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Bellefonte, Pa., August 24, 1923.
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RIGHT OR LEFT-HANDEDNESS
Mystery of the Brain That Has Never
Really Been Given a Satisfac-
tory Explanation.
There is little doubt that an infant,
for the first six months of its life, is
‘ambidextrous. It uses both hands
equally in a number of aimless move-
ments. There seems to be, however,
a tendency to right-handedness, which
is possibly inherited, because later in
life ' most children become right-
handed.
The center in the brain which con-
trols movements of the limbs is a
line slanting downward and forward
from the crown of the head. It is
generally understood that the use of
the right hand develops the ‘left of
the brain, and vice versa; and in this
connection the question of ambidex-
* terity is bound up with the controlling
centers of the brain.
Next to the movement center for the
right side, in the lowest part of the
brain, lies the speech center. A pre-
dominantly right-handed man, it is
supposed, develops vigorously his left
movement center, and that originates
fa speech center next to it.
It is known that the right-handed
person has a speech center in the left
brain and the left-handed person a
similar center in a corresponding posi-
tion in the right brain.
Accepting it as a fact that people
have only one center to start with,
this means that they are born either
right-handed or left-handed, usually
the former.
LUCK IN DISCOVERY OF SONG
Melody Forgotten for Years Made Dis
tinct Hit and a Million Copies
of It Were Sold.
This is the story of a popular song
which narrowly escaped a tragic fate.
If for you there is no music save that
of Wagner or Beethoven or Grieg, you
will not shudder as you read this tale,
but if your taste runs to the melodies
the office boy whistles you probably
will, for the song is a lilting, haunting
little thing which, no doubt, you have
whistled yourself.
Seven years ago, says the New York
Sun, the song was submitted by an un-
known composer to a large concern of
music publishers. It was accepted and
copies of it were printed. Then all
trace of it was lost. Several months
ago a song “plugger” came across the
bundle of copies in the recesses: of a
storeroom, still wrapped as they had
come from the printers. Breaking open
a package, he glanced at the contents.
" The song was unfamiliar to him who
had “plugged” all the “sure-fire hits”
of the firm for ten years or more.
He tried the song on a piano. It was
a “surefire hit” with him, and he
traced its story through the copyright
dates and the firm’s records. The next
day the company’s “pluggers” were
busy with the song. Today a million
copies of it have been sold and echoes
of it have gone trippingly down the
rorridors of time.
Holiday Store.
I do not know whether I help my
plane tree, but I do know that my
plane tree helps me. . .. One glance
at its gentle gestures opens up the
vista and the vision of the great com-
pany of green angels far away. Some-
where is a paradise where the sky is
not slashed and wounded by the sharp
edges of roofs. I can see the little
woods sleeping on the breast of the
little hills. I can follow the flight of
the old rooks as they come home at
sunset. I can see the brown water
sliding under the thirsty willows. I
can watch the long, delicious shudder
of the lake of corn as the wings of
the wind caress it wistfully while
it sleeps in the arms of the sun-
shine.
One ought to hoard one's moods for |
the empty days when no moods come.
After th: retreat or vigil which a true
holiday ought to be one ought to have
a store of garnered emotions hidden !
jn a hollow of the memory.—James
Douglas.
Protecting Woodwork.
To" prevent the woodwork behind
a stove or range scorching, wash the:
wood with liquid asbestos paint, mix-
ing the paint at home in this way:
Three parts gumlac, four parts sodium
borate, seven parts powdered asbestos,
twenty parts water.
add the g
all have
asbestos.
mixture,
been dissolved stir in the
Half a dozen coats of this
dried between the applica-
tions, are not too many, and will last
indefinitely.
Red Coral Long Traded in.
Trade in red coral with the Far
East began in very remote times. It is
mentioned in a poem by the Chinese
poet Yung Pai, who died in 117 B, C,,
and in the time of the Han dynasty.
About 200 years later a traveler was
sent from China to report on the
coral fishery of the Mediterranean sea.
At a later date it was introduced into |
the Chinese materia medica.
Reinach' described the trade
the Celtic races in pre-Roman times.
Specimens have been found in Britain
and Ireland. The Romans stopped
the trade with the Celtic races,
however, in order to send the coral
to India in exchange for frankin-
cense, myrrh, and precious stones.
GOING IN FOR ARCHEOLOGY
Whole World Seems to Have Made
Up Its Mind to Take a Hand
at the Game.
Interest in archeology everywhere
bas apparently been stirred up by the
anparalleled fame of the Tut-Ankh-
Amen discoveries. They're digging at
Ur and in Yucatan; in the deserts of
Gobi and the cliffs of the Ozarks;
among the Zuni ruins, and the Inca
remains,
No prehistoric cemetery or temple
rests untouched. Even old corner
stcnes of A. D. times acquire a new
interest and inspire curiosity.
