Deworalc Yatdan
Bellefonte, Pa., April 11, 1924.
Veteran Waiter Finds
Modern Appetite Weak
An American, visiting Manchester,
England, not long ago, was brought in
contact with a waiter who has served
at every oyster feast there since 1902
and who complained of the degeneracy
of the contemporary appetite.
“The capacity of the guests is not
what it used to be,” said this waiter.
“I have often served fourteen dozen
oysters to one man, and many guests
would eat five or six dozen at the
feast. Today few persons eat more
than two and a half dozen.”
Now this disconsolate waiter might
brighten up if he had the opportunity
of serving a customer like the man
whom Brillat-Savarin celebrates in his
“Physiologie du Gout.” It is therein
stated that when Brillat-Savarin lived
at Versailles he frequently met a M.
Laperte, who was very fond of oys-
ters, but who complained that he could
never get his fill of them. The fa-
mous gastronomist determined to sat-
isfy this man once for all and invited
him to dinner. He kept pace with La-
perte up to the third dozen and then
allowed him to proceed alone. He
swallowed oysters steadily for more
than an hour, and Brillat-Savarin had
to stop him after the thirty-second
dozen, just as he had remarked that
he was beginning to enjoy his treat.
The two men then dined and Laperte
acquitted himself with the vigor and
appetite of a man who had been lons
fasting.
Sweden’s Ingenious Way
of Saving Electricity
Sweden is one of the most prolific
users of electricity. Her streams and
waterfalls have been so successfully
harnessed that electric power is cheap.
The average housekeeper probably
uses a greater variety of electric
stoves, heaters and labor-saving de-
vices than her sister in America. Even
the farmers use electric power to an
extent unknown in other countries.
There are said to be more electric
bulbs used per capita in Sweden than
in other countries, not excepting Amer-
ica, but certainly far less current is
used. Economy practiced in lighting
flats and apartments in Swedish cities
is a surprise to the American traveler.
At an early hour in the evening the
halls and staircases are dark, except
when the lights are turned on auto-
matically from the front door. The
scheme is highly ingenious. When a
tenant reaches home and turns his key
in the front door, the halls are instant-
ly aglare with light. These continue to
burn, however, only long enough to
enable the tenant to reach the top
floor, when they are automatically shut!
oft. - The length of time they burn has
been carefully calculated to allow the
tenant to reach the top floor and no
more. If he lingers on the way h-
must grope his way in the dark.
Early English Journalism
J. G. Muddiman has written the life
of his ancestor, Henry Muddiman, who
founded the London Gazette in 1665
under the title “The King’s Journalist,”
1659-1689. The book throws fascinat-
ing sidelights upon a period of Eng-
lish history which has never yet been
fully explored, and upon the real be-
ginnings of English journalism. Mud-
diman’s “News Letters,” from 1687 tc
1689, the manuscripts of which have
been at Longleat, Wiltshire, since 1704.
have been carefully examined. Mr.
Muddiman compares the life of a jour
nalist of those far-off days with that
of the present. “A remarkable con-
trast,” he writes, “to a modern editor
journeying to his daily work by the
underground railway was presented by
the bewigged Seventeenth century
news writer, mounted on horseback
and traveling to Whitehall or the
‘Seven Stars’ in the Strand, armed
with a sword and a brace of pistols
in his holster, ‘because of the foot:
pads of Knightsbridge.” ”
Radio Lullabies
‘The pleasura of being sung to sleep
1s no longer a monopoly of the baby.
The whole household can now retire
and fall asleep to music by radio. Cir-
cuits running from a central receiving
set in the living room run to loud
speakers or headsets in every room in
a New York editor's house. By means
of a clock switch, the whole system
can be left running for any predeter-
mined time,
Stringless Bean Deviser
flew know that the man who took
the string out of string beans was Cal-
vin N. Keeney of Le Roy, N. Y. Mr.
Keeney went through the bean patch
and picked out the beans that were
minus the strings. Whenever he found
one he would save the beans and re
peated this year after year, and event-
ually secured a supply of genuine
stringless beans.
Mixed Pleasures
“How did you enjoy the week-enc
restivities?”
“Splendidly. We danced all night.
When we went home in the morning
we had & radio service from the
church (with bell-ringing), and break-
fast in bed !"—Stockholm Sondags
Nisse.
