“Bellefonte, Pa., December 9. 1927.
Your Health,
The First Concern.
Handkerchief Prevents Infection.
(By Royal S. Copeland, M. D.)
Having occasion to call on a friend,
X found his young son in bed. On
my inquiry as to what was wrong,
the lad said he had a cold. Asked
how he got it, the reply was, “Caught
it from a boy.”
Here was a well-informed young-
ster. He didn’t get his feet wet, sit
in a draft of cold air, or catch it one
of the other ways commonly blamed
for a cold. The boy knew he caught
it from a playmate.
When everybody knows that colds
-are “catching,” then everybody will
seek to avoid them. They will learn,
too, what it is they must do to escape
«colds.
It makes me shiver when I see what
happens so frequently in this benight-
ed world. A lady gets out of an
automobile, announcing to her inquir-
ing friends and family, “I'm all right
except for a terrible cold.” Then with
intimate impartiality she presses
sweet and juicy kisses upon the will-
ing lips of the assembled group.
If she had a revolver in each hand
-and proceeded to take a shot at each
of the family, she’d be arrested. But
:she bombards them with the germs
of acute illness and nobody says a
word.
“Caught it from a boy. These words
tell the story. “Caught it from a
girl,” is all we need to add. That is
‘the way a cold comes—it is passed
on from another human being.
Everybody having a cold is a dan-
gerous associate. He needn’t be, but
‘he is. He is dangerous because he
fails to do the simple things essential
to the protection of society.
Almost all the infectious, the “catch-
ing” diseases are conveyed by the
moisture from the nose, mouth and
throat. Whenever these secretions in
the moist state are brought in con-
tact with the nasal tissues, lips, or
tongue of another, there is great dan-
ger of infecting that person.
You can see that the air and the
‘hands are the chief means of trans-
mitting the germ-laden moisture. To
sneeze into the air, to cough, to talk
loudly—any one of these acts will
‘spray into the atmosphere thousands
«of droplets of nwisture, each drop
teeming with disease-producing
agents.
To sneeze or cough into the palm
-of the bare hand covers the skin with
infective material. This may be passed
‘on to the hand of another, or to a
‘door knob, a street car hanger strap,
or some other object which may con-
vey it to another’s hand. From that
hand it goes to the nose or mouth and
the damage is done.
If you have a cold, use a multitude
“of handkerchiefs or squares of
‘ganze. Never sneeze or cough with-
‘out covering the face with this cloth
Keen your own hands clean so that
your dangerous sceretions will not be
«carried to cthers.
. If you are free from colds, keep
your hands from your face. Never
eat without washing them first. Wash
your face and hands thoroughly sev-
eral times a day.
These are a few suggestions abont
‘colds. Ponder them and be governed
accordingly.
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‘What. Happens When You Just Can't
Sleep.
(By Prof. Joseph Jastrow)
. The one thing we can’t do without
is sleep. How do you put yourself
to sleep, and what is wrong when you
fail? Despite the fact that we all
practice it once a day and spend a
third of our lives in unconscious sleep,
much remains chscure; for sleep is a
mind condition as well as a body con-
dition, and the two are so closely en-
tangled that we can’t take them apart.
: There is a body side of sleep. You
must relax, lie down, give up the
job of supporting your body; but
mere lying down won’t put you to
sleep. You must empty your mind
as well as your muscles of all cares;
and that’s the mind side of sleep.
When you have a worry or a fear or
a problem on your mind, or your brain
has been too active, you are wake-
ful: You can compose your body but
not your mind.
Another ¢linching proof of the
body side of sleep is the action of
«drugs. A sleeping powder will do the
trick, or, at least, help. And ether
and chloroform will make your sleep
~deep enough to insure a painless op-
eration. The relation to digestion is
- intimate. Too heavy a meal late at
night disturbs sleep and induces
nightmare. Yet a cup of hot milk or
“a hot relaxing bath before retiring
may aid sleep.
