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Bellefonte, Pa., September 26, 1924.
OBLIGATIONS AND DUTIES OF A
: FOREST FIRE WARDEN.
THE OATH.
When the oath of office is adminis-
tered making a man a forest fire war-
den, he casts himself within easy
reach of the law. He has sworn him-
self to a duty. He has seen the duty
and pledged himself to perform it to
the best of his ability. He is just as
important in the great scheme of pre-
venting forest fires as is the highest
official in the land in comparative re-
lation to duty. We might well term
him a standard bearer, a man with an
ideal. :
In his community he is admired and
respected because of the stand he has
taken. His ability is above the ordi-
“nary, as his followers, men with a like
respect for the great need in prevent-
ing forest fires, depend upon him for
guidance and direction.
Countless times personal matters
are neglected to attend to duties of
State. The men who follow him, like-
wise, sacrifice many precious hours
and sometimes days that the forests
may be kept free from devastation.
Men who sacrifice that an ideal may
be realized, especially in the case
where the ideal concerns and benefits
all and many populated communities,
deserves no little encouragement, and
‘should receive from every man, wom-
an and child a sincere appreciation.
It behooves all of us, then, who live
within the bounds of the Penn Forest
district to look upon the untiring ef-
forts of the forest fire warden as he-
roic; to help the man who sees in the
ravaging, plundering forest fire a
fierce enemy. His obligation points
the way to a plain, unavoidable duty,
and he should receive the hearty sup-
port and co-operation of all.
DUTIES.
The forest fire warden is not only
subject to call from towermen and
other forest officers, but from any-
body who might discover a fire and
notify him. The fire tools he has col-
lected together and kept in perfect
shape are quickly loaded upon a truck.
While he is doing this his good wife
in many cases has notified the regular
members of his crew by telephone of
the fire. They are ready when he ap-
pears and a quick getaway is accom-
plished. This means a quick attack
upon the flames. He notes almost at
once upon arriving at the fire which
way it is traveling, and quickly di-
vides his men, attacking the head or
“header.”
If there is a wind and the fire has
had a good start the warden may find
he cannot handle it. A man is then
dispatched for help, or possibly a
tower man is watching the smoke, and
after a reasonable length of time sees
no let up, he quickly calls another
warden and sends him with men to
help.
Always on the fire line you will find
the warden commanding and courte-
ous. Men are directed here and there
where the best work can be done.
Like a tireless machine he doggedly
sticks until the fire is out. Then cau-
tiously he selects a few men to pa-
trol the line to avoid an outbreak.
The time of the men is carefully
kept and submitted to the district
headquarters, along with report of the
fire. The fire report contains time
and location of the fire; estimated
area and damage; cause of fire and
party responsible; number of men em-
ployed, parties suffering damage as
owners of the land. Along with this
report a bill is submitted showing
hours and rate; the name of each man
employed; transportation; meals if
any, and total cost of extinction.
COMPENSATION.
The greater per cent. of the forest
fire wardens in the Penn Forest dis-
trict are farmers living near the for-
est. To realize a profit he must give
attention to his crops. Generally
when the spring forest fire season is
at its worst, the warden is confronted
with a mountain of work on the farm.
Likewise, in the fall of the year he is
burdened with work when forest fires
are most likely to occur.
The compensation of this office is in-
sufficient to pay him in a financial
way for the time spent away from the,
farm. Except in extreme cases where
a warden has at his command a pick-
ed and regular trained crew, he is
paid but 40 cents per hour for actual
time expended. We will assume he is
a carpenter making 60 cents per hour.
If a forest fire is discovered he is in du-
ty bound to go. His loss in a finan-
cial way is evident, besides the hard-
ships and dangers attended in the ex-
tinction of the fire.
This brings to us, clear and distinct,
the real object of the forest fire war-
den. Not the emolument of his office,
for this is but a dim haze in the back-
ground of his thoughts; not a slap-on-
the-back from the fickle public, but a
deep devotion to an ideal. Uppermost
in his mind is the thought that he can
rise in the morning and see the for-
est green and hear the happy song
from its depths, rather than look up-
on, with sore eyes and remorseful
heart, a thing of nakedness, a black,
gutted mass where nothing lives.
(This is the second of a series of four very
illuminating articles on reforestation, writ-
ten by J. R. Mingle, of the Penn Forest
District, of Milroy. The second article will
appear in next week’s issue of the “Watch-
man.”
