Dewooralic Wada Bellefonte, Pa., September 7, 1917. High Value of Cheese as Food. Some long-cherished notions about food, food values and food effects have been upset within the last few months, and the American housewife, in recent weeks, has learned more about food than she ever knew before. So, also, says the Indianapolis News, have all the other members of the family, and men and women, too, who have no families. If we do not live better and more cheaply, partake of a wider va- riety of food, fear some of it less and some of it more, and rid ourselves of old and baseless prejudices, the fault, surely, will not be that of the nation’s food experts. . Not long ago most of us were con- vinced that corn meal dishes were out of place in summer. We believed they were “heating.” The experts have declared to the contrary. Now they want us to eat more cheese, and they assure us that we can partake of this nourishing food in generous quantities without any disarrangemsant of the di- gestive tract. Says the United States Department of Agriculture: “Few people in this country eat cheese in sufficient quantities for it re- ally to form an importan: part of the daily fare. Indeed, it is used more often simply as an appetizer or as a seasoning for some other food. Near- ly every one relishes good American chedder or store cheese, but there is an impression that it is indigestible and conctipating. Extensive diges- tion experiments carried on by the De- partment of Agriculture have demon- strated that more than 95 per cent. of the protein of cheese is digested and 90 per cent. of its energy is available. Even when eaten in large quantities and for long periods, nu case of indi- gestion, constipation, or other distur- bance was observed in those who ate it. One man who ate cheese as the chief source of both protein and ener- gy, eating an average of 9.27 cunces daily, with bread and fruit, for more than two years, did a fair amount of muscular work and kept in good health. The greater the consumption of cheese the larger the output, and since milk in the form of cheese is easily preserved and may be kept in storage a long time, the greater the output the more will be the stores set away for future use. A pound of cheese supplies more than twice as much en- ergy as a pound of fowl or of round steak, and almost twice as much pro- tein as the same amount of fowl or ham. It is, accordingly, a cheaper food than meats, and it is palatable and wholesome. We shall be the gainers if we forget some of the com- ic paper jokes about Weish rabbit and begin to partake of the cheese as a real food and not merely as an appe- tizer. Carries Umbrella for Luck. The Postmaster Generai, Mr. Burle- son, always carries an umbrella. No matter when or where he goes, invari- ably he carries a “shower stick” with him—and it is a disreputable looking one at that. The closel umbrella has a dingy green cover and a crooked handle and buiges out at the bottom as if a peck of greens or a dressed chicken were concealed therein. Friends of Mr. Burleson have tried repeatedly to break him of the um- brella carrying habit. But it has done no good. He scorns their appeals. Admirers have given hin at least a dozen new umbrellas since he became a member of the Presidznt’s Cabinet, hoping that he would discard the old one that is his constant companion, but he has never carried any of them, so far as has been observed. He clings to the old one, for some reason or other. When he was asked by an inquisi- tive admirer why he always carried an umbrella in preference tc a cane or swagger stick—now the rage among army officers in Washington—Mr. Burleson smiled and merely said: “Oh, it’s just a hobby of mine. I find this umbrella brings me good luck.” Then he changed the subject. Country Boys Can’t Hear. That the country youth is not able to hear so well as his city brother and that only about one in five of the for- mer possess the auricular acuteness of the city bred lad is the opinion of the officers at the head of marine corps recruiting at Washington. Their de- ductions are based on the number of country boys rejected for poor hear- ing. Many persons believe that the con- tinual jarring noises of the city have a tendency to dull the sensitiveness of the nerve centers. However, this is not borne out by the figures of the marine corps officers, wha believe that the quiet life of the country, free from noises has a tendency to weaken through disuse, the responsive nerves in the ear. Scientists point to innumerable par- allels in nature where the disuse of an organ gradually reduces its function- ing power or eliminates it altogether. The blind fishes in the dark pools of Mammoth Cave are a notable exam- ple.