How Difficult
“Do you know what that girl at the
swostment counter weichs
“No.”
“Why. =xtestments,
Kasper, Stockholin,
of course.”-
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HOW
TO TEST HOLLOW TILES
WITH HYDRAULIC DEVICE.—
In a series of tests made by the
bureau of standards in a 10,000,-
000-pound hydraulic testing ma-
chine, ana described in Techno-
logical Paper No. 238 of that
bureau, walls made of common
fireclay tiles 12 inches long, 12
inches wide and either 6, 8 or 12
inches thick were tested to the
point of failure. These tiles
were first tested individually
and their strength was found to
be much greater than that of
those usually used in building
construction. Their design was
such that all the net area was in
bearing when carefully set on
end in the wall. Owing to the
fact that the walls were very
carefully set by an experienced
mason they are considered to
have been stronger than those
usually used in buildings.
Of the 32 walls which were
tested about half were built with
the cells of the tile vertical and
the other half with them hori-
zontal. A few walls of each
construction were tested under
an eccentric load 2 inches off
center. 5
It was found that considerable
differences in the strength of the
tile did not have an appreciable
effect on the strength of the
walls. No relation was found
between the ultimate strength
and the load at first crack. Walls
having the cells of the tile ver-
tical had, on the average, more
than twice the strength of those
having the cells horizontal.
Walls loaded with an eccentric-
ity of 2 ine»zs had about one-
half the strength of similar walls
axially loaded. Apparently this
ratio is independent of the thick-
ness of the wall.—Scientific.
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How o Photograph
Clouds With Camera
A few weeks ago the French me-
teorological cf&ce invited photog-
raphers to submit photographs of the
sky taken in varying circumstances,
with a view to making use of the pic-
tures in the study of weather condi-
tions.
Clouds are said to be difficult to
photograph, but this is only the case
where one wishes to photograph a
landscape at the same time. When
the object is to make negatives of
clouds only a quick exposure with any
ordinary camera will do the work.
Amateurs with cheap cameras which
have only one snapshot speed can get
over the difficulty by stopping down
the lens to less than half its usual
opening, Then they must be careful
to develop the film or plate until the
image of the clouds is just beginning
to show on the back, when it will be
time to put the film in the fixing bath.
Those with better-class cameras may
use self-screen plates, stopping down
to F16 and making an exposure of
one-fifth part of a second.
Even better work may be done by
using orthochromatic plates and a color
screen on the front of the lens. When
using a three-times screen the lens
may be stopped down to F11 and an
exposure of one-tenth second, or, if
weather is bright, one-twenty-fifth see-
ond may be given. The rule for devel-
opment mentioned above applies in all
cases.—London Tit-Bits.
How Sea Nettles Sting
The sting is caused by the discharge
of minute cells known as nematocyst.
Each nematocyst, or stinging capsule,
consists of a tough ovoid capsule filled
with fluid, and invaginated at one end
in the form of a hollow process which
is continued into a long, coiled, hollow
thread. At one point of its outer sur-
face there is developed a delicate trig
ger hair known as the onidocil. When
the onidocil is touched the surrounding
tissues suddenly contract, thus causing
the coiled thread to be discharged.
The end of the thread is provided with
minute barbs. These threads are poi
sonous, and are the immediate cause
of the sting. It is not thought that
these animals purposely bring them:
selves into contaet with persons when
in the water, What happens is thai
they are simply brought in by the
tide, and are so numerous at times
that it is impossible to avoid contact
with them.
How U. S. Got Hot Spring:
Hot Springs, Ark., is widely note¢
for the hot waters that flow from 75
springs, included in a space of ten acres
on the west side of Hot Springs moun:
tain. The waters of these springs
range in temperature from 76 degrees
Fahrenheit to 157 degrees Fahrenheit
and are especially beneficial in the
treatment of chronic diseases. In 183:
four sections of land were set off by
congress as a government reservation
Since then the government has estab
lished on the mountain the army anc
navy general hospital.
How Expression Originatea
Judge Haliburton, author of “San
Slick,” popularized the interesting fact;
that Job’s turkey had but one feathe
in his tail, and had to lean against the
fence to gobble. Obviously, the ref
erence is to the deplorable indigence t¢
which Job was reduced when delivere¢
over to Satan. The fact that Jol
couldn't have a turkey (for the bir
Is a native of America) was probahh
nat present in the mind of the orig:
nator of the expression
DEATH TOLL IN
SOFT COAL MINES.