Value of the Dollar.
A study made by the Bureau of La-
bor statistics of the Federal Depart-
ment of Labor as to the purchasing
power of the pre-war dollar from Jan-
uary, 1920, to June, 1924, for various
groups of commodities, shows that for
all groups combined the lowest value
was reached on May, 1920, when it
equaled only 40 cents. In the second
half of 1921 and the first half of 1922 |
the buying power of the dollar had ad-
vanced above 70 cents, and from that
time to the middle of 1924 there has
been little change, the real value of
the dollar having increased from 66
cents in January, 1924, to 69 cents in [
June, 1924.
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WHAT YOUR MOUTH TELLS.
There are mouths that make you
wonder, there are mouths that make
you wise. For instance, a small
mouth explains extreme sensitiveness
and a narrow outlook on life.
A close-fitting mouth re.ealing
sharp, straight lines indicates stern-
ness of disposition.
A large mouth denotes a shameless
person with a hasty judgment not al-
ways kind, also a good conversation-
alist.
Dullness of apprehension is indi-
cated by a mouth which is exactly
twice the width of the eye.
An extremely large mouth indicates
liberality of mind, but a certain
coarseness of nature.
A small mouth coupled with small
nose and nostrils shows an indecisive
and cowardly nature.
One with thin lips drawn down at
the corners, rather bloodless and pale,
is extremely obstinate, given to hys-
teria and melancholy.
A mouth with any thickness that
droops at the corners denotes one who
cannot be trusted.
A mouth which viewed in profile
turns up in a curve indicates a frivo-
lous nature. :
Full lips suggest cajolery and flip-
pancy.
If the angles at the corners of the
lips point downward it indicates pes-
simism; if upward, optimism.
Those who have thin, small lips are
great talkers, envious and not true
friends.
Lips that are a little thick and
rounded are given to virtue and will
be faithful in keeping a secret.
The woman with red full lips of a
pouting style is apt to be luxurious in
her tastes, fond of ease and pleasure,
beauty and brightness; she is temper-
amental, impulsive and none too high-
ly idealistic.
Lips continually curving upward,
slightly pouting and red denote a lack
of sympathy or thoughtfulness.
Red lips indicate a long life.
Thin lips a stingy disposition.
A bad and stubborn temper is given
away by a thick upper lip that pre-
trudes prominently above the lower
with a sharp curve upward.
Sordid tastes are evidenced by a
protruding lower lip turning down-
ward.
If your underlip projects you are
fond of being kissed.
Chapped lips indicate the owner has
been kissing some one he has no busi-
ness to.
If a girl laughs with her teeth clos-
ed she is a flirt.
If you laugh until you cry you wil
have a quarrel.
To whistle in a wind is unlucky.
There has ever been a prejudice of
women’s lips being used for whistling.
Evils of every kind are threatened.
When the Goddess Minerva once whis-
tled she saw her face in a pool and
never whistled again. Whistling is
caled the devil’s music.
A whistling girl and a crowing hen
are sure to come to some bad end.
A dimpled chin proclaims the own-
er to be benevolent and owning a fine
sense of humor.
A double chin means a lover of good
food, good natured and a bit lazy.
A woman who has loose skin under
her chin would make a good step-,
mother.
A long thick chin means low mental
organization.
If a man has a small chin he will
suffer misfortunes in old age.
A retreating chin is weak and char-
acterless.
A cluster of three hairs on the chin
of a woman is a sign of prosperity.
A square chin means strength of
character.
A sharply pointed chin spells an ar-
tistic sense and great personal van-
ity.
Hogging-off Corn Pays in Producing
Pork.
“There is no guess work connected
with the fact that it pays farmers to
allow hogs to harvest a part of the
corn crop where corn is the principal
food,” says Dr. H. L. Havner, exten- |
sion swine specialist at The Pennsyl-
vania State College.
The hogging-off corn season is
about here and the county agents urge
all Centre county farmers who can do
it, to follow the economical method of
fattening for the fall market. The
pigs that do best in the corn field are
thin, active pigs weighing 90 to 125
pounds that have been developed on
good pasture with a good growing ra-
tion. Following is a good rule to re-
member in determining how many
pigs to turn into a field or how much
corn to supply a bunch of pigs.
