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“Bellefonte, Pa., September 26, 1919.
BE CAREFUL OF YOUR COM- |
PANY.
A little song rings in my ear
And haunts me all day long,
And this—whichever way it runs—
The keynote of my song:
“Be careful of your company.”
The little song runs ever.
“The down once
peach
Returns again, ah, never.”
All boys have wondrous golden dreams,
The future's filled with bliss.
Dreams may come -true; but don’t forget
It all depends on this:
“Be careful of your company,
Tis youthful days that mold you,
The chains you play with when a boy
In manhood will enfold you.”
So, when you dream, as youth will dream,
And form some wondrous plan,
Remember this, dear, that the boy
Is father to the man.
Be careful of your company,
Sin’s chains are hard to sever;
The down once brushed from off
peach
Returns again—alh. never!
the
—Selected.
CORN OIL SUPPLANTING HIGH- |
PRICED OLIVE OILS.
High Burning Point Makes It Super- :
tor for all Cooking Purposes.
America has made another import- |
ant discovery. This time it has to do
with an essential article of food—the |
lack of which, during the war, was
found to work a greater hardship up- |
on a population than the deprivation |!
of any other variety of food form.
This nutritive substance is fat. The |
particular fat which has been evolved |
by the American food experts into an |
indispensable article of food is the
oil derived from the germ of corn.
It has been found that this oil is
unusually rich in lecithin, considered !
by many physiologists as one of the
most important tonics, restoratives,
and tissue builders known to science.
Lecithin is a dominant element in |
the fat that goes to make up brain
nerve cells, and has a very decided
effect in increasing nutrition. Corn
oil is digested and assimilated more
readily than almost any other variety
of fat—either animal or vegetable.
In addition, however, corn oil has |
valuable culinary uses, particularly
because of the fact that the burning !
is so much higher !
than that of other oils or animal fats. |
point of this oil
Corn oil stands a temperature of six
hundred and fifty degrees before it
burns; whereas butter, for instance,
burns at two hundred and fifty de-
grees, goose grease at four hundred,
lard at four hundred and twenty-five, :
cotton seed at five hundred and thir- |
ty-five, and olive oil at six hundred
degrees.
It is the low burning property of
animal fats that makes frying with
these fats such a nuisance around
meal time in most kitchens.
oline, coal, wood, or electricity aver-
ages about two thousand degrees.
The higher burning point of corn!
oil, on the contrary, lends itself ad- |
mirably to modern cooking methods,
as it makes
food quickly, and at a higher temper-
ature, without, at the
burning and searing the food.
Meat, fish, or odoriferous vegeta- |
bles, cooked in corn oil, are quickly
sealed over on their surfaces. This
forces them to retain the flavors and |
odors otherwise lost during the pro- |
cess of cooking with quick-burning |
fats.
. So complete is this sealing effect |
that many families who employ corn
oil in cooking, fry meat or fish balls,
onions, and other food products, all in
the same pan—finishing up, not infre-
quently, by using this same oil for the !
baking of a delicately flavored cake |
or some form of pastry-—without car-
rying the slightest odor :of flavor
from one food te the other.
On the other hand. the “reverse
English” can be worked with corn oil,
for it also has a lower -congealing
point than other oils. This is a prop-
erty especially valuable in the prepa-
ration of salads, for eorn oil can be
subjected to a temperature of four-
teen degrees without congealing,
whereas olive oil, for instance,
comes cloudy and stiff at a tempera-
ture of thirty-two degrees. And the
cost is somewhat less than half the
cost of good olive oil.
Thousands of French and Italian
families in America are employing
corn oil in salads, in preference to ol-
ive oil. Not only for its low congeal-
ing properties, but also for the rea-
son that corn oil is free from the ran-
cidity so frequently found in olive oil.
This purity of corn oil and its free-
dom from rancidity is due to the
careful and thorough method of its
preparation. For, instead of being
pressed “cold,” as is olive oil, corn
oil is purified by filtering and steam-
ing. The water, protein and glycer-
»ine elements are removed, and the oil
is thoroughly sterilized. Any disease
germs that may have gotten into the
oil are killed, and the ferments which
later on might cause rancidity, are de-
stroyed, so that, with proper care, corn
oil will keep sweet and pure for an in-
definite period.
