-the trouble lies.
-a live hog is extremely difficult and
Bemarralir ald,
“Bellefonte, Pa., December 23, 1927.
Your Health,
"The First Concern.
HOW THE STATE
KEEPS FOODS PURE.
Every day of the year pure food
agents of the Bureau of Foods and
Chemistry are on the job somewhere
in Pennsylvania inspecting food pro-
ducts to see that consumers get pure
wholesome foods. These men have
won the finest cooperation and good-
will of the thousands of reputable
food ‘dealers and manufacturers be-
cause of their rigid enforecement of
all food laws. Careless or unscrupu-
lous dealers, however, are found here
and there so that it has been neces-
sary during the past 21 years to take
21,000 legal actions.
This vigorous and widespread law
.enforcement has resulted in the food
supply for 9,000,000 consumers being
made as pure and wholesome as it
is humanly possible to make it. Twen-
ty-five years ago, it is said that 385
per cent of the staple grocery pro-
ducts offered for sale in Pennsylvania
were either adulterated or misbrand-
ed. Today less than 1 per cent is in
-violation of State laws.
Twenty years ago, oleomargarine
was colored artificially and unlawful-
ly sold as butter for butter prices.
‘The State succeeded in wiping out
this fraud long ago, but it was naces-
sary to spend thousands of dollars,
and take hundreds of legal actions in
order to protect consumers. The last-
ing effect of this work is shown by
the fact that during the past seven
years, there has been only seven of-
fenders.
Other common food frauds of twen-
ty years ago were the painting of
smoked fish with coal tar dye in or-
der to sell the product as high-priced
red or pink salmon; the use of ground
cocoanut shells to the extent of 30
per cent or more in pepper and spices;
and the sale of artificial strawberry
and blackberry preserves and jams
that had never seen a strawberry or
a blackberry. Today smoked fish is
no longer painted, ground - cocoanut
shells have no “spice” market, and
preserves and jams sold as such are
made from the real fruit.
During these two decades, every
possible legal loophole has been elim-
inated either by amendment or a new
enactment and today the general and
24 supplementary pure food laws of
Pennsylvania are regarded as the
most complete and satisfactory group
of aets with which to control food
fraud of any State in the Union
“Don’t eat worms! This suggestion
sounds unreasonable but it is never-
theless entirely justified at this sea-
son,” said Dr. Theodore B. Appel,
secretary of health.
“Of course no one would conscious-
ly consume worms. While some peo-
ple will deliberately take harmful and
«even distasteful things into their
systems, worms decidedly are not on
the list. However, worms of a par-
ticular type and breed can be eaten
unknowingly. Then there is trouble
and usually it is of a most serious
character.
. “For example, not sg many menths
‘ago a college student received a pack-
age from home. Among other appe-
tizing articles, it contained raw
smoked sausage. Illness and death
resulted in eating this meat in its un-
cooked state. And the cause was
worms.
“Microscopic in size the parasite,
trichinella spiralis—a round worm
that is curled up like a watch spring
—spends its entire life as the guest
of hogs and rats. Man gets his tri-
chinae by eating infested pork. And
that is exactly what the unfortunate
boys got.
“There are two things to be’ em-
phasized in this connection. The first
is not to be afraid of pork and pork
products. The consumption of this
food in the United States keeps pace
with its almost world-wide popular-
ity. And this tendency to eat pork is
a most natural, and entirely justi-
fiable one, when reasonably exercised.
On the other hand, too much pork,
as with any other kind of meat, is
not conducive to the best health.
“The other thing to keep in mind
‘is that while the vast majority of
hogs are free of trichinae, some pork-
ers entertain them; which fact calls
for caution on the part of all people
- with respect to pork and its products.
“If it were possible to examine and
weed out infested swine, caution on
the part of consumers would not be
required. But that is exactly where
To find trichinae in
it is equally hard to discover in its
meat. Nevertheless each individual
has all the protection against this
" hazard that is required. And that
protection is heat. ls
“Jt must be understood that it is
the live worm that causes the damage
—not the dead one. This parasite is
. absolutely destroyed by a tempera-
ture of 160 degrees.
Boiling water is
much hotter than that. It is easy for
your frying pan and oven to go way
above it. Therefore, always cook all
pork and pork products before you eat
them. Do not take any chances of
contracting trichinosis. Use fire ‘and
plenty of it when it comes to the pork-
er and his delicacies. Eat heartily—
but don’t, for your health’s sake, run
the risk of eating worms.”
