TAT or Sng Bowls Bellefonte, Pa., February 24, 1928 alth, Your He The First Concern. The function of a mouth wash is to eliminate, by vigorous rinsing, all the particles of food and debris that have ‘been loosened by the brush. Warm water, a salt solution made by add- ing one teaspconful of salt to a pint .of water, or the same salt solution to which a little sodium bicarbonate “has been added are probably not only the safest but also the cheapest to use as rinsing solutions. The curative power of mouth wash- es has been grossly overestimated. In chronic cases of pyorrhea usually seen, they are ineffective, neither checking nor curing the disease. The ‘problem in sucecssful pyorrhea treat- ment is vrimarily the removal of all ‘things that irritate the gum tissue (tartar deposits, faulty dentistry, and so forth) and the bringing about of _active blood exchange in the gums by means of a toothbrush. The first part of the task must ob- -viously be accomplished by the den- “tist; the second part must be done by “the patient. Tooth structure and tar- tar are so much akin chemically that -a mouth wash that would dissolve the .one would also dissolve the other. “Tartar must therefore be removed mechanically with steel instruments. It need not be mentioned that mouth washes cannot correct faulty dentis- try. In stimulating gum tissue they are just as ineffective, being quite incapable of bringing blood to the areas involved. Many of them con- tain astringents, which would tend to keep the blood from coming in to the area. Mouth washes are usually adver- tised as great germ killers; no doubt many of them are if they are kept in the mouth for a long time. But germs are only secondary factors in py- orrhea, entering the gums only after a lesion has developed from irrita- tions on the teeth that mouth wash- es cannot remove. The problem of re-establishing health in the mouth is mechanical, not chemical or bacterial. The failure of mouth washes in the treatment of pyorrhea is quite evi- dent. Germicidal moutn washes are valu- able only in the treatment of acute mouth infections, caused by a specif- ic germ or group of germs, as in Vincent’s angina commonly called trench mouth. Their daily use in a mouth free from specific germ dis- ease is not only unnecessary, but it is to be discouraged. Attractive advertising, ridiculous and fraudulent claims made for pro- prietary mouth washes and the in- cessant search for a short cut are responsible for the opinion that the mouth may be cleaned and kept clean and healthy by the use of a mouth wash only. The cool, clean feeling highly priced concotions lead the pa- tient to think that his mouth is clean. He is really only disguising ¢ dirty one, and in using such mouth wash- es he is a worthy disciple of the Or- iental who uses perfumes instead of soap and water. All types of toothpicks should be avoided. They irritate and lacerate _ gum tissue, lowering its resistance to infection. Wooden toothpicks used over a leng period of time will wear grooves in teeth. When contact points are faulty so that food cannot be dislodged from " between the teeth with a brush, dent- al floss may be used. Incorrect use of dental floss is harmful to the gums. It must be passed gently through the contact points so that it will not snap down on the gum tissue and lacerate it. Usually a slight back and forth movement will help to ease it by the contact point. If bleeding re- sults from the use of floss, it is be- ing used incorrrectly. Although each year more and more people crawl out of their shells to “brave the biting breezes of winter, they should not overlook the taking of outdoors into their home, Dr. Theo- dore B. Apple said in one of his talks recently. That is the step that many people fail to take, according to Dr. Apple. They arrive at the rather illogical conclusion that winter air was partic- ularly manufactured for outdoor use only, and that this being the case, . every effort must be made to see that none of it gets inside. It is positively surprising to what lengths they will go in their attempts to bar the winter breezes. In many rural sections practically whole homes will be shut up—blinds drawn and shutters closed. So that air can’t get in, they say. In countless city homes the practice of keeping out fresh air is indulged in to an un- healthy extent. One, of course, can- not be blamed for using all modern devices to keep out cold and elimin- ate drafts. On the other hand, to seal up a house efficiently turn on the heat and permit it to remain that way until spring comes is foolish. It is neither to be supposed nor ex- pected that one will want to try to heat up the outside by opening the house in summer fashion. But there is such a thing as raising windows and opening doors, preferably before bedtime, and thus permitting the good fresh