The oil content in corn averages
about five per cent. of the grain. So
that from a three billion bushel crop
of corn, there is a“potential prospect
of four hundred million gallons of
corn oil. Which insures a compara-
tively inexpensive article of diet for
American consumption.
Corn oil is a clear, limpid, pale, yel-
low fluid, free from odor, and with an
agreeable, sweet flavor. It possesses
qualities of palateability that do not
have to be acquired.
It has been found that corn oil is
a great improvement over butter in
the making of cakes, cookies and pud-
dings; while it is superior to lard as
a shortener for biscuits, pie crust,
bread and crackers.
In fact, the great pie, bread and
cracker manufacturers have found
corn oil much more satisfactory and
economical than any other form of
shortening. In the preparation of
cheese straws, muffins, bran gems,
and other delicacies, it has given bet-
brushed from off the |
For the |
degree of heat generated by gas, gas- |
it possible to cook the |
same time,
be- |
; ter results than anything heretofore
| used.
For deep frying of doughnuts, |
{ mush, fritters, meat balls, fish, cro-
| quettes, rissoles, and other appetite-
| stirring edibles, where a nice brown
sired, corn oil has
{ unique value.
"| erust is a consummation devoutly de-
proved itself of
Housewives who have poured two
| or three tablespoonfuls of this oil over
| a roast of beef or lamb, or veal, find
| that it checks the seeping out of the |
1 meat substances, and causes the meat
| to cook in its own rich juices.
| roast, and increases measurably the
| meat flavor. It also facilitates the
{ thorough cooking of the roast,
i oe This | Marshall in Thrift. But often you will
and |
| prevents the outside from being burnt .
linto a disagreeable-tasting and indi- | what's the use? It costs you just so
| As a dressing in the form of a may- much to live anyway, and keeping ac-
| gestible cinder.
| onnaise or French dressing for cold :
| boiled vegetables,
i beets, turnips, Tifl
and other vegetables, corn oil is all
desire.
In fact, it is not going too far to
state that corn oil will, within the
next decade or two, do more to re-
a healthy organ, than any one discov-
ery of modern times.—By Edwin F.
Bowers, M. D.
PUNCTUATION.
An amazingly large number of peo-
ple seem to know nothing of—or at
such as cabbage, |
potatoes, cauliflower, |
that the most critical epicure could !
KEEP A HOUSEHOLD BUDGET
Bractically Impossible to Run Home
Without Employment of Good
Business Methods.
It must be admitted that business
system is desirable in the home, for
the very good and simple reason that,
manifestly you cannot carry on suc-
cessfully any kind of business without
more or less bookkeeping, writes Carl
hear some easy-going housekeeper say:
“That's too much trouble; I have
enough other things to do without
bothering with accounts. Besides,
counts won’t make the amount any
jess.”
Lazy or inefficient folk are seldom at
a loss for self-justification of this sort.
Some of us can remember the old-
| fashioned country storekeeper who
used to spend most of his time sitting
© on a box whittling or gossiping with
make the well known and justly cel-
ebrated American stomach over into |
| least to care nothing for-—the art of
| punctuation.
| it is no easy matter to read them
understandingly.
and sometimes of social
defect. Omitted or misplaced com-
mas are known to have caused heavy
financial losses and to have bred
| quarrels with most unpleasant conse-
quences.
And, obviously, it is in any case un-
wise so to handicap a letter with im-
perfect punctuations that its receiver
can hardly grasp its meaning. This
- will not make him the better disposed
toward you, and the outcome from
either a business or a social point of
view may be not at all to your liking.
To be sure, it is not only in letter
writing that punctuation of an atro-
cious sort is nowadays found. Even
in books intended to be of cultural
{ and educational value the punctua-
| tion is frequently so faulty as to ren-
{ der their authors’ statements almost
| unintelligible.
Thus, a treatise in popular psychol-
almost incredibly stupid punctuation,
such as the following:
| sive discussion of the psychological
aspects involved, however, it appears
essential to note two general posi-
tions which color occupies = with re-
spect to consciousness.”
thor virtually challenges his readers
'to a guessing contest. ‘And since
most readers will refuse to take the
trouble to guess he will consequently
Every mail is burdened |
with letters so badly punctuated that |
In the case of business letters— |
letters also
—this may be an almost calamitous :
ogy contains numerous instances of
“Space will not permit an exten- |
With punctuation like this an au-
' defeat his purpose of imvarting use- .
