Deworeaic Wald,
Bellefonte, Pa., January 29, 1926.
‘Mexican Couples Go
in State to Wedding
Ancient wedding customs are still
observed by the Mexicans, ‘Their
church weddings are always held in
the morning. The bride and groom
ride to the church in a closed carriage,
with a footman and a driver in white
trousers and correct English livery.
The horses have docked tails and
heavy white leather collars, besides
white cockades streaming from their
bridles. -
The real picture, however, Is said
to be inside the carriage, which Is
completely lined with satin in a sort of
tufted effect. The contracting parties
git beside each other. The bride wears
conventional white and the groom eve
ning clothes. Directly opposite them
fs a small child dressed in white vel:
vet with the ring pillow on his lap.
The wedding ceremony contains many
picturesque symbols. The climax of
the affair comes when the bride and
groom are bound together with a heavy
string. Immediately after the cere-
mony the whole party goes to the phe
tographer’s.—Pathfinder ‘Magazine.
Mud’s Important. Part
in Earth’s F Sihaiian
Importance of mud and the part it
played in the earth’s formation was
the theme of a lecture by a noted
Welsh geologist speaking on Welsh
geology at Cardiff. He affirmed that
mud was one of nature’s most impor-
tant productions—a commodity with-
out which man could not live. Changes
in the earth’s crust had profoundly
altered the muds which had been
formed in past periods of the earth’s
history. One of the most interesting
of rocks produced by the alteration of
mud was slate, and the slates for
which - norih Wales was so famous
were formed during a period when
that part of the earth’s crust was In a
condition of violent unrest, and some
very anclent muds were intensely
squeezed. The effect of the squeezing
was to compress the mud and to twist
ite particles round until ‘they all came
to lle in the same relative direction
like tc «= fragments of paper lying flat.
The result of this, and other changes
which ‘accompanied it, was to make it
possible to split the rock Into thin
sheets like cardboard.
Liszt as Press Agent
“Genius in the Digceding generation
gam
the bs in a ES As a gen-
eral rule ‘perhaps: But there are “exe
ceptions, Plerre Nan’ Paassen, writing
in the Atlanta Constitution, contends.
Consider the case of Liszt. When he
first began to play in public he came
to places where his fame had not pre-
ceded him. One evening there were
only a dozen persons in the auditori-
um. Instead of playing, he invited
them all to supper, where he treated
them to truffles and game and cham-
pagne and cognac and all the delica-
tessen in season. Then he sat down
at the piano and played for his guests
for two hours, as only he could play.
A few days later he announced an-
other recital, in a larger hall. It was
filled to capacity, but the audience
was not invited to supper. As a press
agent, evidently, Liszt could have
given points to the best of our days.
Best Basis for Love
The more wheels there are in a
watch, the more trouble they are to
take care of. The movements of ex-
altation which belong to genius are
egotistic . by their very nature. A
calm, clear mind, not subject to
spasms and crises which are so often
met with in creative or intensely per-
ceptive natures, is the’ best basis for
love or friendship. Observe, I am
talking about minds. I won't say the
more intellect, the less capacity for
loving ; for that would do wrong to
the understanding and reason; but, on
the other hand, that the brain often
runs away with the heart's best blood,
which gives the world a few pages of
wisdom or poetry, instead of making
one other heart happy, I have no
question.—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Funny Ambitions
. The question in an English periodi-
cal, “What would yo1 llke to be?’
brought out many clever and amusing
answers. Here are a few of them:
The sun, because it is always sure of
a rise.
The letter “f,” for then I should al-
ways be in the midst of comfort,
A shoeblack, because I should be con-
tinually shining before my fellows.
A man of forty with the ideals of
twenty and the judgment of sixty, to
make life worth living.
A billiard ball, frequently kissed,
carefully nursed when necessary, and
not out of pocket even when in a hole.
—Boston Transcript.
Well Founded
In the days of the old Cripple Creek
a mining camp judge, upon finding the
bad citizen of the camp hanging by the
neck from a cottonwood, with his
hands tied behind him, a six-gun in one
hip pocket and $25.10 in the other,
reached this decision:
“If the co’t know itself, and the co’t
think it do, it allow this hyar man
came to death from some unknowed
causes at the hands of persons un-
knowed te this cot, and the co’t fines
the corpse $25.10 for carrying con-
cealed weapons.”—Everybody's Maga-
gine
Grand Ca anyon: Marvet
of Peace and Beauty
We did not expect to love the cun-
yon. Friends had presaged a deep,
overwhelming round of earth's side.
