SE Ae WE SE SS Tot, DensoreaicA atcha, Bellefonte, Pa., February 9, 1923. Country Correspondence Items of Interest Dished Up for the Delectation of “Watchman” Read- ers by a Corps of Gifted Correspondents. ATHLETICS, GAMES, Etc. ) By L. A. Miller. It strikes me that while athletics and rational amusements are becom- ing more popular they should be en- couraged by parents and teachers as well. The more progressive class of teachers are beginning toc manifest a great interest in athletics and ration- al amusements. There are a limited number of teachers, however, who take the opposite view; they are the ones who are not following their call- ing, they would be more in their ele- ment if engaged in digging post holes or building worm fences. Entertain- ments of a social nature, most of them given at home, except those of out-of-door character, are the very life of society. Ladies and gentlemen are thus brought together in a famil- iar and pleasing way, and the result is ever for the good of both. There are many ways of making pleasant entertainments out of infor- mal gatherings. Such an evening may last from nine to twelve o’clock. Where impromptu dancing is resorted to, as it often is, another hour is some- times added. If dancing is excluded, games, music, ecards, or recitations should take its place. If neither card playing nor dancing is permitted, the supper usually becomes the feature of the evening. There is a certain etiquette to be observed in playing social games. In card playing especially, this is a ne- cessity. In the first place, it is the hostess who proposes the game. In the second, no one who refuses should be urged in the amusement. They may have conscientious scruples, and respect should be shown their princi- ples. Unless, however, this be the reason, no one should refuse to play from mere caprice, when their pres- ence is required to make up a table. The amusement question has been a vexed one, and is liable to be a fruit- ful source of trouble for some time to come. The difficulty appears to be in drawing the line. That some classes of amusement, so called, are harmful and demoralizing is not doubted, even by those who patronize them. But it does not necessarily follow that all classes are demoralizing, or even have & tendency in that direction. Sweep- ing condemnation of things is not al- ways profitable. No matter how small the grain of good, it ought to be rec- ognized, no difference where found. It often happens that those who make a great show of shunning the very ap- pearance of evil, shun a great deal of good and miss many opportunities for enjoying themselves and making oth- ers happy. Prize fights, dog fights and such like are called amusements by some, and properly enough, for the word means anything that is entertaining, «even to 2 sermon. The preacher mus- es over it and then amuses his audi- ence with it. The word, however, is usually associated with pleasureable pastime or mirthful entertainment. Therefore, there is nothing wrong in the dog fighter or prize fighter apply- ing it to his entertainment, because those who patronize it have such bru- tal tastes that they really and truly regard such performances with pleas- ure. Must those whose tastes are more refined be denied indulgence in harmless and entertaining, if not re- ally edifying pastimes, simply be- cause they happen to be classed as amusements ? To some the word conveys only the idea of something light, worthless or trivial, and therefore, unworthy the attention or sanction of those who are seeking the solid comforts of life. Among the more common amuse- ments, dancing has probably been fought over more than any other. In the country districts, particularly, has it been the subject of no little discus- sion. The text for many a sermon and the cause of no end of trouble. Socie- ty has been shaken from foundation to turret, families wrecked, and churches broken up by it. One phil- osopher would conclude that the best thing to do where it caused trouble either to society, home, or church, would be to drop it altogether. Anoth- er philosopher regards each faction as equally guilty of offense. Those who might enjoy a little quiet dance have as much right to their enjoyment as ‘those who spend their time sitting arcund the fire or lunch table gossip- HAMBONE'S MEDITATIONS DEY WANTER KNow EF AH SPECTS T' MAKE ENNY {MONEY OFFEN MAH GYAHDEN { BUT AH DONE MADE A LIL | BIT-~ A GENTMAN GIMME { A DOLLAH CASE HE CHICKENS SCRATCHED IT ALL UP!! —— er” «Copyright, 192. by McClure Newspaper Syndicat, ping. He holds that it is a mere matter of taste. A person has a perfect right