All the present world being ex-
plored, the North pole found and Du-
vid Livingstone’s Darkest Africa grid-
dled with railroads, nothing is left bat
the hoary past and the planets.
They are looking for the grave of
Abraham at this moment, and relics of
the ark might be revealed by running
a drift into the washed-down detritus
of Mount Ararat.
Archeology has gathered together all
the rusty spoons and buckles on James-
town island and put ! 1 a hand-
some glass case to | the emo-
tions and the ruminat.. uigh-brow
visitors.
For after all, one has to think hard
and somewhat passionately to be
stirred by the sight of an archeological
collection. By seeing what those men
of legend and historical fact wore and
grasped by the hand, we seek to bring
ourselves to feel what they thought
and were. Why we should care is a
part of the mystery of psychology.—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
THEIR ANNUAL DAY OF JOY
Members of the Henpecked Club, of
Yorkshire, England, Gather Annual-
ly for Mutual Commiseration.
Members of the famous Yorkshire
organization known as the Henpecked
.club held their annual meeting recently
at an isolated village on the moor edge
five miles out of Halifax.
It is a pretty retreat to which the
president has called his “comrades of
the apron strings,” and, provided the
niembers are loyal to their secret mem-
bership pledge, there is not much likeli-
hood of any information reaching the
henpeckers in time for the latter to
disturb the happiness of the proceed-
ings.
Adam is claimed as having been the
founder of .the Henpecked club, and to-
day’s gathering is officially described
as the 5,902d annual meeting. Year
after year new members are enrolled,
but applicants have to pass a severe
test before being admitted. Absolute
proof has to be given that for every
day in the year, except Easter Monday,
they will obey orders issued by their
wives and attend to domestic drudgery.
If any man from the West Riding
was seen slinking away from his na-
tive hearth and going towards Halifax
moors he may reasonably be looked
upon as a henpecked husband off for
his annual outing. A sure sign was his
radiant smile and don’t-care-a-hang
gait.
Famous Castle Crumbling.
The Wartburg, an ancient castle in
Eisenach, Germany, where Martin
Luther translated the Bible, is threat-
ened with decay, writes a correspond-
ent to the Westminster Gazette.
Two belfries, that have offered many
thousands of visitors a charming pic-
ture of the wood-covered hills, are to
be closed, as the stairs are rotting.
Even the renowned nook where the
reformer carried out his task and
composed his songs is in a wretched
state of disrepair.
Splendid frescoes in the galleries
and the roof of the big hall are crum-
bling. Old warders who, for more
than forty years, have devoted every
attention to the Wartburg, are leaving
its preservation.
“The Wartburg does not belong to
Germany alone,” states Doctor Dem-
mer in an appeal. “It belongs to the
whole world of culture and religion.
Heat the water, |
with |
Give us money to keep our sanctuary,
for you, for us, and for the world.”
To Preserve Famous Home.
The home of Annie Laurie, Craigdar-
roch, Dumfriesshire, Scotland, where
she lived after marriage, is to be solid.
Mrs. Fergusson survived her husband,
and the present
I Craigdarroch was ldrgely built under
i her directions. She died in 1761 at the
age of seventy-nine. At Craigdarroch
there has been carefully treasured for
more than a century, “The Whistle,” a
drinking trophy which inspired Robert
Burns’ ballad of that mame. It is made
| of wood and was brought from Den-
| mark by a Dane of gigantic stature,
who went to Scotland in the train of
| Queen Anne of Denmark. At the com-
mencement of his orgies he laid the
Whistle on the table, and whoever was
| last able to blow it was to carry it off
as trophy of victory.
New Device for Testing Milk.
A novel gauge has been patented for
| testing milk at home. By use of the
| glass tube, it is possible to determine !
whether milk has been skimmed or
diluted with water. The lower the
tester sinks into the milk, the greater
| the dilution. A graduated scale records
| the result.
Christian Thankfulness.
Two hundred boys from the Naga
Hill tribes of Assam went to the
trenches in France. Forty were Chris-
tlans. The other 160 confessed Christ
and were baptized while in the army.
| On their return, every one gave. a
| month's wages to mission work as a
thank-offering for their preservation.
owing to a lack of funds necessary for’
mansion house of |
‘lislands, Dr. Warren D.
BIRDS TRAVEL FAR AND FAST
Gome Peculiarities of Their Migrations
Have Never Been Understood, or
at Least Explained.
The fastest travelers in the world
are arriving in Britain just now.
