IN THOSE “GOOD OLD TIMES”
GETS FORTUNE.
came up to the wagon and presented
heard of the money. The son had not
country.
pe. PEASANT WOMAN woman, clad in rags and barefooted, | brightened with amazement when she | an in the village and probably in the
“Bellefonte, Pa., September 16, 1921.
WHAT EYES TELL.
Didn’t you make up part of a chor-
us in this song when you were a young
tease in school ?
Black eye—pick-a-pie,
Turn arond and tell a lie,
Blue eye, beauty,
Do your mother’s duty.
Green eye, greedy gut,
Eat all the world up.
I'll wager you are familiar with that
verse, says Doris Blake, in the Chi-
cago Tribune. This one you may not
Enow so well:
° Deep and sly,
Beware the eye
Of grayish dye,
Or this:
The brownless shocking
Merry and mocking
Also pass by.
And this:
Honest and true, seek out the blue,
Black eyes seem to have read dif-
ferent messages to the men who made
it their business to collect data upon
the subject.
But the gleam of black orb, I warn ye fly,
For dark, even like Allah's ways, is that
eye.
That’s what one says. Another
says: “Black, sparkling eyes, with a
grave mouth, show taste, elegance,
sound judgment, but often an ungen-
erous disposition.
+ Again: “A black eye is usually
lively, penetrative, brisk and proves a
person to be of lively wit, sprightly
conversation, not easily imposed up-
on, of a sound understanding, apt to
Lie, often led away by the influence of
others, selfish, desirous of absorbing
the time and attention of a friend, and
Jealous of every one else.
Haughty black eyes are indicative
of domination and personal power.
A black-eyed man is almost always
suspicious of his wife, and jealous by
nature. A gray-eyed man is most
faithful, the brown-eyed man is
best to provide, and the blue-eyed
man is always henpecked.
A true gray eye, it is said, denotes
the person to be of weak intellect, de-
void of wit, but a plain, plodding,
downright drudge, who will act as or-
dered or suggested by others. Slow
in learning anything that requires at-
tention, he will be just to the amount
of his understanding of the matter.
With the Arabs, gray eyes are syn-
onymous with sin and enmity. In the
Koran we read: “On that day the
trumpet shall be sounded and we will
gather the wicked together, even those
having gray eyes.”
‘Greenish gray eyes with light
streaks coming and going, denote in-
tellectuality, impulsiveness, impres-
sionableness and love of poetry and
art.
Gray blue, clear, steadfast eyes
show that the person is serene and
constant.
Very pale blue eyes, with a shift- |
ing motion, show dishonor and deceit.
Dark blue eyes with a violet tint,
show great power of affection and pu-
rity, or
Blue eyes, with a green tint, show a
choleric disposition; when angry they
look red.
Blue eyes, streaked with unequal
orange or yellow flakes, show the own-
er to be quite different from other peo-
ple, odd and uncommon.
Blue eyes belong to enthusiasts.
A blue eye shows the person to be
of a meek and gentle temper, affable !
and good matured, credulous, though
not capable of violent attachments,
ever modest, cool and undisturbed by
turbulent passions, endowed with a
strong memory, in constitution neith-
er robust nor delicate, subject to ne
violent impressions from the vicissi-
tudes of life, whether good or bad.
Equanimity is’ the ruling characteris-
tic
Blue-eyed people are supposed to be
Iuckier than dark-eyed, and gray-eyed
Folks the best to trust secrets with.
Brown eyes are said to do the most
mischief,
Japanese Easy to Learn.
Sir Dennison Ress, director of the
London school of oriental studies, in
an exhortation to his countrymen to
learn Japanese, says that this is one
of the casiest languages of the world
to pronounce. “Most of the words end
in vowels and none of the consonants
offer any difficulties.” The structure
of Japanese is very peculiar and very
strange to the beginner. It is hard to
realize a grammar which recognizes
no persons and genders—but such is
the case with the Japanese. The lan-
guage also has no relative pronouns.
However, there is no reason why peo-
ple whose mother tongue is English
should fight shy of the language. Fer
practical, everyday purposes, six
months’ study of the spoken tongue
will carry an ‘intelligent man a long
way provided he has competent teach-
ers.
