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Bellefonte, Pa., October 2, 1925.
THE MOONMAN’S LITTLE BOY.
I went to the moon in a toy balloon
One cloudless night in the middle of June;
But I was lonely as lonely could be
Till the Moonman’s little boy played with
me.
He looked at me sort o’ puzzled and queer,
Then picked up a star and scratched his
ear,
And said in a voice sounding faint and far,
“My, what a funny little boy you are!”
J wanted to play with his bat and ball;
But since he hadn’t any toys at all,
‘We took a stone that was light as could he,
And he played the jolliest game with me.
When we were weary from romping and
play :
‘We wandered far down the Milky Way,
And drank our fill from a dipper of stars,
Which the moonboy got from the hand of
Mars.
After the Moonman had tucked us in bed,
A fleecy cloud pillow in under my head,
I dreamed my balloon avent floating away
And that I had come to the moon to stay.
—By Aliee Hoffman.
HENRY WARD BEECHER.
Minister and Analyst of Human!
Nature.
By Levi A. Miller.
It is the concensus of opinion of all
intelligent men, that Henry Ward
Beecher was one of the ablest if not
the ablest minister all over the land
in his day. He was honored and be-
loved by all who came in contact with
him. He was a wise, sincere patriot,
and his quiet philanthropy won the af-
fection of all who knew him. He was,
strictly speaking, a first-class orator
and an anylist of human nature. In
my brief sketch I shall refer to some
of the prominent traits of this re-
markable man, as they are developed
in his writings and addresses.
It is a difficult task to compare him
with any other preacher living, be-
cause of mankind dissimilarities.
There are plenty of men of more
learning in the languages, and yet he
never lacked. It is easy to name phil-
osophers more profound than he—men
so deep they are opaque, and some so
smooth and polished they sometimes
“slip up” on their own sermons and
addresses. There are also hosts of
humorous and pathetic preachers, who
“dare be as funny as they can.” They
can make their auditors cry until tears |
stand in their eyes, and then they !
make them laugh until the tears roll |
down their cheeks.
ments are accomplished mainly by the |
description of death-bed scenes, spiced |
with puns and anecdotes. |
. Henry Ward Beecher was not that
type of manhood. He had an abund-
ance of capital to draw upon, without
borrowing small checks with other
men’s endorsement upon them. Men
of great intellectual girth and stature
are not the mere “accidents of birth.”
Great men grow from a great ances-
try, found in a near or remote gener-
ation, and they are the natural result
of causes easily traced by the analyt-
ic student of human character.
No sensible farmer expects to reap
a rich harvest from seed corn sown in ;
a barren soil. The tall trees of Cal-
ifornia do not lift their trunks sky- !
ward from a thin layer of earth. Their
roots are anchored in good ground;
and their stems rise in symmetry and |
beauty, waving their green banners in
the light of the sun, offering an or-
chestra for the birds and a shelter for
the beasts of the forest; and when
they fall the woods tremble with “sen- !
sation.” The offspring of the fallen
mercedes rise in their places grand '
and lofty representatives of a race of .
giants, : i
Lyman Beecher was one of the un-
common people; a blacksmith in his:
youth, bronzed at the forge and made :
strong by swinging the sledge. Wei
may say of the times in which Lyman |
Beecher lived, labored, studied and
preached, “there were giants in those |
days,” He won a good name and a
grand renown, and ueathed to his
children the rich inheritance of that!
reputation which is of more value
than silver or gold. His distinguished |
son, Henry Ward, inherited his fath- |
er’s sound physical health and his
wonderful force of brain, he was a fair
specimen of manly vigor. Few could’
endure continuous work so well as he
could, and accomplish so much in a,
given time. Ever at his tasks as
newspaper writer, lecturer, author, !
Preacher, what a variety of topics he
reated upon!
