FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
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Bellefonte, Pa., July 18, 1924.
RS TRE Fs SAT
GOLDENROD IS NOT HAY FEVER
CAUSE, SCIENTIST HOLDS.
“Don’t blame the goldenrod for
your troubles, hay fever victims.”
This is what Prof. Albert A. Hansen,
of Purdue University, says in a state-
ment for the American Nature Asso-
ciation.
“There is so little truth in the fre-
quently heard statement that the
goldenrod is a hay fever plant that
the accusation can almost be termed
false.”
Accordng to the Nature Association,
only three of the sixty American spe-
cies are being found in Europe. There
is white and gray goldenrod, as well
as the more familiar varieties. That
is not strange when we remember that
we now have white blackberries. There
is another species known as the sweet
goldenrod, the crushed leaves of which
give off a fragrance that suggests
anise. :
Making clear that goldenrod has
nothing to do with hay fever, the Na-
ture Association’s statement says:
“Hay fever pollens must necessari-
ly be the ones that are scattered by
the wind. Goldenrod is insect pollin-
ated, and the pollen grains are rarely
if ever wind distributed. The real en-
emies of hay fever victims are the ug-
ly ragweeds.” ;
There are some sixty species of the
goldenrod, and Prof. Hansen calls it
“the crowing glory of Nature's sea-
sonal procession, and when the great
paint brush of Nature sweeps the au-
tumn landscaape we can feel thankful
for the brilliant pigments of our na-
tive goldenrod.” : J
The white-flowered species may be
found in the open woods from Maine
to Minnesota and southward to Ten-
nessee and Georgia.
Nurses in the Navy.
The bluejacket nurse is not a blue-
jacket, really, for he wears a spotless
white costume instead. He carries a
tiny knapsack, in which is packed a
complete kit of bandages, surgical
instruments, and so on. He has drills
in bandaging, when everything in his
knapsack is inspected, to see that it
is absolutely clean and in order.
One of these drills is an interesting
sight. The row of young sailors,
dressed in shining white; the quick
answers to the drill master; the ban-
dage drill, in which each man in turn
adjusts and explains, with his com-
rade as patient, the way to bind up a
broken limb, a sprained ankle, a dis-
located shoulder, and so forth, and to
adjust and use a tourniquet; all this
makes the lookeron admire afresh the
thoroughness and the skill with which
the Navy prepares for its serious
work.
Half the bandaging is done, by the
way, with hankerchiefs, so that in
case bandages should give out in a
landing party, for instance, the sail-
or’s own hankerchief can be used. All
naval nursing is aimed at meeting
emergency conditions.
For this reason, the ladder drill is
another bit of hospital training. A
series of ladders and platforms, to
represent the stairways and decks of
a ship, are rigged up on the hospital
lawn. Some of the nurses are told off
to represent the wounded. These men
are picked up by their comrades, laid
on stretchers, strapped down, carried
up and down the ladders at the double-
quick, passed through the openings
in the platforms, and so on, while the
drill-master stands, watch in hand, to
count the seconds.
By graduation time the ladder drill
is so incredibly quick that the outsider
can hardly believe his eyes.
The landing party drill is really ex-
citing. The nurses scatter over the
hospital grounds hunting for pre-
arranged groups of injured men. On
finding them, they apply splints, ban-
dages, and whatever else might be
necessary, and bring them in on
stretchers. The doctor in charge
questions them on what they have
done for the wounded man, and why;
and then they are marked according
to their correctness both in treatment
and recitation.
There are two nurses to each large
war vessel. After graduation, six
months’ work in the hospital com-
pletes the training, and then the full-
fledged nurse can go on board ship.
COLLEGE SECURES NEW
POULTRY SPECIALIST.
J. C. Taylor, formerly extension
poultry specialist in Connecticut, has
recently been added to the staff of the
poultry extension department of The
Pennsylvania State College. He will
work largely with poultrymen and far-
mers in the western counties of Penn-
sylvania.
Taylor was born on a farm in New
Jersey, graduated from the Connecti-
cut Agricultural College and spent
three years in poultry extension work.
Much of his time in Connecticut was
spent working with white diarrhoea in
chicks and the extension department
at State College plans te have him
continue this work. The new poultry-
man also did considerable work with
the famous Storrs International Egg
Lay Contest and has had a great deal
of practical experience on some of the
best poultry farms in New Jersey.
College to Dedicate Cabin to “Andy”
Lytle.”
