Demorralic ata,
Belletonte, Pa., January 29, 1915.
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A DOMESTIC TREASURE.
Mrs. Lyman sat at the breakfast ta- i
ble in her 99-cent calico wrapper,
which was clean but unattractive, and
listened rather wearily to her adored
husband’s conversation.
In her youth she had been called a
beauty, but 12 years of unselfish pam-
pering of her family, together with a
constant struggle to “get ahead” upon
a limited allowance, had merged her
charms into workaday obscurity. She
had become nothing more than 2
housekeeper who was “careful and
troubled about many things.”
Mr. Lyman did not suspect that he
was not a model family man. He had
grown accustomed to seeing his wife
work from morning until night, keep-
ing their home in immaculate order,
making dainty clothing for the chil-
dren, and cooking meals to please his |
fastidious taste.
On this particular morning, he was
discussing pretty Mrs. Hickson, the
wife of his new partner.
“She is really the most delightful |!
woman I have met in manyea day,” he |
said, with candid enthusiasm. “She is |
so bright and up to date and young- |
looking; I was surprised to learn that
che is the own mother of Hickson’s fif-
teen-year-old daughter. I supposed
she was a second wife.”
«] heard Mrs. Hickson say she had
always ‘boarded, since her marriage,”
quietly remarked Mrs. Lyman. “Of
course she has lots of time to take
pains with herself. I guess she doesn’t
do much but play bridge and flirt.”
«Phat is very ungenerous, Bess,” |
“Mrs. Hick- :
son is a lady of exquisite taste, and
said Lyman reprovingly.
you should not be scandalized because
she is not inclined to be a back num-
ber. I don’t wonder that Hickson is
proud of her.”
«1 don’t think she is as pretty as
mamma,” loyally declared little Bert
Lyman, whose youthful mind grasped
the inference that his idolized mother
was suffering from indirect criticism.
Mr. eLyman laughed. ;
“There was a time, son, when your
mamma was a daisy in looks, but that
was before she settled down and had |
twoeexpensive youngsters to take care
of.”
“And a popular society man,” added
Mrs. Lyman, with a shadowy smile.
Lyman did not appear to catch any |
sarcastic intonation in his wife's mild |
observation.
“Well, IT must go downtown,” he
said, glancing at his watch. “A man
can’t linger forever in the bosom of |
his family. By the way, Bess, I wish |
you would see that my evening clothes |
are all right. I'm going to an Elks’ re- |
ception tonight. There will be a dance |
afterward, and that calls for stiff
togs.”
“Are you going, mamma?” asked
Vera, the small daughter of the house
of Lyman.
“No, dear, T hadn’t thought of going
anywhere.” .
Lyman looked up in careless won-
der. “Go, of course, if you wish,
Bess. 1 didn’t think to ask you, be-
cause you never care for such af-
fairs.”
Mrs. Lyman gave her customary an-
swer to her husband’s indifferent in-
vitation.
«I think I should prefer to stay with
the children.” She did not mention
the fact that all her party gowns were
several years behind the fashion. -
“I thought so,” said Lyman, accom-
panying the remark with a light con-
jugal kiss. “Those muffins were tip-
top, and the beefsteak broiled to the
queen’s taste. Nobody can beat you,
Bess, in the culinary department, even
if you don’t shine in social functions.”
After the children had departed for
school, and the morning's work had
been done, with the inefficient aid of
the diminutive colored maid-of-all-
work, Mrs. Lyman went to her room.
Seating herself before her dressing-
table, she gazed critically at her re:
flection in the mirror.
“I am altogether too domestic,” she
commented audibly. “I think I'll fur-
bish up a little, even if we go without
a new parlor carpet and lace curtains
in the sitting room.”
During the following week, Mrs. Ly-
man went on several secret pilgrim-
ages downtown, and heroically prac-
ticed mysterious exercises in the se-
clusion of her room.
When Mr. Lyman announced his in-
tention of taking a trip to Chicago on
business which might detain him a few
days, he did not notice that his wife
packed his suitcase with unusual
cheerfulness nor did he think it
strange that she made him promise
to wire her when to expect him back.
