite ran away with my better judg- How to make the most and best of life, how to crease the vital powers, how to avoid the pitfalls of diseases; these are things know. It is British Army's First Trousers. Perhaps the army revoiution of deep- est interest to the soldier himself was that effected in 1823, when for the first time he was put in trousers. The an- nouncement from the horse guards took the following remarkable form: “His majesty has been pleased to ap- prove of the discontinuance of breech- es, leggings and shoes as part of the clothing of the infantry soldiers and of blue gray cloth trousers and half boots being substituted.” In order to indem- nify the “clothing colonels” for any hardship which the new order might cause it was decided that these gentle- men should no longer be called upon to provide the waistcoat of Tommy, but that Tommy should himself supply it out of his shilling a day. To reas sure him it was pointed out that he was in a position to do so with com- fort, because he would no longer have to buy gaiters.—Loundon Chronicle. Letters That Wear Away. The professor was talking of English words that, originally harsh, had been softened by a slight change in form or in the elision of some letter. The the Latin ‘numerus.’ a number. What have we done with that word? One may suppose that originally it was written and pronounced ‘numberous.’ Why not? But the ‘D’ in the middle of 5ERS fit Only a Dream. Wife—I dreamed last night that 1 was in a shop that was simply full of the loveliest bonnets, and— Husband (hastily)—But that was only a dream, my dear. Wife—] knew that before I woke up, because you bought one for me. Floriculture, “How old Soak does pitch into that port of yours!” = | | What is time? The shadow on the dial, the | striking of the clock, the running of sand—day | and night, summer and winter—months, years, centuries; these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of time, not time itself. Time WAIL OF THE DONKEY. Tremble In Terror. | in all the east today the doukey is a | favorite means of transportation both for travelers und merchandise. It was #0 in the days of the patriarchs Isaac nd Jacob. says the Louisville Courier ' Journal, and wo It will probably re- , ain for ages to cowe. But nothing in China is just like the same thing unywhere else in the world, and the donkey is no exception. Dr. Chester of Nashville. who while ' evangelizing in Arkansas In his young- | hats is one of the revivals 1 transparent lightness. ted frills around | ith; i! ; i left a yellow | : er days had become familiar with the easy amble of the long eared American species, was induced to make trial of the Chinese type during a visit to China a few years ago. His experi: | ence was disappointing. The gait was a rough. insufferable jog. and the characteristic bray was a painful’ phenomenon in the realm of sound. Dr. Chester reports his impressions as follows: | “The power of heredity. working through millenniums of isolation. with no modification from foreizn admix- ture. has developed in the bray of the Chinese donkey a quality ail its own. There are no words in English to de- | scribe the heartrending pathos of it ‘It was ax if an uppeal to heaven against the cruelty and oppression of ages were at last finding utterance in ' ome long. lond, undulating wail. And | when our party of three met another ' party of six and all nine of the don- keys began at one time to exchange the complimentsgpf the day then pa- thos gave place to terror. and you CURIOUS PLEASURE. | Marken to It In China if You Want to Sympathy That May Be Excited by a Paroxysm of MHysterics. Some persons derive pleasure from receiving sympathy, and this often causes them. especially If they are women who have suffered some afflic- tion. to affect a very demoustrative grief. its puruzysms timed with shrewd- ly seitish cunniug so as best to attract the attentivn and secure the sympathy of those about thew Often from be- ing shinuluted or exaggerated these fits becowe real Aud there ure other persons who de- rive a struuge sutisfaction from excit- ing the auxiety und even the distress of their friends. This is not uncom won awong small children, who are, however, eusily cured by ignoring their outbursts. Petting them makes them worse. Hysteria in young women is often simulated. In his work on “The Influence of Education vn Diseases of the Nervous System™ Dr. Carter says: “When vnce a young woman bas dis- covered her power to produce a hysteric parosysm ut will and hus exercised it for her own gratitication without re- gard to the anxiety or annoyunce it may entail on ner friends a very re markable effect is speedily produced | upon the whole mental sud moral na- ture. The pleasure of receiving un- wonted sympathy once tasted excites a desire for it that knows no bounds.” —~New York World. ESCAPED THE MADHOUSE. Daguerre’s First Photograph Came Just In the Nick of Time. TRAITS OF