Bellefonte, Pa., May 11 1923.
AT THE FORK OF THE ROAD.
on a lonesome
When you lose your way
road,
Whose course you do not know,
And your thoughts extend to the journey's
end,
But your progress there is slow;
If you're off the track you can still turn
back
To see what the sign post showed,
But the time to decide that you need a
guide
Is just at the fork of the road.
When you fail to heed a warning sign
On the broad highway of life,
And enter in, through the street of sin,
To sorrow, pain and strife,
How sad to learn, though you may return
You must reap what you have sowed,
But all your tears and wasted years
Could be saved at the fork of the road.
As long as the road lies straight ahead,
The journey of life is bright;
It's the setting sun when the day is done
That leads to the gloom of night.
You will not go wrong as you go along
If you study each crossing code;
It is vrell worth while to save a mile,
Or a life, at the fork of the road.
— Selected.
NOT TO BE FOOLED WITH.
By L. A. Miller.
When a cold-headed woman sets
herself to entrap a man she is very
apt to succeed, especially if she is
nearing that age when ladies object
to leaving the family record where
every Tom, Dick and Harry can get at
it. She may love him, and she may
not. If she does not she will proba-
bly tie him with her apron strings,
and go on striving to catch one who
suits her better; you may be sure she
will not let her prisoner loose until
after she has entrapped another more
to her liking.
She is not to blame for trying to
get a lover to her taste, but it is not
exactly right for her to keep a poor
fish on the taut-line until it is starved
and worn out, and then throw it back
into the stream again when she gets
another. There is probably more dis-
honesty practiced in match-making
than in any other branch of business
pertaining to society. Shrewd, ambi-
tious mammas resort to a variety of
tricks to get their children well fixed
in life; but not more than the children
themselves. They study to seem what
they are not, adopt methods which
would be considered dishonorable in
business affairs, and bring influence to
bear that would shock a politician.
Men profess to be highly moral, put
on the apeparance of being in easy cir-
cumstances, and even go so far as to
make great pretentions as to what
they are worth. The fact may be ex-
actly the reverse of all this; their sole
object being to get wives who are able
to keep them. The woman who falis
a prey to a swindler of this stamp is
truly an object for pity, but not more
so than the man who gets roped in by
a woman who marries merely to keep
out of the old maid row. If one of
these biters happens to get bitten—
and they often do—they are not enti-
tled to sympathy, although it is a ter-
rible thing to live the cat and dog life,
which is almost sure to follow a un-
ion of this kind. Sheol itself cannot
be worse. There is no rest, no happi-
ness, no comfort, but it is their own
choosing and they must abide the con-
sequences.
However, the young man who is not
smart enough to discover that he is
being played for oysters, ice cream,
picnics, balls, operas, ete., deserves to
be pinched severely. It may be no
fault of his that he is so short-sight-
ed, for he may have been born that
way, yet a real hard pinch may im-
prove his sight. The same may be
said of a majority of young ladies who
suffer from laceration of the heart. In
nearly all savage tribes, lovers are put
to test, to prove their sincerity. Some
of these are severe and trying. The
dusky brides of Morocco must be cap-
tured by their lovers after having been
given a fair chance to escape. If the
lover is not specially anxious to find
her, he can easily scurry off in the
wrong direction. She also has an op-
portunity to hide so effectually that it
is almost impossible to find her. If,
however, she is anxious to be caught,
and he is desirous of catching her, the
race is usually short, tame and deci-
sive.
Civilization refuses to sanction any
style of test beyond that of public
marriage. In many instances the con-
viviality and brilliancy of these occa-
sions are more of an incentive to mar-
riage than a test of affection.
Young people should be honest
enough toward each other to make
their intentions known. If they are
going together for fun, it had better
be so understood. If the friendship
develops into love there will be no
trouble in adjusting matters to the
change, and if it should not, or if new
attachemnts be found, neither party
can charge the other with unfaithful-
ness. It often happens that a young
man finds his girl is in love while he
is only in fun. He regrets that she is
taking it so seriously, but lacks the
courage to talk with her plainly on
the subject, and in the fond hope that
she may outgrow it, he allows her to
drift on and on until at last he is com-
pelled to abandon her abruptly or mar-
ry her. If he is tender hearted and
does not want to make her miserable
for a time, he marries her—and makes
her miserable for all time. If you do
not want to marry, or to have an at-
tack of heart disease, keep clear of
regular company. Go into society as
much as you please, have all the fun
you can, but beware of entangling al-
liances. An innocent flirtation often
leads to serious complications, and at
the very best it is unprofitable. Don’t
fool with it.
New York, New Orleans, Gal-
veston, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston
and Philadelphia, are the leading
American seaports. Wait, however,
until the waterways to the two gulfs
are established. Then the greatest
seaport may prove to be in the heart
of the continent.
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Happiness is not given exclusively to
any one period of life; it may be enjoyed
by all. It is to be seen in the repose of
the old cat as well as in the gambols of
the young kitten; in the arm chair of old
age as well as in the sprightliness of the
dance or the animation of the chase.—Pa-
ley.
