“Bellefonte, Pa., November 26, 1920, NOVEL CURE FOR TOOTHACHE Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell Tells of Ex- perience With Patient Possessing Powerful Imagination. In medicine things sometimes hap- pen that professional men have diffi- ‘culty in explaining, according to Dr. Wilfred T. Grenfell, who in his auto- biography tells the following story: A big fisherman came aboard my ‘steamer one day and said that he had toothache. His jaw was swollen, his mouth was hard to open, and the of- fending molar was visible within; but when I produced the forceps he pro- tested loudly that he would not have it touched for worlds. . “Why, then, did you come to me?” I asked. “You are wasting my time.” “] wanted you to charm her, doc- tor,” he answered. “But, my dear friend, I do not know how to charm, and I don’t think it would do the slightest good. Doctors are not allewed to do such things.” He was evidently much put out, and had turned to go when 1 said, “If you really think it would do any good, come along. You'll have to pay 23 cents exactly as if you had it pulled out.” “Qladly, doctor. Please go ahead.” He sat on the rail while IT put one finger into his mouth, touched the molar and repeated the most mystic nonsense I could think of. “Abra- cadabra Tiddlywinkum Umslopoga,” and then jerked the finger out lest the patient close his ponderous jaws. The fisherman took a turn round the deck, pulled out the quarter and solemnly handed it to me, saying, “All the pain ts gone. Many thanks, doctor.” I found myself standing alone in amazement, twiddling a miserable shilling, and wondering how I came to make such a fool of myself-- Youth's Companion. i CORSET FIRST WORN BY MEN Garment Now Almost Exclusively Feminine Shown to Have Been Made for Norman King. The corset as such has not always zone by that name. First mention of the word is found in the household register of Eleanor, countess of Lelces- ter, May 24, 1265, and the person for whom the garment was made was Richard, king of the Normans. An other pair is mentioned at the same rime as intended for Richard’s son, dward, Which would seem to prove that corsets were originally used for men as well as tor women, Some, authorities claim that the word corset is from the French word sorps, the body, and serrer (to tighten, inclose or igcase).. This may have heen a corruption or diminutive form ‘of the single word “corps,” which was formerly written “cors,” or the name may have been taken from a rich ma- certal known as corse, which was at one time extensively used for its mak- ing. About the year 1600 the corset is referred to as “stays” in England. The word bodice was not infrequently ‘spelled bodies by old authors and was used to designate the garment now IZnown as the corset, 3 Beavers’ Remarkable Work A single colony of beaver are cap- able of construeting un dam 12 feet high and an quarter of a mile long. Such a dam was recently discovered hy a state game warden, in a secluded spot along Taylor's creek, Bayfield ‘county, Wis. The beaver house af the center of the dam, 16 feet high and 40 feet broad at the base, the sleeping apartment inside the house, was exceptionally spacious for a beaver home, being large enough for ‘a tall man to lie down at ful! length The floor was found to be covered with a dry substance and was as clean as n whistle. Large quantities of food were found stored for cold weather use. Nine beavers, the parents and their children, were found living com- fortably in the house. the result of their engineering feat. ‘ary bulletin of this church needs sub- | ALGAROBA WILD FOREST TREE Has Been Spread Over Barren Lands in Hawaii Without Any Effort of Artificial Planting. The mesquite tree, or algaroba, was originally introduced into Hawaii by Father Bachelot, and planted in the Catholic mission grounds, Honolulu, in 1828. The original tree attained a diameter of three feet three inches, and a height of 60 feet before it was topped in 1906 to make room for a new city block, The algaroba is the most valuable trec in Hawaii. The algaroba for- ests yield 30,000 cords of excellent | wood annually, in addition to $160,000 worth of honey and cnormous quan- tities of beans which furnish a valua- ble fattening food for stock at a time when the dry summer has exhausted the grass supply. The algaroba tree begins to bear pods when 6 years old, and when these pods are eaten by stock the small horny seeds are not crushed but rath- er prepared for quick germination by | the action of the digestive fluids. The spread of the tree without the expen- sive effort of planting by artificial methods over vast areas of barren lands of Hawaii has, therefore, heen due almost solely to stock, and has in this manner