A man may go usefully about his
work minus a leg, an arm, an eye,
his tonsils, appendix, gall bladder,
one kidney, part of his lungs and
brain and as much as 12 feet of his
intestines.
Dr. John F. Erdmann of New York
i$ authority for the statement. He
told the Interstate Post-Graduate
Medical association here that the
number of organs a human being can
afford to lose to the knife is steadily
increasing, owing to better methods
of surgery and increased knowledge
of the functions of organs.
Recent developments, he said, were
operations on the heart, the removal
of entire lobes of the lung and the
removal of the gall bladder.
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Jazz and Mars to Compete on 1928
‘ Yule Tree.
Miniature jazz band drums, card-
board “steel” helmets, mechanical
“trans-Atlantic airplanes” and toy
cannon will fill stockings and deco-
rate Christmas trees this Christmas
in Europe and America.
And here is a tip for the jolly old
gentleman with the long, white whis-
kers and the reindeer-drawn sleigh—
girls no longer care much for dolls.
They are going in for boys’ toys, such
as mechanical planes and little motor
cars and engines.
That was the information obtained
that has issued from the world’s toy
factory at Nuremberg, Germany.
Because of the big export of cheap-
ly made German toys, not only to
European countries, but to America,
Germany sets the style in world toys.
The old style stock-in-trade toys
such as dolls of various sizes for the
girls and picture books and simple
little things like lead soldiers and
hand-drawn fire engines for the boys
have given away to more elaborate
devices such as mechanical airplanes
marked “New York to Berlin” and
mechanical fire engines which set up
a ladder automatically when they
bump against a wall.
With the planes go a tiny hangar;
there is a spring which is wound up
and which carries the machine a few
feet into the air before it runs down.
Toy makers attribute the demand
for jazz band drums to the radio,
which carries jazz music into a ma-
jority of homes in both Germany and
America.
The “steel helmet” is a strictly
German institution. It’s popularity
arises from the fact that so many
German young men belong to organ-
izations which wear steel helmets as
part of their equipment.
All in all, so far as toys indicate,
there is going to be a mixed showing
on the old Yule tree this year with
jazz competing against Mars.
Remember the Brute Creation.
On the first night of Christ’s life
God honored the brute creation. You
cannot get into that Bethlehem barn
without going past the camels, the
mules, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes
of that stable heard the first cry of
the infant Lord. Some of the old
painters represent the oxen and cam-
els kneeling that night before the
new-born Babe. And well might they
kneel. Have you ever thought that
Christ came, among other things, to
alleviate the sufferings of the brute
creation? Was it not appropriate that
He should, during the first few days
and nights of His life on earth, be
surrounded by the dumb beasts, whose
moan and plaint and bellowing have
for ages been a prayer to God for the
arresting of their tortures and the
righting of their wrongs? It did not
merely “happen so” that the unin-
telligent creatures of God should have
been that night in close neighborhood.
Not a kennel in all the centuries, not
a bird’s nest, not a worn-out horse on
towpath, not a herd freezing in the
poorly-built cowpen, not a freight car
in summer time bringing the beeves
to market without water through a
thousand miles ef agonv, not a sur-
geon’s room witnessing the struggles
of fox, or rabbit, or pigeon, or dog
in the horrors of vivisection, but has
an interest in the fact that Christ was
born in a stable surrounded by brutes.
He remembers that night, and the
praver he heard in their pitiful moan
He will answer in the punishment of
those who maltreat the dumb brutes.
—Talmage.
Legend of the Christmas Stocking.
Many, many years ago there lived
in Germany a very wealthy man
named St. Nicholas. He liked nothing
better than to help poor people, but
disliked very much being thanked for
his gifts. One Christmas Eve he
wished to give a purse of gold to an
old man and his little daughter, nd
in order to escape being seen, he
climbed to their roof and dropped his
rrecious gift down the chimney. In-
stead of landing on the hearth, how-
ever, the purse fell right into a stock-
ing which was hung up to dry, and
the next morning it was discovered
there! When other people heard of
the strange happening they too hung
up their stockings, and soon all over
the land it became the custom on
Christmas Eve to hang up one’s stock-
ing for St. Nicholas to fill.
Real Estate Transfers.
Emma C. Decker, et al, to Harvey
L. Truckenmiller, tract in Walker
Twp.; $2,500.
Mark Olonowski to E. O. Stohl,
tract in Rush Twp.; $1.
E. O. Stohl to Mark Olonowski, et
ux, tract in Rush Twp.; $1.