Those Funny Dyspeptics.
*Dyspeptics are funny people,” said
Dr. Ellery C. Chamberlain, Chicago
dietitian,
“Dyspeptics,” he went on, “are all
alike. I heard a typical dyspeptic giv-
ing an order in a Leop restaurant
after the opera the other night. The
man is a millionaire, and he said:
“ ‘Oh, dear, dear, when I was young
I could eat anything and pay for noth-
ing, but now that I am able to pay for
anything I can eat nothing. Bring
me, waiter, a broiled lobster, a Welsh
rarebit, a piece of cherry pie with Ro-
quefort cheese and .a plate of banana
ice cream to tep off with.” ”—Miami
Herald.
A .—..
Self Esteem Immortalized.
“There,” said an old crony toa
friend to whom he was showing the
sights of a Scottish town, “that is the
statue of Baille Blank.”
“Is it no’ a guid bit bigger than life
size, though ?” queried the other.
“Oh, ay, it’s @’ that, but it’s no’ a
bit bigger than the Baille thecht him-
=6L’ "Tid Bits.
Fine to Read About, but Few of Ur
Would Care to Go Back to
Their Conditions.
There is no question that breakfas’
is today a meal that has been devel
oped out of the centuries, remarks J
H. 8. in the Christian Science Monitor
In the days of the Wars of the Roses,
breakfast was eaten when we of to-
day are still asleep. Into the cold and
stuffy hall, rush strewn, with a fire
feverishly burning on the great hearth,
came the men, yawning and pushing
their tousled hair out of their eyes.
They would not wear their swords,
unless there was to be an immediate
foray or battle or rouse of some kind
or other, but all would have their
knives and daggers, to eat with and
to stab, if need be. There was no
sunlight and the smoky mist of the
fens came in at the doors and through
the high, loose windows. The dogs
yawned, too, and scratched themselves,
too, and made themselves generally
obnoxious as those noble animals will.
At the high table, on his dais, the
lord's platter and cup awaited him;
presently, he came. He was slightly
cleaner than his rusty retainers: it
all events he wore better clothes. Ax
lord and as leading a life that was
virtually military all the time, he may
have had on his back and breast pieces
and his cuisses, or thigh pieces, He,
too, wore his dagger, for the handy
uses above set forth. And what d'
they eat and drink? Well, the mere
description is enough to put one ou
of countenance for a full week witl
all forms of food and you can find on:
for yourself. There was no morning
table, the chill was insufferable and
the air was foul. They had “man-
chets” of bread, but buttered toust
was a beautiful dream of the far dis
tant future. It was fight and grah
and wound and too often lie and
blackly cheat with many of these
stout lords and their faithful trains,
and though we have not solved all the
problems, I have ga notion, reader,
that we are better off than they wero,
sven if we do not wear armor to
breakfast. We may grumble as we
Hke at this thing and that, but there
is more sunlight than there was then,
or rather we see it more and we feel
it more and we share it more, so that
breakfasting in Bosten or London at
a seemly hour and having a proper
modicum of decency and comfort, let
us go through the healthful exercise
of thanksgiving and look with humble
steadfastness forward always, bach-
ward never,
——— et
Daring Equilibrists.
The Frenchman who recently wave
the tri-color from the top of the
Strassburg cathedral in celebration of
the wansfer of the custody of that fa-
mous pile from German to French au-
thority, was not the first to perform
this daring feat.
The spire is 466 feet from the
eround, and is surmounted by a “bait-
‘on™ 18 inches in diameter, which for
merly was a pedestal for a statue of
the Virgin, but now serves merely as
a support for a lightning rod. In the
Eighteenth century, according to the
chronicles of the cathedral, a German
chimney sweep climbed up to the but-
ton and there stood upright on it.
Moreover, at that time there was no
lightning rod running up the side to
aid in the ascent,
In April, 1860, again, a French sol-
dier, to win a bet. climbed the spire
and actually stood on his head on the
button, A strong wind was blowing,
and the man swayed this way and
that with his legs in the air in a truly
alarming manner. His form, it is re-
lated, seen from the greund, looked
no bigger than a speck, and his gyra-
dons could be noted only with the
aid of field glasses.
Big Game Drive.