Colored postals and railroad folders
had prepared us for crudely hued
lozenges on the precipitate walls, We
expected neat, zebra stripes of vermil-
ion, ochre and cobalt.
Instead we looked into the beautiful
soft gulch of the canyon and our
hearts were won. The crisp Arizona
morning was cupped there when we
first beheld it—on the deep sunken
plateau with its dotted firs, on the
pale pastels of the irregular far walls.
Truncated peaks wore crowns of melt-
ed azure light and lower wreaths of
faded geranium, The immense peace
of the great jagged bowl played over
us, an unplumbed, unfathomable man-
tle of serenity,
We saw colors change, the pinks
grow dull, the soft bands of azure
break up, and etherize in the full
noon, then brood together as the
lights lengthened, and set in colder
strands of petunia blue. On the slab
side of the river walls we saw the
sweetest pearls cling and the gulf brim
with frostier blues, until it lost them
in dusk and night. Then on the brim
in the high, clean wind we walked by
that Invisible cavern, saw the stars,
large, fringed and low, and knew that.
vast as a familiar place where we
could be at peace.—Christian Science
Monitor.
Ancient Industry Is
That of Bread Baking
Baking is probably the very oldest
industry man engaged in. Wheat and
barley, the oldest cereals known to
have been found, together with the
plowshare fashioned of wood and the
stone hand mill consisting of a hol-
lowed stone and a stone ball-shaped
crusher, among the remains left by
prehistoric man. The oldest bread was
made in the form of cakes or fritters
simply prepared by mixing wheat or
barley to a batter with water and milk
and baking these batter cakes of may-
be the size and form of our present
day griddle cakes on hot ashes or over
red-hot coals, or a hot stone, which
represented the first bread pan and
oven combined. Salt was probably the
only other ingredient used besides the
milk and water, as there was no bak:
ing powder and yeast was not used
until brewing beer from germinated
barley had become known. The Egyp
tians had perfected both baking and
brewing 1,500 years before.the begin-
ning of the Christian era:
Rubbing It In
A well-known actress was _ appear:
ing in a play with a certain actor who
was noted for his irritability. He com-
plained that “the woman continually
laughed ‘at’ him’ ‘during one of his most
important scenes,
At last he wrote her a letter, in
which he said: “1 am extremely sorry
to tell you that it is impossible for me
to make any effect in my scene if you
persist in laughing at me on the stage.
May I ask you to change your man-
ner, as the scene is a most trying
one?”
To this the actress replied: “You
are quite mistaken. I never laugh at
you on the stage. I wait till T get
home!”
New One
Here is a news item that someone in
LoS Angzles can probably get away
with—once,
It was to blow out a match that John
Helfetz speeded his automobile through
North Broadway, Yonkers, at 85 miles
an hour,
“I had three girls in my car and one
of them tried to light a cigarette,” he
explained to the judge, adding: “I
guess I'm a bit old-fashioned. I din’t
want my girl to smoke, so I stepped
on the gas. The breeze blew out every
match she tried to light.”
And the judge smilingly said that
that was a new one and suspended
sentence,
Fox Changes Color
ihe blue fox is a color phase of the
Arctie, or white fox, which is circum-
polar in range, being found particular-
ly along the seacoast of Arctic and
subarctic regions. Its normal winter
coat is white, while the summer pelage
is brown and tawny. The blue fox is
dark bluish in winter and tends toward
brownish in summer. There are inter-
mediates in which the coat may be
spotted blue and white, or the blue and
white may be blended, producing a
dingy or smoky-white appearance.
Leading Languages
french is possibly the simplest lan
guage to learn. The German grammar
Is extremely complicated and English
pronunciation is difficult for certain
foreigners. The English language also
contains a great number of colloquial-
isms used in everyday speech, which
takes some time to acquire. All lan-
guages do not contain the same num-
ber of words. The English language
contains approximately 700,000 words;
German dictionaries contain about
800,000 words; French, 210,000 words,
Fortune Close at Hand
whatever is necessary for your im:
provement, your enjoyment, your use-
fulness, is close to you. Distance lends
enchantment to the view, but when a
man is wise he knows he is standing
on enchanted ground. A man’s star is
never in the sky. It Is in his beaiz.