Nine average pigs from 90 to 125
pounds will clean up an acre of corn
in about as many days as there are
bushels of corn per acre and gain
about a pound and a half per head a
day. The pigs should be allowed a
portion of a field large enough for
them to clean up in from two to four
weeks. Wire fencing will keep them
out of the other part of the field. Pro-
tein feeds should be supplied while
pigs are in the field.
Salt in the Sea.
At first it strikes one as strange
that, although the sea must originally
have been formed of distilled water-—
that is, congealed watery vapor—and
though all the rivers that flow into it,
estimated to amount in the aggregate
to 6500 cubic miles of water every
year, are fed exclusively by rainfall,
which is also distilled water, it should
nevertheless be extremely brackish,
very salt indeed in the Tropics, and
less salt at the Poles.
Yet it is chiefly the rivers that ac-
count for the saltness of the sea. Itis
estimated that they carry something
like 100,000,000 tons of saline matter
into the ocean every year, and, fur-
ther, that the ocean holds in suspen-
sion no less than 140,000,000,000 tons
of salt, a quantity sufficient, if extract-
ed, to cover the dry surface of the
earth to a depth of 400 feet.
It is believed that 99,000,000 years :
have been required for the sea to at-
tain its present saltness.
——Telephone maids in Japan are
called “moshi moshi girls.” That's
nothing to what we call some of them
in this country.
DOG LAW IS REAL PROTECTION
TO HUMAN BEINGS, LIVE
THAT MOTOR CAR OF YOURS.
One never appreciates how grand |
FOR (AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
STOCK, POULTRY, WILD LIFE jt js to drive slowly until one has' Do not look regretfully to the past, for
AND GOOD DOGS.
Without the Pennsylvania Dog Law, ! ¢
hit it up once too often. |
Carrying the spare tires on the front |
nds of the running boards has its ad-
it would be impossible to protect hu-
, man beings, live stock, poultry, wild
game and good dogs from the ravag-
es of the worthless, uncontrolled dog,
; states J. L. Passmore who is in charge
' of the Dog Law Enforcement work in
| the Bureau of Animal Industry, Penn-
i sylvania Department of Agriculture.
| “The dog law is an effective means
j for protecting live stock and poultry
also wild game from the uncontrolled
| stray destructive dog,” Passmore ex-
plains. “Even more important is the
protection to human lives from the
menace of dogs affected with rabies.
“Without the dog law the losses to
private property throughout the State
| would be tremendous due to the re-
| sulting increase of the stray uncon-
trolled dog and the owner of any dam-
aged property would have no recourse
for compensation for his loss.
“Contrary to an expressed opinion,
the dog law is life insurance for the
properly licensed dog and is not a
means of eliminating the properly
cared for dog. Frequently valuable
licensed dogs are recovered by their
owners through beng identified by the
license tag. Field agents of the Bu-
reau of Animal Industry have in many
instances found homes for good stray
unlicensed dogs rather than have them
killed. It is also explained that a
properly licensed and tagged dog can
not be killed except when found in the
act of attacking human beings, live
stock or poultry. Under the law, a
dog is personal property and the own-
er con recover the value of the dog
{ when illegally killed. Thus, the law
iis a real protection for the good dog
| and it is given a much better standing
{ in the community.”
| The license fee is nominal, Mr.
{ Passmore adds, being $1.00 for males
and $2.00 for females, and besides the
revenue coming to the State from
these fees is used in such a way as to
benefit every citizen
First, the money is used to enforce
the dog law and to pay for damages
| done by dogs to live-stock and poul-
| try. Second, it is used to pay farmers
for cattle condemned for tuberculosis
and thus prevent the spread of this
disease which is dangerous to both an-
‘imals and human beings. Third, it
| maintains the various lines of work
| conducted by the Bureau of Animal
| Industry in the prevention and con-
| trol of such animal diseases as tuber-
and poultry diseases, glanders, rabies,
hygiene inspection service.
the dog law because it affords protec-
i tion to the health and property of all
. the people.
Due to the activities of the field
agents and to dog owners more will-
ingly observing the law, 27,122 more
licenses were issued during the first
seven months of 1924 than for the en-
tire twelve months of 1923. At the
present rate of increase, 50,000 more
icenses will be issued in 1924 than in
1923 and at least 150,000 more than
in 1921 when the dog license work
was under county supervision.
Timely Reminders from The Pennsyl-
vania State College.
