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Bellefonte, Pa., February 15, 1924.
PICK SPORTS TO SUIT JOP
Your Recreation Should Be Entire
Change From Your Work,
Says Expert. -
Keeping your health is merely a mat-
ter of using your common sense, ac-
cording to Dr, C. Ward Crampton,
well-known health authority of New
York city. The whole solution of the
problem, he declares, is continued in
three words: “Recreate or wreck.”
No man needs any guidance but his
own in selecting his proper form of
recreation, asserts Doctor Crampton,
writing in Popular Science Monthly.
Anything that is gn entire change from
his daily work will suffice.
“Change your clothes, change your
mind, change your attitude,” he ad-
vises. “If you have a white-collar job,
put on a flannel shirt. If you have a
flannel-shirt job, a white collar as a
change will have its merits. If you
work indoors—go out. If you are out
of doors all day—stay Inside. If you
sit or stand at your work, walk, run or
dance for recreation. If you are con-
tinually meeting many people, seek se-
clusion. If you work alone, seek con-
genial company. If your work is with
your head, seek vigoorus muscular ac-
tivities. If your work is mainly mus-
cular work, seek some mind-testing
recreation.
“Above all, get the play spirit. Get
into the game. Recreate, and so recre-
ate your body. It holds big profits for
you.”
31G CONCRETE PLANT AFLOAT
interesting Mechanical Contrivance
for Use in Great Lakes Harbor
Improvements.
Among the interesting mechanicai
sights on the Great Lakes is a com-
plete concrete plant afloat, This has
been used in important harbor im-
provements, and the plant has a
capacity of 150 yards a day. It rests
upon a scow, which is easily run
alongside of the cribs on which the
concrete dock is to be built. The con-
crete is poured into the forms from
one end of the scow.
At the forward end of the scow are
geparate divisions for crushed stone
and sand. A whirlie located just to
the rear of these is used to lift the
stone . and sand to the mixer. The
cement is kept in a house to the rear
of the whirlie, and is raised to the
mixer by means of an elevator.
by hand. Power to operate the ma-
chinery and to furnish electric light
is supplied by an upright engine.
Qur Most Beautiful Words.
A somewhat novel contest was hela
cecently in New York to decide the
twenty most beautiful words in the
English language. Thousands of peo-
ple took. part, and John Shea, a law-
yer, was declared the winner. Of the
25 words submitted by Mr. Shea, 21
were gccepted. The words accepted
were: Melody, splendor, adoration,
eloquence, virtue, innocence, faith,
joy, honor, radiance, nobility, sympa-
thy, heaven, love, divine, hope, har-
mony, happiness, purity, liberty.
Three words were rejected: “Grace,”
“justice” and “truth.” The two for-
mer were eliminated, it was ex-
plained, because of the harshness of
the “g” in “grace,” and the “J” in
“justice.” The word “truth” was
eliminated because of its metallic
sound. Why the words “mother” and
“home” were not included in the list
will appear somewhat puzzling to
many readers.
Beggar Pitied the Queen,
The recent celebration of Queen
Wilhelmina’'s jubilee revives many
stories of her youth in Florence,
where she lived for a while with her
mother. It is related that one day
they were going along the Lung Arno,
when they were accosted by a beg-
gar. The queen regent wanted to push
on, fearing that her daughter might
catch some fearful disease, but the
little queen, having a will of her own,
" insisted on siopping. She questioned
the man in hroken Italian, believing
herself quite unknown, and on pro-
ceeding gave him half a franc. He
looked from the silver in his hand to
her, and then back again, and at last
said, with an air of impertinence:
“So your subjects keep you as short
as that! Poor queen.”
A Projectile’s Speed.
Experiments with improved instru
nents for measuring the velocity of
projectiles have shown that the speed
continues to increase after the missile
has left the mouth of the gun, Leav-
ing the muzzle with a velocity of
about 1,474 feet a second, a projectile
has been observed to increase its speed
to about 1,689 feet per second within
the first six feet. It is only after
having traveled about 25 yards that
the projectile’s velocity becomes re
duced to the speed that it had on leav-
ing the muzzle. This is ascribed to
the impulse of the expanded gas be-
ing felt for some distance Deyond the
gun’s mouth.
He Knows Now.
Slam, bang, crash:
Thus was shattered the silence of
the night. After that final crash
came a pause that was portentous.
A faint stir was heard.
Mother whispered: “Dear me, fa-
ther didp’t know we moved the hat
rack.”
“Well,
grandma.
he knows now,” muttered
To .
the elevator it is loaded and unloaded
TELEPHONES LIFE-SAVING TIP | WEATHER RECORDS NEEDED §yRGERY OF HEART CN TRIAL
Engineer Puts in Spare Time Watch-
ing Window's Ledge Opposite
i His Office.
