Bellefonte, Pa., January 29, 1915.
THE SALESGIRL TALKS.
It was one of those loathly “match-
ing” missions, undertaken, with dire-
ful threats in case of nonfulfillment,
at the breakfast table that morning,
that brought me alongside the ribbon
counter of the great department store,
Four women were ahead of me at
the counter. None of them appeared
to know whether she wanted cerise or
alice-blue ribbon. But they all seemed
to be perfectly certain that the sales-
girl, who had a great many puffs, an
uptilted nose, and a certain self-pro-
tecting manner of independence, was
trying to put something over on them.
Therefore they one and all spatted
with her. The spats were unequal,
because the salesgirl needed her job.
After going over the entire stock all
four of the women decided that they
wouldn’t buy any ribbon.
“lI seen you lampin' them four
pills,” said the salesgirl as she took
my “matching” sample and studied it
with tired eyes. “How would yuh like
to stand behind here and let about a
thousand of them pills a day heave
Irish confetti at yuh?”
“Irish confetti?” I inquired, mysti-
fied.
“Half-bricks—yuh’re on’y pretend-
in’ that yuh don’t get me, ain’t yuh?
Well, there ain’t anythin’ in this
thing o’ sittin’ on the mourners’ bench;
but along about this time o’ the after-
noon I feel so clawed up by them pill-
in’ cats that breeze in here to take a’
inventory o’ stock that I get to thinkin’
Wee home.
“Them four dolls didn’t skate in
here t’ buy. They just ambled along
t scratch. They've been V-wedgin’
through bargain-counter crushes all
day, and they've picked up a peeve,
doin’ that, that they’re afraid to tote
home t’ their men-folks because they
are hep that the men, when they hit
the hall and hang their kellys up on
the rack, are goin’ t’ be there with
grouches themselves.
“They're not keen fr the kind 0’
dove’ll pull in case anythin’ is started.
So, just t’ get the rough edges o’ their
peeves sand-papered down, they skid
along here a little while before closin’
up time and begin t’ toss chunks o’
loose asphalt at us sunny-natured-look-
In’ dolls behind the counters. A lot of
‘em pick me out because I'm there
most o’ the time with one o’ them
grins that got froze on my map by
mistake when I first fell intuh this
business and before I jerried up t’ it
that the grinner is pie for them wim-
men that wants somebody t’ pick on.
“There ain’t no use chirpin’ about it,
['m crazy over my own sex. They
make it just about as peaceful for me
as if I was on a battle field ten hours
a day. Sometimes I feel like I'm de-
velopin’ intuh a white hope.
one that don’t bark at us.
We hate t’
break outa the plant and steer for the
hallroom with the coyote music in our
ears, and that’s what it sounds like at
the 2nd of a long day when wo snag a
piller to be waited on just before the
big doors are closed and we're due to
vamp.
“Well, this one with the dimples
and the fine double row o’ mother-o™
pearl molars and the sunny smirk that
looked like the twenty-four carat thing
plumped on a stool in front of me, and
looked me right in the lamps with a
widenin’ of her cutey grin; and 1
wiped the froze grin from my chart
and smiled right back at hex, and it
looked like a sure thing that we're go-
in’ t’ be little playmates for the time,
and get along like as if both of us had
been rollin’ the same hoop and playin’
puss-in-the-corner together ever since
we begun t’ wear our hair in braids.
“Does she run to form? Does she?
Say, honest, I ain’t through yet pickin’
chiggers and burs that that sunny-
mapped doll tossed at me from her
side o’ the counter.
“As soon as she opened her face 1
had a sudden, chilly feelin’ that I'd got
her wrong, and that she was goin’ t’
add her monniker t’ my list o’ mis-
takes in pickin’ ’em from their looks.
“She had a voice that sounded like
a creaky dumb-waiter comin’ up when
the janitor is sore after one o’ them
reg’lar nights. Her voice was no more
like her smile than a rubber plant is
like a early lilac, and she was out for
battle, murder, arson, and collectin’
the insurance before she’d been
squatted on the stool nine seconds.
“And all the time, get me, she
wicked me just like the eye of a cam-
era, and kept that smile workin’ her
dimples as if she was pullin’ down
eight dollars a minute for that stuff.