Protect Vegetables—Gather togeth-
er all the old burlap bags, tents, tar-
' paulins, ete., that can be used in an
emergency to protect tender garden
"crops from early frosts. Beans and
i tomatoes that have not matured are
| especially in need of this protection.
| Silo Gases—Run the blower for a
few minutes before continuing the fill-
ring of the silo in the morning. Poi-
{ sonous gases may form over night
| that are injurious enough to overcome
i any one entering the silo containing
tit. If door boards are left out to the
i level of the silage there is little dan-
| ger.
Bury Cabbage—Do not overlook the
opportunity to store cabbage in bar-
rels buried in the ground. The ditch
or trench method is also a good one
i where better means of storage are not
available.
Cover Crops—After potatoes and
'corn are removed the fertility and
tilth of the soil may be maintained by
sowing and discing in rye or rye and
‘vetch as cover crops. More Pennsyl-
vania farmers each year are finding
that this practice pays well.
Care of Pullets—Pullets which are
beginning to lay on range should be
placed in permanent quarters as soon
as possible. The good poultryman
will have his laying flocks reduced by
careful culling and the vacant pens in
ship-shape order for his layers next
year.
The Corn Situation—One salvation
for Pennsylvania corn lies in as thor-
ough curing as possible before plac-
ing it in the crib. Even if frosts hold
off during September there will be an
unusually large amount of moisture
in the corn, say State College special-
ists who have examined the situation
!in all sections of the State.
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Protecting the Beaver.
The beaver, because its fur is so
valuable, is being exterminated. It is
a useful animal for the dams it makes
hold back the rich scil, especially in
mountainous and hilly regions, and
prevent it from washing away into the
valleys when the floods come. It is
claimed that it is a preserver of water
supplies in the mountains through the
building of these dams.
Oregon is the only State that has
an open season on beavers, and it is
being realized there that, if it is not
abolished, the State will be without
beavers. Seventy-five per cent. of the
animals have been exterminated—
there are ten traps for every beaver
in the State. The beaver is an unsus-
pecting animal, easily trapped.
Beaver dams in the eastern ranges
of Oregon stored great quantities of
water that {ncaa " doys ae the
grazing country in the long dry sum-
mers and kept them fit for the use of
cattle. Different organizafions of Or-
egon have asked that the open season
be abolished, and the Governor of the
State has promised to use his influ-
ence in that direction.
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in the State.
| vantages over the customary way of
| carrying them on a rack in the rear.
| Spares carried in the latter position
catch all the road dirt with the result
that when you have need of them a
i cleaning job is in order. Usually this
is one job too many when time is lim-
|ited and changing a tire is laborious
enough.
There are other advantages to car-
rying the tires amidships. For one
| thing it makes far better distribution
.of weight and prevents the jiggling
about of the spares of you are carry-
ing two of them on some makeshift
arrangement in the rear. Often the
elimination of the protruding rear
spare enables you to park in a small-
, er space.
If water is disappearing myster-
iously from the radiator after the cyl-
i inder head has been removed and re-
placed, the chances are that the gas-
ket js cracked and the water is going
into the cylinders. If this is the case
there should be some oil in the radia-
tor.
In selecting a new car one is very
likely to raise an objection to any
model that seems to be high in the
rear. Most motorists like to nestle
down in a low seat and feel the
springs sag down in solid comfort.
That’s all very well, but sometimes
the car that offers these features at
the start grows to sag a trifle too
much with results that are not de-
sirable. Stiff seat cushions and up-
standing springs are usually an ad-
vantage in the case of a new car, par-
‘ticularly where the owner expects to
carry heavy loads in the way of pas-
sengers.
| There are two reasons why your
brakes are particularly likely to burn
when you are using them to hold the
car in check on a long descent. This
is contrary to the general belief that
the brake linings burn merely because
they are used excessively. What re-
ally happens with external contract-
ing brakes is that excessive heat cre-
ated by excessive use of the brakes
expands the drums so that the brakes
are, in effect, applied still more ex-
cessively. If the driver would release
his pressure on the brake pedal to
compensate for this the end of the de-
cline might be reached without burn-
ing the brakes, but not realizing that
| the brakes are “applying themselves”
the driver is not likely to take any
1 culosis, hog cholera, abortion, sheep such precaution.
| Just because the garageman uses a
| that holds the ignition wire terminal
| new one is no reason why you should
try to go him one better by giving
"each one of the screws a few extra
turns. If a screw is turned down too
far it will spread the terminal and ac-
tually loosen it.
