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Bellefonte, Pa., December 8, 1922.
THE DOLLAR BILL HANDSHAKE.
Founded on an incident told during a po-
litical campaign.
By Margaret H. Barnett.
He gave his hand in friendly clasp;
He was a man who wished to be
The holder of a place of trust,
In this fair country of the free.
But what was that which fluttered down,
When hands unclasped, that paper small?
On-lookers saw in it a joke,
A thing to laugh at, that was all.
He had not done it skillfully,—
There was no thought of wrong nor shame.
He should not let his money drop;
He was not skillful in the game.
Oh, many dollar bills there are
‘Which safely pass from hand to hand;
“The people” hold their birthright cheap,
The “Sovereigns’ of this great, free land.
So, sometimes those who make our laws
Are those who break them many a time;
Sometimes the law’s dread sentence falls
From those who are not free from crime.
But, as we think of dollar bills,
‘Which, in their hands, the voters find,
After a cordial, friendly grip,
This solemn question comes to mind:
The hand that passed the dollar bill,
Will it be raised to God on high, .
To swear by His most holy name,
“I have not moneey used to buy
My office in this goodly land,
‘Which now I promise well to fill,"—
‘Will it be raised to take this oath,
The hand that passed the dollar bill?
TYPICAL SCHOOL TEACHERS—
THEN AND NOW.
By L. A. Miller.
The question is often asked, by
those who take an interest in our pub-
lic school system: Is school teaching
a healthy business? Few teachers
grow fat and few become fresher or
tairer as the years go by. Whether it
is the fault of the business or a nat-
ural development of the teachers is
not so easy to determine. Scholars—
that is specialists, or, as more com-
monly called, cranks on special top-
ics—are more universally thin, lank
and angular. Are they thus because
they are scholars, or are they schol-
ars because they are thus? A fat
philosopher is a freak, a rari avis.
The old time pedagogue was thin,
crabbed and cranky. He believed that
solemnness, austerity and dignity
were the chief attributes of a good
teacher. To smile was to lose his grip
on the school, to perpetuate a joke was
to become undignified, or to yield a |
point, even if fairly beaten, meant
nothing less than the surrender of his
supremacy. He wore a solemn face
and a long, solemn coat, kept his hair
combed back behind his ears, usually
wore glasses, and invariably carried a
stout rod of correction under his arm.
The school-house in those days was a
solemn place, except when the mas-
ter’s back was turned. He intended it
should be so all the time. If there was
a smile or a whisper during study
hours and the master got wind of it,
the culprit had to suffer. To suffer in
those days meant something more
than being taken into a private room
and talked to until the tears flowed
freely. Instead thereof the master ap-
plied a tear starter that for efficiency
and promptness will double discount
the most pathetic talker in the State.
School masters—they were called
masters because they were masters—-
usually had the dyspepsia or were bil-
ious. They blamed it on having to
board around, one week at one place
and another at another. In so doing
they necessarily struck some humble
homes and very humble fare. How-
ever, it was generally found that they
had the dyspepsia when they com-
menced teaching, which led to the con-
clusion that dyspepsia and biliousness
were as much a part of the school-
master’s outfit as his knowledge of
reading, writing and cyphering.
There is scarcely positive evidence
enough to justify the assertion that
ladies and gentlemen become teachers
because they are dyspeptic or bilious,
while investigation has not gone far
enough to warrant the broad state-
ment that teaching makes them dys-
peptic, bilious and cranky, as there is
only danger of falling into error by
deciding either way, but also of doing
great injustice to some very worthy
people. The disposition, however, is
to find a verdict of not guilty and di-
vide the costs.
Since womankind has invaded the
domain of the schoolmaster and driv-
en him out, bag and baggage, there
his been less “hickory oil” administer-
ed, but the question is an open one,
whether the tougher classes are as
well served as under the old style of
treatment. The new style is decided-
ly homeopathic. The doses are small,
and generally heavily sugar-coated.
