Demorraic alco,
Bellefonte, Pa., July 29, 1927.
THE DAY OF REST.
sooamn
Sunday is the day of rest, medita-
son, and worship. Mr. Average Man
s an honest soul, and so he endeavors
:0 worship to the best of his ability.
He works six days a week, and when
Sunday comes he wants to get away
‘rom the maddening throng for rest,
neditation, and the worship of God.
Everyone knows that a man can wor-
ship better in God’s great out-of-doors
han in church. :
Firm in his resolve to worship God
through nature, he gets the old bus
out, tinkers with 4 ing tones 3
1p with gas, oil, and water, and, -
i a a shower bath. With one
nore fond “once over” glance he
shouts toward the house, “0 ma, are
you ready?” Mother comes out with
2 lunch she has tried desperately to
have ready in time to start. Mother
has hurried so fast to get the work
Jone that she is cross and the child-
ren are about to cry. But this is the
day of rest, and the most must be
made of it. : :
The members of the family get in-
to the car and take the other fellow’s
dust and exhaust at forty miles per
hour for the privilege of being in the
open and getting the fresh air. At a
little past noon they arrive at a mud-
dy hole where all disembark for lunch.
The flies are bad and the mosquitoes
are worse, but that doesn’t matter, as
this is father’s day of rest and it’s
God’s great out-of-doors. Just before
lunch is over a rainstorm sends them
scurrying to the car. The flies go,
too, splendid formation.
The storm over, father orders them
out, as he has to give the car the
“once over” before going back. The
clutch isn’t working right, and after
an hour and a half of toil he decides
he'll have to have a garage man look
at it. In the meantime the baby has
fallen into the mud and ruined his last
pair of good stockings. Tired but
greasy father consults his watch and
discovers that it is past four o'clock
and time to start the return trip. But
Willie is missing. A search is in-
stigated, and after much hollering
and tramping father discovers him up
the creek trying to catch minnows
with his new hat. With the proper
t of: “Didn’t I tell you not to
ie car?” “Now look at your
nice, new hat” «Your mother has
2
rried to death,” “Why don’t
De mind 7” “Next time we will
jeave you home,” they reach the car.
Willie seems thoroughly repentant
and promises never to run away
again.
s they settle in the car a report 1s
wo — the car settles down. Fath-
er looks around and says rather
cheery like, “Ah, ha, I guess it’s that
bad tire.” Mother does not seem to
have sense of humor, but the child-
ven do. A look from father seems to
warn them that this is the day of
worship and the outburst is stopped.
The tire fs adjusted. Father doesn’t
say much, but the reflection of nature
is in his face as he climbs into the
car once more. :
By this time it is growing late, so
father has to again drive fast in order
to save time. 'Lhis makes mother
nervous, but this is unnecessary, for
are they not having 2 day of rest in
God’s out-of-doors? Mother remarks
about the beauty of the scenery.
Father declares he’s coming back
some day to see it when there are not
so many cars on the road. Iraffic
thickens. A great cloud of dust hangs
over the road as they approach town.
The children who are awake are cry-
ing for a drink. The youngest has
gone to sleep in his mother’s arms.
Both of mother’s arms have gone to
sleep, and she can’t move her feet on
account of the luggage. But all hanes
are happy, as this 1s father’s day o
rest, and he does so enjoy getting out
in the open. They have all had such
a good time and “everything. .
Traffic has become worse. Speed is
cut to twelve miles per hour. The
children want to know when they will
get home. The lights blind and hurt
father’s eyes. Mother is past feeling
anything. She can only think—of the
pleasant day they have had. It seems
that the whole county is out driving.
Some fellow from behind dashes
around father’s car and scrapes the
fender. Father rather jovial like
shouts to the fleeing car something
about being more careful in his driv-
ing just as he bumps the car ahead
and locks fenders. The procession
stops. Father asks the owner of the
bumped car where he can go get the
fender straightened. Twenty men of
the rear procession explode violently.
Again at the wheel father presses
on. The lights flash by in dazzling
array. A quietness settles down on
the little group, for is it not the close
of the day of worship and of rest?
True, everyone is exhausted but un-
speakably happy.
Home is reached at last. Father
isn’t sure that he can move. He won-
ders why mother dosen’t stir. With
a supreme effort he gets out and helps
mother, baby, and the children into
the house. The car put away, father
staggers in more dead than alive. He
tells mother that being in the open
makes one so sleepy that he thinks he
will go right to bed.
Mother puts the children to bed,
washes the camp dishes, and fixes
Willie’s hat. Somehow she feels more
tired than usual, but it is so refresh-
ing to get away on Sunday. How-
ever, she is glad that to-morrow 1s
wash day so she can rest up a bit.
