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“Bellefonte, Pa., September 19, 1924.
Thirteen-Month Calendar Advocated
by Scientists.
New York, Sept. 6.—Changing the
number of months in the year from
12 to 13, of 28 days each and making
the extra day a holiday, is one of the
most important steps to be consider-
ed at the meeting of the International
Goedetic and Geophysical Union,
which will meet soon in Madrid. So
declared Dr. Henry Cox, senor mete-
orologist and distant forecaster for
the United States Weather Bureau at
Chicago, just before he sailed on the
Belgenland.
The question, said Dr. Cox, will be
taken up by the astronomical division
of the conference. If the plan favored
by the scientists is adopted, the
months will be four weeks each, the
first will always fall on Sunday, while:
Saturdays will always conclude the
week, falling on the 7th, 14th, 21st
and 28th. The extra day which comes
each year will be regarded as a float-
ing day, but will be called “New
Year’s Eve.”
A strong advocate of this change is
Professor Charles F. Marvin, head of
the United States Weather Bureau.
It also has the tentative approval of
the Catholic and Episcopal churches,
said Dr. Cox, who added that the
change will not only not interfere with
church calendars, but make for a per-
manent Easter. ;
The leading weather man of the
world will attend the conference in
Madrid, which will be opened by King
Alfonso, of Spain.
Dr. Cox expressed the belief that
the 13-month calendar should be ap-
proved also by business men, who
could, with complete accuracy, com-
pare their business of one period with
another.
Real Estate Transfers.
Johnstown realty company to Beth-
lehem Steel realty company, tract in
Centre county, et al; $45,000.35.
Midvale realty company to Bethle-
hem Steel realty company, tract in
Centre county, et al; $1.
Adam B. Krumrine, et al, to bor-
ough of State College, tract in College
township; $600.
S. David Slagle, et ux, to B. Corde-
Ii2 Reiser, tract in State College; $1,-
500.
1. G. Gordon Foster, et al, to Pearl
R. Morgan, tract in State College;
$700.
Frederick Zettle to L. C. Snyder,
tract in Gregg township; $1.
G. M. Nearhood, et ux, to Edward
M. VanSant, et ux, tract in State Col-
lege; $6,480. . .
Keystone Auto Gas and Oil Service
company to C. R. Armstrong, tract in
Beilefonte; $4,293.
Charles Dale, et ux, to R. J. Wit-
mer, et ux, tract in Harris township;
$4,100.
Clara Heisler to Charles E. Wetzel,
et ux, tract in Bellefonte; $6,650.
Justus C. Leathers, et ux, to Toner
Juke tract in Howard township; $1,-
Western Maryland Dairy Inc., to
Sheftield Farm company, tract in
Bellefonte; $1.
Solving a Problem.
A Scottish laird used to get befud-
dled every Saturday night, says an
English periodical. Then with his
servant, Saunders, in the same condi-
tion, he would mount his horse and set
off for the castle. While fording the
stream one night the laird fell into
the water. He got to his feet and
sputtered: “Saunders, mon, some-
thing fell off. Did ye noo hear the
splash 7”
“Thot I did,” admitted Saunders,
and he climbed into the water up to
his waist. Of course he soon found
his master. “Why, laird, it’s your-
self,” he said.
“No, no, Saunders” insisted the
laird stoutly. “It can’t be me, for here
J am.”
Saunders helped the laird to mount
again, but in the darkness faced him
the wrong way round.
“Thank ye, mon; now give me the
reins.
Saunders fumbled around the horse,
finally got hold of its tail, and cried in
a shocked voice:
“Laird, laird, it was the nag’s head
that fell off. There’s nothing left but:
the mane.”
The Modern Farmer Makes Out Best.
This is a good year to show that
‘the farmer who follqws modern meth-
ods is the one who makes out the best
in the end, says Dean R. L. Watts,
dean of the school of agriculture at
The Pennsylvania State College, and
director of the Pennsylvania agricul-
tural experiment station.
He adds that Pennsylvania farmers
are much better off than their middle
western brethren this year, and that
in this section the farmer’s dollar is
steadily increasing in purchase value.
