Bellefonte, Pa., September 3, 1915.
“STRAGGLERS” A QUEER CLUB
Only Friends cof Juanita Wilson Are
Members of the New York
Institution.
One of the queerest clubs in New
York is called “The Stragglers,” in
West Forty-ninth street. It is not like
an ordinary club; you just go there
for the eats. There are no dues and
its members only pay for their repasts
when they have the coin. To become
a member it is necessary to be a
friend of Juanita Elizabeth Cecilia St.
‘Clair Redant Wilson. She is the
president, chairman, board of man:
‘agers and everything else connected
with the Stragglers. She would never
have started the club hadn’t her
friends been so fond of her. They
‘used to drop in and eat her out of
house and home.
Then she hired the house in Forty-
ninth street and informed all her
friends that they could have the privi-
lege of dining with her nightly for a
fixed price. Her friends accepted. And
so the Stragglers came into existence.
When you become a member of the
club you have the freedom of the
place. You can mix your own Bronx
and watch the chef cook your steak
and chops. Everybody who is any-
body in the spotlight drops in and be-
tween the soup and fish you will be
favored with a song by some musical
show star. In fact, as Juanita Eliza-
beth, etc., explains it, you are likely
to meet anyone from your ashman to
your landlord at the club dinners.
MAN TRIMS A PRIZE HAT
Did It to Prove His Argument About
Superiority of the Male
Sex.
Mere man has again proved his ver-
satility. It was only the other day
that Derwent Till, who, as everybody
in Bayonne knows, is the son of Wil:
liam Till, picked up an old old argu-
ment with Mrs. Theodore Bayles, and
declaimed:
“Who build the railroads? Who run
the big corporations and the weather
bureau? Who brings the money home
every Saturday night? Men!”
“Well,” retorted Mrs. Bayles, “pass-
ing over an obvious remark about the
weather bureau, I would reply that you
cannot trim a hat.”
And that is how the other night, un-
der the critical eye of the Ladies’ Aid
society of the First Reformed church,
of which Till’s father is the organist,
and Mrs. Bayles’ husband the pastor,
the young protagonist of his sex set
men to prove his contentions, says the
New York Sun.
He proved them, and incidentally
won a prize for a cute little toque
with suffrage ribbons on it, the ribbons
showing that Mr. Till is also some-
thing of a diplomat.
“The Face of My Enemy.”
I hated war and for that reason I
was here to see it close. There is an
old quotation—IF think it comes from
one of the Greeks. A man is fighting
in the dark and Le cries, “Give me
light that I may see the face of my
enemy.” All peace lovers, it seems to
me, would do well to see the face of
war. And so I had come to look at
this monster and paint him hideous as
he was. I had thought of what I
might do with war, but not what war
might do with me. And war had al-
ready done so much that I felt all
shaken and confused, as was every
thinking man that I had met in Eu-
rope. All seemed to me to be stand-
ing with their backs to the world that
they had known and to be staring as
though over a cliff into a world all
strange and new. It's the year no man
can see beyond.— nest Poole, in Ev-
erybody’s Magazine.
Correspondent Was in Luck.
Mr. Bryan’s refusal of passports to
tourists eager to get near the firing
line in Europe reminds us of a story
recently told by a veteran correspond-
ent of an experience with Bismarck in
the Franco-Prussian war. The corre-
spondent, domiciled in a French town
under martial law, left his lodgings
one night after curfew hour to get
some tc bacco, which he sorely craved.
He bumped into a gigantic figure and
‘was seized by the collar. “Where the
devil are you going?’ exclaimed the
obstacle. It was Bismarck. The cor-
respondent explained. “Well, as I
am a slave to tobacco myself,” said
the great chancellor, “I'll give you
a cigar and accept your excuse, but
if you had gone fifty yards farther
a sentry would have shot you, or if
he had failed to do so I would have
had him shot.”
“Dark-in-the-Evening Schoolhouses.”
A correspondent reveals himself an
ardent recruit in a cause for which the
Home and School league has been bat-
tling for years. This is no less than
the greater utilization of the schools,
now idle two days of the seven and on
nearly all the evenings of the week,
when they might far more profitably
be made the active and useful centers
of all sorts of social activities. The
school authorities are gradually begin-
ning to see the logic of the claims that
the schools belong to the people; that
it is uneconomic and wasteful not to
make use of them for other purposes
than the daily routine of the educa-
tional curriculum.—Philadelphia Led-
ger.
——For high class Job Work come to
the WATCHMAN Office.
| WELCOME THAT MEANT MUCH |
Newcomers in Neighborhood Never
Likely to Forget Kindness of
Mrs. Estabrooks.
“‘I am one of your new neighbors—
Mrs. Estabrooks,’” said a cheerful voice
at our door in the very middle of our
first attempt at moving. ‘No, I can't
come in. I just brought you a bit of
lunch, knowing you would be too busy
to fix any. Please call on me—just
next door—if I can be of any help.
Good-by.’ A
“My husband and I glanced at that
tray with its two bowls of hot soup
and steaming pot of coffee, and then at
each other in dumb surprise
“We had just reached that dreadful
state in moving when nothing is in
place, and the things wanted first are
underneath the things wanted last—
that awful moment when a sense of
helplessness, weakness and homesick:
ness combined swoops down upon you
“We had not realized that we were
hungry and physically exhausted; but
after sitting down at an improvised
table, and sampling that delicious soup
and drinking the stimulating coffee, we
suddenly knew what had been the
matter with us, Courage returned.
