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§ Bellefonte, Pa., February 17, 1928
Your Health,
The First Concern.
THE TOOTH.BRUSH.
The most effective weapon for com-
bating dental disease 1s the tooth-
brush, For civilized man it affords
a means of bringing about the same
cleansing action on teeth and the
same stimulating action on the gums
that raw and course foods did for
primitive man. While the toothbrush
does not entirely eliminate decay, it
will cut down the incidence of decay
markedly. In preventing gum trou-
ble it is much more sucecssful. If used
correctly, a toothbrush will not only
prevent gum tissue disease, but will
aid materially in gum tissue that has
broken down.
Most toothbrushes on the market
are too large for efficient brushing.
The use of a small fairly stiff-bristled
brush is logical and advisable. The
working end should be about seven
rows of bristles long (about 1% inch-
es) and two or three rows of bristles
wide. The bristles should be of un-
even lengths and the groups of bris-
tles wide apart. The handle should be
fairly heavy and at least 6 inches
long. The length of the handle is im-
portant in the method of brushing. It
must insure sufficient grasp to apply
and to maintain considerable pres-
sure. :
The elongated tuft found at the end
of some brushes does not work as
efficiently as is theoretically supposed.
Such a brush adapts itself _poorly to
brushing the teeth on the inside and
‘does not permit proper stimulating of
‘the gum tissue toward the tongue.
The long bristles in the tuft, after
they are wet, have a tendency to
‘buckle or bend and to slide over in-
stead of penetrating.
Strictly speaking, no toothbrush
can be made that will conform itself
to the dental arch, both on the inside
‘and the outside. The smaller the
brush, however, the closer is the adap-
tation to the arch ruined by im-
proper care. Unfortunately, they are
not then thrown away but used for
months in a worn out condition. A
few simple rules will lengthen the
life of a toothbrush and at the same
time make it more suitable for effi-
cient brushing. .
One should place a new brush in
a strong, cold salt solution for two
hours before using. It will set and
clean the bristles and also take away
their original harshness. .
Cold water should be used to mois-
ten a brush for brushing. One should.
never use hot water. It softens the
bristles, alters the shape of the han-
dle and in a short time makes it un-
suited for efficient brushing.
The brush should always be rinsed
well, all the water possible shaken
out of it and if more convenient to
“keep it in a glass tumbler, the bristled
end should be kept out of the glass.
The brush should not be kept in a
“toothbrush container. It prevents
drying, destroys the bristles and en-
courages bacterial growth.
A brush should be allowed to dry for
twenty-four hours after using, so that
“the bristles will regain their original
and necessary stiffness. Every per-
son should therefore be equipped with
a pair of brushes, one for morning
brushing and one for evening brush-
ing. Supplementary brushes should
be used if teeth are also brushed ai-
ter meals.
Many persons use brushes that have
been worn out. If a good toothbrush
eliminates dental disease, to waste
“time with a dilapidated toothbrush is
false economy. It has meen demon-
strated that a pair of brushes used al-
‘ternatcly will do efficient work for
-about four months. It is a good plan
‘to buy a new toothbrush every two
months and throw away the older one
.of the pair.
The function of a dentrifice is to
.aid in the mechanical cleansing of the
teeth without injury to them. It
should be unmedicated and should not
contain too much soap or grit. Too
much soap decreases the efficiency and
stimulating action of the bristles; too
‘much grit, if used diligently over a
long period of time, will wear grooves
dn teeth.
A dentrifice is a mechanical aid in
scleaning teeth, not a therapeutic
agent for diseased gum tissue. It is,
-under no circumstances, a cure or ev-
en a preventive of pyorrhea. The
medicines and drugs incorporated in
many of the popular and widely ad-
-vertised dentrifices are valuless and
only afford the manufacturers selling
‘talks to get their products before the
public. Laboratory experiments with
some of the widely advertised den-
‘trifices lead an investigator to con-
‘clude ‘that some dentifrices are put on
‘the market in utter ignorance of the
dental an biochemical principles in-
volved.
The dentifrice really plays a minor
role in mouth hygiene. Even as a
cleansing agent it depends entirely
cn the efficiency of the brizsh that ap-
plies it. No surface of the tooth can
be cleaned unless it is actually
touched by the brush. The dentifrice
has in itself no chemical or magic
power to clean.