Grading and packing the farm,
truck and orchard products and their
proper marketing form the big prob-
lems for Pennsylvania tillers of the
soil, Dean Watts contends. The col-
lege through starting extension and
resident instruction in agricultural
economics, is doing all it can to help
farmers with their phase.
Orders are Orders.
The German soldier does exactly
what he is told to do and no more.
An officer was drilling recruits and
had just given them the order, “Quick
March,” when he noticed his sweet-
heart coming across the square. For-
getting all about the recruits, he en-
tered into conversation with the girl
and walked away with her.
Six days later the same officer was
walking down the main street of the
same town when he saw some tattered
and tired soldiers approaching him.
One of the soldiers recognizing him,
went up to him and saluting said:
“Please sir, what about a halt?”
—Subscribe for the “Watchman.”
kind of a woman your wife would
have been If you had not asked her to
marry you? Or did you ever imagine
what type of man your husband
would have been if you had not ar
swered “Yes”?
Have you ever crushed any ambi-
tion, chased away any talents or driven
inspiration from your household?
What have you done to increase or de-
velop your life partner's talents?
Whether you are aware. of it or not,
you have either brought out the best
side of this partner's life or buried a!
that was good in him or her.
A good many of us possess two
sides. There are more Doctor Jekylls
and Mr. Hydes in the world than we
realize. How frequently your opinion
of a man and some one else's do not
tally! You will often say: “I cen’t
see how Brown tolerates Jones; he's
the meanest man in the world!” And
yet Brown has found the better side
af Jones.
Have you found the better side of
your husband or wife? Have you
done anything to bring that better side
to the front?—Chicago Journal.
China Had Great Ruler
in CR’in Shih Huang
Fifty miles south of the Chinese
city of Peking has been discovered
the walls of an anclent city, which
flourished over 2,000 years ago. The
walls embrace greater area than the
walls of Peking and lle burled at an
average depth of four feet. Late in
the Second century B. C., there arose
a king in the then comparatively small
China who compared favorably with
Alexander in conquests and empire
building and whose empire lasted al-
most until the present day. This was
Ch'in Shih Huang, or Shih Huang TI
(“The First Emperor”), whose rule
ending in 209 B. C., marks the close of
the feudal period and the beginning
of the empire in Chinese history. Shih
Huang Ti subdued the feudal princes,
built the famed great Chinese wall
and successfully defended the country
against the Tartars from the north,
standardized money, transportation,
writing and other things which aided
centralization, and destroyed as much
of the ancient classics and traditions
as possible, with the idea that the
history of the Chinese empire should
begin with his reign.
Guiana Blow Gun
Perhaps the most elaborate form ot
blowgun is that made by the Indians
of the Guianas. It consists of an inner
tube fashioned from a certain palm
which grows very thin and straight.
The pithy center and the knots are
gnocked out with a hardwood stick,
and the bore, about one-half inch in
diameter, is ground to a machine fin-
ish with a rough leaf which cuts like
sandpaper. This barrel is then in-
closed for protection in an outer cas-
ing made of two lengths of hardwood
grooved down the center, glued to-
gether and bound with ornamental
cane and beadwork, says the Detroit
News.
A lip piece of carved wood is care
fully fitted, and sights are added—
actual front and rear sights, the latter
open, the lower jaw and canine teeth
of some small jungle cat—and the
weapon is then a completed zarabalan,
a field piace of some eight to ten or
twelve feet in length, according to the
available length of the original inner
tube.
Joke on Archeologists
Fossils of prehistoric animals which
lived during the great Ice age are
found in certain layers of blue clay in
Tennessee. Man, It has been claimed,
arrived on the scene thousands of
years after these blue clay deposits
were made. Recently, however, geolo-
gists working near the site of an old
Indian earthwork found some of this
same sort of blue clay. Underneath
this clay were human bones. The dis-
covery was exciting—the geological
evidence seemed to place the first
Tennesseeans back with Ice age fos-
sills. Then some kill-joy in the party
discovered that the Indians had evi-
dently transported this clay from some
distance and packed it down into flat
layers resembling geological strata.
