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Bellefonte, Pa., October 24, 1924.
Old Age Comes When
People Quit Growing
Most people want to grow. They
would like to advance in their work,
earn more, have greater influence, do
bigger things. Yet, strange to say,
the world is full of people who do
not “grow up.” They have lost the
secret of thelr youthful days. They
come to a halt in self-development, and
folks say they are getting “old.” But
& person ig never old until he quits
growing; and he need not quit grow-
ing’ until the end of his years. The
most conspicuous fact about great
men—men who do big things, and
keep doing them—is that they never
cease growing. They are perpetually
young. They have the real thing, of
which Ponce de Leon’s Fountain of
Youth” was only an imitation. If a
man sets his heart upon growing, he
has but three things to do: First, he
must be a learner all his life. Then,
he must be a thinker—and must. think
hard. Finally, he must be a doer.
Some people are long on thinking, but
short on doing. They are dreamers.
Success and rewards always come to
the person who continues to grow, but
the greatest reward consists in having
found the secret that makes life con-
tinuously interesting.—Forbes Maga-
zine.
Heavy Drinking Marked
Festivities of Greeks
The festival of Dionysus had an im-
portant influence on the life of an-
cient Greece, as well as on its litera-
ture and art. There were four of
these every year, the Detroit News
notes. One was celebrated when the
new wine was tasted for the first
time and plentiful drinking was char-
acteristic of this festival, A great
banquet accompanied the festivities. A
feature of another festival, also in
honor of the wine god, was a drink-
ing contest. At a signal given by a
trumpet, all who took part in it set
their pitchers to their mouths and the
judges allotted the victory to him who
first emptied his. The prize consist-
ed of a skin of wine, cakes or some-
thing of that sort, Besides the public
banquet there were also private hos-
pitalities provided for those who pre-
ferred to celebrate the day by them-
selves in the circle of a few intimate
friends and at these also much drink-
ing went on,
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Good Word for Wasps
The insects eaten by wasps include
bud and blossom destroyers, leaf roll-
ers and miners, stem-borers and leaf-
- cutters—minute vegetarian pests that
we are doing our best to exterminate
by sprays and insecticides.
Another point to be noted Is that
while the wasp catches and eats the
egg-laying insect itself, our sprays and
insecticides can aim only, or chiefly, at
killing the grub; and when that grub
is safely buried inside a stem or a
fruit bud then we are absolutely help-
less. So, in spite of its sting and its
liking for fruit when on holiday in au-
tumn the wasp is far more of a friend
than a foe.—KExchange.
United States Language
So far as we are able to learn, no
early congress ever voted on the lan-
guage to be used in this country. How-
ever, Brander Matthews says that not
long after we had proclaimed our inde-
pendence an ultra-patriotic member of
the Continental congress moved that
we renounce the English tongue and
devise a new language of our own
which we would not have to share
with the enemy. Roger Sherman, a
member of the congress from Connec-
ticut and a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, moved as &n amend-
ment that we retain English and com-
pel the British to use another. This
method, thought Sherman, would be
much simpler. The new language no-
tion was never heard of any more in
congress.
Irrepressible Youth
The charming young actress, Miss
Phyllis Lytton, is an ardent church
worker, which lends point to the fol-
lowing story.
A young lady was once busy deco
rating the church she attends for a
harvest thanksgiving service.
Presently there entered the vicar
“I really must congratulate you, my
dear Miss Jones,” he said. “You have
all the fruits, flowers and vegetables
well represented in your decorations.
1 think there is hardly an omission, is
there?”
The helper's face beamed. But a
pert choir boy, unable to resist the
temptation, spoiled it all by remark-
ing, loudly enough for all to hear:
“Yes, we have no bananas.”
Father of Drama
Aeschyins, the Greek who was “the
father of the drama,” was a soldier
during the Persian invasion, and took
part in the battle of Marathon, and
later in the historic conflict with the
Persians at Salamis. These tremen-
dous events inspired him to seek lit-
erary expression in what were the first
genuine dramas ever written by man
More than three score plays came from
his brain and hand, but of these only
a half-dozen have been preserved. Of
these the greatest are “Prometheus”
which is considered by some to be the
egual of the productions of Shake
gpeare’s genius; the “Persians,” a pe
tic and military drama, and “Age
nnon,” which still ranks among the
rid's dramatic masterpieces.
MADE ODD BEQUESTS
AND GAVE REASONS
Canadian Exposed Peculiar
Traits of Relatives.
Rt. Hon. Austen Chamberlain re-
ceived recently from an Ontario cor-
respondent a copy of the will of Dr.
