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THE PATRIOTIC IN HUSIC.
(Continued from page 2, Col. 4.)
which instead the singing, in so far
as it was a representative community
event, was lamentably a failure, and |
particularly so in the singing of the
national “Star Spangled Banner.” A
few voices took part with the two or
three leading singers in the first stan-
za, but there was a noticeable de-
crease in the number of voices in the
succeeding stanzas, and not even the
leaders had an adequate idea as to
just how much of the anthem was to
be sung. I say this not by way of
criticism of those in charge nor of the
splendid voices of those who sang
what was practically a solo, or duet,
but to show how we fail to sing as a
community the songs of our nation.
We ought to come away from such |
gatherings, after having sung such
hymns and songs, glowing with love
of country, with a further consecra-
tion to Ler service or with the desire
of some new way of serving her.
Whereas all too frequently we are not
uplifted, an opportunity has been
lost, and instead of being better
Americans we are still merely luke-
warm Americans. One of the fea-
tures which the National Red Cross
suggests for the Christmas drive for
membership is that of singing in
groups and by communities on Christ-
mas eve carols and patriotic hymns.
Perhaps it will be just as well that
we do not try this in Bellefonte. Of
course we might see to it that some of
our young men or women singers go
about singing, but this would be, how-
ever fine the music produced, only a
poor substitute for community sing-
ing, for it must surely be the essence
of such community singing that the
community sing. Bellefonte does
need, I think, this opportunity—as
well as others of a like nature—to
make us feel our oneness as a com-
munity.
A few proctical suggestions, if you
will pardon them. A definite program
ought to be set on foot that the soul
of our community may be stirred with
patriotism through the music of our
national anthems and songs. Some
group of people, some society, will
have to take the lead. Our musical
people I am confident would prove in-
terested. A nucleus of singers could
be formed and a start at the least
thus made toward making our patri-
otic meetings notable for their splen-
did singing. After the idea got well
under way, community choir prac-
tices, community singing-rehearsals,
might be held. The words of the va-
rious selections should be in the hands
of all, and both words and music in
the hands of some. After some vic-
tory in the war, hard-won, with its in-
evitable list of casualties, its obla-
tion of lives on the altar of freedom,
imagine our townsfolk, meeting in the
court house or on the Diamond, im-
agine their voices joining in the
hymns of America. To “My Coun-
try 'Tis of Thee,” we would add the
stanza which has gained such head-
way in Great Britain and Canada,—
and hark to the voices sounding from
the depths of hearts flaming with love,
yet dauntless in hope,—though eyes
are dimmed with tears,—
“(od save our splendid men,
Send them safe home again;
God save our men!
Keep them victorious,
chivalrous,
They are so dear to us,
God save our men!”
Or to give a slightly differing ver-
sion which I think somewhat better—
God save our boys and men,
Send them safe home again;
God save our men!
Make them victorious,
Strong, clean and glorious,—
Flag floating over us,
Strengthen. our men.”
patient and
In conclusion let me give you the
words of a patriotic hymn which I
have met with just recently,—you all
probably know it quite well,—which
is evidently winning its way among
our country’s sacred songs. The
words are by Katherine Lee Bates,
one of the faculty at Wellesley, and
there are musical settings of different
styles, several of them of surpassing
merit. It is called “America the
Beautiful.”
0 beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain majesties
Above the fruited plain!
America! America!
God shed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
O beautiful for pilgrim feet,
Where stern impassioned stress
A thoroughfare for freedom beat
Across the wilderness!
America! America!
God mend thine every flaw,
Confirm thy soul in self-control,
Thy liberty in Jaw!
O beautiful for heroes proved
In liberating strife,
Who more than self their country
loved.
And mercy more than life!
America! America!
May God thy gold refine,
Till all success be nobleness,
And every gain divine!
O beautiful for patriot dream
That sees beyond the years
Thine alabaster cities gleam
Undimmed by human tears!
America! America!
God speed His grace on thee
And crown thy good with brotherhood
From sea to shining sea!
— After examining the expense
bills of some draft boards General
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‘ FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
| DAILY THOUGHT
t As I love I am lifted;
t As I hate I am dropped:
i As I trust I am sifted;
: As I doubt I am stopped;
As I judge I am licensed;
As I won't I am bound;
As I reach I am listed; !
As T am I am crowned.
| —N. E. H. Siegel.
