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EARLY HAIR BOB
NOTICED BY GODS
Legend Calls Constellatior
Queen's Shorn Tresses.
‘Washington.—Possibly not the first,
but certainly one of the earliest
maidens to bob her hair, achieved im-
mortality, in the sky. Look overhead
this evening, if it is clear, and there
you will see a swarm of rather faint
stars. These are the locks which were
sacrificed by the Queen Berenice, and
are known us Coma Berenices, or
Berenice’s Hair.
Berenice was the wife of Evergetes,
Who was the third of the Ptolomies
and ruled Egypt about 243 B. C. Pre-
‘viously there had been no such con-
'stellation in the sky, but the tail of
the near-by lion, Leo, stretched straigh*
into the space that it now occupies.
One day the king went to war
against the Assyrians, and fully aware
of the danger to him, Berenice was
‘much alarmed for his safety. Going
‘to the temple of Venus, the goddess
of love, to pray for his safety, she
vowed on the altar of Venus that if
‘Evergetes returned victorious she
‘would cut off her beautiful hair and
‘give it to the gods.
The king did defeat the Assyrians,
and when Berenice heard of his vic-
tory she was true to her promise, and
bobbed her hair. Like modern hus-
bands who learn that their wives have
cut off their tresses, the king was dis-
'tressed at the appearance of his wifa
'withibobbed hair, even though he ap
preciated her kind intentions.
Astronomer Explains It.
But his anger was aroused the nex
day when it developed that the
queen’s tresses had been stolen from
the temple of Venus during the night,
and he consulted his court astronomer
and sage, who seems to have been one
of the original “yes-men,” Conon by
name. He had to explain what had
happened, and after due consideration
he announced that Jupiter had himself
removed the locks from the temple
and placed them among the stars.
Pointing out what had previously been
regarded by astronomers as the end
of the lion’s tail he told the king that
this was his wife’s hair. And as the
king was not familiar with astronomy,
lie took Conon at his word, and he and
his queen were highly flattered at the
approval thus shown by the gods. But
as the lion had to have his tail, it has
Veen represented ever since as curled
into a loop.
Orphan Wins $100 As
College’s “Smilingest”
Fort Worth, Texas.—Miss Willa
Mae Lee, an orphan earning her way
through college, won this year’s $100
prize for being the “smilingest” girl
on the’ campus at Texas Woman's
college here. Before entering college
last year, Miss Lee lived at the Waco
Methodist home.
As the climax of a contest institutea
last semester. Willa Mae was elected
“TP. W. C. Smiles Girl” by vote of all
the student body this spring. Despite
the fact that most of her extra-study
time is occupied with earning ex-
penses in school by serving in the col-
lege dining room, she participates in
much of the social life of the cam-
pus.
she is president of the Teacup club,
composed of girls wiio assist the col-
lege dietitian and is a member of the
Susan M. Key Literary society and
Y. W.C. A.
Flemish Art Gem Is
Sold for $125,000
New York.—Jules Bache has added
to his gallery of old master paintings
a portrait by Petrus Christus, leader
in Fifteenth century art in Flanders.
The picture carries the title “Cath-
wsian Monk as a Saint.” It had a con-
spicuous place in th? recent Flemish
exhibition, the most important of the
geason in London. It measures only
11% by 8 inches, but its rank with
the best is indicated by the price of
$125,000 that Mr. Bache is understood
to have paid for it.
Jollectors of old Flemish art have
det store by the work of Vermeer, be-
cause of its rarity as well as its excel-
lence. Work by Petrus Christus is of
similar quality and is rarer, his known
existing pieces numbering only 23,
while 50 of Vermeer’'s are known.
Americans own four of the Christus
examples, counting the Bache ac-
quisition.
Seattle’s Woman Mayor
Hits at Circus Parades
Seattle, Wash, — Securing reports
from numerous western cities Mayor
Bertha Landes is investigating her
theory that circus parades with un-
fettered elephants should be barred
from the streets of large cities. Dur-
mg the past year, she cites, there were
rumerous instances where elephants
broke and threatened serious damage.
Traffic conditions here also compel the
reduction of all parades to the mini-
mum,
Treble Joy
New York.—After much sorrow in
he family of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Or-
chowsky of the Hast side there Is
treble joy. Two years ago their twins
died, then a boy was drowned in the
East river. Now they have triplets
PORTUGUESE STILL
LOVE EXILED QUEEN
Banished 16 Years Ago, She
Enjoys Lasting Honor.
Lisbon, Portugal.—Queen Amelie of
Portugal, who was exiled from this
country 18 years ago with the rest of
the royal family, left her name asso-
ciated with so many charitable insti.
tutions that she still is loved and re
spected in the Portuguese republic.
This princess of Orleans is very
democratic. She founded many chil
dren’s hospitals and homes, where shr
helped doctors to tend the sick.
At home she supervised the educa-
tions of the princes, Louis Philipps
and Manuel.
Amelie de Braganza, exiled from her
native France, lived in England un-
til her marriage to Carlos, the crowr
prince of Portugal.