William Dunlop, who was an assist-
ant army surgeon in the War of 1812,
in the Eighty-ninth British regiment.
It is said the will is registered at
Goderich, and is dated at Montreal,
1847. As a legal document It seems
to stand in a class by itself. The maipr
vortions follow :
1, William Dunlop, of Bairbraid, in
the Township of Colhorne, County and
district of Huron, Western Canada,
Esquire, being in sound health and
body, and my mind just as usual
“(which my friends who flatter me say
fs no great shakes at the best of
times), do make this my last Will and
Testament = as follows, revoking, of
course, all former Wills,
I leave the property of Gairpraid and
all other landed property I may die
possessed of to my sisters Helen Boyle
Story and Elizabeth Boyle Dunlop, the
former because she is married to a
Minister whom she henpecks—the lat-
ter because she is married to nobody
nor is she like to be, for she is an old
maid and not marketrife, and also I
leave to them, and their heirs, my share
of the stock and implements on the
farm, provided always that the en-
closure round my brother's grave be
reserved, and if either should die with-
out issue, then the other to inherit the
whole.
1 leave to my sister-in-law, Louisa
Dunlop, all my share of the household
furniture and such traps with the ex-
ceptions hereinafter mentioned.
1 leave my silver tankard to the eld-
est son of Old John as the representa-
tive of the family, but he would melt
it down to make temperance medals
and that would be sacrilege—however,
I leave my big horn snuff box to him
—he can only make temperance horn
spoons of that.
I leave my sister Jenny my Bible,
«he property formerly of my great-
great-grandmother, Bethia Hamilton of
Wood Hall, and when she knows as
much of the spirit of it as she does of
fhe ieiter, she will be another guise
Christian than she is.
1 also leave my late brother's watch
to my brother Sandy, exhorting him at
the same time to give up Whiggery,
radicalism and all other sins that do
most easily beset him,
1 leave my brother Alan my big snufi
pox, as I am fnformed he is rather a
decent Christian with a jolly face.
I leave Parson Chevasse (Maggzy's
nushand) the snuff box I got from the
Qurnia Militia, as a small token of my
gratitude for the services he has done
the family in taking a sister that no
man of taste would have taken.
I leave John Caddie a silver teapot
to the end that he may drink tea there-
from to comfort him under the afflic-
tion of a slatternly wife.
I leave my books to my brother
Andrew. because he has been so long a
Jungley Wallah that he may learn to :
read with them.
I give my silver cup with a sovereign. ,
in it, to my sister, Janet Graham Dun-
lop because she is an old maid, and
pious, and also my granna 's snuff mull,
as it looks decent to see an old woman
taking snuff,
Urgent Need
£dwin had been strangely fidgety all
the evening. Usually he was content
to sit for hours and hours in the twi-
light, holding his loved one, Edwar-
dina, by the hand and dreaming
dreams of the sweet by-and-by. Sev-
eral times he glanced at his watch
and at last—at least two hours before
his accustomed time, he rose to take
his departure.
“So soon, Edwin, dear? she sighea.
“Must you really go?”
“I must, darling,” he answered.
“Though I would sacrifice ten years of
my life to stay one more short hour
with you.”
“But why, dear,” she begged—"why
have you get to go so early tonight?”
“Because, dearest,” he replied, “it’s
our lodge meeting, and it I don’t go I
shall be fined a dollar.”
Life!
The deputy warden of the peniten-
tiary was looking over the new arri-
vals. Among them was a tall, forlorn-
looking gentleman of color who
seemed to take it very hard, sighing
so deeply that the deputy asked:
“What's the matter, boy?”
“Mah sentence, suh!” was the
mournful reply. “Ah cain’t do all this
heah time the jedge done gib me!”
“How much are you doing?”
quired the deputy.
“Life!” exclaimed the new arrival,
“Well,” remarked the deputy, not
ankindly, “just do what you can of it.”
—Everybody’s Magazine.
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Future Irrigation
Less than. 2. per cent of the total
arid and’ semi-arid land in the United
States is now irrigated, yet reclama-
:jun has already reached the stage
where future progress can be made
only through the construction of ex-
tensive storage works or through un-
derground water made available by
pumping,
Eo ———————
Telephones in Lithuania
Telephones, which were unknown in
Lithuanig “for “general private use
until installed in 1915 by the Germans
at the time of occupation of that
country, have become so popular that
the German sepparitus recently was
replaced by the latest equipment
made in Esthonia.
‘Wrong Mental Attitade;
The Boss had just taken his head
off when the telephone on his desk
rang. Now he could let off steam!
