First National Bank
Bellefonte, Pa.
e are not only a National Bank doing what is
called Commercial banking—receiving depos-
its, paying checks, loaning money, etc.—
We are also, in effect, a Savings Bank and a Trust
Company. We have a savings department where you
may start an account with a dollar, or even less, and
watch it grow. We have a Trust Department that
has the full powers of a Trust Company.
And we are Ready to Serve you in Any Department
First National Bank
Bellefonte, Pa.
61-46
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Longfellow on the Links.
I drove a golf ball into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where,
For I alas, was short of sight
And couldn’t follow it in its flight.
I kicked my caddie into the air,
He fell to earth, I know not where,
For I deemed it a thing excedingly vile,
That inferior caddie’s superior smile.
Soon, soon after, I found the ball,
It had hardly budged from the tee at all;
And the caddie was standing sardonically
grim—
I had kicked my opponent instead of him.
—Boston Transcript.
VILLAGES FOUND UNATTRACT-
IVE IN STUDY BY GOVERN-
MENT.
Nearly 20,000,000 people in the
United States, or about one-fifth of
the population, live in villages, and
30,000,000 farming people use these
villages for purposes of business, ed-
ucation, religion, health, and social
well-being. Yet these centers of rural
population are generally unattractive
and often very ugly. Villages in oth-
er countries are generally much su-
perior to those of the United States
in design, in the character of their
streets and public buildings, and in
their approaches and recreation spots.
A start, however, has been made to-
ward beautifying the American vil-
lage.
Some examples of leadership in this
respect are recorded by the Depart-
SAILORS HAVE FIRM
BELIEF IN OMENS
Deep Sea Seems to Breed
Quaint Superstitions.
There is no place in the world
where superstition is so powerful as
on the sea, R. Barry O’Brien, writing
in the Washington Post, asserts.
Let an absent-minded sailor whistle
on board ship and his mates will
curse him for bringing on a stiff
hreeze when it is not wanted.
But for a sailor to whistle when
the ship is enveloped in dense fog is
permissible, since the occult wind may
disperse the very material fog.
Until comparatively recently, under
no circumstances, was a young steam-
ship-trained helmsman allowed to
mount the “weather side of the
hridge.”
This privilege was reserved for old
shellbacks who had been seven times
round Cape Horn. But as few sea-
men can claim such distinction in
these days of “iron ships and wooden
'men” the “leeside” igs now universally
“used.
! Parsons are never popular afloat.
, They are supposed to bring bad luck,
; and are therefore blamed by the crew
i for any misfortune that occurs.
Seamen no longer believe that rats
i leave an ill-fated ship before she sails.
| But they still regard the arrival of a
corpse for shipment as a very bad
omen, and I have known them to de
sert sooner than sail with it.
| Strangely enough, the extent of
ment of Agriculture, which has been : their apprehension on this account va-
studying the problem of village plan- ries with the social standing of the
ning from the standpoint of its im- | deceased, the remains of a celebrity
portance to the rural community and |
particularly to the former.
It is more as a buying than as a |
selling place that the farmer makes
use of the village. In marketing his |
principal products he generally deals
with some large distributing center.
But he purchases his household sup-
plies in the village. He goes there for
amusement and - for social - purposes
generally. His children often go to
school there. An attractive village,
says the department, is an important
influence in stabilizing farm life and |
in counteracting the attractions which
cities have for the young people of |
the farms. As the farmer’s chief
point of contact with outside inter-
ests, the village can make a big ¢on- |
tribution to the happiness of farm life,
being more unlucky than those of 2
humble citizen. :
So strong was this superstition in
bygone days that the packing case con-
taining the casket had to be labeled
and stowed as ordinary cargo.
The luck of black cats is proverbial.
But what is not so well known is the
reason why seamen are so over-indulg-
ent in them. This is to prevent their
bringing ill-luck to the ship by rup
ning away.
During the war black cats were at
a premium. With so much extra ton-
nage afloat there was not enough te
go around. {
Sometimes a young midshipman
would be sent ashore in search of one.
even if it be considered from no other | And a certain youth, sooner than re-
standpoint than the fact that it is the turn empty-handed, dyed the white
place where the farmer spends a large ' patches of a black and white “stray”
part of his income. | with ink.
Where villages are being made
more beautiful, the impetus has come !
Those Smart C hildren
in nearly every case from local in-'
| itiative. Villages that have well-plan-
ined streets, attractive recreation
| spots, and pleasing approaches are
| nearly always indebted for these ad-
| vantages to the energy and public |
spirit of some small group of citizens.
| Under such inspiration dump heaps
{have been turned into garden spots,
unsightly shacks and
{ stores have been torn down and re-
placed by smart, substantial business
| buildings, and extensive programs of
i landscape gardening and tree plant-
ing have been undertaken. Villages
i} | that have embarked on this path are
finding that beauty pays. It improves
! business.