air to come inside. A super-heated home, with its at- mosphere of breathed and rebreathed air is a fine place for germs. More- over, living day in and day out in that kind of air, even if one does buck the winter outdoors occasionally, is prone to reduce one’s resistance and make it possible for the germs to . set up business in your body. SMALLER PAPER MONEY SOON TO APPEAR The year 1928 will mark the first change in size of paper money since 1861. For months the Bureau of Engrav- ing and Printing, the greatest print shop in the world, will be busy mak- ing new and smaller $1 bills so that upon some fixed day next fall they may be issued simultaneously over the entire country and the old ones re- tired at one swoop, to be redeemed, of course, upon demand. Notes of oth- er denominations will be printed and put into circulation in 1929. The new notes will be six and five-sixteenths by two and eleven-sixteenths inches whereas the notes now in circulation are seven and seven-sixteenths by three and one-half inches. By the change, the government expects to save $2,000,000 annually. The reduc- tion in size of the bills is expected to increase the capacity of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing by 50 per cent because 12 of the smaller notes can be printed at one impression upon the same press which now prints but eight. Through the change in size the bills will be made more convenient to han- dle and will also be more durable. The new notes will slip into a bill fold or pocket, it is claimed, without creasing or folding and for this rea- son are expected to have a longer life than those now in use. The life of the average bill now is not more than six or seven months, treasury officials say. Folding is one of the chief items cutting short the life of paper money. : Designs on the bills are also to be standardized. Many designs now ap- pear on the various denominations and the various kinds of notes. Wash- ington’s portrait, for example, ap - pears both on the $1 and some $20 bills. Treasury officials point out that through standardizing the designs the new notes eannot be so easily raised to higher denominations by the crooks who make this their business. In ad- dition to standardized designs on the new paper money, there will be a re- lation between the portrait on the face and the engraving on the back except in the cases of the $1 bill and those above $100. On the face of the new $1 bill will be the portrait of Washington and on the back will be the word “one” in large letters. On the $2 bill will be a portrait of Jefferson with an en- graving of Monticello, his home on the back. Lincoln’s portrait will be on the face of the $5 bill with the Lincoln Memorial for the back. Hamilton’s portrait will appear on the face of the $10 bill and the Treasury building on the back. For the face of the $20 bill Grover Cleveland’s portrait has been chosen with the White House for the back. Grant’s portrait will be on the face of the $50 bill. Benjamin Franklin’s on the $100, McKinley’s on the $500, Jackson’s on the $1,000, Madison’s on the $5,000 and Chase’s on the $10,000. All these designs have been ap- proved, although some may be al- tered later. No retirement of money-making machinery will be necessitated by the change, it is said. pepe Worse than War. Whatever else may happen during 1928, it is a practical certainty that more than 25,000 Americans will be killed in traffic accidents, and another 750,000 injured. It is strange that the awful death toll of automobiles does not serve as a warning to automobile drivers and pedestrians alike, but it appears that it does not. While a slight lessening of the accident rate in proportion to the number of cars in use has been noted, the total number of casualties has steadily increased. Many persons who worry over bac- teria or minor dangers of other sorts will take chances on the highways which are bound to sooner or later end in disaster. As recent statistics show, three times as many casualties result from automobile accidents in a single year as were suffered by United States forces during the entire World war. The war cost more lives, but the au- tomobile is responsible for more in- jured. Among the yearly automobile deaths are those of about 7,000 chil- dren of school age, the greatest num- ber being between the ages of six. and twelve years. The greatest number of acicdents occur between five and six o'clock in the afternoon. Drivers and pedestrians are about equally at fault in their responsibility for acci- dents, according to the estimates at hand. While the automobile is an indis- pensible convenience of modern life, it has already caused the death of al- most as many persons as were killed fin battle in all the American armies since the founding of the Republic. Reindeer Meat Gains. Soaring beef