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Bellefonte, Pa., January 25, 1924.
TARARE’S MUSLIN FESTIVAL |
Thriving Center of Industry for Year
in Eastern France Hails
Originator.
Tarare, in east central France, is
the city of muslins. It was formerly a |
little village lost in the Beaupolais
mountains, but now it is the center of
a thriving industry. For more than :
half a century it has conducted a |
worldwide trade in the finest muslins,
the secret of making which originally
came from India, says the Detroit
News. And as a result of that trade
the village has become famous. Each
year in honor of Simonet, the founder
of the mills, the people celebrate the
muslin festival, which calls forth the
liveliest holiday spirit in all of the in-
habitants.
Last year the festival lasted three
days, in which the little city was truly
a city of muslin. Everywhere houses,
balconies and facades all but disap-
peared under the light and colorful
decorations, which were always pretty
and sometimes ingenious. Above the
middle of the streets were suspended
domes from which long streamers of
muslin were draped in graceful curves
to the second floor windows of the
houses; resedu, cream, ivory and rose
predominated—gay and beautiful col-
ors like garlands of flowers hanging
from immense corals. Vehicles of all
kinds were adorned with fancy mus-
lins.
QUARTER THE MINIMUM TIP
Check Men Have a Scheme to Extor.
More Money From Coat
Owners,
*“There’s no limit to the ingenious in
ventions of these tip hounds,” mut-
tered the accasional theater-goer, the
New York Sun and Globe notes.
“What now?” his friend inquired.
“Yesterday I took In a matinee at
one theater and the evening perform-
ance at another, At both I checked my
overcoat and stick. It cost me a quar-
ter at each place, instead of a dime,
because of their latest malevolent
stunt.
“The check men used to take the
tips in their hands or receive them In
a little deep dish. In either case you
could make your contributien a dime
without shaming yourself before any-
one but the receiver himself. If the
dish were there, you ostentatiously
cast the coin in with the rest of them |
and nobody noticed what it was. If
the check man reached with his palm,
only he felt the size of what went
therein.
“But now they would accept nothing
but a quarter. Before the end of the
last act they put three or four quar-
ters on the ledge. Tips, they indicate,
are to be laid alongside these. What
can a man do? One puts down a quar-
ter and all the others have to follow
suit. If a courageous chap contributes
only a dime the check man immediate-
ly whisks this bad example into his
pocket.”
Odd Uses for Motor Cars.
Odd uses to which motor cars ma)
oe put are described in Popular
Science Monthly.
J. M. Schofield of Stockton, Cal.
uses a small touring car to help him
dig wells. On the way to and from
jobs his car pulls a four-wheel trailer
loaded with more than a ton of dig-
ging tools. Ingenious appliances en-
able him to use it as a stationary
engine for such work as raising der-
ricks, drilling and pumping.
E. W. Tee of Brooklyn, N. Y., uses
his car to prevent the water supply
at his country place from running
short. He raises the rear end of the
:ar, removes a tire, slips a belt over
the rim, and operates a pump until
the tank is filled.
Samuel D. Lamis of Hannibal, N. Y.,
uses his car to haul a mowing ma-
chine when the time comes to cut hay
on his farm,
Correcting the Sentence.
The following story is credited to
ihe one and only G. B. Shaw. It con-
‘erns an acquaintance who was a
schoolmaster and who at the time was
aking a class of very small boys in
Inglish grammar. On the board he
had written the sentence, “The toast
was drank in silence,” asking the class
0 correct any mistake they could find
n it. For some moments there was
10 response, but finally a youngster
1eld up his hand and at a nod from
‘he master stalked gravely up to the
)lackboard to make his correction.
When he had finished the sentence
‘ead, “The toast was ate in silence.”
Cook on Exhaust of Car.
Auto tourists now can use the heat
»f their engines to cook their meals
)y means of an oven attachment por-
‘ected by an Oregon inventor, accord-
ng to the Popular Science Monthly.
the oven fits over the exhaust mani-
‘old, which supplies the heat. Food
nay be cooked while the car ie in mo-
fon, since the pots and pans used are
jupplied with lids that lock securely,
somewhat similar to those used in
Treless cookers.
Imperial Palace Often Burned.
The Japanese imperial palace in
Pokyo was originally finished in 1456
ind for centuries was occupied by the
shoguns, the virtual rulers of the
ountry. It has been the residence of
he emperor of Japan since 1868, but
t has been so often destroyed by fire
hat the present structure dates only
rom 1888.
RADIO A CURE FOR FLOP EARS
Earmuffs on Receiver Do the Wer
for Boy Who Was Thus
Afflicted.
“protruding ears will soon be a char-
acteristic of a bygone race,” said Wil-
kinson.
have no fears that their young ones
will grow up with flapping auditory
organs. The radio will
that.