Chance sometimes assists plotters,
and Mrs. Lyman’s plans to amaze her
liege lord were aided, beyond her ex-
pectations, by his accidentally meet-
ing, on his way home, a traveling man
who was an old acquaintance.
They crowded as many reminiscences |°
and jokes as possible into the two
hours they spent together on the train,
but still their fund of anecdotes was
not exhausted.
“As you are going to make my
town,” said Lyman, “why can’t you
put up at my house? I can promise
you a good dinner, and tonight I'll
take you to the club, and show you
a jolly bunch of boys.”
“1 wouldn't like to drop into your
family circle inopportunely,” objected
the friend politely, really yearning
for a home meal.
“Oh, that’s all right,” said Lyman re-
assuringly. “My wife is the good sort,
and makes everybody welcome. She
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| will treat you to cooking that will meit
‘in your mouth, though she may re-
: ceive you in a calico dress, just as she
| comes from a kitchen. Sometimes I
| wish she had a little more style, but
‘she is a domestic treasure. I'll bet
' she can make a dollar go farther than
| any other woman of the present gener-
: ation.”
{ When the train pulled into the sta-
: tion, the two gentlemen hurried out
| upon the long platform, chatting jovi-
ally.
| Suddenly Lyman caught a glimps of
; a trim, graceful woman, in a modish
| tailor-made black suit, with her blonde
hair fetchingly marcelled beneath a
heavily plumed hat.
| “There is a swell woman,” ex-
! claimed Lyman. “I can’t fancy her
{in a calico wrapper.”
| The lady under inspection turned
| her head in a way that gave Lyman a
: full view of her face. Instantly his
| eyes bulged with astonishment.
| “She looks as Bess used to,” he
| muttered faintly. “It can’t be possi-
| ble. It is, by Jove.”
Mrs. Lyman’s perfect costume in-
| spired her with self-confidence, and
nothing could have been prettier than
| her manner of greeting her puzzled
| spouse.
| “Why, Bess, I—I'm surprised,” he
| stammered, fairly limp from bewilder-
| ment.
| “You act as though you had en-
| countered a ghost,” was the laughing
| retort.
| Lyman collected his wits sufficiently
| to introduce his friend, who pinched
{ him on the sly and whispered:
| “You're a rare humbug. Home body!
Calico wrappers! Good Lord! Tell
| that to some other scout.”
| Lyman had hardy recovered his com-
| posure when they reached home.
| Mrs. Lyman led the trio, and was
cordial in seconding her husband’s
hospitality, remarking ingeniously: “I
am afraid you will find things rather
| ‘muddled. I have been out all the af-
i ternoon, and left the children playing
| circus.” i
! Lyman scarcely recognized his
the first time, and he was almost
speechless with mortification and dis
dinner of tough fried steak,
plemented by a thin lemon pie from a
bakeshop.
. The mystified husband felt that he
| must be dreaming. Mrs. Lyman
seemed sweetly unconcerned, and :n
her awkward maid.
joker, and wondered if he would be
able to get a satisfactory lunch at the
club. ;
his wife aside, and whispered:
company, too!”
“I didn’t get the dinner,” said Bess
innocently. .
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man; “but why didn’t you?”
man, not a whit abashed.
of being merely a queen of the cu
linary art, and IT am going to try to be
as young and agreeable as Mrs. Hick:
son. It would be great fun to be taken
for your second wife.
upon the table.
to-date clothes.
“Hereafter I shall be ready to attend
parties with you. Of course, you will
not mind a few extra bills. I know
me—I have been such a frump—but
it is never too late to mend.”
Found the Cause.
bit? I have my way of earning a liv.
ing and they have theirs.”
“But what about doctors?”
asked.
“Oh, I was in a town in Indiana last
week and one day I felt shivers go up
my back. I went to a doctor and he
said I was in for the grip. Then hot
flashes came and I went to another i.
D. He said it was a case of typhoid
and wanted me to go to the hospital at
once. Felt a bit better, but went tc
a third, and he said it might be a case
of bubonic plague or spinal menin
gitis. He was way off, however.”
“But did anything really ail you?”
“For sure.”
“Then you got over it very speedily.”