I'm fightin’ the inmates of a Bide-a-
“She wanted t’ match some mauve
baby-ribbon, and I had the thing that
answered t’ her sample under a micro-
scope and a searchlight. Would she
see it? Not so’s you could observe it
with the undraped optic. She told me,
gazin’ at me with her homemade, mo-
lasses-candy smile all the time, that
my goods had a greenish tint, and was
no more mauve than diluted water-
melon is Chinese yellow.
“Then she added that if I tried t’
get a job as a brakeman in a freight-
, yard I'd get the toss for color blind-
all-hands medicine that the hubby-
ness before I'd got more than one foot
into the examination room.
“Smirkin’ merrily all the time, with
the dimples ripplin’ across her chart
like little wavelets on a still pond, she
asked me how I had ever bunked a
reg’lar store intuh stakin’ me t’ a job
' that called for color-matchin’.”
It used .
t’ be that I'd let ’em hand me the har-
poon one after the other, just as fast
as they could nudge up t’ the coun-
ter.
“But four years of it has funneled
the vinegar intuh my ‘nachully win-
some disposition, so that now I take
a slant at their wicks as they elbow
along; and if they're there with that
I’m - goin’ - t’-push -yuh-one-in-the-chops
glitter in their lamps, I feel myself
stiffenin’ like somebody that’s waitin’
tor a trolley car t’ hit him on the nigh
end o’ the wishbone, and it’s all I can
do t’ keep from tricklin’ back as good
as they shoot in.
~“On’y I need the eight-a-week,
whereas that eight thing isn’t gum
change. for them, so that they've got
me sewed up before the gong rings,
and they know it. So the best I get
for mine is a ’casional little uppercut
that I've gotta eat as like as not before
the ambulance in the shape of the
floorwalker comes up, whereas they
can paste me ontuh the ropes and
swing on me with both mitts.
“And they're hard t’ dope by just
lookin’ ’em over, if yuh’re inquirin’ o’
me. I get ’em right, as they sail down
the aisle, about four times outa five.
Then I head-on intuh one that don’t
run t’ her looks, and I'm in Heinie.
“D’ye think you can chart ’em right
because they’re there with one o’ them
Delly Varden smiles? I'm askin’ yuh
that, because most men do. I ain't
never cut the trail yet of a man that
wasn’t a fall-guy for a smilin’ cat. But
I needn’t talk. I'm a mark for that
stuff myself ev'ry once in a while.
“Ill wise yuh t' one of the smilin’
kind that waltzed up to my counter
day before yestiddy afternoon. She
was a nifty-dressed, peachy-skinned
dumplin’ of about thirty or so, that
was togged like she had a man work:
in’ the day and night shifts both ends
from the middle t’ keep her diked out
in all the scenery fit t’ wear.
“I wicked her smile when she was
20 feet away. It looked like the sun
comin’ out from under a cloud and
shimmerin’ on the water on the day
youh’re bound for Coney. Some dolls
pull that kind of a grin all the time
that they’re not sleepin’ just t’ give all
hands a chance t’ pipe their pearly
teeth. But this one’s smile looked t’
be on the level.
. “‘Pm goin’ t' get along with this
cunnin’ fatty,’ says I to myself, as she
swung for my counter. ‘She’s a chatty
little thing that'll be prattlin’ to me all
about the news of the day and askin’
me if I don’t find the life of a sales-
girl hard, and if I'm engaged, and it
not why not, an’ all the like o’ that.
Hi-hum! It’s nice t’ wait on a cheer-
ful skirt just before closin’-up time.’
“That’s a bug with most of us, yuh
know—t’ top off the day by waitin’ on
(Copyright.)
WHY POPES NEVER PREACH
Tradition of the Church, That Has
Seldom Been Broken, Forbids
Présence in Pulpit.
The preparation and delivery of ser-
mons which impose such a heavy
burden of toil upon other ministers
of God have no terrors for the pope,
for the good and sufficient reason that
the traditions of the church forbid
his preaching.
Of all the many strange restrictions
which hedge about a pope, one of the
strangest is that he should not be al-
lowed to preach. Only once in 300
years has a pope delivered a sermon,
and that was under most exceptional
circumstances in 1846.
On the Octave of the Epiphany a
celebrated preacher, Padre Ventura,
was to have occupied the pulpit in
St. Peter’s, but was suddenly taken ill.
To prevent disappointment to the
vast crowd which had assembled Pius
IX broke through the custom of ages,
and ascending the pulpit delivered a
simple, homely sermon that perhaps
impressed its hearers more than the
finest eloquence might have done, be-
cause of its uniqueness.
