“Bellefonte, Pa, March 26, 1920.
PLEASANT GAP.
Miss Helen Grenoble, who has been
employed in a Williamsport shoe fac-
tory for the past eight or nine months,
has returned home, presumably to
join the knitting mill aggregation.
Owing to the mild weather the snow
hereabouts has been eliminated with
little damage resulting. Our thrifty
gardeners are busily engaged in rig-
ging up their garden tools prepara-
tory to the advent of the gardening
season.
H. H. Hoy, who was an employe of
Whiterock for some years, left a year
ago to work on the T. E. Jodon farm.
Evidently tired of his agricultural
pursuit, he moved back to Pleasant
Gap the early part of this week, and
resumed work at Whiterock.
John T. Noll, who had been spend-
ing a week at Woodlawn, Beaver
county, returned home. He was in-
vestigating a business proposition
with a view of locating in the Beaver
valley permanently. The contemplat-
ed deal did not materialize, conse-
quently Jack and his good family will
in the future, as heretofore, rank
among our good neighbors. Jack evi-
dently came to the conclusion that a
sure thing at home beats an experi-
ment and uncertainty abroad.
Mrs. John Meyers, the proficient
caterer, has moved into the Pleasant
Gap hotel. The new landlady has en-
couraging prospects in her mew ven-
ture. Our new state road will begin
operations in the near future with an
enlarged force of operators. Some
fifteen or twenty boarders have al-
ready been booked, with more to fol-
low, and that with the transient pa-
tronage, will no doubt prove a profit-
able venture. The many friends of
Mrs. Meyers are predicting and wish-
ing her an abundant success.
What a blessing it would be to this
world if heaven should send some one
able to define woman’s sphere, and
clothed with the authority and power
to put her in it and keep her there. It
would be a relief to those restless,
dissatisfied females who think they
are out of their spheres, and go
areund giving everybody fits for not
helping them to find them. The prob-
abilities are they wouldn’t know it if
they got into it, or if instructed how
to find it they would make up their
minds that the instructions were pur-
posely designed to lead them astray,
and in keeping with the disposition of
our common mother, take a directly
opposite course.
Some of our young dudes are never
happier than when engaged in smok-
ing cigarettes. Were the cigarette to
confine its operations to the dude ele-
ment of society alone it might be tol-
erated, but instead of doing so it has
invaded our schools and colleges and
taken prisoner the flower of our land
and the hope of the nation. The boys
are wild and thoughtless and have an
idea that it is the proper thing to do,
and therefore do it, regardless of the
advice of their teachers and in the
face of horrible examples. Not only
are the boys addicted to the habit, but
the school girl takes a whiff on the
_ gly. She does it to drive the mosqui-
toes out of the room in summer and
to cure the toothache in the winter.
When she gets home she smokes be-
cause she is lonesome, and after she is
married, because she wants to and is
no afraid. It’s a filthy habit; promi-
nent physicians tell us that the cigar-
ette checks physical development, re-
tards growth, impairs the nervous
system, dulls the mind, and indirectly,
at least, leads to early decay and |
death. Boys back up. The cigarette
ought to go.
Lunger Rockerfeller Wion was at’
the Gap on, Tuesday last. A little dis-
cussion as to our need of a bigger na-
vy was in progress at Noll’s store.
The question of a war with England
was entered into. Lunger said in case
of a war between the United States
and England, our first move would be
an invasion of Canada, we would not
need a big navy for that, yet a navy
equal to England’s would not give us
control of the sea; we would have one
larger than England’s. And that
would lead us straight back to the old
British policy of a fleet equal to the
navies of any two other nations. That
was a policy of self-defense for the
British Empire, with its vast overseas
possessions. But it would be a fool-
ish policy for us. Moreover this na-
tion has stood for an international
agreement on the limitation of arma-
ments, and whatever form the League
of Nations may finally take one of its
purposes surely will be to reduce the
terrible burden of taxation which
armaments have produced in every
nation of Europe. It might be well
to go a little slow in building a navy
second to none. We want to be ade- |
quately prepared; we certainly want a |
strong fleet, but the long-suffering |
tax payers don’t want to see the mon- |
ey sunk in a policy of too much pre- |
paredness.
~The Gap is having an epidemic in |
the way of flirting; not only the |
young, but the older and married peo- |
ple are becoming enamored with the |
dangerous, innocent pastime. Our ad- |
vice is, go into society as much as you |
please, have all the fun you can, but |
beware of entangling alliances. An |
innocent flirtation often leads to ser-
ious complications, and at very best, |
is unprofitable. It will be readily im- |
agined that there is a great difference |
in the senses in which the husband
and wife regard it. He regards it as.
capital pastime, while she is quite
certain that it is a capital offense.
Married women ought to avoid flirt-
ing, even for fun. It is not the prop-
er thing to do. Other married women
are apt to talk about it, and the odor
of such tales never loses anything in
point of offensiveness. Many a fair
reputation has been clouded by these
tales when there was not the least
wrong-doing thought of. No doubt
many a true wife has encouraged a
masher to make a fool of himself, and
get laughed at for his lack of wit.