On the anvil of hard work, this in-
dustrious son of a distinguished sire
has forged a fame kings might be
willling to give their crowns to pos-
sess. His father had no peer in the
orthodox pulpit, at a time when Chan-
ning and other Unitarian lights were
in the full blaze of their meridian
glory. I may say Henry Ward Beech-
er wears his father’s shield. When
Henry Ward was recognized as the
“young lion of the west,” his elo-
quence charmed some of the promi-
nent men of the Congregational
church, and they gave him a call to
the pastorate of Plymouth church, in
Brooklyn. Dear old Dr. Cox, who died
in 1880, at the age of 87 years, a very
learned, original and brilliant man,
and a most eloquent orator, said at the
time, “I give young Beecher six
months in which to wind his clock and
stop!”
Well, one of the clocks that had
been going did stop in half a year—
a short time—and Dr. Cox left Brook-
lyn; the other has been going for over
thirty years, and it strikes with the
ring of undiminished force. At this
time the slavery question was at a
white heat; William Lloyd Garrison
was writing his caustic essay in Bos-
ton; Lyman Beecher was flaming like
a comet in the skies of theology;
Whittier was writing his immortal
verses; Philips was thundering and
lightning on the paltform, his speech
falling like Greek fire upon oppres-
sion and tyranny; and Greely was
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| the storm
printing his masterful editorials. The
political world was moved from cen-
tre to circumference; the firmament
of reform was ablaze with a galaxy of
genius and greatness. i
Mr. Beecher is one of the few men
whose fame will not fade. It cannot
be obscured by envious and jealous
minds, that would make it dim with
shadows of criticism. He was a man
of colossal intellect, with a heart to
match his mind. He was American
gold, minted in the church and stamp-
ed with the stars and eagle of liberty
on one side, and the cross on the oth-
er. Truly Henry Ward was the em-
bodiment of the highest covilization.
Beecher did not shrink from the.
contest when the cloud of war broke
like an exploding shell over the land. :
He was conspicuous when came the
roar of artillery; the river of blood
surging between heaps of slain, and,
he joined with those who were jubi- |
lant when “a nation of blacks stood !
disenthralled upon their broken chains.
In the dark days of our Civil war, Ne-
gro troops followed the light of the
fiag, and to them iis stars were teie-
scopes through which they saw God
and liberty. In the dreadful dual be-
twixt the North and South, when
brother held brother by the throat,
and the sympathy of the motherland
was on the side of fhe rebellion, the
eloquence of Mr. Beesher, who ad-
dyessed the masses of London and
elsewhere did more to turn the tfle of
opinion in England in favoy of justice
gd liberty, than the diplomacy of
eward, the valgr ef the bravest Gen-
eral in the field, or the decisions of
judges. Beecher was a disciple of na-
ture and was at home within any ho- !
rizon that encircled him with God
above and terra firma below.
By his power of instinct and intu-
ition, he discovered new things, cre-
ated new forms out of old substances.
Me came close to what is innermost in
mankind, and not only told us what
we thought and could not speak, but |
what we felt and did not know. His
efforts were not the result of mere
mechanism. They were not images
carved out of wood and made to wear
a leok of humanity; but, like Topsy,
they grew. And that was the reason
why his sermons were as eloquent and
interesting as those that were deliv-
ered long ago by Robert South and
Jeremy Taylor. He had a genius for
preaching the gospel, the gift of mak-
ing religion attractive and lovely.
Theodore Parker said “a genius for |
religion is valued far above all the |
rest, because the man who has it in- |
carnates in himself the instinct of *
mankind, brings it to their own con- |
sciousness, puts in form, and is a lead- |
er of men in departments deemed by |
humanity most important of all.” It
is the emotion implanted in a gifted |
man that inspires him with a wish to .
communicate his thoughts and feel- !
ings to others, to teach them piety,
the ideal love of God, morality, the
philanthropy, the affectionate regard
for the welfare of man. i
Henry Ward Beecher was born at
Litchfield, Conn., June 24, 1813, grad- :
small church in Indianapolis, Ind., in!