William R. Picken to H. G. Stroh-
meier, et ux, tract in Centre Hall;
$3,200.
Henry S. Illingsworth, et ux, to
Ralph Illingsworth, et ux, tract in
Ferguson Twp.; $1.
Jennie E. Wolf to Edward Lough-
ner, tract in Potter Twp.; $1.
S| W. Gramley, et ux, to Millheiim
Borough, tract in Millheim; $1.
John L. Holmes, et al, to Robert
T. Hafer, tract in State College; $500.
Heirs of Christ Alexander, de-
ceased, to A. L. Auman, tract in Penn
Twp.; $696.41.
Sarah A. Eckley, to George Eck-
ley, tract in Benner Twp.; $1.
J. W. Henszey, et ux, to Harry
une et ux, tract in State College;
700.
—Ladies’ Holeproof silk hose, $1.95
grade, special Friday and Saturday
only, at $1.45.—Sim, The Clothier.
50-1t
FARM NOTES.
Frequent ventilation of the storage
keeps down scald, say Penn State
horticulturists,
Store some plants of common pe-
rennials in a frame before the ground
freezes to provide material from which
to make sturdy root cuttings.
When the leaves are off is a good
time to size up the timber on your
woodland. A tree count by size and
kind is the next thing to a detailed
estimate.
Have all farm accounts complete to
date in preparation for closing the
year. Get together a number of sam-
ples of your best farm products and
prepare them for entry in the State
farm products show. 5
People tempted to gather orna-
mental materials along the highways
and in the forests for holiday pur-
poses should remember that state law
protects all evergreen or deciduous
trees, shrubbery, and ornamental
vines. Better be safe than penalized.
A greenish discoloration appearing
in chocolate ice cream packed in rust-
free cans has been found by State
College dairy manufacturing researc
workers to be caused by combined ac-
tion of an alkali present, the metal of
the container, and the tannin products
in the cocoa. The color was more pro-
nounced at points where scratches or
abrasions occurred on the inside of
the can. This trouble may be elim-
inated by rinsing the cans free from
alkali or by using paper liners.
Good stable ventilation will help
some in keeping down frost; but un-
less the wall is well insulated, there
is bound to be considerable frost
gather when the moist warm stable !
air strikes a wall which is 20 below
zero on the outside. With a wooden
wall it is not very difficult, since wood
in itself is a fairly good insulator.
Two thicknesses of lumber and heavy
building paper outside, and a layer of
insulation and matched lumber inside
the studding will make a warm wall.
Sometimes the space between the
studding is filled with sawdust or
similar material. This is warm but
has a tendency to draw dampness.
A gamekeeper near Aberdeen, Scot-
land, has had a remarkable experience
among foxes. :
He discovered the lair of a fox
among the heather, and after a good
deal of hunting succeeded in trapping
the old pair. A few days later he
found on the ledge of a rock near the
den five young fox cubs.
It chanced that he had at home a
cat with kittens the same age as the
cubs, so he took two of them home
and placed them beside the mother
cat. She took kindly to her common
enemy, and cared for ther. The young
cubs have become quite friendly with
the kittens, and the cat is proving an
excellent foster mother.
In the American vegetable garden
eight principal food products had
their origin in the Indian crops ex-
isting here before the advent of the
white man. These include beans,
corn, peppers, pumpkins, squash, to-
mato, potato, and sweet potato. Veg-
etables of Old World origin are far
more numerous. The United States
Department of Agriculture lists 24 of
importance: cucumbers, - eggplant,
mugkmelon, watemelon, okra, aspara-
gus; beets, brussels sprouts, cabbage,
carrots, cauliflower, celery, kale and
collard, kohl-rabi, leek, lettuce, onion,
parsley, parsnip, peas, radish, salsify,
spinach and turnip. But the value
of the crop of the eight native vege-
tables is considerably greater than
the 24 of foreign origin. Since the
discovery of America the white man
has not “tamed” any native plant
which the Indians had not already
brought from warmer parts of Am-
erica, but notable improvements have
been made in the quality and yields
of most of these vegetables.
Choose between red cedars and ap-
ples. In the eastern United States,
and in some other parts of the coun-
try, a neighborhood may have either
but not both of these trees without
danger or trouble for both. The cedar
and the apple have been found to have
a relationship—or antagonism-—sim-
ilar to that existing between the bar-
berry bush and wheat, in which each
is affected by one of those strange
fungous growths in which one gener-
ation of the fungus develops on one
plant and cannot reproduce on that
plant, but only on the other of the
pair of plants so strangely coupled.
