Bellefonte, Pa., March 10, 1922.
FALCONRY AN ANCIENT SPORT
Amusement, Practiced in East, Can 23
Traced to Period That Antedatss
Era cf Christianity.
Falconry, the art of training fal-
cons and hawks to the chase, has been
traced back to a period before the
Christian era. It was practiced in the
East and also in Europe long before its
introduction into England. The English
kings used to amuse themselves with
this sport, which was for a long time
the leading amusement, such as base-
pall is in America today.
Falconers use two kinds of birds—
the long-winged, dark-eyed falcons and
the short-winged, vellow-eyed hawks.
The former take their prey by rising
above it in the air and swooping at it
from a considerable height and strik-
ing it to the ground; the latter pur-
sue in a straight line, and overtaking
the object of the chase by superior
speed, clutch it and bring it down.
The larger falcons are sent after
winged prey of all kinds, erows. m2g-
pies, rooks, herons and wild fowl. The
smaller falcons, such as the merlin
and hobby, are flown at larks: while
of the short-winged hawks, the spar-
row-hawk is flown at blackbirds and
thrushes, partridges early in the sea-
son, and quails, the goshawk taking
pheasants, partridges and wild fowl,
rabbits and hares.
With all birds of prey the females
are invariably larger and more power-
ful than the males, and the sexes are
consequently selected according to the
game they have to pursue.
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ALWAYS ‘SKELETON’ AT FEAST
Egyptian Merrymakers Had Custom
Which Must Have Been Something
of a Check on Revelry.
Accounts which have come down
of Egyptian banquets indicate that
among the wealthy people and those
Bgyptians who were “in society” they
were very elaborate affairs with a
great variety of rich and high-spiced
and high-priced food and many wines
—wines rare and strong.
But no matter how jovial and hap-
py and hilarious the feast, a mummy
was there as a reminder of death.
At the conclusion of the most sub-
stantial part of the banquet and when
the wine began to flow most freely,
an attendant, perhaps one of the walit-
ers, would carry around a coffin con-
taining the image of a dead body
carved in wood, and as the Greek his-
torian, Herodotus tells us, “made as
like as possible in color and workman-
ship, and in size generally about one
or two cubits in length.” The busi-
ness of the waiter was to show this
to each member of the gay and joy-
ous company and say, “Look upon this,
then drink and enjoy yourself, ul
when dead vou will be like this.”
Herodotus wrote about 2,500 years
ago that “this practice they have at
all their drinking parties.”
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Sugar Once a Delicacy.
we are apt to forget how short a
time it is since sugar was regarded
as a costly delicacy, proper to be used
by the wealthy alone or as a medicine.
In the early colonial days it sold at
about 75 cents a pound, in the loaf,
and granulated sugar was unknown.
It was with the growth of the custom
of drinking coffee and tea that it be-
came a food staple. When it was in-
troduced to England in medieval times
it was as “Indian salt,” a rare and
precious condiment, although the art
of boiling sugar was known in India
before the Seventh century, and in
Egypt much earlier. The Dutch
brought sugar to Manhattan, and a
New York Gazette of 1730 carried
this advertisement: “Public notice
is hereby given that Nicholas Bayard,
of the City of New York, has erected
a house for refining all sorts of sugar
and sugar candy, and has procured
from Europe an experienced artist in
that mystery.”—New York Evening
Post.
Heads “Sized Up.”
The size of a man’s cranium has
nothing to do with the size of his head.
Truly big-headed men are usually so
modest you have to push them into
their honors.
Often big bones are bestowed by a
.pitying providence to compensate for
the lack of gray matter their bigness
would suggest.
Napoleon was a small man with a
“pullet-shaped head. He was dictator-
ial and imperative. But then you can
forgive such a fellow, when he has
the goods. It's the would-be’s that try
men’s souls.
Many of the nation’s greatest men
have very ordinary-sized heads when |
measured by their hat bands. In fact,
they offer no suggestion of the big
head when viewed from any angle.—~
Grit.
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The Game of Whist.