1847 he was called to Plymouth!
church, Brooklyn, N. Y., then the larg-
lca. He had been editor of the New
| York Independent, and also of the
; Christian Union. He is the author of
i a number of popular works, the names
of all of which I cannot remember. I
will name, however, “Star Papers,”
“Plymouth Pulpit,” Lectures to Young
Men,” “Industry and Idleness,” ete.
Everybody knows that Beecher was
a man of unbending purpose and un-
conquerable will. He was often com-
bative—his words were blows, and he
was a hard hitter. His intense, earn-
estness arose in part from his hatred of
wrong and oppression, hence his pug-
nacious combat with slavery. He was
highly dramatic, and not confined to
his notes in the pulpit. No man was
more felicitous in the use of illustra-
tions than he. His attribute of humor
was employed to good advantage
when he assailed a fashinable vice,
and especially in his lectures his
“laughter did good like a medicine.”
He was an enthusiast in musical mat-
ters, and fond of poetry, but he sel-
dom quoted, for the very sufficient
reason that he failed to commit to
memory what he read.
It is not true that a great man is
born not only with his nationality in
him, but with strength of will and
force of brain to execute his mission.
Bismark was a plant grown in the soil
and air of Germany and its institu-
tions. Greevy sprung from the trop-
ical temperament of France. Gara-
baldi, the famed Italian patriot, who
has gone covered with - honor and
fame, represented in his experience
period of his day. The,
fairest and best specimens of humani-
ty; the individuals who do something
worthy of commendation and lasting
fame, are not always found in palaces
with crowns on their heads; they are
kingly men and queenly women. 2
In 1870, the Logan hose company, of
Bellefonte, being a little short of cash,
requested the writer to ask by letter,
what Mr. Beecher would charge to
give us one of his famous lectures.
We had a very nice reply, winding up
with “my charges are $200.00. Yours
in Christ.” We took a chance; I'll
never forget. I had the honor of in-
troducing the distinguished divine.
Result, we paid the $200.00 and had a
comfortable balance to our credit,
much to our satisfaction.
Why Sun Kills Germs.
Rays of sunlight have been imitat-
ed and tested for their effects on
various germs by the bureau of
standard, says Popular Mechanics to be too ready to think you have
Magazine. The beams, produced in bad to Toe Dx 5 ye
small quantities and projected ‘on to Some boys ali into the habit of
colonies of microbes, killed Some of
the germs in less than a second after
the light struck them. The different
wave ons of the rays were meas-
ured and the numbers of germs killed
by them in a given time figured up for
comparisons in determining the most
effective beams. - The germ-killing
power of sunlight has been known for
a long time, and is often employed by
housewives in “airing out” things on
bright days. The invisible rays: are
believed to transmit the energies that
‘lower classes are not sticklers
destroy some types of germ life.
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A JAPANESE MARRIAGE.
The strictly Japanese form of mar-
‘riage is more of a family arrangement
than is the American marriage; per-
sonal desire does not count largely in
it. Though you will find now that Eu-
ropean and American training is mod-
ifying, amongst a few of the more
progressive, even the marriage cus-
itoms. So that it would not be an un- | is estimated at 353,266,000 bushels, as
thinkable thing to depict a modern
{Japanese youth as falling in love with
a maiden and marrying upon that ba-
sis. Amongst the lower classes, at-
traction often rules a union. How-
. ever, one in the upper classes depart-
ing from the custom might scandalize
his family and friends. .
Japanese good form decrees that the
arrangement for a marriage be con-
ducted through a middleman, or nako-
do, when a boy or girl reaches mar-
‘riageable age—from fifteen to thirty
years old. This middleman is usually
some close married friend of the fam-
ily. He arranges the marriage, then
acts through life as a godfather to the
young couple—is often an arbiter in
matters of dispute.