Do you ever do anything to help
keep the roads from going to pieces?
A motorist was recently asked this
question when he had finished con-
demning the highway department for
its failure to repair a certain road
when the first evidence of wear ap-
peared, and his reply was indeed in-
teresting. “I do my share by avoid-
ing the holes in the road,” he explain-
ed. “If the road is very rough I take
it easier and try not to let my bound-
ing car make it rougher for the next
fellow. I think that if all of us would
be a little more considerate of the
roads that are awaiting the arrival of
the road doctors we’d have a lot less
need for road building taxation.”
Strength is not an asset in automo- !
bile repair work. Take for instance
the insertion of valves after being |
ground in. It is often difficult to
raise up the valve springs in order to
insert the pins in the ends of the valve
stems and some mechanics are inclin-
ed to hit a valve or force it. This is
bad practice, because if a valve is
: bent it will give trouble. This means
| doing the job all over again.—By Wil-
liam Ullman.
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| ELECTRICITY ON THE FARM.
An electrically equipped farm in
i Lancaster county, the “Garden Spot
! of Pennsylvania,” is blazing the trail
{ for the use of electricity on Pennsyl-
vania farm homes.
Meters attached to a score of elec-
trical operations and conveniences
click off the amount of electric power
used, and under special observation of
Giant Power Survey representatives,
they will assist in telling the farmer
what he wants to know about the use
of “juice” on the farm.
The farm has 150 acres under cul-
tivation, is near the city of Lancaster
and is owned by Levi H. Brubaker, a
young man who believes in the appli-
cation of scientific principles to agri-
culture. H also believes in farm
home conveniences and has all the
electrical equipment from a kitchen
range to a bathroom heater.
Professor R. U. Blasingame, head
of the farm machinery department of
The Pennsylvania State College, is in
charge of the field work in which the
college is co-operating with the State
Department of Agriculture to deter-
mine costs and uses of electricity on
the farm for the Giant Power Survey
investigation. He is delighted with
the finding of the Brubaker farm and
the consent of its owner to use it as a
laboratory.
The electrical equipment on the
Brubaker farm includes a large cabi-
net range, toaster, iron, ironing ma-
chine, fan, heater, washer, sweeper,
percolator, lights, three water pumps,
motor in dairy house for churning,
separating, freezing ice c»~am and op-
erating grindstone; a {'rty horse
power motor for silo filling, ‘hreshing,
and feed grinding. Potato gr~ding is
also done by electricity. On ‘-e col-
lege farms Prof. Blasingame hr- me-
the dairy herd, filling the silo, r-1
grinding and threshing. His study i~
primarily one to determine how elec-
trical equipment fits into farm op-
erations.
Mrs. Nextdoor—Your daughter
is different from most girls. She’s so
sweetly unsophisticated.
Mrs. Simon Pure—‘“She’s all of
that. Why, she thinks a B. V. D. is a
university degree.”
ters attached to motors for mill-ng’
it will never return.”
“Use the present wisely, for it is thine.”
Speaking of collars we are broad-
‘minded in this respect. All types are
'used—chokers, high stocked Direc-
‘ toire effects, scarf versions, a few De
i Medici experiments. With equal lati-
tude of spirit is treated the neck line
"itself. We may have this rounded,
bateau shaped, square and V shaped.
Then, too, numerous novelties have
been effected through combinations of
fabric and trimming detail. For ex-
ample, Jenny again uses her detacha-
ble high collar, which leaves great
open spaces between this and the ba-
teau cut of the gown. This same
dressmaker also makes much of
matching collar with cuffs. She will
execute the scarf collar of her black
, Or navy gown in vivid scarlet or green
and then enforce this suggestion by
adding wrist ruffles of the same gay
tint. Another trick to which the great
Paris creator shows partiality is that
of tying a fold of metallic tissue about
the throat and then finishing it in
front by flat bows or perhaps fringe.
Now as to buttons. The tunic
dress I had been describing is finished
by rows of these introduced at the
sides of the vestee in little half-moon
imitations of pockets and all the way
down the forearm of the sleeve. They
are of silver to correspond with the
lining of the tie at the throat, and
they show you the determination of
the autumn designer to deprive no
worthy model of its button allowance.