“Yes,” said the engineer, sitting by
the window of his office in the Grand
Central neighborhood. “I'm going to
ask for a Carnegie medal and also for
an annual retainer from the hotel
across the street. I'm official life-saver
and damage-suit preventer.”
He reached. for the telephone and
asked for his friend, the manager of
the hotel, says a writer in the New
York Sun and Globe.
“Got another one,” he said, “Fif-
teenth floor, right wing. American
beauty roses in a vase. Wind snapping
up. It'll blow down in a minute.”
“Now watch,” he remarked, pointing
across the street. Sure enough, on the
window ledge stood the flowers.
In less than five minutes two male
and three female attaches of the hotel
were in the room. The flowers were
removed.
“How would you like to be walking
down the street and have that vase
crash on your head?’ the engineer
asked. “A person is likely to get killed.
All sorts of contraptions are put out
by hotel guests, not thinking they are
endangering lives and putting the ho-
tel in prospect of big damage suits.
Yesterday a heavy vase of chrysanthe-
mums stood shaking in the breeze un-
til I spotted it. A big glass bowl stood
on the narrow ledge. It surely would
have crushed in somebody’s head if it
had fallen during the lunch hour.”
FINES FCR ABSENT SOLONS
Members of the British Parliament
Were Heavily Mulcted in
Olden Days.
One reads that when, one October
day in 1647, it was found that 150
legislators were absent, the British
house of commons, after long deliber-
ation on the appropriate penalty for
such “delinquency, “ordered that such
members as have not appeared accord-
£20”—a very substantial sum, indeed,
in those days, says the Detroit News.
In Elizabeth's time, too, one finds that
when a knight of the shire failed to
present himself at Westminster, un-
less he had some sufficient excuse for
his failure, had to hand over £20 to
the exchequer; while a defaulting
burgess escaped with a penalty of half
the sum.
Even absence from prayers was con
sidered just cause for punishment.
Thus in Charles I's reign the member
who failed to put in an appearance
until the “amen” had
poor box.
Moreover,
in those olden
such days as he actually spent in at-
tendance at the house or in traveling
{to and from it. When the house was
' not sitting he received nothing.
Why She Laughed.
When the young mistress of the
nouse entered the kitchen she carried
herself with great dignity. She had,
incredible as it may seem, come to call
the cook to account.
“Mary,” she said, “I must insist that
you keep better hours, and that you
have less company in the kitchen eve-
nings. Last night I was kept awake
| because of the uproarious laughter of
one of your women friends.”
“Yis, mum,” said Mary cheerfully.
mum. I was telling her how you tried
to make cake yesterday morning. —
: Philadelphia Ledger.
Infantile Logic.
| Prof. George Herbert Palmer of Har-
vard says that the masculine habit of
rigid, logical reasoning is contracted
very early, and in illustration he tells
the following story: “A little boy and
girl of my acquaintance were tucked
up snug in bed when their mother
heard them talking. ‘I wonder what
we're here for? asked the little boy.
The little girl remembered the lessons
that had been taught her, and replied,
sweetly, ‘We are here to help others.’
i The little boy sniffed. ‘Then, what are
the others here for? ”
Clean Picking.
An enterprising coal dealer adopted
; for his “slogan,” which he printed on
| his bills, the following motto: “It’s
. a black business, but we treat you
white.”
A customer, on receiving his ac
count recently for his supply of coal
at the price of $22 per ton, inclosed
his check in payment, and at the same
time suggested that the merchant
change his motto to read: “It's a
dirty business. but we clean you
good.”—Judge.
Would Take a Chance.
tended a dinner and, although she had
a poor appetite on this occasion, she
was pressed to have some food.
“Oh, do!” they said for the tenth
time.
“I couidn’t,” she replied. “I couldn't
possibly eat any more.”
this dish and that, and at last she
sald: “Oh, very well; if I bust I
bust.”
; Preferred Radio to Baby.
A new baby had arrived in a certain
household, and it was expected that
the little brother would give it a
hearty welcome.
Instead, he was very annoyed when
the news was announced, and going
into his mother’s room, remarked,
with a frown, “That is all right, spend-
ing money on a baby when we've been
wanting a wireless aerial so long.”
es
ing to summons shall pay the sum of
been spoken :
was called on to put a shil’'ng in the ,
days a |
legislator only received payment for |
“I know; but she couldn’t help it,
A woman with a very bad cold at. '
They continued to press her to eat !
They Are Often Important in Settling
Questions That Are Before
the Courts.