The Old Man thought he could eall a
fellow down just for being late in the
morning, did he! And the whole office
laughing behind its hand! Well, it
was as much as his job was worth to
answer back the Old Man—but anyone
who was fool enough to telephone at
that particular moment would get
what Was coming to him! Then he
hear his wife's yolce,
"Tm very busy: make it snappy,”
was his first response.
en the way home for the meat?
pm ee—
FRIENDSHIP KEY TO
Comradeship Declared Best
Help in Storms of Life.
It you ask half a dozen friends
‘which quality is most likely to make
for happiness in marriage you will
‘probably receive half a dozen different
replies. and all will be {lluminating.
The man much occupied with busi-
ness may regard common sense as §u-
'premely important. An imaginative
woman will tell you that sympathy is
Then: “Stop ‘the first essential, while a less sensi-
Con- itive-minded woman
suggests good
found it, I wish you'd run the house temper. The grace of cheerfulness,
without making me errand boy! Can't the benediction of that ‘ordinary’
ou do it by yourself? What! What!
ele, .....
she’s mad, I suppose.”
And after at remorse set in.
She’s rung off. Now extraordinary,
kindness which, because so rare, is so
the sunshine of a
‘merry nature, the tender appeal of un-
As selfishness—all these qualities make
he turned the corner to his own door , for happiness in marriage.
a florist’s sign caught his eye: “Say
it with flowers.” Why not, he thought
to himself.
But what is the final test? Which of
all the varied characteristics of human
For a dollar—no, fifty nature is, if developed and cherished,
cents—he could smooth things over most likely to bring enduring happ}
and life would be comfortable again.
How he did hate upsets!
had been nothing but upsets.
Then the florist began it all again.
No, he could not give the gentleman
a dozen red roses for half a dollar—
in fact, the roses were 75 cents aplece.
No, violets cost even more.
had some pink carnations that weren't
quite fresh—that is, not as fresh as
the other flowers—the gentleman could
have those at his price. And the
gentleman took them all done up In
a box with a lot of asparagus.
His latch key was out half way up
the steps and he sailed in as if noth-
ing had happened—that was the best
tactics, he told himself—and, with the
sinile of conscious virtue, he presented
the glorified package without a word.
But wife had known him for five years
and she opened the offering with res-
ervations. And when she thanked him
he suddenly began to wonder if she
had perhaps seen his pink carnations
on her way to market every day for a
week. But then it was too late.
How do we get that way? This is
che mental attitude that puts a new
coat of white paint on a house that
needs to have its foundations re-
newed.
(®, 1924, by the Eastment Syndicate.)
The Patient Burro
Generations of burros have been so
resoundingly beaten that a racial re-
venge seems to have settled into an
irritating indifference to punishment. |
The instrument of castigation is never
Jess than a club one inch in diameter.
The burro has learned to flex Its
joints when the blow descends so as
to break its force.
young fellow it seemed to be, was
once observed to mistime its flex
and in consequence received so full
a benefit of the blow that if indubi-
tably knocked all future attempts at
anticipation from its anatomy.
Rumors are growing louder that the
burro will be displaced by the motor
car. In that case it will work its own
destruction ; it will transport the end-
less variety of material to build the
road that will lead to its doom.
Humanity is lagging behind the
burro in the race for existence,
Whether it finds nourishment in mere
philosophical contemplation is an
open question. Who has ever seen a
burro being fed? A nose-bag would
surely stifle it. As for eating, a
burro was once observed hastily
snatching a banana peel as it loped
along with its load and receiving a
hollow-sounding whack from the
driver by way of gratitude for pick-
ing up a living.—Lima (Peru) West
Coast Leader.
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For Biological Survey
The finest equipment for biologlea)
research in the world has been made
possible by a gift of $1,400,000 to the
Woods Hole (Mass.) Marine Biological
laboratory. A combined laboratory
and library building to cost about
$600,000, will be constructed at once,
which, with the present facilities, will
form an ideal plant for the institutions
Interested in this work. The gift was
a joint contribution from the Rocke-
feller foundation, from John D. Rocke-
feller, Jr:;, from the Friendship fund
endowed by Charles R. Crane, and
from the Carnegie corporation. The
laboratory was planned on a national
co-operative basis, as it is open to
all American institutions. During 1923,
70 universities and research organiza-
tions contributed to its support.
Snake’s Dinner
As one fleld mouse may kill ten
trees a year, and & single snake will
eat 150 mice in a season, is not one
snake worth 1,500 trees? The Reptile
Study Society of America held its an-
nual dinner in New York, sounding
once more the Keymote of its policy
and definite aim, “Protect the snakes,”
says Nature Magazine, We have all
been taught to respect the wise old
owl a8 the swora enemy: of rats mice,
and ‘other. rodents’ which do such tre-
mendous dama to our trees ‘and
crops. The ke ip equally with the
owl the friend of mankind.
