"Bellefonte, Pa., March 4, 1921.
HEALTH SCHOOL
Pennsylvania State Department
of Health.
Questions.
1. What is the high limit of
temperature for a schoolroom?
2. Why should window blir.ds be
open out of school hours?
8. What is the objection 1o the
feather duster?
THE SCHOOL JANITOR
The Janitor of the
schocls iad a wooden leg.
That is the reason ne was Janitor;
that and because he was brother-in-
law to the Secretary of the School
Board.
Sampleville was a fourth-class school
dist1ict, which means ifs population
was something less than five thcusand.
Mr. Carter, the new Principal soon
discovered the Janitor was not quali-
fied, either by experience or under-
standing, to properly perform the du-
ties of his position, and asked for his
removal, the wooden leg was, of course,
no dis ualification, but he ‘usisted
that the selection of such an important
school functionary should be made
for a reason and not on account of an
excuse. The School Board refused to
make the change, and Mr. Carter be-
ing a Philosopher undertook the next
best thing—the instruction of the Jani-
tor. He asked in turn each of his
teachers to do this, but they were all
as ignorant of Health matters as was
the Janitor.
Mr. Carter, who was somewhat of a
diplomat, called a conference of his
teachers, including the Janitor, and
told them as they, with him, were ac-
courtable for the health of the chil-
drer in their charge, une assembled
them for the purpose of discussing
and putting into effect :very possible
means to promote School Health.
He called attention to the heating
plant, a good one—dry air—the cold
air brought through a tight shaft from
the outside to the neating chember.
The air did not pass through a sheet
of waters, according to the inost approv-
ed system, before entering the fur-
nace, but the outside ‘niake was above
the surface of the ground and covered
Sampleville
with several layers of chzese-cloth to!
keep out the dust.
“Every one knows the danger from
dust,” he said. “When hieathed into
the lungs, it not only acts as an irri-
tant to the air passages, but often
carries dangerous disease germs. The
Janitor stands on the front ‘ine of
our defense. We want nim to zeep the
outside opening of the air intake cov-
ered, to change the «heese-cloth when
necessary and to look oui for breaks
and loose joints in the pipe The
school code requires a thermometer in
every room, but a thermometer is
valueless unless used. FKach teacher
must appoint a Monitor to record the
temperature every nour. These rec-
ords must be sent to the office of the
Principal at the end : f each day. The
temperature must never be higher than
seventy (70) degrees.”
The matter of liginting and seating
were passed over, but Mr. Carter spoke
of the germ destroying property of air
and light and directed that at the close
of each schiool day windows should be
thrown open and the school house
thoroughly aired and that at ali times
out of school hours which cludes
Saturdays and Sundays all blinds
should be wide open.
"The Janitor, interruptiag, apologized
for going back to the sunject of dust,
but suggested as mud carried into the
school room on the children’s feet
afterward becomes dust, it might be
well to have a mud scraper cn the
outside step. “Last week I wore out
two brooms in sweeping,” he said.
“Good,” said Mr. Carter. “We will
have the scraper, we will also put the
brooms in the discard.”
The Janitor shook his read.
can we sweep without brooms?”
“Use a soft bristled brush.”
“It won't take up the dirt, especially
where the floor is roagh.”
“We will oil the floor and before
sweeping, sprinkle it with dust down
—if we can’t get that we will sprinkle
with dampened saw-dust, which is al-
ways available.”
«1 suppose I might as well throw
away my feather duster, ther » an-
swered the Janitor; “as there won
be any dust.”
“Qh, yes, there will be some dust,
but you may throw away your feather
duster just the same.”
Mr. Carter then explained thot the
teather duster does not remove dust,
but merely alters its position.
The ideal duster is a slightly damp-
ened cloth which removes as well as
cleans.
«We will continue the discussion at
another meeting,” said Mr. Carter,
“at which time we will take other
subjects, for the present we will put
into practice the two principal topics
discussed—the keeping down of dust
and the keeping down of temperature.