Your ship of gold Is not on the high
seas; it is at the quay waiting to be
unloaded and discharged. Your for-
tune is not at the bottom of a rain-
bow: it is at your feet.—W, L, Wat-
kinson,
Painless Surgery Has
Made Rapid Advance
The surgery of a century ago was a
painful and almost brutal procedure,
the Scientific American says. With
the coming of antisepsis and later of
asepsis, following the work of Lister
and Pasteur, the mortality which re-
sulted from surgery was greatly re-
duced through the elimination of bac-
terial Infection following operation,
With the development of anesthesia,
beginning with the work of Morton
and Long on ether, and following with
chloroform, nitrous oxid-oxygen gas,
stovain and intraspinal anesthesia, the
use 6f narcotics preliminary to opera-
tion to reduce the patient’s sensibility
and, more recently, the development
of another gas anesthetic, ethylene,
physicians have been able to work
more slowly, more carefully and more
accurately, extending surgical proce
dures to organs heretofore unap-
proachable by the surgeon's knife,
theréby Saving many lives in condi-
tions previously called inoperable.
Moreover, continued study cf nerve
routes and nerve paths, with the de-
velopment of anesthetic substances
which may be applied directly to
nerves, permits effectively blocking the
sense of pain which may proceed along
the nerves to the brain. So-called local
anesthesia with such drugs as procain
and butyn enables surgeons to operate
on patients who are fully ‘conscious
and therefore are better able to resist
the shock which may accompany ex
tensive operative measures.
Comes Under Head of
“Better Left Unsaid”
It was our first call on the new
neighbors and Mr. B—— and 1 were
engaged in a casual conversation
about the peculiar names of certair
dogs of the community.
The women, who had been partles
to our conversation in its beginning,
it seems, had switched to the subject
of their own names and those of their
families, while we were still talking
dogs, and when there came a moment
of silence between Mr. B—— and me
I heard the end of Mrs. B——'s re-
mark about “Fanny.” Wishing to
show my interest and having noted a
rather disgusted inflection in my host-
es§’ volece, I sald sympathetically,
“Fanny, good Lord, who's dog’s that?”
I never have been more embar-
rassed in my life than when, after an
awkward pause, my wife said: “Mrs.
B——'s nanie is Fanny.”—Chicage
Tribune,
Faithful but Fractious
Some of these young women treat
ove as though it was a naughty boy
«who should be made. to stand in a cor-
‘ner ‘except as a great ‘treat once in
six weeks, . . . Women can be
very. ‘tiresome.’ Wives can be’ Totoler-
able.” England
strewn with good men suffering from
their wives’ virtues. It is damnable.
When a woman is faithful te her hus-
band she generally manages to take
it out of him in some other way. The
mere fact that she is faithful makes
her think that she has a right to be
—well, disagreeable. Fidelity can
cause the devil of a lot of trouble in
the home unless it is well managed.
Fidelity needs just as much good man-
agement as infidelity.—From “May
Fair,” by Michael Arlen. ;
The Safe Thrift Side
ihe advice of the thrift editor ot
che Tifton Gazette, given in rhyme, is
to avoid getting “walioped by adversi-
ty.” He says—
“Who spends his income as it comes
and saves no systematic sums may
some day find bimself in dutch and
need his money very much.
“If you would prosper and progress
and crown your future with success,
adopt some systematic plan of banking
all the cash you can.
“The banks are here for you to use
—by saving right you cannot lose; in
fact, youre really bound to win—de-
posit savings, and begin."—Atlanta
Constitution.
Secret of Scent
decent is still in many respects an
vnsolved mystery. We know that al-
most every object gives out tiny par-
ticles which produce the sensation of
scent. But the size of these particles
is minute beyond belief, for a grain
of musk will scent a drawer for a
generation without losing any weight.
Again, why is it that on one day a
. fox leaves a scent which hounds can
follow at full speed, while on the next
there is so little that the pack is ut-
terly at loss? Scent does not depend
upon the weather—that much we
know.
Old National Emblems
Zrevious to the union of England
and Scotland the shield of England
was upheld by two lions. The shield
of Scotland was upheld by two uni-
corns. After the union the lion ep-
peared on one side and the unicorn on
the other. Before the union the Eng-
lish shield contained three lions pas-
sant (walking) on a field of gold. The
Scotch shield contained the lion ram-
pant (standing on its hind legs) on a
field of gold.
Old Egyptian Dolls
Judging by findings amongst the
wrappings of mummified infants, the
favorite toys In ancient Egypt were
dolls. Some have a grotesque appear-
ance, but a common kind of doll con-
sisted of a flat board—like a large,
bowlless spoon—the round part palmt-
ed or carved to represent a face. Legs
were usually absent. Others are so
small that they can be strung like big
beads, on threads that make & mop of
hale for the doll’s head.