An extraordinary amount of game
has been exterminated in Zululand as
a result of the great drive carried out
at the request of the government with
the object of striking at the devas
tating disease known as nagana,
which has played havoc with stock all
over the country. Men from all parts
of Natal took part in the expedition,
the number of guns being estimated
at 700. Men of the young farmer type
predominated, but there was a rich
sprinkling of the “old hands,” and all
were thoroughly equipped. The drive
created a volume of protest, the 8. P.
C. A. and other bodies putting for-
ward strong objections, all of which,
however, were overruled.—Nairobi
Farmers’ Journal.
Live Stock Value Decreased.
Value of live stock on farms and
ranges in the United States has de
creased more than two and a quarter
billion dollars during the last year,
and the amount of live stock 10,000,000
head, according to estimates made by
the Department of Agriculture. Cattle
and sheep decreased in number more
than four per cent. There was a (e-
crease in value of more than half a
billion dollars in milk cows and about
the same for other cattle, while swine
skowed a decrease of almost half a
billion dollars and sheep almost a
quarter of a billion dollars.
Circumstances.
“Isn't that a pretty slow railroad?”
“That depends on circumstances,”
r2plied the commuter, “The only times
it seems in any gseat hurry is when
you happen to be running to catch
the train.”
-
Canada’s Wealth,
The wealth of the Dominion ot
rnada is now estimated ut $18,000,
(000,000, which, considering the sparse
population, makes the Canadians one
of the richest peoples in the world,
An old peasant woman was made
the richest woman in her village by a
letter from the War Risk Insurance
Bureau of the American government.
The incident is told by a member of
the Friends’ Relief Mission in Poland
who writes:
“We were just driving into the town
of Hrubieszow,
district of Poland, when a peasant
in the war-ravaged |
a letter which she could not read. It
proved to be from the War Risk In-
suranee Bureau at Washington, stat-
ing that her'son had died in the Amer-
ican army and that his insurance
would come to her for twenty years,
at the rate of $25 a month. Already
there was $900 waiting for her, which
would be sent shortly by check.
“The woman’s face was shadowed
as she heard of her son’s death, but it
been heard from for three years and
his death had been taken for granted.
She had other children and they had
all been living in a dugout, with no
wood for building a house and no im-
plements to farm with and only a diet
of rye and potatoes.
“The $900 in American money
makes, at the present rate of ex-
change, over 1,500,000 Polish marks
and would make her the richest wom-
“I consulted the postmaster for her
and he said that when she made her
mark upon the check the local bank
would pay her the money. Only, of
course, no local bank would be able to
cash so large a check without first get-
ting the money from Warsaw.
“This is a fair example of the dif-
ference in exchange between America
and Poland.”
Every Dollar you Spend in Bellefonte will ‘COME HOME TO BOOST”
The Watchman’s Bu
They may present something you hadn’t thought of before.
The money you spend with them stays in cir-
Read these articles with care.
They are your neighbors and will treat you right.
ads appear here.
culation in Bellefonte.
Everything in Furniture.
Phonographs and Records.
NAGINEY’S
siUvonr
Grocery Order Today
It Will Pay You.
CITY CASH GROCERY
Allegheny St.
The Latest
in Dry Goods and Ladies’ and
Misses Ready to Wear.
HAZEL & CO.
The Headquarters for Athletic
Goods in Bellefonte. Smoker Sup-
plies. Barber Shop in Connection.
RUHL’S
Under First Nat. Bank.
Our Grocery
Line is always complete
and we invite your pa-
tronage.
BROUSE’S
High St.
Willard
is the Storage Battery of Serv-
ice. Any make battery repair-
ed and recharged.
WITMER’S
Studebaker
Expert Repairing on
All Makes of Cars.
BEEZER’S GARAGE.
The House
of Service when it
Comes to Hardware
THE POTTER-HOY Co.
Our Meats
are always fresh
and wholesome
Phone Your Order.
ECKEL’S MARKET
We Do Not Recommend
Ford parts that are not genu-
ine. Make our garage your
headquarters, Ford owners.
BEATTY MOTOR CO.
BELLE
Meade Sweets, Maillard and Louis
Sherry Candies.
THE MOTT DRUG Co.
Gross Bros.