The nakodo, after fixing upon some
eligible mate, then arranges for the
“mutual seeing,” or mi-ai. The lovers
(?) may or may not be known to each
other up to this time. In strict eti-
quette this meeting takes place at the
home of the middleman, or at some
other private house designated by
both sets of parents. The middle 7
or
form, however, and the “mutual see-
ing” may take place at a moonlight
picnic, a theatre party, a visit to a
temple, or any similagy gathering. If
the man objects to the girl, that sup-
posedly ends it. But, in strict prac-
tice, the parents may be and usually
are obd@rate in their wishes because
of some advantage to be gained by the
union. .
If the youth and maiden are satis-
fied with each other, an exchange of
gifts is made—clothes, money and cer-
tain kinds of fish and edible seaweed.
This is the seal of betrothal. It is
binding in custom and it would ke a
great disgrace to withdraw from the
contract after this exchange of gifts.
Upon the day appointed for the wed-
ding, the bride leaves her home. She
is dressed all in white, mourning, |
symbolic of death to her own family.’
At sunset the middleman and his wife
escort her to the groom’s home. There
she dons a dress given to her by the
groom, and the wedding takes place |
at once.
This is a ceremonious dinner party,
duricg which the bride and . groom
drink the san-san ku-do, or “three,
three, nine times. Each, beginning |
with the bride, pledges the other by
sipping three times, in turn, from each
one of a set of three tiny lacquered
sake, or wine, cups. The mild wine is
usually dipped into the cups with a
These * schidve i clean keeping of all laws that are just | small ladle adorned with a paper but-
terfly. Immediately after this cere-
monious sipping, the bride leaves the
guests to put on a dress brought with
her from home; at this time the groom
{ uated at Amherst in 1834, studied the- | also changes dress unless he is wear-
{ology at Lane Seminary, in 1837, be- : ing European togs. At the conclusion
| came pastor of a church in Lawrence- !
| burg. In 1839 he was installed over a ' wife conduct the couple to the mar-
of the dinner, the middleman and his
riage chamber. There they again
pledge each other in nine more sip-
pings from the set of marriage cups,
i est congregational church in Ameri- | but this time the groom drinks first as
head of the newly created household.
The wedding is over.
is change of registration of the bride,
upon notice to the public registrar, |
from her father’s district to her new |
husband’s district.
Three days later she eeremoniously
visits her parents, wearing a dress |
given her by her husband. This is her!
sato-gaeri—“return home.”—By Mrs.
Knudson, in Adventure Magazine. {
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WHEN TO LOOK AT |
YOUR WATCH.
A watch is a good thing to own and
a necessary thing to consult. The
lives that accomplish much are those
whose activities are largely regulated
by time. ;
But while it is necessary to look at
your watch periodically, there are
times when it is extremely improper
to consult it. Occasionally you will
see a man take his watch out of his
Poeket during a church service, and
ook at it to see the time. No matter
how well dressed he is, nor how well
appearing, he is clearly not a gentle-
man, It does not matter how long the
sermon seems to you, never be guilty
of the rudeness of timing it. The
same rule applies to a lesser degree to
any lecture or entertainment you may
attend. The fact that you have paid
for your ticket does not give you the
privilege of rudeness, though some
people seem to think it does. And in-
cidentally one of the surest ways to
take the heart out of any speaker, is
to look at your watch while he is
speaking. If he realizes that all you
are interested in is having him finish,
he is not likely to say anything that
will help you especially. .
In social intercourse, looking at
one’s watch may be made to appear a
rudeness. A man noted for his collec-
tion of entertaining stories, was one
day telling one of them to an interest-
ed company, when he stopped short
and after a protracted pause, closed
the story in a sentence or two, thereby
spoiling its effectiveness. It was clear
to all that something had happened to
ut him out of the story telling mood,
Bat no one knew what it was. But
later to his sister he remarked, “I cut
my story short tonight because young
Nicholson looked at his watch just as
I was getting to the climax. I was
afraid I was boring him. If you are
making a call do not consult your
watch. While you should be careful
not to stay too long, it is almost as
looking at their watches every few
minutes, mot because they wish to
know the time, but merely to work off
their feeling of restlessness, just as
others drum their fingers or fuss with
a ring. All such mannerisms are ob-
jectionable, but few make as disagree-
able an impression as the habit of
looking at your watch, as if to imply
that time is dragging.