“Andy” Lytle, known to every stu-
dent that has attended The Pennsyl-
vania State College for the past half
century, and called “the oldest fresh-
man at Penn State,” has given the
college Y. M. C. A. a ten acre tract of
land in the mountains near the college
and a large log cabin will be built
there for the use of student hikers.
Dr. Edwin E. Sparks, former presi-
dent of the college, is greatly inter-
ested in the project and logs for the
cabin will be donated by Colonel The-
odore Davis Boal, of Boalsburg. It is
planned to dedicate the cabin and park
to “Andy,” who also bears the repu-
tation of being the oldest football
“rooter” at Penn State, having fol-
lowed the game since its establish-
ment there.
God’s 1 book. We see only the one
before us. Nor shall we be allowed—it is
indeed impossible we should do it—to turn
the leaf until we have learned the lesson
of that before us.—George Macdonald.
Children and polished furniture do
not live together on friendly terms.
The children, whose eyes are so far
below most of the beautiful tables and
chairs and things, no not see them in
their relation to space or living. They
are just so many things that stand in
their path, useful now and then, but
generally an obstruction.
They will put finger marks all over
every article of furniture in the house,
skipping none, in the forenoon of one
day, and it will take you many days
of conscientious rubbing to restore the
original shine, only to have it rubbed
off again.
They will put unexplained scratch-
es on the tables. They cannot help it.
They do not pick things up cleanly as
we do because their fingers are not as
deft as ours. They spill things, too,
because their muscles are not steady
enough to prevent it.
The legs of the tables and chairs
and the springs in the couches are
doomed to racking service, and their
scarred varnish and limp springs soon
tell their own story. “There isn’t any
use in trying to keep this place decent
when the children are about. They
simply ruin the place. I never saw
such children. Most destructive little
animals I ever met. Sammie, you
take that bowl of water right out of
this dining room or I'll give you what
for. I'm tired of it. March now.”
The truth of the story is that fur-
niture and children are not compati-
ble. One ought to remember that
when the home is being furnished and
not stock it up with polished mahog-
any and walnut unless there is a suite
of rooms called the nursery where the
children will spend the greater part
of their early lives.
They can no more avoid kicking the
legs of the tables and chairs and bark-
ing the tops of tables than they can
help playing. If they are to be made
miserable because of the polished fur-
niture, the furniture is costing too
much. Home is a place where one can
work and play freely and if the furni-
ture interferes with that it is a home
for furniture and not for the people
who live in it.
It would seem necessary to have
one room that would stay #n order
and where the furniture might be
spared from the wild efforts of chil-
dren to find their legs and arms. Sure-
ly they could be taught that when
they were the guests of the grown-
ups to whom the room belongs, and
they could stay only as long as their
welcome held out.
But it won’t do, if the children are
to have a fair chance to grow up in an
atmosphere of love and affection, to
have the furniture take first place. If
there has to be a choice the children
get the right of way. After they are
grown up enough to see beauty in
chairs and tables it will be time
to introduce them to the rooms where
they will usually stay. Until they
can appreciate them a little it only
troubles them to have to be so careful
about the house. Some of the present
day homes are museums and the chil-
dren act like visitors who have not
paid their admission fees.
COLD DRINKS FOR HOT MONTHS.
MINT GINGER ALE.
No hostess can afford to be without
a reliable recipe for a ginger ale drink,
since ginger ale is sure to be a favor-
ite with the majority of ‘her guests.
To make mint ginger ale, two sprigs
of young mint are crushed and put
into a tall glass pitcher. Crushed ice,
the juice of half a lemon, the other
half thinly sliced, and one pint of gin-
ger ale are added. The mixture is
stirred with a long-handled spoon and
served at once.
CIDER PUNCH.
_ Another delicious cider drink, which
is excellent for large parties, is made
as follows:
An orange is peeled very thin, and
the peel is put into a cupful of boiling
water and allowed to remain there for
half an hour. The liquid is then
strained into a bowl, and four table-
spoonfuls of grenadine, half a pound
of block sugar, three sprigs of balm,
one leaf of sage, and one quart of
sweet cider are added. This mixture
is left standing on the ice for half an
hour, then strained again, and the
juice of the orange already peeled is
added, together with the juice of one
lime and a quart of sparkling cider.
It is then served immediately.
There are many occasions during
the summer months when one must
be able to concoct a delicious cold
drink quickly. For this purpose, it is
wise to have in readiness one or two
bottles of fruit syrup. When one has
a bottle of Strawberry syrup on ice,
in a few minutes, a third of a glass-
ful of this delectable liquid can be put
into a tall, exquisitely shaped glass,
three tablespoonfuls of thick cream
added, and the glass filled with car-
bonated water.