They mean no harm, and would not
think of allowing it to go beyond the
limits of a simple flirtation, yet it may
be quite harmful to them in the end.
The man who has no more sense than
to flirt openly with a married woman
has no more sense than to tell it, and
his associates and confidants are rare-
ly the kind who keep secrets. Married
people should not flirt. It is unneces-
sary to argue in favor of this propo-
sition, because every one knows it is
right. The conclusion then must be
that those who indulge in it knowing-
ly, do that which is wrong. From a
moral point of view, this is the worst
kind of wrong-doing, because its ten-
dency is to demoralize, and to dull the
sense of right. Flirting is quite as
popular now as it ever was; indeed,
there is more of it, or at least it is
done more openly. About the worst
thing a man expects to happen to him
for indulging in a game of this kind
is a drubbing, if caught at it, provid-
ing the aggrieved individual is able to
give it to him. The woman turns it
off adroitly by saying she was only
trying to see how big a fool the fel-
low would make of himself. Not in-
frequently this is true. There was a
time when flirting was considered an
offense worthy of death, for a married
man to flirt with the wife of another
man. There was no law on the stat-
utes to that effect, but if the flirting
husband was killed by the aggrieved |
husband, the latter was not held to be ,
a murderer, and frequently was allow- |
ed to go without even so much as be- |
ing arrested, or given a hearing. This
custom, if such it may be called, pre-
vailed in our southern States, especi-
ally in Virginia and the Carolinas, un-
til after the reconstruction. There
are occasional aggravated cases even
now, in which the defender of his
wife’s honor, or the reputation of his
family, is allowed to escape if he kill
the defamer. There may be a trial in
which a verdict of “not guilty,” and
the case is allowed to die on the dock-
et.
JACKSONVILLE.
Holy communion will be held in the
Reformed church on Sunday morning;
preparatory services having been held
| this week.
Miss Mary Stover and Miss Blanche
Orr were guests at the Harry Hoy
{ home on Sunday.
Everybody hereabouts surely ap-
preciates the change to spring-like
weather and the farmers are already |
hustling around to have everything in |
shape for ploughing. ;
A delightful social gathering was |
held at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wil- |
lard Weaver last Friday evening. |
Those present included James Decker, |
Ralph Vonada, Rhoda Yarnell, Alta |
Yarnell, Florence Yarnell, Hogan |
Long, Rhea Kling, Madge Allison, |
Miles Bartley, Austin Allison, Mary !
Stover, Elizabeth Vonada, Hewitt |
Confer, Clarence, Elnora and Mary
Weight, Walter Orr, Helen Eckenroth, | 55
Homer Yearick, Rosalia Yearick, Mer- |
vin Hoy, Viola Hoy, Deimer Ertley,
Hazel, Walter, Trienna and Reed
Deitz, Willard and Pearl Weaver, Mr.
and Mrs. Ephriam Deitz and Mr. and
Mrs. William Weaver.
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E areasking for adequate
rates. That the revenue
derived from the pre-war rates
now in effect does not measure
up to the high costs of 1920 is
very plain.
“But,” you ask, “how about those
important improvements and discover-
ies that have come about during the
last few years—‘automatic’ telephones,
circuits over which several long dis-
tance conversations may be held simul-
tancously, and so on? Aren't there
some short cuts you can make at this
time towards bringing about a fair bal-
ance of income and outgo?”
Unfortunately, no! For while we are
planning all of these things as rapidly as
possible, not for several years can they |
be placed in general widespread use.
Take “automatic” telephones as an
example. Building interiors must be
changed, entire central office equip-
ments must be replaced, likewise tele-
phone instruments—and altogether it
will take years of time and millions of
dollars.
We have already adopted every pres-
ent possibility for economy and effi-
ciency in the conduct
Today it is a question of securing
sufficient revenue to meet present costs.
That is all that is asked.
The Bell Telephone Company
of Pennsylvania
rt cuts
of the business.
What, would
Eastertide be
Without, New
Clothes?
ANY men find
Eastertide the
ideal time to get new
clothes.
And so we have pre-
pared accordingly
Fabrics never reflected
more originality; new
ideas in clothes de
signing will appeal with
particular force to the
man who appreciates
the niceties of detail.
The brand ?
HIGH-ART-CLOTHES
You will find none
finer
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Bellefonte Trust Company
Bellefonte, Pa.
Why You Should Make aWill
To protect your loved ones.
To safeguard your estate.
By making a Will you can appoint the Bellefonte Trust
Company as your Executor or Trustee.
You can thus assure to your heirs the business manage-
ment and financial responsibility which this institution affords.
Your wishes can be observed in the distribution of your
property, for if you do not leave a Will the law may divide up
your possessions in a way that you might not desire.
How Have You Made Your Will?
Do not write your own Will. ‘“Home-made’’ Wills are
dangerous and often cause law-suits, because, when drawing a
Will the law must be known, both as to wording and terms.
Consult a lawyer today about the making of your Will and have
him name the Bellefonte Trust Company to act as your Execu-
tor and Trustee.
J. L. Spangler,
65-3-tf President
C. T. Gerberich,
Vice President
N. E. Robb,
Treasurer
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