——Get the Watchman if ‘you ‘wart
The only legal ceremony observed
11925 Potato Crop 12 Per Cent. Less
| Than 1924.
The 1925 potato crop in Pennsylva-
|els, a 12 per cent. decrease from the
{ bumper production of 28,792,000 bush-
iels in 1924, according to the Federal-
: State Crop Reporting Service at Har-
| risburg. The crop in the United States
' compared with 455,000,000 bushels in
11924, or a decrease of more than 22
per cent.
In Pennsylvania, all except the very
late plantings appear to have suffered
somewhat from the effects of the
drouth during June and early July.
The crop is low in condition in the
southeastern and south-central parts
of the State. Prospects in the eastern
potato counties, on the other hand,
are reported excellent, compared to
the balance of the State.
Maine, New York and Michigan are
the chief sources of late potatces for
Pennsylvania markets in addition to
local production. In all these States,
the crop is expected to be much small-
er than last year’s big crop. There
will be an estimated reduetion of
about 10,700,000 bushels, or 23 per
cent. in New York, where the estimat-
ed yield is 35,932,000 bushels. In
Maine, a drop of 21 per cent. from the
1924 production is anticipated with a
crop amounting to 32,467,000 bushais.
An even greater decrease is likely in
Michigan amounting to about 30 per
cent. of the 1484 produetion. In
States west of the Great Lakes, there
have likewise been decided decreases,
as large as 22 per cent. in Wisconsin
and 37 per cent. in Minnesota. In all
these Central States the crop is also
considerably below the 5 year aver-
age.
Start Fight Against Stream Pollution.
The Conservation Council of Penn-
sylvania has launched a campaign to
stop the pollution of streams in this
State. Backed by more than 200,000
sportsmen and conservationists the
council is drafting a bill to improve
the conditions in scores of creeks and
rivers. The bill will be drastic and
far-reaching, according to officials of
the council.
Every sportsmen’s organization affil-
iated with the council will submit the
proposed anti-pollution measure to the
candidates for the general assembly
in their communities. Candidates who
agree to support the bill will have the
united support of the sportsmen, and
those who do not definitely pledge
themselves to line up with the outdoor
men in their effort to give Pennsylva-
nia pure streams will be opposed at
the polls.
Realizing that the stream-pollution
evil in this State has been growing
steadily, with no concerted effort yet
made to stop it, the State council has
started an aggressive State-wide
movement to procure adequate leg-
islation. Officials of the council declare
the contest will be carried through
the next session of the Legislature,
and longer if necessary.
Representiing all the outdoor inter-
ests of the State, the .council supplies
the necessary meeting ground for all
individuals and organizations to be
represented in the anti-pollution move-
ment. The council expects to accom-
plish by co-operation what is not be-
ing accomplished by individuals and
unorganized effort. The sportsmen
expect to go into their fight with a
united front.
Fog at Sea Inspired “Lead Kindly
Light.”
In 1883, a young Englishman, ill,
and weary for home, took passage on
an orange boat from Sicily to France.
{In the bay of Bonifacio the wind
died, and for a full week there was
unending fog, the danger of an unfelt
tide and current, the mystery of a
leaden sea. From the haze, where all
things seemed at a halt, came the in-
spiration of the hymn, “Lead Kindly
Light,” to the young passenger. It
was out of loneliness and heartsick-
ness that the lines of the immortal
hymn took form. The young English-
man was John Henry Newman, then a
university man, 32 years old; later he
became a cardinal.
The music for Newman’s words
came years later. In 1865 Dr. John
B. Dykes, a man of note as an organ-
ist and composer, was walking one
day in the Strand, the busiest of Lon-
don thoroughfares. And there, amid
the hubbub of the city, the melody
grew in his mind so that when he re-
turned to his study he set down the
notes of “Lead Kindly Light.”