become a wild forest tree. The algaroba in Hawaii has a very shallow root system and is subject to windthrow in very heavy storms. HOLD CONVERSE IN JUNGLE Expert Asserts That All Wild Animals Have Method of Communication With Each Other. If the chimpanzees possess the most extensive ape vocabulary—and Garner, who knew the sound and meaning of about a hundred monkey words, said they do—baboons have the ecrudest. Dr. Ditmars says that those in the Bronx park collection express their emotions with a roaring bark, a faint chattering, and, when frightened, a wild scream. “But all animal life has some method of communication,” says Dr. Ditmars. “In some cases it isn’t vocal, but it satisfies the same need. “When a lion is lonesome he puts hic head close to the ground and roars. Possibly he knows the ground acts as a sounding board. With a different cadence this roar becomes a challenge, and other males take it up until the jungle reverberates with their din. “Another roar with a different in- | tensity is answered only by females. "The lioness will listen to fix the di- rection from which his roar comes and will move toward him. Then she will roar. and he will move, and finally they meet,”—Exchange. Tooth Puller’s Bad Reputation. “pro lie like a tooth puller” is in Le Roux de Liney’s “Book of French | Proverbs” (Paris 1859), quoted from | the “Dictionary of the French Acad- emy” (1833). The tooth puller in | those days was often a wandering | mountebank who drew a crowd by tell- ing Rabelaisian stories and indulging | in horseplay. He sold quack medi- | cines, and, of course, lied prodigiously. | Lannelongue’s explanation of the orl- gin is more amusing, though it is so | circumstantial that it breeds suspi- cion. Furthermore—and this is con- clusive—“to lie like a tooth drawer” | is in Philibert Joseph Le Roux’s “Die- | tionnaire Comique” (Amsterdam 1718) with this comment, “No one lies more outrageously than a tooth drawer, | who promises not to hurt, which is not possible.” And Le Roux quotes | Poissons’ one act play, “The Basque Poet” (1668), “But all of you le lke | like tooth pullers.” Flow of Language. A colored preacher, one of the men who are never at a loss for words, was commending to his congregation | one of the organs of the church, and this is how he did it: “The mission- seribers. It is young and unfinancial, but through the instrumentality of backbone and grit it will become an ideal. It was ushered into existence out of purely innocent contemplation of moral and religious good, which REAL TURK NOT MONEY MAD Recognizes There Are Higher Things in Life Than Practicing Buying and Selling. The real Turk, unlike the so-called mongrel Turk, does not have to im- press his: sense of superiority on oth- ers. And, clthough the latter is al- ways eager to do business with you, according to Mr. Herbert Gibbons in Asia, the real Turk is often quite in- different. Some real Anatolian Turks are mer- chants and sit in the bazaars. But they will not go out of their way to make a sale, and they really do not | care whether you buy or not. Often they ignore strangers; sometimes they rebuff them. When you meet with this type in the bazaars where all the Jews and Gentiles are hard after your money, it is like a dash of cold wa- ter in your face. Once in a little open shop I saw a rug that attracted me. [1 started to enter, but the crouched figure on the mat put out a long-fingered left hand, i grasped firmly my ankle, and removed my foot outside the threshold. I thought there must be some supersti- tion about which foot went first: so | I tried the other. The same left hand proved again its strength. All the while the merchant did not speak or look up. His right hand was string- ing beads, and he was smoking a nar- cile, He simply did not want to bother with me, and my shoe told him that I was a frangga (European). Later I got to know that old bird, and we laughed over stories together. But he never asked me to buy anything, and I did not want to risk his friend- ship by making a second try for the rug. There are more important things in life than buying and selling. “SQUEEZE” POPULAR IN CHINA What the Western World Calis “Graft” Is Practiced by All Classes in That Country. One trait firmly imbedded in the Chinese character which the foreign business man and the housewife both have to contend with is the weakness for “squeeze.” It is said by foreigners that the Chinese merchant, coolle, politician, fisherman, chauffeur and beggar would rather make $1 by “squeeze” than $10 by the same amount of brain work or manual la- bor. Squeeze is Chinese for graft. It is a word in that international Far East- ern tongue known as pidgin-English. But squeeze is something more