Prince Manuel, who became king
of Portugal, owes hig life to his royal
mother’s courage. When King Carlos
and the crown prince were assassinat-
ed as the royal family drove through
the streets the assailants shot at the
younger prince. The queen, seeing the
gun aimed at her son, rose in the car-
riage, and with a bouquet caused thi
bullet to swerve, so that it merel~
grazed his hand.
Since the proclamation of the re-
public in Portugal! the exiled queen
lived for many years in England with
her son. But now that the French
republic has annulled the ban against
the former royal family of [‘rance
Amelia of Orleans lives in seclusion
fn a small house near the palace of
Versailles, where her ancestors once
reigned.
U. S. Land, Just “Found,”
Slated for Park Site
Washington.—Land that the federal
government has possessed for 80 years
in the mountains of northern Alabama
has just been “discovered” by search
in the records of the federal land of-
fice.
"he surveyor who mapped the terri
.ory in 1847 for aliocation to settlers
seems to have been daunted when he
came to the brink of May's gulf, a
beautiful gorge ten miles long and a
quarter to a half-mile wide. Or per-
haps he concluded that no one ever
would want it. Anyway, he mapped
only to the brink on either side, drew
two lines marking the bluffs and
labeled them “perpendicular bluffs 300
to 500 feet high,” and let it go at
that.
The state legislature is expected to
ouy tha territory for a park in ac-
cordance with a federal law passed
last year permitting transfer of such
tracts to the states.
Wedding Scene Ready,
Bridegroom Skips Out
Liberty, Mo.—Rev. H. H. Luetzow of
the Methodist church in Liberty was
astonished when a prospective bride-
groom left the minister's home on a
pretext of “saying a word to the taxi
driver” and never returned.
The prospective bride, a thirty-five
year-old widow from Kansas City,
barely had enough money to pay her
fare back to Kansas City.
A man giving tse name of Morriy
«. Long, forty years old, appeared be-
fore the county recorder with the wom-
an and obtained a license. The taxl
driver said the man told him he had
changed his mind about getting mar.
ried.
He drew a reraiver and held it
against the driver's head, saying:
*I won't hurt you if you drive me
back to Kansas City just as fast as
you can.”
The man left the taxicab in Kansas
Clty.
Air Mail Service
Shows Big Increase
Washington.—Use of the air mail
fas shown marked increase since the
new 10 cents per half ounce rate went
into effect and April business estab-
lished a record, Second Assistant Post-
master General W. Irving Glover an-
nounced.
Approximately 1,400,000 letters were
carried over the 14 contract air mail
routes during April and contractors
were paid $133,129 for their services.
Air mails over the transcontinental
and New York-Chicago overnight
routes have shown a corresponding in-
erease because of the mew rate.
:
Finds Fortune in Her
Back Yard Fish Farm
Watts, Calif.-—A 50-foot back
yard is a gold fish “factory” for
Mrs. Anna G. Gray, who once
kept a few pews in one glass
bowl and since her first experi-
ment in breeding, has built up a
market for 12,000 gotdfish, 130,-
000 snails and 2,500 water lilies
annually.
She has developed an infinite
variety of fish strains. The re-
sults show fish of silver and gold
tones, some striped with black,
others spotted. Some are totally
black with only foe glints of the
virginal gold ture.
The raising of snails was a by-
product of her first hatchery.
The scum accuxaiulated at the
bottom of the .naks is used for
their food, anc <¢he snails, in
turn, sold to gx:sdeners as scav-
engers.
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when it is news.
Nickel Pinchers Not
Exponents of Thrift
I have never known a stingy persep
who was nice, who was one of thames
persons the thought of whom maftas
your heart expand with warmth and
affection. I am not inveighing agaiast
those who are sensibly economical end
thrifty. When a man or woman sags:
“No, I can’t afford that. It’s only a
dollar, but a dollar is important te
me,” that is all right. The quality wf
being unashamed transfigures almost,
anything into something all right, even
charming.
But a stingy person tries to pretend
that the expense is nothing; that isn’t
what interests him, Oh, no! Yet Ms
worry over the slipping away of niek-
els 1s so intense in him that it makes
your flesh creep. When there is a res-
taurant check to be paid, when you
invite a tightwad to have a soda with
you, click, click, you intuitively fibel
the cerebrations going on in his anx-
fous brain as to which of you will
have to give up the mazuma for the
indulgence.
“I don’t want to embarrass them by
taking them to the Ritz,” the very rich
girl rationalizes her economy, “so I
will just take them down to that intyr-
esting little place under the elevatad.
with the sawdust on the floor.”
“I don’t want persons to get to care
for me only for my money,” says the
very rich snob, who as often as not is
the richest debutante of the seasem.
So she always makes it a point to “go
Dutch.”—Elizabeth Barbour in the
Saturday Evening Post.
Normal Span of Life
May Yet Be Century
One of the greatest advantages of
the modern civilization is the way in
which the span of human‘life has been
increased, points out Brenda Ueland
in an article in Liberty.
“The span of useful life used to be
only forty-tive years,” the writer ex-
plains. “Now people are living umtil
seventy in full usefulness and vigor.
