1917. Bellefonte, Pa., September 29, Caring for the Soldiers’ Eyes. From the Russian Information Bureau. The Surgeon General's office of the army in conjunction with the sub-com- mittee of the Council of National De- fense has been making preparation for the care and treatment of the eyes of the troops, writes the Army and Navy Journal. The committee made a survey of all the eye specialists in the United States, and Maj. Gen. W. C. Gorgas now has a list of all the op- thalmologists who are willing to serve for the war. The committee sent to 9,000 specialists a communication de- signed to elicit the special training and experience of each, to ascertain his fitness for army service. It sent to those who were approved and who had signified their willingness to serve blank cards for admission to the Med- ical Reserve Corps. Dr. Nelson M. Black was commis- sioned and on the recommendation of the Surgeon General was assigned to duty in his office, in charge of opthal- mology as a subdivision of the section on surgery of the head. There he has prepared a list placing the names of the physicians in classes according to their experience and standing, so that the Surgeon General may be guided in selecting the right men when the time comes. He is now engaged in prepar- ing a list of the members of the Med- ical Reserve Corps especially qualified for making all examinations at the ar- my cantonments. He has selected a group of specialists to examine all suspected cases of trachoma, as every effort will be made to keep that seri- ous infection out of the army. Eye trouble has always been one of the favorite claims of the malignerer; but this section has prepared a set of tests that will certainly iand him in the guardhouse, unless he is unusual- ly proficient. This same section has prepared a list of eye instruments for use in the base hospitals. It has also prepared plans for utilizing one of the wards in each cantonment hospital for eye examinations. It recommends that members of the Medical Reserve Corps wishing immediate service ap- ply to the Surgeon General for assign- ment to one of the medical officers’ training camps for instruction in ad- ministrative duties, indispensable for properly carrying on work in the Med- ical Department. There is no provis- ion in the Medical Department for op- tometrists; and thus far the only man- ner in which they can be used is by enlisting as privates, to be detailed in case of need to that duty for which they are qualified. There is, however, a prospect that a unit of manufactur- ing opticians may be attached to a proposed special hospital for surgery of the head; but thus far no such unit has definite status. Is the Theory of Heredity Exploded? The high spots in your disposition and your character—where did you get them? Were you born with them or has association with others given them to you? How much credit do you give your ancestors for what you are today? Heredity is an interesting problem. Science may never succeed in solving it. Yet there are many instances of children with traits common to their parents. Were they born with these traits or were they acquired through association with the father and the mother ? In Robert W. Chamber's newest novel, “The Restless Sex,” now ap- pearing in Cosmopolitan, he leaves some doubt as to the part heredity may play in moulding the character of a young girl. There is a question as to whether Stephanie Quest will re- vert to the character of her parents or whether she will react to her environ- ment. At the age of twelve she was pick- ed up in the slums by a wealthy, heart-hungry old gentleman. The father and mother were weak, disso- lute characters who had committed su- icide. The only evidence Stephanie gives of being different from other girls in her set is that she is not content to be a social butterfly. She feels a great desire to express herself unhampered by man-made convention. She wants to live her life as she sees fit without reference to the criticisms and the de- mand of society. When she is thrown on her own resources, will she be the same sweet, vigorous, lovable charac- ter that she is now or will she “take after her father and her mother?” An absorbing novel with a theme well worth discussion. Origin of the Salute. The military salute had a curious origin, if the tradition brought to light by United States Marine Corps offi- cers may be believed. The navy sol- diers say that the salute originated in the days of the tournament, at which a queen of beauty was chosen to pre- side. The knights and their esquires and all who took part in the tourney, on presenting themselves before the queen lifted each one a hand level with the brows as though dazzled by the light of her presence. Although its significance has been forgotten that same salute is now used by military men in recognition of a superior rank, the marine officers say. Always Unusual. “How do you account for the re- markable weather.” “Haven’t tried. To be perfectly: frank, I don’t believe I recall more than a few months in the past 10 or 15 years when the weather wasn’t being described as remarkable.”