prices are stimulating the demand for reinder meat, ac- cording to Ralph Lomen, president of a great land barony in Alaska, where two-thirds of a million tun- drafter animals exist, writes a Seattle correspondent. The Lomen concern shipped 800,- 000 pounds of reindeer carcases to this city during the fall months, about one-third going east. Reindeer meat is selling fast these days and pros- pects for the medern industry are increasingly bright day by day. The meat is retailed at three public mar- kets there in the form of steaks, roasts, stews, meat and sausage. The 650,000 reindeer now in Alaska are increasing at the annual rate of 30 per cent, says Lomen, and by 1930 will number in excess of 1,000,000. The pasturage in the north will care for about 4,000,000 reindeer, so that in a few years a million animals must be marketed to keep the range available for the herd’s existence. By that time the meat is expected to have made a place for itself on American tables. —Subseribe for the Watchman. | FRIDAY MARCH SECOND TO BE PENNSYLVANIA DAY Governor Fisher recently issued the first proclamation asking observance of Pennsylvania Day on Friday, the second of March. The day declared a state-wide holi- day by the 1927 General Assembly, which set aside March 2, the anniver- sary of the granting of the Pennsyl- vania charter to William Penn by King Charles, of England. Since March 4 falls on Sunday this year, the Governor asked that the anniver- sary be celebrated on the first Friday preceding that date, in order that ex- ercises can be held in the public schools. The proclamation follows: “Whereas, the Act of March 9, 1927 provides that it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue annually proclamation designating March 4th as Pennsylvania Day, (unless such falls on Saturday or Sunday, in which events the preceding Friday or the following Monday may be named), to be observed as a patriotic day by the public schools and citizens of the Commonwealth; and “Whereas, in the present year said Sorin day of March falls upon Sun- ay; “Now, therefore, I, John Fisher, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, do hereby designate and appoint Friday, the 2nd day of March, 1928, as Pennsylvania day, to be observed by the public schools and the citizens of the Commonwealth by appropriate patriotic exercises. “Especially, I recommend that in the public schools the exercises shall have reference to the granting of the charter of Pennsylvania by King Charles II, of England, to William Penn to the achievements and pro- gress of our Commonwealth since it was founded; and to the life and prin- ciples of William Penn, the great Hu- manitarian, statesman and founder, in such manner as to develop a ueep- er appreciation and to leave a last- ing impression upon the youthful minds of the pupils in the public schools.” Crown Jewels of Russia on Display in Shop in London. With histories which read like ro- mantic fairy tales, eighty of the most beautiful jewels in the world have arrived in London from Russia. Formerly the property of the Russian Czars, these jewels were purchased from the Soviet Govern- ment for the sum of $500,000 by a London jeweler, and are now on dis- play in London’s most modern throughfare, Regent street. Since the Revolution the fate of the Russia Crown jewels has been a mystery, but according to the English jeweler, who has been in negotiation with Moscow for the past twelve months, the Soviet Govern- ment now has the majority of these precious articles in its possession. None of the jewels in the collection is less than fifty years old, and some of them have been in the Russian royal family for generations. “The most beautiful object among them, is a tiny clock in fine diamonds, and enamel, which once stood in the private boudoir of the late Czarina at Czarskoe-Selo, according to Em- manuel Snowman, the man responsible for bringing the jewels to England. “This clock was made especially for the Czarian by Faberge, the celebrated Russia Court jeweler. "Faberge vowed to make the most exquisite clock the world had ever seen. Ilussia went into estacies over it, and it became world-famous. FOE Fold Your Bills Lengthwise. There is a superstition widespread through the country that in folding your money you should fold the bills lengthwise if you would prosper fi- nancially. If you fold them short across you will always be “hard up.” The basis of this superstition is very easy to come at. It is purely sym- pathetic magic—Ilike, producing like, what is associated in thought is as- sociated in fact. When you fold the bills lengthways the money remains at its greatest length—literally the “long green,” not curtailed nor stunt- ed. If you fold the bills across you diminish them in length—apparent- ly cut them in two, curtail them. Folded in one way they