Save Time and Labor by Hogging Off
Corn.
“Hogging off” is becoming more
popular and better known each year
as a feeding practice wherever hogs
are raised. It is used instead of
harvesting the corn. When this meth-
od of handling the corn crop and fat-
tening hogs is first suggested to a
farmer who has never tried it he at
once asks if there is not a waste of
ood feed, and if not what are the
enefits and where does it save? The
answer to these questions is the ex-
perimental and feeding demonstra-
tions carried on by the agricultural
colleges and experiment stations,
where accurate records have been
kept with the results that it has been
definitely determined that this is the
most economical method of fattening
hogs where corn is the principal feed.
These results are backed up by the
experience of thousands of swine
growers in all parts of the country
who have tried it out to their own
satisfaction and each year finish a
part of their hog crop in this way.
_ ———1TIt was not often that anything
happened in the village of Mudhill,
and when it did, the one and only po-
liceman in the place meant to make
the most of it.
The big motor car had turned up-
side down, burying the motorist under
it, but the village constable was not
to be thus lightly turned from his du-
ty. _ . oo .
“It's no use hiding there,” he said,
severely, “I must have your name and
‘address.
BR Ri an.
the local news.
—@et your job work done here.
nia is expected to be 25,328,000 bush-
which we are privileged to select our
| and embroidery are the outstanding
ored or semi-tailored dress of geor-
FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN.
DAILY THOUGHT.
Patience and gentleness are power.—
Leigh Lunt. 2
The taliored suit is much in evi-
dence in the groups of new apparel for
autumn on display all about. Every
day it is noted that tailored suits are
being worn extensively, yet the tail-
ored dress and the topcoat or ulster
are seemingly still in high favor and
are, without doubt, to be included in
the autumn wardrobe of every girl
and woman.
_ There seems to be no question about
our renewed appreciation of the tail-
ored suit, and there should be no lack
of interest or acceptance of the tail-
ored suit. It certainly has a definite
and important place in the wardrobe
of every woman. Likewise, so has
the tailored dress a place that is so
distinctive and definite that it is not
likely that its province wiil ever be in-
vaded to the extent that it will become
extinct.
This season especially the tailored
dress bids for favor and position, and
rightly, since it is in all its phases of
development, design, fabric and trim-
ming most interesting, practical and
decidedly good to look upon. In the
matter of fabrics, they are often of
fine wool reps, serge-like weaves of
fine, soft worsted that are newly re-
vived and that will unquestionably be
more generally used as autumn gives
way to winter, and winter to sping.
Yes, it is here predicted that the
cloth tailored dress is destined for a
vogue, even as has been already pre-
dicted for the tailored suit.
The wheel of fashion, ever revolv-
ing, is the responsible influence for
this revival of the cloth tailored dress. |
It’s just time for this change, since
each season must have its innovations,
and cloth dresses are again in line for
favor. And how these fine wool ma-
terials, like the heavier silks, ottoman,
faille and serge weaves, do respond to
the character of design and the meth-
od of development is easily noted in
the splendid dresses of this order to
be seen. :
High necklines are 2 feature of the
new tailored dresses. That does not
necessarily mean high collars, though
here and there the extreme choker or
turtle collar is seen, but it does mean
a collar finish rather than a flat band
or piping at the neck, and this collar
finish is an outstanding detail of new
autumn dresses.
Then there is a trend in sleeves, a
feature that helps further to identify
this year’s styles from last year’s
clothes, for sleeves there must be in
your new autumn dress, and to best
follow fashion’s decree sleeves must
be long—wrist length and often trim-
med.
Fashion is arbitrary only as to the
length of sleeves. When it comes to
the cut there is leeway to better serve
individual ideas, different fabrics and
the varying purposes of dresses. But
two-piece fitted sleeves naturally pre-
vail in the strictly tailored dress of
cloth and the heavier silks.
