Bellefonte, Pa., September 14, 1923.
NEARS WR,
ART TRULY IS A LANGUAGE
Bears a Lesson and Charm for Even
Those Not Versed in
4 Its Rules.
Art, in its broad and permanent
meaning, is a language—the language
of sentiment, of character, of national
impulse, of individual genius; and for
this reason it bears a lesson, a charm,
or a sanction to all—even those least
versed in its rules and least alive to
1ts special triumphs, Sir Walter Scott
was no amateur, yet, through his
reverence for ancestry and his local
attachments, portraiture and architec-
ture had for him a romantic interest.
Sydney Smith was impatient of gal-
leries when he could talk with men
and women, and made a practical joke
of buying pictures; yet Newton and
Leslie elicited his best humor, Tal-
fourd cared little and knew less of the
treasures of the Louvre, but lingered
there because it had been his friedd
Hazlitt’s Elysium. Indeed, there are
constantly blended associations in the
history of English authors and artists;
Reynolds is identified with Johnson
and Goldsmith, Smibert with Berkeley,
Barry with Burke, Constable and
Wilkie with Sir George Beaumont,
Haydon with Wordsworth, Leslie with
Irving; the painters depict their
friends of the pen, the latter celebrate
in verse or prose the artist's triumphs,
and both intermingle thought and sym-
pathy; and from this contact of select
intelligences of diverse vocation has
resulted the choicest wit and the most
genial companionship, — Henry T,
Tuckerman,
NEGLECTING THEIR LANGUAGE
Younger Chinese Since the Revolution
Show a Preference for English
and French,
To judge from the numerous arti
cles that are being written on China,
its literature is not reaping great bene-
fits from the revolution, In the first
place, the Chinese language is be-
Ing pushed more and more into the
background. The younger generation
no longer receives the training it once
received in the Chinese “Classics,” and
band in hand with this goes their
preference for foreign languages—
English primarily, and then French,
with a little German. It is, of course,
impossible for a country to build up
a body of national literature in a for-
eign language. Intellectually, how-
ever, China is making reassuring prog-
ress. Its three greatest political
writers, all of whom have been active
now for nearly a quarter of a century
—Tschang-Schi-tung, Kang-Yu-wei, and
Liang-Kitschao—are as active as ever
in their efforts to save the nation from
the fate of India or Burma or Korea
or Egypt or Poland.
Fine for the Youngsters.
“Play as you enter” is the welcome
sign on the sides of the “Jollytown”
trolley cars in Baltimore, Md. where
the traction company has set aside
several cars for the children to play
in. They are complete in every de-
tail except that the power is turned
off and they are anchored to the
ground. Instead of the usual adver-
tising cards, Mother Goose rhymes
and pictures are displayed along the
sides. The clanging gongs and the
loud calling of imaginary and unheard-
of street names afford noisy proof of
the popularity of the play cars as the
crews take them along fancied routes,
Melting Sulphur.
Sulphur is often used to anchor bolts
in cement or stone floors, but as it
catches fire so easily when melted over
an open flame, its use is somewhat in-
convenient. The difficulty can, how-
ever, be avoided by first melting some
lead, and then partly immersing the
sulphur vessel in the molten lead. The
sulphur will be melted in a short time,
and there it will not catch fire, unless
the temperature,of the lead is allowed
to exceed 625 degrees Fahrenheit.
All Balled Up.
B. P. reports this spoonerism: “My
brother works in a theater. He's a
sheen sifter. I mean he seens shifts—
that is, he's a sifter of sheens, a
seener of shifts. Oh, hang it, he's a
shiftery seener—a sheenery—a shift
Seener—a shiffery—well, anyhow, my
brother works in a theater.”—Boston
Transcript,
Autoboob Is a Child Killer,
An autoboob is a person who drives
an automobile without regard for the
safety of other people. One of his
worst traits is to drive recklessly in
front of other cars and whiz past
street intersections. He is a killer of
children. He always looks where he
should, but never sees what he should.
Scarcely Complimentary.
Some time ago a parson in an in-
dustrial town arranged a special serv-
ice for working men.
The service was well attended and
the preacher began his sermon with
the remark: “Rarely indeed have 1
been privileged to address so many
tons of soil.”
A Line on Values.
“Fifteen cents for a quart of black-
berries?”
| “Yes, mum.”
| “Seems high.”
| “Did you ever try picking a quart?”
i “No, I never did.”
“I advise you to try it.”
MOTOR BUS GROWS POPULAR
Hundred Electric Railway Companies
Now Are Using It to Supple-
ment Their Service.