{ful information. For his book will
soon be cast aside.
Yet how simple the change in
punctuation needed to ‘make the
' above passage perfectly clear. Thus:
“Space will not allow an extensive
discussion of the psychological as-
pects involved. However, it appears
essential to note two general posi-
tions which color occupies with re-
spect to consciousness.”
i to a period—makes all the difference
- first.
the loafers when he sheuld have been
studying his business. This cheerful
soul held the same views as the slack
housekeeper.
But we do not see much more of
this old-fashioned, happy-go-lucky
country merchant. He has long ago
been put out of business by his enter-
prising competitor who learned the
value of good bookkeeping.
The answer to those who would
shirk home account-keeping is simply
this: You cannot plan your affairs with
any certainty unless you know about
them, and you cannot know about them
unless you keep records of them.
HIGHEST HONORS PAID POET
Men of Every Walk in Life in Proces-
sion That Followed Robert
Burns to Grave.
Robert Burns died at Dumfries,
Thursday, July 21, 1796, at the age of
37. Sunday evening, July 24, the body
was carried to the Trades’ hall, in
the High street, and from there, on
Monday, July 25, it was borne to the
churchyard of St. Michael’s. The poet
was buried with military honors. Sol-
diers lined the streets and a firing
party, with arms reversed, marched
The coffin was carried on the
shoulders of the poet’s brother volun-
teers. To the music of the “Dead
March in Saul,” the long procession
walked down the High street of Dum-
fries- and along St. Michael street to
the churchyard. The soldiers who took
part - in the funeral were the Gentle-
men Volunteers of Dumfries, to which
the poet belonged; the Fencible in-
fantry of Angusshire and the regi-
ment of cavalry of the Cinque Ports.
The two latter bodies were at that
time quartered in Dumfries, and of-
fered their assistance. Among the
junior officers of the Cinque Ports
regiment was the Hon. Robert Bank
Jenkinson, afterwards the second earl
of Liverpool and prime minister of
Great Britain from 1812 to 1827. The
principal inhabitants of Dumfries and
the surrounding countryside walked in
the procession and a vast concourse of
. people witnessed the funeral.
One little change—from a comma |
between verbal muddiness and verbal |
! clearness. And this is the chief busi-
ness of punctuation—to increase !
clearness.
Take heed, then, in your daily let-
ter writing, business or social.
If aware that you are weak in
punctuation make a study of its first
principles. Procure some handbook
on the subject—there are several
you need.
- Reread your letters from the re-
| ceivers point of view. Beware es-
‘ pecially of long, involved sentences
that ramble on without comma’ or
period, until their thought is jumbled
with that of the succeeding sentence.
Thereby a mental problem may be
created as knotty as a tangled ball of
twine.
Knowing perfectly well what vou
intend to say, train yourself to punec-
tuate in such fashion that the receiv-
ers of the letter will be equally aware
of your meaning. Remember that he
is no mind reader, and that without
periods, commas, semi-colons and
colons in their proper place he will be
liable, indeed, to misconstrue you.
to the “Watchman” office.
Some Old-Time Beverages.
The Historical Society of Pennsyl-
vania early in its career translated
into English an account by the
Swedish traveler Israel Acrelius of
the different sorts of strong drink
that were popular hereabouts:
“Mamm” was made of water, sugar
and rum, and was the chief stock-in-
trade of many a tavern keeper.
“Manathan” was rum, sugar and beer.
“Lillibub,, was made of milk, wine
and sugar. “Tiff” was beer, rum and
sugar poured on buttered toast.
“Samson” lived up to the name—a
mixture of cider and rum. The in-
gredients of “sangaree” were wine,
water, sugar and nutmeg. When
brandy and sugar were added to ci-
der it became “cider royal.” “Raw
dram” was the title for straight rum.
Tea, coffee and chocolate were pop-
ular. “Small beer” came from mo-
lasses and “table beer” was brewed
from persimmons, pounded up with
the seeds mixed with wheat bran and
baked in an oven.