What it Means to be a Camp Fire
Girl.—Within the past year two
groups of Camp Fire Girls have been
organized in Lititz and are actively
engaged in some of the numerous ac-
tivities of the organization. Most peo-
ple have a very hazy conception of
what it means to be a Camp Fire Girl.
For the information of those who de-
sire to be better informed the follow-
ing sketch of the program and aims of
the organization is published.
The Camp Fire program is deeply
religious in spirit and ideals; it has
been tried out for ten years, and the
ever increasing number of leaders
who find it a most helpful and work-
able program for girls, as well as the
fact that it has been endorsed by lead-
ing educators and ministers all over
the country, are proofs that here is a
program for the adolescent girl which
is attractive, educative, workable and
lasting in effect. Of the 150,000 Camp
Fire Girls thirty per cent. are already
organized in churches.
Camp Fire assists materially in de-
veloping the religious life of the girl,
which needs the constant guidance and
direction of the church, by emphasiz-
ing sincerity, personal purity, and
service for others.
Camp Fire glorifies the every day
tasks in the home by creating a love
for doing any task well.
Camp Fire encourages girls by
award of an honor, to learn how to
cook, to order and plan meals, to take
care of little children, to wash, iron,
and mend—in fact to be real home
women.
Camp Fire teaches girls to love the
out of doors, to enjoy the wholesome
pleasures of hiking, picnicking, out-
door cooking, camping, etc., instead of
the frivolous pastimes of the town and
city.
Camp Fire teaches girls to be
healthy by awarding honors for doing
the things which health requires of
us all. Camp Fire girls sleep with
open windows, they drink water night
and morning, take setting-up exercis-
es, ete.
Camp Fire teaches thrift; it en-
courages saving, economy and simplic-
ity in dress.
Camp Fire teaches honesty, sinceri-
ty and loyalty. Its slogan, Wohelo,
made up of the words, work, health
and love, make for character-building
and nobility.
Camp Fire makes girls resourceful
by teaching them crafts, games, and
by training them for leadership.
Camp Fire teaches girls to work
together, forgetful of personal advan-
tage because of their interest in the
group as a whole.
Camp Fire improves motherhood
by making girls healthy, happy, beau-
tiful girls, who have high ideals and
who know how to do things women
should know. j
Most good housewives pride them-
selves on the brightness of their
homes. Mirrors and windows, brass
taps and the leaves of aspidistras—all
are polished till they shine again, and
very attractive is the general result.
But are even the best of us as germ-
clean in our homes as we might be ?
Look round the kitchen. Some one
has used a dish mop, and, having fin-
ished her work, has squeezed the mop
into a hard ball and so left it. A dish
mop, though a pleasanter thing to use
than the old-fashioned dish cloth,
needs a lot of attention if it is to be
kept sweet and fresh. It should al-
ways be rinsed with soda water after
the dishes have been washed and
should then be shaken out, that the
air may reach all the strands. If it
can be hung in the open frequently,
so much the better.
Then there is the top ledge of the
kitchen dresser, which is often a foot
from the ceiling, and unused. There
is probably a thick layer of dust up
there, full of dangerous germs, though
the kitchen range may shine like the
morning sun.
Take the store cupboard next. Are
all the stores—sago, currants, tapio-
ca and so forth—carefully guarded
from dust? These things should be
kept in unused glass jam-jars, over
which a paper cover can be tied.
What about the brooms and carpet-
sweepers? The carpet-sweeper box
should be emptied every time it is
used, and after sweeping with a broom
the bits of fluff should be removed
from the broom bristles. Brooms
should be frequently washed, a good
disinfectant used in the water; but in
many houses they are worn to a stump
without ever being washed at all.
Floor-cloths should always be rinsed
in a bucket of clean water after use,
and shaken out.
Many people who are very precise
about dish washing dry their dishes
on a not too clean cloth. Drying
cloths, if used, should be washed at
least once a day. It is better, how-
ever, to rinse all china in cold water
and leave it to drain, polishing it on a
spotlessly clean tea-cloth just before
it goes to the table. The shining rows
of plates and cups which the house-
wife loves to see on her open dresser
are happy resting-places for flies, so
use dresser curtains
Bread and milk, butter and dishes of
jam should never be left uncovered.
If a bread-pan is considered too ex-
pensive, a large biscuit tin will hold
the bread supply for a small family.
Many people are content to cover
up a dish of meat with an oval frame.
It often hapepns that these frames are
not level and leave half an inch of
space open at some corner. As weii
not use them at all. Whatever else
is left out in the furnishing of a home,
a good meat safe should be included.
How many people who polish the
glass of pictures regularly only think
of the backs at spring cleaning time?
Yet the customary method of hanging
pictures is to tilt them so that the
backs form veritable dust-traps. It’s
an easy matter to pass a duster sver
the backs of the pictures when turn-
ing out a room, even though the pic-
tures may not be unhung.
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WHAT WE GET FROM
THE COCOANUT
Imports of copra, the dried “meat”
of the cocoanut, into the United States
during the year 1921, are estimated
at about 84,000 long tons, six thousand
nuts to the ton.
