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Bellefonte, Pa., July 18, 1919.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
No man can justly condemn or censure
another, because, indeed, no man truly
knows another.—Sir Thomas Browne.
Large quantities of food spoil each
year because of imperfect sealing of
cans. The cause of foods spoiling is
due to the action of micro-organisms.
Micro-organisms are bacteria, yeasts
and molds. Yeast and mold, to be
sure, do not play a very important
part in the decomposition of canned
goods, because they are easily de-
stroyed by sterilization at 150 to 165
degrees, a temperature which is con-
siderably below the boiling point (212
degrees F). The molds which are oc-
casionally found on canned goods,
particularly on fruit, are due to in-
complete sealing of the jars, which
permits air and mold spores to gain
entrance to the contents.
Bacteria are the cause of most cas-
es of spoiled food. These organisms
are so minute that their average size
is only one twenty-five thousandth of
an inch. They exist throughout the
realm of nature and are found in
great numbers upon the surface of
fruits and vegetables. Some forms
of bacteria are killed at 212 degrees
F, or even below, but other forms are
resistant to heat because of certain
spores which they form that have the
power to carry them over unfavorable
conditions. By heating to 212 de-
grees F, for five minutes, however,
about ninety-nine per cent. of all bac-
teria are destroyed. After a contin-
uous heating at 212 degrees, for three
hours, only 0.03 per cent. will survive.
Even so small a per centage will
cause canned food to spoil. Especial
care on this point is advised by The
Pennsylvania State College depart-
ment of bacteriology.
Small necked bottles or carafes may
be cleaned by filling them half full of
hot water in which a tablespoonful
each of borax and soda have been
dissolved. Then add as much shred-
ded newspaper as the bottle will hold.
Tave care that the newspaper is fine-
ly shredded, else it will be difficult {o
remove. Let the bottle stand over
night and in the morning shake vigor-
ously and wash with hot soap suds.
After rinsing all sediment and stain
will have disappeared.
Speaking of blouses, there are the
most delectable sweaters in filet cro-
chet that one wears over blouses of
organdie, georgette, crepe de chine or
any sheer material. These sweaters
are not so much for warmth but rath-
er they add a decorative note. Some
models are sleeveless, square necked
and belted, while others are slightly
more elaborate, with a collar and a
sash. Black is a popular color for
these sweaters.
day. Chemise tops, designs for cami-
soles, nightgown yokes in filet, they
all are extremely popular. y
so many designs to be got, butterfly,
daffodil, rose, etec., all of them pretty. |
People are either buying the inser-
tion or edge or else they are making |
them for themselves.
The men of the household usually !
have some shirts that are worn at the
collar. If the collar is cut out, a
round or “V” neck formed, a new col- |
lar made from the excess material at |
the bottom of the shirt, the cuffs cut |!
off and the material hemmed at the
elbow—the result will be a working
waist for the economical housewife.
A pocket may be added if desired.
A Seasonable Guest Porch.—Enter-
taining one’s guests in a bungalow of
but three or four rooms need not be
such a problem as unthinking ones
might imagine.
A screened porch,
“blinds,” is the one
where every inch of
utilized for the visitor’s comfort. If
the porch is just even as large as the
usual porch it can be divided at night
into two sleeping compartments by a
drop curtain of canvas weighted down
with canvas
by a sufficiently heavy pole inclosed |
Filet crochet is certainly having its |
valuable asset
space must be |
HT
i sufficient ventilation without the need
of the front windows, which will have
| to be sacrificed on account of the
i guest porch at night.
i A small electric light in fancy
| brackets on each side of the door to
| the bungalow is attractive and useful.
Fate of the I Red Fox.
It was bitter cold, and had been for
several months. The coats of the an-
imals were made thick and fine and
lustrous by the weather and their own
abounding health. The red fox stood
—a beautiful figure—on the spotless
snow. Frost particles and diamonds
of snow sparkled on his coat, the red
of which tempered to yellow and
white on throat and lower neck, and
the tip of the thick brushy tail, and to
brown and black in legs and feet. He
was looking for silly, snow-hidden
partridges or rabbits, but was not
averse to picking up other food. That
was why he paused to investigate a
frozen lump that he found by the
bank on the river. It was meat and
he bolted it whole and proceeded on
his way. He had gone perhaps a mile
in the woods when the warmth of his
body had thawed the morsel and
loosened the juices contained in it.