—Reformatory Record. With coal selling at $60 a ton in Italy and the Government gradually taking over all existing supplies and prohibiting its use by hotels and boarding houses, and with gas and electricity dear or the supply reduced, Italian householders and business offi- ces have had to revert to the ancient methods of burning finely powdered wood charcoal dustin a two-gallon earthen jar. A California inventor has pat- ented a statement or Lillhead form which can be folded and sealed so that the address at the top is on the outside, thus saving the expense of an envelope, and the additicnal labor of addressing. z —Rats eat every kind of human food—grain, dry groceries, meats, fruits and vegetables. ——1If you find it in the “Watch- A REALISTIC ANSWER. | The Sentry Didnt Have to Go Into Details With the Officer. During one of Haig’s attacks on the | Hindenburg line a “Minnie” had come over and knocked all the stuffing out of a sentry. He staggered to his feet—ex- cept for the tremendous shaking, prac. tically unhurt—fighting for breath, which he could not get back for some minutes. While he was so standing a young officer, newly out, turned the corner of the trench. There was a heavy bombardment on. The unexpe- rienced young officer, not knowing what had happened and seeing the sen- try rifleless (his rifle had been blown many yards away), knees bent, body limp, eyes half out of his head and mouth (half full of dust) gaping open like a loosened sack head, inquired, | “Well, what's the matter with you?” The man tried to answer, but had no | breath to do so, and, knocked silly as ! he was by the shock, gaped helplessly and idiotically at the officer, who said again, this time more sharply, “What's the matter with you?” At that moment over came another “Minnie,” falling sufficiently near the officer to serve him exactly as the pre- vious one had served the sentry. As half blinded, wholly smothered and three-quarters stunned the officer stum- bled to his feet the sentry ran forward | to help him up. Then, standing the | regulation two paces away, the sentry came smartly to attention and, cere- | moniously saluting, said, “Beg pardon, | sir; I couldn’t answer before, but that’s | what was the matter with me.”—Lon- | don Chronicle, | OUR LAGGING WORLD. Its Motion Is Slowing, and the Day Is | Growing Longer. Our earth appears to be slowing down its spin. Two British astrono- | mers who have finished a long study | of the matter report that it now takes | almost exactly three seconds longer for | the world to turn over once than it | took 100 years ago, and a century | hence still another three seconds will ! have been added to the day. i At this rate Shakespeare had nearly | ten seconds less in his twenty-four i hours than has a modern dramatist. | ‘William the Conqueror was handicap- | ped a half minute in keeping up with his descendants. Julius Caesar was a | whole minute to the bad, while even | if he had lived to old age his life would ! still have been some twenty of our | days short of what his biographers | would have claimed for him. i Abraham and the early Pharaohs : would have been still more pressed for | time. The earliest men, say in the year 100,000 B. C., would have had no | use for “How to Live on Twenty-four Hours a Day,” for they had only twen- ! ty-three hours to do their living in and were really only seventy-six years old" when they thought they had reached | fourscore.—Edwin Tenney Brewster in St. Nicholas. “Flying” Americans. Wilbur and Orville Wright began their experiments with the aeroplane fourteen years before the great con- | flict awakened Americans to the won- | derful part that aircraft was to play in warfare. The first flight of these fa- mous brothers over the barren sand dunes at Kitty Hawk, N. C., lasted but twelve seconds. It was another Amer- ican, Glenn H. Curtiss, who made the first successful flight in a flying boat. He was then working on aeroplanes for the navy and experimented with a biplane equipped with floats. Giving this up for one with a true boat body, straightway came success. That was in 1911, and the first great stride to- ward giving the American navy its fleet of fighting boats that fly followed ' five years later, when congress set | aside $3,250,000 for naval aircraft alone.—F. E, Evans in St. Nicholas. Oddly Expressed. In one of his letters William Brook- field tells how as school inspector he had to give an examination on physical science. “What was I to do? I knew nothing about hydrogen or oxygen or any other ‘gen.’ So I set them a paper which I called ‘applied science.” One of my questions was ‘What would you do to cure a cold in the head? A young lady answered, ‘I should put my feet into hot water till you were in a profuse perspiration.’ ” te Se Poor Richard. “In December of the year 1732,” says Bigelow’s “Life of Franklin,” “Frank. lin commenced the publication of what he styled ‘Poor Richard’s Almanac, price fivepence. It attained an aston- ishing popularity and at once. Three editions were sold within the month of its appearance. The average sale for twenty-five years was 10,000 a year.” How It Ended. Bacon—I understand that your wife had a quarrel with my wife over the telephone, Egbert—I believe so. “How did it end?” “Like all women’s quarrels—in talk.” ~Yonkers Statesman, econ Ma Didn't Understand. The young lady was looking over a book of views. “Oh, see the Pitti palace!” “Miranda,” said the mother severely, “I told you to stop talking baby talk. If a thing is pretty call it pretty.”’— Kansas City Journal. Altruistic Work. Some millionaires could easily con- duct experiments and tell us whether or not there is any money in the chick- en business.—Kansas City Journal, Ill habits gather by unseen degrees. —Qvid. To ——— FOR THE BIGGEST JOB 25000 BOYS WAITED ON BART | JOUR THE PERNSYLWANIA BIVISION UNIIED [BOYS WORKING RESERVE ANID HELP TO WIN THE WAR Boys of Pennsylvania! come away from the ball fields, turn from vacation frolics, put aside the pleasant lures of boyhood and give heed to sericus do- ings. Your country has a grim business in hand and relies largely upon you to put it through. You have heard the song of the bugles and the rattle of the drums; you have seen the dust-stained troops | in highways ang byways; you have cheered with the shouting bystanders and through these things you person- ally have come to know that the na- tion is at war. The stirring military scenes no doubt have impressed you with the greatness of your country’s martial might. They have given you a comforting sense of seourity through visible assurance that thousands upon thousands of steel- muscled, splendidly equipped fighting men stand as living barriers between you and your country’s foe, And yow perhaps, have turned back to your sports and games in the con- fident belief that thege chosen legions of a free nation have but to meet the enemy to sweep him from the field. But in that belief there is danger. KR is a belief which, if permitted to spread unchecked, would place the ar- mies of America in deadly peril. All of these inspiring troop move- ments you have witnessed relate only to one phase of war activity—the mili- tary side. There is another phase of war and it is the more important one because properly directed it backs up the sol- dier in the field with the entire re- sources of his country. Valor Not Enough. It is this phase of war activity that must give the American fighting men more and better cannon than the ene- my possesses; more ammunition, more food and more of everything that ig vital to the prosecution of war. For if the nation permits its armies to be overmatched in these things their valor will count for nothing. Mere bravery will not avert defeat and de- feat would mean a reign of terrorism in this free land too shocking to be pictured even in a part of its bar- barity. That is why no one—not even boys —should be allowed to think that war fs only the soldier's business, This war is the business of every man, every woman, r—ery boy and every girl in America who, by their work, can be of use to American troops. Primarily, war, because it is de- structive, taxes to the utmost the pro- ductive energy ~f the nation engaged. At the same time it weakens the pro- ductive forces by taking all of the able-bodied men from farms, work- shops and business to do the fighting, One million American soldiers, the pick of the c-untry’s manhood recruit- ed from the various industries, will soon be at grips with the enemy, and workers must be found to fil their places. Additional workers must be located to produce the excesg quanti- ties of supplies that these one million soldiers will require, and the supplies our European allies need. Where are these workers to be obtained? Boys, the answer rests with you. Perhaps upon witnessing parades of fighting squadrons you have felt regret that you, too, could not have a place in the heroic files. But there is no need to harbor regret. You and every other boy between the ages of 16 and 21 years may help your country fight and win the war. You may not be able to shoulder a rifle or man a gun, but by working to sup- ply everything needful to the men who do these things you will be making your country’s guns effective. President Wilson's call. The war has made a place for you. That place is in the ranks of the Penn- sylvania Division of the United States Boys’ Working Reserve, an organiza. tion created by,the United States gov- ernment to furnish emergency workers so that there will be no shortage of “the labor needed to keep the American soldier in victorious fighting trim. So important is the Reserve consid- ered by the government that President Wilson has issued a message urging boys of Pennsylvania to enroll. Here is the President's message to you: “Let me express the hope that the young men of Pennsylvania not now permanently employed may eagerly en- '&r the Boys’ Working Reserve to fit