“I did. I brought my will power to
bear, you see. Yes, something ailed
me. I was in love with a mighty
good-looking girl and I found out that
she was a grass widow and had nc
chance to get a divorce under five
years!”
London’s Wonder Street.
Fleet street was formerly the won
der place of London, where all that
was novel, bizarre and marvelous was
exhibited by enterprising showmen
Ben Jonson alludes to “a new notion
of the city of Nineveh, with Jonah and
the whale, at Fleet bridge,” and at the
Eagle and Child was exhibited a col
lection of freaks and monstrosities
that set the whole town agape. In
1710, too, was advertised as on exhi
bition at Fleet bridge, “two strange,
wonderful and remarkable monstrous
creatures, an old she dromedary, sev
en feet high and ten feet long, lately
arrived from Tartary with her young
one, being the greatest wonder, rarity
and novelty ever seen in the threc
kingdoms.”
home, in which disorder reigned for |
no way disturbed by the unappetizing
repast, or by the blundering service of |
Never had her conversation been so
engaging. The visitor thought his host
had developed into a bad practical
Lyman finally began to get angry.
After the wretched meal was finished, |
i “but not “eater; he contrived to draw |
i “What under heaven do you mean,
Bess, in getting up such a dinner—for |
“lI should say not,” grumbled Ly- i
“For two reasons,” replied Mrs. Ly- :
“I am tired
“I have decided that it doesn’t pay
to spend so much of my allowance:
Tt shows more in up |
Dr. G. H. Wells at Homeopathic Meet-
ing, Tel Tow to Escape
Heart Disease.
Atlantic City, N. J.—Lolling means
longevity and would save the present
generation from heart disease, assert-
ed Dr. G. Harlan Wells of the Hahne-
mann Medical college, Philadelphia,
in a paper read before the American
Institute of Homeopathy.
“It means that the heart simply has
to push the blood through the arter-
jes and veins,” he said, “instead of
having to lift 150 tons more than four
feet from the ground daily during the
time an ordinary human being is
awake.
“People of the earlier periods and
the savages lolled at every opportu-
nity, stretching out flat while eating
and lying on their backs while rest-
ing. They didn’t have heart disease
and the copying of their methods
would save the present generation
from that ailment.”
Speaking before the bureau of ped-
ology, Dr. Joseph P. Cobb of Chicago
said that of two and a half million ba-
bies born in the United States each
year half a million die before they
are a year old.
serted, 60 per cent are attributable to
gastro-intestinal diseases, and at least
turbances as contributory factors.
the subject of infant feeding,” said Dr.
manity. The great mass is still de-
pendent upon the instruction of physi-
cians and nurses and the mothers of
the preceding generation.
lack of attention and study given ma-
ternal feeding by the physician di-
rectly in charge of the baby.”
SUNDAY UP ON PIKE'S PEAK
Noted Ball-Player Evangelist Has
“Best Time of His Life” on
Famous Mountain.
Colorado Springs, Colo.—Billy Sun-
ways trying to knock the devil out of
i The photo shows Billy, who is now on
Billy Sunday on Pike’s Peak.
a tour of the West, engaged in a snow-
ball fight on the summit of Pike's |
Peak, 14,147 feet above the sea. Mr. |
Sunday, because of the fact that he is |
always in training, was the only one '
| of the party who was unaffected by the |
you must have often been ashamed of |
high altitude of the playground, where |
during his stay here he can be found !
almost every Monday, his day of rest. |
LOLLING GIVES LONG LIFE |
Of the deaths, he as- |
20 per cent more have digestive dis- !
“The agencies already aroused on |
Cobb, “only touch the borders of hu- .
The great- |
est error of infant feeding today is !
business, though most of the time he
is engaged in that herculean task.
Force of Habit.
The telephone operator was spend-
ing the summer holiday by the bound-’
| ing sea. On the first morning, how-
| ever, she had occasion to berate the
i maid of the lodgings for real or im-
: agined negligence. “Why didn’t you
{ call me as I told you this morning?”
i she demanded. “I did, miss,” roplied
! the maid with an injured air. “I called
out ‘Seven-thirty,” and all you ses was
‘Number engaged.’”
Nautical.