Any extreme or unusual weathev
conditions which prevail at the time
of some particular event tend to fix
the circumstance more vividly in the
memory than if ordinary conditions
had prevailed. Very often the weath-
er bureau of the United States Depart-
ment of Agriculture is called on to
provide information from its records
of weather conditions at a given place
on a given date. Such information
may settle a question before the
courts, establish a claim to an inheri-
tance, or otherwise prove conclusively
the date of some event involving im-
portant consequences. Recently it be-
came necessary for a man to prove the
date of his birth, which was under
dispute. Family tradition pointed to
“the year when New Year's day was
very, very cold—the lowest tempera-
ture on record” for that district. The
weather bureau was able immediately
to place the date required as 1864,
when in the Middle West there was an
extraordinary cold wave spreading
quite generally over Ohio, Illinois and
nearby sates, reaching 10 degrees be-
low zero in Cincinnati and 18 degrees
below zero in Alton, Ill, with corre-
sponding low temperatures throughout
the region.
CAMEL WENT TO HEAVEN
Mahomet’s Beast Given Place for
Going From Jerusalem to Mecca
in Four Bounds.
Mahomet’s camel, according to tra-
dition, performed the whole journey
from Jerusalem to Mecca in four
.bounds, for which service he had a
place in Heaven with Aborak (the
prophet’s horse), Balaam’s ass, Tobit’s
dog and Ketmir (the dog of the seven
sleepers), says the Detroit News. It
is said the mosque of Koba covers the
very spot where the camel knelt when
| Mahomet fled from Mecca. Mahomet
considered the kneeling of the camel
as a sign sent by God and remained aft
Koba for four days.
In the Koran there is an expression
similar to the one found in the Bible
to the effect that “it is easier for a
camel to go through the eye of a nee-
dle than for a rich man to enter into
the kingdom eof God.” The Koran
says: “The impious shall find the
gates of Heaven shut; nor shall he
enter till a camel shall pass through
the eye of a needle.” In the rabbini-
; cal writings there is a slight variety:
“Perhaps thou art one of the Pampe-
dithians who can make an elephant
pass through the eye of a needle.”
St. Louis Shaft to Laclede.
Pierre Laclede, founder of St. Louis
: nearly 160 years ago, like De Soto be-
fore him, died on the Mississippi river.
He was buried on shore somewhere
near the mouth of the Arkansas, but
‘companions who went later to disinter
his remains found that the river had
{ washed them away, giving Laclede his
last resting place in the body of water
| which had been so closely associated
with his life, says the Detroit News.
Laclede, a native Frenchman, sold
his chateau in the shadow of the Pyre-
nees to acquire the means to come to
the New World. He went first to New
Orleans, where he fought in the Colonial
wars. Then he sailed up the Missis-
sippi to find a location for a trading
post, and coming upon this site, knew
that his quest was finished.
A monument to Leclede’s memory
was recently unveiled in St. Louis.
A Success Secret,
| The secret of nature's success is pa-
tience. A naturalist may go out into
the woods to study the birds. He may
walk and walk and walk and see mo
birds. But let him sit down on a log
and wait, and lo! the brazches are full
of song. Those who pursue success
never catch up with her. Success takes
alarm at pursuit and avoids the
stealthy pounce. “Seekest thou great
things? Seek them not ;” but, “Seek ye
first the Kingdom of God and His
righteousness and all other things shall
be added unto you.”—Nellie Ripley
Harris in Nautilus.
| Better Than Lawyer.
A popular comedian was a witness
in a suit for slander, and the oppos-
ing counsel said: “You are an actor, 1
believe?”
“Yes,” replied the comedian.
“Is not that a low calling?”
“I don’t know; but it’s so much
vetter than my father’s that 1 am
rather proud of it.”
“What was your father's calling,
may I ask?”
“He was a lawyer,” said the com
edian.
Proved.
Some archeologists excavating on
che border of the Sudan, upon break-
ing camp, neatly buried their salmon
and sardine tins. Another scientist
came along and happened to dig on
this same site. Pretty soon he beld
up a can embellished with the picture
of a plump golden salmon.
“Aha,” he exclaimed. “Now I have
! evidence In support of my theory that
the Sahara was once an inland sea.”
Conservative.
A certain man had just bought a car.
He took his wife out on a few pre-
; Hminary expeditions, during which she
did not hesitate to criticise her hus-
band’s efforts at driving.
| “Halloa, old man!” said his mext-
, @oor neighbor one evening. “I see
| you've got a little two-seater. What
do you get out of her?”
I “About forty thousand words to the
gallon,” answered the other, sadly.
