Belletonte, Pa., March 2, 1917. EE ee ee Rules for Knitting, from Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild. There seems to be as much differ- ence of opinion over the proper kind of bandages to send to hospitals as about the war itself; indeed, in my, world there is more! Wherever I go in the daytime where two or more women are gathered together I hear the controversy in full blast. Recent- ly this discussion has extended to the knitted swabs. It would seem that the article with the dropped stitch is not wanted. Indeed, the fol- lowing directions are sent me by an active member of Queen Mary’s Nee- dlework Guild, with a view to pub- lication, in an effort to set the ques- tion at rest. The following directions are for the knitted swabs or wash- cloths, which are in much demand both in England and in France. I now give it, having been assured that do- ing so will be useful to many knit- ters of the article; but not being my- self a knitter, I do not recommend it. This may be regarded as a vicarious guarantee: “The No. 5 amber needle and the No. 2 unbleached knitting cotton are to be used, the latter being absorb- ent. Any further information will gladly be furnished upon application to Queen Mary’s Needlework Guild, 1625 Locust street, by mail or on Tuesdays.” With regard to other supplies, two years of experience have demonstrat- ed the fact that the workers should adapt themselves to the circumstanc- es which they are working to relieve. For instance, in this country the anesthetic in common use is ether. The French War Relief committee has sent an enormous quantity of ether to France, which has been gratefully acknowledged and doubt- less used. But the fact remains that, owing to the gigantic scale on which the war is being fought, as well as the current practice in the hospit- als over there—chloroform is what the French surgeons use—that is what is most needed at present. As soon as the committee found this out, of course, it altered its shipments from ether to chloroform. The idea, as explained to me by a man who had worked in the French hospital, is that chloroform acts more quickly and a smaller bulk will serve to carry to the front. Of course, time is every- thing in this case, and one must adapt one’s ways to the conditions of work. Another matter in dispute is the quality and relative value of the made bandages and of the stuff in bulk. In answer to questions asked on that sub- ject, it would appear that in active hospital work gauze in bulk is found more useful than rolled bandages. The shrapnel wounds are so varied in size and appearance that many a time it happens that nothing on hand exactly suits. Here comes in the value of gauze in bulk, for the bandages may be cut to fit each case. Absorb- ent dressings are most precious, for nurses have so many to care for and the work is so scattered that often the nursing force at hand is insufficient for the carrying out of the task be- fore it. Rubber goods are the most precious of all, however, as even money will not buy in France what is needed. Rubber gloves and hot-water bags are in the most constant demand. The gloves made here are so much thinner and of such a flexible solidity that they are mentioned in almost every request sent forth from France. Just now what is urgently needed and asked for is a microscope for the ‘American surgeon, Doctor Morgan, who has replaced Doctor Gowen at Breligny-sur-Orge. An urgent re- quest has been received by the French War Relief Committee, and if any one charitably disposed happens to be the happy possessor of a microscope which he can spare and will send it to headquarters of the Emergency Aid, 1428 Walnut street, for the French War Relief Committee, the ladies will be everlastingly grateful. Indeed, any gift of surgical instru- ments will come in splendidly just now. Every one is preparing for what is expected to be the fiercest fighting of the war. Much of the final surgical equipment which the Philadelphia committee has sent has been literally worn out by the endless number of operations performed on heroic men who have given life and limb to the defense of their country and to a cause which is our own—and any one who can contribute the much-needed microscope and other instruments will be doing a service the value of which is of incalculable possibilities. com m———— Turkey in the War. London.