Less detail of design is to be found
in the tailored dress of cloth than in
those of silk and, naturally, there is
considerably less design or cut in
these dresses than in the dresses in
other characters of fabriés—the light-
er silks and georgettes.
Yet the contradiction to this trend
is noted in the strictly tailored dress
of georgette, an early arrival this au-
tumn in the host of new frocks from
autumn clothes. 2
Braid and silk as pipings, vestees
and inlays for collar and cuffs, buttons
trimming details, and where the tail-
gette is trimmed, it is this last-men-
tioned treatment that is the method of
enhancement. Such a dress designed
abroad is of the slip-on order, with
set-in sleeves only slightly belled at
the wrist, where the fullness is gath-
ered into a narrow cuff. The short
V-neck is finished with a softly folded
band that extends into a scarf, and is
tied in a soft bow at the front. The
back of the frock is absolutely plain,
but extending from the side seams and
across the front is a deep flounce ar-
ranged by sectional groups of shir-
rings to give a panel effect at inter-
vals. This flounce and the sleeves car-
ry a simple embroidery design done
in varied colors.
Autumn coats, like autumn dress-
es ,are interesting both as to design
and fabric and trimmings, too. Even
the furs, that are as usual a factor in
autumn and winter coats, attract more
than the customary attention because
of placement and their effectiveness
rather than any elaborateness. -
Large plaids and fancy weaves in
colors permit the fabrics employed to
lend considerable color interest to new
coats; and trimmings of leather, kid,
suede, braid and buttons make for the
dressy tone that is the demand of
fashion.
More and more interesting becomes
the vogue of the necklace, and the sin-
gle-strand choker of pearls in delicate
colors is, as the season advances, be-
ing surpassed in favor to a considera-
ble degree by those of many strands,
or in delightful combination with oth-
er beads or with flexible bands or
beads of metal. ;
Fancy clasps are another charmin
detail of the latest in necklaces, an
pendants and strand loops also add to
the elaborateness of those lovely ac-
cessories.
Canes for men, women and children
are to be the vogue, if recent importa-
tion of canes is to be taken as an indi-
cation of such a style situation.
Bordered materials are introduced
in many of the smartest top-coats, and
usually the designs are of strongly
contrasting plaids or broad stripes on
a neutral-colored ground. ]
Dress fabrics of bordered design are
for the most part of silk, the new fif-
ty-four inch width making possible an
‘¢asy and fairly reasonably priced de-
velipment of modish dress. In these
silks, one-color satin and silk striped
and blocked effects are very much in
demand, though two or more colored
effect in geometrical and floral designs
are featured in many of the best
grades of silk.
Bordered woolens are of the light
weight cashmere or fine serge weaves |
and of fannel—Philadelphia Ledger.
FARM NOTES.
—ZEven distribution and proper
packing during filling will insure a
good quality of silage provided walls
of the silo are in good condition.
—Eat apples for your health’s
sake. Fruit is too often neglected as
a part of the diet. The apple has long
played its part in keeping the doctor
away.
—Are your cold-frames ready for
fall seedings? The time is here for
planting lettuce, radishes, spinach,
fast-growing carrots, and many other
cool season vegetables that will reach
edible size in from one and one-half
to two months of time.
—Pick seed corn while ears are on
the stalk. This gives an opportunity
to observe actual growing conditions
as to size of stalk and health of plant.
Proper curing of such ears means
good seed for the 1926 crop. It is not
too early to consider the next spring’s
planting.
—An important matter to look out
for in the raising of dairy calves is to
feed them so that they will develop a.
capacity to handle a large quantity of
roughage when they come to maturity,
as roughage furnishes the most eco-
nomical part of the ration in the pro-
duetion of milk.
—Milk is approximately 87 per
cent. water. Water is the mest im-
portant and yet one of the cheapest
of feeds. It is too often, however, the
most neglected part of the dairy cow’s
ration. Now is the timp to put in wa-
tering systems so that the cows can
get plenty of water during the long
winter months.