Pacific archipelagoes produce 10 per
cent. of the world’s cocoanut crop, the
Dutch East Indies 16 per cent., the
I, LL Pa —— A ————
(“THE PUPIL IS THE REAL
TEACHER,” SAYS Dr. MARIA
{ MONTESSORI.
i Dr. Maria Montessori, who arrived
“in London from Italy recently, says
the Westminster Gazette, and gave
{her first address to devoted “Montes-
'sorians” at the Y. M. C. A. Central
buildings, has an international infiu-
ence that many a statesman would be
Philippine Islands 15 per cent., Ceylon
and continental Asia 55 per cent., Af- |
rica 2 per cent. and tropical America
proud to boast.
| It must be quite 30 years since
Queen Marguerite of Savoy (the first
2 per cent. | Queen of Italy and present Queen-
The cocoanut crop fills a big place | Mother) visited the Montessori Hous-
in the world’s food supply. It contiib- ies of Childhood (Case dei Bambin) in
utes a highly valued material for can- | Rome, and became so interested that
dy-making, cake making and other | she did not rest until the method of
uses familiar to the house-wife as well | the Dottoresst was adopted in elemen-
as thé confectioner. Immense quan- tary schools. She even gave a sum of
tities of copra are pressed for oil, | money, as well as sympathy to furnish
much of which is now utilized in the means and to maintain five mistresses
manufacture of artificial lard. who were thus able to leave their work
Over $2,000,000,000 is invested in and devote all their time to the meth-
the industry, more than half that od. Pupils came from all the earth
amount being represented by land and | to study the method of teaching, and
groves. Nevertheless, it is in a very | Queen Marguerite personally greeted
backward state, the producing trees, | them ad had a special medal struck
for the most part, receiving little care | for all who studied in Rome.
or cultivation, so that they are stifled The first American Montessori Soci-
by undergrowh. Under such condi-|ety was founded by Alexander Gra-
tions the average tree does not yield ham Bell, the inventor of the tele-
more than twenty-five nuts a year, | phone. The society’s offices were at
whereas on well-managed plantations : Washington, and Miss Margaret Wil-
the output is four times that many, son (daughter of the then President)
and therefore comes nearer to being became secretary.
profitable. ! M. Andre Tardieu was traveling in
More than half of the Pacific copra California when he came across Mon-
is of low grade, rancid and so pervad- tessori schools there and, becoming so
ed with flavors due to putrefaction interested, sent long cables about them
and mold that expensive “renovating” to the French Minister of Education.
can hardly render it available for hu- | Since then over 30 French towns have
man consumption. The oil content is | founded Montessori schools, M. Laple,
only 75 per cent. of what it should be, | chief inspector of primary schrols in
owing to the picking of the nuts be- | France, has written the preface to the
fore they are ripe and to incomplete | French edition of Dr. Montessori’s
drying. book on the Method.
During the last five years many The schools have, of course, been es-
crushing mills have been established |tablished all over Great Britain under
in the Philippines, the Dutch East In- | the organizing genius of C. A. Bang,
dies, Australia and French Oceanica.|and they are also scattered about
Crushing where the nuts are grown | nearly all the countries of Europe,
saves freight and prevents much [and in China, Japan and Australasia.
spoilage in storage and shipment; also Dr. Montessori visits England for
the fresh copra yields a better quality | the thrid time for the present Interna-
of oil. But there is much difficulty | tional course in London, at which, on
about containers for the oil. Wooden | Tuesday night, were students from all
barrels do not serve the purpose well. | over the world. A teacher from Hol-
Steel drums cost too much. Tank |land spoke eloquently of the adoption
steamers would serve for transporta- | there of the Method, and of the inter-
tion, but the only ships of that kind | est in it being shown by the universi-
available are those which carry kero- | ty professors.
sene to the Orient, and a kerosene fla- | Yet, the main point stressed in her
vor would lower the market value of | first address by Dr. Montessori was
the cocoanut oil. . _|the necessity of humanity in the
The cake left over after pressing |teacher. “The pupil is the real teach-
the copra for the oil, called “poonac,” | er, and he will teach with sweetness
brings a good price bn Burov, Woe and gentleness, and often it is the
great quantities of it are airy i iL”
cattle. It seems to stimulate milk se- Yeacher who 1s 4. bad papi]
cretion in the cow, and is believed te
supply fatty elements that enrich the
milk.
The “Watchman” gives all the
news while it is news.
Giant Frogs. day these giant batrachians were ex-
ceedingly numerous, judging from the
plentiful distribution of their fossil-
ized bones, which, turned up by the
plow or otherwise accidentally exhum-
ed, frequently excite the wonder and
astonishment of settlers.
ee ——————
——Some men just look mean—in
self-protection. :
The American Museum of Natural
History, in New York, recently obtain-
ed several fairly complete skeletons of
antedeluvian frogs from Texas. Some
of them, when alive, were fifteen feet
long.
To be strictly accurate, they were
not true frogs, but frog-like creatures,
which must have been able to leap thir-
ty or forty feet at a bound. In their
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