a
“Bellefonte, Pa., September 3, 1920.
ms
A SERMON ON CORNS.
Contributed: by the “Watchman” Cor-
respondent at Pleasant Gap.
Owing to the unsettled weather con-
ditions out our way a week or two
ago I concluded to go to Bellefonte
via the bus route to see what there
was of interest. Getting out of the
bus in front of the court house I
walked over to the Bellefonte Trust
company corner and my attention
was attracted to a rather prepossess-
ing lady walking along Allegheny
street in the direction of Bishop street.
Two gentlemen stood on the bank
corner and I could not help but over-
hear their conversation, which ran
about as follows:
“See that lady just in front of us,”
remarked one of the gentlemen.
“Yes, I have been noticing her ever
since she passed us. There is some
thing about her step and bearing that
is rarely seen these days. Do you
know what it is?”
“Can’t you see why she steps so
gracefully ?”
finest specimens. The shoe should be
Sa
the exact shape of the foot. Owing
to the great difference in the shape of
feet it is impossible for everybody to
wear the same style of shoe. The
majority of shoe manufacturers make
shoes to fit the last instead of the
foot, and corns are the result. Corns
have to be raised; they will not come
voluntarily. And when they do
come they must be cultivated or they
will go away. They do not bow to any
exterminator so long as the cause
of their coming is not removed, and
they grow just as healthy in winter as
in autumn, but are just a little more
partial to wet weather than they are
to dry.
Once Was Enough.
“Robert,” said the manager to the
office boy, “how itis that you are al-
ways the last to arrive in the morn-
ing and the first to go away in the
evening 7”
“Well, sir,” responded the cheeky
youth, “you wouldn’t want me to be |
»
ate twice a day would you?’
Transcript.
The Volunteer.
The volunteer is always appreciated:
and never more so than in the business
world. The worker who dispatches
his own work and then a little more,
who does what he is told, and then
looks out for chances to be of service
to which his attention has not been at-
tracted, is always at a premium with
employers. Your salary does not de-
pend on your familiarizing yourself
with the details of the business out-
side your own especial work, nor on
your lending a hand wherever you see
a chance to make yourself useful, but
though your salary does not depend
upon it, your promotion may. The
worker who is continually volunteer-
ing for services not required is the
one who goes ahead.
—Boston |
No Wonder.
The old man was applying at the
eye hospital for some spectacles and
the doctor was making a test of his
eyes. ;
A card was fixed on the wall a little
distance away from where .the old
man was sitting and the doctor asked
him:
“Can you read that, my man?”
“No sir,” said the old man. “I
can’t.
The doctor told him to go nearer.
“Can you read that, my man a”
Again the old man replied, “No,
gir”
The doctor angrily pulled him for-
ward till his nose almost touched the
placard.
“Now, can you read that?”
“No sir,” said the old man, sadly
‘shaking his head. “You see I never
learnt to read!”—London Answers.
— Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
“No, I give it up; yet I suppose she |
is naturally graceful and has studied |
anatomy and gymnastics.” |
“Just take a peep at her shoes as
she crosses the street.”
© “Oh, I see. Her heels are as broad
as her shoes and not more than an
inch high. It is no wonder she walks
as though she was on air. And it
shows her good sense, too. It has
been many a day since I saw a more
graceful stepper, and I'll wager that
she is ‘more admired by sensible men
than any French-heeled cripple on the |
street. If more of our ladies would |
wear shoes built on the common
sense plan it would be better for the |
race and less business for the corn |
doctors.”
It was a fact that the lady in ques-
tion attracted no little attention, and
of a very flattering character. Dur-
ing her short walk from the bank |
corner to Bishop street no less than a |
dozen persons were attracted by her |
graceful carriage and comfortable ap- |
pearance, and spoke of the fact. Those
who detected the reason commended |
her good sense.
But she was one among many, as
not one would-be fashionable young |
lady in a hundted has the courage to
go on the street with a pair of broad-
heeled, flexible-soled shoes. They pre-
fer to go crippling along like a boy
with a stone bruise, suffering agonies
at every step. Some ladies maintain |
they suffer no discomfort or inconven-
ience in wearing fashionable shoes. |
This may be true, but it is likely they |
never have experienced the greater |
convenience and comfort offered by
wearing common sense shoes. |
If young ladies could only realize
how much a comfortable shoe adds to
good looks and amiability they would !
certainly give this important item of |
wearing apparel more attention. !