Few people have any idea of the
speed with which the migrant birds
get here from Africa by taking the up-
per air-lanes, where the air is much
thinner and very high speeds are pos-
sible.
Gatke considered that the little Arc
tic blue-throat (one of the warblers,
no bigger than a robin) left Africa at
dusk and reached Heligoland nine
hours later.
It thus flies 1,600 miles in one pro-
digious span at 180 miles an hour.
The swallow easily manages 100 miles
an hour, and the swift 150.
One of the chief reasons for these
migrants knowing where they are go-
ing is the fact that in clear air at a
height of from one to five miles they
have a bold map outlined below them.
They see France before they leave
Africa. While still over Holland they
see Sweden. An altitude of five miles
gives a man a view for 225 miles—and
a bird’s vision is even more acute.
Bird migration offers a wonderful
field for research. One of the mys-
teries to be solved is why storks, com-
ing north from their winter ip India
and South Africa, ignore Britain and
settle to nest in Germany, Holland.
and Denmark.—London Tit-Bits.
IRRIGATION SCHEME IS BIG
But If Carried Out It Will Restore
Fertility to the Great Plain
of Jordan.
The Dead sea will soon come to life
and the land which in Joshua's time
“flowed with milk and honey” is to
come into its own again, according to
Albert Hiorth, outlining a scheme for
the irrigation of the plain of Jordan
between the Lake of Genesareth and
the Dead sea, to the members of the
Victoria institute in London. Wide
areas, he said, were covered with fer-
tile soil suitable for cultivation, and
irrigation was only needed in those dis-
tricts. The irrigation scheme pro-
posed was to build canals on both sides
of the River Jordan and parallel with
it. Throughout their length the canals
would be furnished with suitable out-
lets for the distribution of water over
the plains sloping toward the Jordan.
As a source of energy, there is planned
a hydro-electric plant on the western
shore of the Dead sea, which would
receive its energy from the Mediter-
ranean through a tunnel under Jerusa-
lem. The scheme, added the lecturer,
was far from new—it was probably 2,-
000 to 3,000 years old, but its realiza-
tion had neither been demanded nor
had it been feasible until now.
New Bird Reservation.
A 40-acre tract adjoining the elk
refuge near Jackson, Wyo., has been
established as a new national bird
reservation by executive order. It will
be known as the Flat Creek reserva-
tion, and will serve throughout the
year as a breeding and resting place
for the wild fowl and other birds of
the region. Late in fall and in winter
it will serve another purpose in af-
fording additional pasturage to the
elk herds coming down from the moun-
tains in and about the Yellowstone na-
tional park to winter in the Jackson
Hole region. Both the elk refuge and
the Flat Creek reservation are under
the jurisdiction of the biological sur-
vey of the United States Department
of Agriculture.
Smallest Book in the World.
The smallest book in the world, so
far as is known, is preserved in an
out-of-the-way corner of the British
museum. This miniature velume is
not so wide as a man’s thumb; but
despite
it is most beautifully finished, and is a
wonderful specimen of the printer's
art. :
It consists of no less than 100 pages
of extremely thin paper, and the en-
gravings are highly creditable pieces
of work, and are printed in colors.
The exact size of the book, taking the
measurements of the outside covers,
is 34 by 15 inch. It hears the date
1839, and is therefore eighty-four years
old. The title of this curiosity iv
{ “Schlorr’s English Bijou Almanac.”
| Electricity From the Air.
Joseph Dezsoffy, a young Hungar-
| ian - engineer, he is only twenty-two
| years old, is reported to have invented
ian apparatus for extracting electric
{ current from the air without the least
expense. The chief feature of his de-
I vice is a mast similar to those which
[the electric energy gained from the
{air varies according to the height of
the mast. He claims that he would
| be able to reach 40,000 volts at an al-
{ titude of 900 feet. The inventor has
fitted several houses with his ap-
| paratus, supplying electric current for |
“1 their lighting.
| that the current is strongest at noon
and weakest at about midnight.
\
Riches in Philippines.
| Diamond drilling has proved there
jare at least 3,000,000 tens of semi-
| anthracite, besides large deposits of
| subbituminous coal, in the Philippine
Smith, head
| geologist of the University of Oregon
{and arthority on the mineral wealth
{of our antipodal possession, declared
recently. The islands also possess the
iargest gold mine in that Far East,
which has turned out $1,000,000 worth
of the precious metal in one year, he
said. Petrofeum; iron, silver, sulphur
land asbestos are also found.
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| guan canal.
THEORIES AS TO DIAMONDS
Many Causes Put Forward for the
Breaking of the Hardest Stone
Known to Exist.
