adam. | Bellefonte, Pa., March 23, 1923. NELLE GYWNNE NOT ALL BAD Good Qualities of Famous Personage Shone in a Circle and Age No- toriously immoral. Nelle Gywnne, orange girl, tavern singer, successful actress, and later mistress of Charles II, the “restored Stuart” to the throne of England, is a character in English history. She used improper language, had tavern- tainted manners, and lack of early training till the last showed in her exterior, but her nature was not per- manently corrupted or tainted. Terrible stories have always been afloat of her coarseness, plebian birth (she was born in a coal cellar) and corrupt life, but her later blographers prove that she was not entirely good for nothing. She is sald to have been the only human being in England that exer- cised anything like a good influence over the wayward, frivolous Charles IL. Her acts of charity were sub- stantial and much needed, and as the years passed on, and the oppor- tunities for wrongdoing increased, and her beauty and personal charms increased, her behavior became more and more prudent and her character more and more circumspect. Pepys’ diary describes Nelle Gwynne as a good actress and a pretty one, a charming wit, and universally popular. She pleased every one, from the king to the charcoal seller. Songs were written about her, styles of dress were named for her, and her portraits were painted. ———————————— GREEK PERFECTION IN ART Infinite Labor and Patience Expended on Even the Most Insignificant Coins and Gems. The delicacy and minuteness of Greek work is of course most obvious in the reliefs of coins and gems. The coins were not primarily meant to please the eye, but to circulate in the fish-market; yef' a multitude of the dies are so exquisitely finished that they lose little when magnified to ‘many diameters, and will. bear the most critical examinatiom. The in- taglio gems. were meant for the seal- ing of decuments, the seal taking the place of the modern signature; but the figures. upon seals are in their way as finished as great works of sculpture. Seals even more usually than coins gain rather than lose If {hey are enlarged. Yet they were ex- ecuted without the help of magnifying glasses. Their subjects are taken from | the widest field, the figures of deities, tales from mythology,” portraits, ani- | mal forms; like the coins they iatro- duced as an undercurrent to the pro: not conquer. The beast’s attitude of poetry and imagination—Fercy Gard- ner, in “The Lamps of Greek Art.” india’s Sacred River. The Ganges is the sacred river of the | Hindus. On its banks are many tem- ples and holy places such as Benares, | Allahabad, Hardwar and Gangotri. According to the legend Princess Gan- ‘da, a Hindu goddess, of long ago, ‘turned herself into this great river, that she might enrich and purify the country. Devout Hindus bathe them- selves in its sacred waters and pray to die beside it. It Is heir desire that their bodies may be burned upon its waters and allowed to float on down to the sea. The length of the main stream of the Ganges is 1,557 miles, and its every bend is sacred. Pilgrims walk from its source and back again, taking six months or more for the pilgrimage. Before the Jug-! gernaut car which rolled in the pro- | cession along its banks fanatics used to throw themselves, to be crushed to death amid the applause of the wor- shipers. This is now forbidden by law as Is also the burning of widows on the funeral pyre of their husbands, and the casting of babes into the sa- cred river. Ancients Knew of Asbestos. It is said to have been established that the ancient Greeks and Romans were aware of the fireproof proper- ties of asbestos and made use of it in burying their kings. During the height of the Roman empire native kings and members of the nobility ! wore asbestos cloaks. According to an old legend, Charlemagne had his: cloak and table covers made from ' this mineral, and mystified his guests by throwing the strange fabric on a fire and then withdrawing it undam- aged. Marco Polo, in 1250 A. D., visited ithe Great Khan of Tartary and found :a fireproof material being manufac- tured from what he believed was the skin of the salamander—an animal popularly supposed to be immune from fire. It has been established that it was really asbestos fabric. Commoner Who Made Many Lords. William Pitt, the younger, when he first became prime minister of England, found 250 peers in the house of lords. In nineteen years he created 140 more. | “He made peers of second-rate squires and fat graziers,” Disraeli said of him. “He clutched them from the counting houses of Cornhill and caught them in the alleys of Lombard street.” Pitt rarely rose before noon and it is said that he often did not work after dinner, because he was intoxicated. He arrived at the house of commons drunk on the day when war was declared be- tween England and France in 1703. { —after they UAUUT WAS NUI GUNLERNEY information Must Have Been of Con- siderable Importance to