Another cool drink quickly made
has lemon syrup as its foundation.
To three-quarters of a cup of water
are added one-third of a cupful of
cracked ice and sufficient lemon syrup
to please the taste, This is put into a
shaker, shaken well for two minutes,
and then strained into 2 tall glass.
Into the glass is stirred the stiffiy
beaten white of an egg. The drink is
topped with a candied cherry, and pos-
sibly, a single slim slice of lemon is
placed in the glass.
Mint julep is surely the king of 2ll
cold drinks! But one grave question
has divided the kingdom into two
parties; one party holds tenaciously to
the opinion that the mint should be
crushed, the other with equal zeal in-
sists that it should not.
EGG LEMONADE.
An egg is put into the bottom of a
tall glass. To this are added the juice
of a lemon, a spoonful of sugar, a lit-
tle ice shaved very fine, three quar-
ters of a cup of milk, and a half cup
of water. This is poured into a shak-
er, shaken well, and served. This
Joie makes just enough for one
drink.
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——1It's all in the “Watchman” and
it’s all true.
FARM NOTES.
—One part of water glass and nine
parts of water makes an excellent
preservative for eggs. Use a clean
earthen crock and select only clean,
smooth textured, infertile eggs. Now
is the proper time.
—The oriental peach moths are
emerging. They must be controlled
now or never. Apply the spray when
the shucks are about two-thirds
dropped. Add arsenate of lead for
the curculio. Do not mistake the
case-bearers for the oriental peach
moth caterpillar. The former will be
flying about the time apples are blos-
soming. They will be taken care of
by the usual arsenical sprays.
—The dairy farmer should make an
effort to cure his clover and alfalfa
hay without rain and with the least
possible exposure to the sun. Recent
experiments have shown that the high
nutritional value of these hays are
greatly reduced when curing is not
done carefully. Alfalfa hay cured
with the use of caps has been found
to have a much higher value for dairy
cattle than cured with exposure to the
sun.
—Eighty-five per cent of the mush-
rooms produced in the United States
are grown in Pennsylvania. To
answer the many requests for infor-
mation on this crop, a circular has
been prepared by the agricultural ex-
tension department of the Pennsyl-
vania State College, giving directions
for the culture of mushrooms. Copies
may be obtained free by writing to
W. B. Nissley, Vegetable Gardening
Extension, State College, Pa.
—One of the surest methods of in-
creasing the returns from the poultry
flock will be to cull closely this sum-
mer. The poultry business is now ex-
periencing a period when profit de-
pends upon low production cost. As
soon as the flock average falls below
50 per cent, start to weed out the non-
producing birds. The sooner these
culls are placed on the market, the
higher your returns on them will be.
If you are not familiar with culling
methods, consult your county agent.
—1It takes several months to starve
the mites in an infested chicken house
after the poultry has been removed.
In tests made by the United States
Department of Agriculture some
mites were still alive after 113 days
in an abandoned hen house. The
nests indicated, too, that the mites
live longer in damp locations than in
very dry conditions, which accounts,
in part at least, for the idea that
mites are worse in damp, badly ven- |
tilated houses.
The only way to get rid of these
pests is to break up their hiding
places. Dust baths will not control
them. Roosts should be taken down,
and all unnecessary boards removed.
In badly infested houses the mites
are to be found everywhere, including
the roof. For small coops a hand
atomizer will do for applying insect- |
icides such as sprays, but for larger
houses a bucket pump, knapsack
sprayer, or barrel pump is desirable.
A rather coarse spray should be ap-
plied from all angles, and driven
thoroughly into all the cracks.
floor also should be treated, as many
mites fall to the floor when roosts are
being removed.
Commerical carbolineum, which
consists essentially of a high-grade
anthracene oil, has proved very effec-
The |
tive against mites. The killing power
of this substance, which is derived
from coal tar, lasts for several
months, and mites which may be in-
clined to come in from other build-
ings are repelled for a long time.
This material costs, ordinarily, $1 a
gallon, but as its results are superior
to those recorded with any other ma-
terial, and the treatments required
are fewer, its use is strongly advised.
Crude petroleum, while not so ef-
fective as carbolineum, retains its
killing power for several weeks, and
in most places is very cheap. Since it
does not dry into the wood so rapidly
it is more likly to soil the fowls and
the clothing. Both of these materials
can be sprayed better if reduced with
kerosene at the rate of about 1 part
of kerosene to 3 parts of the other
materials. Both often contain foreign
particles which should be strained be-
fore the spraying is begun.
