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Bellefonte, Pa., April 14, 1922.
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GOES BACK TO OLD EGYPT
Legend of Cinderella, Almost Uni-
versal, Belleved to Have Come
From Ancient Memphis.
Cinderella and the legend surround-
ing her glass slipper is believed to
have originally come from ancient
Memphis. In the ruins of this buried
city lles the pyramid of Rhodopis, who
lsved at Naucratis, and was incom-
parably beautiful and chaste. One day
when Rhodopis was bathing an eagle
flew through the open ceiling of her
bathroom and plucked from her maid's
hands the sandal which she was just
about to lace about her mistress’
foot.
The eagle then flew to Memphis,
where the king was administering jus-
tice in one of the courts of the palace,
and, hovering above the king, dropped
the sandal, which fell into the folds of
the king's garment. He examined the
sandal and found it so small and love-
ly that he bade his servants search all
Egypt till they should find the woman
whom it would fit.
Rhodopis was found in Naucratis
and carried to the king, who married
her. She died after a few months’
happiness, and the disconsolate king
had one of the costliest pyramids of
antiquity built in her memory. In the
first century B. C. the priests of Mem-
phis were wont to exhibit a sandal in
a crystal shrine which, they declared,
once belonged to Rhodopis, miraculous-
ly preserved through many centuries.
Thé sarcophagus and the mummy of
Rhodopis have entirely vanished and
her pyramid is little more than a ruin,
but her legend lives in every land.
FAMOUS “LION OF LUCERNE”
Thorvaldsen’s Masterpiece Commem-
orates the Heroism of the Swiss
Guards in Paris in 1792.
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The well-known monument called
the “Lion of Lucerne,” erected near
Lucerne, in 1821, commemorates the
tragic fate of the Swiss guards in the
French Revolution when in their de-
votion to duly they were sacrificed to
the bullets of the Marseillais and the
pikes of the mob, August 10, 1792.
This infantry regiment, the “Gardas
Suisses,” had been originally a Swiss
mercenary regiment in the Wars of
Religion; but for their own good con-
duct at the combat of Arques they
were incorporated in the permanent
establishment of the Maison du Roi,
by Henry 1V, (Henry of Navarre), in
4589, and in the guards in 1615. The
French guards sided openly with the
constitutional movement at the Revo-
lution, and were disbanded, but the
Swiss guards remained faithful to
their trust.
This monument was the work of
Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770-1844), a
Danish sculptor, noted for his statues
of Christ and the apostles, and for
his efforts at classical sculpture. He
was the son of an Icelander who had
settled in Denmark, and was born at
Copenhagen, There he lies buried un-
der a bed of roses in the courtyard
of the museum he endowed.
But Is It Worth It?
This is a remedy of an English
woman for taking off superfluous
ounces from the face that has be-
come too fat through overeating and
lack of exercise.
To begin with, of course, she rec-
ommends mild dieting and plenty of
walking and lots of water to drink
every day. This to cut down super-
fluous fat all over the body."
One good exercise is this: Open
the mouth and work the jaw vigor-
ously, first to the right, then to the
left, then backward, then forward.
Do this persistently.
Then draw the cheeks in between
the teeth and puff them out hard and
full. Then, with the teeth shut tight,
stroke the cheeks with the palms of
the hands gently upward from the
chin tip to forehead. Don’t do any
of the stroking exercises too rapidly
or vigorously, but do them for a long
time, persistently, slowly. You will
get the best results in this way.
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American Time Signals Best.
The English freely admit that the
system of telegraphic time signals
adopted by the naval observatory at
Washington is much to be preferred to
that in use at Greenwich for supplying
Great Britain with standard time.
At Greenwich a signal is sent out at
noon, whereas at Washington a series
of signals is used, beginning five
minutes before noon. During these
five minutes every tick of the observa-
tory clock is electrically transmitted,
except-the twenty-ninth second of each
minute, the last five seconds of the
first four minutes, and at last ten
seconds of the fifth minute. After this
final ten seconds break, the noon
signal is given, In this manner the
middle of each minute is clearly in.
dicated, and yet more clearly the in-
stant of moon. The length of the
series facilitates the regulation of
clocks and chronometers.
