“Sewell
‘Bellefonte, Pa., April 8, 1921.
CAT DELIVERED !TS MESSAGE
Battle-Scarred Feline Proved It at
Least Had the Courage of its
Convictions.
The other night I saw a clever cat.
He sat on the fence in the moonlight,
all alone, writes a correspondent of
the Boston Herald. He looked up at
the moon and opened his mouth. I
braced myself for what I believed to
be coming, namely, his effort at self-
expression. But no, this was a clever
cat. Like O. Henry, he dealt in clever
surprises. In his attitude there was
something of suspense. My waiting
nervous system felt the strain of it.
Then he gave voice to a great silence.
He said nothing in a dramatic way.
With a self-satisfied smirk on his
pussy face he jumped off the fence
gracefully and disappeared into the
night. He was a clever cat. He did
the unexpected in an original and
artistic way. He annoyed me, for he
failed to live up to my conception of
cats, yet I felt a certain admiration
for him.
The next night another cat sat on
the fence. This was a great cat,
though his appearance was far from
prepossessing. He was scrawny, and
his coat bore, all too plainly, the scars
of many a “foughten field.” The di-
vine light of unrest burned in his
eyes. He threw back his head and
poured out his very soul in vigorous
expression, sincere and earnest, though
unappreciated. Nothing daunted by
the lack of applause, or by the shower
of missiles directed at his scarred
person, he gave full vent to his mes-
sage in a form which, though uncon-
ventional, seemed best to fit his muse.
Then, with an air of utter abandon,
he shook the dust of the fence from
his unconcerned feet and disappeared.
“This,” thought I, my ears still ring-
ing, “was truly a great cat. He had
a message and he gave it. Let the
world receive it or reject it as it
will.”
WHERE HUSTLE IS UNKNOWN
Mallorca Justly Entitled to the Ap-
peilation Given to It, “Island
of Calm.”
Mallorca, a tiny speck of an island
in the Mediterranean, is a land of
peace and ease. A great painter and
writer who visited the island, has
christened it “The Island of Calm,”
because there everyone moves, rests,
talks, walks and conducts his court-
ships as if the day had 48 hours, the
mile about 16,000 feet, and the span
of human life 700 years, so little haste
do they make in living and enjoying
lite. These people who take life so
leisurely, are not lazy, shiftless or un-
pleasant in personal appearance Or
manner. They are intelligent, honest,
capable of work, sober and econom-
ical. These characteristics, preserved
throughout centuries of uninterrupted
peace and tranquility, have made
them peaceable, trusting and home-
loving. The Men are of medium
height, strong and agile.
And as for the women, they pos-
sess the same lovely skin as the
women of North America, features as
if scluptured by Phidias or Praxiteles,
and they walk like goddesses. But
they know nothing of the “joy of liv-
ing,” due partially to ancestral Arabic
influences and to tie fact that their
istand has for so long been under
strict religious repression.
Little Sign of Culture in Speech.
Americans are known the world
around for their short and nasal a’s
and many have been misled into broad-
ening all their a's to prove their cul-
ture. But the original sound was as
in far’ and “palm;” it is the first
sound uttered by infants and still the
mos; general sound of the letter on
the continent of Europe. The “ah”
sound was the most frequent for the
fetter in the earliest English or Anglo-
Saxon, still considered the model and
best usage in our language. The a in
“ask” may be pronounced like the a
in “bare” ar “at,” but, according to the
Encyclopedia Americana, “with the
majority of good speakers” it should
,be akin to the “ah” sound. Best au-
thorities hold that the excessive use of
the short a is most common in Amer-
jea, outside the greater part of New
England. It is thus a provincialism,
whereas the broadened a’s may be in-
dicative of travel, familiarity with the
"languages of Europe, and association
with cultured people.
“Connoisseur” and “Dilettante.”