For the Girl Who Knits Her Own
| Sweaters.—“But I don’t see how you
! feel justified in knitting for yourself
'or your family, when there is an op-
portunity to knit for the boys at the
| front!” exclaimed the owner of quite
| the largest knitting bag at a recent
| luncheon.
| “I am knitting for them, as well as
| for myself,” was her hostess’ reply.
{ “But I like to make my own sweaters,
| and find it more economical to do so
|than to buy them at the stores. I
| make them for myself and my two
| daughters; but, for each one which I
|
| make for one of us, I give yarn for a
‘and care to meet the present demands
| for dairy products, is the opinion of
| sweater for a soldier or sailor to
someone who otherwise would not be |
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FARM NOTES. |
—Feeding ‘the Dairy Cow.—Be-
cause it requires two to three years
to raise a single generation of dairy
cows, it is highly important that the
cows now in use receive better feed
A. A. Borland, in charge of dairy ex-
tension at The Pennsylvania State
College.
Too many cows are underfed. A
thousand pound cow yielding twenty
pounds of four per cent. milk, if prop-
erly fed, devotes about half of her
food to the maintenance of her body
and the other half to milk production. |
Grain should be fed in proportion |
to the amount of milk produced. One!
pound of a properly balanced grain |
mixture for every four pounds of milk |
produced will be sufficient, if the cow |
is supplied with all the roughage she
will eat clean during the day. Rough- |
age should be supplied three or four !
times daily as it is a cheaper energy |
feed than grain this winter, and more
of it will be consumed if fed frequent-
ly and in smaller amounts at a time.
It is highly important that a ration
{ laymen.
knitting. The money, which is saved i be properly balanced. Farm grown
by making the family’s sweaters also | feeds, such as timothy hay, corn si-
goes into my yarn fund, and so I feel lage, corn stover, oats and corn meal
that I'm not being unpatriotic in are too low in protein to make a good
working for the family.” | milk producing ration. The use of
Some of these home-made sweaters | clover or alfalfa hay which are high
were exceptionally pretty, and will be | in protein, and the addition of cotton-
a joy both to wearer and beholder | seed meal and linseed meal to the
when they are worn on the golf cours- | grain mixture will result in very
es or tennis courts next spring and | much better milk yields.
summer. The colored yarns are at-! .
tractive, and there are designs for | —Unfortunately much of this
each and every preference where | State’s corn crop of this year is frost-
sweaters uve concerned. {ed and soft and fed to poultry, espe-
One, of the popular slip-on type, i cially when fed to poultry as an ex-
was purled up to the waistline and
above the three-inch belt, in a checked |
pattern. This is done by knitting six
stitches and purling six, until there is
a stripe one inch wide. Then 1everse
the process, purling and then knit-
ting. This design, which is pretty,
has been found to be a good one for
the soldiers’ scarfs, since they are less
apt to stretch if knitted in this way
than if only a plain stitch is used.
A sleeveless sweater of coral pink
yarn was purled only about the waist-
line, the belt thus formed being about
two inches wide. The rest of the
sweater (which slipped on over the
head) was knitted plain. Its prettiest |
feature was the collar, which was |
slightly narrower than the ordinary
sailor collar and long enough to reach |
the top of the belt. Across its bottom i
edge was a two-inch wide band of |
white angora wool, which matched |
the wide cuffs.
A slip-on sweater of pale yellow |
had a V shaped yoke of apple green,
formed of alternate rows of knitting
and purling. A similar band edged |
the bottom of the sweater. Another |
had a loose yoke or collar, about four |
inches wide, pointed in front, a small |
silk tassel being fastened to the point.
This sweater, when made of peacock |
blue yarn, with collar and cuffs of |
white brushed wool, is really unusual. |
The slip-on sweater which has |
sleeves is practical, since it may be
worn with a sheer underslip for sports
wear, replacing the tailored blouse
most comfortably. Made lower in the
neck than the ordinary sweater, it
shows the crossed folds of the under-
slip prettily.
The sweater made of two threads
instead of one gives an opportunity
for attractive and interesting color
contrast. The knitting itself is sim-
ple, since one only needs to hold two
threads instead of one. Such a
sweater, made of horizon blue and ap-
ple green, was recently designed for
wear with white skirts at a winter re-
sort, the ardent golfer of whose ward-
robe it became a part, being most en-
thusiastic over the color combinations
Another two-thread sweater was made
of golden yellow and sunset pink, the
collar and cuffs being of the plain
pink. When knitting sweaters for
the men at the front, it is wise to
make them with the double thread
because of the added warmth gained
in this way.