Her Present Occupation.
“You say that your wife went to col-
lege before you married her?”
“Yes, she did.”
“And she thought of taking up law,
you sald?”
“Yes; but now she's satisfied to lay
it down.”
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FEW KNOW FACE OF WATCH
Remarkable Fact That Can Be Verified
by Casual Inquiry Ameng One's :
Acquaintances.
Something about the queer way In
which most of us use—or rather do
not use—our powers of observation
can be learned in a very simple way.
Ask the next person met whether 6
o'clock on his watch is marked by
Roman or an Arabic numeral, If he
does not admit that be does not know,
he can be set down as a really excep-
tional person—one in about a thousand
or so—and after he looks at his watch
to see just how that figure is made,
he will have the further surprise of
finding that it is marked with neither
“g” nor “VL”
This test recently was applied at a
meeting of high railway officials in
St. Louis and one of them passed it,
though they, if anybody, might have
been expected to know just how their
watches were made, The railroaders
laughed at each other and seemed to
be a little humiliated, but really there
was not much need, if any, for feeling
that emotion.
None of them knew how 6 o'clock was
marked, for the excellent reason that
knowledge would have been quite
worthless in their business and only
would have taken up room in their
minds better filled with other informa-
tion, They all could “tell time,” and
that was enough.
WILD CREATURES HATE SNOW
Means Time of Misery and Hunger to
Both Bird and Beast, and
Thousands Starve.
Most wild creatures abhor snow.
For the rabbits and hares it means
that they must scratch down through
the dull, frozen stuff before they can
find their usual food. If the snow is
really hard the rabbits are reduced to
eating the bark of the fences near the
warrens,
All the smaller birds are cut off
from their food supplies. Those that
live on worms or insects are particu-
larly hard hit, and if the snow lies
long the death roll among such birds
as robins is really terrible. In that
winter of 1617, when there were a
hundred days of snow and frost in
England it is estimated that the Brit-
ish isles lost about one-third of their
small-bird population.
Water rats, shrews and others all
dislike frost and snow because such
weather makes food more difficult to
obtain. Otters, as a rule, make straight
for the coast in a hard frost, and live
on dabs and flounders in the unfrozen
estuaries.
Even rats, which can generally look
after themselves, dislike snow because
it makes their dark bodies too con-
spicuous to their enemies and pre-
vents them from moving about as
freely as they otherwise would.
Albanian “Mean” Shot With Rifle,
The Albanian male is a creature of
strange extremes, according to Ken-
peth L. Roberts, in a Balkan Jottings”
{n the Saturday Evening Post. When
encountered in his mountain fast-
nesses, garbed in flaring ballet skirts
or baggy felt trousers—according to
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‘the section of the country in which
he lives—and a half portion jacket
with pompons on the elbows, he is
what an American cavalryman would
call a bad hombre,
The Albanian carries a silver-
mounted rifle, a silver-mounted re
volver attached to his person by a
heavy silver chain, and a waist-band
full of edged tools and miscellaneous
kitchen knives. He is a “mean” shot
with a rifle, and can shoot his initials
in a horse’s ear at a distance of 10
paces. His sacred honor is constantly
being damaged by careless neighbors,
and the only way in which he can re-
pair the damage is to shoot an intrl-
cate pattern of holes through the
person who did the foul deed.
MADONNA WITH SILVER HALO
Remarkable Picture Among Othe
Fine Specimens in Historic Greek
Church at Sitka, Alaska.
Way up in Sitka, Alaska, that de
ightful old place of Russian memo
ries where the thermometer seldom
goes below zero in winter, there is an
old Greek church which is famous all
along the Pacific coast. Dating from
the days of Baranoff, it has stood
through many storms and vicissitudes,
and was for years the chief see In
the Russian-Greek church of western
America.