represent money extending and folded the other way cut off. There you have clearly the association of ideas and the asso- ciation of ideas brings about by sym- pathetic magic, the association of ac- tual fact,. The superstition is a folklore prim- er one but is interesting as showing how the human mind, even without the aid of tradition, unconsciously evolves in terms of sympathetic mag- ic—an example of the persistence of the subconscious primitive in man’s mentality. ————————————— Women Should Serve as School Di- rectors. No school system, in a community large or small, urban or rural, can successfully develop without the help of women on its school board, be- lieves Mrs. Ernest J. Mott, of San Francisco. From her own experiences as a member of a board of education of the city and county of San Francisco, Mrs. Mott recommends this kind of public service to women voters. Wom- en are needed on these boards, she says, because they appreciate fully the relation of the home to the school. After her first appointment Mrs. Mott was elected to the seven-year term which she iz now serving. “While there is no difference be- tween men and women in their de- sire to bring the public schools of their respective communities up to a very high standard of efficiency,” she says, “the multiplicity of details that confront school directors requires the point of view, the knowledge and un- derstanding, as well as the wise and intelligent interest of both sexes.” —The voters of the State will pass on the merits of fourteen proposed amendments to the State constituion at the election in November. HOW TO SOLVE A CROSS-WORD PUZZLE When the correct letters are placed in the white spaces this puszle will 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 puszzle. Thus No. 1 under the column headed “horizontal” defines a word which will fll the white spaces up to the first blnck square to the right, and a number under “yertical” defines a word which will fill the white squares to the next black one below. No letters go In the black spaces. All words used are dictionary words, except proper names. Abbreviations, slang, initials, technical terms and obso- lete forms are indicated in the definitions. CROSS-WORD PUZZLE No. 1. TR BB I# 5 6 TZ I8 9 | 71 12 73 I a # 15 16 17 8 19 20 I 21 I 2.2 23 og eC I 26 R7 | I 2.9 30 31 [32 33 [ 34 ll I~ 3 29 40 41 42, I 43 99 45 4 147 28 49 50 51 I 53 I I i [ 55 (©, 1926, Western Newspaper Union.) Horizontal. Vertical. 1—Uncooked 1—To pilfer 4—Mendicant 2—Periods of time 9—That man 11—A giant 3—To encircle 13—Repast 14—That woman 5—Printing measure 15—Vegetables 6—To obtain 7—Profit 17—Inclining, as a lid 8—Permitted 9—Chickens 19—Cut with a saw 21—Middays 23—Rends 25—Intelligence 27—A pain 29—Artist’'s standard 31—Italian river 32—To regret 34—Beverage 35—Note of scale 36—Citrous fruit 37—A snare 38—An evil-doing 39—To love inordinately ¢1—A performer ¢3—Shall not (contraction) {5—Stated 17-—Official priest t9—Departed 50—Gist of a story 52—Pedal digits 53—Unity 54—A refined kind of iron 33—Domesticated headdress of a high $5—Meshed material 10—Unit of work 14—A suggestion 16—Ocean 18—Labor 20—Hallucination 22—To wed 24—Island in the Pacific ocean 26—A cleansing agent prepared in bars (pl.) 28—Billiard stick 30—Dispatches 31—Vegetable 33—One who sings the high part in a quartet 84—City of New Jersey 36—Measure of volume system 37—Characteristic 38—Setting 40—Unit of electrical resistance 41—What Shakespeare was the bard of 42—A tear 44—Woody plant 45—Past time 46—Is owing 48—Established (abbr.) 51—To exist 12—Toilet case in metric Solution will appear in next issue. SS The Dandelion Flower and Its Uses. The Pennsylvania German refers to the dandelion flower as the ‘kee-blum’ (cow flower) and to the entire plant as bidder-salawdt (bitter salad). He pins great faith in chewing the root as a palliative of stomach and liver troubles. “ Years ago the roots were diced, roasted and employed as a substitute for coffee. The dried leaves were scalded in boiling water and the re- sultant decoction administered to chil- dren afflicted with bladder ailments. A highly medical wine is even to- | day prepared from the freshflowers. | When mixed with cattle food they al- so serve to stimulate milk production. Bouquets of dandelion flowers sym- bolized deep affection and undying love acocrding to belief years ago. An early substitute for tincture of arnica was a preparation made by digesting the flowers in hot vinegar. This was a favorite application for bruises and lacerations. The word dandelion is a construc- tion of two Latin words dens (tooth) and leo (lion on account of the leaf edges fancifully resembling a lion’s tooth. Taraxacum, the botanical term, or- iginates from tarassein, a Greek word denoting to move or to disturb. When fresh leaves are masticated and