Small gold and silver buttons are es-
pecially emphasized, and frequently
we find bi-metallism in such trimming
campaigns. Both the gold and silver
are used on a single model.
| Treatment of this sort is especially
frequent in tunics. Some of the new
autumn frocks display tunics which
are traced with a lattice work of mi-
nute gold and silver buttons and then,
just in case you need some more ob-
vious hint of the mode, admit a band
of massed buttons about the hem.
As for the tiered skirt, nothing
proves a more satisfactory mode for
the flapper unless it be the bouffant
frock. At a summer dance at one of
! the hotels recently one of the prettiest
' dresses was of gold lace with a three-
tiered skirt and a velvet girdle of
| deeper gold which dropped long ends
down one side.
| Premet has even : surpassed his very
good collection of last season and
: shows an amazingly good one espe-
also stallion enrollment and the meat pair of pliers to tighten the screw | cially for morning and afternoon mod-
els. No belts on dresses and coats
The public is therefor interested in | to the spark plug when he inserts a | are seen at the Premet opening.
The fashion of holding the fullness
of a straight frock in about the hips
by means of pin tucks on each side of
the waistline is most pleasing—on the
‘ right woman.
| The style of frock that has its sash
attached to the sides of the waist so
that the front hangs straight and un-
girdled, is also charming—on the right
kind of figure.
i But when you're choosing one of
| these styles be careful that you
i haven’t a wide appearance across the
hips. You may have perfectly flat
hips and still have this look of great
i width, which is only accentuated by
any fancy “fixin’s” at the side of the
waistline. If you have this style of
! figure, the pin tucks on the hips and
| the sash that starts at the sides are
‘not for you. You will look three times
slimmer in a regulation girdle that
goes down a little in front or up a tri-
fle on one side—anything to break
i that straight-line effect—or in a sash
that is worn low and tied loosely.
There are .a great many afternoon
dresses in Ottoman and faille, with
the Empire line indicated by :inser-
tions of the same fabric running in
the other direction. Often a stripe
made alike goes from the yoke down
the back. Sometimes checks covering
a whole dress are made the same way
or of two materials. This same pro-
cess is used for fur coats. For ex-
ample, chipmunk checks on otter. The
great majority of these dresses are
black, a few brown, havane, fewer are
old pink or almond green. A repeated
feature in dresses is the turned down
collar in white crepe or grosgrain or
the same material as the dress, some-
times bordered with galoon or checked
ribbon. Other dresses in the Premet
opening had simply straight collars
slightly opened in front. Nearly all
had fastenings at the neck of five or
six buttons.
I find that prices have risen in Eu-
rope and that tips have risen higher
yet. They used to be ten per cent. of
my bill, but now I feel that twenty
per cent. is expected, said one Ameri-
can.
“Perhaps they want you to feel the
dollar is higher, too,” said another
American. “I know I am saving $500
on what a trip like this would cost in
America.”
Another said: “I never got good
service without tipping for it in New
York or San Francisco.”
“Nor in between, either,” concluded
a fourth with conviction.
The party began comparing notes
about hotels in Europe where Ameri-
cans have persuaded the managers to
suppress tipping. All agreed on one
thing: “They mark 10 per cent. on
your bill for ‘service,’ and that runs
up your bill so much. You pay it—
and then you have to go on paying the
same old tips as before. The waiters
are underpaid just as they were be-
fore when tips were expected to make
it up to them, and they say the extra
10 per cent. never gets down to them.”
The first speaker summed up: “I
only know that when I want to be
well off I give tips.”
I have been asking waiters what
they have to say on their side about
Americans tipping, and they say just
what they said before the war.
“American men often give bigger
ting than men of other countries do,
but often, too, they do not give their
tips to those who have really been
| serving them. They don’t look at their
waiter’s face and don’t get acquainted
with him and often do not remember
which one has been waiting on them
—and so thev hand out their tips to
the first one they come across. Some-
times’ they never-saw him before, but
he gets in their way at the right time.
That is why. we stand around so when
Americans are leaving the hotel.”
One waiter with experience in Lon-
don and Rome, as well as Paris, says:
“It’s a great thing for us to speak
English. When an American man can
talk with his waiter he often asks in~
formation from him and then he re-
members his waiter’s face and he re-
members the waiter, too.”
So much for the American man who
travels abroad. Americans who spend
considerable time in Europe fall nat-
urally into the habits of the country
where they are. It always comes back
to this: “Look at the faces of those
who wait on you so that you will know
them again, and then, whether your
tips are little or big, they will go to
the right person.”