Woman Who Was Returning Home. The woman was evidently returning from a trip away from home. When she came into the waiting room at the station three youngsters swooped down upon her and all but smothered her with hugs and kisses, “My, I'm glad to get home!” the mother exclaimed. “And how is Har- ry?” she asked. “Oh, Harry did just fine while you were gone!” Virginia put in. “He didn’t tease me a bit, and he helped with the work, and he took his music lesson, and he practiced every day, and—and everything.” “That was fine, Harry!” mother praised. “And you, Virginia; how did you do?” Of course it was up to Harry to do his part here. “Say, mamma, Virginia’s a brick!” he exclaimed. “She can cook most as good as you can, and sweep—say, mamma, you ought to see her sweep!” “Well, I'm certainly glad to kear that,” mother told them. “And little Rosemary, of course she was all right —but how mamma did miss her!” “I helped Virginia cook!” Rosemary told her mamma, with evident pride. “Well, you all did just fine, I can see that,” mother repeated. “And, now, what about daddy? You haven't told me a thing about him!” “Oh, daddy's all right,” Harry as- sured her. “Why only last night dad sald you needn't come back for three months as far as he was concerned.”— Kansas City Star. LAST ANALYSIS OF SUCCESS Some Worth-While Thoughts That It May Pay the Busy Man to Ponder Over. It isn’t success if it costs you the companionship and chumminess and love of your children. Very often busy, wealthy men of momentous af- fairs discover too late that they have sacrificed the finest thing in life, the affection of their family. Let me re- late an incident recently told me which contains a priceless suggestion for many ultra-busy business men. A prominent public utility executive of Illinois told a friend that he was going to give his young son an unusual Ohrisliuas present. “I'm going,” he sald, “to write my boy a letter telling him that, as a Christmas present, I'm going to give-him-an heur of my time every: day.” He added that he had been doing a lot of thinking on the subject. and felt that he owed this to his son. Alas, he died two weeks later. I work at least an average of twelve hours a day, but I never fail to find time to romp with my little fellows or to tell them stories—“grand new ones” are ready for bed. 1 wouldn't forego this pleasure for the gake of any amount of money. Wealth is an excellent thing to possess if earned honestly and utilized sensibly. But wealth won at the expense of health or family affection isn't wealth, but poverty, poverty of heart, poverty of soul.—Baltimore American, Rat Campaigns Successful The biological survey of the United States Department of Agriculture con- ducted an anti-rat campaign in Geor- gia during December, and followed it with a similar campaign which Is in progress in Virginia. In co-operation with the extension service of the Geor- gia Agricultural college, preliminary organization work was done, and a statewide publicity campaign was put | on. The campaign attained its great- est efficiency at Atlanta when the chamber of commerce purchased and distributed free of charge two and three-quarter tons of barium carbon- ate for poisoned baits for rats. Satis- factory results are reported both In the number of rats killed and in the interest aroused In making conditions less favorable for these pests by elim- inating sources of food and harborage, and by the rat-proof construction or repair of buildings. It is planned to follow up the drives from time to time as required to control the rats effec- tively. Cactus as a Fodder. The cactus is first exposed to a torch which burns away the thorns, and is then carried to the slicing ma- chine, of the type that is used in sugar works. The machine is provided with specially formed knives and the cac- cus is cut up into slices, which are then dried and if desired ground into the form of a fine powder. : During the slicing operation part of the juice, which is exuded from the cactus, may be pressed out and collected separate- ly. The juice can then be converted into a substitute for gum arabic, which is probably a salt of meta-arabie acid. The yield of dry material, the fodder, is about 11 per cent of the weight of the raw cactus.