—Washing- ton Star. asning ——The London County Council has decided to buy the London part of the London United Tramways company’s lires—a length of about five and a half miles—for 235,000 pounds. Pay- ment is to be made “not earlier than the declaration of peace.” ——A new mail-sorting machine re- cently installed in Chicago’s postoffice does the work of 30 men. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT Phere is no finer chemistry than that by which the element of suffering is so compounded with spiritual forces that it issues to the world as gentleness and strength.—G. S. Merriam. The just-below-the-hip coat of plain velvet, dark-toned, is a fashionable fall model. It is semi-fitting and fin- ished at the bottom with a tightly- drawn-in band. These coats are worn with straight hanging skirts of plaid velvet. The knitted trimmings that first originated with Martial et Armand of Paris will be quite the smart thing this winter. First they were used on sporting costumes. Now they give chic and unusualness to one-piece dresses. A string-colored gabardine one-piece coat dress has a knitted col- lar of beet-root wool with a fancy knitted edge in black. Another dress of forestry-green velour has knitted belt, cuffs and collar in navy blue with a sand-color edge. : Oriental ideas are seen in many of the new season’s gowns. This season particular attention was given by manufacturers to dark shades; but gay colors were not neg- lected, for still the big houses have a large clientele in countries not at war, nor does war prevent gay colors in the south, particularly Monte Carlo. These thick, rough stuffs call im- peratively for simple lines, but be- cause of the great variety of materi- als, diversity in results is easily gain- ed. Worth, Paquin, Lanvin, Premet and Callot show partiality to Indian cashmere of hairy surface in neutral cloths trimmed with terra-cotta pel- usa. Poiret endorses chic black and white combinations with color, primi- tive embroideries and butter-colored jersey cloth bordered with dark blue. With Poiret, materials count for little compared to his use of them. Jenny uses heavy decorative stuffs, and produces tailored costumes of smooth-faced serge combined with plush trimmings. She cleverly han- dles long woolen fringes and makes charming dresses of fine crepe spat- tered with large embroidered dots. Doucet uses duvetyn in several shades of red and butter-yellow. He likes neutral colors in thick woolens. Green and black, and yellow and black are favorite combinations in big checked sporting stuffs.—Woman’s Home Companion. Let each one of us do a little re- forming among the ranks of gossip- ping women. Idle women, women in town, women in the country and wom- en in boarding houses will gossip sometimes with no thought of harm, but often the tongue wags malicious- ly, the onwer taking delight in the in- terest she has awakened with never a care for the mischief she is making. If Mrs. Jones has run over to tell some scandal of Mrs. Brown, don’t re- peat it, but try, in the gentlest way you can, to make Mrs. Jones feel that she has made a mistake in her esti- mate of the news she carries. To make a fountain that will de- light a small child you should get a small glass bottle and nearly fill it with water. Then bore a hole through the cork and place a straw through the hole. The straw should be long enough to reach almost to the bottom of the bot- tle, and if the straw does not fit the cork tightly you should put sealing wax round it.to keep out all air. You should now take a glass jam jar and heat it over a lamp or candle. Stand the bottle of water on two or three sheets of damp blotting paper laid on a plate or dish, place the jar over the bottle and press hard to pre- vent air getting underneath. Now, as soon as the air in the jar begins to cool, the water in the bottle will rise through the straw and form a little fountain. The great thing to remember is to press the jar down ever so tightly. If the air can get away from under the jar you will not have your fountain. Only 75 per cent. of the students at the western branch of the Western Union Telegraph company in Port- land, Oregon, are women. The Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission has recommended a