As to American women, of whom
many travel nowadays like English
women in squads or singly even, I
have had more difficulty in getting in-
formation about tipping. They have
not the glad hand as often as our men
have and this is to be expected from
our American ways.
Paris taxicab drivers have from the
company one-third to one-fourth of
the amounts they receive as register-
ed by the meter, but for a really good
day they must rely on their tips. It
used to be said that in London you
gave a hansom cab driver one penny
(2 cents) and I saw recently in Par-
is a traveler who applied this rule to
his chauffeur. Utterance failed the
latter until his face was out of sight
—and then it was of no use. A franc,
which is still 20 “sous” to a French-
man, but only 5 cents in American
money, would have been enough: and
have contented both parties.
Times have changed since the time
when an English single lady informed
me thirty years ago that she always
got on with one sixpence a day in tips.
ASSESSOR’S ERRORS
DO NOT BAR VOTERS.
Voters who have not changed their
places of residence since their last
payment of tax and whose names have
been left off of the assessment lists
cannot be deprived of their ballots
election day.
It is the business of the assessors
to. see that their names are on the as-
sessment list. In many election dis-
tricts there are arguments every elec-
tion over the right of persons whose
names have been omitted from the
assessment list to vote. The State
election laws prescribe the procedure
necessary for them to obtain the bal-
lot under the provisions of the act of
1899, section 1, P. L. 254, as follows:
“On the day of the election (in dis-
tricts other than cities of the first,
second and third classes), any person
whose name shall not appear on the
registry of voters, and who claims the
right to vote at said election, shall
produce at least one qualified voter of
the district as a witness to the resi-
dence of the claimant in the district
in which he claims to be a voter, for
the period of least two months imme-
diately preceding said election, which
witness shall be sworn or affirmed
and subscribed a written or partly
written and partly printed affidavit to
the facts stated by him, which affida-
vit shall define clearly where the res-
idence is of the person so claiming to
be a voter; and the person so claim-
ing the right to vote shall also take
oath and subscribe a written or nartly
written and partly prin‘ed affidavit,
stating to the best of his knowledge
and belief, when and where he was
born; that he has been a citizen of
the United States for one month and
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylva-
nia; that he has resided in the Com-
monwealth one year, or, if formerly a
qualified elector or a native born citi-
zen thereof, and has removed there-
from and returned, that he has resid-
ed therein six months next preceding
said election; that he has resided in
the district in which he claims to be a
voter for the period of at least two
months immediately preceding the
said election; that he has not moved
into the district for the purpose of
voting therein; that he has, if 22
years of age or upward, paid a State
or county tax within two years, which
was assessed at least two months and
paid at least one month before the
election.
“The said affidavit shall also state
when and where the tax claimed to be
paid by the affiant was assessed, and
where and when and to whom paid;
and the tax receipt therefor shall be
produced for examination, unless the
affiant shall state in his affidavit that
it has been lost or destroyed, or that
he never received any; and if a natur-
alized citizen, shall also state when,
where and by what court he was nat-
uralized and shall also produce his
certificate of naturalization for exam-
ination.”
Under the provisions of this act any
qualified voter in any borough and
township whose name has been omit-
ted from the assessment lists cannot
be prevented from voting provided he
can show receipt for taxes paid with-
in two years and can show that he
has been a resident of the election dis-
trict for a period of two months im-
mediately preceding the election.
Next!
A sleight-of-hand performer was
giving a show in a powder factory
during the noon hour at the behest of
the company’s welfare association.
He changed a 50 cent piece into a dol-
lar bill and changed the dollar bill in-
to a rabbit.
“That was a good one. Wonder
what he’ll do next?” murmured an
appreciative observer.
The conjurer then took a lighted
cigar and announced he would turn it
into a bowl of goldfish. But his fin-
gers slipped, the cigar fell to the im-
provised platform constructed from
powder boxes, there was a flash and a
roar, and the conquerer disappeared
through a hole in the roof.
“Gee,” ejaculated the same observ-
er. “That sure was # corker. Won-
der what he'll do next?”
Papa Love Mamma.
Head of the house in angry tone—
“Who told you to put that paper on
the wall?” J
Decorator—“Your wife, sir.”
Head of house--“Pretty, ain’t it?"