Knitted scarfs have never been
prettier, and they are, of course, no:
at all difficult to make. A beautiful
one was made of shetland wool in
rainbow colorings, knit very loosely
on very large needles. Its airy dain-
tiness made it a most desirable addi-
tion to the wardrobe of the girl who
delights in her frocks. Equally at-
tractive was a scarf for sports wear,
also made of shetland wool, mostly of
white, with a border of six three-inch
stripes in vivid shades of purple,
green, blue, yellow, red, and orange.
These scarfs are about 16 inches wide
and 1% yards long.
Shoe-top length prevails in the new |
skirts, says the Dry Goods Economist. |
There is no indication that longer
skirts will meet with success.
The dressy skirts are developed in |
satin, taffeta, foulard, tussah, a few
tri-cotines, serge and jersey. White |
skirts in satin, taffeta and in wash |
fabrics, such as cotton gabardine, |
piques and other materials of this |
character, are also in evidence. Nov- |
elty pockets are the chief feature of |
cotton wash skirts. |
value of common baking soda? i
Mixed with olive oil to a paste, it
proves a valuable remedy for scalds
or burns. If used with weakened vin-
egar it relieves gas on the stomach.
Add one-half teaspoonful to a cup
of hot water and take for indigestion
or cramps in the stomach. Dampen
with water to form a paste to clean |
jewelry.
Mix with equal parts of salt to
clean the teeth. It is excellent for re- |
i
moving blood stains when dissolved |
in lukewarm water.
Stuffed Beefsteak.—Take a slice of
i may be used for stock in the early
How many housekeepers know the |
lis required.
t
clusive grain food causes digestive
troubles, loose bowels, blue combs and
many deaths.
A farmer from Monroe county re-
ports to the Pennsylvania Department,
of Agriculture that he has had over
100 chickens and turkeys die lately
from this cause, and many reports
from all over the State of sick chick-
ens and turkeys are probably due to
the same cause.
The advice of the Department in all
cases is to dry or parch the corn. If
there is an old fashioned bake oven
on the farm this can be done in quan- |
tities, if not the kitchen range must
be used.
Burning the corn or parching it so
hard that it approaches charcoal is a
waste. Also feeding it hot is danger-
ous. Slightly warm will not hurt.
Mouldy corn is never a safe chicken
feed and every effort should be made
at this time to save enough dry and
sound corn to last to feed to the chick-
ens this next year. If this is not done
and the mouldy corn is fed there are
bound to be a lot of mysterious deaths
among the chickens and turkeys all
this next year.
_—In order to increase egg produc-
tion it is necessary to eliminate the
non-producer, says H. C. Knandel, in
charge of poultry extension at The
Pennsylvania State College.
A hen must lay eighty eggs to pay
for her feed alone. Fifteen addition-
al eggs are required to pay for labor
and depreciation. Hence a hen must
lay more than ninety-five eggs each
year to return a profit to her owner.
Vigor is the most important quali-
fication of a laying hen. This quali-
ty is indicated by short toe nail, stub-
by beak, activity, rising early and re-
tiring late, heavy eating and bright
eye. In addition a hen should have a
long, broad back not pinched at the
tail, be deep in chest and body in or-
der to have plenty of capacity, and
have good distance between breast
bone and pelvic bones.
In order to increase production in
the next generation an egg record
should be kept and only eggs from
high producers be used for hatching.
Late moulters should be kept in the
breeding flock and the early moulters
eliminated. Use strong cockerels. As
pullets do not have the vitality that
hens have, they produce small eggs,
and, consequently, small chicks and
they have no records.
—Every pullet and young hen sold
for food this winter means a reduc-
tion of from five to twelve dozen eggs
in the potential egg supply of next
spring and summer.
—Hundreds of thousands of farm-
ers who have not raised poultry will
do so next spring and summer—re-
sponding to the demand for more
chickens and eggs so that beef and
pork will be released to help Win the
War. They will need young hens.
—The United States Department of
Agriculture urges the saving of fowls
of producing qualities, so that they
spring.
—More chickens and more eggs will
release more meat for our armies and
the allies. They cannot get our chick-
ens and our eggs—we can, and like to
eat them.
—Poultry can be increased more
rapidly and more economically than
any of the meat animals.