On Monday morning father doesn’t
know why he should feel so tired, be-
cause they had such a wonderful day
out in the open the day before. In
fact, he feels more exhausted this
morning than when he finished work
Saturday night. But it does one good
to have a day of rest once a week to
recuperate from the toil of the six
days by the right kind of rest—some-
thing different. “One gets so much
more out of worship in the open than
in church!”—From the Christian Ad-
vocate.
HOPE FOR TITANIC
SHAFT IN 2 YEARS
Sponsors in Washington Seek
More Funds in Congress.
Washington.—Qbstacles which for
fifteen years have blocked the erec-
tion in Washington of a statue com-
memorating the 1,500 victims of the
Titanic disaster are slowly being
cleared away. Members of the Wom-
an’s Titanic Memorial association
hope that their objective will be
reached in another two years.
Organized shortly after the disaster
in 1912, the association promptly
raised more than $40,000 for the me-
morial, but it was not until 1917 that
a bill authorizing use of public
grounds for the purpose got through
the legislative jam in congress. Then
the site which had been selected was
denied.
A new site was chosen, on the Po-
tomac near the ground dedicated to
the Lincoln memorial, and Mrs. Harry
Payne Whitney of New York went
ahead with completion of the statue
from a design approved by the Fine
Arts commission several years ear
lier.
The new site was under water, but
plans had been made for construction
of a sea wall as part of the program
for linking Potomac and Rock parks.
Appropriations for the wall were
hard to get, however, and work on it
had to be suspended in 1922, after
only part of the riprap foundation had
been put in. The last congress grant-
ed $25,000 for resumption of the work.
but that was enough to provide for
little more than repairs on the old
foundation. Engineers estimated that
another $175,000 would be needed.
Mrs. William Howard Taft is inter-
ested in the plan, which is under the
guidance of Mrs. John Hays Ham-
mond, first secretary of the associa-
tion, and Mrs. Robert S. Chew.
These women are confident that the
necessary appropriation will be grant-
ed by the next congress and that soon
afterward they will be able to com-
plete their task.
Colds in Head Prove
Impervious to Vaccine
Manchester, England.—A cold in the
head is still a cold in the head at the
Manchester university,, where for sev-
en months experiments have been go-
ing on to determine the value of vac-
cination. Tweoe hundred and eighty-
six persons took part in the test.
The conclusion that vaccination
against colds has no preventive value
was suggested by the results of an
experiment carried on by Dr. A. F. C.
Ferguson and Dr. |
Davey, Dr. F.. R,
WwW. W. C. Topley.
Students and members of the uni-
versity staff offered their services for
the experiment. Of these 138 were
inoculated. with a, sgock vaccine con-
taining eight differént kinds of mi-
crobes, and 148 were not inoculated
Results showed that the 138 inocu
rated persons had 203 colds, the 148
uninoculated subjects had 163 colds
during the period of the test and that
the average duration of the colds
among the inoculated was 13
and among the others ten and one-
half days.
The investigators. however, con:
+luded that the evidence does not jus-
«ify with certainty any conclusion that
vaccine caused any harm,
Jne-Man Tugboats Now
Healthy Play Tends
to Check Morbidity
A New York physician, comment-
fng dn the perhaps unusual number of
suicides that have occurred lately
among boys and girls of high school
and college age, says that his study
of the subject has disclosed the fact
that not one of the suicides was that
of an athlete. His conclusion is that
athletics makes for a condition of
bodily health and of nervous equilib-
rium that preserves a boy or girl from
the self-examination and worry that
are so likely to break down the morals
of ‘the mind.
It is probable enough that this is
80. The old Romans knew what they
were talking about when they prayed
for a sound mind In a sound body.
Plenty of lively exercise in the open
air, cheerful association with others
in the friendly competition of sport,
regularly recurring periods when you
are taken out of your preoccupation
with yourself, your doubts and your
problems by the necessity of exercis-
ing violently your muscles and your
will, all help to keep youth normal
and contented. By such means the
blood is urged to a healthy circula-
tion, and the clouds and vapors that
settle on a solitary and introspective
mind are cleared away. We agree
with the New York physician that
tennis, golf, baseball, track sports,
hockey, football are all of them use-
ful ministers to the mind that has
any tendency to morbidity. If your
son or daughter Is genuinely devoted
to any of these games you need not
have much fear that the idea of self-
destruction will ever occur to that so»
or daughter.