If among the innumerable bever-
ages of the time a man could find
nothing to quench his thirst, he must
have been hard to satisfy.
The Pilgrim Fathers were much
distressed because they were reduced
to drinking water when they came to
the new world. But Higginson, of
Salem, proudly told his contemporar-
ies “I can and oftentimes do drink
New England water very well.”—
Philadelphia Ledger.
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“The Faery Queen.”
As a work of art “The Faery
Queen” at once astonishes us by the
wonderful fertility and richness of
the writer's imagination, by the facil-
ity with which he finds or makes lan-
- guage for his needs, and above all, by
the singular music and sweetness of
his verse. The main theme seldom
varies; it is a noble knight, fighting,
overcoming, tempted, delivered; or a
beautiful lady plotted against, dis-
| tressed, rescued. The poet’s affluence
purchased ' from him,
of fancy and speech gives a new turn
and color to each adventure. But be
sides that, under these conditions
there’ must be monotony; the poet's
art, admirable as it is, gives room for
objections. There was loose-
ness and carelessness, partly belonging
to his age, partly his own. In the use
of materials, nothing comes amiss to
him. He had no scruples as a copy-
ist. He took without ceremony any
piece of old metal—word, stery or im-
age—which came to his hand, and
threw it into the melting pot of his im-
agination, to come out fused with his
own materials, often transformed, but
often unchanged. The effect was
sometimes happy, but not always so.
~—Church.
To Preserve China.
Many a lover of fine china has been
heartbroken to discover her choice din-
ner or tea set lined with hairlike
cracks. Hot tea or chocolate poured
into dainty cups cracks them instantly.
A Chinese merchant gave this bit of
information when a rare tea set was
“Before using
delicate china place it in a pan of
cold water. Let'it come gradually to
the boil and allow the china to remain
in the water till cold.” This tempers
the china, and it is capable of with-
standing the sudden expansion caused
by the heat. There is no need of re-
peating the treatment for a long time.”
Flower Show Old Institution.
The flower shows of English villages
have an ancient origin, though few
people may ever stop to give the mat-
ter a thought. The ancestry of the
floral fete reaches back to the days of
Ovid, the poet. As for when flower
shows were first held in England, it
cannot be certhinly known, but it is a
fact that if they did not actually in-
troduce them, the worsted manufac-
turers from Flanders, fleeing the
wrath of Philip and Alva, in 1567, gave
a fillip to the practice. T ese peo-
ple English gardens of Elizabeth's
time owed such favorites as the gilly-
flower and the carnation.
JAVA “LAND OF VOLCANOES”
Country Has From Earliest Times
Been Devastated by Turbulent
Forces of Nature.
Java, with a territory about equal to
New York state, has more volcanoes
than any area of like size, and yet
has more inhabitants than the states |
of New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Olio and Texas combined. A bulletin
ou. the National Geographic society finds
that estimates of the active and ex-
tinct craters range from 100 to 150.
“Everywhere in Java, in the huge
crater lakes, in fissures that now are
river beds, even in ancient temples.
half-finished when interrupted by some
fiery convulsion, are evidences of cata-
clysmie forces—such turbulent forces
as now are in continuous hysteria in
the valley of the Ten Thousand
Smokes in Alaska and break their
crusted surface cage intermittently in
Jaca.” The late eruption of the Kiot
(or Kalut) volcano cost the lives of
40,000 natives, destroyed 20,000 acres
of crops by the flow of hot mud, and did
millions of dollars’ damage outside by
the falling ashes. This devastation.
however, was mild compared with the
violent upheaval of 1883, when Mother
Nature planted a Gargantuan infernal
machine on the Java doorstep at Kra-
kaoa. The terrific detonation was
heard in Australia. as far away as Hi
Paso is from New York, much of the
island was blown into the air four
times as high as the highest mountain,
and the hole left nnder water where
most of the island had been is so deep
that a plumb line to touch bottom must
be twice the length of the Washington
monument. The isolation lessened the
toll of lives, many of the 35.000 deaths
having been due to the tidal waves
that flooded distant shores.
FLAMINGO LONG A MYSTERY
To American Naturalist Belongs Honor
of Learning Habits of Really
Remarkable Bird.