The motor bus grows in use. There
are now, says Financial America,
about 100 electric railway companies
using motor buses. In a majority of
these cases the motor bus is actually
supplementing and adding to the sery-
ice rendered. This list of 100 coni-
panies are operating approximately
1,000 motor vehicles, practically all
of the simgle deck 25-passenger or 14
to 18 passenger type.
Most of the motor bus lines in the
United States are operating on a ten-
cent fare basis, and the opinion of
electric railway officials is almost
unanimous that a five-cent flare opera-
tion will not prove profitable. The
public demand a seat, more speed,
greater comfort and appreciate the
safety factor of loading at the curb,
and up to the present have indicated a
willingness to pay the ten-cent fare
rate.
The potential growth of this type of
service is large. Already there are
more than 40,000 motor vehicles in
service in the United States carrying
passengers over schedule territory (ex-
clusive of taxicabs). The figures for
Newark, N. J., are indicative of the
possibilities. In 1916 there were
2,660,854 passengers carried by jitneys
in Newark. Last year there were
76,375,000 passengers carried in mod-
ern motor buses, and the figures for
the last few months indicate a 1923
total in excess of 100,000,000 passen-
gers.
SPRAYING IS NOT HARMFUL
There Is No Danger If Proper Methods
of Eradicating Pests
Are Used.
A good many people have asked the
Juestion, “Will fruits and vegetables
which have been sprayed be dangerous
to use?”
It can be said that if they use the
methods recommended for the differ-
ent pests by the Department of Agri-
culture and the experiment stations
there will be no danger. Of course
in some instances, simply because of
heavy spraying or spraying late in the
season, there may be comparatively
large quantities of spray material
stuck to the fruit and vegetables at
harvest time, especially where such
products are grown in a dry climate.
When heavy coatings of spray mate-
rial are found, washing and wiping
will remove much or this, usually al-
most all of it, and peeling will remove
every bit.
Considerable fear has been ex-
pressed by some that spraying of fruits
and vegetables might leave enough ar-
senate of lead or copper on the sur
face to be injurious to any one who
might eat the fruit.
Right in this line experiments have
been undertaken by the United States
Department of Agriculture to deter-
mine whether there might be left on
such fruits and vegetables which are
sprayed enough chemicals of a pol-
sonous nature to be injurious.
Are Hiccups Rheumatism?
That hiccups may be due to rheu-
matism is the contention of Dr. Martin
J. Chevers, a member of the British
Medical association and a well-known
Manchester physician.
“I have never failed to cure the
most obstinate case by a few doses
of anfirheumatic medicine,” Doctor
Chevers states in a letter to the Brit-
ish Medical Journal. He admits that
morphine may relieve the spasms, but
adds that it does not go to the root
of the cure.
His suggestion is particularly timely
in view of the reported “hiccup” epi-
demic in France, which, it has been
suggested, must mean that “hiccups”
are infectious. One of the cures used
in France is to apply severe’ pressure
to the eyeballs.
Adopted by Bluejackets.
In the midst of the quaintness of
old Stamboul—the Turkish quarter of
Constantinople—stands one of the
most interesting modern orphanages
in the world—a home for child refu-
gees from the burned city of Smyrna.
It is supported by American sailors
—the crew of the U. 8. S. Edsall, a de
stroyer of Admiral Long's squadron.
Twice each month, on the 15th and
the 30th, when the crew is paid, each
officer and man contributes his share
to the support of the orphanage. It
was through the efforts of Commander
Halsey Powell of the Edsall that Smyr-
na was evacuated without tremendous
loss of life.—McClure’s Magazine for
July.
The Season Passes.
The man looked forlorn at his lone
ly table. After suitable deliberation
the head waiter sauntered over.
“Have you ordered, sir?”
“I have.”
“And what was your order, gir?’
“Oysters.”
“Sorry, sir, but oysters are out of
season.”
“The waiter didn’t tell me that when
I ordered them. But I suppose they
were in season then.”
Largest Thermometer.
The largest thermometer in the
world has been erected on the board.
walk, near Michigan avenue, Atlantic
City. It is 50 feet high, enabling
promenaders a mile away to read the
temperature. The mercury in the tube
Is ten inches wide and Is operated
by a system of small thermometers
with electrical relays. Lights on the
board indicate the temperature accu-
rately and automatically.
NEW GAUGE OF HORSEPOWER
Method of Showing the Relation Be
tween It and a Kilowatt Has
Been Devised.