“My boy Junior not so long ago had
one of the most pronounced pairs of
protruding ears I have ever seen. It
was a terrific blow to us. Since the
day of his birth we had worked to !
! make him look pretty. My wife before
long had visions of his becoming a
million-dollar-a-year movie star.
“She overlooked nothing. As soon
as Junior had hair long enough to curl
she curled it. As soon as he was able
to walk she saw that he carried his
feet in the approved fashion—almost
parallel, the toes pointing slightly east
and west. When his new teeth started !
coming we had the old ones extracted |
immediately so that he would have a
straight, even set.
“Until two years ago his ears
seemed to be just ordinary ones. They
were not exactly tucked in close against
his head, but they were aot obstreper-
ous. Then suddenly they started shoot-
ing out at right angles. You can
imagine the shock.
“When our hopes were at the lowest
ebb the boy became a radio fan. For
two, three and four hours a day he
would sit at his set, the head tele-
phones clamped over his ears. In six
months those awful flappers began to
improve their shape. In a year the
cure was complete. The radio ear-
muffs had done their werk,”—New
York Sun and Globe.
3YRON TRIED TO KEEP THIN
Starved Himself to Avoid Corpulency
but Had Periods of EX-
cessive Eating.
In “Beau Brumme! and His Times”
one reads that Byron, “fearful lest he
should become fat, starved himself
and then ate and drank to excess upon
nights of relaxation.” The two pre-
ceding days, relates Thomas Moore,
Byron had taken nothing but a few
biscuits and had chewed mastic to
stop the craving of his stomach. One
is told, also, that he wrote “Don
Juan” on gin and water. Early in 1803
Byron, when only seventeen years of
age, already experienced the discom-
fort and disfigurement of corpulence.
He weighed himself regularly at the
old coffee mill, 3 St. James street,
where for over 150 years eminent peo-
ple have gone to be weighed.
Byron was absent from England be-
tween 1806 and 1811, he having left
for the continent July 8, 1809. May
10, 1810, he swam the Hellespont from :
Sestos to Abydes in emulation of
Leander, and, sailing for home July 3,
1811, the poet was met by his friend
Dallas at Reddish’s hotel, St. James
street, on July 15, 1811, the day on
which he was weighed for the last
time at the old coffee mill.
cessor, the seventh Lord Byron, was'
a regular customer at that popular
resort.—Adventure Magazine.
Another Wave Motor.
Professor Trischetto, an Italian, pre
dicts that if his recently invented
model is adopted it will make it prac-
tical to get power from the waves of
the ocean,
The extraction of power from the
ocean’s movements—waves and tides—
has long been the dream of inventors,
as such a source of power is practical
ly inexhaustible; but heretofore the
models have either been failures or
so expensive to operate as to be Im-
practical. Professor Trischetto, how:
ever, claims that with his device he
can generate ten horsepower from
each square yard of ocean surface
used.
An interesting sidelight on the pro-
fessor’s invention is the fact that he
has been refused aid by his own gov-
ernment and has announced his in-
tention of offering his device to Eng:
lish capitalists when it is perfected.
HRS a at
Alaskan Eskimo Progress.
In twenty years the Alaskan Eski
mos have made great strides in the
ways of civilization. They have
churches and schools, many of them
read and write, and, owing to the
reindeer herds that the United States
government started for them, most of
them are prosperous. Deer meat in
the North sells at the rate of nearly
$10 for 160 pounds, which is the
weight of the ordinary carcass. The
natives now own at least 200,000 rein-
deer, which are under government su:
pervision.—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
London Growing Fast.
it has been estimated that the in
crease of London's population during |
and since the World war is no less
than 600,000. Vast numbers were at:
tracted from the provinces by the lure
of plentiful employment and high
wages. Now, having acquired the
taste for London, they do not return
even though employment is not now
plentiful and wages are not what they
were.
Explorers Ate Shoes.
Three explorers of the wilds o
Northern Canada have made thelr way
hack to civilization after two years of |
grueling experience. They covered
more than 4,000 miles, mostly bj
canoe, overland stages of the trip be
ing made with the aid ot a dog team
More than once they were near staiva
tion and once they were compelled te
eat their old moccasins, discarded
sacks and dried suckers.
“Mothers of the future need |
attend to |
His suc- :
MACHINE TO DRESS CODFISH
i
iron Splitter Does the Work of Sev-
enty-Five Men in the Grand
Banks.
Out on the foggy grand vanks the
. most arduous task of the cod fisher-
man is “dressing down.” Every one
dreads it, for it means working re-
. gardless of hours untii the job is done.