Because dentifrices are pleasantly
flavored, they make brushing the
teeth a more agreeable task. Only a
very small amount on a brush is nec-
essary. If the amount of tooth paste
used were cut in half and the money
thus saved expended for toothbrushes,
there would be a marked improves
ment in mouth conditions.
Smooth, clean one-inch lumber,
braced by two-by-fours, is used for
most concrete forms.
WHY WASHINGTON IS
BURIED AT MT. VERNON.
When General Washington died at
Mount Vernon, Va., Congress was as-
sembled in Philadelphia, one hundred
and fifty miles away. Washington
died on Saturday, December 14, 1799.
He had been sick only about twenty-
four hours, and no one in Philadelphia
had the slightest suspicion of his ill-
ness. The morning after his death,
Sunday morning, a messenger was
started from Mount Vernon to Phila-
delphia, with a letter to President
John Adams, notifying him of the
death of America’s most illustrious
citizen. There was no telegraph nor
railroad in those days and the “faith-
ful swift horse” was the mode of trav-
el. It was in the winter. The roads
were heavy. Yet the messenger made
good time. On December 19 the
President sent a message to Congress,
announcing the death of “our excel-
lent fellow citizen, George Washing-
ton, by the purity of his character and
a long series of services to his coun-
try rendered illustrious through the
world.” He transmitted also the let-
ter which he had received from Mount
Vernon conveying the sad intelligence.
It is with peculiar pleasure we read
the simple yet dignified communica-
tion:
Mount Vernon, December 15, 1799.
Sir:—It is with inexpressible grief
that I have to announce to you the
death of the great and good General
Washington. He died last evening,
between ten and eleven o’clock, after
a short illness of about twenty hours.
His disorder was an inflammatory
sore throat, which proceeded from a
cold, of which he made but little com-
plaint on Friday. On Saturday morn-
ing, about three o’clock he became
ill; Doctor Craig attended him in the
morning, and Doctor Dick, of Alex-
andria, and Doctor Brown, of Port
Tobacco. were soon after called in.
Every medical assistance was offered,
but without the desired effect. His
last scene corresponded with the
whole tenor of his life: not a groan
nor a complaint escaped him in ex-
treme distress. With perfect resig-
nation, and in full possession of his
reason, he closed his well-spent life.
I have the honor to be, with the
highest respect, sir, your most obedi-
ent and very humble servant,
TOBIAS LEAR.
The President of the United States.
Congress appointed a joint commit-
tee to prepare suitable resolutions en
the death of Washington, and on
Monday, December 23, Mr. Marshall
presented to the House of Represent-
atives the report of this “joint com-
mittee appointed to prepare and re-
port measures suitable to the occa-
sion, and expressive of the profound-
est sorrow with which Congress is
penetrated on the loss of their highly
valued fellow-citizen, George Wash-
ington, General of the Armies of the
United States.”
This report was adopted by both
the House and the Senate, and on
December 24 signed by President Ad-
ams.
Two of the resolutions are of pecul-
iar interest, namely:
RESOLVED, by the Senate and
House of ~Representatives of the
United States of America in Con-
gress assembled, That a marble mon-
ument be erected by the United
States, in the Capitol, at the City of
Washington: and that the family of
George Washington be requested to
permit his body to be deposited under
it; and that the monument be so de-
signed as to commemorate the great
events of his military and political
life; and be it further
RESOLVED, That the President of
the United States be requested to di-
rect a copy of these resolutions to
Mrs. Washington, assuring her of the
profound respect Congress will ever
bear ‘to her person and character; of
their confidence on the late afflicting
dispensation of Providence; and en-
treating her consent to the interment
of the remains of General George
Washington in the manner expressed
in the first resolution.
In obedience to the request of Con-
gress, President Adams transmitted a
copy of these resolutions by his sec-
retary, Mr. Shaw, to Mrs. Washing-
ton and on January 8, 1800, he sent to
Congress a message containing Mrs.