More than 100 years ago James
Watt took the strength of a “strong
London draft-horse” as a unit of
measurement to indicate the power of
his steam engine. This unit, which
was the amount of energy that would
raise 33,000 pounds one foot in one
minute, he called one horsepower.
Electric motors, automobile engines
and all other forms of energy-produc-
Ing machinery have been measured in
terms of Watt's horsepower ever
since, says a bulletin of the New York
State Committee of Public Utility. The
“strong London draft-horse” is dead as
Eohippus and his bones are dust, but
his mighty thews have been so im-
bedded in tradition that from that
time to this no one has questioned
the horsepower of a horse.
Now the unit of measurement, orig-
inally taken from a horse, is to be
used to measure the strength of other
horses, to determine, in terms of me-
chanical horsepower, how strong they
are. There has been designed a
wagon, the wheels of which are geared
to a hydraulic pump by means of
which any required pull can be estab-
lished and a uniform load resistance
maintained. To this wagon will be
harnessed various types of horses,
from the lordly Percheron, weighing a
full ton, to the 900-pound light-harness
horse, and from the results there will
be established a ratio between weight
and strength similar to the tables for
electric motors, shewing the number of
horsepower delivered for every kilo-
watt of energy consumed.
BAKERS DROP LOTUS LEAVES
Shanghai Government Forces Them
to Use Waxed Paper for Wrap-
ping Their Products.
Shanghai bakers used to wrap thelr
bread and cakes in nice green lotus
leaves. But the days of this romantic.
practice are gone forever. According
to the new regulations covering bak-
ery products, bread and other prod-
ucts must be suitably wrapped in
greaseproof or similar papers. The
clause in the regulation covering this
particular requirement quoted by As-
sistant Trade Commissioner A. V.
Smith in a report to the Department
of Commerce, reads as follows:
“That bread and bakery products
shall, upon sale or when carried or
handled for sale, or delivered in bas-
kets, vehicles or otherwise, be suit-
ably wrapped in greaseproof paper or
other cleanly covering, in such man-
ner as to completely protect the bread
from dirt, dust and flies, or from
harmful contact in handling.”
Now Senate Lacks Octogenarian.
The death of Senator William P.
Dillingham of . Vermont removes from
the senate rolls the last octogenarian.
And on March 4, when congress ad-
journed, there were three,
Senator Page, also of Vermont, who
was eighty last January, retired on
that date.
Knute Nelson of Minnesota, three
weeks younger than Page, died in May
on his way from Washington to his
home. :
And Dillingham, midway in his
eightieth year, died early in July.
Removal of these octogenarians from
the senate leaves Francis E. Warren
of Wyoming, now one month past sev-
enty-nine, the oldest member. Next
comes LeBaron Colt of Rhode Island,
seventy-seven; then Albert B. Cum-
mins of Iowa, a youngster of seventy-
three, third; Lodge of Massachusetts,
three months younger than Cummins,
fourth.
Denmark's Alphabetical War.
There is a battle of the big and lt
cle letters now raging in Denmark. ;
The Danish language, like the Ger-
man, has hitherto adhered to the Mid-
dle-age practice of spelling its nouns
with capital letters, but a progressive
movement of growing strength de-
mands the substitution of the little
letters in conformity with English,
French and other languages. The de-
mand has aroused the fury of the con-
servative elements.
Now Minister of Education Appel
has determined to introduce the smalls |
letter practice in the schools.
the Bolshevist reform of the Russian
orthography and the Bulgarian
changes, the big letter and the small
letter have become symbols of political
opinion. k
Somewhat Mixed.
The justice of the peace in a town
m Ohio, in pursuance of his duties,
had to hear and judge the cases that
were brought before him and also to
perform occasional marriage cere-
monies. He found it difficult to dis-
soclate the various functions of his
office.
Everything had gone smoothly un-
til he had asked one bride: “Do you
take this man to be your husband?”
The bride nodded emphatically.
“And you, accused,” said the jus-
tice, turning to the bridegroom, “what
have you to say in your defense?”
Japanese Editors Poorly Paid.
Japanese newspaper men work for
small salaries, but efforts are being
made by prosperous newspapers in
Osaka to elevate the standard.
The Osaka Mainichi, which has a
daily circulation of about 800,000, has
made substantial increase in its exist-
Ing scale of salaries. Together with
a bonus distributed twice a year, ac-
tual pay is two to three times the
specified salary.