Think of being sent home an hour
before the usual time, or being kept
in for twenty minutes after school is
dismissed, for flirting with the girl
the boy likes best. An hour’s extra
play on the street or twenty minutes’
pleasant conversation with a pretty,
fascinating teacher! Where is the
boy who would not cry for more?
'Twere not so under the master. The
festive youth was made to stand up
in the middle of the floor, take off his
coat and submit to a good thrashing.
None of your dainty paddlings, but a
dozen or more sound, singing cuts
with a hickory switch, leaving welts
which would not disappear for a week.
The whipped would yell like a good-
fellow, while the whipper would wipe
the sweat from his brow, conscious
that he had made an impression that
would last.
The writer is not talking through
his hat, he has been there and knows
how it is himself. Do female teachers
impress boys with many ideas? Can
it be that the decline of manliness
complained of by the strong-minded
sisterhood is due to effeminate ideas
inculcated by the lady teachers? The
thought is shocking, yet it bobs up
| every time the effeminacy of the ris-
| ing man is broached. Banished be the
thought! That is what Lady Macbeth
said to the blood spot, but that was
all the good it did.
If a boy grows up among thieves he
is likely to be a thief; if raised among
Indians he will partake largely of the
Indian nature; if nurtured among
dudes he will naturally be dudish.
What is to hinder him from being soft
and womanish if his rudimentary ed-
ucation is obtained from women teach-
ers?
What a field is opened here for the
speculative philosophical woman-
hater!
School teachers are not more prone
to die than other folks, yet as a class,
they complain a great deal of their
killing duties. They say they pick up
like everything during vacation, some-
times gaining as much as twenty
pounds in weight, but one month in
the school-room reduces them to their
former style of wanness, whether it
is the expenditure of vital energy in
molding the youthful mind, or its
waste in scheming to get invitations
to the opera, oyster suppers or moon-
light drives, is a question that none
but an expert dare tackle, and he had
better have his hammock swung out
of reach of womankind.
If many of our lady teachers are
not unhealthy it is due more to good
luck than good management. They
starve themselves. No wonder they
lose their plumpness, and no wonder
their blood is thin, eyes either droopy
or starey.
It is almost a miracle that they are
not tortured with the dolereux and
neuralgia. blotched faces, smoked
complexions and shriveled skin should
not be complained of, because they
came in obedience to their bidding.
All these are the results of starvation.
The interior of the average teach-
er’s lunch basket is a curiosity. There
are a few cookies, a piece of pie, a
slice of cake, a taste of cheese and an
apple or an orange. They may have
a half dozen of peanuts and a few car-
amels, but this is only on special oc-
casions, such as the day after having
been at the opera. Anything would
grow sickly, thin and pimpled on such
a diet. There is scarcely any nour-
ishment in it; particularly of the kind
necessary to repair nerve waste.
School teaching may kes unhealthy
work for some women, but a majority
of those who become debilitated have
no one to blame but themselves. They
are either too proud, too prudish or
too finnicky to eat food such as is nec-
essary to supply the waste of vitality
caused in the discharge of their du-
ties and habits of life. Some people
are born snappish and cranky, but
more make themselves so. The aver-
age school teacher needs more muscle.
They must know that a flabby muscle
is indicative of a flabby brain.
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FOR HEALTH
HISTORY OF THE SEAL.
Our grandmothers playing at post-
office during the Civil war originated
the “Charity Stamp” out of which the
Christmas seal has grown. In 1862
a group of women interested in the
Sanitary Commission, the forerunner
of the American Red Cross, establish-
ed miniature postoffices in connection
with fairs held in Boston and other
eastern cities. By 1864 the charity
stamp used in connection with these
postoffices had raised more than a mil-
lion dollars for the care of soldiers in
northern hospitals.
After the Civil war the charity
stamp seems to have fallen into dis-
use. It was not until 1892, thirty
years later, that the idea again ap-
peared in a stamp for Red Cross work
in Portugal. From that time the use
of stamps began to spread over Eu-
rope.
THE FIRST TUBERCULOSIS SEAL.