Sleep is related to age.
«of the rhythm of life. An infant
- starts with twenty hours of sleep
‘spread through the day, with brief
periods of being awake. Young chil-
«dren have a long night and a short-
er day sleep. Naps help throughout
life. From the end of infancy to
early youth sleep is profound. As you
have more on your mind your sleep
is less certain and less sound. OId
people need less sleep, but often have
less power to keep awake. The indi-
vidual variation is large. Cases of
sleep prodigies like Grant and Na-
poleon, who can sleep at any time
and soundly; or like Edison, who can
do his work on four hours of sleep,
are no examples for the rest of us;
and some of us never get enough
sleep to do a good day’s work.
The body side of sleep covers the
It is part
entire range of functions. Your body
is an elaborate chemical laboratory.
It is converting your intake of food
into energy. Any clogging in assimi-
lation may affect sleep. In that pro-
cess poisons arise and mustbe got
rid of in waste. There seems to be
a fatigue toxin or poison; when that
is not eliminated, the patient is as if
drugged. And the “sleeping sickness”
that comes on in brain inflammation
is still a mystery.
You breathe differently in sleep.
As you enter the room where some
one is sleeping, you judge by the
breathing whether your footsteps are
arousing him. The circulation is al-
tered, with some evidence that draw-
ing blood away from the brain helps
sleep. With so many factors at work
it is easy to understand how easily
the balance may be disturbed.
The mind side is just as complex.
Habit does much. Night watchmen
have their own schedules, and nurses
shift from a day to a night service,
as do relays of workmen in factories.
The surroundings affect sleep. Some
can’t sleep in strange beds. Sleeping-
cars are misnamed for many travel-
ers. On shipboard some are kept
awake, and some, like children, are
rocked in the cradle of the deep.
Monotony induces sleep, and the ab-
sence of light and sounds. Quiet is a
chief consideration. But, after all,
the individual counts most, and that’s
why rules for sleep can’t be framed
to suit all. Every one has his strong
and his weak points. If it happens
to be poor sleep, he may suffer in-
tensely. To be forced to keep awake
is a torture no less than the inabil-
ity to go to sleep. That is called
insomnia. Like stuttering, it is com-
mon—often slight, always difficult to
manage. The slighter impediments of
speech or of sleep will yield to treat-
ment. The severe or obstinate cases
challenge all the wisdom of body and
mind regulation that we as yet com-
mand. Anything so complex as sleep
remains something of a mystery.
Naval Vessel to Carry 100 Planes.
The U. S. S. Lexington, largest and
highest-powered naval vessel in the
world, will be ready for her trials at
sea within the next six months.
Final touches are being put on the
ship at the Fore River shipbuilding
yards in Quincy, Mass., where she
was launched two years ago. The ves-
sel, one of the queen ships of the
United States navy, belongs to the
electrically driven group that in-
cludes the U. S. S. Maryland, West
Virginia and Saratoga.
The Lexington, like the Saratoga,
which was launched in the spring of
1925 at Camden, N. J., is an airplane
carrier. Originally these two vessels
were to have been battle cruisers and
as such would have been among the
navy’s largest fighting vessels. Due
to the modification of the American
naval program decided upon at the
conference of the limitation ¢f arma-
ments the ships were converted into
airplane carriers.
The interior of the Lexington will
be quite different from the space
plans below decks on most naval ves-
sels. There will be ample space to
store flying machines as well as cle-
vators and cranes with which to hoist
them up from below preparatory to
hopping off from the flying deck.
Because of the minimum deck ap-
paratus the Lexington seems unus-
ually low in the water. The long
sweep of flying deck, broken only by
a massive combined funnel enclosure
set at one side of the hull, resembles
a marine drill ground. The elevators
are so constructed as to come flush
with the flying deck making an un-
broken flying surface about 900 feet
long. The elevators are capable of
hoisting the largest type naval planes.