to eat onions, limburger cheese, or smoke a vile pipe, but that does not justify him in forcing his presence up- on those who have no taste for such savory delicacies. However, he has just as much right to compel them to adopt his tastes as they have to force him to cease gratifying his. Card playing as an amusement or pastime, has been a fruitful source of discord in society. Because cards are used for gambling purposes, all games played with them are scratched by some very good people. That a so- cial game of cards has long been re- garded as a pleasant diversion, has no weight with the anti-card players. A man well known by me, who is dead now, and in heaven, if earnestness in the cause of christianity is a passport, used to say he would as soon see the devil in his house as a fiddle, and would prefer a company of imps to a deck of cards. Whether the social game of euchre or five hundred leads to playing poker for money is the point to be decided. So many people differ in opinion on this proposition. SMULLTON. Mrs. R. C. Bair, who has been hous- ed up for some days with an attack of the grip, is very much improved. A number of flittings will take piace in our town this spring, and present prospects indicate several vacant houses as leftovers. Herbert Stover, our enterprising coal dealer, received another car of chestnut coai this week which was un- loaded by George Waite and others. The electric light service is giving satisfaction in our town. Regarding the question as to who deserves cred- it for their installation, we are unable to state exactly, but your correspond- ent is not claiming any distinction in this direction. The item appearing under the head- ing of “Smullton” last week which made mention of a certain citizen of this town working on the Sabbath, was no doubt intended as an adver- tisement, but we would call attention to the fact that our work needs ne introduction. We do not advertise, and will thank our friendly scribe if he will refrain from doing us this fa- vor. We like to work, and no work will be done on the Sabbath unless it is absolutely necessary, and if neces- sary will take pride in seeing to it that our mother need not cut the wood for her stove. a pr sss. BOALSBURG. John Dernar is able to be out after a serious attack of tonsilitis. Mr. and Mrs. Keller Snyder, of the Branch, were visitors at the D. M. Snyder home on Sunday. Professor Whitehead is seriously ill with erysipelas. Mrs. Whitehead has also been ill, with quinsy. Rev. and Mrs. William J. Wagner and A. W. Dale and daughter were entertained at the home of Mr. and Yrs, Leonadis Mothersbaugh on Tues- ay. Mrs. William Goheen returned Mon- day from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. E. R. Tussey, at Arch Springs. The Tusseys expect to become resi- dents of Boalsburg in the spring. Preaching services will be held in the Reformed church Friday and Sat- urday evenings, with Communion service on Sunday morning. Rev. Ro- mig, of State College, preached on Thursday evening. Ex-Kaiser and His Bride Apart. Living The correspondent of the Yorkshire Evening News, wiring to his paper from Doorn says: “In spite of elaborate efforts to hide the truth I have discovered that the second marriage of the former Ger- man Emperor has been a complete failure and that at the present mo- ment he is living in one part of the castle while his wife and her chil- dren are in another. I am told that a very few weeks sufficed to bring about the breakdown. “Those who are near the ex-Kaiser have been struck by the grave altera- tion not only in his mood but in his character. He is said to have been affected very unfortunately by the op- eration for gland transference he un- derwent before his second marriage. His own children have not forgiven him for the second marriage and his step-children avoid him. “His means are reduced and his pri- vate expenditure strictly limited. He is living today under most unhappy family conditions. He can command neither service, affection nor compan- ionship and the breakdown in his do- mestic arrangements is painfully ap- parent to the very few who visit him.” Prescription Sent by Radio is Deliv- ered in Ten Minutes. A radiophone was used in Bayonne, N. J., recently by a physician to order a prescription from a drug store. When Dr. Frederick C. Gray called at the home of Mrs. Marie Wandelt he found her suffering from influenza, which showed signs of developing into pneumonia. In an adjacent room the physician | noticed Mrs. Wandlet’s son, Paul, 21, i operating a radiophone. Dr. Gray { asked the young man if any druggist {in town had a radio outfit, and