From now forward let our slogan be
‘No dust and the room temperature
rever over seventy.”
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Horticultural.
Dyer—Miss Gray was married the
year she came out,
Ryer—What you might call nipped
in the bud.—Judge.
“How
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BUFFALO ON THE INCREASE
Latest Reports Show That the Animal
Is Not Likely to Become Extinct,
at Any Rate.
The fear that existed not long ago
iest the native buffalo would soon be-
come extinct is dispelled by a report of
the American Bison society, which
states that there were 3,393 wild and
tame buffalo in the United States in
January, 1920. This is an increase of
about 300 per cent since 1908, in which
vear there were 1,116 wild and tame
buffalo in this country.
Of the nine overnment-owned herds,
two of the largest under the care of the
United States Department of Agricul
ture are located in the Wichita nation-
al game preserve, Oklahoma, and on
the national bison range at Dixon,
Mont, The herd on the Wichita pre-
serve now numbers 154, including 28
calves of this year. In this herd four
bulls and 12 cows are ten years of age
or over, and one cow is twenty-nine
vears old. The 15 animals that con-
stituted the original Wichita herd came
from the New York Zoological park.
It is planned this year to dispose of
some of the surplus buffalo in the gov-
ernment herds in accordance with the
provisions made by the 1919 appropria-
tional bill for their care. Public parks
and municipalities are the largest pa-
trons. By distributing the
over the country, if disease or us
fortune overtakes the main herds, there
still will be stock left with which
groups could be built up again.
WHY DRUGGISTS ARE BALD
Seemingly Their Duties Are Manifold,
if They Would Satisfy Their
Various “Customers.”
“Now, what do you think of that?”
said the druggist’s clerk. “She wanted
to know what Thanksgiving is for,
Some people think a drug store is an
information bureau.
“The other day a woman came in
and wanted to know who discovered
America. She said she had an argu-
ment with a friend about it, and they
decided I must be the referee.”
He had perched himself on top of a
ladder and was trying to juggle three
or four boxes at a time when a woman
came in and after waiting a minute
to be waited ou knocked on the coun-
ter.
“I want a two-cent stamp in a hur-
ry,” she said. He gave her the stamp
and made change from a $5 bill.
“Would you please give me the same
kind of medicine that you gave to my
mother the last time she came in?”
she said.
“Who is your mother?” he asked.
“You know my mother—the fat lady
that always buys a bottle of soda ev-
ery night.”
Various Causes of Death.
It is illuminating to read the causes
of death. In 1917—a typical year in
which the figures were not complicat-
ed by the war—14.2 of every thousand
persons in the United States died;
out of every hundred thousand deaths
153.2 were from diseases of the heart,
149.8 from pneumonia, 146.4 from
tuberculosis, 107.4 from kidney trou-
bles, 829 from apoplexy, 81.6 from
cancer. 79 from diarrhoea, 25.3 from
diseases of the arteries, 17.2 from in
fluenza, 16.9 from diabetes, 16.5 from
diplitheria, 16.3 from bronchitis, 108.8
from accidents of all sorts. Arterial
diseases and diabetes show an in
crease that is really alarming; for in
1900 only 6.1 per 100,000 died of the
former and only 9.7 the latter. The e
with those of the heart and kidneys
are diseases that result directly from
the strain and stress of modern life.
—Popular Science Monthly,
The Sick Miner.
Judge Elbert H, Gary, on his return
from Europe, discussed the English
coal strike at a luncheon.
“The men demanded an uncondi
tional two-shilling increase,” he said
“but the government couldn't very
well grant them that, because each
former increase had been followed by
a decrease of output. So many miners
vou see found that they could make
enough in three or four days to keep
them all the week.
“So many miners, in fact, were like
the sick miner. As the sick miner
pale and drawn, lay in his bed the
doctor entered.