—Journal of Engineering and Industrial Chemistry. French Workmen's Houses. French workmen's building and loan socleties, “Habitations a bon Marche,” have been started to help the construc. tion of buildings ror the working classes and to improve the sanitary conditions of those already existing in France. The state has granted a sub- vention of one-third of the cost of the construction, according to the com- merce bureau. In addition, the state will lend 75 per cent of the balance required, to be reimbursed within forty years, at an annual interest of 214 per cent on the amount borrowed. These societies are increasing, but not in sufficient pumber to meet the existing demand. OLDEST ARTICLES IN WORLD Chipped Stones, Found in England, Believed to Be Most Ancient of Made Implements. According to an English antiquary, the oldest manufactured articles in the world are probably some chipped stones found on the Kentish Weald, in England. Tar back, countless centuries ‘before any attempt at civilization, men were chipping stones into tools and weapons. Knives, axes, hammers, scrapers, spearheads, arrowheads, even awls for piercing skins, and roughly notched saws for cutting bone were made of flint or chert or obsidian—any stone that would chip to a cntting edge and’ hard enough to stand wear. Some are clumsy things, some beau- tiful in design and finish, and their varying workmanship indicates far greater differences between the men who made them than exists between an Egyptian king of 1400 B. C. and an English citizen of this age. Solutrean “laurel leaves,” or “shoul- dered points’—spearheads from Soul- tre, in France—are exquisite things, graceful in shape and finished in a manner which would be a credit to any modern craftwork. Yet they were made, according to some assertions, over 20,000 years ago. Earlier still, Mousterian implements from the cave of Le Moustier, varying in shape and size, all have the busi- nesslike wavy cutting edge distinctive of their period. Centuries before these the ruder Chellean and Strepyan implements were made, their unworked butts still showing the natural surface of the stone. And away back beyond them, thousands and thousands of vears ago, in the very dawn of human life, were made the “Eoliths” of the Kentish Weald. “CANNON” PROVED A FAILURE indian War Party Suffered Through the Inventive Genius of One of Their Number. One of the most peculiar pieces of ordnance ever invented was that which was tried for its sole occasion at the storming of Fort Henry, in what is now West Virginia, by Simon Girty, the famous renegade, and his several hundred Indian followers, on Septem- ber 1, 1777. All day long, without success and with considerable loss, the savages and their still more savage leader had been attempting to carry the little stockade with ts nandful of defenders. Night had settled down and their patience was short, when some inventive genius amongst them suggested the making of artillery with which to batter down the stubborn walls. A maple log, already hollowed by the process of time, was hound with chains, plugged at the breech with wood, filled to the muzzle with stones, pieces of iron and other missiles. It was then gate and discharged. The log burst into a thousand pieces, its fragments scattering in all directions and kill ing several of the attackers. And not a picket of the fort was injured. What and Where Kent's Hole ls. A cavern in the vicinity of Torquay, Ingland, famous not only for its relics of primative man, but also for its re- mains of extinct animals, is known as Kent's Hole. Although the existence of this cave had been known from time immemorial, it did not attract the attention of scientists until 1825. Excavations were carried on by Pen- gelly from 1865 to 1830, at a cost of nearly £2,000 and yielded results of the highest importance to the science of anthropology. There were found flint tools of the Paleolithic age and implements of bone, such as needles, awls and har- poons. The animal remains discov- ered comprised those of the lion, hyena, bear, wolf, fox, rhinoceros, mammoth, Irish elk and reindeer, showing that those animals once lived in Britain and were co-temporaneous with men of the Stone age. Battle for Fruit of Durian Tree. Desperate fights over the ownership of durian trees are of yearly occur- rence in the Malay peninsula. Some- times, when a tree has been found been wiped out in the struggle to pos- sess it. It is impossible to compare the fruit of the durian tree with its ex- traordinary odor and flavor, to any other. The fruit is creamlike in sub- stance. If the meat of a banana were squashed and mixed with an equal quantity of rich cream, a small quan- tity of chocolate and enough garlic to lend a strong taste to the whole, the result would be about the nearest pos- sible approach to the flavor and con- sistency of the durian. At the same time, the flavor is extremely delicate and, of course, indescribably rich. Origin of the Ring. In the course of a lecture on “Pre- cious Stones,” Professor Gordon said that early jewelry did not seem to have been set in rings. One of the earliest examples of the use of rings in statuary was in the statues of Prometheus, who, when re- leased from bondage on the interces- sion of Venus, wore a ring with a small piece of the Caucasus in it to show that he was still chained to the Caucasus. The idea of a ring being a sign of bondage has continued since those days. . Bishops and doctors wore rings by right because they had signed away their independence in order to benefit '" munkind, near a borderline, entire villages have | EVEN PERSIA SEES THE LIGHT # rightful Conditions of Child Labor ir That Country Have Been Greatly Amelivrated. Chila carpet