—Turkey will fight to the last man to retain Constantinople, de- clared Talaat Bey, the new Turkish Grand Vizier, in a statement before the Chamber on the policy of the new Cabinet, according to a Constanti- nople telegram forwarded by Reuter’s Amsterdam correspondent. After re- ferring to the sacrifices Turkey had already made, Talaat Bey said: «We begin our labors in full con- sciousness of the heavy responsibility we are assuming. Our country, which has always been exposed to external difficulties, has found itself compelled to make sacrifices such as our past had never known. “Qur enemies have declared their intention of thrusting us back into the depths of Asia Minor, turning us out of Constantinople and driving us from the Straits. To these ridiculous threats of our enemies, who took flight at the Dardanelles as the result of the defeat inflicted upon them by our valiant army, we reply that we shall not relinquish Constantinople as long as there is a single Ottoman left. “We shall persevere in this gigan- tic struggle in close fraternity of arms with our brave and victorious allies until we have compelled our enemies to recognize our rights to existence. That is our aim.” The Chamber passed a unanimous yoie of confidence in the Government. —Ex. . | cheese per capita than any | country where dairying and American-born citizens eat less | making are carried on as a part of the | nation’s farm production. Our total | consumption isonly about three i pounds each for our whole population ‘in a year. cerned, the principal reason cases. One hundred years ago wives and daughters, who were also consumed by each at home. of which was expo consider a farm product, less most unknown. our nation now known as the large quantities of beef. fifty years old or upward can dozen. Cheese sold for the English | some years ago for six cents a pound wholesale, and you could buy three pounds for a quarter in the | but even at that, pork or beef il War and 1900. pay 15 cents a pound for the cut on the block of any kind of meat, | while the better cuts cost from 20 to | 35 cents; and instead of bu good goose for 25 cents, we minimum of $2 for any goose able to squak at killing time. It really hurts me to menti Why this should be so is not ap- parent at first sight, for cheese is relatively cheaper than any kind of the meats in common use, when the far as farming communities are con- the fact that cheese-making at home is a lost art except in a few isolated making was considered necessary to the success of every first-class New England farm, being for the most part superintended by the farmers’ themselves on the excellence of their butter or cheese, which was made not only for sale but large quantities Cheese, especially, was looked up- on as a part of their regular diet. As time went on, the factory system be- came more and more in vogue and far more cheese was produced, most Owing to the unwillingness of most farmers to pay out money for any- thing used on the table which they was consumed in the farm home dur- ing each succeeding generation, un- til for many years past cheese on a farmer's table is so rare as to be al- During the time when the part of west was being settled, land was cheap, and in most cases had been left by nature all ready for the plow. Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, and parts of Wisconsin and Minnesota were raising oceans of corn and millions of hogs, as well as Further west a million square miles of valley, hill, and plain were teeming with fat cattle. Any of us who are was counted cheaper for the city la- borer to buy, so that whatever the taste for cheese might have been it was lost between the close of the Civ- For a generation Americans revel- in meat-eating—pork, mutton, beef, (veal was held in contempt,) fowl, venison—a riot of meat three { times a day and between meals. As late as 1900 we bought the best cuts of venison for five cents a pound in Michigan. At the present time we Cheese Taste Nearly Lost. other cheese- | amount of food value is counted. So lies in cheese- plumed family cheese middle call to | mind the prevailing meat prices from | 1870 to 1900, when mess pork often went down to $10 a barrel and no bidders; a quarter of good beef could be bought for two cents a pound. The writer while a young man, making cheese for a co-operative company, raised, cured, and sold “long clear” bacon for $7 a hundred retail, and was glad to take it; and fat geese, 10 pounds each, for $3 a market stores; or fowl How the Farm Agent Helps a Com- This movement is the ultra-essence | munity. of the whole principle of communtiy a co-operatinon. The scientific farm expert is to the It will put us right where we are soil what the M. D. is to the human | now wrong in our farming and live- | being and what the veterinary sur- stock methods. i geon is to the farm animal—the soil It will be turning the light of | doctor. : science and experiment onto our | He will advise and cooperate with | knotty and vexing livestock and gen- farmers all over the county in solving | eral farming problems where we are their problems. : now groping in darkness, doubt and ! He can arrange for experimental | uncertainty. and demonstration plots on the var- It will mean to begin knowing and | ious soil types in all parts of the coun- stop guessing. try to be managed by land owners | under his advice and general super- _ Encourages community co-opera- vision. tion. He will lead in the handling and Promotes improved methods of crop suppression of hog cholera epidemics production. and other domestic animal ailments. Introduces more and better live- He will take samples of soil, in the stock, proper manner, where deemed neces- Assists in the proper organization sary, and look after their analysis. of the farm business. He will take an inventory of your Establishes a “Farmers’ Exchange” stock of plant foods in your soils and of seed and livestock. tell you what the limiting elements _ Assists in marketing and distribu- are, if any, and give you expert and tion. | scientific advice as to what your soils Organizes for control of hog cholera | need and where and how to obtain and and other animal diseases. i apply the same. Works for eradication of oat smut He will advise you as to the proper and other plant diseases. methods of crop rotation for obtain- —— ing maximum crop yields. J Studies in Sacrifice. He will assist you in an advisory — way in marketing your surplus crop “Do you think women ought to take and livestock products to the best ad- | an active part in politics 2” vantage. “Yes,” replied Senator Sorghum. He will be the manager of a farmers’ «But I'm afraid that a girl who sac- clearing house for the securing and | rifices her life to politics is going to use of the best adapted and purest | have something like the customary seed grain and the best and most | experience of a girl who marries a suitable strains of all livestock, do- | man to reform him.—Washington mestic animals and poultry. Star. rior ameter mele EE St SES TEA TE RET Why telephone numbers should be given slowly, one digit at a time Within reach of each operator are rows of small holes called “jacks.” Through these the connections are made with flexible cords, the tips of which are inserted in the “jacks” corresponding to numbers called. Here a connection is being made with 1.2-2-3. The operator must work with care and precision. Most important of all is that she shall understand correctly the connection desired. Numbers rattled off hurriedly are often incorrectly given. It will help greatly if you will give the number in this way; one-two-two-three, speaking slowly and distinctly. THE BELL TELEPHONE CO. OF PA. poorest ying a| pay 2a that is on tur- key, because anyone who would pay | | $1.50 for a dressed turkey weighing | 16 or 18 pounds was counted grossly extravagant, or else was possessed of so much money he did not know what to do with it. Meanwhile, the taste for cheese has gone through disuse, bred out as it were. Now it will take several years for our people again to acquire it through the slow process of Fireside. —————————————— Will be held in the High building, north Allegheny The following is the program: by the county chairman Reading of the minutes irae ev. Mrs. John S. Report of treasurer Report of auditors 10.30 A. M.—Reports of Borough Township Lecturers Bellefonte. . Miss Mary Miles B State College Unionville. ... Benner...........