Bellefonte, Pa., March 25, 1921.
BAD HABITS GROW
Successive Stages in Hushand’s
Carelessness.
Especially 1s He Apt to Be Thought:
less of His Wife's Comfort as
the Years Advance,
Man is a careless creature by ua-
ture and displays it in the stages of
his life when he should be most care-
ful. Perhaps his carelessness is only
visible in its most aggravating form
to his women folk. :
The imputation that it is a con-
stant vice would be resented, because
a man, while he may grow more
careful as he grows older in matters
affecting his work, his health, possibly
his appearance, fails to observe, self-
centered creature as he is, that a
careless attitude has arisen and be-
come a habit in his married life.
Before marriage a man's every ef-
fort is to please the woman; after-
ward, to please himself, writes Lady
de Frece, in the Paris Mail. There
comes a time—some people call it the
danger year—when cigars, clubs and
company are first consideration witn
a man. He makes appointments and
then tells his wife, where once he con-
sulted his wife, and then made ap-
pointments.
Carelessness, that is all. But his
wife, whose thoughts are at times viv-
idly retrospective, is wounded on eacfi
and every occasion.
The blatant carelessness of the
breakfast newspaper once started de-
velops from first hasty glimpses ar
the news to grim, masticating silences.
A husband becomes careless in his
hours, careless in his caresses, care-
less in all his attentions to his wife.
Some men become careless about
their clothes, particularly in the
house. Anything wiil do for (he
house. That is an added slight to
his wife and a flattery to himself. Ie
implies that she is not worth the price
of a new tie, or the donning of a
collar, and that his own personality is
potent against the effect of the baggi-
est of trousers.
Men never quite lose the little
traits that marked them in their court-
ship days. They will still show a hun-
dred and one little politenesses and
eonsiderations—but to other women
than their wives. The effort to con-
tinue for years the same attentions to
the one woman is too much for the
average man. Where once he hastened
to recover a fallen ball of wool he now
allows his wife {o carry the coal up-
stairs Yet his manners outside his
home may still be up to his old stand-
ard,
New High-Speed Generator.
The so-called Blomquist steam gen-
erator, lately put in operation in a
Gothenburg mill, is deseribed as a rad-
ically new {ype of high-speed stearn
generator. It is a boiler consisting of
11 pressed steel cylinders 12 inches
in diameter and 8 feet in heated length,
and these are rotated on ball bear
ings at the rate of 375 revolutions per
minute. Feed water is injected at one
end, the steam being taken out at the
other. Centrifugal action spreads the
water over the entire inner surface of
the tubes, and the temperature of the
steel is said to be thus kept below 300
degrees Centigrade. The capacity is
13,000 pounds of steam per hour nt
HO atmospheres or 710 pounds per
square inch, It is suggested that this
generator may be added to increase
the pressure in plants already estab-
lished, and to provide steam for high
pressure turbines.
Telephone Fluctuation.
A chart representing the telephone
business of the average day shows
that from midnight to 6 a. m. business
is small and getting smaller; then as
the retail stores and other “early” busi-
nesses begin to shake off their slum-
bers it starts to mount. As offices
open and clear for the day's action the
rate of increase gets faster and faster,
until in the one hour between nine and
10 the calls are three times as numer-
ous as during the 60 minutes immedi-
ately preceding. As the day's business
gets into full swing, with everybody
at work, calls continue to increase,
though at a much less alarming pace;
and the peak-load for the day is car:
ried by the hour between 10 and 11,
vith 428,000 calls in New York City.
‘Generals of United States Army.
‘Following are the six American gen-
-erals: Ulysses S. Grant, Philip H.
‘Sheridan, William Tecumseh Sherman,
Tasker H. Bliss (emergency), Peyton
«C. March (emergency) and John J.
Pershing. Pershing was made a full
Zeneral September 3, 1919. He was in
command of the American expedition-
ary forces.
There are two lieutenant generals
in the army—Hunter Liggett and Rob-
ert L. Bullard—and five major gener-
als—Leonard Wood, John F. Morrison,
Charles G. Morton, William L. Sibert
and Henry G. Sharpe.
His First Shoes at 74.
J. T. Cartman of Sodus, N. Y,, al-
though seventy-four, has just bought
his first pair of shoes. He has worn
boots all his life and still wants to
but, search as he may, he can find
none for sale in any of the neighbor-
- Jpfeeitles, :
——When in doubt as to your pa-
per take the “Watchman.”
CROWDED “GARDEN OF ASIA”
Some Sixty Million Chinese Live In
an Area About Half the Size
of Texas.
While many of us may feel that we
iive in exceedingly well populated dis-
{ricts, even our most crowded farming
communities are almost deserted when
compared with some sections of China.
