“Bellefonte, Pa., December 17, 1920.
BEING FAT IS REAL TRAGEDY
To Modern Wcman It Is a Worry That
Frequently Leads to Ruined
Health and Insanity.
A fat man is usually a jolly sort of
an individual who accepts the world
as the same sort of a joke as the
world considers him. Girth, says the
New York Sun, may worry a man oc-
casionally because it is an annoyance,
but with the modern woman it verges
ppon tragedy. As physicians—if they
would talk freely—can tell you, it is
a worry to them that frequently leads
to ruined health, insanity or the
grave.
It is possible for a man to grow
fat gracefully. At least he can sub-
due his habits, stop running for
trains, give up his golf and spend
most of his time in ponderous poses.
His tailor can easily arrange his
clothing into well-known and accept-
ed lines.
The case of the woman is different.
Fashion binds her as. with a chain.
There are no stylish frocks for stout
women. The fashion of today calls
for slim figures and trim ankles.
YWaists and hips are taboo. There are
no sleeves capable of concealing over-
flashed arms. Man can adapt his
ciothes to his figure, but woman must
adapt hee figure to the clothes, or else
shamelessly admit that she cannot
wear what is fashionable.
It was not always so. In another
generation the stout woman had a well
defined place—the “dowager type,” it
was sometimes called. The woman
who made the best biscuits and
cooked the most savory chicken was
always a rotund sort of person who
never minded it when people came
unexpectedly around dinner time. She
was the one children flocked to for
sympathy and the one who seemed
to make the world brighter wherever
ghe went.
FORKS FIRST USED IN 1574
Occasion Was Dinner Given by Henry
111 of France—Account Given by
Royal Guest.
It is hard to believe the sensation
produced when forks first came into
ase. It was in 1574, at a dinner given
sv Henry III of France. Here is
sn account by a royal lady guest, the
T.adies’ Home Journal recalls: “The
guests never touched the meat with
their fingers, but with forks, which
they carried to their mouths, bending
their necks and bodies over their
plates.
“Thera were several salads. These
they ate with forks, for it is not con-
sidered proper to touch the food with
the fingers. However diffi ult it may
be to manage it, it is thought better
to put the little instrument in the
mouth than the fingers.
“Then artichokes, asparagus, peas
and beans were brought. It was a
pleasure to watch them try to eat
these with their forks, for some, who
were adroit than the others,
dropped as many on their plates and
on the way to the mouth as they were
able to get to their mouths.
“Afrepward a great silver basin and
& pitcher of water were brought and
the guests washed their hands, though
it seems as if there suid not be much
seont of meat and grease on them, for
they had touched their food only with
those forked instruments.”
less
Toc Much Candor.
My traveling companion had heen
carrying an old black bag which buye-
ly held togeiher. I had told her that
she would have to carry a different
piece of baggage if she were going to
travel with me, but it made no impres-
sion.
One early morning we sat down in a
small waiting room in a branch line
station in central Oregon. Next to
me was an old blick bag with which
I began to fumble. Finally I put my
finger through a rip in the side and
began to pull out some wearing ap-
parel and at the same time turned to
my friend and said; “Pauline, you
certainly ought to be ashamed of
yourself to carry such a ramshackle
contraption as this bag is.”
“I beg your pardon,” said a wom-
an seated on the other side of me,
“but that is my bag.”
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i. . Brazil's Big Snake Nursery.
Thére are said to be more snakes
in Brazil than in any other country of
the western hemisphere, an exchange
remarks, At DBatuntan, near Sao
Paulo, there is a great snake garden
where scientists are studying the mys-
teries_of spake biology. The original
gason for the establishment of the
garden, which is a huge nursery for
snakes, was to obtain serum enough
for those bitten by snakes throughout
Brazil. The garden is 600 acres in ex-
tent and divided into three depart-
ments, two of which are devoted to
cobras, crotalids and Dothrops, the
most poisonous snakes known; while
the third department is given to the
nonpoisonous snakes.
She Knew Her Proper Plates.
Mistress—Mercy, Hilda! You nrust-
a't clean the plates with your hand-
kerchief !
Hilda—Oh, that’s all right, ma'am;
i's only a dirty one. — Karigaturen
(Christiania).
———Subsecribe for the “Watchman.”
FUNNY SIDE OF WET WEATHER
Elements the Occasion of Mcre Humor
and 1H-Humor Than Any Gther
Earthly Institution.
The weather, more especially cur
British variety, has probably been the
occasion of more humor and ill-hu-
mor than any other earthly institution,
London Tit-Bits says.
“What you need,” once remarked a
doctor to his patient, “is a change of
climate.” “Change of climate!” crieil
the man. “That's what's the matter
with me. If the climate would only
teep the same a few days running I
would be all right!”