Until comparatively few years ago
the habits of the flamingo, without
doubt the most remarkable of all liv-
Ing birds. were a tantalizing mystery
to naturalists. In 1904 the first photo-
graphs of nesting flamingoes were
secured by Dr. Frank M. Chapman of
the scientific staff of the American
‘museum. The group was constructed
from photographs and notes made
during his investigations,
specimens secured by him. Flamingoes
occur in the warmer parts of both
hemispheres.
—the most brightly colored of the
genus—ranges from the Bahamas and
southern Florida to Brazil and the
Galapagos. ;
For nests flamingoes erect curious
mounds of mud, from 8 to 13 inches
high, and measuring about 22 inches
in diameter at the hase and 14 inches
across the top. A depression, about
one inch deep, in the top of the nest.
holds the single egg. laid in May. Both
male and female incubate. When the
young are hatched they are covered
with a down like that of young ducks.
They develop their brilliant plumage
in their second year. For their first
three or four days they remain in the
nest, and are fed by the parents on
predigested food. At about three
weeks of age they enter upon their
adult diet of crustaceans.
What Became of Her?
Theodosia, the only daughter of
Aaron Burr, was a woman of superior
mental accomplishments and strong
affections. In her eighteenth year
she was married to Joseph Alston,
afterward gevernor of South Carolina.
She was a devoted and adored wife. |
The trial of her father for treason and
his virtual banishment not only de-
pressed her spirits
wrecked her already feeble constitu-
tion, yet his disgrace in no way les- | tyge toward it, not upon the task itself. |
When he re!
turned from Europe she resolved to .
sened her affection.
visit him in New York. Embarking
from South Carolina on the Patriot,
or. the thirteenth day of January, 1813, °
she was never heard of afterward.
The schooner may have fallen into
the hands of pirates; but as a heavy
gale was experienced for several days
soon after leaving Georgetown, the
probability is that the craft sunk.
Peculiar Animals.
The rabbit, or hyrax, which is found .
in Africa and Syria, is an interesting
and comparatively little-known ani-
mal. Although it has hoofs, the sole
of each foot is cup-shaped, so that
when it presses the edges of a hoof
against a smooth surface it can form
a vacuum under the hoof by raising '
the center. Thus, using its feet ds
suckers, it climbs trees with surpris-
ing facility. The large-eyed, lemur-
like creature called tarsier, a native
of the Malay islands and of the Phil- .
is equally interesting. Its |
toes end in suckers with which it can '
ippines,
elimb even the smooth stems of bam-
boo.—Youth’s Companion.
Would Be Worth Hearing.
Few dog stories would be so well |
worth hearing, if the dog could tell it, |
and that we hope still belongs, to
a family that lives on the upper Scioto
river, in Ohio. The family mqved to
the headwaters of Smoky Hill river,
in Kansas. They went by train to
Kansas City and the rest of the way
by wagon. After a year they moved
back again to their old home in Ohio,
but left Shep with a neighbor in Kan-
sas. Eight weeks later the dog, “as
thin as a rail” and somewhat footsore,
walked into the house on the Scioto.
He had traveled 800 miles.—Youth’s
Companion.
and from !
The American flamingo
but fearfully ' work or whether we find it a bore de- |
LOCALITY NOT WELL NAMED
Desert Island, Off Maine Coast, Has
Many Attractions for Naturalist
and Pleasure Secker.
Mount Desert island started its ca-
reer with the handicap of a name that
suggests a place of glaring, sun-baked
sands and rocks. Yet it has overcome
* this disadvantage to the extent of now
being put down as a national park.
Moreover, it occupies a coveted posi-
tion in Bar Harbor, one of the most
popular and fashionable summer re-
sorts of the Atlantic coast.
It was Champlain who named the
island. He was sailing along the
Maine coast when he sighted a patch
of land with a backbone ridge of ap-
parently treeless mountains. “Isle of
Desert Mountains,” Champlain called
it, and sailed away. Later it was vis-
ited by more curious explorers, and,
while the original name stuck, Mount
Desert island came to be known as a
delightfully wooded island, with pic
turesque mountain trails, shadowy
lakes and a remarkable variety of birds
and plants.
As these reports spread. Mt. Desert
acquired a population of nature
enthusiasts, artists. poets and a stead-
ily increasing representation from the |
world of fashionable society.