A Russian Sentinel.
The sternest ideal of military duty
is fulfilled ‘by the Russian soldier,
An illustration is given by an Eng-
lish officer who has seen service in
the East. On leaving an Armenian
village, he passed a beautiful green
valley, watered by a river that flowed
between strong embankments. His
Armenian servant told him that, after
a great storm, the river had risen in
such a flood that the persons living
near the bank fled for their lives.
There was a powder magazine near
the river. The sentinel who was
guarding it prepared to retreat, but
the officers who were watching the
scene from a mountain forbade him
to leave his post. For an hour the
sentinel struggled against the rising
waters, clinging desperately to the
lock of the magazine door.
The water rose to his chin, and
then the flood ceased. He was deco-
rated by the government with the
ribbon of some honorary order in rec-
ognition of his heroic obedience.
Irresistible.
Some .aations (of a remote world)
were very intent upon living at peace
one with another—so intent that they
spent enormous sums in making them-
selves prepared for war. For in that
world. curiously enough, the condi-
tions were such that there was no way
to keep from fighting except to be
ready to do so at the drop of a hat.
But incidentally to these martial
preparations it was impossible to pre-
vent war acquiring, potentially, new
horrors, and when these numbered
several the nations suddenly flew at
one another’s throat.
They laid it to a natural curiosity.
“We simply bad to try those new
horrors out!” they explained to the
astonished onlookers, who had been
saying that there never would be an-
other great war.
WAR TERMS NOT UNDERSTOOD
“Forlorn Hope,” for Instance, Has Not
the Meaning With Which It
Is Cradited.
In the course of every war one |
hears a great deal about ‘forlorn !
hopes.” The term is one of the most
misused in the vocabulary of war. It
is commonly misunderstood to mean
“lost troop”—that is “detached °
troop.” The word “hope” in the |
phrase is not an English but a Dutch |
word, “hoop,” meaning literally !
“heap,” and secondarily body of |
troops. The word “forlorn” represents |
the Dutch “verloren”—lost. A ‘‘ver-
loren hoop” was a detached body of
troops thrown out in front of the main
line of battle to find the enemy
and engage them first. This was the
regular sixteenth and seventeenth
century practice, and though it was
one of the more dangerous kinds of
service it was not desperate or, in
the English sense, forlorn. Nowadays
much the same work is done by the
detached bouies of cavalry which are
thrown out before the main line to find
the enemy.
“Capitulation” is another term of
war, which is very loosely used. It
does not mean surrender, but sur-
render on terms; in fact, it means the
terms, not the surrender. It is from
the Latin “capituluun” or “heading”
(from which is derived our word
“chapter”), and a capitulation is a
formal treaty of surrender drawn up
under a series of headings or chap-
! ters, embodying the terms on each
point.
WRONG TO TEASE CHILDREN
Trick Altogether Too Frequently In-
dulged in by the Older Members
of the Family.
It is not at all unusual to see the |
older children of a family teasing the
younger ones, while the mother often
pays no attention or seems to think it
of no importance. Yet to one outside
of a family circle it is plain that this
teasing gives pain and annoyance to
the little ones.
A six or eight-year-old boy thinks
his two-year-old sister the finest in
the world, and he wants to show his
affection and good will, but he has no
conception of the proportion between
his own strength and hers. So he
pinches, shoves and pushes her laugh-
ingly; takes away her dolls; throws
things at her—in short, deals with her |
just as he would with a boy ‘of his own
age.
He does not understand why she
cries, why she is frightened, for he
means no harm and is in good humor.
Often the mother fails to realize that
such conduct is making the tinier
members of the household unhappy.
This tendency in many older children
should be watched, and rebuked when
necessary.—The Delineator.
Nothing to It.
The nut was in America. He had
run over for a couple of weeks, “just
to see the bally country, doncher-
know.” He didn’t see very much, of
course, but he was very sniffy about
the little he did see.
Just before he left for Britain he
was dining with an American, and was
giving his views of the country in gen-
eral with that easy air of quiet dignity
that stamps the man who is sure of his
subject.
“There’th one thing, though,” he
said, “that I thimply can’t underthand
about you Americanth. Your mem-
berth of parliament, or whatever you
call ’em ovah here, are thimply im-
pothible perthonth. How on earth can
you thand being ruled by a collection
of bounderth whom you wouldn’t have
to your houthe to dinnah?”