The mutability of the weather re-
minds one of the indignant customer
who returned to the shopkeeper, say-
ing: “Look here, that barometer you
sold me a month ago has got out of
order. It won't work.” “No wonder,
sir,” replied the shopkeeper, “look
what a lot of weather it’s ’ad lately!”
There is nothing to beat the story
of the American tourist who came
across a man out West sitting on a
stump. “How's the weather treating
you?’ he was asked. “Pretty toler-
able stranger,” replied the man. “I
had some trees to cut down, but a cy-
clone came along and leveled them for
me.” “That was a piece of luck,”
cried the tourist. “Yes; and then,”
continued the man, “there was a
storm, and the lightning set fire to the
nrushwood and saved me the trouble
of burning it.” “Remarkable! But
what are you doing now?’ “Oh, I'm
just waiting for an earthquake to come
along and shake the potatoes out of
the ground.”
Once an old weather prophet at
iVhittingehame informed Mr. Balfour
that “It's gaun to rain seventy-twa
days, sir.” “Come, come!” said the
statesman. “Surely the world was en-
tirely flooded in forty days?’ “Aye,
aye,” was the response, “but the
world wasna' sae weel drained as it
is noo.”
NO HAY IN THE PHILIPPINES
Because of Great Humidity Grass Can-
not Be Cured, So It Is Cut
Every Day.
Because of the great humidity grass
can’t be cured in the Philippines. As
a consequence it is cut fresh every day
and brought into the towns and cities
for sale at a stipulated price per
cargo, two bundles weighing about 125
pounds. It is cut with a small home-
made knife and washed in running wa-
ter before being placed in the bundle.
American horses cannot live on it, but
native horses eat it and grow fat.
Guinea grass and Bermuda are the
commonest kinds of grasses grown for
horse roughage in the islands, accord-
ing to a writer in the Philadelphia
Public Ledger. For American horses
and mules ‘hay ‘is imported into Ma-
nila from the Pacific coast states and
brings about $75 per ton. Oats sell
for about the same price. On account
of the excessive rains cats cannot !¢
crown in the islands; rust affects it
Corn grows well; Filipino farmers can
harvest three crops a year from
single piece of ground. To keep it, it
is necessary to léave it in the husk:
otherwise weevils destroy it. It i=
tied in bundles and hung on bamboo
poles, then husked and shelled
needed. Corn mills are now being es-
tablished in Visayan islands, where
the natives prefer cornmeal to rice as
a staple food.
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More Musical Drums.
It is a well-known fact that percus-
sion instruments as a class give in-
Larmonic overtones. and so are music-
elly defective. A special type of drum
used in India is a remarkable excep-
tion to that rule, says Nature, for it
gives harmonic overtones that have the
same relation of piteh to the funda-
mental tone as is found in stringed in-
struments. The drumhead produces
five such harmonics, inclusive of the
fundamental tone. The first, second
and third harmonies are especially
well sustained in intensity and give a
fine musical effect. The result is at-
{ained through the use, on the drum-
read, of a symmetrical distributed load
that decreases in density from the cen-
ter outward. The load consists of a
fiexible composition of finely divided
metallic iron. A second membrane in
the form of a ring is superimposed
round the edge of a drumhead. The
fundamental pitch and the octave are
derived from the modes of vibration
of the membrane. The center load
improves the musical effect by in-
creasing the energy of vibration, and
thus prolonging the duration of the
{fones,.—Youth's Companion.
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~ Many Bridal Beliefs.
One i$ inclined to believe that the
job of the folklore collector would
have been greatly curtailed had it not
been for the fund of material that is
wrapped around the bride. Every lit-
tle move she makes, every stitch in
her gown, the flowers in her bridal
bouquet, and the jewels she dons on
her wedding day all have secret por-
tents.
If the first flower a bride sees on
her wedding morn is white, say the
folkloreists, she will lead a happy life;
if red she will know sorrow and care.
1# a bunch of pink roses is given to a
bride it is lucky.
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Assurance.
“One of those campaign ‘money dig-
gers’ would like to see you,” said Mr.
Grabceoin’s secretary.
«Ihunderation! Didn't you say I
was out?”
“Yes, sir. He said he knew you
would be out, and he just dropped in
to tell you how much.”
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“{,S.BRAND"” PRESENTS
FOR CHRISTMAS
Uncle Sam in Annual Sale
Offers 01d Standbys.
The old established firm of Uncle
Sam and Company welcomes Santa
Claus and announces that it is giving
its taird annual offer of tasty Christ-
mas gifts with all the good lasting fea-
tures. Offegings fit any pocketbook,
coming in all sizes from 25 cents to
$1000.
