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Strenuous School Life.
School life at Shrewsbury, England,
in the sixteenth century was a strenu-
ous affair. Mr. Percy Addleshaw, in
his “Life of Sir Philip Sidney,” has an
‘interesting account of the school at
that time. “The school year,” he
‘writes, “was divided into halves.
From Lady day to All Saints’ day the
hours of attendance were from six
o'clock in the morning till eleven, the
dinner hour. In the afternoon the
boys studied from 12:45 till five
«o'clock. Prayers were recited at the
‘beginning and close of the day. If a
‘holy day cccurred in the week it was
a play day; but usually the weekly
day for games was Thursday. One
«custom then begun is still observed
- At ‘the earnest request and
‘great entreaty of some men of honor,
‘of great worship, credit, or authority,’
an extra holiday was granted to the
‘boys. The judges of assize, when vis-
iting Shrewsbury, are still accustomed
to ask for, and obtain, this boon.”
Paid the Mourners.
The little town of Isle-sur-Sogne,
France, saw a very popular funeral
recently when the remains of an old
maid, scarcely known except to her
immediate neighbors, were escorted
to the cemetery by nearly one thou-
sand mourners. The story had gone
abroad that the old lady left instruc-
tions in her will to distribute a small
sum to each person who should see
her buried, at the gates of the ceme-
tery after the ceremony. For this
purpose she collected 100 five-penny
pieces, and also set apart $20 for the
funeral music accompanying her
hearse. These stipulations were scru-
pulously carried out, and after being
played into the cemetery with all the
famous dead marches, the mourners
indulged in such a contest for the
small coins at the gate that a strong
force of police, gathered in anticipa-
tion, had to interfere to restore order.
Cracow’s Jewish Quarter.
Cracow possesses the most pictur
esque ghetto in existence. So early
as the fourteenth century a large
part of its population consisted of
Jews driven from Germany owing to
the persecutions inflicted on them.
Certain quarters of the city were as-
signed to the refugees; but, being
pushed from these in course of time
by the growth of Christian population,
they chose the suburb of Kazimiers
for their habitation, and founded an
almost purely Jewish community.
There they still have their old syna-
gogues (one of which dates back 500
years), and their own hospit2is and
schools. They dress in the same way
as their forefathers, and speak among
themselves a bewildering mixture of
Hebrew, German and Polish.
Children’s Plays Changing.
‘Watching the youngsters in the
parks during holiday time, I have been
struck by the change that has taken
place in children’s games. I hope I
am not unduly pessimistic, but it does
not seem a change for the better.
Boys play cricket, girls seem to have
no recognized games at all, and the
impression given the onlooker is one
of aimlessness and monotony. Why is
it that our boys no longer play “over-
buckle,” ‘prisoners’ base,” “weak-
horse,” “widdy-widdy-way” and other
like strenuous games which some of
us enjoyed immensely no more than
a decade ago? And why have the
girls forgotten ‘‘tag” and “ee” and
“‘ring-a-ring-a-roses” ?—London Chron-
iicle,
Keeping Up ar Old Custom.
Lammas, as August 1 is sometimes
styled, remains ar important anniver-
sary not only in Scotland, where it
is quarter day, but throughout rural
England, the Pall Mall Gazette ob-
serves. In many parishes the pasture
of Lammas lands “belongs from this
date until Lady day to all parishioners
who draw smoke,” not through pipes,
but chimneys. The mysterious word
TIzammas is merely loaf mass, so called,
ibecause this was anciently our nation-
:al harvest festival. A loaf made from
“the mew corn was formerly presented
sgt <thurec™ on this date, which fell
yearly a fortnight later under the un-
“reformed calendar. Farmers around
Chichester seem to have some sub-
conscious reminiscence of this old cus-
tom, for they always try to get a loaf
' baked from the new wheat before the
end of Goodwood week.
Methodism in the United States.
Methodism did not start in this
country at Boston in the year 1760.
It was in New York city, in 1766, that
the tenets of Wesley were introduced
to the people of the United States
by a “few pious emigrants from Ire-
land.”
Japanese Cages for Singing Bugs.
In the land of the wistaria, the gei-
sha girl and the inlaid ivory Kknick-
nack, artistic appreciation is all for
the subtle, the dainty and the minia-
ture, and so it is that the singing in-
sect has come to be an honored in-
stitution there. These Carusos and
Gadskis of bugdom are eagerly sought
after by the Japanese and everything
is done for their comfort and musical
education. They pass their tuneful
lives away caroling mournful insect
elegies upon their lost freedom, and
staring disconsolately at their delicate
Japanese mistresses through the bars
of sumptuous little cages.
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NOT AN ECONOMICAL PEOPLE
Americans Do Not Seem to Attach
Very Great Importance to Sav-
ing the Pennies.
Of all the nations the United States
seems to care least for saving pennies.
Not the government, but the individ-
ual. Measured by the number of sav-
ings bank depositors in proportion
to the entire population, this country
is far behind those of Europe, Japan,
Australia and New Zealand.