-- Miss Bessie Behrer BONNET... ..ooeesssnvien Mrs. Jacob Hoy Boggs... Mrs. D. ¥. Poorman Boggs... Miss Catherine Curtin College... .cooonesnrrrs Mrs. John Hoy College........ Mrs. John I. Thompson Curtin... sass Mrs. Chas. Beatty Ferguson Miss Sarah McWilliams GregB.sceerrorvnerss Mrs. Frank Kisher Gregg. verversssers Miss Edith Sankey Haines........ Miss.. Lyda Hosterman Haines.........s:. Miss Mary G. Foster Halfmoon. .......c.e Miss Esther Gray Harris........ Mrs. Robt. G. McClellan Harris...cooveesesrneses Miss Anna Dale Howard.........e.. Mrs. Btta Leathers Huston.......... Mrs. Geo. W. Bullock Liberty........... Miss Blanche Kunes Miles. ...... co vuiees Miss Alma Dietrick Patton.....cc.vasvee Mrs. John I. Gray POON. vc osevnises Mrs. W. L. Campbell Potter........ .. Mrs. M. A. a pkey Snow Shoe.......cecveee Miss Zoe Mee! Snow Shoe............ Mrs. A. A. Grove SPLINE. creer sions Miss Mary H. Linn Spring. ......oreever Mrs. D. I. Willard Spring Mrs. Abner Noll Walker. . Mrs. W. Poorman Walker. . Cl Mrs. L. B. Swartz Walker....ccooearnnnaorss Mary Struble Johnson WOrth,, .v.oooonvess Mrs. A. J. 11 A. M.—The State convention 11.30 A. M.—Finances essa tenvee Miss Mary Gr 12.00 Box Luncheon in Domestic 00m 2 Pp. M.—The Constitution cusses pera er Mrs. Frank Election of delegates to State tion 3 P. M.—Address: Pa. 2nd Vice Pres. Penna. Suffrage Association. stration and education.—Farm and TENTATIVE PROGRAM. Fourth Centre County Convention of The Woman's Suffrage Party. Bellefonte, Tuesday, March 6th, 1917. 10 A. M.—Convention called to order ule aientes Mrs. Robert Mills Beach a Beit Mrs. Edmund Blanchard a Miss. Daise Keichline Centre Hall...... Miss Florence Rhone Howard.......... Mrs. W. B. Johnston Milesburg......ooeee- Mrs. Harry Mann Millheim....... Miss Jennie Reifsnyder Philipsburg.........- Mrs. Wm. Melick Snow Shoe..... Mrs. James Irwin ...Mrs. John Dale ‘Miss Susan Shipley Saivsesssrnnen ire rs: R. 8. Brouse 2.30 P. M.—Discussion of future work “The Parent-Teacher Association” — Mrs. Edw. BE. Kiernan, of Somerset, demon- school street, Walker and lanchard ay Meek Science Gardner Conven- Ea Miss Marvy Gray Meek |. Ww. 8S. MALLALIEU, Local Manager, BELLEFONTE, PA. S———— 6 642 6 2)\© i {OHHH 2g £501 5D rf ® [ee 8:8 v= =) Price 5000 Gray Davis Electric Lighting and Starting, 25 H. P., 108” Wheelbase, 32x34 Tires, Splitdorf Magneto, One-Man Top, Speedometer—Fully Equipped WE BUY ONLY THE Our Prices Are Within Your Reach ALL-WOOL SUIT The Best Tailoring America Pro- duces. You will find the saving big enough to make you a Booster of $15.00, *18.00 and *20.00 Buys a Fauble Guaranteed The Fauble Store. 21 EASY PAYMENT PLANS Write for Agency—Profitable, Attractive Proposition Plan No. 1—Pay $279.75 on delivery, balance 10 months’ terms AUTO TRADING CO., INC., OF PITTSBURGH, PA. METZ DISTRIBUTORS CENTER AVENUE AT EUCLID AVENUE 62-7-1st and 3rd w-tf. That's just what they call the new SERIES 17 Studebakers — Masters of the Hills. And why? POWER is the answer. The FOUR at $875 has FULL 40 h.p.—more than any other 4-cylinder car within hundreds of dollars of the price. The SIX at $1085 has full 50 h.p.—more than any other 6-cylinder car within hundreds of dollars of its price. Come in to- day and let us give a demonstration. GEORGE A. BEEZER, Bellefonte, Pa. Woman FAUBLE’S. Allegheny St. #«4« BELLEFONTE, PA. er mt LYON ®& COMPANY. COATS COAT SUITS The largest showing and exclusive styles for Spring. We are showing the most up-to-date styles in Coats for Ladies and Misses in fine Velours, Wool Jerseys, Poiret Twills, Plaids and Checks. High Colorings will be most popular this Spring. We have a large line of all the High Colorings and a large assort- ment of Navy Blue and Black. : Low Prices A Special Feature. Ladies and Misses Suits in all the new Colorings and new shaped Pock- ets, with latest lengths in Coats. Some Belt- ed and Box Plaited and others in Mannish ef- fects in Rose, Emerald, Majenta, Gold, New Blue, Navy and Black. ~ Rugs, Carpets and Linoleumns. We are showing the largest assortment of Rugs in the new Spring Colorings. Tapes- try, Brussels, Velvets, Waltons, Axminsters. Linoleumns in all the new Shades. Also a full line of Rag and Ingrain Carpets. on & Co. --. Bellefonte.
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