min- imum wage of $9 a week for experi- enced women employees in men’s otring and raincoat factories in that tate. Miss Helen Barnum, niece of the famous showman, Phineas T. Barn- um, is past 100 years of age. Over 7,000 bushels of wheat was harvested this year by Mrs. Dora Long, of Neodosha, Kansas. Mrs. Grace Humiston, the most noted attorney in New York city, will shortly launch a campaign to raise $1,000,000 for the purpose of endow- ing a Nation-wide organization for the protection of womanhood. Several wealthy women of the United States have promised support. If you'd content and happy be, Then heed the maxim old, And neither give yourself away Nor let yourself be sold. —Boston Transcript. If new shoes have a tendency to blister the children’s feet, bathe them daily in salt water. Apply salt and soda to a bee sting. Jousshold ammonia also will do the trick. If one person is ‘ironing, many irons can be kept sufficiently hot without the draught being on the stove. A good salad is made with chopped green peppers, a little grated onion, lettuce leaves and boiled dressing. In summer it is best to clean and dry the bread box every morning. This prevents the bread from mould- ing. Cream Mousse.—Put in a mixing bowl one pint of cream, one ounce of vanilla sugar, three ounces plain su- gar, and whisk all together. When the mixture begins to thicken, flavor as desired and turn into mold, pack and freeze. FRIENDSHIPS BRED BY WAR Man’s Inherent Instinct for Comrade. ship Renewed in the Stress of the Great Conflict. One of the most affecting and inspir- ing side issues of the war is the re- vival of man’s inherent instinct for comradeship and all that that implies in its more fundamental aspects. We make friends even under our luxurious civilization. But what is that compared to the sense of comradeship developed under the fire of great guns, gas bombs and all the destructive engines of warfare? Once more the ancient legends of sacrifice of friend for friend ure made real among men in whom the primitive virtues were stifled not so long ago by the materialistic impulses of an unheroic period. In a very mild way this is illustrated by this semihu- morous extract from a letter to the Vigilantes, apropos of Miss Lynch’s trip to the French front: > “Our chauffeur, gray-haired and heavily built, had been mobilized for this employment. At the hottest point of very hot road, with the sun in the zenith, the dust choking remonstrances, of course the tire burst. He put him- self to work, the perspiration, accord- ing to scriptural injunction literally pouring in rivers from his face and head. The sigh with which he accom- plished his work was more expressive than any Anglo-Saxon sigh I ever lis- tened to. A half mile or so further along we came up with a car that had proudly passed us, also with a punc- tured tire. Hopping from his seat our chauffeur put on the second tire and when he came back to us explained that he did it because his companion chauffeur had a little touch of heart trouble. If he were hot and tired be- fore, imagine his plight after this sec- ond effort, but not a word of complaint, just the smile of ‘camaraderie’ and we who had been inclined to grumble a bit at this felt suddenly ashamed and re- lapsed into an admiring silence.”— From the Vigilantes. TABLET HARD TO SWALLOW Physician Has Provided Safeguard Against Accidental Poisoning by Bichloride of Mercury. At the annual meeting of the Ameri-. can Pharmaceutical association, Louis Spencer Levy described a “safe bichlo- ride tablet.” The user is safeguarded against mistaking it for a headache tablet, probably the most frequent mis- take, by the addition to the ingredients of about 1 per cent of pungent oils, such as capsicum or mustard, and by shaping the tablet so that it is prac- | tically impossible to swallow. Regarding the latter form of protec- tion the author says: “Very few per- sons find much difficulty in swallow- ing pieces of food of considerable size, but anything of rodlike shape, about 134 inches long, cannot be swallowed without great difficulty, if at all, even with water. I have, therefore, de- signed a tablet of this length, about one-fourth inch wide and about one- eighth inch thick, weighing about 1.6 grammes. If you try to swallow any- thing this shape, you will get the sur- prise of your life.” Gotham’s New “Cops.” The New York cop of 1917 will be a physical prodigy, according to the New York correspondent of the Pittsburgh Dispatch. He will have slim legs, a beltline suggesting the wasp and low visibility. He will be boyish-looking, have a clean shaven face and will have a free, bounding gait. Many remember the old-time, double-action, double- chinned