—Chickens will live largely, grow
and prosper, on waste that never oth-
erwise would be of use, and will eat
the infant bugs, particularly orchard
pests, before they have had opportuni-
ty to do great harm.
—Chickens require a minimum at-
tention. Most of it can be given by
women and children. No heavy labor
—The early hatched chicken is not
only the chicken that lays the winter
egg, but it is the chicken best able to
withstand disease and parasites.
—1It is in the midsummer months
that chickens are hurt most by lice.
The late hatched chicken has not had
time to become large or strong enough
to resist lice attacks, but the early
hatched chicken by midsummer has
Crowder may feel like qualifying his
praise of their unselfish patriotism.
round steak about 1 inch thick and | become strong and hardy enough to do
spread it with dressing, such as one |so. And because the early develop-
would use to stuff a chicken. Then ment of the early hatehed bird has
roll the meat up and fasten securely. | preceded the extremely hot. months,
Place in a kettle, in a small quantity | it is more apt to live through the sum-
of boiling water; let it Emer slow- mer.
ly for two hours, turning and basting | __pocayse the honey season is past,
often. When done, thicken the water | io ot allow the oo eh of indiffer.
in which the meat was boiled, then | ence to cause you to neglect the pro-
| tection of the bees. Just because by
- | accident some colonies wintered safely
The Minnesota Supreme court re- | Without protection, is no safe guide
cently rendered a decision upholding | to follow. Because one’s house did
the minimum wage law for women in | not burn during the past season 1s
that State. The minimum wage for hardly an excuse for dispensing with
add any necessary seasoning and pour
over the meat, when ready to serve.
women working in industries is now , fire insurance. Protection of bees for
$8.50 per week. winter is bee insurance.
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Methodists Open War Work.
A nation-wide campaign to mobil- |
ize the Methodist Episcopal denon |
nation to aid the government in war
service was decided upon last week |
by the war council of the Methodist
Episcopal church, in the Wesley build- |
ing. The original council, consisting '
of seven bishops, was enlarged to in-
clude representatives of all the boards !
of the church and several prominent |
Bishop Joseph F. Berry was
elected president, and Bishop Theo-
dore S. Henderson, of Detroit, Mich., !
who was chosen executive secretary,
will go to Washington immediately to
direct the campaign. i
Patriotic meetings will be held in |
all big cities to interpret the meaning
of the war and its moral and religious
significance. Patriotic demonstra- |
tions will be conducted at each of the
139 annual conferences. Sunday
schools will have patriotic lessons
prepared by the editor of the Metho-
dist Sunday School literature. The |
Epworth Leagues will have a patriot- |
ic demonstration on their anniversary |
Sunday in May and every local chap- |
ter of the league will engage in some |
form of patriotic service. |
Church members on Memorial day |
will be requested to make a self-deni- |
al war offering, the equivalent of his
or her income on Friday, May 24,
1918. i
Bishop William F. McDowell, of
Washington, chairman of the execu-
tive committee, will co-operate with
Bishop Henderson. Dr. John R. Mott,
of the executive committee, will be “a
connecting link” between the Y. M.
C. A. and the church. Bishop H. C.
Stuntz, of Omaha, and Bishop Hen-
derson have been authorized to give
all their time to the work.
Bishop W. F. Anderson, of Cincin-
nati, Ohio, and Bishop Francis Mec-
Connell, of Denver, Col., will go to
Europe at once. A special appeal will
be made to the young men and women
for 1000 new foreign missionaries
within the next five years.—Philadel-
phia Public Ledger.
The Mathematics of Millers.
Spokane finds itself indebted to the
flour millers for an interesting dem-
onstration of how foolish it is to sup-
pose that a good rule ought to work
both ways. Here, says the Spokane
Spokesman-Review, is the scenario:
The price of flour might be held
(by one not versed in millers’ mathe-
matics) to be directly dependent up-
on the price of wheat, and the price
of a loaf of .bread might be consid-
ered closely related to the cost of a
barrel of flour. That this holds true
on a rising market our experience of
less than a year back can testify. All
will remember how, when wheat went
up, flour followed the same course
with instant sympathy. Bread, too,
was so closely en rapport with the sit-
uation that loaves became smaller and
smaller and the 5-cent ones disappear-
ed completely.