"ues, and has a powerful influence in
. raising individual standards of efi-
‘ ciency and enterprise..
One good example of a village that
‘was not well planned originally but
i that now has been transformed into
| an exteremely pleasing place, is Wes-
! ton, Mass. Weston formerly had a
!large swamp area in its center. This
{ has been drained, graded, seeded to
grass, and planted to pine, fir and
i chestnut trees. A new town hall and
!a fire station have been built opposite
the entrance to the common. Public
| silanes are now centrally grouped.
| Old, unsightly structures have been
i torn down. The improvements were
! planned by a landscape architect. It
took 25 years to put the plan through,
but every one in Weston now believes
{ that the enterprise was worth the
i time and money it cost.
A village that was started with a
‘good plan and has realized it is Pat-
| terson, California. This village and a
‘colony of irrigated farms, occupying
18,000 acres, were planned in 1910.
. Roads leading to the village were
| strategically located and planted with
trees and shrubs. The village itself
has eight streets radiating from a civ-
ic center where the public buildings
are located. In the last four years the
| residents of the village have built a
i public library, a community club
| house, a concrete swimming pool, and
i a grammar school, and have provided
an automobile camp park.
A town dump at Lewisburg, Pa.,
has become a scenic asset, through
| the activities of women, who formed
la civic club, launched civic improve-
| ment propaganda, and accumulated
funds for an improvement program.
| Formerly the first impression a visit-
.or got on arriving and the last one
he took away with him on leaving was
one of squalor, because the town dump
lay across the main approach to the
village. Today the land where the
dump stood is the property of the civ-
ic club. Old shacks have been remov-
ed from it and refuse cleared away.
It has been leveled and planted to
grass, flowers and trees. It is span-
ned by gravel walks and surrounded
by ornamental lighting standards.
Now the visitor enters the village
through a green and smiling park.
| Many other examples of effective
village planning have been noted by
the department’s investigators. Yet
the idea that village planning is as
necessary as city planning has taken
root in comparatively few places. It
has not the pressure behind it that
brings results in crowded cities where
congestion makes radical changes
compulsory. The government points
out, however, that village planning
often means great savings to the com-
munity; that it is never too early nor
too late to begin it; and that the ex-
pense is almost never prohibitive and
is seldom a serious handicap.
dilapidated |
local business and attracts tourist
It enhances real estate val- !
“My three-year-old nephew Anaxi-
mander, hurried breathlessly into the
living room where we were entertaln-
ing the minister and his wife.
“Mamma!” he cried without regara
' for consequences, “Bruvver’s gone and
' torn his rubber rompers and now you’ll
' have to vulcanize them.” :
Little Willie, my eighteen-month-ola
| cousin, was earnestly watching his
"father (my uncle) repair his automo-
bile.
“What seems to be the matter?” he
dnally asked his dad. :
“I'm afraid the differential’'s gone
wrong,” said his daddy, wiping the
grease off his forehead with his $8 silk
shirt.
“Heck!” ejaculated Willie. “A fel-
1ow’s got to understand calculus to
run a car these days!”
Ermyntrude is a trifle precocious ana
Yor that reason her parents temporize
with her.
At the dinner table the other night
she brusquely asked her mother to
pass the mustard.
Mother smiled wearily and said ex-
pectantly, “If you—?”
Imagine our embarrassment when
che little darling retorted, “If you
know what’s good for you!”—Roswell
J. Powers in Judge.
Dead Spots at Sea
While we have come to accept “dead
{ spots” on land, there is another form
of “dead spot” to be found right in
| mid-ocean, hundreds of miles from
land, for which no adequate explana-
| tion has yet been given, according to
' A. Dinsdale, member of the Radio So-
| ciety of Great Britain. Some scien-
| tists maintain that they are caused by
large mineral deposits on the ocean
floor, but this explanation hardly
seems satisfactory, though it is true
that such dead spots can also be over-
come by increasing the wavelength for
communication, There are several
such spots in the different oceans, and
they cause quite an amount of incon-
venience to ships at times, although
the study of them is interesting.—Sci-
entific American.
Something New in History
She was proud of her kindergarten
class and was anxious to show off the
little ones to a number of visiting
mothers.
“Who discovered America?’ the
ceacher asked.
“Columbia,” shouted a little girl,
ensily beating her classmates to the
answer,
Overlooking
sent on:
“And what was his first name?”
“Hail,” was the quick reply that sem
¢cacher and mother into spasms of
laughter.
the error, the teache.
Stars in Pairs
There are many stars that are
double, says Nature Magazine—that
is, they are made up of stars revolv-
ing around one another. Most of
these pairs are of contrasting color,
one blue and the other gold, or one
red and the other green. Albireo is
coungidered to be one of the finest of
the pairs that are visible in small
telescopes.
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