In the future they will be living until
eighty or ninety or a hundred. Ana
the result is that the center point of
humanity has shifted from the twem-
ties to near the fiftigs,
“At the court of Louis XV,” the
writer continues, “a man’s prime was
twenty-five. After that—the down-
ward slope. Today a man of fwenty-
five is one whose father is wondering
whether to send him to a law or a
medical school, or set him at work.
Formerly a woman of twenty-two was
an old maid; a woman of thirty-five
often was a grandmother.”
The Exact Witness
A barrister was cross-examining a
Jather innocent-looking countryman.
#So you had a pistol?” the barrister
asked. a]
“I had, sir.” ne
“Whom did you Intend to shoot LC
LT
“I wasn't Intending to shoot any-
ne?”
“Then was it for nothing that yom
got it?”
“No, it wasn’t.”
“Come, come, sir! By virtue of
your solemn oath, what did you get
the pistol for?”
“By virtue of my solemn oath,” said
the countryman, “I got it for ten-and-
sixpence.”"—Weekly Scotsman.
Too Observant
frequently in restaurants and othe:
vlaces where a certain rule is continu
ally being ignored, we are reminded ot
an incident related by a friend of oura
While wintering in Spain he lunched
at the monastery of the Benedictines.
After lunch he took out his cigar case
“I don’t suppose you object to smok
ing here?” he said to the white-robed
monk attendant. “Yes. sir, we do,” was
the prompt reply. “There's a law
against smoking in the refectory.”
“Then where,” said our friend, *“do ail
the cigar and cigarette stubs ceme
from that 1 see about me?” “From ren
who didn’t ask about the law,” the
monk replied, mildly.—Boston Tran
script.
Worked by the Tides
A water-mill that is nine miles in
«and, yet obtains all its power from
the tides, is claimed to be the only one
of its kind by the inhabitants of Wond
hridge, Suffolk, formerly one of Eng
land’s great shipbuilding centers. Just
how long this wheel has been answer
ing to the rhythm of the tides no ome
is certain, but about 740 years ago a
mill, standing on the same spot, was
leased for a yearly rental of a pound
of cummin, valued in those days at
about twopence. When the tides of
the River Deben are at their highest
and lowest the little mill rests, but
at any other time the great wheel is
turning.
——The Watchman publishes news
Read it.
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Horizontal.
1—Anything to eat
b—Clircular floral plece
10—Grizaly
11—Inclination
12-=To be Impressed through the ear
13—Vessels
14—QGreek. letter
16—Auditory organ
16=—Coniponents
17—Possesses
18—Preposition
19—Trust
20—Companion
21—Harbors
22—Tardy
23—Games
25—Employers
27—Preposition
28—Rowa
29—Three in a suit of cards
30—Comiocal 81—Father
32—Acroas (poetic)
33—Half a quart (pl.)
34—Tool box
36—Rents
383—Burrowing animals
39—8heet of glass
40—Three-legged standard
35—Like
87—Coal pit
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Vertical.
1—To be afraid
2—Rowing implement
3—Conjunction
5—Anger
6—Soaks
T—Printing measures
8§—Commercial announcement
9—Residence
10—To whip
11—Branch of law
12—Understands audibly
13—Sets a trap
14—Mother (Latin)
18—Social affair
1T—Detests
19—Raid
20—To wed
21—Ability
22—Mortgages
24—Peols
25—8uggests
26—To glide on loe
28—Adjusts a musical instrument
29—Scorched bread
30—Put away for future reference
31—Fir tree
33—Game played on horseback
34—Sort
36—To jump
38—Note of scale
37—To deface
39—Fathey
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West Penn Electric System Ac-
quires New Properties.
W. S. Finlay, Jr., president of the
West Penn Electric Company, an-
nounces that a contract has been en-
tered into for the purchase of the
public utility systems serving Mor-
gantown, W. Va., and vicinity, a ter-
ritory having a population of approx-
imately 40,000. These include nat-
ural gas, electric light and power,
street railway and water works prop-
erties, formerly owned by the West |
Virginia Utilities Company, a sub-
sidiary of Southern Cities Utilities
Company. The combined gas, elec-
tric and water properties have more
than 15,000 consumers.
It is probable that the electric light
and power, natural ‘gas and street
railway properties will become a part
of the Monongahela West Penn Pub-
lic Service Company, and operating
ig of the West Penn Electric Sys-
em
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
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CORRECT THEM PAINLESSLY with
NO-GRO-IN
On Sale at all Drug and Shoe Stores
or by mail, post-paid,
at 50cts.
W. H. GARMAN.
Box 232 BELLEFONTE, Pa. 72-20-4t*
Meats,
Whether they be fresh, °
smoked or the cold-ready to
serve—products, are always
the choicest when they are
purchased at our Market.
We buy nothing but prime
stock on the hoof, kill and re-
frigerate it ourselves and we |
know it is good because we !
have had years of experience
in handling meat products.
Orders by telephone always receive
prompt attention.
Telephone 450
P. L. Beezer Estate
Market on the Diamond
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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