Bituminous coal mining in Pennsyl-
vania cost 405 lives last year com-
pared with 424 in 1922, despite an in-
creased production in 1923.
This is disclosed in a study of pre-
liminary figures of the 1923 report of
Joseph J. Walsh, State secretary of
mines. None of the fatalities were
caused by gas or dust explosions, a
record unequalled in the past quarter
of the century, the secretary asserted.
During the year the State’s approx-
imately 2,500 bituminous mines pro-
duced slightly in excess of 135,000,000
tons of coal, compared with 108,310,-
000 tons in 1922. The production av-
eraged 342,000 tons per fatality re-
ported. Fayette county led in produc-
tion with Westmoreland county sec-
ond, Washington county third, and
Cambria fourth, Mr. Walsh said,
pointing out that the complete ton-
nage for these counties has not been
compiled.
Of the fatalities occurring last year,
368 were classed as “inside” and 37 as
“outside.” The majority of fatal ac-
cidents inside the mines were due to
falling rock, Mr. Walsh said, declar-
ing that “while the 1923 record was
not the best in the department’s his-
tory it was far ahead of the large
number of years.”
The report showed the days the
mines worked ranged from 115 to 275,
while the days worked in approxi-
mately one-half the mines were below
180. Over-praduction in the entire
bituminous field, including all the
soft-coal producing States, was as-
signed as the reason for the few num-
ber of days worked.
Serious.
“Your wife is looking well!”
“Yes. Just fancy. When I took
her to the sanitorium she was so bad
that I wouldn’t risk buying a return
ticket.”—Sondags Nisse, Stockholm.
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Prominent Speakers ‘of Penn State
Chapel.
Every effort to secure the best pos-
sible speakers for the Sunday chapel
services is put forth by president
John M. Thomas and Chaplain Fraser
Metzger at The Pennsylvania State
College. The students always have
opportunity to listen to the views of
a widely different group as shown in
the following list of some of the Sun-
day speakers listed for the balance of
the present college year:
The Right Rev. Dr. John C. Ward,
of Erie; the Rev. C. Waldo Cherry,
Harrisburg; Dr. Alexander MacCool,
Philadelphia; Dr. W. Warren Giles,
East Orange, N. J.; Dr. Edwin Hoyle
Delk, Philadelphia; Bishop Ethelbert
Talbot, Bethlehem, and Dr. Charles
Foster Kent, Yale University. Oth-
ers who have addressed recent chapel
services at State College are Dr. Hen-
ry H. Tweedy, Yale Divinity school;
Dr. Sherwood Eddy, New York; Bish-
op F. J. McConnell, Pittsburgh; Col.
John T. Axton, chief of Chaplains, U.
S. Army; Dr, William L. Sawtelle, of
Scranton.
vania represent
in this State.
telephone business
that the people of
savings of the people of Penn-
sylvania. A hundred and twenty-
five thousand such investors live
In putting their money into the
would pay reasonable rates for
good telephone service.
As the telephone business ex-
Rates and Returns
The millions of dollars’ worth of
telephone property in Pennsyl-
investment
they had faith
Pennsylvania
Eighth of a series
of advertisements
regarding the
present telephone
service program
in Pennsylvania.
pands it is necessary to go to this
same public and ask them to in-
vest additional funds. We can
secure that money only so long as
rates for telephone service are
such as to allow an adequate re-
turn on the money invested.
The present rates do not so allow.
That's why we are asking the
very same public at this time for
a moderate increase.
In other words, we are asking
“of the public, for the public.”
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Little Group of Senators, representing in large
measure the forces of disorder, are domin-
ating the United States Senate.
bent on changing the structure of our gov-
ernment and our economic system.
lowed with more or less care the investigation in
progress.
We think it is largely ‘‘bunk.”
It has produced some evidence of wrong-doing.
A general feeling of distrust.
A great mass of unconfirmed gossip.
But how few hard, cold, facts !
We do not believe that there is widespread dishonesty
among our public officials.
But are not Both the Great Political Parties Lacking in Courage ?
They are
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