“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.
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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.
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