“The doctor examined him and then
said:
“1 prescribe complete rest. You
tired yourself out in the last strike.”
Gave to “Unworthy Poor.”
A Missouri man has left a will es
taklishing a fund for the aid of the
poor of his town, Eldorado Springs.
Mo., every Christmas. It is especially
suggested that the gifts be distributed
to unfortunate persons, “whether they
are worthy or unworthy according to
the standards of society.”
Those in a position to give money
to fellow beings in misfortune so long
have insisted that the poor to be aided
must be “worthy” that it is a great re-
lief to find one man who does not at-
tach the obnoxious string to his act
of generosity. The ne’er-do-well with
an empty stomach probably feels just
as hungry as the pious person whose
fortunes have fallen.—Detroit Free
Press.
War Memorial on Mountain.
The furious battles. fought during
the war on the . Hartmannswilerkopf.
in Alsace, will be commemorated by
the erection upon its apex of a huge
cross which will be visible from the
Rhine valley. The monument will De
erected on a portion of the summit of
the mountain which will be considered
ag sacred ground.
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' HAVE FUN WITH BRIDEGROOM
Harmless Teasing by Bridal Attend-
ants Is a Feature of the Af-
ghan Wedding Ceremony.
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The ceremony of the mirror, is per-
haps, the oldest custom in connection
with the Afghan wedding ceremony.
A mirror is placed before the bride,
and the bridegroom is asked to sit at
the bride’s left. A shawl is held over
them, and the bride unveils and looks
in the mirror. Husband and wife see
each other's face for the first time.
It is their first real meeting, says Ik-
bal Ali Shah, in Asia magazine. The
bride is shy and does not open her
eyes, and the bridesmaids and oth-
ers chaff her freely.
An engraved silver bowl is then
brought, with a little sherbet and a
plate of white rice pudding. The
bridegroom drinks a little of the sher-
bet and offers the bride a sip. She
closes her lips tight, but force is
applied and a spoonful put into her
mouth; so also with the rice pudding.
A shower of roses announces the term-
ination of this rite, When the bride-
groom attempts to rise, he finds he
is held down to the floor; a corner
of his coat has been sewed to the car-
pet. There is a roar of laughter.
The offender is found—probably a
younger sister of the bride. She re-
{ fuses to undo the stitches unless a
gold coin is given to her. As soon
as this toll is paid, the bridegroom
calls his attendants to bring his shoes,
but one of them is missing. Some one
declares she knows who has the shoe.
It is returned on payment of two gold
coins, and the bridegroom is freed
from his tormentors.
BEAUTY IN COMMON THINGS
Kitchen Garden Will Furnish Really
Exquisite Ornaments for the Liv-
ing Room Flower Vases.
Have you ever thought of going to
the kitchen garden to find something
wherewith to fill your flower vases,
when nothing can be found in your
garden proper? asks a writer in Chris-
tian Science Monitor. Why wander aim-
lessly around that said garden, just be-
cause it is a flower garden, when a
little farther on in the kitchen garden
that gorgeous blaze of pale lemon
color is just the thing to go with your
deep-blue jars and jugs. “But,” you
will probably say, “that’s cauliflower
gone to seed, and who ever heard of
decorating a drawing room with cauli-
flower?”
Prejudice, mere prejudice! Cast it
to the winds, you will never regret it,
and go and cut spray after spray of
those delicate lemon blossoms, being
stems. then collect all the deep-blus
Chinese jars and wedgwood jugs you
can muster, arrange the cabbage flow-
ers therein, and, judiciously placed on
cliests, window sills and bureaus, their
effect will be absolutely charming.
ly from the parent stem, not all falling
together as laburnum has a way of
doing, when one tries to arrange it in
vases. A combination of warm-gray
stone walls, old prints, pale blue and
mauve chintzes, and the pale-clear
lemon of cauliflower blossoms in blue
jars in quite delightful, though other
color schemes would give an equally
happy effect.