If the catch has been heavy midnight,
i or even the dawn following, gees the
entire crew hard at it by the light of
flares. No one, not even the cook,
commonly known while afloat as “the
doctor,” may have any respite, says
the Scientific American. The deck is
slippery with parts of the thousands
| of cod that have been slid from the
| knife of the slitters into the hold. Cut
| fingers are of no avail as an excuse
for laying off.
Power has taken a lot of the mean-
ness out of life at sea and the same
little gasoline engine that hoists the
| sails and weighs the anchor will now
have more to do—and the crew less.
The “iron splitter” does the work of
60 to 75 men who now wield sharp
knives on the grand banks off New-
foundland, up along the Labrador, as
well as in the localities frequented by
fishermen from France, England and
Scandinavia.
Every second the new machine takes
a fresh codfish and as often it turns
out a dressed fish. It performs all the
usual operations of splitting, removing
the backbones, cleaning and washing.
This ingenious machine was perfected
in Seattle, Wash., by the company
which perfected, in 1905, a somewhat
similar machine called by fishermen
“the iron Chink,” because it took the
place of thousands of Chinese who
were formerly employed to clean fish
in the salmon canneries of the north
Pacific.
ENGLAND'S HISTORIC WAY
Oover Road Recalls the March of
Caesar's Legions Across
Barham Downs.
Dover road—England’s historic
aighway—is 703, miles long measured
from its ancient starting place, the
south end of London bridge, to Dover
cliff. An hour's journey over the Dover
road is an excursion into 2,000 years
of history and centuries of English
poetry and romance, says the Detroit
News,
In his book, “The Dover Road,”
Charles G. Harper says, “Caesar's
presence haunts the weird plateau of
Barham downs, and the alert imagina-
tion hears the tramp of the legionaries
along Watling street on moonlit
, nights. Shades of Britons, Saxons,
' Danes and Normans people the streets
of the old towns through which the
highway takes its course or crowd in
warlike array upon the hillsides.
“Kings and queens, nobles, saints of
different degrees of sanctity, great
blackguards of every degree of black-
guardism and ecclesiastics holy,
haughty, proud or pitiful rise up be-
fore one to terrify with thoughts of
the space the record of their doings
{ would occupy ; in fine, the wraiths and
phantoms of nigh upon 2,000 years
combine to intimidate the historian.”
Punch and Judy in China.
The origin of the Punch and Judy
comic puppet show has been the sub-
ject of much discussion. Punch has
heen identified with Pontius Pilate,
Judy with Judas the betrayer, or with
the Jews, and the play with one of the
old “Mysteries.” This notion is entirely
without foundation, the Detroit News
i declares, The name Punch is simply a
! contraction of Punchinello (for Pulein-
ello, the buffoon of Neapolitan com-
edy), while Judy is probably derived
from Judith, at one time a common
name.
It is said that a character similar to
, Punch is founded in the puppet plays
| of Italy, Egypt, Persia, India, China.
and Japan. Punch and Judy shows
were introduced into London in 1666,
by an Italian. who erected a booth
near Charing Cross for their perform-
"ance.
Important Purpose.
{ “Have you any plan for straighten
| ing out the affairs in Europe?”
| “Of course,” answered Senator Sor-
| ghum,
lL *win it work?”
“Well, I won't say for sure it will
. work in Europe, but in this, my own,
my native land, it will serve the veny
| important purpose of helping to keep
me before the public.”—Washington
Star.
Her Version of Concert.
A little girl to whom the wonders or
evening dress were quite unknown was
taken to her first evening concert. On
| her return home she was asked what
| the concert was like.
“Oh,” she said, “it was very funny.
There was a lady screaming because
| she had lost her sleeves and a waiter
! played on the piano all the time.”
¢ He Remembered.
“Do you remember the time when
your father drove a donkey cart.”
The candidate for election fixed his
glasses and gazed thoughtfully at the
interrupter. Then he replied: “As a
matter of fact, I had quite forgotten
the cart. But I am thankful to see the
donkey is still alive.”
Law Was Obeyed.
“Just think, it was against the old
blue laws to kiss one’s wife on Sun-
day!”
“That so? What was the penalty?”
‘Dunno. No husband was ever
bronght up on the charge.’ —Bostan
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SURGERY FOR THE ANIMALS
Operating Table for Horses Has Been
Opened in University of
Pennsylvania.
Horses, cows and mules can now be
given surgical treatment for tumors,
wounds, laryngitis, ruptures, broken
bones, severed tendons, distortions
and many internal diseases that for-
merly made it necessary to shoot
them,
Such operations are being performed
every weekday in the year, not only
for the purpose of getting information
concerning rare diseases that may be
of value later in treating human be-
ings, but to save and prolong the lives
of the animals and to increase their
usefulness, says the Scentific Ameri-
can. And the same facts apply to dogs,
cats and other pets, including rabbits,
goats, canary birds, parrots, rionkeys
and even the pungent skunk. They ap-
ply also to barnyard fowl—chickens,
geese, ducks and turkeys.