Good Broom........ dresses OSC
5 pounds Coffee........ vers 980
580ap...2...0.c0ii,
3 Jersey Flake.............. 25¢
1 Large can Peaches........ 28¢
BELLEFONTE, PA.
LAUDERBACH-ZERBY CO.
Wholesale Grocers
YOUR HOME OPTOMETRIST
Fitting glasses for 15 years.
Satisfaction guaranted.
CASEBEER’S
Registered Optometrist.
The First National Bank
invites your patronage.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF BELLEFONTE.
If You Buy Out, of Town and I Buy
''Consumer Takes Long Chance
“SIGHT UNSEEN”
TRADE IS GAMBLE
When He Buys From the
Mail Order House.
GENERALLY IS LOSING GAME
Method of Doing Business Is Very
Different When You Purchase
Goods From Your Home
Ca Merchant.
(Copyright)
When you were a youngster, did you'
ever make a trade, “sight unseen?”
Of course you did. What boy has not
risked his jackknife or his choicest mar-
ble on such a proposition and how oft-
en has he repented of his rash deed
‘when he discovered what he got in the
trade? He generally found that the
deal turned out to the advantage of
the one who made the proposition. |
There is a little of the gambling in-
stinct in the blood of nearly every man,
woman and child, but even the hard-
ened gambler likes to get a “run for
his money.” The “sight unseen” prop-
osition doesn’t appesl to him in the
least. There are thousands of people,
however, who would be properly indig-
nant if they were accused of being’
gamblers, who every day take a chance |
on the greatest gambling game in the |
world. And worse than that, they are |
risking ‘their money on a “sight un. |
seen” proposition. :
When one of the thousands of per-
sons who build up and keep up the
great mail order houses of the country
sends his money away to pay for some
article that he has Selected from the
mail order catalogue, he is taking a
chance on getting what he expects to
get. The mail order house may be
perfectly honest and still the purehas-
er stands a good chance of not get-
ting what he expects to get. The mail
order catalogues are filled with pic-
tures that catch the eye. The de-
scriptions are brief, as they must be
when thousands of articles are to be
described within the confines of one
book. No matter how hard the mail
order house might try to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, it wowld be an impossibility.
The buyer is simply taking a chance.
Buying “Sight Unseen.”
How much more satisfactory it is
to walk into a store in your home town
and ask to see an article which you
may have seen advertised in your
"home paper. What would anyone
think of your business ability or your
y-at-Home Campaign
Patronize the people whose
common sense if you walked into a
store at home and said: “I saw a
picture in the paper today of a suit |
which I liked very much, Please wrap
up one for me. Here's the money.”
The merchant would think that you
were crazy, but that is exactly what |
you do every time you send an order |
You buy “sight |
unseen” and you haven't a ghost of a !
to a mail order house.
chance of getting your money back it
the article is unsatisfactory when it
reaches you.
How different is the proceeding
when you go into the store in your
own home town to buy a suit of
clothes, or a stove or a yard of ribbon,
You may have seen a picture of it in
the merchant's advertisement in the
home paper and you know that, as the
merchant is reliable, you can count on
| thesgoods being as hé Tepresents them
,.in his advertisement. But does he ask
‘you to take his word for everything?
Does he hide the article behind the
! counter and tell you that you can’t
even see it until you buy it and pay
over the money for it? Hardly. If
the article is not already in plain sight
on the counter, the merchant produces
it for your inspection. If it does not
exactly suit you, he has others that
are a little different and that he is glad
to have you inspect.
Cet Merchant's Guarantee.
Then, if it is a suit of clothes you
are buying, or a piece of dress goods
or a pair of socks, you may ask if the
merchant will guarantee that it will
wear as long as an article of that kind
could be expected to wear and he will
tel you either that he will guarantee
it er that he will not. If he tells you
that he will guarantee it you will know
that you will get your money back or
another suit or another pair of socks
in its place if it doesn’t wear like it
should, for the merchant, Hesides be-
ing an honest man in most cases, can-
not afford not to make his word good.
He is dependent upon your business
and that of others in his own commu-
nity and he cannot afford to misrepre-
sent his goods.