Not only is an ivon-clad money-back
guarantee naintained, but a pledge is
made to return the customer’s cr re-
cipient’s money with interest at any
time if he is not satisfied. Goods can be
bought for the same price in any city,
village or cross-rouds, at any time,
with no need for doing this Christmas
shopping early. Purchases can be made
at any postofiice, authorized bank or
agency in the district.
The firm is still giving its regular
discount, selling an artic'e worth $§ for
$4.23 this month, and the standard
$100 and $1000 models for $84.60 and
$846.00, respectively. >
With every artizle, to every purchas-
er or recipient, there is given away
absolutely free one solid gold, guaran-
teed, priceless and good Habit. Spea’s.
ars all ove: tne land have said that
this habit, the Thrift Brand, is the
most valuable in the world today, and
is the salvation of the country. The:e
Thrift Habits are guaranteed, if prop-
erly cared for, to grow with extraor-
diaary rapidity, bringing wealth, ccn-
tent and safety to the owner.
These offers have special value as
gifts for children. Can you remember
anything riore awe inspiring to you
“when you were a little shaver, than a
cris. $5 note, or anything more hu-
manly alluring than a shining new
quarter? It is now in your power to
buy for your children or for other chil-
dren a Savings Stamp worth $5 for
$4.23, or a 25-cent key to happiness
which will begin a period of gratifica-
tion and education lasting long after
memories of Santa have faded.
Uncle Sam and 1920 Santa strongly
urge everybody to buy Xmas presents
thoughtfully—to buy things that have
intrinsic and lasting value. Let your
gifts consist of 25-cent Thrift Stamps,
$5 Government Savings Stamps, now
obtainabile for $4.23, and $100 and
$1000 Treasury Savings Certificates,
for $84.60 and $846.10), respectively.
THRIFT EDUCATION PLAN
URGED FOR U. S. SCHOOLS
That the widespread habit of thrift
and saving is taking hold of the Amer,
ican people, particularly the young, is
evidenced by the conference between
the Committee of State Superintend-
ents of Public Instruction and thg
Treasury officials held recently in
Wasain ton, for the purpose of urging
“the prompt adoption of the new
thrift education in all state and local
educational systems of the United
States,” and at the same time provid-
ing for the practice of the principles
taught by offering means for sound in
vestment.
Dr. Thomas ii. Finegan, Superinten:
dent of Public Instruction in Pennsyl-
vania and Commissioner of Education
Calvin N. Kendall, of New Jersey, havg
long ago issued calls to their teachers,
principals and superintendents urging
their aid and co-operation in realiz-
ing the Government School Savings
Plan throughout all the schools of the
Third Feceral Reserve District.
To commission the 2,000,000 pupils of
this district in the army of savers, the
Government ‘s instituting Savings So-
cieties in every school in Eastern Penn-
sylvania, Southern New Jersey and Del-
aware. Every pupil. becomes a membe>
of the society, pledging himself to save
his pennies, nickels and dimes, and to
invest them in Government Stamps.
The old “save as much as you can”
plan lacked “punch’™ in stimulating
the habit of thrift and systematic sav-
ing. The new quota plan, devised this
year, encourages each pupil to save
enough money (niring the year to buy
two Government Savings Stamps, one
in December, the other in June. The
cost of these two stamps averaged over
the year is $8.35. That requires a child
to save 16 cents a week.
Each school is alloted a definite
amount to be saved, based on the
number of scholars there multiplied
by the cost of the two stamps. This
allotment is not obligatory, but it is
the standard for the school and the
measure of success of the savers
there, taken as a goup.
Teachers and parents should give
covery incentive and help to their chil-
dren to save and invest in Thrift ani
Savings Stamps. The early habit of
economy will start the young on the
right, safe and successful road. Today
nearly 60 per cent of our adult popula-
tion, or about 50,000,000 people, do not
have a doll * saved—not a cent ahead
of them except the daily wage. The
savings work in schools is a vital step
to prevent this in the future.
The United States issues Thrift and
Savings Stamps and Certificates in re-
sponse to a popular demand for a safe
medium for small investments. Twen-
ty-five cent non-interest bearing Thrift
Stamps and five-year-term Savings
Stamps, earning 4 per cent interest
compounded quarterly, are absolutely
safe, profitable and convenient; they
never fall in price but are always
worth what was paid for them plus the
interest to date. ‘
| SAW MIRAGE ON SIDEWALK
College Professor Records Interecting
Observation lie Made on the
Streets of a City.
A curious case of sidewalk mirage
was described by Prof. F. W. McNair
of Michigan College of Mining. Prof.