What is more disagreeable, annoying .
and irritating than an angry corn, an
ingrown nail, a bunion or general ten- .
derness of the feet?
one of these spoil a good sermon, de-
stroy all the pleasures of an opera |
and make one as cross as a bear with
a sore head? What a relief it is,
after walking the streets in a pair of |
ill-fitting shoes, probably cussing your
corns under your breath, meantime, |
to reach home and get your aching |
feet in a pair of old, roomy, com-
fortable slippers, even if they are |
looking somewhat the worse for wear. !
Did you ever see an individual who |
could appear really and truly amiable |
while suffering with neuralgia or |
toothache? Of course not. No one
expects to, because it is contrary to
nature. The face is the mirror in
which the feelings are reflected,
whether pleasure or disappointment,
comfort or agony, joy or sorrow. Suf-
fering, whether mental or physical,
is always portrayed in the face, even
though the sufferer is unconscious of
it. Care may be taken to hide it with !
powder and paint, or chase it away
with a forced smile, but nothing can
eradicate it wholly. No individual
can be pleasant and agreeakbl: when
suffering pain.
.Are corns and bunions painful? If
50, the discomfort they cause must be !
reflected in the face, and in the dis-
position. You may strive to be bright
and happy but you can’t keep the
cloud from settling on your brow. |
You can’t keep your mind from won-
dering from the topic under discus- |
sion to your feet. One real lively |
corn will drive all the love and sweet-
ness out of the best hearted individ-
ual, shroud a sweet face with a sour
mask and turn an angel into a ter-
magant.
It has been said that a dyspeptic |
cannot be a christian because he is!
incapable of solemn reflection. If
this is so of the dyspeptic what will |
become of the man with corns and |
bunions? A painful corn is always |
regarded as sufficient excuse for in-
dulging in mild profanity. Even the
ladies are permitted to “darn a corn,
anyway,” when it would be the height !
of ill-breeding to “darn” anything |
else. Preachers have been heard to |
say that the tenor of their sermons
are sometimes so changed by the little |
monitors on their toes that instead of |
dwelling upon the heavenly life of the |
saved they preach hell fire to the un-
washed.
When you come to think of it there !
is no end to the mischief that may be |
wrought by a little corn. It encour- |
ages profanity; it robs a fair face of |
its beauty; it sours sweet tempers; |
destroys domestic bliss; mars the |
beauty of the opera; makes church |
going undesirable; interferes with cu- |
pid’s pranks; changes the tenor of ser- |
mons; supports street railway mo- |
nopolies; sours the disposition of |
teachers, makes walking a painful ex- |
ercise; fills the community with growl-
ers; develops bachelors; increases the
list of old maids; darkens the fire-
side; lessens the interest in a poker
game, renders life a burden, and all |
the cantankerous meannesses that a |
man can think of.
Why do people have corns? Be-
cause they wear ill-fitting shoes, not
necessarily tight shoes. They are
caused by the rubbing of the leather
against the foot. This produces the
How offen.dowed
[AVAVAB AV AVAVAL!
iil | | |
1 LH
EAR Eh |
ve: led
the bacl:-drop part
The New IZlisim is re:
It has taken
up Signor Friscoe’s per-
formance and is RE
CREATING it alone
These two sketches are from
vaudeville circiits
stage and plays.
performance continues.
' BaUSENE
a i = |
0 i de [ l |
ds Lh \ \ J i
Srl 2A J
Tr
Then the curtains of if :
You can hear it
1n our
store
—the phonograph that is fea-
tured in Vaudeville’s strangest act
Perhaps you ve seen 1t—Signor
Friscoe’s “Magic” Xylophone
Act.
It’s the hit of vaudevilles
“*Big-Time.™
Signor Friscoe s ‘magic 1s an
Official Laboratory Model of
the New Edison. We have one
exactly like 1t.