Take Sze-chuan, for example, says the
{Cleveland Plain Dealer.
In this province some 60,000,000 per-
sons live. The area is 181,000 square
miles, As Sze-chuan is surrounded
by mountains and in some places is
bare rock itself, about 50 per cent of
the total area is impossible to culti-
vate. We find, in consequence, that
these 60,000,000 human beings are
crowded into a space less than half
the size of Texas, and that all the food
they eat Is grown within this area.
The problem of raising the food
necessary to keep these millions alive
is complicated by the Chinese farm-
er's lack of scientific knowledge and
the primitive implements he uses. In
addition, rice, which is the staple food
of China, is the most difficult of all
cereals to produce, This is particular-
iv true in a country like China, where
the hills must be terraced and the wa-
fer used to irrigate the paddy fields
he lifted by wheels moved by foot
power.
Yet these 60,000,000 persons who
live in Sze-chuan never know famine,
while other parts of China are some-
iimes decimated through death by hun-
ger. In this, the garden of Asia, is
produced nearly every vegetable and
grain we know, besides some we do
not know. The climate is so advan-
tageous to agriculture and the soil is
30 rich that fine foodd are easily
raised. The abundant rainfall, with
climatic and other conditions, provides
the water necessary for irrigaticn at
certain seasons, for certain purposes.
For instance, so plentiful are or-
anges—and they are second in quality
{0 none—that a thousand oranges may
he bought for half a dollar. However,
we must remember that 50 cents in
China, especially in Sze-chuan, has a
purchasing power of many dollars in
‘hat densely crowded land.
Telephony or Telepathy.
The telephone gets blamed for a
whole lot of things and the gentle
operator often gets bawled cut by the
irate subscriber or the fellow who Is
horrowing somebody else's phone. On
the other hand the telephone and the
gentle operator are not always cred-
ted with all they should be and they
. deserve mention when they add telep-
| athy to their other accomplishments.
; That must explain this incident. A
; few days ago a subscriber at Jeffer-
sonville wished to telephone to Mr.
: Smith, and was told at his office that
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he had just gone to the hank. The
subscriber called the bank number
while actively thinking of Mr, Smith;
the telephone operator—or her sub-
conscious self, let us say—plugged in
, at quite another number, of course.
“Is this the bank?" “No, this is the
newspaper office.” “Sorry, I was look-
Ing for Mr. Smith,” “Well, wait a
he has just stepped in.”
How's that for “service” ?—Indianapo-
lis News.
A True Story.
Secretary Lawson Purdy of the
Charity Organization society, said in
a recent address:
“Unorganized giving
more harm than good.
usually does
Let me tell
! you a true story.
“A lady last week besought her hus-
band with tears in her eyes to buy
her a set of near-coney furs which she
had seen in a Fifth avenue shop
marked down to $1,000.
*“‘My love,” her husband said, ‘I
can't do it. This very day 1 sub-
scribed $1,000 to save poor dear old
Sinnickson from bankruptcy.
“The lady a few days later rushed
into her husband's office in great ex-
citement.
“Jack, what do you think? she
cried. ‘You know that $1,000 set of
near-coney furs I wanted you to buy
for me? Well, 1 saw them on Mrs,
Sinnickson in Fifth avenue this after-
noon.'”
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Consolation in Fatigue Couch.
It will be a revelation to many to
find how sure an aid electricity has
been and still is in troubles small and
great, from the neurasthenic with
logorrhea and the woman who is “so
ill as to think she is ill when she is
not,” to the despondent, mutilated,
war-spent soldier with increasing
paralysis, says the New York Medical
Journal in a review of Dr. J. Curtis
Webb's “Electrotherapy.”
It can soothe and banish all those
everyday attacks of headache, tics,
neuritis, pnd make all nerves mp-
proach the happy condition of the
ninth one. Only those who have test-
ed the restfulness of what is sometimes
termed the fatigue couch can appre-
ciate its consoling power.
Strange If True.
Property Man—This stage is about
to be uplifted, Mike,
Electrician—How do you get that
way?
Property Man—This here prop list
for that there farce comedy company
in the offing doesn't call for a bed in
any way, shape or form !—Buffalo Ex-
press,
Profiteering Approved.
“I'm sorry, young man,” said the
druggist, as he eyed the small boy
over the counter, “but I can only give
you half as much castor oil for a dime
as I used to.”
The boy blithely handed him the
coin. “I'm not kicking,” he remarked.
“The stuff's for me.”--The Watchman-
Examiner (New York),
MAN'S BIG BLUFF
Mere Fiction That He Is Incapa-
ble of Housework.
Yet Throughout the History of the
World, as Writer Points Out,
He's Got Away With It.