McNair wrote in Science:
“] was walking eastward on a c¢-
ment sidewalk on a street running
nearly east and west, ahd moving up
level stretch of walk. On reaching
a point which brought my eye slightly
above the level portion, and at which
normally the level stretch would have
been scen in its entire length, but
much foreshortened, I observed In-
stead what appeared to be a stretch
of clear dark water covering the en-
tire width of the walk and brilliantly
reflecting moving persons and other
objects in sight beyond it.
“The sky was clear, the air cool,
the sun high. It was about 3 o'clock
p. m, local time. There was a moder-
ate breeze. The angle of observation
was very small, probably not above
three degrees. A step or two either
cast or west, and the water was gone,
but within the proper limits, the illu-
sion was definite and continuing. The
weather bureau report for the day
indicated that approximately 30 feet
above the spot where the mirage was
observed the air temperature was
about 60 degrees F. and the humidity
about 63 degrees.”
The resemblance between conditions
here described and those which pro-
duce the mirage eon the plains is ob-
vious.
BELIEVE DEVIL RULES EARTH
Probably Queerest Religious Faith Is
That of Tribe of Kurdish and
Arabian Blood.
One of the strangest religious sects
in the world is known as the Yezedi,
a race of mixed Kurdish and Arabian
blood. They worship the devil, and
believe he will rule the earth for
10,000 years, 4,000 of this number hav-
ing already passed. On the theory
that Jesus Is good, and will not harm
them, they give most of their devotion
and sacrifice to the devil who, they
assert, will at the end of the next
£,000 years, be put into hell, where
he will weep so hard he will put out
the fires, and then will be pardoned
and given back his rightful place in
heaven.
The Yezedi believe that there were
71 Adams and a similar number of
Eves, and that the originals once had
a great dispute as to who was the
most important, the man or the wom-
an. To prove the matter the women
spit in one great jar and the men in
another, and the jars were the sealed
for nine months. At the end of that
period they were opened, and from
the women’s jar leaped a pile of
snakes and worms, while from the
men’s jar came a beautiful boy and
girl. In spite of their strange beliefs
they are very industrious, honest, hos-
pitable and kindly, although steeped
in dense ignorance, one phase of their
religion forbidding them to learn
letters.
Words in English Language.
The number of English words not
vet obsolete, but found in good au-
thors, or in approved usage by correct
speakers, including the nomenclature
of science and the arts, does not
probably fall short of 100,000, says
George Perkins Marsh. Few writers
or speakers use as many as 10,000
words, ordinary persons of fair intel.
ligence not above 3,000 or 4,000. If
a scholar were to be required to name,
without examination, the authors
whose English vocabulary was the
largest, he would specify the all-em-
bracing Shakespeare, and the all-know-
ing Milton. And yet in all the works
of the great dramatist there seem not
more than 15,000 words; in the poems
of Milton not above 8,000. The whole
number of Egyptian hieroglyphic sym-
bols does not exceed 800, and the en-
tire Italian vocabulary is said to be
scarcely more extensive.
Egg Shows Miracle.
One cannot find among the multi
tude of wonders in nature anything
more marvelous than the development
of an egg, writes Elsa G. Allen, in the
American Forestry Magazine. Whether
it be a butterfly which flourishes for g
day, only to die after depositing its
eggs, or a reptile which lazily leaves
its eggs with only the warm sand tq
mother them, or a fish, like the sal:
mon, which with incredible strength.
jumps the rapids to spawn in the
upper reaches of rivers, or most ap
pealing of all a bird which builds a
beautiful nest for its treasures, the
egg in every case is structurally the
same, and the miracle of life unfolds
according to the same laws of cell
division.
Modern Words Traced to Trees.
While the ancient Greeks fancied
that every tree was possessed of its
own peculiar spirit, and nature lovers
insist that trees have personalities
even as men and women, it is only nat.
ural that men have paid tribute to
the tree. The leaves (of plants
named the leaves of beoks, and the
word “folio” traces back to “foliage.”
The word paper comes from the old
papyrus plant, and the word “Bible”
is the Greek name of the plant, accord:
ing to the Minneapolis Journal. The
word “book” is derived from “beech,”
and the “codex” originally meant tree
trunk. It is because men have found
the trees kind friends and interesting
subjects that they have been pald sc
much tribute,
a moderate grade which joins a nearly
Only thirteen more shopping
days until Christmas, and we
are still
Taking Our Medicine
If it’s for man or boy your
dollars will do almost double
duty here
Fauble’s
Letz Feed Mills
Sharples Cream Separators
Sharples Milking Machines
(Electric and Line Machines)
Chicken, Dairy and Horse Feed
Calf Meal
Dubbs’ Implement and Feed Store
BELLEFONTE, Pa
62-47
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