cop who could stand at a cor- ner and quell a riot with one beclubbed hand in front of him while he reached the other hand to the rear and commit- ted petty larceny from the peanut stand. Just keep that type of cop in mind and try to imagine him being or- dered to peel off and step in the “gym” for a physical and mental test. Begin- ning next week the medical and phy- sical examiners of the civil service commission will examine 4,000 men who aspire to be patrolmen. An old- fashioned cop would stand no chance of passing the gruelling physical tests that are at present required for admis- sion to the department. . Liberty. A wolf was kept a prisoner in a cage in a park where many people came to look at him and be amused. One day it grew very hot and the wolf dug down into his sawdust in segrch of moist earth wherewithal to cool himself. But he found nothing better than the metal bottom of his cage, whereat the people laughed, deeming his discomfiture good sport. Presently, however, the war brought about a shortage of food and another day the keeper opened the door of the cage. “Come out!” he commanded. “We can’t feed you any longer and so we're going to shoot you.” The wolf was glad. “Now I know why they call it a war of liberation!” he thought to himself. Candle Still Burns. Nowadays we think of light in terms of electricity or gas lamps, but it will surprise some to learn that the average daily expenditure for candles in this country alone this year will be about $67,000. On this scale the valuation of the 1917 production of candles in the United States will total a round $20,- 000,000.—Popular Science Monthly. They Come High. A North Vernon youngster had sev- eral clerks. in a local grocery guessing the other day when she called for a quarter’s worth of hypocrites. Later it was learned that she wished 25 cents worth of apricots.—Indianapolis News. WHALES STOOD ON HEADS According to Ship's Officers, Large School Certainly Acted in a Most Peculiar Manner. This is a whale story, concerning whales that stood on their heads, and all vouched for by officers of a fruit steamer which arrived recently from the tropics, according to a recent issue of the Boston Evening Transcript. And, seriously, the chief officer of the steamer intends to make a written re- port about the whales to the federal bureau of fisheries. The whales were sighted south of Nantucket shoals lightship. During their respective careers at sea the officers have seen many whales, but none which behaved in the manner of those sighted on this trip, and it was the peculiar behavior of the leviathans, together with their number, which attracted attention. Be- tween 6 a. m. and 4 p. m., according to the chief officer, nearly 100 whales were seen. For the most part, they ap- peared to be in shoal water, and from time to time would dive and remain poised with their tail-ends protruding twenty or more feet above the surface, according to the size of the individual whale, In the opinion of the ship’s of- ficers, the whales pursued these tactics to obtain food fish swimming close to the bottom. On the other hand, a num- ber of the whales again, according to the mariners, floated on the surface apparently asleep and were not dis- turbed by the approach of the steamer. In addition to the story, the steamer brought 28,000 bunches of bananas. RIFLE STILL POTENT WEAPON Military Authorities Recognize Value of Infantryman Despite Changes in Modern Warfare. The Army and Navy Gazette of Lon- don, commenting on the great value of good rifle shooting in the present war, says: “Happily the military authorities have not been misled by the results achieved by the big guns, the bombs, and the various missile-throwing trench weapons into imagining that the infantry soldier has ceased, or was likely to cease, to be primarily a rifle- man, and the good work which was ini- tiated before the war at Hythe and at Bisley, and at regimental rifle meet- ings, has been continued and expanded at the many musketry schools which have been established behind the front in France, where selected officers and men of our forces have been taught all that was to be got out of the service weapon. The result has been shown in the account we hear of the wonder- ful rifle pactice made by our troops in the fighting around Bullecourt, remind- ing us of the stories that used to reach us during the retreat from Mons of how German mass attacks withered up under the fire of our infantry of the old army.”