Valuable Black Walnut
A number of native black-walnuu
trees have been discovered whose nuts
possess superior cracking qualities.
By means of scions or buds from the
original trees, these are being propa-
gated in greater numbers each year,
since the value of the nut crop is
thereby greatly enhanced and the tim-
ber is of the same high quality as that
of other walnut trees. Stocks of these
selected trees are available in limited
numbers from the owners and make
possible the growing of valuable nut
trees about the home or In nut
orchards, says the American Forestry
association.
Forced to Beg Off
An indefatigable traveler, arriving
in New York, did not go to the palatial
caravansary he usually patronized but
street. But the very next day he
bumped into the manager of the down-
to-the-minute hostelry where he bad
always stopped and where he was
known so well.
“Why, Mr. Blank,” was the shockea
«Lreeting, “in New York and not stop-
ping with us?”
“It's this way, old fellow,” explained
Blank contritely. “I'm too tired this
trip to live up to the unparalleled
service you give.”
Ta at
put up in an obscure hotel on a slide |
a sense of money values, as charged
by a budget expert, the average Amer-
ican family would have less money in
the bank than it has. Eliminating the
girl who lives at home and can spend
her earnings for pretty things, and
whose extravagance is one of the
manifestations of her youth, it would
have. been fairer to say the average
housewife of America has a very keen
appreciation of the value of money
and how hard it is for the husband to
earn it. It Is probably quite true that
women do not budget their expenses;
neither did the great United States
government until a few years ago. If
the budget expert would go into the
stores patronized by the wives of wage
earners and note with what care and
anxiety the customers spend their
money and how anxious they are to
get full value, she might revise her
judgment a bit. With due respect to
the paragraphers, the women are
shrewd buyers. The hardly saved dol-
lars which bulk so large in savings
fund reports and bank deposits are
where they are because the women of
the country have put them there, often
against the will of their husbands.
The average man is a much swifter
spender than a woman, and despite
the jokes of the paragraphers and
comic artists, all women do not throw
away money on innumerable hats and
gowns. The budget expert did less
than justice to her own sex when she
criticized their financial acumen.—
Philadelphia Bulletin,
lavanese Houses by No
Means Things of Beauty
The clay walls which surround a
Balinese farm in Java are usually two
or three meters high. Very often they
rest upon a foundation of stones and
are covered with a heavy layer of
rushes which are to protect them from
destructive tropical rains. A door in
the wall is closed at night with wood-
en or bamboo planks, the Detroit
News states.
The walls around farms of ‘“poeng-
gavas” or district mayors, are usually
built of more substantial material.
The same is true of the homes of
Balinese princes. Yet while these
latter houses may be elaborately dec-
orated they resemble the more humble
dwellings in that they are exceedingly
filthy. The numerous members of the
family — parents, brothers, sisters,
nieces, nephews, married or unmar-
ried—live in a single house.
The pigs, dogs and goats found on
every Balinese farm are kept in a
separate hut. The loan huts are usu-
ally built upon wooden elevations and
are exceedingly ugly and ungainly.
On each farm one will also fina
bamboo baskets to house the fowls.
Words We Have Clipped
A few years ago a music-hall come
dian made a great hit by clipping fa-
miliar words, and we still hear him
imitated in colloquial conversation,
London Tit-Bits says. People say “lm
poss” for impossible, “biz” for busi-
ness and “pash” for passion.
But such clipped words are not ces-
tined to appear in any dictionary, and
we must go back much farther in the
history of words to find that when we
say: “He led the van,” we mean the
“vanguard”; when we speak of a pair
of van horses, we mean “cervan”;
when we retire to the “drawing room,”
we ought to say the with-drawing
room; when we talk of a “hobby” we
refer to riding a “hobby-horse”; when
we talk of sport we mean ‘“disport,”
of “tending” we mean “attending,” or
a “cute” lawyer we mean acute, and
of a “still” we mean a distillery.
Refuge in Silence
Mrs. Scrubbs, whose highly colored
imagination was well known in her
neighborhood, was called as a witnecs
in a damage suit.’
