| Bellefonte, Pa., July 16, 1926. | i | Climbers of Table Mountain Pay Toll News of a mountain tragedy rings through Capetown like a funeral bell. It becomes almost a personal tragedy to everyone. Table mountain loons into the clouds so close to the city that every detail of its great rock face can be seen from the main street, and that makes the fact of a death o» its slopes very close and vivid. Table mountain has a dark history. From the earliest days climbers have met disaster, and there is one precipi- tous part, known as Skeleton gorge where the bones of a number of loug- dead men have been found. The noted white cloth of clouds which settles over Table mountain has been responsible for many fatalities. Inexperienced people lose their way and, finding darkness approaching. stumble madly downward toward the city lights. Falls of hundreds of fee* await them. Whenever a person is reported miss- ing parties composed of members of the Mountain club leave their work and set out to search the dangerous ledges and ravines. An appeal for a search party never fails. If the miss- ing person is not found by. the week- end, hundreds of people join in the quest. Table mountain attracts ‘scores of new climbers on every public holiday, and it is then that the most tragedies occur. Qften the body of a lonely climber is not found for several weeks, 80 vast is the area to be searched.— From the Continental Edition of the London Daily Mail. What the Fairy Told Three Married Women Three women once went to the Mar- riage Fairy. The first woman said: “My husband is not very charming or entertaining, but he is proud of my ;beauty, and sends me abroad in furs .and satins and jewels. How long will it last?” And the fairy answered: “It will last till the next panic in Wall street, when your husband will lose his money and put a bullet through his head.” ‘And the second woman said: “1 do pot care for wealth or luxury if I ean be adored. And I am. I have been married fifteen years, and my husband till thinks me the loveliest woman on earth. How long will it last?” And the fairy answered: “You have al- ready had it longer than nearly all the most-loved women. It will last for eighteen months longer, and then cease quite Suddenly, you will never know why.” ! ‘And the third woman said:- I don't .eém to need what most women need. We are poor, and I never had a really beautiful dress in my life. But I don't ; care. ‘My husband never pays me a great deal of attention. I don’t re- member that he ever complimented me in his life. I sit with him io the | evening after my work is done. And if by chance he meets my eves and smiles, I am perfectly happy. How long will it last?” And the fairy an- swered: “It will last till the day of your golden wedding, and then longer still. Do you really want it forever?” | —Kansas City Times. High-Sounding Names It seems to be the practice for lead- ing towns or cities to adopt titles in self-praise. The old Venetians used to say, “See Venice and die,” and Rome has always styled itself the Eternal city. Boston calls itself—the Ameri- can, not the English town—the Hub of the Universe, whilst London has not shrunk from calling itself the Metrop- olis of the World. It is a moot point whether Brighton or Scarborough was first in the field with the subtitle “Queen of Watering’ Places,” but it is certain that both use it and believe | in its truth. Edinburgh styles itself the Modern Athens, and Glasgow boasts that it is the second city of the empire. Seville says that he who has not seen Seville has seen no marvel Manchester calls itself Cottonopolis, and Liverpool the Gateway of the | West. i Italy Guards Antiques In Italy one of the most serious ! crimes is the stealing or unauthorized excavation of antiquities. The gov- ernment claims as its property all ob- jects of artistic or archeological in- terest over 100 years old, and permits for their exportation are obtained only rarely and with difficulty. Rights to excavate or even to study while excavations are proceeding are rarely granted to foreign students. The other day some archeological pickpockets who removed some -an- cient vases and marbles from tombs that were being excavated near Co- macchio were convicted in court. The leader was sentenced to seven years in prison—a punishment rare in Italy for any crime less than murder. Food of Butterflies Butterflies feed on the nectar oi dowers and the sap of trees and plants. The various flowers, etc. vary with those found in a locality. All adult bees feed on saccharine juices, particularly the nectar of flowers. It is the habit of bees to devote their searching to a single sort of flower as long as it serves their purpose, each individual visiting blossom after blos- som of that kind, instead of searching flowers indiscriminately, This varies with the locality. | French Woman Famed for Skill as Cook The famous Bhillat-Savarin died February 2, 1826. He was celebrated | for his book called “The Physiology | of Taste,” wherewith he established the French tradition for good cooking says the Detroit News. At a banquet held in Paris recently in his honor it was remarked that there was no woman guest. Some- body has been explaining the omis- sion on the ground that both the great epicures and the great cooks have al been men. That may be broadly true, but not long before Brillat-Savarin’s days there was one woman cook . who achieved an almost unparalleled popu- larity. This was Marie, the cook of the Paris fermier-general of the period, whose dinners at the Elysee palace had a wide celebrity. The host would not employ a man COOK, and though this at first caused aston- ishment among the people whom he asked to dinner, Marie's achievement soon became famous. According to an historian of the time, she used to be called like a “prima donna” at the end of a courses, and she was enthusiastically toasted as “Le Cordon Bleu.” Cordon Blue, though usually applied to men cooks in our day, was originally used of French women cooks, and was probably derived from the blue aprons which they wore in the kitchen. Proper Ventilation Vital for Kitchen Ventilating the home is receiving an increasing amount of considera- tion in connection with renewing the vitiated air in the kitchen, and i» some instances, the entire house. The time has long passed since the popular conception existed that fresh air, particularly night air, was injurious to the human system and that the windows should by all means