weavers of Persia are 10 have an easier life hereafter. Ac- cording to the London Daily News, by an agreement between the carpet trad- ing ‘companies and the Union of Mas- ter Weavers in Kerman, no boy may now work in a factory before eight wears of age or a girl before ten. An eight-hour day is the maximum for children under fourteen. In addition, not only must the sheds be properly heated, but the little work- ers are to be given seats with backs on which to sit as they work, singing the song which tells of the pattern they are making; they are often too young to remember it by any other method. Bishop Linton of the Church Mis- sionary society, in his “Sketches on Persia,” tells how in low, unheated sheds the children from four or five upward have hitherto sat knotting threads all day and every day. As the pattern climbs the loom the rough beam on which the children sit is raised. To prevent themselves fall- ing to the ground they cross their legs vnderneath, and at the end of the day's work they have to be lifted down, ag they are too cramped to walk. Many are permanently crippled and |: can never support themselves on their legs. More horrible still is the custom of marriage at eight or nine years. fotherhood for these little cripples means certain death. Fire Truck Has Four-Wheel Drive. Fire-fighting apparatus has been im- proved upon to the extent of equipping large trucks with individual motor drives in each wheel and raising or lowering the ladders by air and hy- draulic pressure, says an illustrated article in Popular Mechanics Maga- zine. The current for the driving mo- tors is supplied from powerful stor- age batteries which are suspended be- neath the frame of the vehicle. An air compressor, driven by a gasoline engine, is incorporated in the outfit and furnishes the necessary elevating pow- er for the heavy ladders, the lowering of these being accomplished with the ald of oil brakes, or compression cyl- inders. The action of the ladders Is so simple that but one man is required to operate them, What Men Will Wear. Waistcoats exposing a smaller ex- panse of shirt and the passing of the permanent turned-up trouser ends are the principal feature of the new spring suit styles for men. Sartorial experts have decreed that | jackets shall be a trifle longer, but the | increase in length will be made with due regard to the perils of sitting on the hem. Manly chest development is not to “be advertised by the wasp-waisted, conveyed to within 60 yards of the | close-fitting jacket; instead, comfort and easier fitting are promised. Another season of sober grey is promised, but the old business style of striped trousers and black coat and vost is said to have definitely return- ed. CASTORIA Bears thesignature of Chas. H.Fletcher. In use for over thirty years, and The Kind You Have Always Bought. a Joya dg ves COUGH KEMP'S BALSAM Pleasant to take Children like it 7 I I SB ‘Send Us Your | : Name and address on a | postcard orin alet- _terand we will mail free and postpaid, a sample copy of Popular Mechanics : MAGAZINE the most wonderful magazine pub- lished. 160 pages and 400 et every month, that will entertain every member of the family. It contains interesting and instructive arti. cles on the Home, Farm, Shop and Office —the newest developments in Radio, Avia- tion, Automobile and Garage. Each issue contains something to interest everybody. We do not employ subscription solicitors so you will not be urged Sion so and you are not obligating yourself in the least in asking for a sample copy. We gladly send it to prospective readers. If you like it you can buy a copy every month from any newsdealer or send us your subscription — $3.00 for one year. Popular Mechanics Company 200-214 E. Ontario Street, CHICAGO, ILL. Popular Mechanics building {s devoted czorustely 10 the production of this great magazine. | ad | : i bedi EI El Commencing Saturday March 24 we will hold a $1.50 Sale of various merchandise, such as Silverware, Flat- ware, Novelties, Glassware, Pottery, Etc. Articles as high as $7.00 will be included in this sale. Watch Sale ends Wednesday March 28th F. P. Blair & Son, Jewelers and Optometrists Bellefonte, Pa. our window. - 64-22 tf [HE J A Is it, Worth While ? AAAI Even in this age of progress we sometimes meet a man who does not keep a bank ac- count. He says: ‘He does not think it worth while.”’ Does he think that the rural delivery is worth while—or the telephone—or the auto- mobile? A bank account is of as much im- portance as these ; for in a crisis it may give the help that will enable him to keep his tele- phone, or his car—even his home. Identify yourself with a good bank ; earn its confidence and stick to it. If you do you may feel sure of a friend in need. The First National Bank Bellefonte, Pa. 61-46 HAVE YOU heard the good news of the day? That's our way of saying that the stunning, new Spring models in Griffon Clothes are on hand. A. Fauble
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