After having u'l this opportunity to
see what you are buying, you take your
suit or your stove or whatever it is
you buy home or it is sent home for
You without any delivery charges, and
after you get home and take another
look at it.and decide you don’t want
it after all, you send it back.
You are not buying something “sight
unseen” when you buy from your home
merchant. You don’t look at a picture
of an article in a newspaper, read a
short description of it, go to the post
office and buy a money order and send
it te the merchant with the instruc-
tions, “Send me a suit of clothes”—or
a stove or whatever it may be—“and
I'll pay vour delivery man 50 cents for
deliver'ny it to me.”
There’s a world of difference fn the
two methods of doing business and its
not hand to figure out which is the best
for the man who is doing the buying.
|
Books, Stationery and Post |
Cards.
The Index Book Store
Everything in Electric Sup-
plies.
THE ELECTRIC SUPPLY CO.
Firestone, Gates’ super tread and
Mohawk Tires.
Atlantic, Mobiloil, Sonoco and Wa-
verly oils.
Mobiloil tractor oil a specialty.
BELLEFONTE STEAM VULC. CO.
NEW GROCERY
A full line of groceries at reduced prices.
A full line of foreign and domestic fruits
in season. Klink’s bacon and ham, fresh
from the market. Cream cheese a specialty.
With every 50c. purchase we give free a
coupon for Rogers silverware. Ask for
them.
ALTERS & STOVER
High St., opposite P. R. R. Station.
cessors to Sechler & Co.
Sue-
The Variety Store
SPIGELMYER & CO.
When You Want
Hardware of any description
call and see us. We invite
your patronage.
BELLEFONTE HARDWARE CO.
Everything in Hardware
for Farm, Dairy and Home.
GLENWOOD RANGES,
SCHAEFFER'S
Special This Week
50 1b. Cotton Mattress, $10.75
50 1b. Cotton felt Mattress $13.75
BRACHBILL’S.
This Market is now under New Manage-
ment and we Solicit Your Patronage
FRESH MEATS DAILY
KLINE’S
Formerly Lyon’s Market
The Home of
“Dutchess” Trousers,
“LaSalle” Caps,
“Monito” Hosiery.
The Mens’ Shop
WILLARD & SON
HABERDASHERS,
The Grocery Store of
Wholesome Goods and
Prompt Service
HAZELS
Out. of Town, What, will Become of Our Town ?
OPPS
Shoes for the entire family
at right prices
YEAGER’S
The Rexall Store
and that means quality.
Special attention given to
prescriptions.
Runkle’s Drug Store
The Home of the famous
Butter Krust Bread.
Confectionery and Baked
Goods. - iw dine Lay
The City Bakery i
Everything in Lumber,
Sashes, Doors and Blinds.
The Bellefonte Lumber Co.
The Home of Hart, Schaff-
ner and Marx Clothing for
Men. Also a complete line of
Men’s and Boy's furnishings.
MONTGOMERY & CO.
The Edison :
is the peer of Phonographs. |
Come in and hear one today.
Records, Pianos, Player-
Pianos.
GHEEN’S MUSIC STORE.
We Are Still
in the Hardware business
at the old Stand. Every-
thing complete always.
OLEWINE’S
Wholesale and Retail fruits and
produce.
A complete line of imported Ol-
ive Oil.
CARPENETO & CO.
When In Town
See the best in Motion
Pictures at the Scenic.
SCENIC THEATRE
Weaver, Grocers
Bellefonte, Pa.
The Best
in Dry Goods and
Ladies Ready to
Wear.
SCHLOW’S
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
Courtesy. Safety. Service.
The Bellefonte Trust Co.
COHEN’S
Oh, yes, I can always do better on
my shoes at Cohen’s. There's a
reason.
COHEN'S
FREE!
30x301-2 Norwalk Cord
TIRES.
Find out particulars at
WION GARAGE
Clothing of the Best
for men who are careful of ap-
pearances. A full line of
Men’s and Boy’s furnishings.
SIM THE CLOTHIER
The Watchman
has always advised buying at
home, and it
buys at home itself.
W. S. Katz
DRY GOODS
Ladies Ready to Wear
Queen Quality Shoes for
Women
Regal Shoes for men
We fit the Youngsters, too,
MINGLE’S SHOE STORE.