be hermetically sealed against the in- filtration of fresh air. Electricity, available In every wired home, offers a very economical means for operating mechanical ventilators and can be utilized at a surprisingly low cost The kitchen, of course, is the room where proper ventilation of air is most essential in order to remove the heavy cooking odors which otherwise permeate the entire home. ‘Not only this, but the grease-laden air flying freely through the house attaches it- self to hangings, upholstered furni- ture, walls, ceilings, etc., and necessi- tates a very heavy annual cleaning expenditure in order to remove it. Anyone who has entered a home where cauliflower, cabbage and other similar foods are being prepared knows that it is extremely unpleasant to smell the aroma of mingled cook- ing for a long time after the repast. ~~ Odd Eastern Customs Some queer kinks in Chinese civill zation are described by Thomas Steep in “Chinese Fantastics,” a book on Chinese customs published by the Cen- tury company. Here is a prohibition kink: “A total abstainer, not wishing to be remiss at a banquet. delegates his drinking to a servant. The serv- ant, standing at a respectful distance, advances whenever a toast is pro- posed, lifts his master’s cup. and drinks. The master is thus vicariously able to drink indefinitely. The servant. drunk, may be replaced by a sober one.” This might be called a sex kink: “Students, when informed by their teacher that a Western man proposes directly to the girl he wishes to marry, were astonished, for they could not understand how the man, in the event of a refusal, could sur- vive the loss of face.”—San Francisco Argonaut. The Case for Books Why books, anyway? The answer 18 simple.” Books, as yet, afford the only existing means of constantly and continuously enlarging the individ- ual’'s range of experience; the only means of giving the individual thor oughgoing understanding of any of the great aspects of life; the only means of giving the individual that enduring perspective, broad vision and real knowledge which are neces sary for his security, growth and hap- piness under civilized conditions. Oth- er devices may give the same mental or emotional stimulation or delight. But no other devices can so thorough- ly and enduringly tie men’s minds to- gether, link men into man.—Jesse Lee Bennett in the Bookman. Dogs That Do Not Bark Siberian sled-dogs are reputed to be che best In the world, are short-haired and generally a kind of gray—might be called mouse-colored. They seem to be more wolf than dog, and never bark but how! like a wolf. Yonsidering their short hair, I be- ileve you will find them to average larger than the Alaskan sled-dog, writes Captain Oliver in Adventure Magazine. Teams generally average about eight dogs and they pull sleds across the tundra in summer as well as winter. Her Idea of “Art” A New York “artistic photographer,” whose work adorns the pages of many “grt publications, has numerous re- quests for private engagements. One such came from the wife of a newly rich man, who telephoned for an ap- pointment. “And how much do you charge?” she asked. “One thousand dollars,” was the reply. The photogra- phe heard a gasp, and then. came, “Ope thousand dollars! Why, how large a picture do you take?’ | of these gyntheti -wizard who assisted the witch. Farmier Had Strong Faith in Black Art | Frederick Riek, a farmer, has beeu telling the magistrates at Marggra- bowa, in East Prussia, the extraor- dinary things he had to do at the command of a witch who undertook to bring him prosperity. He had to write in honey on a thin cake of bread the magic words, “Adonis dear, Adonis my own! Thou canst do all. Thou art friendly and thy goodness is eternal. Help me this once. Thou art the Lord!” Then he had to wash his hands and face in water on which the morning sun had not shone, to say a prayer to Adonis seven times and tie a cake of bread round his neck. At the some time he had to lend the witch a carriage, he had to get the heart of a white toad and tie it with three feathers under the seat of a bicycle he had bought for the He provided 30 yards of English cloth to darken the room in which the witch called up spirits, and 1,200 marks of .good money went from his pockets te hers. If the witch, in private life a farm- er's wife, and the wizard, a shoemak- .er, had been genuine Frederick Riek would not have complained, but they were nothing less than a false witch and wizard, in fact, common swir- dlers. They were unable to prove their qualifications to practice the black art, and the witch got three months’ and the wizard six months’ imprison: went for fraud. Deep Canyons That Lie Under the Sea Out in mid-Atlantic is a tall and stately peak named, for some forgot- ten reason, Mount Laura Ethel. Put it down in the midst of the Rockies and it would tower up with the best of them, but because its highest point falls just a few score fathoms short of reaching sunlight, thousands of transatlantic passengers each year sail over the hidden mountain top without ever knowing it is there, says Popul ‘Mechanics Magazine. Off the western coast of Africa lies the Congo canyon, bigger and deeper than the Grand canyon of Arizona and more strangely beautiful; but no man ‘has ever seen its depths, and it is im- probable that any man ever will. For the Congo canyon is at the bottom of the Atlantic, one of the vast valleys between the giant mountain peaks whose. tops fail to break the surface of the sea, and so remain unknown to all but the hydrographers who plot the mystery land under the waves. Lumber Substitutes There are three substitutes for lum oer being made—one of bagasse and two from wood’ fiber. The properties ¢. boardsrare much dif- ferent from those of ordinary: lumber. The material is not usually so hard and is of a more porous and open texture. It is claimed by manufacturers of these materials that when used in certain ways it develops satisfactory strength. For instance, it is used for sheathing for houses. The bracing effect of the large pieces nailed to the studding is claimed to be about as good as where diagonal sheathing is used. It is ap- parently a better insulator than ordi- nary lumber because of its open tex- ture. The material is not so strong as wood in bending. Another advantage for it is that it can be obtained in large sheets which, for many purposes, is quite worth while. Room’s Cen’er of Interest Avery room, according to the deco-