Paul remembered that of A. C. Nuber Jr. | The druggist happened to be at his set, the prescription was ordered by radio, filled and delivered within ten minutes. | Got the Gate. | iim" “I understand you have an efficiency i expert over at the place where you | work.” | “‘Have’ is wrong; ‘had’ is the | word.” “What was the matter? Was he i incompetent ?” | “No, he was too darned competent. i He discovered that the boss was wast- ing half of our time telling us things that we knew better than he did.” Over 35,000 College Students in Penn- sylvania. One person out of every 260 resi- dents of Pennsylvania goes to college. Twenty-five years ago Pennsylvania had one ccllege student to every 865 persons, or a total of 6,874 students, which was only 20 per cent. of the to- | tal number of young Pennsylvania men and women who are now receiv- ing college education. Today the number of university, col- lege and professional students whose homes are in Pennsylvania, is more than 35,000 or enough to make up the entire population of Adams county. There are enough young men and women attending Pennsylvania col- leges to entirely populate a city the size of Williamsport, according to fig- ures compiled by Prof. A. H. Espen- shade, registrar of The Pennsylvania State College, from a bulletin recently issued by the federal bureau of educa- tion, based upon the late census fig- ures. Pennsylvania is exceeded only by New York in the number of its resi- dents who are attending college, the New York number being about 50,000. Almost 80 per cent. of the Pennsylva- nians who go to college are enrolled in institutions within the State bounda- ries. This State sends over 7000 to col- leges and universities in other States. Over 8000 students from outside the State attend Pennsylvania colleges. There are over 36,000 students at- tending Pennsylvania institutions, not including normal schools and independ- ent theological schools. In this re- spect, Pennsylvania is exceeded only by New York whose colleges have 55,- 130 students in attendance. Approximately one out of every ten Pennsylvania young men and women who attend colleges in the State are enroiled at The Pennsylvania State College where 95 per cent. of the total student body are residents of the State and where every county is represent- ed. This wide representation at State College is one of the big reasons why the institution should be recognized as the State University according to president John M. Thomas. re —— sees. SALT WILL DESTROY SOOT. Burning soft coal in furnaces caus- es soot to accumulate more rapidly and in greater quantity than when an- thracite coal is used, and the likeli- hood of chimney fires is thereby in- creased. The Federal Fuel Adminis- tration recommends introducing com- mon salt in the furnaces to remove the soot and gives the following advice with regard to its use: “The fire is put into good condition with a substantial body of hot fuel. Common salt, thoroughly dried, is then thrown or sprinkled over the incan- descent fuel bed in a quantity depend- ing entirely on the size of the furnace. In the case of a house-heating furnace, one pound at a time is ample; in the case of a large power-plant boiler, four or five scoopsful may be requir- ed. The dampers are kept open so as to maintain the furnace temperature, and the salt is allowed to remain un- a its fumes have entirely disappear- ed. “Immediately upon charging the salt, the furnace becomes filled with dense white fumes which may require as much as half an hour to entirely disappear. If results are not secured on the first application, the treatment should be repeated as many times as necessary. Once the heating surface is thoroughly cleaned, a small applica- tion every few days is usually suffi- cient to keep it so. “Every one using soft coal is urged by the administration to use this re- markably simple and cheap process for getting rid of the soot, and clean- ing the heating surfaces of boilers, thus saving large amounts of coal, preventing fires from chimneys, and generally conserving all along the line of heating and the production of power.” It should not be necessary to warn against putting ashes into wooden barrels or boxes or other combustible containers, but the large number of fires that are caused in this way, every year, indicate that this common-sense precaution is too often overlooked. Ashes should be placed in metal con- ajners only.