Unwittingly Set Fashion.
An anecdote in connection with the
glove shows how fashions are started.
A young and beautiful duchess, having
promised to be at an entertainment
given for a charitable object, in Trou-
ville, France, found herself late in
preparing. She hurriedly took up her
gloves and put them on in the car
riage. As she entered the brilliantly
lighted room, she found, to her dis-
may, that she had put on one black
and one white. The mistake had
arisen from the maid having laid out
two pairs, not knowing which her lady
would prefer—black or white,
Imagine the surprise of the duchess
on perceiving that, in all subsequent
entertainments of the season, the
ladies wore odd gloves, corresponding
with the colors of the dress.
Gorgeous Insects.
To gain some idea of the splendor
of some of the world’s moth and but-
terflies one should glance over nearly
complete collections of them from the
| tropics as they occur in South Amer-
i jena. Asia, Africa and the great east-
ern and western archipelago, with cer-
tain parts of Australia. Such collec-
tions are to be found in the United
States National museum in the re
serve and duplicate series. There is a
superb species that comes trom Africa.
wherein the “tails” to the hinder pair
of wings are over eight inches in
length. Then we have the gorgeous
Atlas moth of the East Indies that
measures a foot across from tip to tip
of its upper wings.
Glow-Worms.
Glow-worms haunt the open, weedy-
covered water-tables beside high
roads. Here, after dusk, they scatter
the grass with points of golden-green
and liquid light. It is a genial rather
than a cold radiance—warmer than
many stars. At short range its bril-
liance is extraordinary; but it does
not penetrate and only reveals a few
grass blades and inches of earth
round the source of light. Yet upon
those grass blades and grains of sand
and soil exist many invisible creatures,
who must see, or feel, the glow-worm's
little lamp; and to them her passing
is far more tremendous than to us
would be the blaze of a great comet.—
“A Shadow Passes,” Eden Philipots.
4,123,000, with a value of $119.84 per
. head.
popularity, in many localities taking
| the place of the horse, and has also
‘ were for ornament rather than for use.
careful to strip the leaves from the |
The blossoms seem to arrange them- ;
selves, each spray standing out clear. !
-én’s Freedom league, under the lead-
FARMER OWES MUCH TO MULE |
Arimal Is Hard and Rugged Worker
and Almost Indispensable in
Many Localities.
The mule, like everybody else, has
his place. He is considered a bad
actor. Fathers caution their sons
about going near any animal with long
ears and ropy tail. The sons know
what the animal will do because they
have been looking over the “funny
paper” each Sunday and were de-
lighted in seeing the mule fold up and
let loose with a kick that sent a man
through the side of a barn or over
the fence. But in spite of this un-
desirable advertising the mule is with
us today on more farms than ever
before. He is a hard and rugged
worker and is especially adapted to
the more hilly farms of our agricul-
tural sections. Even through the
Middle West there are some counties
that have more mules than horses. In
1867, the mules of the United States
numbered 822,000, with an average
value of $66.94. In 1890 the number
was 2,321,000, valued at $78.25. By
1914 the number had increased to
On January 1, 1920, the num-
ber was 4,995,000 and the value per
head was $147.
The mule has gained
rapidly in
prevented the introduction of the trac-
tor in many places. There are not a
few mule ranches over the United
States, the owners finding it a pay-
ing kind of stock to raise. The de-
mand is increasing and those having
them for sale cannot supply the mar-
ket.—Thrift Magazine.
CONDEMN TERM “FAIR SEX”
English Women Go on Record as Op-
posed to Phrase “Belonging to
a Bygone Age.”
It has been officially declared in Eng-
land that women, en bloc, are neither
“week” nor “fair.” At least the Wom-
ership of Councilor Margaret Hodge,
has put a ban on thé terms “fair sex”
and “weaker sex.” “Spinster” and
“mother-in-law” have also been put
on the feminine index. Further, it is
averred, once and for all time that:
Woman’s judgment is as good as
man’s.