It was in New York. The sea-faring;
‘man was steering a zig-zag course,
| yYawing now to starboard and now to’
| port. A young woman bound in the:
j opposite direction sought to minimize
; the danger of a collision by making a:
{ wide detour. But the sea-faring man.
! stopped dead. “Keep a straight coursej
| ahead, miss,” he said gallantly; “let
me do the tacking.”
Chin as Point of Beauty.
The habit of absent mindedly finger-
ing the chin is imprudent because in
doing so the skin may be stretched
and the pores unduly enlarged, induc-
! ing wrinkles and extraneous matter
| to gather. After the age of twenty-
! two or twenty-three years it is well
| to watch with jealous care this par
| ticular portion of the face.
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Thought on Patriotism.
It is to be feared that the patriot-
. ism of this day has but little regard!
| for such common things as individual
economy and providence, although it
is by the practise of such virtues only:
that the genuine independence of the
industrial classes is to be secured.—
Samuel Smiles.
Couldn’t Land Him.
“] admit that the architecture of
this house is something fierce,” said
the agent, “but just see how handy the’
_ place is—only a stone’s throw from
| the station.” “I see it is,” said Tomp-
: kins, wearily, “but I'm such a rotten
' shot it wouldn't be any satisfaction
to me.”
day, ex-ball-player evangelist, is not,
| as he travels about the country, al- |
appointment when they sat down to a | y
lumpy |
mashed potatoes and soggy bread, sup- :
Benedictional Kiss.
It is the custom in many sections of
the United States for the clergyman
‘who performs the ceremony to kiss
the bride. The kiss from the clergy-
man is a relic of the benedictional
pax, which was a charm calculated to
bring all marriages to a happy end-
ing.
Merely a Surmise.
“Your honor,” said the counsel,
“this man’s insanity takes the form
of a belief that every one wants to
rob him. He won’t allow me, his
counsel, to approach him.” “Maybe
he’s not so crazy, after all,” mur-
mured the court in a judicial whisper.
Po
Destroying Equilibrium.
“That former enemy of yours is pay-
ing you a great many compliments.”
“Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum; “and
I wish he'd quit it. One of the easiest
| ways to throw a man down is to swell
his head until he gets top-heavy.”—
. Washington Star.
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Worth It.
{ “I understand that tenor keeps his
| voice in order by swallowing glycerin,
menthol, camphor and oil of cinna-
mon,” said the musician. “Great
i Scott!” replied the ordinary individ-
ual. “No wonder he insists on such
high wages!”
To Be Determined.
“What are you going to do when
you get home?’ “I don’t know yet,”
replied Senator Sorghum. “I've got
| the other night.
“Do you know,” said the dry goods |
drummer, “I don’t blame the doctors a |
was '
| Pre-Natal Influence of Box Car Makes
Quiet Life Unnatural to Mite
of Cat Family.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.—Born in a box car
in which its mother was imprisoned at
| Akron, O., Blackie, an eight-week-old
kitten, now in the possession of Barn-
well & Becker, grocers of this city, is
declared by experts to be a splendid
example of pre-natal influence. Taken
from the car when it arrived at the
Pennsylvania station here with a ship-
ment of potatoes, the kitten, though
scarcely able to walk, mewed piteous-
ly until one of the firm’s drivers placed
it upon the seat beside him and drove
! off to the barn, the motion of the
wagon seemingly lulling it into quiet
and contented slumber.
When attempts were made to raise
the kitten, first in the store barns and
later in the cellar, it refused to eat,
and Edward French, a driver, con-
sented to drown it in the river. French
noticed that the kitten quieted again
when his horses started on the trip,
and became convinced that the
strange circumstances surrounding the
kitten’s birth and arrival in the city
controlled its cenduct.
Instead of driving to the river, he
made his rounds for the dmy, feeding
the silent litte on the
driver's seat and leaving it finally
asleep there for the night. The kitten
refuses to take to the ground, and
every day now French is to be seen
about the oity delivering groceries
and carrying beside him always the
kitten Blackie.
WHI Adopt “Mashers’”’ Bil.