The connoisseur is “one whe
knows,” as opposed to the dilettante,
who only “thinks he knows.” The
connoisseur is cognizant of the true
principles of art, and through his
knowledgs is competcz® “HY pass a
critical judgment concerning any art,
particularly of painting, sculpture or
music. He is of a higher erade than
the amateur, and more nearly ap
proaches the artist, whose rules of ac
tion he is familiar with, but does not
practice. The dilettante may be 8
lover of the fine arts, science or let:
ters, and may pursue any one of the
arts in a desultory way and for amuse
ment, and Lowell says of him: “The
main characteristic of the dilettante is
that sort of impartiality that springs
from inertia of mind, admirable foi
observation, incapable of turning it tc
practical account.”
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Woman Set Down in History as One
of the Most Beautiful of His
Many Conquests.
Napoleon's life was one of fair wo-
men, but among thera all few were
more beautiful and more heartless
than Marguerite Bellisle Foures. Na-
poleon saw her in Cairo where she was
honeymooning with Lieut. Foures, hav-
ing accompanied him in disguise on
the transport. Napoleon promptly
sent Foures to Paris with alleged im-
portant dispatches and began to make
love to the bride. He was successful,
and she moved to a cottage near the
palace. The English captured her hus-
band and, knowing of Napoleon's acts
in Cairo, they promptly sent Foures
back there, knowing he would seek
revenge,
But he was a drop of water against
the power of Napoleon. His wife was
given a divorce, and he was sent to
an obscure town in rural France. She
then began to parade her capture,
dressed in costly costumes, wore Na-
poleon’s picture on a chain about her
neck, and was with him constantly.
His soldiers dubbed her “Cieopatra.”
When Josephine made up with Napo-
leon, and he was elevated to head
France, he left the fair Marguerite,
although he gave her a small fortune.
Iie also arranged a marriage for her
with Henri de Ranchoup. Her hus-
band was out of town much of the
time, and she entertained with more
brilliancy than discretion. She ended
up by running away to Brazil with a
young officer, where she lived happy
and content until she was ninety-two
vears old.—Detroit News.
ENGLISH FIRST TO CHEW GUM
In the Year 1635 a Recipe for Its Man-
ufacture Was Published in
That Country.
Chewing gum isn’t new, and it isn’t
American in origin, despite the fact
that our English cousins keep telling
us that gum-chewing is an American
habit. In fact, they originated it them-
selves. John Bate, an English writer,
gave a recipe for chewing in 1635.
He called it “mouth glew.” Here's
the recipe:
“Take Isinglasse and steep it in wa-
ter until such time as you may easily
pull it to pieces, put it into a glass or
pot well loaded and set it in balneo;
that is. in a pot of water on the fire.
There let it remain until all, or most
part of it, is dissolved; then strain it
thorow a wide haire seive; while it
is hot, upon another course and close
haire seive, and when it cold it
will be like a thick jelly. If you would
have it of a dainty smell and aro-
matical taste, put into it a little cinna-
mon bruised, and a little marjerom,
and rosemary flowers, while it is dis-
solving, and if you please a smali
quantity of brown sugar candy to give
it a sweetish smatch.”
This recipe is taken from a book
called “Mysteries of Nature and Art.”
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French Papermaking History.
It was from the early Saracens that
the art of papermaking was acquired
by the French, and passed on to the
other nations of Europe. The earliest
papermakers of France were the vas-
sals of the French nobility who pur-
sued their occupation on the estates
of their overlords, fabricating the
precious material required for use by
their masters, say the historians.
Their production, together with that
of the monks of the various monas-
teries, represented the only paper
production activity of France, as it
emerged from the gloom of the
medieval ages.
The first specimen of paper to be
found in France bearing an authentic
date is a document purporting to be
one of the bonds given to the Jews by
a lieutenant of Richard I of England
for the purpose of financing his cru-
sade in the Holy land. It is dated
1190 A. D.
Ceylonese PPlumbago.
Plumbago, Ceylon’s most important
mineral product, is known all over
the world for its luster, lubricating.
polishing and binding qualities. In
appearance it is a strorg black crys-
taline. There are now about 1,000
plumbago mines in Ceylon, including
all the shallow pits, open works and
deep mines. The depth varies from a
few vards to as much as T00 feet.