One reason for this is that in the
southern and western states the num-
ber of savings banks is relatively few,
because the small banks serve the
same purpose in those sections. There
are approximately 11,000,000 savings
depositors in the United States and
almost three-fourths of this number
are in the six New England states, and
in New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-
vania, Delaware and Maryland.
In making a comparison with other
countries in this matter the govern-
ment postal banks introduced a few
years ago should be included. They
are included abroad and therefore
should be here if an accurate idea of
the thriftiness of the various nations
is to be given.
We are prodigals compared with, Eu-
ropeans, and while there is perhaps
not the same pressing necessity here
to count the pennies, it is undoubted-
ly true that Americans are too strong-
ly inclined to be spendthrifts, to let
the morrow take care of itself. From
the experience of hard times occa-
sioned by the war we may learn that
laying something aside for a rainy day
is not only a virtue, but a practice
which makes old age and nonemploy-
ment less terrible to think of. The
trouble is Americans do not think of
it, but they should.—Brooklyn Stand-
ard-Union.
WHY CHILDREN SEEK GIFTS
As Instinctive for Them to Ask as
it Is, or Should Be, for the
Adult to Give.
In the Woman’s Home Companion
Charles E. Jefferson, pastor of Broad-
way tabernacle in New York city,
writes a talk entitled “The Joy of Re-.
ceiving,” in the course of which he
explains why little children enjoy re-
ceiving more than giving. He says in
part:
“In little children, the joy of receiv-
ing outruns the joy of giving. Chil-
dren are born beggars. They come
into the world empty-handed, and they
stretch their hand to those who are
nearest them, expecting to receive.
It is instinctive for a child to ask, and
it is instinctive for an adult to re-
spond. The child’s mind is as empty
as its hands. Its mind reaches out
with questions—and what are ques-
tions but hands of the mind?—plead-
ing for bits of information, scraps of
knowledge, donations of light. It is a
pleasure to give to a child, but who
would dare say that one’s pleasure in
receiving? Who is happier, do you
think, at Christmas, the child or the
parent?
“It is not the child’s nature to lie
awake wondering what it can give to
others, but when he falls to thinking
of what others are going to give him
it is difficult for him to go to sleep.
Look at a child receiving a present,
and then look at him giving one, and
note which act is more natural and
which brings the intenser delight.
Little children know how to receive.”
The Literary Future.
What will be the effect of almost
worldwide war upon the
writers? No one can escape its
psychological effect—the first stun-
ning sense of the futility of one’s or-
iinary labors and habits of thought, a
profound unsettling of one’s mental
base. But afterward? Perhaps, as a
reaction against the literature of the
war, we shall have a flood of light
writers, finding their usual material
stale and unprofitable, will turn to
making mad farce. With the world
2oing to pieces about one, what can
one do but laugh? We must laugh,
in spite of ourselves, at the spectacle
>f Anatole France, in uniform, editing
the Soldiers’ Bulletin! And no one
Bernard Shaw’s advice to the soldiers
of the opposing armies, to “shoot their
officers and go home!” Shaw is the
only literary man to raise a voice
against patriotism—but then of course
he is an Irishman. People are used
to saying: “Shaw isn’t serious!”—
Neith Boyce in Harper's Weekly.
The Servian Drum.
It seems that the men who play the
big drums in the Servian army bands
have an easier lot than the drummers
of other lands, since they do not have
to carry their own drums.
In nearly all cases, instead of being
slung in front of the man who plays it,
the instrument is put on a small two-
| wheeled cart drawn by a large dog. Of
course, the drummer must play as he
that there is no difficulty in doing
this.
i The animal keeps his place even
through the longest marches, and the
drummer walks behind the cart, per-
forming on his instrument as he goes
along. Each regiment is provided with
two or three big'drums, but few regi- |
ments have a band.
Was Quite Willing.
Girl’s Father—I want you to under-
stand, however, that I consent to your
marriage only under protest.
| Suitor—Oh, that’s all right, if you
_ will let none of the demands I may
{| make on you afterward go to protest.
giving outstrips the child’s pleasure in !
The Long Engagement.
Long engagements are an injustice
to the girl, and the man, too. It cuts
her off from her man friends entirely,
and unless “the” man happens to have
extraordinary powers of entertain-
ment, unhappiness is almost certain to
follow. Not that a girl should be
amused all the time, or the man eith-
er, but memories will recur, and after
a long time spent in useless waiting
with no prospects of change, thoughts
of the others are bound to creep in.
A man is bound, hand and foot, by a
long engagement. He cannot force
success or make an opportunity out
of the empty air, yet the thought of
the girl drives him on—sometimes to
desperate measures. Of the two, it
Jvould be better to keep the engage-
ment a secret, and not to see each oth-
er too frequently.—Exchange.
Literal Interpretation.
An alert little girl, learning with sur-
prise that she must not whisper in
church, promised, if permitted to go
again, not to transgress in such man-
ner. Auntie, taking the child to a
briefer service, was surprised, in the
middle of the sermon, to find that the
“No whispering!” command wad re
ceived quite literal interpretation.