Washington’s reply, saying, “As the
sentiments of that virtuous lady, not
less beloved by this nation than she
is at present greatly afflicted, can
never be so well expressed as in her
own words, I transmit to Congress
her original letter.”
The letter referred to is as follows:
Mount Vernon, December 31, 1799.
Sir: —While I feel, with keenest
anguish, the late dispensation of Di-
vine Providence, I cannot be insensi-
ble to the mournful tributes of re-
spect and veneration which are paid
to the memory of my dear deceased
husband; and, as his best services and
most anxious wishes were always de-
voted to the welfare and happiness of
his country, to know that they were
truly appreciated and gratefully re-
membered affords no inconsiderable
consolation.
Taught, by that great example
which I have so long had before me,
never to oppose my private wishes to
the public will, I must consent to the
request made by Congress, which you
have had the goodness to transmit to
me; and, in doing this, I need not, I
cannot say what a sacrifice of individ-
ual feeling I make to a sense of pub-
lic duty.
With grateful acknowledgments and
unfeigned thanks for the personal re-
spect and evidences of condolence ex-
pressed by Congress and yourself, I
remain, very respectfully, sir, your
most obedient. humble servant.
MARTHA WASHINGTON
We need not wonder much that
nothing was done at once. The na-
tion was young. Important matters
crowded. Money was scarce. Inter-
communication was difficult. Sixteen
years elapsed before the subject was
revived by a report of a joint com:
mittee of Congress, presented by Mr.
Huger, of Scuth Carolina, and pro-
viding “for a public monument and
the removal of the remains.” “But,”
says the chronicler, “nothing was
done.”
In February of the same year the
Legislature of Virginia authorized
Governor Nicholas to apply to Judge
Bushrod Washington, then proprietor
of Mount Vernon, for permission to
remove the remains of General and
Mrs. Washington from Mount Ver-
non to Richmond, “to be placed under
the monument proposed to be erected
to the honor of Washington, at the
capital of the State.”
Judge Washington declined the re-
quest communicated to him by Gov-
ernor Nicholas, saying, among other
things:
“But obligations more sacred than
anything which concerns myself—ob-
ligations with which I cannot dispense
—command me to retain the mortal
remains of my venerated uncle in the
family vault where they are deposit-
ed. It is his own will, and that will
is to me a law which I dare not dis-
obey. He has himself directed his
body should be placed there, and I
cannot separate it from those of his
near relatives, by which it is sur-
rounded.”
It does seem strange that Mrs.
Washington knew nothing of this will
of her husband to be buried in the
family vault. Or is it possible that
she was willing to disobey his will?
Again, after another period of six-
teen years, that is, in 1832, John A.
Washington, for a similar reason, re-
fused the proposal made by Congress
in that year, to remove the remains
of General and Mrs. Washington to
a vault under the rotunda of the Cap-
itol. Again the Legislature of Vir-
ginia took part in the agitation, pass-
ing earnest resolutions requesting
Mr. Washington not to consent. This
action was prompted in some meas-
ure, it is believed, “by the desire to
retain those sacred relics south of the
Potomac, in the event of a dissolu-
tion of the Union, which the nullifica-
tion excitement seemed to render pos-
sible.”
The idea of removing Washington’s
body was abandoned and a plan was
finally adopted by which the spot
made sacred by Washington alive and
dead could be preserved to the nation.
In 1858 the Mount Vernon estate,
consisting of the mansion and two
hundred acres of land, was purchased
for $200,000 by the Ladies’ Mount
Vernon Association, a national organ-
ization composed of representatives
from the various States of the Union.
$10,000,000 Memorial Church to be
Built at Valley Forge.
Ground will be broken on Wednes-
day, February 22, Washington’s birth-
day for the National Washington Me-
morial church, at Valley Forge, it
was announced by Rev. W. Herbert
Burk, rector of the Washington Me-
morial chapel.
The structure which will cost ap-
proximately $10,000,000 and which
will accommodate 5,000 persons, is
expected to be dedicated on the 22nd
of February, 1932, the bicentenary of
Washington.
The corner stone of the edifice will
be laid June 19, the sesquicentennial
anniversary of the evacuation of Val-
ley Forge by the Continental Army.