Radio in Iceland
On a tiny veleanic island known as
Jan Mayers Land, north of Iceland,
the Norwegian government has estab-
lished a radio weather station. This
farthest north station is in the track
of the fierce arctic storms sweeping
toward the coast of Norway and is
of untold value im broadcasting warn-
ings of the gales coming out of the
north. The eperator is an American
citizen, Akbard Bkerold, anc he, with
bis assistants, are the first perman-
ent inhabitants of the island.
But he
And today |
One of them, a
ness in marriage?
The answer is to be found in an ob-
servation not of very new marriages
but of those which have known years
of storms, of disappointments, of dis-
‘illusions. In happy marriages which
‘might so easily have been unhappy, is
it not the power of being companion-
able which has kept husband and wife
together?
Marriages have often come to a
tragic end because the man and the
woman have not learned to be
friends. In a marriage where the joys
of companionship have been incom-
pletely realized, a disappointment In
marriage as such may lead to per-
manent estrangement. But where
there is real friendship, a happy com-
panionship, a joy in doing things to-
gether, the desire to continue a great
comradeship may nrove stronger than
the wish to end a disappointing mar-
riage.
Modern women expect much more
from. life than their mothers expected.
I am always surprised and a little en-
vious when, reading the novels of the
latter Victorian days, I find how con-
tented women were with a little hap-
Dinesg They made a little joy go a
ong’ way,
The women of today might take a
lesson from those unconscious hero-
i ines. If marriage as a romantic rela-
tionship has proved a disappointment,
there is inspiration and refuge in the
knowledge that a friendship between
| husband and wife may be the most
beautiful relationship in the world,
' becoming a more lasting bond than
the marriage tle itself.—Jane Tav-
erner in the Continental Edition of
the London Mail.
Pigeon Breeding Popular
Centuries old, pigeon breeding today
8 said to be the hobby of a million
Americans. Beginring with the hum-
ble, wild blue rock dove in the days
of the Egyptian and Roman empires,
inbreeding and crossbreeding have
continued until now there are some 300
varieties of fancy pigeons recognized.
Particularly responsive to experiments,
these birds are being improved and
trained as carefully as thoroughbred
race horses. It is claimed that a prize
winner is more often the result of
years of work on the part of some
far-seeing fancier than an accidental
discovery. So important is heredity
accounted that a blue ribbon bird will
bring hundreds of dollars or even a
thousand or more. Throughout the
centuries, the pigeon has proved to
be a steadily increasing factor in the
military operations of nations. The
development and training of the reli-
able, sturdy homing pigeon with its
keen eyes and powerful wings is now
a part of the programs of many coun
tries, for use when other means of
communication fail. Built on racing
lines, the homer is trained by slow
stages to fly unswervingly to a given
point from great distances.—Pepular
Mechanics Magazine.
Carried to the Sea
Among the multifarious duties of
United States geologieal survey is In-
vestigation of the quality of the water
in rivers and streams throughout the
country. The Colorado river dis-
charges into the Gulf of California
every year 388,000,000 tons of mud
and silt as suspended matter. In ad-
dition, the dissolved substances In
the water include 4,500,000 tons of
glauber's salt, 4,000,000 tons of lime,
more than 2,000,000 tons of gypsum
and more than 4,500,000 tons of ep-
‘som salt. The discharge of salt from
the Colorado is equal to 20 “tons an-
nually for each square mile drained
*« the river, but, in proportion to
me size of the area drained, this
amount is far less than that com-
tained in 1,680 tons for each square
‘mile of area drained.
- How a Tree Grows
A popular belief seems to be that | i
a scar on a free trunk “grows up-
ward with the tree.” "Such, of course,
18 not the case, says: Nature Maga-
sine. A blaze mark struck shoulder
high by a trapper a hundred years
ago will still be shoulder high today.
A tree expands In girth with the gea-
fons, but greater height is attained
only by new growth at the top.
Painting en Spider Web
What is regarded as one of the most
‘singular works of art in existence 1s
HAPPY MARRIAGE TIE
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Silk and Wool Dresses
You will be surprised to see the
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show these. Or if you want the Bulgarian touches,
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Art and Embroidery
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er. Tt ix a painting 6 by 4 inches, ex-
ecuted on a spider web and preserved |i
by being clamped between two plates
of glass. 50 that ene can examine it on
hoth sides. The scene depicted is that
af = happy family sitting together.
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