Much attention has been given to
the question of the origin of the
numerous broken fragments of dia-
monds found in the Kimberly mines.
One hypothesis is that these frag-
ments owe their condition to violent
eruptive outbursts that shattered the
rocks in which they occur. Another
common belief is that certain classes
of diamonds frequently break spon-
taneously. One authority states that
light brown, smoky diamonds often
crack on exposure to the dry air, but
they will remain intact if kept in a
moist place. In accordance with this
notion there is a popular story of
South African diamonds being sent to
England inside potatoes.
Another authority seems to at-
tribute the fractures to the sudden
lowering of pressure in the space sur-
rounding diamonds and speaks of
consequent explosion. He states that
he has met persons who have heard
of the bursting of smoky diamonds,
but none who ever witnessed this phe-
nomenon with his own eyes.
This idea of the bursting of dia-
monds is of great antiquity. Albertus
Magnus says that a diamond immersed
in the fresh, warm blood of a goat will
burst, especially if that animal had
previously browsed on parsley or drunk
wine. Pliny vouehsafes a similar notion.
The majority of modern authorities be-
lieve that, in most cases, the breaking
of diamonds has been due to the energy
exerted by the mineral inclusions
which they so often contain. These
are most frequently garnet, but some-
times zircon, ilmenite, iron pyrites and
possibly chrysolite. The thermal ex-
pansion of nearly all crystals, except
those of the beryl family, at ordinary
temperatures is much greater than
that of the diamond. If the same is
true under intense conditions of heat
and temperature, differences in the
rate of expansion and contraction of
the diamond and its inclusion would
account for the shattering.—Washing-
ton Star.
WATERWAY NOT NEW IDEA
Project of Connecting the Ocean?
. Through Canal Across America
Is Ancient One.
As early as 1522—seven years be-
fore the Panama canal project was
first talked about—Gil Gonzales Divala
explored Nicaragua in an effort to find
a natural waterway or to select a route
for a possible canal. In 1550 Antonio
Galvao, a Portuguese navigator, pro-
posed four routes for a canal across
the isthmus—one by Lake Nicaragua
and the San Juan river. The latter
route was surveyed for the Spanish
government in 1781, by Don Manuel
Galisteo. About fifty years later John
Bailey, an American, mapped out the
route, and in 1872 the American gov-
ernment became interested. President
Grant particularly favored a Nicara-
A company was formed
and a construction expedition actually
arrived on the scene, but the firm
went into the hands of receivers.
The French started the Panama
canal scheme, but because of rotten
politics at home and yellow fever on
the isthmus, it ended in dismal failure
for them. The United States bought
out the French interests and dug the
Panama canal, but only after it had
waged a strenuous battle against dis-
ease in Panama and reclaimed that
country to health and sanitation.
Suggestion for Painters.
~ Painters have painted the first long
' pants, the first step, the first love, the
| first
its microscopical dimensions !
first snow, the first violets and the
dance. But no one has ever
painted the first shave.
The first shave is a dramatic and
profound adventure. Sometimes it is
| for the sake of a girl and sometimes
| od f i ! to the police of that city.
are used for wireless telegraphy, and |! 3 :
t raphy, and / ing the photograph of the scene of a
It has been observed | from every other object.
5 *n observed | ton had been in use iin. Vienna for
it is undertaken out of a growing
admiration for the sandpaper on
father’s cheek.
It is also secret, . With father’s
brush and soap the face is lathered
tehind closed doors and with father’s
razor the countenance is harrowed,
raked and scraped. Disappointment
is great that there is no loud, rasp-
ing sound as the down is harvested.
One young man, how known to his
few friends as a modest, manly and
simple-spoken citizen, went so far as
to shave his forehead on this occa-
sicn long ago.
Vienna Police Camera,
Some months ago, in Vienna, I saw
4 very ingenious photographic camera,
invented by the official photographer
When tak-
erime the camera superimposed a
scale upon the plate in such a way
that a scale plan was no longer neces-
sary, since the scale showed the exact
distance in centimeters of every ob-
ject in the field from the camera and
The inven-
' same time, but it was unknown to any
other force.—Sir Basil Thomson in the
Saturday Evening Post,
Milton’s Comeback.
No one has ever called John Milton
2 wit, yet the great poet could on oc-
casion say a snappy thing, as an old
otter, recently discovered, shows.
Charles IT desired to meet Miiton, and
| when he did he made the bitter re-
mark, “God hath punished you for your
malice toward my father by taking
away your eyesight.”
“Aye,” said Milton, “but before I
lost my, eyes he lost his head.”—~Bos
ton ‘Evening Transcript.
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