Most of the mines are worked by na-
tives, the only important one con-
trolled by Europeans being the Meda-
pola. In the majority of the mines
the only machinery used is the “da-
bare.” This consists of a long wooden
barrel with handles at each end. A
rope is wound around this with a
bucket fastened to each end. It is
worked by seven or eight men turning
the handle.
Time Has Brought Changes.
When I was a young lady I was ex-
tremely thin and tall, and very sen-
sitive in regard to my figure. Our
club was about to give a masquerade
which I was anxious to attend, but
realizing how hard it would be for
me to disguise myself, and yet wish-
ing to represent something original,
I remarked this to a young man at
the club. He looked at me with a
smile, and in the presence of all the
other members said, in a most sar-
castic voice, “Well, why don't you
wear a rubber on your head and go
as a lead pencil?” Oh, if he could
only see me now, I know he would
say, “put a couple of hoops around
your waist and go &s a barrel.”—Ex-
change,
{ FIGURED IN NAPOLEON 3 LIFE PERIODS IN AGE OF EARTH |
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' Figures Compiled by Geologist Aru
Certainly interesting Though Fer-
haps a Little Startling.
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A geologist describes by means of a
graphic chart the comparative lengths
ef the different periods of the age of
the earth. He places the age of the
earth arbitrarily at 72,000,000 years,
represented by a clock dial of 24 hours
—2 000,000 years to each hour.
On the above basis the first six
i hours of the clock represent Azoic
time, the earliest conjectural period
of the earth's formation—18,000,000
vears; the nest six hours Eozoic and
the next eight Paleozoic time—18,000,-
C00 and 24,000,000 years, respectively
—periods of mineral and vegetable
formations. In the next three hours
animal life developed—2Mesozoic time,
9,000,000 years—that is, from the
twentieth to the twenty-third hour.
Thus the last hour of the 24—3,000,000
years of geologic time—represents
Neozoie time, which includes the ap-
pearance of human life in the Quater-
nary period.
This last division of the 24 hours,
the Quaternary period, is shown as
only ten minutes—in other words 500.-
000 years. The existence of human
life on the earth, therefore, bears the
same relation to the age of the earth
as ten minutes does to twenty-four
hours.
ten history is estimated roughly at
only 6,000 years, this last division is
| not shown on the chart, since it would
only be 12 seconds in
Scientific American.
Jaguar Is Considered Height
of Entertainment.
The Panamaniac who is a real sport
aelights in nothing so much as a fight
between a jaguar and a bull. One must
visit the isthmus to see this particular
kind of sport.
But since the period of writ- |
duration.—
POPULAR SPORT IN PANAMA
Duel to the Death Between Bull and
An enormous cage, strongly built of
scantlings and iron bars, is placed in
tpe center of the ring ordinarily used
for bull fights. A bull is placed in-
side of it and presently one of the
huge South American cats is wheeled
up in a smaller cage and introduced
into the barred inclosure. The latter
is about ten feet high, with twice that
length and breadth,
In the fight which then ensues the
bull is victorious usually. Not more
than once in ten such contests does
the jaguar prove the victor. This
would not be the case if the animals
were not restricted te so narrow a
space; but the big cat, being obliged
to rely mainly upon its activity, does
not have a fair chance.
Nevertheless, the duel greatly de-
lights the spectators. The fair Pana-
manicures shriek with excitement, and
the little Panamanikins rend the air
with yells.
Fish Thrive Under Water.
Water never gets colder than about
39 degrees. So no matter how thick
the day, and no matter how thick the
ice upon the stream or lake, the fishes
are enjoying a temperature of about
29 degrees, and they move about ir
the water and gather supplies very
well at that temperature. Through
the clear ice one may see fish with
their backs against it, where the tem
perature must be 32 degrees, and it
vou strike the ice above them light
ly they dart away with pretty 200C
speed. If you will strike the ice inv
mediately above them with the back
of an ax, or a sledge hammer, yot
will kill the fish. The concussion
turn up its white belly upward, al
ways. It is a common enough thing
in some regions for the boys to kil’
the fish through the ice, and ther
to cut a hole and get them out.
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