Bar Harbor, the best-known sum-
mer colony of Mt. Desert, lies on the
east coast of the island overlooking
© AMMOTH CAVE LONG FAMOUS
<1as Deen Acknowledged One of the
World’s Wonders, Practically
Since the Year 1809.
The most famous cavern in America
f= Mammoth cave, in Kentucky, writes
“Niksah” in the Chicago Daily News.
Mammoth cave was an old Indian ref-
nge, and the story of redskin adven-
tures is written plain in the skeletons,
tomahawks and reed torches that have
been found in the cavern depths.
‘i'hen, in 1809, a white man, a pioneer
hunter, followed a wounded bear into
the mouth of the great cave, and from
that time on Mammoth cave became
American estimation the eighth
wonder of the world.
Almost as soon as the white man
discovered the cavern he began to
make practical use of it. Long before
ih» era of Indian possession bats had
inhabited the cavern halls and in the
course of tine their skeletons had ac-
in
cumnlated on the flecor, especially
near the entrance. These skeletons,
eontaining nitrate, played an impor-
tant part in. the war of 1812, for
| nitrate. so needed for making expio-
| sives, was scarce in the colonies and
the Mammoth cave became the main
ree of supply.
When the country settled down to
= period of comfortible prosperity,
Mammoth cave became, even mniore
Frenchman's bay and the blue Atlan- |
tic. There are gorgeous villas and ex- |
pensively simple cottages in Bar Har-
bor, a country club, golf courses, !
beaches, and all the rest of the usual
summer resort cquipment,
and lakes of the island more inter-
esting than the artificial atmosphere of
the built-up resort. Birds from are-
tic regions as i
wn it is today, a great show place
+f America. The cave's history is told
i in the names of the various rooms and
+ eries. Jenny Lind and other artists
| v"ted the cave and sang or played
thie airs that had made them famous
x 3 in "Ole Bull's Concert Hall” or other
But most people ind the mountains | euiilh 810
eties from warmer latitudes find their |
way to the island,
and shore with gay flashes of color.
and brighten wood
Mt. Desert’s long standing as a bird
refuge, its scenic beauty aad its in-
teresting geologic
shows that its mountains and valleys
were cut out in an early glacial pe-
riod—all combined to make it desir-
able as a national reservation. The
idea was long considered, and at last,
in 1917, part of Mt. Desert was set
aside as a national playground and an
official bird refuge.
FINDING HAPPINESS IN WORK
i Matter Which Is Largely Dependent
on Attitude One Assumes Toward
i Necessary Labor.
Work is God's greatest blessing to
man. Until you have learned to look
upon your work, not as a curse, not as
drudgery, not as a treadmill which
you are compelled to turn laboriously
every day, you cannot be really happy,
you are missing the best that is in life,
remarks Forbes Magazine.
No honest work need be drudgery,
whether it be sweeping streets, mak-
ing collars or painting famous pic-
tures.
Art is nothing but doing a thing in
the best way it can be done.
Each one of us can be an artist at:
his or her work. All we need do is put
our whole heart, our whole enthusi-
asm, our whole souls, our whole talent
into doing it with the greatest care,
~ the greatest skill and the greatest effi-
. ciency we can command.
. Until we do this we can be neither
' successful nor contented, for Provi-
dence has ordained that, in order to be
happy, we must do the best and the
mest we aré capable of.
Loafers, whether rich or poor, do
not know true happiness, do not know
the sense of satisfaction which comes
, from work well done and done with a
will,
i Whether we find pleasure in our
pends entirely upon our mental atti-
Seven Wise Men of Greece.
By the expression, “The Seven Wise
Men of Greece,” is meant a number of
men among the Greeks of the sixth
century before Christ, distinguished
. for their practical sagacity and their
i wise maxims or principles “of life.
| Their names are variously given, but
|
these most generally admitted to the
honor are Solon, Chilo, Pittacus, Bias,
t Periander (in place of whom some
' give Epimenides), Cleobulus and
Thales. They were the authors of the
celebrated mottoes inscribed in later
days in the Delphian temple. These
mottoes, with the name of the author
of each, were: “Know Thyself,” by
| Solon; “Consider the end,” by Chilo;
{| “Know thy opportunity,” by Pittacus;
“Most men are bad,” by Bias; “Noth-
ing is impossible to industry,” by Pe-
- riander; “Avoid excess,” by €leobulus; . sudden inspiration to compare our
| and “Suretyship is the precursor of
ruin,” by Thales.