For years apple tree rust was fa-
miliar to scientists, as was also the
Virginia red cedar rust, which pro-
duced galls. The two were supposed
to ‘be distinct, but after the wheat
and barberry coupling was established
further studies revealed that a simi-
lar relationship existed between apple
trees and red cedars. Spores from the
cedar gall are blown to apple leaves
and fruit, where they reproduce and
cause damage within a few weeks,
after which the spores of this second
generation return to the cedar for a
lifetime of about 22 months.
At first the apple rust affected only
native crabapples, but from year to
year it extended its damage to one
supposedly resistant variety after an-
other. Spraying, fatal to most other
fungous growths, did mot kill this
rust, and Virginia apple growers
found that the best method of pre-
venting damage was to kill the cedar
trees within a distance of a mile or
two of apple orchards. When this
was done damage from apple rust
ceased. Or, conversely, in case the
cedars are the more valuable, they
should be protected from infectious
apples.
The life history of this rust and the
measures necessary for protection are
outlined in a pamphlet, Separate No.
941-Y from the Yearbook of Agricul-
ture, 1926, recently published by and
obtainable from the United States De-
partment of Agriculture, Washington.
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Marriage Licenses.
George Ellsworth Weight, of Jack-
sonville, and Ethel Geraldine Shope,
of Howard.
Howard S. Askey, of Philipsburg,
and Viola Hoover Whiles, of Hawk |
Run.
A WORLD-FAMOUS SONG.
(Goethe's “Mignon’ as translated by G.
R. Weiland).
Knowest thou the land of the golden
sheen,
Where blooms the orange mid the mantled
green ?
Soft the scented winds from blue heaven
blow,
Deep the banks of myrtle, high the laurel.
Knowest thou it well?
Hither, Hither,
My beloved, O, that with thee I might flee.
Knowest thou the house of the pillars tall,
The glittering chamber, the stately hall?
There the marbled statues relentlessly
Stand, onward beckoning; alack for me!
Knowest thou it well
Hither, Hither,
My protector, O, thou must with me_go!
Knowest thou the crags, the far cloud-
bridge sway
Mid mist. and rain,
some way? )
In caverns dwell the -dragons
brood.
Adown the rockwalled fell thunders the
flood.
Knowest thou it well?
Hither, Hither
Lies our way, O Father thy blessing give!
the muleteer’s dark-
afhcient
FIRE INSURANCE
At a Reduced Rate 20%
71:286m J. M. KEICHLINE, Agent
Rar amen
Fire Insurance
Does 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—Ilet us bring vour pro-
tection up to date.
Hugh M. Quigley
Temple Court, Betiefonte, Pa.
ALL FORMS OF
Dependable Insurance
71-38-tf
YOUR CHRISTMAS TURKEY
This is to call your attention to the
fact that we have bought for hun-
dreds of Christmas dinners the fin-
est turkeys we could locate. We
have them—plump and tender—in
all weights, both gobblers and hens.
We ask that you let us have your
order as early as possible so that
we can reserve for you the bird
that will meet your needs.
Telephone 450
Market on the Diamond
Bellefonte, Penna.
P. L. Beezer Estate.....Meat Market
The Spirit of Christmas
Our assortment of the beau-
tiful is more complete than ever.
GIFTS
of Jewelry, Watches, Silverware, [fine
Glassware, Clocks, Tableware, Lamps,
Is in the air.
Leatberware are lasting reminders of this most
wonderful of all festive occasions.
F. P. BLAIR & Son
JEWELERS
BELLEFONTE, PA.
Soft Coal at $4.75 per ton, delivered
H. WINTON
Give CO
B A Most Useful Gift
What family would not be very
well pleased to see a load of Coal
delivered to their home as a
Christmas offering. Useful to the
last lump, especially if it comes
from our bins.
And what consumer, whether he
wants it for a present or for him-
self, won’t be glad to know that
I have a guaranteed A 1
( Only $4.25 per ton at the Yard )
Yard at
Bellefonte, Pa
Lamb St. Bridge
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Slippers for Gift-Giving
lippers will ever lead as a gift item, so it seems. To aid
you in choosing to suit your needs, we offer the follow-
owing styles and qualities :
BI nant A by
Ladies’ Felt Slippers in All Colors . . 55c. to $1.25
Men's * t onan . 69c.to 1.25
Children’s Felt Slippers in All Colors 65c. to 1.25
Ladies’ Velvet and Satin Slippers
. $1.39 to $4.00
Bush Arcade
Bellefonte, Pa.