The ground-breaking ceremonies will
be unostentatious because of the lim-
ited capacity of the Valley Forge
chapel. At the laying of the corner
stone, however, it is planned to have
present some of the most notable fig-
ures in national affairs.
The structure will be patterned af-
ter the historic Yorkwinster Cathe-
dral in England. It will be erected
on a tract of fifteen acres adjoining
the present chapel, and overlooking
the Schuylkill.
Funds available at present amount
to $100,000, Dr. Burk declared, and
the balance will be raised in a nation-
wide campaign.
Ancient Greeks Knew Their Plants.
That the people of 300 B. C. were
aware of many of the principles of
plant life and reproduction known to
exist today is revealed in translation
studies of ancient Greek manuscripts
by Dr. Robert E. Dengler, associate
professor of Greek at the Pennsylva-
nia State College.
Nation wide interest of botanists is
being centered on the research work
of Dr. Dengler which prove that the
studies and ‘writings of Theophrastus
placed “The Father of Botany” cen-
turies ahead of his time. The an-
cient scientist wrote two works on the
general subject of plant life. The
first of these, “The Enquiry into
Plants,” has been translated and pub-
lished by the Penn State Greek au-
thority, and he is now completing
translation of the second, “De Causis
Plantarum.” He has found many
points that have proved of great in-
terest to botanists.
Working from a number of 400-
year old books in his own collection,
including a Latin version of 1527, and
from photographs of others, particu-
larly a famous seven or eight hun-
dred year old Vatican manuscript, Dr.
Dengler is making the first modern
language version of plant life the-
ories that are the basis of present day
beliefs.
This work was the earliest attempt
to study plant physiology and was
written at about the time Aristotle
set forth his studies of human and
animal life.
New Rules for the Road.
The new code places some limita-
tions on the privileges of overtaking
and passing vehicles proceeding in
the same direction.
The driver of a vehicle overtaking
and passing another vehicle proceed-
ing in the same direction, shall not
drive to the left side of the center
line of the highway unless such left
side is clearly visible and is free of
on-coming traffic of sufficient distance
ahead to permit such overtaking and
passing to be made in safety.
This simply means that the driver
must make sure that he has sufficient
clearance to pass the overtaken car
in safety and, at the same time, to
turn to the right side of the highway
without danger of collision with on-
coming traffic, or weaving in and out
of a traffic stream comes within this
prohibition. The driver who over-
takes or passes another car takes a
chance on the speed of his car in the
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spell words both vertically and horizontally. The first letter in each word is
indicated by a number, which refers to
the definition listed below the pusszle.
Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fill
the white spaces up to the first black square to the right, and a number under
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except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, *nitials, technical terms and obso-
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ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Practices in
all courts. Office, room 18 Crider’'s
Exchange. 51-1y
KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-at=
Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt ate
tention given all legal business en-
trusteed to hiis care. Offices—No. 5, Bast
High street. 57-44
J M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law
and Justice of the Peace. Ail pro=
fessional business will receive
prompt attention.
of Temple Court.
Offices on second floor
G. RUNKLE.—Attorney-at-Law, Con-
49-5-1y
sultation in English and German.
Office in Crider’s Exchange, Belle-
fonte, Pa. 58-5
PHYSICIANS
R. BR. L. CAPERS.
OSTEOPATH.
Bellefonte Stat: 1
Crider’s Ex. 66-11 pte College
S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and
Surgeon, State College, Centre
county, Pa. Office at his residence.
D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regis-
tered and licensed by the State.
Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat-
isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced
and leases matched. Casebeer Bldg., High
St., Bellefonte, Pa.
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Horizontal. Vertical.
1—To settle a dispute by an ar- 1—Extent
biter 2—Scarlet
8—Woody plant 3—To exist 4—To color
9—To hoard 11—Reared 5-—Like
12—Finish 14—Saucy 6—To open a keg
16—Long, narrow inlet
17—Colorless fluid
19—Conjunction
20—Preposition
21—Glass container
21A—Wooden container
23—Thus 24—Stable
26—Mounds of earth
27—Affected with reverential fear
28—An infernal machine
29—Part of a boat
32—Shoshonean Indians
34—Preposition
38—Female rabbit
37—Bird of fable
38—Indefinite article
39—The end, as of a match
41—Tool for splitting logs
43—One, in a suit of cards
44—Three feet :
48—American poet
47—Skills
50—Dollar bills
B1—Inflammation of the lungs
48—Journey
face of on-coming traffic and will lay
himself open to a charge of reckless
driving and in doing so he dismisses
the right of safety to others or en-
dangers personal property. Bobbing
or weaving in and out of traffic is one
of the most vicious types of reckless
driving that the authorities have to
contend with and this provision of the
code will be strictly enforced.