It has been found that one spraying
with either of these materials often
will completely eradicate the mites,
but ordinarily it is advisable to make
a second application in a month, and
in some cases a third treatment is
needed. Poultry should be kept out
of the houses until the material is
well dried into the wood.
A large number of commercial mix-
tures both of scratch grains and of
ground grains are prepared for poul-
try feeds, but the value of any mixed
commercial feed depends upon its
composition and the quality of the
grains used in its preparation. If a
poultry raiser does not produce any
grain and keeps a comparatively
small number of fowls it is often bet-
, ter for him to buy commercial mixed
feeds. The average farmer, however,
| should feed home-grown grains sup-
| plemented with mill feeds and meat
scrap, and the large poultryman
| usually can mix his own feeds to best
| advantage.
{ A scratch mixture should be fed
i morning and night and light feed in
| the morning. All they will eat at
night so they will go on the roosts
{ with full crops. An abundance of
| fresh, pure water is needed. The im-
! portance of this matter is not so gen-
{erally recognized as its value de-
It is not enough to fill up the
' mands.
| water vessels in the morning—it will
| pay to give a fresh supply along with
| the evening feed. Grit and oyster
i shell are needed, for fowls on free
{ range soon exhaust the natural supply
i of small, sharp stones that have any
' grinding value in the gizzard.
| Green feed must be provided if the
ipullets are to grow rapidly. They
seldom get enough even when on free
| range in early fall, for most of the
{ plants and herbage have long since
| passed the succulent stage. A newly
mowed field of grass or a patch of
| rye, wheat, oats, barley, or rape
| sowed especially for the poultry gives
| the best supply. Cabbage, chard, or
beet tops may be used.
The essential thing to secure early
maturity is to remove everything that
causes annoyance or retards growth
and induces the pullets to eat heavily
of a well-balanced ration.
{ mummies. The paint is made by
grinding the bones of the mummies
with the bitumen with which they
were embalmed.
——Read the “Watchman.”
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“and Brain-Sprinters
a fellow’s keyed to top pitch and
ounce of energy and vitality are cone '
WHEN
centrated on the game, nothing helps like
clenching the teeth in a piece of good chewing
BEECH-NUT Chewing Tobacco is the
steady and steadying friend of every record
breaker and pace maker.
In the back pockets of golfers, business
men, workers and judges.
Whole, waxy, selected leaves of prize
—the sun-sweetened, top growth
tricts, cut into convenient little bites, stemmed,
cleaned, packed, and sealed without the touch
of human hands.
Over
sold in a single year.
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Sdll the best chew on earth
—still the best
the world—still the most gene
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crops
of choice dis-
selling brand in
250 million packages
One of the richest and finest of :
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Lyon & Co. Lyon & Co.
Clearance Sale
OF
Summer Goods
For the next 15 days we will have
on sale all Summer Dresses and Dress
Materials that must go---Regardless
of Cost.
The Season’s Greatest. Value
in these Lovely Materials
Crepes, Voiles, Swisses, Tissue Ginghams
—in plain colors and in figures, 36 inches.
Hosiery
Remarkable values in Womens Full-Fashioned Silk
Stockings ; all the new shades. During the sale our
$1.50 Hose will be sold for 95c., and our $2.00 for $1.50
Coats and Suits
We have slashed the prices in our Ready-to-Wear
Department—Regardless of Cost.
Shoes
Big reductions in Mens, Ladies and Childrens Shoes.
White Oxfords and Pumps were $2.50 and $3.00, now
$1.75. Mens Fine Shoes from $2.50 up. Childrens
Shoes from $1.00 a pair to $2.50. We also have a
Rummage Table with Shoes from 25c. to $1.00 per
pair. Don’t miss this sale of Shoes, as you will save money by
coming early.
A visit to our store will convince you that
we have reductions you cannot duplicate.
Lyon & Co. « Lyon & Co.
Come to the “Watchman” office for High Class Job work.
Prices Reduced
at, Yeagers
We have made a Very Liberal Reduc-
tion on the price of Ladies Pumps and
Sandals.
This season’s goods—not old styles.
$8
Pumps
and Sandals
now $4.85
Yeager’s Shoe Store
THE SHOE STORE FOR THE POOR MAN
Bush Arcade Building 58-27 BELLEFONTE, PA.