A secret contrivance is set on the deck
floor to stop landing airplanes within
a distance of several hundred feet.
This equipment is said to be fool
proof and to prevent possibility of
any mishap in landing during a rough
sea.
The ship’s armament in addition to
the 106 airplanes which she carries,
consists of eight 8-inch 50-calibre
long-range rifles and twelve 5-inch 50-
calibre anti-aircraft guns capable of
warding off destroyers as well as ene-
my aircraft attacks. These latter
guns are placed in groups of three at
strategic points about the ship which
facilitates concentrated and accurate-
ly directed fire as well as rapid sup-
ply of ammunition.
The flying deck will accommodate
at one time the entire ship’s comple-
ment of set-up airplanes and still
leave sufficient room for a take off.
Near the bow is a newly adopted de-
vice for launching seaplanes.
Marriage Licenses.
Charles W. Teichman, of Laurelton,
and Mildred F. Hironimus, of Weik-
ert.
Christ E. Heaton and Irene Hunt-
ingdon, both of Howard.
Earl W. Rockey and Hannah J.
Howard, both of Bellefonte.
James W. Carson and Daisy I.
Fultz, both of Milroy.
Ralph H. Carter, of Mickleton, N.
J., and Cornelia W. Busby, of Woods-
town, N. J.
James W. Cramer and Emma E,
Flory, both of State College.
Clarence S. Johnson and Fietta
Schaeffer, both of Bellefonte.
Clair Albert Smith and Martha Lu-
cas, both of Philipsburg.
Sex and Suicide.
Figures obtained from a leading in-
surance company show that suicide
is approximately two and a half times
as frequent among men as among
women. Self-destruction does not as-
sume numerical importance until the
age of twenty is reached. The high-
est rate is experienced during middle
age until at the age of sixty-five there
are seven times more suicides by men
than by women.
—The old saying that “there is
nothing new under the sun” is refut-
ed when a Philadelphia clergyman
publishes a defense of Judas Iscariot.
Weeds an Appalling Menace.
“Most appalling is the way Dr. E.
field survey made during Sarly Ser-
tember in connection with
law, in Berks, Montgomery,
ties.
“Perhaps the most annoying weed : trict, which is non-taxable, has a total
is chicory or blue daisy,” says Dr.
Gress. “While chicory does not have
creeping roots like Canada thistle,
horse nettle and several other of the
most noxious weeds, it seems to be
spreading and becoming more abund-
ant than any of the others. The seeds
of chicory are very small and each
plant continues to bloom and mature
seeds throughout the summer, so that
an enormous quantity of seeds is pro-
duced.
“There is a State law against chic-
ory and Canada thistle, the enforce-
ment of which is charged to the local
authorities, so that any one aggrieved
or about to be injured should become
familiar with the provisions of the
law and see to it that they are car-
ried out. A copy of the law may be
secured by writing the Department of
Agriculture, Harrisburg, Pa.
“Among the other weeds that are
causing tremendous loss to the farm-
ers in the counties named are: Penn-
sylvania smartweed, Canada thistle,
horse nettle, and wild carrot. In the
lower grounds some fields are almost |
of asters,
covered with a growth
goldenrods, wild sunflowers and rag-
weeds.
“These are not so difficult to eradi-
cate by clean cultivation and alterna-
tion of crops but they are very abund-
ant along fences, and in waste places
and pastures where they become a
source of pollution for adjoining fields
and farms.
“If farmers realized that
were causing them annually a loss of
about $2.50 per acre, they would no
doubt give the cutting of weeds more
attention and would try to make their
eradication a concerted community
problem.”
Professor Refuses Two Millions.