Suddenly a twinge and a cramp stop-
ped him, and he lay down and died
with his toes turned up, strychnine,
buried in the meat by a trapper, hav-
ing completed its deadly work.—Our
Dumb Animals.
France Dazed by Losses.
Paris.—The total of the losses of
the various belligerents during the
world war, made public by Deputy
Louis Martin, had a staggering effect
upon French public opinion. France
in four and one-half years of war lost
one man in every 26 inhabitants;
Great Britain, exclusive of dominions,
lost one in every 66 of population; It-
aly, one in every nine inhabitants.
Germany’s losses work out as one
man in every 35 inhabitants; Austria-
Hungary, one in every 50; Russia, one
in every ten inhabitants.
These figures have been drawn up
according to the most recent census,
which in the case of France was 1910,
since the population has decreased, as
shown by official statistics.
But Where’s The Kick.
From Kipling—*“Go thither softly
treading on the tips of your toes and
ask him for a ‘button punch.” * * *
No man but one knows what is in it.
I have a theory it is compounded of
the shavings of cherubs’ wings, the
glory of a tropical dawn, the red
clouds of sunset and fragments of
lost epics by dead masters.”
Her First Thought.
Hub (with letter)—What do vou
think? Uuncle Jim has left us a mil-
lion dollars.
Wife—Splendid! Now we can take
ice all summer.
There are |
Even Beginners
Success by Fol-
lowing its Sug-
gestions
in the bottom of the curtain—like the |
stage “drop.”
The outer curtains, or canvas drops,
around sides and front can be lowered
any distance desired, according to the
coolness of the night; or, if it rains it
can be lowered to .the floor; these
should be arranged at the sides so as
|
to be easily attached to the centre !
curtain in any emergency. An out-
side awning will deflect the summer
shower, so that the guests beyond the
canvas walls will be thoroughly snug |
and comfortable.
This “guest porch”
furnished that, though
there is nothing in evidence suggest-
should be so |
in daytime!
ing the bedroom, it can be changed |
after nightfall, in the twinkling of an |
eye, to an altogether desirable guest
chamber.
With this arrangement no great ex- |
penditure, for day beds and the like, |
is necessary. A couch, such as many
a home has, for the unexpected guest |
—or extra visitor—might be used.
One for each end of the porch. Ta-
pistried or chintz covers conceal the
blankets and bed linen folded away
beneath. s
t I'our brown wicker chairs |
and right in the centre of the porch |
two mahogany or rosewood wall ta- |
bles
joined together, making an at-
trac
ve round table.
many little dra
let accessories for the night.
appearance. A few books, a maga-
zine or two, may be added.
At night the curtain which drops
between will separate the tables, giv-
ing one to each guest as a wall-table.
Vanish the books and flowers. Out
from the magic drawers appear comb,
brush, mirror and other toilet neces-
sities.
Two fibre rugs complete the fur-
nishing of these “bedrooms”—and, if
desired, a small chest, or matting
shirt-waist box, may be given each
guest. These are easily out of the
way in the daytime by pushing them
against the house. Brown cretonne
pillows will look well on these boxes.
A bungalow of only four rooms
will, of course, have all outside rooms,
and being thus arranged will have
These tables are
particularly desirable because of the!
rers so useful for toi- |
A vase!
of flowers and a pretty centre piece |
for this table will lend a more porchy |
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POPPIES SYMBOL OF
DEAD.
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place;—
Immortalized by the soldier-poet
himself buried in France, Flanders’
poppies already are symbols of Na-
tion’s hero dead of the world war,
says the National Geographic Society.
Now, the poppy is to receive a semi-
official recognition by being planted
in government parks of the nation’s
capital as perennial memorials to the
NATION'S
men who sleep under the crosses and |
poppies of Flanders.