SUATES | themselves by training and study for good citizenship and productive serv: ice. In this way they can show them- selves worthy of patriotic fathers who fought for democracy in the past, sus- tain their patriotic brothers who are | fighting for it today, and command the | affectionate pride of the brave mothers | who are silently bearing the burdens at home.” Under the direction of the Pennsyl- | vania committee of Public Safety the | Reserve is now recruiting an industrial | | | | | | | | | | | army of 25,000 boys. They will be guided in their activities by John C. Frazee, Federal Director for this State, and a corps of district superintend- ents. The aims of the Reserve are: First, | the organization, and, second, the preparation of boys for emergency service in all lines of work. The mot- to of the boys who enroll is , “I will be ready.” The Reserve will find use- ful work for them and if necessary will instruct them in the work. Service Badge Given. | | You may enroll by obtaining the con- sent of your parents or guardians, whether you are now employed or not. Boys who are employed join with the idea of becoming more useful to thelr | country by learning to produce more at their present work. They will not be urged to change their employment, but only to become more proficient at it. Boys who are not now at work, but | who attend school, may enroll and will be instructed in some line of industry fitted to their abilities. Working hours will be arranged so that their educa- tion will not be interferred with. All boys enrolling will receive at once the handsome button of the Pennsylvania Division. By loyal service they may earn the bronze badge of the Reserve which is a reproduction of the seal of the United States suitably inscribed and numbered. Appropriate wages will be paid while boys are at work. Working conditions will be carefully supervised so that members of the | Reserve shall be protected against all forms of physical and moral injury. There is nothing of a military charae- ter about the Reserve, its training or its work and members may withdraw whenever their parents or guardians so desire. | It is not intended to keep the boys working on the same basis as workers who are regularly employed. Service is of a temporary nature and will be called for in emergencies only. The Reserve does not seek to shift the employment of boys who are working for their parents or interfere with Hogi ES SorevAgemaliy. But these Oys may become members the badge of honor ag au sama The Reserve will encourage school- boy or student members in their studies, as it holds that mental im. provement is a form of proficiency by which the country ang its industries benefit. Workshops, farms and business are depending upon the loyalty of the American people to insure sufficient working forces while hundreds of thou. sands of brave Americang are decid- ing the national destiny in a far-off land. And the American soldier is go- ing about his stern task with implicit confidence that he will receive the right kind of support from those who remain behind. Whether he is justified in that con- fidence is up to you. Your big brothers, perhaps, are al- ready near the firing lice or soon will be on their way there. For every man at the {front there must be five workers at home producing the food, the clothing, the ammunition, the weapons and other supplies without which the bravest troops would be defeated before they even began the fight. Boys of Pennsylvania enroll to give the American soldier the things he needs to win the war! And, fathers, mothers, let your boy® enroll. They are needed, sorely r- ed, and it is public service ths New Fall Suits ——) FOR (——— YOUNG MEN HERE’S a certain Clothes feeling within every Young Man that makes him§want “The Thing.” We're showing the Smart New Fall Models for Young Men. There’s no radical departure in style of cut this season, but there are many new fabrics and colorings and many lit- tle “Tailor touches and kinks” that are new and very artistic. We were never better prepared to give the Young Man his Ideal Suit than we are at this present writing, and we're always pleased to show. FAUBLE'S. Allegheny St. &.OIBELLEFONTE, PA. LYON @ COMPANY. FALL AND WINTER OPENING ree YOR i fie COATS and SUITS We extend a cordial invitation to all to come in and see ovr large varieties of exclusive mod- els in Coats and Suits. New Fall and Winter Dress Goods and Silks. We are receiving new Woolen Dress Goods every day. Plaids, serges, poplins, garbardines, mannish effects and broad clothslin all the new fall colorings. NEW SILKS. Plaids and shadow effects in stripes and blocks in all the new grays, blues and Roman colorings in taffetas, satins, messaline and crepe de chines, Georgette crepes and silk voiles to match all colors. Lyon & Co. wu Bellefonte.
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