SEERA
Bonin
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FOSSILS FROM THE ICE AGE
Czech Scientist Discovers Skeletons of
Men, Women and Great Variety
of Animals,
Skeletons of prehistoric men and
women from the ice ages, a mammoth,
two lions, a hyena, a wolverine, five
cave bears and at least sixty fossil
beavers have been found in the vast
_System of underground palaces formed
by nature in the limestone rock of cen-
tral Moravia now being explored by Dr.
Karel Absolon, curator of the Brno
museum of Czechoslovakia. Dr. Ales
Hrdlicka of the United States Nation-
‘al museum, who is in Europe studying
cave men for the United States Smith-
sonian Institution, will report these dis-
coveries in a communication to the next
issue of Science.
The skeletons of many of these mam-
mals of the glacial period of the
earth’s history are in an excellent state
of preservation, he says. The cave
bears’ rc ins are almost complete and
will be n.ounted as a group in the Pro-
vincial museum at Brno (Brunn), while
the teeth and skulls of the beavers are
| also considered of highest scientific
| value.
| The great subterranean halls, with
| their numerous columns, stalactite and
Stalagmite forms, are being energetical-
ly explored and are said to rival in
beauty the famous caverns in Virginia
and Kentucky.
HIS FIRST ATTEMPT AT WORK
Curious Experience of College Studen?
Who Was Trying to Earn Money
for Expenses.
Many students attending the univer
sities of Indiana pay part of their
college expenses by doing odd jobs.
Several years ago a young man applied
at the Y. M. C. A. employment office
of one of the universities and asked for
work. He was directed to the home of
one of the professors.
His first duty was to mop the kitchen
floor. Mrs. H. supplied a mopstick,
Some rags and a bucket. She was up-
stairs sewing a few minutes later when
he called, “What shall I do with the
vater?”
“Throw it out.”
“But I can’t.”
She came down to Investigate. She
found the kitchen floor flooded and the
new helper standing on a chair holding
the dry rags and the empty bucket. He
explained that he had never mopped a
floor before, so he had filled the bucket
with water about eight times and emp-
tied it on the floor.
The young man is now a practicing
whysician in Indianapolis.
Poetry as It Is Lived.
In his “Human Traits and Their So
cial Significance,” Irwin Edmar
writes:
| 2c “Men may first have come to speak
poetry accidentally, for language
arose, like other human habits, as a
thing of use. But the charming and
delightful expression of feelings and
ideas came to be cherished in them-
selves, so that what was first an acci-
dent in man’s life has become a de-
liberate practice, :
“When this creation of beautiful ob-
Jects, or the beautiful expression of
feelings or ideas is intentional, we call
it art.
“In such intentional creation and
cherishing of the beautiful, man’s life
becomes enriched and emancipated.
He learns not only to live, but to live
beautifully.”
The first poem may have been an
accident, as Mr. Edman suggests, but
more than one number in the latest
lot can be reckoned among catastro
phies.
Wife Worse Than Expected.
A darky who had recently married
was asked by the farmer for whom he
worked how he and his Mandy were
getting along.
“Not very well, boss. The fact is
Mandy and me we’ve done pa’hted.”
“Parted!” exclaimed the farmer.
“Why, you were just married. You
know, Sam, you can’t leave Mandy.
She’s your wife and you took her for
better or worse.”
“That’s just it, boss,” said Sam. “I
shore did tell that pahson that I took
that gal for better or wus. But, boss
dat gal is wus'n I took her to be.”
| Young and Inexperienced.
When I was a bride I went into a
shop to purchase socks for my hus-
band. I was young and unaccustomed
to buying men’s wear, and was at a
loss when the salesman inquired what
size 1 wanted.
I didn’t have the slightest idea, but
suddenly I said, “I don't remember
what size his socks are, but he wears
& number fifteen collar.”
The clerk and all other people In
the shop burst out laughing.—Ex-
change.
A Helpful Hint.
“I don’t know what in the thundera-
tion is the matter with my wife!”
grumbled Gap Johnson of Rumpus
Ridge. “She's everlastingly asking me
for money to buy a new dress with or
a bunnit, or some such fool thing.”
| “Mought try giving her a little
money some time, and see if it would
make a plumb fool of Ler,” suggested
an acquaintance.—Kansas City Star.
Alike in That Respect.
A traveler in the West some years
| 420 observed a well-executed portrait
| on the wall of a dark room in a cab-
In and asked whose picture it was.
“That's my husband,” said the woman
of the house, carelessly. “But it is
hung with fatal effect,” urged the
artist. “So was my husband,” snapped
the woman,
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