What might be called the other side
of the antivivisection story was
brought to public attention quite re-
cently in Philadelphia by the an-
nouncement that there had been set
up in the University of Philadelphia
veterinary hospital the first operating
table ever built for the accommodation
of horses and other large animals.
The machine was designed by Dr.
John W, Adams, professor of veteri-
nary surgery and obstetrics at the
university and chief operating sur-
geon at the hospital, which is run in
conjunction with the school. It was
evolved after several years of experi-
ence and after all existing apparatus
had been found unadaptable to the pe-
culiar needs of the veterinary surgeon.
MUSICIANS ARE LONG LIVED
his Seems True Especially of Eng
lish Organists Who Have Ob-
tained Good Positions.
Usually the clergy are supposed to
live longer, on an average, than the
members of any other profession.
Certainly doctors do not take a fore-
most place. The dangers of their work
lower their average life. Men in the
higher ranks of the law, judges par-
ticularly, are proverbially long-lived,
but many fall by the way in the law-
yer’s busy calling.
A claim is now being made for those
who obtain a comfortable position in
the world of music, and instances are
given. Sir Walter Parratt, the organ-
ist of St. George's chapel, Windsor,
England, has been at his work for 69
years, beginning as a boy of eleven,
and he varies music with the most try-
ing of all games, chess.
Sir George Elvey, the organist at
Windsor before Sir Walter, held the
post for 47 years. Sir Frederick
Bridge, late organist at Westminster
abbey, retired when he had held his
post 44 years, and he followed an or-
ganist, James Turle, who had served
the abbey 56 years.
Barking Sands.
At certain points along our seacoasts
“yocal sands” are found in patches,
exhibiting a phenomenon that has
never been very satisfactorily ex-
plained. The beach at Manchester, N.
H., is famous for them.
These sands, when dry. yield a pecu-
liar sound if struck by the foot, or even
when stroked by the hand. At the same
time a tingling sensation is felt by the
fingers or by bare toes.
The sound resembles the distant
barking of a dog, and it may some-
times be heard at a distance of 100
feet.
The most remarkable “singing sands”
are found on the island of Kauai, one
of the Hawaiian group, By clapping
them between the hands a faint hoot-
ing noise is produced. But the hostile
sounds are greatly intensified by put-
ting a quantity in a bag and slamming
it about.
No Cause for Worry.
The late Henry Clews, the famous
New York banker, was an economical
man despite his great wealth and he
had a horror of wastrels,
There is a story about a banker who
once said to Mr. Clews:
“My boy Scattergood is a frightful
spendthrift. I dread to think.that all
my money will one day be left in his
hands.”
“Oh, don’t worry,” said Mr. Clews
grimly. “It won't stay there long.”
Growth.
The teacher told us there was a
Jittle girl who had just been promoted
to the first grade. But on the first
day she got homesick for her kinder-
garten teacher, so she was allowed to
visit the kindergarten for a few min-
utes. She looked aver the crowd of
new pupils in their little chairs, and
then she looked up at the teacher with
a tender and amused smile.
“Aren't they cute!” she whispered.
Had Reason to Fear It.
“You are an educated man,” sald
¢he judge, “but this is a disgraceful
crime you have been found guilty of.
Have you anything to say before sen-
tence?’
“Only this your honor,” replied the
pedant. “Whatever the sentence may
be, for heaven's sake don’t end it with
a preposition.”—Boston Transcript.
He Certainly Was.
Tom's wife was commenting at
length upon a love passage in the
novel she was reading. She hesitated
and then tentatively spoke.
“Were you embarrasseed when you
provosed to me, dear?” she inquired.
darling,’ replied her hus-
“1 owed over $500."
Ys,
Clean-Up Sale
of Satin Pumps
Now on sale—my entire stock of
Ladies Satin Pumps, including all
styles and prices. We do not have
all sizes in the different styles, but
you will doubtless be able to fit
your feet out of the many pairs
on sale.
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give below just a few of the many bargains.
72in. Table Damask $1.25 quality now 75C.
Another Table Damask 6sc. quality now 45C.
72in. All Linen Silver Bleached Dam-
ask—value $2.25, now $1.75. :
10 yds. Toweling, now 95c.
Sheets, Sheeting and Pillow Cases
in the same line of reductions.
Colored-Border Curtain Nets 10c. yd.
36-inch Unbleached Muslin (while it
lasts) only 12%; c. a yard.
See our Beautiful Line of 32in. Dress
Ginghams—only 25 cents.
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