Signor Friscoe’s instrument 1s
an exact duplicate of the ong
nal Official Laboratory Model.
which cost Mr Edison three
The NEW
mlhondollars to perfect.” Our
instrument 1s also an exact
duplicate of this famous three
million dollar original. We
ouarantee it to be able to give
the same marvelous RE:
Creations of music, which
Signor Friscoe’s Official Labor-
atory Model gives in vaudeville.
Come 1n and test the astonish-
ing realism of this instrument
tor yourself —in Mr. Edison’s
Realism Test.
EDISON
“The Phonograph with a Soul’’
Y ou’ve read how the New Edison has proved
its perfect realism. Four thousand tests have
been given, in which more than 50 different
artists compared their art with its Ri.
Creation by the New Edison Leading
newspapers conceded that there was no dit
ference between the two.
Has any one ‘suggested to you that these
comparison tests are ‘faked ’’ — that the
artist imitates the New Edison ?
Signor Priscoe’s performance makes such an
assertion positively ridiculous. Every week,
20,000 people see his hammers ripple over
the xylophone keys. Suddenly lie holds them
aloft—still.
The rippling music continues
Slowly, the gorgeous curtains of the back-
drop part. The audience gasps. The New
Edison stands revealed. It has taken up
Signor Friscoe’s performance, and is now
Re-Crearine it alone. The effect of this
extraordinary magic can rest upon only one
fact: No one can distinguish any difference
between Signor Friscoe’s performance and
its Re-CreaTion by the New Edison. Signor
Friscoe could not possibly imitate the New
Edison. beciuse the xylophone can not be
mal: ro linitate any other instrument, so as
to deceive its hearers.
Signor Friscoe’s act is not an Edison enter-
prise. He has simply been clever enough
to use the New Edison for what it is worth.
Why don’t you?
PRICES
The price of the New Edison has increased
less than 15% since 1914 This includes
the War Tax
Mi I lLison has staved off price advances
by personally absorbing more than half of
the increased cost of manufacture.
Because of the exceptionally high quality
of materials and workmanship demanded
by the Edison Laboratories, and the con-
tinued scarcity of both, it may be necessary
to advance prices. But rest assured that
this will not occur, unless Mr. Edison is
forced to it.
Our Budget Plan—the thrift way of spend-
ing—will help you buy now. Let us tell
you about it
GHEEN’S MUSIC STORE,
Brockerhoff House Block,
BELLEFONTE, PA.
TR IR rs what Bo rr RS
photographs of Signor Friscoe’s
amazing act, now being billed
over the Keith and Affiliated
Signor Friscoe comes onto the
Suddenl
he
stops playing. His rior
|
|
IEELEUELELEL EEL EEL EELS UELIEL
Bellefonte Trust Company
It is the duty of parents to dress
their boys well. It reflects credit upon
the mother and father as well as upon
the boys.
Boys : — Promise to study your les-
sons better if your parents will give you
some nice new clothes to wear to
school.
CE CE ERE EAS CE SEE ER
Shl=n=2nanznan=2n2n2n2n=na
Come in and pick out the clothes
you want, then bring your parents in to
buy them for you.
Wear our good, ‘Nifty’ clothes.
A. FAUBLE
Bellefonte, Pa.
r=ani=2nl
58-4
AE Te TS en
Mie NM NSU US MU Ue Ue Ne UL
Bellefonte, Pa.
Why You Should Make aWill
Company as your Executor or Trustee.
To protect your loved ones.
To safeguard your estate.
By making a Will you can appoint the Bellefonte Trust
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,
C. T. Gerberich,
Vice President
N. E. Robb,
Treasurer
J. L. Spangler,
President
65-3-tf
Studebaker
SPECIAL SIX
SERIES 20
Satisfying Performance Economy of Operation
Power Durability True Value
BIG SBIX....cocnvessssccascasssscce $2250.00
SPECIAL SIX.....octercetsessnsse 1785.00
LIGHT SIX.....ocooc0ncc0e00s ... 1435.00
Cord Tires on all Models—Prices f. o. b. Factory—Subject to Change
BEEZER’S GARAGE
North Water St. 4.4 BELLEFONTE
ATU UTADA AAA AAAS APSA PSPSPS APPPPPS
A