THE TURK A Friend of the islamite Tells Why He Admires Him. | must confess that | am at heart a friond of the Turk. It may be merely association. | have known bim maay years. But there is about him some- thing which | cannot help liking—a simplicity, a manliness, a dignity. I like bis fondness for water and flow- ers and green meadows and spreading trees. | like bis love of children. like his perfect manners. like his sobriety. | like his patience | ilke the way be faces death. One the things | 'ike- most about him is | has beeu most his undoing—bis lack of | any commercial instinct 1 ike, too. what no | noticed—the artistic side of | not know Turkish enough to appreci- | ate his literature, and his religion bids him, or he imagines it does, guge In the plastic arts. But in | tecture and certain forms of decoration | be has created a school of his own. I | 1s not only that the Turkish quarter any Anatolian town is more esque than the others. The old pal- { ace of the sultans in Constantinople, ‘ certain old houses | have seen, the - "~ 8 fas : serious study than has been given it. i You may tell me that these things | are not Turkish, because they were | modeled after Byzantine originals or | because Greeks and Persians had much | to do with building them. But I shall | answer that every architecture was | derived from another in days not so of ! Josonige oF ! could only sit. appalled and trembling, | Ammonia | as the mighty reverberation rolled woolen waists away on its journey round the world.” HOW TO GROW STRONG. | The Eight Natural Exercises Give the | Best Physical Culture. It is not logical for a man to swing | i g g i g | or glass. If old Mme. Daguerre had been as! mear our own and that, after all, it quick to act as she was to suspect, was the Turk who created the oppor- Louis Jacques Daguerre might bave tunity for the foreign artist and or- ended his days in an Insane asylum, ' dered what he wanted.—H. G, Dwight and the world might have waited a in Atlantic. century longer for a means of preserv- ing family likenesses on bits of paper | THE CAR OF PROGRESS. Up to the early thirties of the last “Yes; he says he likes its bouquet.” “No wonder, then, that he likes his | own nose gay.” Judge. ; i fumes. i One will be Sle 0 recognize one’s riends a long way off this summer—pro- vided one is familiar with the color of their motor wearables; some of the new | coats are rivaling the famous hunting | in pinkness, while others are equal- 3, rong it blue, green or orange tones. | ugh the natty-three-quarter coats are | liked for steamer and traveling wear, | women who take long motor trips prefer : the full-length coat which better pro- ! tects the frock beneath. by 2s | Speaking of sweaters, one comes to a | most fascinating feature of outing-dress. No amount of Mackinaws, blazers or other adroitly devised outing wraps seem to be able to push the sweater its | place in favor. Nothing is quite supreme . | so reliable as the friendly sweater which may be rolled, folded, crammed into a luncheon basket, shoved under the seat | of a motor boat, or wadded up to make | a pillow on the sailboat deck without be- | traying any resentment—as far as ap- wear. mermaid sweater is a novelty that will be taken up by young women who adore and striking ef- fects. While very roomy across a a she ied Hk the closel ugs as y as one of the new g 5 22 £& g6 8% sf g g g 2 a resigned g i Hn ; 2 i f 5 hi A i fl | & 5 : § iF ih ft : ; 4 Eg : 25 be :: 8 i | Mac—, her namesake, but who was ‘sure you. When | saw the h ' in the air hanging on two rings by his | hands, according to George Hebert, a ' French naval l!leutenant who has de- ' voted himself to the study of physical. ! culture. Such exercise demands ab-! | mormal efforts, which must be harmful because they do not respond to any ne- cessity. For the sume reason it is poor gym- nastics to raise and bold the arm in the air while holding the rest of the body! motionless. The result of such action is incomplete development The arm should be exercised by throwing some- | thing, by climbing or by boxing, and the legs should be exercised by run-| ning or swimming, because these essen- | | tially natural movements have a happy | reaction on the whole organism. | A particular movement may be inter- esting in the case of invalidism when the subject is capable of ordinary ex. ercise, but when people are in health and anxious to become strong there is | only one means of obtaining physical | improvement and ouly one form of ef- ficacious physical culture. That is to carry out such exercises as were imposed by nature upon the men , of the forests and such as are in use now among savages. These are walk- | ing, running, leaping, climbing, lifting, Jumping, boxing and smimming. All the obligations of primitive life have a place in these eight natural exercises.