“ ‘Blessings on our neighbor!’ cried
Ben.
“‘Yes,’ I answered. ‘She’s the joi
liest caller I ever received. She has
taught me how to introduce yourself
to new neighbors and win their ever-
lasting gratitude. Whatever happens
in this neighborhood I'll stand by Mrs.
Estabrooks—see if I don’t!’ "—Wom:
an’s Home Companion.
EXPLAINING DREAD OF DEATH
Suspension of All Familiar Activities
Is Something the Mind Instinctive-
ly Shrinks From.
It is the variety of experience which
makes life interesting—toil and rest,
pain and relief, hope and satisfaction,
danger and security. If we once re
move the idea of vicissitude from life,
it all becomes an indolent and unin
spiring affair.
It is the process of change which is
delightful—the finding out what we
can do and what we cannot—going
from ignorance to knowledge, from
clumsiness to skill. Even our rela
tions with those whom we love are all
bound up with the discoveries we
make about them, and the degree in
which we can help them and affect
them.
What the mind instinctively dislikes
is stationariness; and an existence in
which there was nothing to escape
from, nothing more to hope for, to
learn, to desire, would be frankly un-
endurable.
The reason why we dread death is
because it seems to be a suspension of
all our familiar activities. It would
be terrible to have nothing but mem:
ory to depend upon.
The only use of memory is that it
distracts us a little from present con:
ditions if they are dull, and it is only
too true that the recollection in sor-
row of happy things is torture of the
worst kind.
Irish Names for Chinese.
Five Chinese orphan babies will get
five dollars each and a good Irish
name if they accept the gift with a
string attached to it from a Phila:
delphia donor, name withheld. The
five babies are in an orphan asylum in |
China.
Several weeks ago Rev. Dr. William
J. Garrigan, diocesan director of the
Society for the Propagation of Faith
of the Catholic Church, published an
appeal from a sister of charity in||
China who had charge of the asylum
The sister said the donor of five dol ||
lars would have the privilege of nam:
ing one of the babies.
The other day Doctor Garrigan Zot |
a letter with $25 inclosed, “To name
five babies,” the donor said. Attached
to the note were these suggested
names:
Patrick, John, Bridget,
and Johanna.—Philadelphia
American.
Margaret
North
Comforting.
The wife of the great botanist
beamed at him across the supper
table.
“But these,” she exclaimed, pointing
to the dish of mushrooms that had
been set before her, “are not all for
me, are they?”
“Yes, Mabel,” he nodded. “I gath
ered them especially for you.”
She beamed upon him gratefully
What a dear old husband he was! In
five minutes she demolished the lot.
At breakfast next morning he greeted
her anxiously.
“Sleep all right?” he inquired.
“Splendidly,” she smiled.
“Not sick at all—no pains?’ he
pressed.
“Why, of course not, Archie,” she
responded.
“Hurrah, then,” he exclaimed.
have discovered another species of
mushroom that isn’t poisonous.”
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Odd Facts.
Alum mountain, near the headwa:
ters of the Gila river in New Mexico,
is a mass of almost solid mineralized
rock, so rich in aluminum that it is
likely to furnish an almost inexhaust-
ible supply after the eastern deposits
now being used are gone
The “oak of peace” at Jena, Prus-
sla, which was planted in 1816 in
commemoration of the downfall of
Napoleon, was by a strange coinci-
dence struck by lightning and burned
to the ground almost at the moment
of the reception at Belgrade of the
Austrian declaration of war.
To Reach a Decision.
“Have you come to an agreement?”
asked the judge as the jury filed into
the court room.
“No, your honor,” said the foreman;
“but perhaps we can if you'll allow us
‘to take some boxing gloves inte the
jury room.”
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COATS and SUITS
For Ladies, Misses and Children. All
more. attractive this season than ever.
They are always in the lead and the
quality and workmanship of these gar-
ments ‘have always proven satisfactory.
. We extend a cordial invitation to all to
visit this department and see the wonder-
ful chic creations before deciding on your
fall and winter coats and suits.
Dress Goods.
Every thing new in Velvets, Corduroys,
Fleur de Soie and Pussy Willow Silks,
Crepe de Chine, Crepe Meteor, Taffetas,
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Fall Neckwear.
September 15 STATIONS. . .
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This is good
Let us care
The Farmers’
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We are Headquarters for the Dollyless
Electric Washing Machines
Weard Reversible Sulky Riding Plows and Walking Plows, Disc
Harrows, Spring-tooth Harrows, Spike-tooth Iever Harrows,
Land Rollers; g-Hole Spring Brake Fertilizer Grain Drill—and
the price is $70.
POTATO DIGGERS,
Brookville Wagons—all sizes in stock. Buggies and Buggy
Poles, Manure Spreaders, Galvanized Water Troughs, Cast Iron
Hog -and Poultry Troughs, Galvanized Stock Chain Pumps,
Force and Lift Pumps for any depth of wells, Extension and
Step Ladders, Poultry Supplies and
All Kinds of Field Seeds.
Nitrate of Soda and Fertilizer for all crops, carried at my ware-
house where you can get it when you are ready to use it.
Soliciting a share of your wants, I am respectfully yours,
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Bellefonte, Pa.
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‘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.
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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
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566 BELLEFONTE PA.
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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 25¢, 3oc, 4oc, s0c
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
Isa 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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