“The evidsnce which you will give to
¢he court shall be the truth, the whole
truth and nothing but the truth,” said
the clerk.
“Yes,” quavered Mrs. Scrubbs, now
¢horoughly frightened and unable to
think of one word of the story she had
resolved to tell—a story in which she
was the hercine.
“Well,” asked the judge, “what have
pou got to say about the case?”
“Well, judge,” she replied, “with the
{imitations I've just had put on me, I
don’t think I've anything at all to
say I”
: Fair Enough
Rents were exceedingly high in than
part of the city in which the young
couple felt they had to live. After
looking at apartment after apartment
they began to get discouraged.
At length, after looking at ome thai
just suited them, they exppessed in-
dignation when the agent told them the
rent would be $150 a month.
“I can't ask less, because of the
view,” the agent sald.
“Well, I'll tell you what we'll do,”
the young husband replied, “You knock
off $50 a month and we'll sign a con-
tract never to look at the view.”
Circles Around Moon
Circles around the moon are cause
by moisture in the atmosphere, It
frequently happens that the sunlight
reflected from the moon to the earth
fs so refracted by the atmospheric
moisture that a ring or circle is
formed. The more moisture there 19
in the atmosphere the smaller the
circle will appear. The form and size
of the ring will depend entirely upon
the particular condition and quantity
of moisture in the air.
Many children are referred to State
Chest’ Clinics as being suspected of
having pulmonary tuberculosis in its
early stages.
Tuberculosis is infectious and com-
municable. When a tuberculosis indi-
vidual coughs, tubercle germs may be
thrown out in the droplets of the ac-
companying spray. A child in such
an atmosphere is liable to inhale these
germs, or it may be that they fall and
accumulate on the food which he eats.
Under such conditions the risk of in-
fection is great. Kissing and fond-
ling of children by tuberculosis adults
increase the likelihood of infection.
The danger of contact with tubercu-
lous patients cannot be overestimated,
especially when the contacts are chil-
dren, ignorant and incapable of pro-
tecting themselves from overwhelm-
ing exposure.
Children suspected of having tuber-
culosis are frequently under-nourish-
ed and pale, with soft and poorly de-
veloped muscles and little fat beneath
the skin. They are 7 to 25 per cent.
or more under the average weight for
a child of the same height and sex.
The majority of such children present
the picture of extreme fatigue; many
are so tired that they cannot stand
straight. They assume a character-
istic posture with head bent forward,
rounded shoulders, flat chests, hol-
lows beneath their collar bones, pro-
truding abdomens and a tendency to
rest chiefly on one leg while standing.
Frequently they have colds and show
little resistance to disease. In school
they may be one to three grades be-
low the average for their age. The
beginning of impaired health and mal-
nutrition often dates from either
measles, whooping cough or pneumo-
nia—a very significant fact.
All parents are urged to have their
children given a thorough physical ex-
amination by their physician three
times a year. Malnutrition can be
prevented and cured by following the
physician’s advice as to care, correc-
tion of defects, daily routine and diet.
Fatigue can be overcome by prevent-
ing strenuous exercise, an hour’s rest
in bed during the day and nine hours’
sleep at night. Poor posture can be
corrected readily by training.
Malnutrition and fatigue are strong
factors in lowering resistance, prepar-
ing for and developing active tuber-
culosis in the presence of exposure to
the disease.
The State chest clinic, in Bellefonte,
is held every Tuesday afternoon in
the W. C. T. U. room, Petrikin hall,
and is conducted by Dr. David Dale,
assisted by the State Health Depart-
ment nurse, Miss Campbell. Exam-
inations are free.
Chivalry.
“What’s the matter, Captain?” ask-
ed an excited passenger. “Is the ship
in danger?”
“In danger?” shouted the chief of-
ficer of the boat, “we’ve been captur-
ed by pirates and they are going to
make all of us walk the plank. Run
below—quick, my man— and warn the
other passengers!”
The man rushed below and a few
minutes later the captain was startled
to hear him shouting:
“Women and children first!” he was
screaming, “women and children
first!’
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