Still more effective, of course, is
genuine religious faith. The young
people who brood themselves into de-
spair are those who have no convic-
tion of the sacredness of life and no
assurance of purpose in this world or
of hope for the next. “Happiness” is
their only goal, and when they tind
that life inevitably brings responsi-
bilities, disappointments, griefs and
disillusionments, they become panic-
stricken and look for the quickest
way out. Youth needs the firm sup-
port of faith as much as maturity or
old age—more, perhaps, since it has
not yet worked out its own philos-
ophy of experience. If parents will
see that children are encouraged In
the healthful exercise of their bodies
and grounded In a strong and reason-
able conviction of the meaning of life
as a preparation for the existence that
lies beyond, the newspapers will
have no youthful suicides to talk
about.—Youth’s Companion.
Blood Has Its Tides
In the blood stream, pumped from
the heart to give us life, there are
daily tides like the ebb and flow of
the tides of the sea. Dr. A. F. Ber-
nard Shaw of Newcastle, England, re-
cently made this discovery while
studying the white corpuscles of the
blood. These white cells, whose duty
it Is to fight disease germs which
enter the blood. are known to vary
in numbers from time to time. Doctor
Shaw found that the number increases
and decreases in two regular daily
| waves,
days |
The high tide of white corpuscles
usually comes just after midnight and
again in the afternoon. Doctor Shaw
suggests that these tides may bear
some relation to the hours of eating
: and sleeping, or may be due to chang-
ing positions of sun and earth.—Popu-
tar Science Monthly.
Being Used on West Coast |
Anacortes, Wash.—Man power is too :
, Egypt have asked, What Is a deben
<aluable these days for duplication,
so one-man tugboats for towing have
gained favor. Towing conditions on
the British Columbia coast and in
Puget sound are causing the change
in methods. Navigation laws require
boats of over 32 feet length and nine
feet beam to carry certified captains.
There is no limit to the power equip-
ment.
fitted with 45 to 100 horsepower oil
engines and one man does the tend-
ing, steering, planting the towlines
and stands watch.
Have Sweet Tooth
atlantic City, N. J.—Americans
seem to have a sweet tooth. They
eat 825,000 tons of candy a year, but
that’s not enough for members of the
National Confectioners’ association,
Capital “Beauty” Plans
Prove Aid to Parking
Washington, — Some decided
contrasts between the old and
the new are being furnished as
the capital gets down to the
actual work of beautifying the
downtown section, parts of which
for years have been a constant
irritant to those artistically in.
clined.
In the block adjoining the
massive Post Office department
building, whose foundations in-
close labyrinths of cellars below
the ground, an entire city block
occupied by stores and other
business houses was razed, and
not a single basement was dis-
closed.
When the brickwork and other
walls were removed, a job re-
quiring a very short time, the
ground beneath was found to be
so smooth that it was immedi-
ately pre-empted by motorists as
a place where automobiles might
be left indefinitely without the
dread of finding them ticketed
, sure what sort of ring it was.
Ancient Deben Rings
For many years students of ancient
“ing?
Often they encountered the word in
their studies, but they were never
Now,
in the opening of the tomb of Queen
Hetepheres at Gizeh, men have found
i un box inscribed: “The mother of the
Thus 30-foot boats are being
king of Upper and Lower Egypt, Het-
epheres; box containing deben rings.”
It is easy to imagine the eagerness
+ with which the excavators awaited the
opening of the box which would solve
the mystery of that long-lost word.
Soon the meaning of ‘“deben” was
made clear, for inside the box were
found two sets of ten anklets, inlaid
with dragon flies of lapis lazuli, red
cornelian and malachite.
Clock Without a Dial
Lullington church, Burton-on-"I'rent,
England, contains a public clock with
neither face nor hands. By striking
the hours on the church bells it has
given the parishioners accurate time
for nearly four centuries.
Built in the Sixteenth century by
the village blacksmith, it comprises
two heavy stones, a rope 80 feet long
and a crude escapement. It is wound
daily by the sexton. The winding
barrels are of oak, like the beams in
which the iron bearings work.
A Burton clockmaker declares that
chere is no reason why the cleck
should not continue working for cen-
turies.
“A Million-Dollar Smile”
We have heard the remark made be
fore now: “That man’s smile is worth
a fortune to him.” We have not seen
many business men of whom we could
say that. However, there is one young
lady we know of whom we can say
“Her smile is worth a million.” It is
not a cultivated smile, either, but is
natural and spontaneous. It does not
matter whether it is the “old man” or
his son, the elderly woman or her
daughter, rich or poor, white or col-
ored, she always greets them with a
cheery, sunny smile. We always feel
better for having met her.—Bunceton
Bagle.
GAVE PASSION PLAY
IN THIRD CENTURY
First Drama of the Kind Is
Credited to Jew.