—The Traveler's Stand- ard. St. Valentine. “The Catholic Encyclopedia” tells us that at least three different St. Valentines, all of them martyrs, are mentioned in the early martyrologies under the date of February 14. One is described as a priest at Rome, another as Bishop of Interamnia (the modern Terni), and these two seem both to have suffered in the second half of the Third century, and to have been buried on the Flamenian Way, but at different distances from the city of Rome. Of both of these St. Valen- tines some sort of Acta are preserv- ed, but they are of relatively late date and of no historical value. Of the third St. Valentine, who suffered in Africa with a number of companions, nothing further is known. Old Home-Made Valentines. Often an old book will reveal a “home-made” valentine of the early days, thin paper cut in a design of interwoven hearts, in a forgotten ant, the edges clipped into delicate points, the verses penciled on the margin. A few years ago, some old English val- entines were brought to light, which went back to the days when the val- entine of the shops was made of lace paper and colored flowers with blank spaces in which the purchaser wrote his own verses. This fashion is men- tioned in a little English book of 1830, but it is many years since the custom has been observed. " CASTORIA Bears the signature of Chas, H.Fletcher. In use for over thirty years, and The Kind You Have Always Bought. i Mrs. Shuey had. ' Mfrs., Buffalo, N. Y. | LONG KNOWN AS THE DAY OF HEARTS AND LACE. “For this was on seynt Valentines day, when every bird cometh there to choose his mate.”—Chaucer. The old notion was that birds be- gan to choose their mates in Febru- ary. Then Marcus Aurelius Flavius Claudius had a bishop of the church put to death on 14 February, seven- teen hundred and fifty-two years ago. The bishop became a martyr and a saint and because his name was Vlen- tinus, February 14 became his day, St. Valentine’s day. It is easy to find some satirical sig- nificance in the superstitions on the calendar of these days, the bishop's and the bird’s. It takes something of the courage of a christian martyr to publicly choose a mate. They used to draw lots on St. Valentine’s eve, the young men and the young women gathered together, making merry. And it is safe to suppose that when a young man was not pleased with his lot, he made sarcastic remarks, until it occurred to him to transfer his bit- terness into drawings wheih exag- gerated the crossed eyes or the straight hair or the ugly expression of the unloved one. Having vented his own wrath, he could then show it to her, thus spoiling the evening for both of them, but possibly satisfying the “grouch’” that at some seasons af- flicts even lovers. : It’s a fortunate thing that the peo- ple who start customs which are to last until the planet cools, have no no- tion of what they are starting. Fancy poor old Valentine’s dismay as he as- cended to the stake, if he had realized that his name would be taken in vain by every young man making amor- ous advances to a young woman along in the early spring—“I am your valentine,” not knowing that what he was really saying was, “I am your martyr.” And those Chaucerian boys and girls, meeting to choose Valen- tines—fancy the irritated one with a talent for drawing suddenly seeing himself at the head of a long line of ungallant youths, his effort at satire the forerunner of all the ugly comies that ever made a maiden blush or a matron lose her temper. But it might have made the sweet souled youth a bit smug when he en- closed his undying affection in gilt and lace and wrapped it in a sweet- scented fern, to look down the years ahead of him at the truck loads, the car loads, the factories built to pro- duce just such lace and gilt and silver concrete tokens of an instinct no less beautiful because it frequently is evanescent. To Valentine, a bishop then, To tell their troubles came young men, For Claudius had edicts read That no young warriors should be wed, For single men, he said, were quite More likely to be put to fight; Said he was sorry if it vexed, But Mars came first and Venus next. But Bishop Valentine, old saint, Was much opposed to such restraint. So all the sweethearts in old Rome Left letters at the bishop's home, And set their weddings for Ides, When Valentine made them war brides. Such were the Valentines of old, Dut young men now are not so bold. —Kansas City Times. t—————— mn tma———— ~——Subscribe for the “Watchman.” Mid-Continent Field Largest Oil Pro- ducer. What is known as the Mid-Conti- nent field, embracing the oil bearing sections of Kansas, Oklahoma, North- ern and Central Texas, Northern Lu- isiana and Arkansas, is the largest oil producing area in the United States. Its output during August was 25,419,- 000 barrels of high