Boston, Mass.—The senate passed
to third reading the “mashess’ ” bill,
which would punish with six months’
imprisonment any man who accosts a
woman or girl with whom he is net
soquainied.
KITTEN WAS BORN TO TRAVEL |
to wait and see whether my reception
by the town folks is in the nature of
an ovation or the third degree.”
World’s Swiftest Dog.
| The swiftest dog in the world, the
: Russian wolf-hound, has made record
{ runs that show 24 yards to the sec-
| ‘ond, while the gazelle has shown
| measured speed of more than 27
yards a second.
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Sugar and Cement.
Tests have shown that as little as
| one-quarter of one per cent of sugar
| will prevent cement settling, while
| from one to two per cent will make it
| set quickly, but later disintegrate.
Medical.
Doubly Proven
BELLEFONTE READERS CAN NO
LONGER DOUBT THE EVIDENCE.
This Bellefonte citizen testified
long ago.
Told of quick relief—of undoubted
benefit.
The facts are now confirmed.
Such testimony is complete—the
evidence conclusive.
It forms convincing proof of merit.
James H. Rine, 239 High St., Belle-
fonte says: “Doan’s Kidney Pills
are certainly a wonderful kidney
remedy. Ten years age 1 first used
them and at that timel told in a pub-
lic endorsement of the benefit I had
had. That statement holds good.
I have often advised my friends to
try Doan’s Kidney Pills and in every
case where my advice has been fol-
lowed, relief has been had from kid-
ney trouble.”
Price 50c, at all dealers. Don’t
simply ask for a kidney remedy—get
Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that
James H. Rine had. Foster-Milburn
Co., Props., Buffalo, N. Y. 60-5-1t
School of Manners.
“I think the Philadelphia trolley-
men are the most impertinent I've
ever met,” snapped a woman passen-
ger to a conductor in a near-side car
“Maybe we are,
madam,” replied the P. R. T. em-
ployee, “but did you ever stop to think
that a conductor's manner ie usually
a reflection of that of the people he
deals with?”—Philadelphia Ledger.
For Beginners in Crime.
A regular text book for thieves and
burglars has been discovered by the
New York police. It contained instruc-
tions how to file bars, how to pick a
lock, how to avoid leaving finger-prints
and many other tricks of the trade.
CASTORIA
Bears the signature of Chas.H.Fletcher.
in use for over thirty years, and
The Kind You Have Always Bought.
Hats and Caps.
Re-action is the thing to fear in the use
of the common cathartic medicines. - One
of the features of Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant
Pellets, is that they do not re-act upon
the system. Every dose leaves the sys-
tem stronger, instead of weaker, and
{ tends to establish a healthy regularity
| which can entirely dispense with medi-
cine. The “Pellets” are very small in
size and small in the dose prescribed.
One produces a laxative, two a cathartic
effect.
Remarkable, Indeed.
“Strange things, dreams are,” said J.
Fuller Gloom. “Every time I eat horse-
radish I have a nightmare.”—Kansas
City Star.
Little Hotel Wilmot.
The Little Hotel Wilmot
IN PENN SQUARE
One minute from the Penna Ry. Station
PHILADELPHIA
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They'll likeus. A good room for §1. If you
bring your wife, $2. Hot and cold running
water in every room
The | Ryerson W. Jennings Co.
Clothing.
BELLEFONTE,
YouCanSave
$5.00 to $10.00
On Your Suit
or Overcoat
if you buy it at
FAUBLES.
Mid-Winter
REDUCTION
Sale now on.
FAUBLE'
PENNA.
58-4
Automobiles.
Wagner Separate Unit Starti
vice, Hot Jacket Carburetor £
The equipment on all models includes the
tem,
rumble
3-PASSENGER ROADSTER § 985
5-PASSENGR “SIX” TOURING 1385
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STUDEBAKER CARS
Three-Passenger Roadster and Five-Passenger “Six” Added to Line.
Prices are Lowered.
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gasoline tank in dash, crowned fenders, Shibler carburetors and non-skid tires on
rear wheels.
THE NEW PRICES.
5-PASSENGER “FOUR” TOURING $7985
7-PASSENGER “SIX” TOURING 1450
GARAGE.
s9-3-tf Bellefonte, Pa.