The first Passion play, such as thal
at Oberammergau, is said to have been
the product of one Ezekiel, a Jew,
who, in the Third century, adapted
the story of Israel's exodus fron
Egypt to the Grecian stage. His ob
ject was to arouse the patriotism of
his exiled and despondent country:
men and excite in them a hope for the
re-establishment of their kingdom in
Palestine.
In the Fourth century St. Gregory
Nazianzen, bishop of Constantinople,
having noticed the effect of the Greek
drama upon the people, concluded that
the readiest method of extending the
church was the dramatic presentation
of the sufferings of Christ, which he
accomplished in a drama called “The
Passion.”
When the barbarians made thelr
inroads inte southern Europe, and the
church began to extend its influence
northward into the lands of the Ger-
mans, Normans and Saxons, it found
great difficulty In coping with the fas-
cination which the heathen festivals
and performances exercised. The so-
lution was the adoption of the festi-
vals, and miracle plays were intre-
duced.
Adapting the drama to the surround-
ing circumstauces, many of the heath-
en characters, slightly changed. were
retained. The play was supplied with
humor by the artful caprices of the
impersonated devil.
Soon after the Reformation the mir-
acle plays began to decline, and now
they are performed in only a few
places, as in southern Bavaria and the
Tyrol. The Passion play of Oberam-
mergau is the most celebrated sur-
vival.
In 1633 the flax in the neighborhood
of Oberammergau became diseased
and unfit for the spindle. To prevent
the recurrence of any such calamity,
the peasauts made a vow that every
ten years they would present the suf-
ferings of Christ upon the stage.
The vow was kept until the begin-
ning of the Nineteenth century, when
further performances were prohibited.
The peasants, however, appealed to
King Maximilian, who granted per-
mission to renew the celebrations if
certain features were removed. This
was agreed to, and in 1811 the drama,
written by Pastor Weise, was first pre-
sented devoid of the devil and comir
personages.
Since then, save for a brief inter-
ruption occasioned by the World war,
the drama has been given at the usual
interval. The gospel story commences
with Christ's triumphal entry into Je-
rusalem, and closes with a scene pre-
sfous to the ascension.
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“Meeting a Lion in Bed
A Bourges (France) tradesman was
drowsing while his assistant was
opening the shop below when a great
weight suddenly landed on the bed.
M. Cotineau opened his eyes and came
face to face with a lion.
Such an unusual sight was enough
to upset any peaceable grocer, and we
can forgive M. Cotineau for darting
under the bedclothes. Strange to say,
the suddenness of his movement
seemed to frighten the lion, which
leaped off the bed and ran into an-
other room.
“We may be sure M. Cotineau lost no
time in barricading his door. Mean-
while the assistant, who had seen the
lion enter the shop, ran to the local
menagerie, and keepers soon arrived
to remove the king of beasts.
Bismuth Meal
Jne of the drawbacks in the use of
X-ray photography in surgery has been
that the internal organs do not show
upon the plute nearly so boldly as
solid parts, such as the bones. This
difficulty has been partly surmounted
by giving the patient a meal coutain-
ing a proportion of bismuth an hour
or 80 prior to the operation, accord-
ing to the Washington Star.
The opacity of the bismuth causes
most of the orguns to stand out bold-
ly, but even so it is ineffective for
certain parts of the human organism,
such as the lungs. Quite recently,
however, a scientific worker discovered
that a certain oil, the name of which
has not been disclosed, injected a few
hours prior to the operation, renders
the lung cavities clearly visible.
Illiteracy in India
Although there was an increase ot
482,000 pupils and 9,118 recognized
educational institutions in India in
the school year of 1925 over those
of the preceding period, it would
require forty years, at the present
rate, to enroll all the children into
schools, according to recent estithages.
Only 82,000 of the increase in the
number of pupils were above primary
school status, and as 80 per cent of
the 320,000,000 people in that country
are illiterate, the progress of eduea-
tion is shown to be slow.
Conscientious Judge
“Judge Johnston,” began Police
Judge C. S. Johnston of Stockton,
Calif., “you are charged with making
a left turn. Guilty or not guilty?’
“I'm guilty,” replied the judge to him-
self, “but you see it was like this—"
“I know that story,” the judge inter-
rupted himself. “The usual fine is §1
for making a left turn, but because
you ought to know better it will be $5
in your case.” After fining himself
Judge Johnston complimented the po-
liceman for citing him te aaunws
Insure against such delays
Recently a woman complained to us about the Executor
of an estate, in which she was interested. Almost a year and
a half has passed since the probate of the will but she has
not received her legacy, or had any word from the Executor.
Such a condition weuld not exist if this bank had been
made Executor. We do business on time. The testator could
have felt assured that the provisions of his will would be
promptly and conscientiously carried out.
Consult us about this important matter.
The First. National Bank
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