Lamb and Mutton.
The dividing line between lamb and
mutton is not based wholly upon age;
a well-bred and well-fed animal, 12 or
~ 18 months old, may still belong to the
. lamb class, while a yearling of rangy
mutton.
The ‘best grade of mutton consists
of fat, heavy meat. Light and flabby
meat is not very palatable. Lamb
rarely is an economical meat to serve.
The relative difference in food value
between lamb and mutton is the same
as Between veal and beef.
The meat should be of a deep red
color and firm to the touch; the fat,
creamy, white and solid. Mutton ab-
sorbs odors easily, so it must be kept
in a cool place under proper condi-
tions, ;
stock, which has been poorly fed, | doubly condemning when that toel is
as that of Shep, a collie that belonged, | Yields meat of an inferior grade of |
history—which
cavern corridors. In a room since
nied “Booth’s Amphitheater,” Edwin
Ilooth was inspired to declaim some
"of the lines of Hamlet before a small
well as countless vari- | ! : .
and select audience.
FIND UPAS TREE VALUABLE
Natives of Java Procure Ready-Made
Clothing From Its Branches,
With Little Effort.
One of the strangest myths is that
which concerns the “deadly upas tree”
of Java, whose poisonous exhalations
were formerly alleged to kill any man
or animal that ventured into its neighn-
. borhood.
. tion—rather
southern
Doubtless it had its origin in soma
traveler's tale, for the tree in ques-
widely distributed in
and southeastern Asia—has
no terrors for the natives of these
countries, who, on the contrary, find
it extremely useful.
It is the only kind of tree in the
world that produces ready-made cloth-
ine. The inner bark is a natural cloth,
oaly requiring the removal of the Soft
cellular stuff in order to render it avail-
able for use. A cylindrical section of
it from a small branch will furnish a
leg for a pair of trousers or an arm
fer a coat, while from a bigger branch
the body of the garment is obtained.
Copyright Acts.
The first act providing for the copy-
richt of books and other publications
ir the United States was passed 129
vears ago. The term of copyright was
then fixed at 14 years, with the priv-
flege of renewal for 14 years longer.
Irn 1811 the period was extended to
28 years and providing for a renewal
for 14 years. For nemiy a hundred
years after the passing of the first
copyright law the protection was ex-
tended only to citizens of the United
States. In England a similar injus-
tice was practiced upen Americans, al-
though the British government did
permit foreigners to take out a copy-
right, provided their work was first
published in England and the author
was at the time of publication any-
where within the British dominions.
International copyright conventions
now exist between nearly all nations.
‘The first copyright act in England was
passed in 1709, giving protection for
' 14 years and for the author's life if
‘ then living. In 1814 the English law
was amended by extending the period
to 28 years. .
Germ of ' Laughter.
Laughter, we are told by all author-
ities on the human emotions, springs
from a sense of satisfaction and su-
periority in the laugher over the
laughee, if we may coin the word for
the occasion. The Paris Rose Rouge
publishes a hitherto unprinted essay
- on laughter by Stendahl, in which the
following definition occurs:
“What is laughter? It is a succes-
sion of pulmonary spasms accompa-
. nied by a peculiar facial expression
which is so familiar that I need not
describe it and by a pleasurable sen-
sation around the chest.
“This physical state arises from a
own worth with someone else's and
resulting in a verdict favorable to our-
| selves.
|
'
Laughter thus arises from the
sudden recognition of our own su-
periority.”
Keep Mind Free From Rust.
A rusty tool of any sort is a poor
recommendation for the owner. It is
the master key of life. The weather
and the carelessness of others may
rust tools of steel. Only the indolenee
of the man himself can allow the mind
to get rusty. It’s a mark of senility
or premature mental weakness when
the mind’ that ought to be vigorous
shows signs of rust. No man of good
sense has a right to think he has
reached his limit of usefulness. Each
step upward should become the incen-
tive to a higher step. As higher ground
extends the vision so mental attain-
ment should extend the scope of a
man's influence.— Pennsylvania Grit.