Now wheat has gone down, some-
thing like a dollar a bushel, but where
is the eager response on the part of
flour and bread? Flour, to be sure,
is coming down, with something of
the reluctance of Davy Crockett’s
coon, but the millers explain that they
are stocked up with $2.90 wheat and
cannot afford to reduce quotations
very rapidly. When flour was going
up they were pretty well stocked with
$1.50 wheat, but business was so brisk
and the times so stirring, that the
fact completely slipped their minds.
It is fortunate they should have re-
membered their costly reserve stocks
at this time or their losses might have
been severe.
But bread has not come down at all.
With the same source of wheat supply
as London, we are still paying about
four times the London price for our
loaves. The b5-cent loaf has not
emerged from retirement, and the 10-
cent loaf looks as much like a small
roll as it did when wheat was $3. This
indicates only one thing—that bakers’
mathematics and economics must be
even more complicated and occult
than millers’. The public thirsts for
instruction in this branch of knowl-
edge.
Capture Germany’s Secret Dye Rec-
ipes.
London.—A group of men in the
British textile trade have captured
the secret recipes of the German dye
industry, according to the Daily Mail,
which displays the item under large
heads. The recipes, numbering 257,
belonged to the great Badische works
and are now in the keeping of a Lon-
don bank. The Mail says:
_ “The capture is of first importance |
in economic war against Germany and
will free the British textile industry |
and scores of other important indus-
tries from the bonds of Germany. It!
means that when the war is over |
Great Britain will be in a position to |
compete equally with German dyed
goods in every market in the world.”
In the course of a long story de-
scribing how the recipes were obtain-
ed in Switzerland, the Mail says that
the merchants who captured them
have refused tempting offers from
capitalists and speculative elements
have been bzrred carefully from the
enterprise. The merchants intend to
offer and sell the recipes to the Brit-
ish government for the use of the
government dye works, permitting
the bulk of the profit to go to the na-
tion on the understanding that the
dyes will be sold freely to all British
manufacturers needing them—Phila-
delphia Public Ledger.
Dieting a Horse.
The driver of the jaunting car of
Ireland is always ready to excuse
himself if he is reproached for the
condition of his horse.
“I say, Paddy,” said. a tourist one
day, “that horse you drive is the worst
looking I ever saw. Why don’t you
fatten him up?”
“Fat him up, is it?” queried the
driver, as if he could not believe his
ears. ‘“Faix, the poor baste can hard-
ly carry the little mate that’s on him
now.”—Youth’s Companion.
Slippery Footing.
Our own Dewey and the British
Byng illustrate the truth of the saying
that the man who is on top generally
has to do a nice feat of balancing to |
stay there.
The Best
Clothes Service
For Man or Boy
at Fauble’s.
Prices Moderate and
Honest. Only depend-
able merchandise.
Your Money Back any
time for the asking.
FAUBLE’S.
Allegheny St. + BELLEFONTE, PA.
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FINE GROCERIES
LL GOODS in our line are thirty to sixty days late this sea-
A son. Prices are somewhat, but not strongly above the lev-
el at this time last season. It is not safe to predict, but it
does seem that prices are just now “passing over the top” and may
be somewhat more reasonable in the near future.
We Have Received
New Evaporated Apricots at 25c and 30c a lb. Fancy Peaches 20c
and 22¢ Ib. Very Fancy Evaporated Corn at 35c a lb. or 3 cans for
$1.00. Fancy Selected Sweet Potatoes 5c a lb.—some grades at 3c
to 4c a Ib. Very Fancy Cranberries at 18c per quart or pound.
Almerin White Grapes, Celery, New Paper-shell Almonds, California
Walnuts, Finest Quality Cheese.
INCLUDE OYSTERS IN YOUR ORDERS
We will deliver fresh opened, solid measure at cost with other
goods.
WE MAKE OUR OWN MINCE MEAT.
No item is cut our or cut short on account of cost—it is just THE
BEST WE CAN MAKE and is highly recommended by all those
who have tried it. If you have used it you already know—or try it
just now.
SECHLER & COMPANY,
Bush House Block, - 57-1 - - - Bellefonte, Pa.
Insure the
Happiness of
Your Little Ones!
Any parent charged with neglect of his children naturally will be-
come indignant. Still there are some parents who, through carelessness,
neglect to provide for their welfare.
The little ones must be protected. There is no better protection than
a bank account.
If You Haven't an Account Open One Today
For the Children’s Sake
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60-4 BELLEFONTE