“Oh, auntie,” sighed her small com-
panion, gently but with terrific clear-
aess, ‘why did we come to hear this
preacher? He's worse than the other
one we hecrd !ast week.”
The Hearts in Men.
Two riverfront wanderers uncere-
moniously leaped into the river to res-
cue an unfortunate woman who took
her own life. Whether or not these
men were outcasts we cannot know.
The report didn’t attempt to furnish
a description of them. But little as
their own lives might be worth, they
did not hesitate to offer what they
had. On the river front one may daily
see little evidences of heroism among
the discarded members of society and
the refuse of humanity. Under tat-
tered clothes and seared features
beats many a heart which would free-
ly spare its blood for others more
unfortunate. A child falls in the river
and it is a rare day when a dozen
dock wallopers won’t begin shedding
their coats for the rescue. It is al-
most as difficult to kill the good in
men as it is to suppress the bad.—
Detroit News.
Napoleon's Time of Happiness.
In the days of the First Consulate,
life tripped merrily at Malmaison.
Those were the happiest days of Na-
poleon and Josephine. Often they
visited Malmaison, sometimes quietly,
sometimes surrounded by a brilliant
crowd, but always accompanied by
Hortense, the consul’s beautiful step-
daughter, who was to become his sis-
terin-law and the mother of the third
Napclenn,
one of those kill-joys of the
your dealer and buying a
and a lot of other things that
world’s |
2omedy of the gayest sort. Serious |
>f course will take seriously George .
marches, but the dog is so well trained
You turn them off when not
woman's work easy.
Perfection.
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Dry Goods, Etc.
LYON & COMPANY.
Clearance Sale of All
SUMMER GOODS
EXTRAORDINARY REDUCTIONS.
Tailored Coats and Suits.
16 Summer Coats of La Vogue make—this season’s style—in
light, black, Copenhagen, navy blue; that sold from $19 to $30,
now must go at $7.50 to $10.
Coat Suits.
12 Suits of La Vogue make, in light, Copenhagen, black and
navy blue, that sold from $15 to$30, now must goat $7.50 to $10.
Summer Washable Dress Goods.
In voiles, stripes and floral designs, Scotch and domestic Ging-
hams,” Silk Ginghams, all at greatly reduced prices.
Silk Waists. Crepe de Chine Waists.
In all colors and black and white, that cold at $3 and $3.50,
now $2.
Washable Silk Waists in white and floral patterns, that sold
at $1.50 and $1.75 now $I.
Summer Underwear and Hosiery.
‘Men’s, women’s and children’s Underwear and Hosiery at
great reductions.
Shoes. Shoes. Shoes.
Men's, Women’s and Children’s Summer Shoes all reduced.
Men’s Low Shoes that sold for $3.50 now $2.50.
Men’s Fine Dress Shoes that sold for $4, now $3.
Men’s Working Shoes that sold for $3.50 now $2.
Ladies’ and Children’s White Canvas Shoes from $1.00 up.
Parasols.
Silk Parasols that sold from $2 to $5, now must be sold from
$1.35 to $3.
Don’t miss this sale. It means money saved, and almost a
season’s wear.
Lyon & Co. ... Bellefonte
The Centre County Banking Company.
“STOP, LOOK, LISTEN!
A Lawyer received $10,000 for suggesting these
words to a railroad. The sign, “Stop, Look, Lis-
ten!” saved the road many thousands of dollars
in damages. It’sa good sign. It’s worth $10,000.
Wise people are often warned by a similar sign on
. the road of extravagance. They stop in time.
How about yourself? Think this over seriously.
A bank account is the Best Kind of Security at
any time. If you haven't a bank account now,
start one at once. Any account, however small
you are able to begin with, will be welcomed and
carefully conserved at
THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK,
56-6 BELLEFONTE PA.
Groceries.
Groceries.
FOOD SUPPLIES
We have just received a shipment of new caught Blue Back
Mackerel, messed and boneless ;
Canned Salmon and Tuna Fish are both very satisfactory hot
weather goods. Our brands will fully satisfy your desire.
Our fancy new American Cheese are now at their very finest.
you want the highest quality, give us your order.
Asparagus tips, new pack, Nabob brand, just received at 1oc per
can. Elite brands, large can, fancy, at 25c.
We have a blend of TEA that has proved very satisfactory for
making iced tea and for regular use at 6oc per pound.
The new crop of California Summer Valenica Oranges are now
just at their best. We have fancy stock at 25c, 3oc, 4oc, 50¢
and 6oc a dozen. Also fancy California Lemons.
Our Sliced Dried Beef is all full slices, cut only from the tender
part of the meat. Comes in clean wax paper envelopes. Some-
thing new and desirable. :
We take special care in the selection of Bananas and can give you fancy fruit.
MEADOW GOLD BRAND CREAMERY BUTTER
Is a Strictly Fancy Grade. ' We get it in frequent orders so that you can de-
pend on it having that New Sweet Flavor. Try it and be convinced.
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Bush House Block, ti. 57-1 - -U . Bellefonte, Pa. |
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