—Certain vegetables are highest in
quality only if well blanched. Many
gardeners neglect this practice, and
consequently they mr ‘rket brownish
sun-burned heads - . cauliflower,
green celery, and bitter endive.
Blanching should be given careful at-
tention by the home gardener who de-
sires only quality vegetables.
—Preparing the bees for their long
winter vacation is a part of the fall
program of work. Each colony should
have a sufficient supply of food in or-
der to winter through and make a
strong brood before the honey flow
starts in the spring. Put the colony
in a packing case for protection from
the cold before the ground freezes.
—Those planning to set out forest
trees next spring should not postpone
ordering. Do this at an early date.
Indications are that the State tree
nurseries will again be unable to fur--
nish all the trees requested. Private
nurseries also report a large number
of orders. Get blanks for State nurs-
ery orders from the nearest district.
forester or from your county agent.
—Sanitation is the most important
factor in raising poultry. Eighty per
cent. of the hens sent into The Penn--
sylvania State College for examina-
tion or inspected by poultry extension.
specialists on the farms are found to
be infested with internal parasites.
The worms most commonly found are
the large round worms, about two
inches in length; the small round
worm found in the ceca, not over one-
fousth of an inch long; and the tape
worms.
—Be sure the birds are clean and
the poultry house free from lice and
mites before putting birds in their
winler laying quarters, say poultry
workers of The Pennsylvania State
College. A salve made of equal parts
of blue ointment and vaseline, mixed
well together, may be applied under
the wings and around the vent, using
a piece about the size of a pea, or any
good lice powder, such as sodium flu-
oride, may be used. Use a coal tar
disinfectant as a spray, forced into
cracks and crevices, to free the houses
of insect pests.
—“Canned pasture” is meeting with
favor among Pennsylvania farmers,
according to the Blue Valley Creamery
Institute. A count of silos or “green
corn preservers” in this State shows
that 48,510 farmers are now using
this means of assuring their dairy
cows and other stock of green pas-
ture for the cold weather period.
On farms where there is a great.
need for succulent winter feed as a
substitute for pasture, or where there
is danger of a pasture shortage in
summer, on farms on which a limited
production of roughage is possible,
and where it is necessary to get the
greatest possible amount of feed from
each acre, the silo is both practical
and advantageous, states the Insti-
tute. In a lecture prepared for the
Radio Farm school of the Blue Valley
Creamery Institute, Professor A. C.
Ragsdale, dairy chief of the Missouri
Agricultural College, gave what is be-
lieved to be the most complete outline.
of the advantages of silo and silage,
which is here produced in abbreviated
form.
1. Silage furnishes a succulent,
readily available feed of uniformly
good quality for any season of the
year. It is cheaper than other feeds
with the exception of pasture grass.
When pastures are poor, it furnishes
succulence at a cost less than that of
soiling crops. It also adds to the pal-
atability of a ration, thereby increas-
ing consumption.
2. The silo helps to secure the
largest amount of digestible nutrients.
from a given acreage. Sileage is eat-
en up clean while 25 to 30 per cent. of
fodder is wasted.
3. Silage requires less room for
storage than similar feed in the form
of hay or other dry forage and is more
accessible in bad weather.
4, The silo preserves crops when
the weather does not permit of field
curing. It helps save an immature
crop from untimely frost and pre-
serves frosted corn that would other-
wise be ruined by rainy weather. Hay
crops may be partially saved by stor-
ing in the silo.
5. Silage lessens the amount of
green needed to produce milk or beef
or in maintaining animals. .
6. Silage puts the bloom or finish
on animals in less time than can be
done with any other ration.
7. Putting the crop in the silo gets
it off the land earlier than otherwise
and permits the land to be fall plowed
or fall sown.
8. Silage is one of the most eco-
nomical carbohydrate feeds.
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