In 1904 an enterprising Danish post-
master, the Hon. M. E. Holboll, con-
ceived the idea of using a stamp as a
tuberculosis seal and secured reyal pa-
tronage for launching a Christmas
stamp sale to establish a sanitorium
for children. The success of this in-
itial campaign was at once assuted
and the idea soon spread to the neigh-
boring Scandinavian countries, Nor-
way and Sweden. Later it spread to
Switzerland and before the war was in
vogue in more than a dozen European
countries.
THE AMERICAN RED CROSS STAMP.
In 1907, Jacob Riis, the well known
writer and social worker, received a
letter from a friend in Denmark bear-
ing one of the Danish tuberculosis
Christmas stamps. He was interested
in the little emblem and secured from
his friend something of its history,
which he described in an interesting
article in the “Outlook.” Miss Emily
P. Bissell, an enterprising Red Cross
worker in Wilmington, Del., read the
article and conceived the idea of us-
ing a Christmas stamp for a tubercu-
losis sanitorium which she was then
establishing in the outskirts of Wil-
mington. With the support of the
Philadelphia “North American” and
the local newspapers, she launched a
sale that brought in over $3,000 for
her project.
The success of the venutre at once
appealed to her imagination. After
much persuasion she was able to in-
duce the authorities of the American
Red Cross at Washington to under-
take a nation-wide campaign for the
sale of Red Cross Christmas stamps in
1908. Over $135,000 was realized
from this first sale, and that with
practically no organization except the
volunteer activity of women’s clubs,
religious organizations. Red Cross
chapters and other groups. The next
Sear the sale increased to over $200,
000.
A WINNING FIGHT.
When the National Tuberculosis As-
sociation was organized in 1904 the
death rate from tuberculosis was
slightly over 200 per 100,000 popula-
tion. Armament for the fight against
tuberculosis was meagre; a few scat-
tered sanatoria, for the most part
poorly equipped; a handful of tuber-
culosis workers and specialists; less
than a half dozen working associa-
tions; hardly a score of clinics; no
sm.
nurses; no open air schools and prac-
tically no aroused public sentiment.
As the year 1921 closes, the death
rate from tuberculosis is nearing the
remarkably low level of 100 per 100,
000 population, a cut of 50 per cent in
less than twenty years. The fighting
equipment against tuberculosis con-
sists of more than 700 well equipped
sanatoria, thousands of enthusiastic
workers, 1,200 tuberculosis associa-
tions, over 600 tuberculosis clinics
and a large number of traveling dis-
pensaries and clinics, thousands of tu-
berculosis nurses, several thousand
open air schools and fresh air classes,
and a thoroughly aroused public opin-
ion on the need for the control of the
disease.
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Infants and Children—Experience against Experiment.
Never attempt to relieve your baby with a
remedy that you would use for yourself.
What is CASTORIA
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Drops and Soothing Syrups.
neither Opium, Morphine nor
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It is pleasant. It contains
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Wind Colic and Diarrhoea;
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therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids
the assimilation of Food; giving healthy and natural sleep.
The Children’s Comfort—The Mother’s Friend.
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HOSIERY! HOSIERY!
Big Holiday Values in Silver Star Hosiery,
Silk and Wool Hosiery.
$1.50 ladies black silk hose, 3 pairs for - $2.75
$1.25 ladies woolen hose, black, cordovan
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75c. Men's silk hose, all colors and black - 50
50c Lislehose - - - - 25
LADIES AND CHILDREN'S KIMONAS AND
BATH ROBES
Ladies silk crepe and cotton kimonas, all colors.
Cotton from $1.00 up; silk crepe kimonas for $5.50.
Ladies bath robes from $3.00 up.
Children’s bath robes at $2.00.
Bed room slippers to match.
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COATS, SUITS, Ete. «P=
A December sale of women’s and Misses’ coais,
suits and dresses. These garments are all of this
season’s buying, and the prices will make them with-
in the reach of every economical buyer.
We invite your inspection.
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