—Scientific American. Air Raid Insurance. Accident rates issued by London un- derwriters insuring against personal in- jury by air raids are quoted at sur- prisingly low rates and would seem to greatly belittle the loss occasioned by the air raids. The wheel and wing policies, cover- ing all personal air raid risks, includ- ing falling buildings, bombs, shrapnel, fire, explosion, etc. issued at the £1 rate, offer the following personal bene- fits: £1,000 in event of death, £1,000 in event of blindness or the loss of two limbs, or any other injury causing per- manent total disablement; £500 in event of loss of one eye, hand or foot, or any other injury causing permanent partial disablement; £6 per week dur- ing total disablement up to 52 weeks; £1 10s. per week during partial 'disable- ment up to 52 weeks. All medical expenses up to 15 per cent of the compensation otherwise payable.—Spectator. Case Long in English Courts. A law case which was begun in 1348 and was interrupted because Richard de Maundeville had to leave for the war in France, was resumed recently in the chancery, says the London Ex- press. The point at issue was the right to hold a market at Stowmarket, Suffolk, and the suit was originally brought by the abbot of St. Osyth, Es- sex, in the twenty-second year of Ed- ward II, against Richard de Maunde- ville. According to the abbot, who said he was lord of the manor, Rich- ard had wrongfully obtained the grant of the right to hold a market in Stow- market, and his assertion was “to the grave damage of the said abbot.” Richard claimed the king's protection, and eventually the case was adjourned sine die because of his departure abroad. Black Afric Nearly one-fourth of ti® earth’s land surface is comprised within the conti- nent of Africa, and it is as far around the coast of Africa as it is around the world. Every eighth person of the world’s population lives in the Dark continent. The blacks double their number every 40 years and the whites every 80 years. There are 843 lan- guages and dialects spoken among the blacks of Africa, but only a few of them written.—Christian Herald. “Everything Is Lovely.” As an instance that slogans of the marines do ‘catch on,” Colonel Mec- Lemore reports that he offered pas- sage from the suburbs to a certain town to a neighbor—an Irishman. He asked him to what army he be- longed and when he replied “To the Marines” he thought for a moment and then said, “The Marines are here and everything is lovely,” which is at any rate a free translation of their best- known slogan. EVERYTHING All the goods we advertise here are selling at prices prevailing this time last seascu. — el... lt ie] HAS NOT GONE UP | IN PRICE MINCE MEAT. We are now making our MINCE MEAT and keeping it fully up to our usual high standard; nothing cut out or cut short and are selling it at our former price of 15 Cents Per Pound. Fine Celery, Oranges, Grape Fruit, Apricots, Peaches, Prunes, Spices, Breakfast Foods, Extracts, Baking Powders, Soda, Cornstarch. The whole line of Washing Powders, Starches, Blueing and many other articles are selling at the usual prices. COFFEES, TEAS AND RICE. On our Fine Coffees at 25¢, 28c¢, 30c¢, 35¢ and 40c, there has been no change in price on quality of goods and no change in the price of TEAS. Rice has not advanced in price and can be used largely as a substitute for potatoes. All of these goods are costing us more than formerly but we are doing our best to Hold Down the Lid on high prices, hoping for a more favorable market in the near future. LET US HAVE YOUR ORDER and we will give you FINE GROCERIES at reasonable prices and give you good service. SECHLER & COMPANY, Bush House Block, - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa. Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work. Shoes. Shoes. {EAGERS SHOE STORE 3.00 \ 3.00 I HAVE A FULL LINE OF LADIES SHOES to sell at $3.00. Made of Gun Metal and Cabaretta leather (Cabaretta meaning sheep skin). The styles are lace and button, high and low heels. Many of them are on the English walking shoe style. These shoes are not of a quality that I can conscientiously recom- mend to wear, for honestly speak- ing $5.00 will not purchase a pair of Ladies Shoes made to-day, that is absolutely solid. I have these shoes for the people that do not have the money to purchase a good pair. Yours for a square deal, YEAGER'S, The Shoe Store for the Poor Man. Bush Arcade Bldg. 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA. 8 fv. 2 B= Present Your Wife With a Check Book! You'll be surprised at the system you'll inaugurate in your home if you PAY ALL YOUR BILLS WITH CHECKS. You can tell HOW MUCH IT COSTS TO A PENNY TO RUN YOUR HOME. It will give your wife a sort of business education. Start an Account Today In Your Wife’s Name THE CENTRE COUNTY BANK, BELLEFONTE £6 3 ‘eu 4 Sone
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