Professor Steenbock, of the Uni-
versity of Wisconsin, is said to have
refused an offer of more than two
million dollars for the patent rights
of his method of exposing food to
ultra-violet rays, and thereby captur-
ing vitamin D. This vitamin enables
the human system to absorb and re-
tain sufficient calcium from the food
to prevent or cure rickets. Doctors
have known for some time that chil-
dren having this disease are helped
by being treated with ultra-violet
rays. But Professor Steenbock has
brought the rays to table, so to speak,
transmitting them into food by spec-
ial lamps, so that the food substances
become highly beneficial and whole-
some. He has refused to sell his pat-
ent, but has given it to the uni-
versity instead, so that its benefits
may be freely enjoyed by all who suf-
fer from rickets.
GAS MADE HER CROSS
CAN'T EAT OR SLEEP
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gas. I couldn’ sleep, was cross and
nervous. Adlerika has given me real
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moves old waste matter you never
thought was in your system. Let Ad-
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a REAL cleansing and see how much
better you feel. It will surprise you.
Zeller’s Drug Store.
Rheumatism
While in France with the American
Army I obtained a noted French pre-
scription for the treatment of Rheu-
matism and Neuritis. I have given
this to thousands with wonderful re-
sults. The prescription cost me noth-
ing. I ask nothing for it. I will mail
it if you will send me your address.
A postal will bring it. Write today.
PAUL CASE, Dept. K-218, Brockton, Mass,
We keep a full line of all kinds of feeds
at the right prices.
Wagners 22% Dairy Feed $50.00
Wagners 32% Dairy Feed $54.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil meal, glut-
en and bran.
Wagners Mixed Scratch grains per H $2.50
Wagners Egg Mash, per H......... 3.00
Wagners Pig Meal, per H..........2.80
We handle a full line of Wayne feeds.
Wayne 329% Dairy Feed, per ton....$58.00
Wayne 249% Dairy Feed, per ton....$54.00
Wayne Horse Feed, per ton......... $52.00
Wayne Poultry Mash, per H....... $ 3.20
Wayne Pig Meal, per H........... $ 2.90
Wayne Calf Meal, per H............ $425
Cotton Seed Meal, 48%, per ton....$56.00
Oil Meal, 84%, per ton.............. $56.00
Gluten Feed, 23%, per tonm.......... $48.00
Alfalfa fine ground, per tom....... $48.00
Winter wheat bran, per ton........ $38.00
Winter wheat Middlings, per ton...$44.00
Mixed chop, per ton ................. $45.00
Meat Meal, 50%, per H............. $ 4.25
Digescter Tankage, 60%, per H...... $425
Meat Meal 50% per H.............. $4.25
Digester tankage 60%
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Use “Our Best” Flour.
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weeds |
| $22,000,000 Value on White House.
|
|
E. M. Gress, State botanist, describes ; 000 according to the Federal tax as--
the growth of noxious weeds, after a : sessors.
en- : regular taxes on it, he would be out
forcement of the Pennsylvania seed about $374,000 a year—five times his
Bucks, | salary. The capitol is valued at $53,-
Lehigh and part of Lancaster coun- | 000,000.
|
The Library of Congress was val-
ued at $10,000,000; the state, war
and navy building at $13,500,000.
FOR
Dry Cleaning
The White House is worth $22,000,-
If President Coolidge had to pay
Fire Insurance
tDoes yours represent the value of
your property five years ago or today ?
We shall be glad to help you make
sure that your protection is adequate
to your risks.
If a check-up on your property val-
ues indicates that you are only par-
tially insured—let us bring your pro-
tection up to date.
Hugh M. Quigley
Temple Court, Bellefonte, Pa.
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8 West Bishop Street
Bellefonte, Pa.
Federal property within the dis-
value of $470,000,000.
According to the assessors, the
Treasury building is worth but $1,-
000,000 more than the White House,
or $23,000,000.
The Senate office building is placed
at $5,000,000 and the House of Rep-
Jesenigtives office building at $5,000,-
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lippers will ever lead as a gift item, so it seems. To aid
you in choosing to suit your needs, we offer the follow-
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69c. to 1.25
65¢. to 1.25
. $1.39 to $4.00
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