‘and’ America are
Couldn’t Really Call
Inn Ancient Building
We had paddled through Ghent’s
complex waterways and were wonder-
ing where we could leave our canoe in
safety, when some raaing shells shot
past, a boathouse pennant fluttered,
and a cheery voice invited us to util-
ize the Royal Club Nautique for as
long as we wished. So we stored our
canoe in the club's “garage,” then
drove through the town to a quaint
inn whose leaded panes looked out
upon a row of shops built into the
outer walls of a great Gothic church,
Melville Chater writes in the Nations’
Geographic Magazine,
The sight of people flocking to serv-
fce, while others sipped drinks, got
shaved or bought curios, all under the
eaves of a sacred edifice, hinted that
we were In an ancient quarter of the
town.
“Is this an old Inn?’ we inquired of
our Flemish host. He was a singu-
larly literal man. He replied gravely:
“Not so very. Probably when built
in the Thirteenth century it was some
wealthy man’s home. In the Sixteenth
century, about the time Albrecht Dur-
er stopped here, it was the house of
the Grocers’ guild. Later it was prl-
vately owned for a couple or more
centuries, No, as an inn I wouldn’
call it particularly old.”
“ After that’ we reverentially used the
doormat, and ~efrained from strikin®
matches on the woodwork.
Nature’s Lavish Gifts
to Left-Handed Folks
If you had lived at any time in the
period 2500 B. C. to A. D. 1500, and
had been left-handed, you would have
been regarded as one highly favored
by the gods and far superior to ordi-
nary folk. If, of your own initiative,
you had not seized on power, it would
have been placed in your hands. But
in all probability that would have been
unnecesary, for all down the ages the
left-handed have gone ahead and made
a success of life. They've something
that the right-handed haven't. The
leading Pharoahs were left-handed ; so
were the Caesars; so also Alexander
the Great and Charlemagne,
Whether Nature compensates the
left-handed by endowing them with
special talents is a matter of specula-
tion. The fact, however, remains that
the left-handed are, in brain power,
far superior to the right-handed. A
schoolteacher, through whose hands
thousands of boys have passed, is em-
phatic on that point. No left-handed
boy Is, or could be, a fool is his dic-
tum.
Differences. in Heraldry. |
in heraldry>“différences” or mHrks-
the various
of “cadency” indicate
branches. of a family. During the. life:
time of his father the eldest son bears
a label, the second a crescent, the
third a mullet, the fourth a marlet,
the fifth an annulet, the sixth a fleur
de lis, the seventh a rose, the eighth
a cross moline, the ninth a double
quatre foll.
In “Hamlet” Ophelia says that both
she and the queen are to wear rue,
herself as the affianced bride of the
eldest son of the late king, but the
queen with a “difference,” indicative
of the fact that, although she was
Hamlet's mother, her status was that
of her present husband, Claudius.—
Detroit News.
Modest Philanthropist
A philanthropist, feeling that his end
was approaching and not desiring any
publicity for his kind acts, advertised
fn the newspapers and offered a prize
for the best hint of how to dispose of
his property. Many replies were re-
ceived, some sound and sensible, and
others. wildly fantastic. Finally one
came which suggested that he establish
a fund to supply ice to dumb parrots.
This delighted the philanthropist so
that he lay back and laughed heartily,
he caught his breath with difficulty and
laughed again. In the midst of his
mirth he burst a blood vessel and
passed away, leaving his fortune to his
heirs and nothing for the poor dumb
parrots.—Kansas City Times.
Sociology as a Study
Soclology is the term applied by the
philosopher, Comte, to the study of
mankind in their social relations. It
recommends the prevention of national
wars by arbitration, and the settle-
ment of the war of classes by boards
of conciliation. The term sociology is
Tegarded by some as equivalent to his-
tory. The English philosopher, Her-
bert Spencer, used the term in the
titles of several of his greatest works,
for instance, “The Study of Sociology,”
published in 1872.
Lee as Matchmaker
General Lee played the part of fa-
¢herly matchmaker to many a pretty
girl of his circle. In fact, he had al-
ways liked that role.
“Tell Miss—" he had written from
Mexico, during the occupation, “she
had better dismiss that young- divine
and marry a soldier. There is some
chance of the latter being shot, but it
requires a particular dispensation of
Providence to rid her of the former.”
—S8cribner's Magazine,
Some Family
Buddy went to a dog show and came
Aome all excited. Breeds meant noth-
ing to him and blue ribbons less, but
the puppies delighted him beyond
measure,
“Oh, mother!” he exclaimed. “I saw
five puppies with their mother. Two of
them were brothers and the other three
were twin.”
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