than graft. Its political phase might be termed graft, and that form of squeeze is what makes the military governors : of the provinces and the politicians of Peking and Canton so fat. Most Chi- : nese politicians would have been ac- ceptable in the eyes of Julius, Caesar, and squeeze is the reason for some of the corpulence in China, Squeeze is the Chinese translation of “as much as the traffic will bear.” It is a factor in Chinese business, as much as supply and demand, or profit and loss. Tapestry in History, 3 During the Italian Renaissance the art developed in subtle treatment of color and shading, and Flemish tap- estry reached its height of artistic per- fection in the magnificent pieces from =artoons by Raphael and other Ttal- ian masters. Royalty supported the industry at this period. Incidents of history were woven into design with threads of switl anu silver, and even jewels. Oth- | ers were mellowed by soft colorings of wool, with their high lights supplied by silken threads. The dyes, often as costly as the gold and silver, have held their colors for centuries, and it has been beyond the modern chemist to solve their alchemy. No such col- ors can be produced today, nor none that are so unfading. When tapestry making waned in Brussels, France de- veleped the art, and under Henry IV and Louis XIV the Gobelins were famed for their perfection of work- manship and color. An Apple a Day. “They tell us,” said Mr. Billtops, “that an apple a day keeps the doctor away, and I guess that is so; I am sure that an apple a night promotes sound and restful slumber. “We keep our apples in the icebox. The last thing that Mrs. Billtops, ever- thoughtful Mrs. Billtops, does in mak- ing her rounds before retiring for the night is to get an apple out of the ice- box and place it, with a fruit knife, on the dining-room table for me. “Nightly the last thing I do before going to bed is to go out into the din- ing room, seat myself comfortably, und eat that apple; leisurely. I find it cool and refreshing; in every way agreeable; and having eaten it I turn in and sleep delightfully. “An apple a day keeps the doctor away. An apple at night makes you sleep right.” Exclusive Organization, Though legendarily reputed to be more then 1,000 years old, the Order of the Thistle was founded by James II in 1687. After the revolution, says the Lendon Star, it fell into desue- tude, but was revived by Queen Anne in 1703. The chapel of the order, in St. Giles’ cathedral, where the king attended service on Sunday, was not commenced until 1609. The Thistle is one of the most ex- clusive orders, its only members be- ing the king and 16 knights, The motto of the order is: “Wha daur meddle with me.” Still Make Use of Blowgun. The blowgun is still popular for hunting birds among the Kosati In- dians in Louisiana. This weapon con- sists of a tube, usually of cane, about gix feet long, rubbed smooth on the inside with an implement made for the purpose and carefully straightened with the aid of fire. Slender, pointed darts about eight inches long are used as ammunition, each one wrapped neatly along a third of its length with thistledown or cotton to make it fit the inside of the tube. The hunter places a dart in the tube, which he raises to his lips and with which he takes care- ful aim at his game ; then with’a quick puft of breath he drives the little dart flying with a sufticient force to impale and kill a small bird or squirrel. America Land of Tobacco. America is still the greatest pro- ducer of tobacco and also the great- est consumer of it, the greatest ex- porter and the greatest importer, too. ‘She keeps her association with it which began with the discovery of the new world. It was the riches of tobacco as well as gold and fountains of youth that drew hither the adven- turers who penetrated the new con- tinents, Later tobacco was so pre- cious a thing among the first English colonists that they plowed up the streets of Jamestown to plant it. ——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” to a NNN Children —————— a Bought, and which has been in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of Your Opportunity We are Taking Our Medicine Everything that man or boy wears at the since 1914. It’s your opportunity. Don’t miss it. At Fauble’s---where only good clothes are sold. A. Fauble lowest prices Dubbs’ Implement and Feed Store Letz Feed Mills Sharples Cream Separators (Electric and Line Machines) BELLEFONTE, Pa Sharples Milking Machines Chicken, Dairy and Horse Feed Calf Meal Stem on vould, in all probability, result from . rs— — sag a : 1 y agitated principles of right- A . . Explaining the “Ring Finger. cousness. . 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