All great discoveries are works of
time, and the game of whist is no ex-
ception to the rule. Its merits were
not recognized in early times, and un-
der the vulgar appellation of “whisk
and swobbers” it long lingered in the
servants’ hall ere it could ascend to
the drawing room.
At length some gentlemen in Eng-
land who met at the Crown coffee-
house in Bedford Rod, studied the
game, gave It rules, established its
principles, and then Edward Hoyle, in
1748, blazoned it forth to all the world.
WINTER MANTLES
Gorgeous Seasonable Wraps Now
Demand All Attention
From Women.
Evening Outer Garments Have Slecves
Set Into Wide Armholes, Flaring
Chinese Fashion—Fringe in
Limelight.
It is true, writes a fashion corre-
spondent in the New York Tribune,
that those who refuse to observe the
seasons in attire, and are always look-
ing far into the distance, scanning the
ready are scouting for models showing
the tendencies of spring.
Fortunately the numbers of ex-
tremists in dress who insist upon
forcing the season are diminishing,
and women in general are dressing
more in accordance with the ther-
| mometer.
Anv news of spring fash-
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Sleeves Em-
Cerice and Silver;
Cerise Velvet Mantle,
broidered in
Gray Fox Cuffs.
‘fons at the present time cannot be
| may prove false.
| Now is the time for sumptuous
| clothes.
i well suited to them. In midsummer
| clothes are beautiful but simple, as
| befits that time of year.
{ ness in dress appears in the winter.
| but, rather, handsome coats and capes,
rial and trimming.
Colors and Fabrics
winter's evening coats than in those
of past years. Slim, straight coats
and straight-hanging capes are of vel-
vet, rich brocade, metal tissue, or fur,
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sleeves of interesting cut, set into
wide armholes and flaring in Chinese
| fashion.
These are draped and wrappy eve-
ning coats, less full than those used
heretofore. Many capes are worn.
These hang in strhight lines and are
{ topped by handsome collars of fur or
! velvet. A surprising number of vel-
| vet collars, often in contrasting color,
| are used; for instance, a black velvet
cape may have a huge ruff of bright
pink velvet peonies.
Alwayy a medium for exploiting
beautiful colors as well as fabrics, the
evening wrap now excels itself in this
respect. Velvet wraps In startling
hues, such as geranium reds and cycla-
men mingle pleasingly with soft grays.
Brocaded velvets and cloths, glisten-
ing with gold and silver are used,
The Parisian dressmaker has a
craze for sheer metal fabrics and ever
so many French evening wraps are of
velvet striped with silver tissue. Fre-
quently they are made entirely of gold
tissue or of a mingling of metal tis-
pelt. Models of this sort have
A model noted recently was a black
velvet striped with steel and trimmed
with black fox.
with the success that was prophesied
for them, or which one might have ex-
pected considering the wonderful
showing of fuchsia shades by the
tumn.
ploited wraps, dresses and hats in all
the violets, blues and pinks of the
fuchsia blossom, but the American
woman did not show much enthusiasm
over these shades except to admire
them in an impersonal way. Perhaps
their too frequent appearance kept
women from buying clothes in any of
these hues, for nobody wants to in-
IN GRY FABRICS
SLIM, STRAIGHT GOATS, CAPES
horizon for a new season’s styles, al- |
other than intimations, many of which :
There is no other season 50
Gorgeouns- |
Interesting things have been done |
! for evening coats. No longer are they |
| voluminous wraps of costly fabries, |
showing great variety in style, mate-
Much less material is used in this |
those of fur being surprisingly light in |
sue and a handsomely brocaded velvet.
Fringes Arranged to Simulate Capelet. |
The fuchsia colorings have not met
great French dressmakers in the au- |
American dressmakers also ex- :
vest in an 2xpensive garment In a
shade which will quickly become cnm-
i mon and which definitely dates itvelf,
Salient features of the newest eve-
ning wraps are straight lines, orna-
mental sleeves, pull collars and waist-
length capelets. Sometimes the efi2ct
of a capelet is produced by a band of :
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| embroidery or fur, or by fringe Lang-
| ing from the neckline to the hips,
i where it is caught up in blousing ef-
| fect. Interesting models are made
| with the capelet and lower portion or
skirt of the coat of fur and the sleeves
! and the waist portion of velvet.