grade oil, or near- ly 55 per cent. of the total production of the country during that month, Oklahoma produces more oil than any other single State in the Union. During August, according to the American Petroleum Institute, the Ok- lahoma wells produced 12,667,000 bar- rels of crude petroleum, or at the rate of 408,616 barrels a day. California was Oklahoma's nearest competitor in point of production, the August output of the Pacific coast State being 11,849,000 barrels. Frogs and Toads. Frogs and toads are certainly enti- tled to our protection on account of the good they do in destroying vast numbers of insects and worms. The toads do this in the gardens and the frogs in marshy places, where the air, on account of flies and other insects, would be almost unfit to breathe with- out the services they render. The De- partment of Agriculture estimates the value of one toad to be twenty dollars a year. MEDICAL. 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Don’t simply ask for a kidney remedy—get Doan’s Kidney Pills—the same that Foster-Milburn Co., 63-6 IS LOSING POPULAR FAVOR. | Pretty Custom of Sending Anonymous | “Valentines” Threatens to go En-| tirely Out of Fashion. | { Valentine’s day is now almost out of fashion. Year after year the cus- | tom of sending anonymous letters or! cards of amatory significance has been on the wane. ~ True, it is an ancient custom, insti- tuted long before the Christian era, and the day is mentioned by Shakes- peare, Chaucer, and as well by Lyd- gate, who died in the middle of the Fifteenth century. One of the earliest known writers of valentines, or poet- ical amorous addresses, was no less a personage than Charles, Duke of Or- leans. Drayton, a contemporary of Shakespeare, wrote: Muse bid the morn awake, Sad winter now declines; Jach bird doth choose a mate, This day's St. Valentine's; For that good bishop’s sake Get up and let us see What beauty it shall be That fortune us assigns. Notwithstanding the reference to the “good bishop,” many claim that St. Valentine had nothing to do with the matter beyond the accident of his day being used for this purpose. State Man Built Famous Railroad. The fact that it was a Penn State college graduate, William M. Porter, who is said to have had charge of the construction of the railroad up Pike’s Peak, developed through the investi- gation of records of graduates under- taken recently by president John M. Thomas. Mr. Porter was one of the most prominent civil engineers ever graduated from Penn State. He was a member of the class of 1888 and fol- lowed his profession in Colorado, where he died about eight years ago. He was a native of Huntingdon coun- ty, and was born and raised in Peters- burg. The Pike’s Peak engineer attended Penn State in the days when engineer- ing studies were fast becoming popu- lar through the early development of the land grant colleges throughout the country. These State colleges were started by an act of Congress with a leading purpose of providing collegiate grade instruction in ‘“‘agri- culture and mechanic arts.” Many of these colleges have since been estab- lished as State universities, and for the past year president Thomas has been pointing out the many addition- al advantages of service to be receiv- ed by the people of Pennsylvania if State College is given recognition and adequate state support as the State University. sen pete reas an— A House Divided. A northerner was hnuting in the south, and one afternoon he got drenched through. A southern farmer took him in, gave him a suit of clothes to wear while his own clothes dried, and insisted that he stay all night. The northerner, of course, was pro- foundly- touched by this Aig of southern hospitality. Just after supper, as the contented northerner, full of good food, was going up stairs to his bedroom for his pipe, he met the lady of the house coming down with a huge book under her arm. As he had her husband’s clothes on, she mistook him for her husband in the dim light, and brought the book down on his head with a bang. “Thar!” she hissed. “That’s what ye git for askin’ him ter stay ull night!” © HOOD'S SARSAPARILLA. Is Your Blood Good or Thin and Watery? You can tell by the way you feel. You need Hood’s Sarsaparilla to make your blood rich, red and pure, tingling with health for every organ. You need it if weak and tired day in and day out, if your appetite is poor, sleep unrefreshing,—for hu- mors, boils, eruptions, scrofula, rheu- matism, headaches, nervous prostra- tion. It is simply wonderful to give strength to your whole body. 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