Women talk less than men.
Women can keep a secret.
“One irritating custom,” said Miss
Hodge, “comes from an age when to be
fair was woman’s first and foremost
duty. The only women who counted
Women may be the weaker sex physi-
cally, but certainly not morally. The
name mother-in-law is still the stand-
by of farces and comic literature. It
is an idea from some bygone age.’—
London Chronicle.
Chinese Art.
The applicability of Chinese art for
interior decoration of any period Is
being strikingly illustrated in a recent
gallery opening in New York, The
idea that anything Chinese is gaudy
is being gradually displaced. In the
carving of gems, the working of metal
and in tapestry designs the Chinese
are without rivals. The owner of the
new gallery has fitted up half a score
of rooms in period designs—there is
the old French and English, the
American colonial, the varly Italian
and the Holland rooms. Fitting snug-
ly into the general tone of the room
are marvels of Chinese craftsmanship
in the form of hangings, carved wood-
work, tapestry and lamps. It is a rev-
elation to many and has a new con-
ception of Chinese craftsmanship.—St.
Paul Pioneer Press.
Big Task.
One of the big causes of delay in
the movement of freight is the heat-
ing of the journal boxes of car axles,
commonly called “hot boxes.” When
one journal box in a train gets seri-
ously hot it is necessary to stop the
whole movement of traffic until the
condition can be remedied. This
makes very timely a series of tests
now being carried on at Purdue uni-
versity, to determine accurately the
benefit to be derived by using venti-
lated lids instead of the solid lids
now almost universally used on the
axle journals. The tests consist of
eight-hour runs with heavy loads at
high speed, during which accurate
records are kept of the temperature
attained in each class of apparatus.
Perfume Hunters,
There seems to be no good reason
why in this country the gathering of
sweet-smelling herbs and flowers for
the perfumery trade might not be
found profitable. It has recently be-
come a considerable industry in rural
parts of England, a great many wom-
en and children having taken it up.
In April the picking of cowslips be-
gins, those flowers being in demand as
a cure fqr sleeplessness, and also for
“potpourri” and sachets. Broom and
elder flowers follow. Mullein and mal-
low, bergamot, peony petals, rose
petals and red poppy petals bring good
prices; likewise raspberry leaves,
sage, mint, balm and thyme.—Phila-
delphis Ledger.
Telephone Statistics.
Telephone wires in the United
States have reached the enormous to-
tal length of 22,827,188 miles, the new
government census reveals. There are
11,716,520 telephones, connected
through 53,234 organized systems or
lines. The total number of messages
in 1917 was 21,845,722,835, or 211 per
capite.
Shoes.
$298 $2.98 $2.98
On sale NOW at, Yeager’s Shoe Store
200 Pairs Children’s Shoes
—sizes from 6 to 2. These shoes have
been sold in the last year at prices as
high as $5.00. The lot includes Misses’
good quality Vici Kid and Youths’ High
Top Genuine Elk Shoes, with buckle tops.
They are Real Bargains
and you will miss 1t if you do not get in
on this sale
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA.
58-27
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Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
THE STORE WHERE QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME.
SPRING STYLES
We have just opened the largest line of
Spring and Summer Dress Goods in Cotton,
Wool and Silk.
Cotton Dress Goods as low as 25c. a yard
In Voiles we are showing a wonderful line of
dark and light grounds—all the new Georg-
ette designs.
In Silks we are showing all the new weaves
at prices that will be pleasing to all.
Handsome Spring Coats and Suits
A wonderful line of Spring Coats and Suits
now on display for Easter at very reasonable
prices. Come in early and select your gar-
ment while the choice is good.
Sweeping Clearance Sale
All Winter Coats and Suits at less than cost
in order that they are not carried over. All
must be sold now at less than manufac-
turer’s cost of today’s low prices.
Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
THE STORE WHERE QUALITY REIGNS SUPREME
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