— | Harper's Weekly. How Did She Know? When the boarders were all gathered | about the table fussy little Miss Mac— gushingly stammered to Mr. no relation: “Oh, Mr, Mac—! You must pardon me for opening your mother’s letter. 1 feel awful about it! But 1 didn't read a single word, I as :£ 41 : 2 Hi i i iEF sEariit elfzeEi; y thought she was very pleasant. What's happened?’ “We lunched together downtown to- Boiled Down, “It used to be forty acres and a ale.” “Intensive farming bas the call now —forty square feet and a hen.”—Louis- ville Courier-Journal. A —————————— His Last Words, “Does your wife always have the last word?” 1 “Um. no. | most always say, ‘Yes, dear,’ or ‘Very true, dear.’ "—Puck. A ————— Bach one sees what he carries in his heart.—Goethe. century M. Daguerre had behaved as | any well balanced decurator and scene | painter and should bave bebaved, and then he be gan to experiment with liquids and at- tempted to fasten sun shadows ca glass or copper sheets. He talked of a wonderful day when he could make portraits of his friends without either brush or pencil. In great trepidation Mme. Daguerre hurried to a doctor and, weeping, told the medical man these symptoms. To the doctor's spelled nothing less than insanity, and in 1838 they set about preparing M. Daguerre for a visit to the asylum at | Bicetre. But just then the unsuspecting vie: tim of this plot succeeded in fastening the shadow on the copper plate. and the art of photography was bora.— New York Sun. The Oldest Book. The oldest book in the world to which a positive date can be assigned is an assortment of proverbs some- what after the style of the proverbs collected by Solomon. The work is ac credited to Ptab-botep. an Egyptian king, and Egyptologists assign to it an antiquity of. at least 300 B. C. Abra- ham was called to. leave his home in Ur of the Chaldees 1921 B. C., so that this volume was written 1,100 years before the beginning of Jewish his tory. The deluge is placed by most chronologists at B. GC. 2848, so the book. if its dating is correct must have been written before the flood Methuselah was born B. C. 3817, so that this papyrus was prepared and these proverbs were collected when the oldest man on record was a lively young fellow of 300 years. Trousers Forbidden, Strange though it may appear to the present generation, it seems that trou- when first introduced into Eng- land were regarded as anything but a ing paper shows to what a pass a may come in a great city: “Wanted—A collaborator, by a young playwright. The play is already writ- ten; collaborator to furaish board and steadygoing husband discerning mind they | Are You Holding It Down or Helping to Push (t Along? The car wus on an up grade. Most of the passengers bad got out and : were pushing. Many, with their coats off, were toiling and sweating bravely. And slowly but surely they were get- ting ahead. Some, however remained in the car. Part of them said there was no use in pushing, since the hill was so steep they could never get up anyway. Others sald they would help when all those pretending to push ' were really pushing as they ought to. But the toilers toiled on, pushing the car and those in it constantly up the hill The world 1s on an up grade. Most of the passengers are pushing faith- fully, and every year finds it steadily going forward and upward. The pes- . simists, however, and the cynics re- main seated in the car. The former | say that the problems are so hopelesz ‘and human greed so intrenched that we are already beaten. The latter say that when those who profess to be trying to do right begin to practice | what they preach. when the “hypo- | crites” are eliminated. they will help. | Meanwhile the workers are pulling i and pushing, and the world is going {up the hill. But did you ever see a | complainer or a knocker who was help- | ing?—Fngene Bernard Smith in Out : look. Family Pride. | “Prisoner. have you anything to say | why the sentence of death should not | be passed upon you?” | “A few words, your honor. I am | thirty years of age.” “Well?” “Your older brother is a physician.” “This is impertinent and irrelevant.” “It may sound so, your honor, but it | means life or death to me. I under- | stand that you take a great pride in | the phenomenal success of your broth er?” “1 do, but what possible bearing can that have upon your case?’ “Simply this: Your brother, the doc- tor, examined me a year ago and pre- dicted that I would live at least twen- ty years more. It would certainly un- dermine his reputation as a scientist “That's odd. What do you sell?” “Dynamite.’’— Washington Herald. What She Wanted. “These ure all genuine antiques, mad. am.” said the dealer. “We positively guarantee that.” “l haven't any doubt of it,” said Muggins--What is your favorite method of punishing the children? Buggins— Well, 1 consider that spank- ing takes the palm.—Philadelphia Rec- ord. He that would eat the kernel must | erack the nut.—Persian Proverb. J
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