German Expert Reports That the Cut
ting of the Nerve Fibers Ends
Acute Pains,
Numerous statements relative to the
relief by surgical operation of a here-
tofore almost intractable disease—
angina pectoris—have appeared re-
cently. Patients who suffered with
the severe pains around the heart as-
sociated with this condition, are usual-
ly treated by the use of sedative drugs
and physical methods; the relief is,
however, temporary and recurrent at-
tacks cause great distress and pr2-
vent those afflicted from following
their usual occupations, says Hygeia.
The new surgical methods are based
on the suggestion of a German physi-
cian that the pains are conducted by
nerve fibers which are accessible to
the surgeon, and that relief might be
secured by dividing these fibers. One
German surgeon reported that he had
performed the operation in six cases
with excellent results. The cutting of
the nerve caused a cessation of the
paing, although it was not clear
whether this result was due to a fall
in the blood pressure or to a loss of
sensibility in the parts.
Last February two American sur-
geons reported the results of the use
of this surgical method in five cases.
Death occurred in one case, and
marked improvement resulted in the
four remaining cases. Cases have
continued to be reported both in the
American and the foreign medical lit-
erature.
Some physicians have questioned the
use of the method on the grounds that
the pain was a warning signal which
caused the patient to lead a conserva-
tive life. The field appears to be prom
ising but is still strictly on trial.
DISLIKE THE SMALL PANES
Window Cleaners Would Rather Work
Near Tops of the Loftiest
Skyscrapers.
Whatever else may be said of Wash-
ington square it may be truthfully
chronicled that it is the bugaboo of the
window cleaners, that race of men who
nonchalantly pose on window sills at
dizzy heights while you hold your
breath in incredulous horror.
Any window cleaner in the city will
tell you that he would rather wash
the panes of the highest floor of a sky-
scraper than go to the most modest of
Washington square or Greenwich Vil-
lage apartments to work, says the New
York Sun and Globe.
“It's easy to understand,” explained
the head of one of the window-clean-
ing companies, “for most of the win-
dows in the Washington square or
Greenwich Village section are of the
so-called French type, and are divided
up into a number of small panes. Each
of these naturally has to be cleaned in-
dividually and so the window takes
that much longer to do. The more
windows our men clean the higher
their wages are, so naturally they
want to get through as quickly as pos
sible.”
“Metal Mike” as Helmsman.
An American coasting vessel recent-
ly completed a voyage of 12,000 miles
with a machine as helmsman. Ex-
cept for taking the vessel in and out
of port, the steering was done solely
by this new device, and the vessel kept
a straight course throughout the trip,
at no time deviating from it by more
than a sixth of a degree.
The new apparatus is known among
“Metal Mike” has become so effective
to the ship’s compass in such a way
that directly the vessel's nose begins to
take it out of the true course, an
electric contact is set in motion, which
moves the helm and brings the ship
back to the right position. Now that
“Metal Mike,” has become so effective
in practice, it probably will be fitted to
ather boats.
Alaska to Make Paper.
Development of an important pulp
and paper industry In southeastern
Alaska is Inevitable because of the
water power, timber and transporta-
tion conditions there, in the opinion
of Secretary of Agriculture Wallace.
“The rate of development of the pulp
and paper industry of the territory,”
says Mr. Wallace, “will be controlled
by the eeonomic factor of distance
from present consumption centers and
by the necessity, inherent in the in-
dustry itself, for large capital invest-
ments, rather than by physical disad-
vantages. The physical conditions in
southeastern Alaska—presence of
cheaply developed power, an enormous
supply of inexpensive wood and the
availability of water transportation—
are the very factors which make in-
evitable the expansion of pulp and
paper manufacturing in the territory.”
Old Calendar Shelved.
fhe adoption of the Gregorian cal-
endar by the Russian orthodox clurch
through a recent proclamation by Arch-
bishop Tikhon means that the entire
Christian world will celebrate Christ-
mas this year on the same date for
the first time since 1581, the Inter
national Fixed Calendar league an-
nounced.
The Russian and Greek churches
tor centuries followed the Julian cal-
endar, which caused them to celebrate
Christmas from 10 to 13 days after
the rest of the Christian churches.
Near Plunkville.
“What has become of that bed
sarve just outside of Plunkville?”
“The fown did away with it.”
“A good idea.”
“Yes, it was cheaper to do that than
to build a hospital.”
Clean-Up Sale
of Satin Pumps
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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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Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building BELLEFONTE, PA.
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By request of a great many customers.
We will Continue our
White Sale
Until February 16th
We are receiving New Spring Dress
Goods every day. See our Embroidered Voiles Crepe
Mixfures in all the New Combinations and Colors.
New Silks ae
Everything that is new in Silks, Bro-
cades, Velva Knits, Canton Crepes, Satin Crepes, Bro-
caded Canton in all the New Colors—Cocoa, Squirrel,
New Browns, Greys, Black and White— -at very
low prices.
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