There arc several unique paintings
in this church which were brought |
over from Russia in the early years,
and everyone who is fortunate enough
to go to Alaska comes away from this
dingy, faded, green-colored church with
enthusiasm over the examples of fine
art that decorate the chancel and al
tar. Chief among these paintings ig
one of the so-called Sitka Madonna.
The peculiar feature about these
paintings, which is said to be em-
ployed nowhere else in the world, 18
the use of beaten silver for halos and
accessories. The metal is laid on such
a manner that it is almost impossible
to separate it from the rest of the
painting, and it produces a rich effect
that pigments cannot attain. The pic-
ture of the Madonna and Child has
voluminous drapery of this beaten sil-
ver, and the fame of its beauty 18 well
understood along the Pacific coast.
The Ascension, over the bronze
doors to the holy of holy screen, Is
a gem of Byzantine art, and the jew-
eled helmets and halos in the paintings
of the saints show the wonderful ver-
satility of the old-time Russian artists,
Massive candlesticks, jeweled crowns,
and robes of cloth of gold are in this
historic church—a reminder of histor
fc Alaska and the time when stern
Baranoff and his iron-hearted followers
held . full sway.
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Fifty Men and One Elephant.
Interesting tests were once made to
determine the respective pulling pow-
er of horses, men and elephants. Two
horses, weighing 1,600 pounds each,
together pulled 8,750 pounds, or 550
pounds more than their combined
weight. One elephant, weighing 12,000
pounds, pulled 8,750 pounds, or 8,250
pounds less than his weight. Fifty
men, aggregating about 7,500 pounds
tn weight, pulled 8,750 pounds, or just
as much as the single elephant. But,
like the horses, they pulled more than
their own weight. One hundred men
pulled 12,000 pounds.
WEAR BRIGHT RED
Hats, Purses, Shoes Are of the
Most Brilliant Hue.
Shade Is Pronounced In the Newest
Offerings Being Shown In the
French Shops.
To those who cannot go te Paris
and stroll along the Rue de la Paix,
where some of the most beautiful nov-
elties in the world are shown, as well
as many of the interesting hats which
eventually find their way to the mil-
linery shops in this country, the nov-
elties and millinery fresh from Paris
are especially Interesting. They rep-
resent the newest offerings of the ex-
clusive French shops.
The bright red straw hats come
first in this abbreviated review of
styles. They are harbingers of spring
after the long winter days. Some one
1—Bright Red Hat of Straw and
Leather. 2—Black Purse With Red
Leather Piping. 3—Shoe With Scar.
let Heel and Tongue.
has said that when it comes to the
matter of taste in dress women are
divided into two classes—those who
wear red hats and those who do not.
It is more than likely that the former
will be in the majority this year.
Leather in the brightest of reds,
verging on the scarlet hues, is used
for hats that do not savor of country
roads and golf courses, as one might
expect, but are made in designs quite
appropriate for town wear.
In colonial days both men and
women wore shoes with red heels, so
the shoes of today with scarlet heels
and tongues are a revival of a fashion
prevalent in times when all dress was
more frivolous and much more pic-
turesque than it is today.
Ancient Legislative Body.
It is said that the “House of Keys"
of the Isle jof Man, which is the
island's parliament, is the most an-
clent existing legislative body, as it
dates back to many years before the
Norman conquest. The laws are still
promulgated in the Manx language, a8
variation of Gaelic.
NASH FOUR
Nash Leads the World in Motor Car Value
ERHAPS no other single
feature of the Nash Four has
inspired so much favorable com-
ment as the remarkable riding
comfort with which it is endowed.
The reason for the surpassing
case with which it travels the
roughest roads goes straight back
WION
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GARAGE
to the new-type Nash springs,
which are formed of one great
masterleaf, an increased number
of scientifically graduated thinner
and more flexible leaves, and a
rebound plate that, in effect, forms
road blow.
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a cushion between the body of the
car and the rushing recoil from a
Bellefonte, Penna.
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