To examine the poppy is not to vio-
late its new-found sentiment, for it
unfolds its glories upon closer study.
Moreover, it has a symbolism unex-
pected, because of the pure accident
of its association with America’s sac-
rifices of freedom.
The poppy is found in profusion in
France, but it is especially popular
in England, because it is the only
scarlet flower in the British flora, ex-
cept the scarlet pimpernel, even that
is more red than scarlet.
The poppy family has as many com-
plexions and habitats as the skins and
homes of the men whose graves it
decorates. To the brave Australian,
to the crusading Californian and to
the Asiatic employed behind the lines,
the poppies of France must have nod-
ded familiar heads in friendly wel-
come.
There are half a hundred or more
species of the poppy family. It is
likely the soldier-poet quoted above
had in mind the most prolific, one of
the most common, and what many
consider the most beautiful variety,
the corn poppy, (Papaver Rhoeas).
You will recall:
'Neath the blue of the sky, in the green of
the corn,
A hint of the reason why the poppy
survived the searing tramp of armed
hosts, and the churning of big gun fire
on the erstwhile grain fields of Flan-
ders is given in a farmer’s doggerel:
When the poppy ripens be sure the seeds
Will stick to garden as with weeds.
Nature provided the poppy with an
intricate and ingenious device of a
kind which makes the study of even
the simplest plant life a constant
marvel and delight. It is the village
rheumatic of the flower community—
equipped with a miniature ‘hydro-
scope. Long capsules contain the
seeds of the poppy. Atop each cap-
sule are valves, sensitive to moisture
of the air, which close when the at-
mosphere is humid. When the air is
dry the pores open to eject the seed
upon warm sunny soil. :
Nor is that all. It is no mere acci-
dent that the seeds are at the bottom,
and the pores at the top of the slen-
der capsule. When the wind blows
the stems sway over a wide area and
fling out the seeds for a far greater
distance than if they fell around the
root.
The poppy is thoroughly democrat-
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ic in its hospitality to flies, bees, bee-
tles and all other insects.
flowers. It has no honey but provides
pollen in plenty.
fertilized by the pollen “left overs” of
the insect feasts which they carry to
other flowers.
A characteristic of the corn poppy,
besides its brilliant scarlet coloring,
| is the large size of its two outer pet-
| als which hide the lesser pair until
the flower has opened. Poppies of
Flanders, be they corn poppies or othi-
er varieties, are not of the oriental
species from which opium is derived.
Travelers among country folk of
England will encounter various names
given to the poppy, such as “red cap,”
“red weed” and “fireflout.” The more
prosaic prefer “cheesebowl,” on ac-
count of the shape, and even ‘“head-
ache,” because of the odor of some va-
rieties.
But of all the poetic mention of the
poppy from that of Burns and Keats
down to Bridges and William Winter,
perhaps the most gloriqus and de-
scriptive is contained in the lines of
Francis Thompson:
Summer set lip to earth's bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy
there:
Like a yawn of fire from the grass it
came,
And the fanning wind puffed it to flapping
flame.
With burnt mouth red like a lion's it
drank
The blood of the sun as he slaughtered
sank,
And dipped its cup in the purpurate
shrine
When the eastern conduits ran with wine.
—Boston Globe.
Thinks He Will Fool Them.
The Village Reprobate—“Both the
doctor an’ the meenister have prophe-
sied that I wud fill a drunkard’s grave,
but I'll show them they're wrong.”
The Visitor—“How splendid of you
Donald. You've made up your mind
to be a teetotaler, eh?”
The Village Reprobate—*“Na, na,
I've made up my mind to be cremat-
ed.”
For Protection of Birds.
Twenty prizes of $10 each and for-
ty prizes of $5 each are offered for
evidence by which the Massachusetts
| Society for the Prevention of Cruelty
' to Animals shall convict persons vio-
lating the laws of Massachusetts by
| killing an insect-eating bird or tak-
ing eggs from its nest.
She—Didn’t you find life in the
trenches dreadful?
He—Not so very. You see I was
used to being in a hole before I went
across.
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them by its brilliant colors and offers |
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