‘The American looked at him in sur-
prise.
“Well,” he said, “there don’t seem to
be such a mighty great difference be-
tween us, if you come to that. How do
you like being bossed around by men
who wouldn’t ask you to dinner?”
Woman's Logic.
You sometimes wonder about the
logic of the feminist mind.
A man was to meet his wife at her
office at one o’clock to take luncheon
with her. He was 20 minutes late. She
had gone out.
He sat down and waited. At 1:30
she arrived.
“What are you doing here?” she
asked.
“I'm waiting for you.”
“Didn’t you know I wouldn’t come
back after I'd given you up and gone
out?”
“But you did come back, didn’t you?
You are back now, aren’t you?”
“Yes, but you might have known
that when I did come back I would
have had my lunch, and there would
be no use in waiting to have it with
me.”
“Well, have you had it?” >
“No.”—Denver News.
Even Sneeze Alike.
The machine-like character of the
German army, of which so much has
been heard, did not escape the sar-
casm of Bismarck when the relative
merits of soldiers and politicians were
under discussion. “Soldiers,” he said,
“have a much easier task than diplo-
matists; they receive their instruc-
tions, and know exactly how far they
have to command and obey.” The
conditions of their life, he added,
showed itself in their outward de-
meanor. “For instance, in the first
guards this is nothing less than mare
velous. In society you never hear one
of them sneezing differently from the
other!”
The blow which knocked out Corbett
was a revelation to the prize fighters.
From the earliest days of the ring the
knock-out blow was aimed for the jaw,
the temple or the jugular vein. Stomach
| punches were thrown in to worry and
| weary the fighter, but if a scientific man
"had told one of the old fighters that the
most vulnerable spot was the region of
the stomach, he’d have laughed at him
for an ignoramus. Dr. Pierce is bring-
' ing home to the public a parallel fact;
| that the stomach is the most vulnerable
| organ out of the prize ring as well as in
it. We protect our heads, throats, feet
‘ and lungs, but the stomach we are utter-
! ly indifferent to, until disease finds the
| solar plexus and knocks us out. Make
your stomach sound and strong by the
: use of Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis-
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most vulnerable spot. “Golden Medical
Discovery” relieves “weak stomach,” in-
digestion, and other diseases of the or-
gans of digestion and nutrition. It is a
: temperance medicine, entirely free from
alcohol and narcotics.
Social Contract.
An up-to-date bride, when asked at
her wedding if she would “love, honor
and obey,” murmured, “I will if he
does financially what he has prom-
ised.”
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BELLEFONTE, PA.
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Meals are Served at Ali Hours
Steaks, Ch Oysters jon, the the
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Groceries.
Groceries.
Fruits, Conféctionery and
FINE GROCERIES.
Oranges, Lemons and Bananas
are standard all season fruits. We
are now receiving new crop Florida
and California Valencia varieties of
sweet fruit at 30c, 40c, 50c and 60c
per dozen. Lemons 30c and 40c
perdozen. Bananas 15c¢, 20c and
25c per dozen. Nice Grape Fruit
at 5c each.
New crop California Prunes 12c,
15c and 18c per pound. New Evap-
orated Peaches 10c, 12c and 15c.
Apricots 18c, 20 and 25c per pound.
All fine fruit.
Creamery Butter from the Fox
River (Illinois) Creameries. Finest
Meadow Gold Brand 42¢ per pound.
New crop California Walnuts and
Almonds, Cocoanuts, Celery, Cran-
berries, Sweet Potatoes, ters
direct from the shell—-We do not
handle any Baltimore tub Oysters
Bush House Block, - -
Evaporated and Dried Corn, very
fine, new goods, 15¢c and 25c 1b.
We are always ready to fill
orders for our own make of Mince
Meat. It is the only goods on the
market that has the fuil portion of
beef init and in general merit far
above any other brand.
Cranberries, solid red fruit at 10
and 12c. per quart. We use the
“legal standard dry” quart meas-
ure—there is a difference.
Buy some of our fine cheese and
compare it with other goods.
Our Olives are large and of the
very finest flavor at 40c per quart.
Burnett's and Knight's Extracts,
Crosse & Blackwell’s Table Vinegar
in bottles. Durkee’s Salad Dressing.
If you want a fine, sweet, juicy
Ham, let us supply you.
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AT THE
WATCHMAN OFFICE.
There is no style of work, from the
cheapest *° ’ to the
BOOK WORK,