Short Skirt Hits Textile Industry.
The textile industry, and not the
reformers as is generally believed, is
the greatest sufferer from the present
feminine preference for short skirts.
Sir Edwin Stockton, M. P., speak-
ing at a joint meeting of the Tex-
tile Institute and the Bradford Tex-
tile Society at Bradford recently, said
that the existing mode had caused a
serious depression in industry.
“The shortening of skirts has re-
sulted in many idle looms in Brad-
ford and other manufacturing dis-
tricts,” he declared.
There was one saving grace in the
7—Equal
10—God of love
11—Beastliness
12—To merit
13—An amount owed
15—Wind instruments
8—Journey
17—Battle 18—F'ish eggs
21—Wearied
22—A kind of Mediterranean vessel
24—Couch
26—Distress signal
30—Bovine 31—To retain
32—To encourage
33—Pedal digit
35—Authoritative order
38—Performances
40—To support
42—Fate 43—Extent
45—To hound one for money owed
47—Blackbird of cuckoo family
49—Note of scale
50—Preposition
Solution will anvear in mext issue.
asmuch as it created an unprecedent-
ed amount of employment in the
hosiery trade.
eee pene eee.
It is a strange fact that the right
hand, which is more sensitive to
touch than the left hand, is less sen-
sitive than the latter to the effect of
present style, however, he added, in-
heat and cold.
As a hot
cereal,
too 4+ +
Shredded Wheat served
in any form creates the “in-
side” warmth and energy
that is the best kind of win-
ter protection. Its proteins,
carbohydratesand vitamines
take care of that.
it hot these cold
But serve
mornings
and see how the family
takes to it. Dip the biscuits
in hot water, drain, and
cover with hot milk and a
little cream. Then sprinkle
with sugar or salt. Lagging
appetites will awalcen—fussy
caters will be delighted.
Serve Shredded
Wheat tomorrow
and see how pleas-
ant and simple your
breakfast can be.
VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by
the State Board. State College,
every day except Saturday,
Bellefonte, in the Garbrick building op-
posite the Court House, Wednesday after-
noons from 2 to 8 p. m. and Saturdays 9
a. m. to 4.30 p. m. Bell Phone 68-40
Feeds
We keep a full line of all kinds of feeds
at the right prices.
Wagners 22% Dairy Feed $51.00
Wagners 32% Dairy Feed $55.00
Made of cotton seed meal, oil meal, glut-
en and bran.
Wagners Mixed Scratch grains per H $2.70
Wagners Egg Mash, per H..........
Wagners Pig Meal, per H.......... 2.80
We handle a full line of Wayne feeds.
Wayne 329% Dairy Feed, per ton....$62.00
Wayne 249 Dairy Feed, per ton....$56.00
Wayne Horse Feed, per ton......... $52.00
Wayne Poultry Mash, per H........ $ 8.30
Wayne Pig Meal, per H............ $ 3.00
Wayne Calf Meal, per H......ccc000. $ 4.25
Cotton Seed Meal, 43%, per ton....$58.00
Oil Meal, 84%, per tom.........c0v0n $58.00
Gluten Feed, 23%, per ton.......... $50.00
Alfalfa fine ground, per tom....... $48.00
Winter wheat bran, per ton........ $38.00
Winter wheat Middlings, per ton...$44.00
Mixed chop, Per t0N ......ccoevecsase $45.00
Meat Meal, 50%, per H.......cco0000 $ 4.25
Digescter Tankage, 60%, per H...... $425
We will have a full line of chick feeds
on hand by the first of March.
When you want good bread or pastry
Use “Our Best” Flour.
We are the exclusive agents for the
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