When Adam delved and Eve spun,
the fiction that man {is incapable of
housework was first established. It
would be interesting to figure out just
how many foot-pounds of energy men
have saved themselves, since the crea-
tion of the world, by keeping up the
pretense that a special knack is re-
quired for washing dishes and for
dusting, and that the knack is wholly
feminine. The pretense of incapacity
is impudent in its audacity, and yet
it works, Heywood Brown writes in
McCall's Magazine.
Men build bridges and throw rail.
roads across deserts, and yet they con-
tend successfully that the job of sew.
ing on a bufton is beyond them. Ac-
cordingly, they don’t have to sew but.
tons.
It might be said, of course, that the !
safety of suspension bridges is so
much more important than that of sus.
renders that the division of labor ts
only fair, but there are many of us
who have never thrown a railroad in
our lives, and yet swagger in all the
glory of masculine achievement with.
out undertaking any of the drudgery
of odd jobs.
Probably men alone could never
have maintained the fallacy of mascu-
line incapacity without the aid of
women. As soon as that rather lim-
ited sphere, once known as woman's
place, was established, women began
to glorify and exaggerate its impor-
‘ance, by the pretense that It was all
»» special and difficult that no other
sex could possibly begin te accomplish
the tasks entailed. To this declara-
fion men gave immediate and eager
assent and they have kept it up. The
ra0st casual examination will reveal
ke fact that all the jokes about the
sorrible results of masculine cooking
and sewing are wrilten by men. It
is all part of a great scheme of sex
rapaganda.
Naturally there are other factors.
Biology has been unscrupulous enough
to discriminate markedly against
wemen, and men have seized upon
this advantage to press the belief thet,
since the bearing of children is ex-
clusively the province of women, it
must be that all the caring for them
I:elongs properly to the same sex. Yet
frow ridiculous this is.
Most things which have to be done
¢4r children are of the simplest sort.
They should tax the intelligence of no
one. Men profess a total lack of abil-
ity to wash baby’s face simply be-
cause they believe there's no great fun
in the business, at either end of the
sponge. Protectively, man must go
to the whole distance and pretend
that there is not one single thing which
he can do for baby. He must even
maintain that he doesn't know how
to hold one. From this pretense has
grown the shockingly transparent fal-
tacy that holding a baby correctly is
one of the fine arts; or, perhaps, even
more fearsome than that, a wonderful
intuition, which has come down af-
ter centuries of effort to women only.
Gloves in History.
Gloves were so thoroughly recog-
nized as emblems of trust and honor
in former times that they were sent
as pledges of safe conduct in times of
truce. The one stain on this custcr
was that the queen-dowager of Na-
varre was persuaded to go to Paris to
attend the marriage of the king of
Navarre, by the embassage of a pair
of gloves, and, unhappily, on the morn-
ing of the ceremony, met her death by
means of poisoned gloves.
A Bit of Scenery.
“I understand there is an old moon-
shine still in your place.”
“Yes,” replied Farmer Corntossel.
“Tourists come for miles to see it.
It makes more money as an exhibi-
tion than it ever made operatin’ as a
distillery.”
——-Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
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The Kind You Have
in use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of
and has been made
7 sonal supervision since its infancy,
cde “ Allow no one to deceive you in this,
All Countoricits, Imitations and * Just-as-good ”” are but
Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of
Infants and Childiren—Experience against Experiment.
What is CASTORIA
Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric,
Drops and Soothing Syrups.
neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance.
age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has
been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency,
Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising
therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Panacea—The Mother’s Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA aLways
Bears the Signature of
®
In Use For Over 30 Years
The Kind You Have Always Bought
THE CENTAUR COMPANY. NEW YORK CITY,
dren Cry for Fletcher's >
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It is pleasant. It contains
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A Fifteen-Jeweled
Military Wrist
Less than an Ingersoll
Former price, during the war, $15.00
Fully guaranteed
F. P. Blair & Son,
Jewelers and Optometrists
Bellefonte, Pa.
64-22:tf
Watch....$6.00
Jere is pride
2 the
possessior.
We pride ourselves on being able to fit
any man who comes into our store, per-
fectly, in a stylish suit of the latest
shades and patterns.
Whether stout or slim, tall or short,
we are there with the clothes that fit
you, because they were made for men of
your build.
And you don’t need a fat pocketbook
to buy clothes in our store.
Come and investigate our clothing
and our prices.
Wear our good, ‘‘Nifty” Clothes
A. Fauble
Closing Out
Scratch Feed
At $3.C0 per 100 lbs.
Egg Mash
“An Egg a Day” Brand, $3.00 per 100 lbs.
Alfalfa
Molasses Horse Feed at $2.50 per 100 lbs.
BELLEFONTE, Pa
62-47
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North Water St. BELLEFONTE
61-30
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