Ermine Trims Gray Velvet Costume.
| Among the furs, sable, ermine, fox
and various gray furs are used, the
| latter being featured on gray velvet
wraps. Goat also is much in evi-
dence. Although used on the eve-
ning models of velvet—imported
models of black velvet being lavishly
trimmed with white goat skin—it is
better suited for daytime wear,
A costume worked out in gray and
white consists of a straight, full cape
| of gray velvet and a gray velvet frock.
The cape is attached to a deep er-
| mine band, which forms the collar.
| "The bottom is cut in deep points.
! The frock is sleeveless and has a
| pateau neckline. Both neck and arm-
holes are embroidered in steel beads.
cut in points at the bottom. Placing
a tunic on one side only is an un-
usual and good method of introduc-
‘ng variety into a plain chemise style.
| Diadem Toque With Shell Embroidery.
An evening wrap from Worth illus-
i trating several of the new features is
| developed in a lovely cerise velvet
with an embroidery of cerise and sil-
| ver on the sleeves, which are bordered
| with silver gray fox. The collar is
| formed of velvet roses in all the lovely
| «herry shades.
An interesting model is of royal
blue velvet, lined with silver cloth.
This mantle matches a silver cloth eve-
ning gown with a scarf train of blue
chiffon. At a recent social event in
Paris a toilette of this description was
completed with a Lanvin Russian dia-
dem toque of silver cloth embroidered
in small shells, the greatest embroidery
novelty of the season.
Martial et Armand are having great
success in their cape wraps, richly em-
hroidered in high colors. One of these
i: blue velvet is collared with the
new gray fur wistatch, a cross-bred
animal of South America, the mother
of which is chinchilla.
Wraps With Huge Petal Ruffs.
i Wraps for young girls are made
! without trimming, but are much elab-
| orated in the working of the fabric. A
model of this sort which is a great
Model Developed From Biue and Gold
Brocade, With Deep Band and Col-
i lar of Mink.
Parisian success and made by Char-
lotte, 1s developed in bright colored
. velvet with intricate handwork on the
| shoulders to yoke depth. A very elab-
| orate collar of the velvet cut in the
shape of petals forms a huge ruff.
Models of the heavy, somewhat cum-
| bersome sort of overcapes sometimes
| ending in long sleeves of the distinct-
|v Renaissance types are being worn
| In Paris, and copies have been sent to
this country, but apparently they are
| too eccentric to make any great ap-
. peal. All such mantles have very elab-
orate fur trimmings, the fur being
used in quantities.
A successful blending of blue fox
which is called remard fume, is used
on many models of this sort. It is an
excellent imitation of the natural blue
fox, there being an underlay of blue
gray fur like the skin of this some-
what rare animal. The tips of the
long hairs are reddish brown,
Jet and Jewel Harnesses.
Among the things that add variety
to the evening costume are head-
dresses with fans to match, and the
fans made to correspond in color and
fabric with evening dresses. The
American womran shows that she does
not absolutely follow the fashions set
by Paris by not receiving with any
degree of enthusiasm the lace fans in
color to match gowns, which are Bo
prominent in Paris. Rather have the
women of this country chosen the old-
fashioned ostrich feather fan—an un-
usual thing to do, considering the num-
ber of new and novel fans offered.
A set, consisting of headdress with
fan to match, seen recently was effec-
tively displayed by a dark-haired wom-
an who wore a dress of brown lace
made over a foundation of red silk.
From one side of a low placed girdle |
of steel hangs a very full tunie, also |
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Remember the old heavily loaded pole lines
which literally darkened the streets back in
the nineties?
A triumph of the telephone art were those “big
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But cable is the thing today for these heavy lines.
As many as 3000 wires are now enclosed within a sheath
no bigger ’round than a man’s wrist.
In the more congested districts where it is eco-
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