swal- lowed they act as a tonic to the sys- tem. Pioneer Welsh referred to dande- lion as dante yellow. German arrivals spoke of it as owenzahn and English emigrants addressed it as wild en- dive. Other names for this cousin of the common hawk-weed are canker-wort, monk’s head, yellow gowan, priest’s crown, false arnica, puff-ball and the Irish daisy. Dandelion is the most medical and nourishing of the table salads if con- sumed when the leaves have acquired a bitter taste. For use as a medicine the roots should be collected in fall, carefully washed and diced and then slowly dried in an oven in order to destroy parasites always present in the fresh root. rm —— A ————————— Trees Require Care for Good Condi- tion. There are so many decrepid, un- kempt, battered and broken trees in all localities that people often wonder if it is really possible to keep trees in a thriving, vigorous condition. The old unsightly wrecks of trees are frequently a menace and an eye- sore to the community. A tree that is not a thing of magnificent beauty is not worth having. And ordinarily there is little reason why trees should not be kept in good condition. The principle of taking care of trees is the same as the principle in- volved in taking care of any other liv- ing thing. If attention is not given to defects, and diseases in youth, then it is certain that disintegration and early death will follow. Pretty much the same thing holds true with peo- ple. The expense of removing decayed areas from trees and installing neces- sary sectional concrete fillings in the cavities, and the cost of other meas- ures that may be required to restore a tree to health and beauty, is neces- sarily greater if trees are left to de- cline almost to the point of death be- fore help is given to them.—Chicago ost. m= | ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW KLINE WOODRING.—Attorney-at Law, Bellefonte, Pa. all courts. Exchange. KENNEDY JOHNSTON.—Attorney-ate Law, Bellefonte, Pa. Prompt ate tention given all legal business en- Offices—No. 5, Bast 57-44 Practices ia Office, room 18 Crider’s 61-1y trusteed to hiis care. High street. J M. KEICHLINE. — Attorney-at-Law and Justice of the Peace. All pro- fessional business will receive prompt attention. of Temple Court. I 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. R. L. CAPERS. OSTEOPATH. Bellefonte State College Crider’s EX. 66-11 Holmes Bldg. S. GLENN, M. D., Physician and Surgeon, State College, Centre county, Pa. Office at his Teslognee. D. CASEBEER, Optometrist.—Regls- tered and licensed by the State. Byes examined, glasses fitted. Sat- isfaction guaranteed. Frames replaced and leases matched. Casebeer Bldg., High St., Bellefonte, Pa. 71-22-tt VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, Licensed by the State Board. State College, ever, 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.......... 3.20 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..... oes. $52.00 Wayne Poultry Mash, per H........ $ 3.30 Wayne Pig Meal, per H............ $ 8.00 Wayne Calf Meal, per H.......0u00. $ 425 Cotton Seed Meal, 439%, per ton....$58.00 Oil Meal, 349%, per ton.........c000. $58.00 Gluten Feed, 23%, per ton.......... $50.00 Alfalfa fine ground, per tom...... . $48.00 Winter wheat bran, per ton......... $40.00 Winter wheat Middlings, per ton....$46.00 Mixed chop, per ton................ $46.00 Meat Meal, 50%, per H....... cases $ 425 Digescter Tankage, 60%, per H...... $ 4.28 We will have a full line of chick feeds on hand by the first of March. When you want good bread or pastry | Alarm Clocks Shock. The alarm clock might well be abandoned for a more soothing de- vice, according to Dr. Paul V. Wins- low, of New York, who appealed to members of the National Associaticn of Music Merchants, recently for an instrument or attachment. which would awaken sleepers by musical tones. board of control at a luncheon. Sud- den awakening by violent sounds is largely responsible for early morning irritability and the chronic grouchi- ness often present in highly nervous persons, Dr. Winslow said. Many of the nervous diseases to which man is heir are attributable to shocks, and in many cases have lost the power of sleep because they prefer lying awake in anticipation of a loud alarm to being rudely awakened by it, he de- clared. “When one is suddenly awakened by the alarm ore jumps quickly and shuts it off,” he said. “The heart is put into violent action, producing a sudden shock to the heart and cir- culation.” Dr. Winslow asked the merchants to produce a device which would awaken a sleeper more slowly. He recalled one perfected by a friend who connected the alarm mechanism of a clock with a phonograph. His friend was awakened each morning by the strains of ‘Hark, Hark, the Lark,” he said. How the Snake Charmer Keeps Him- self Immune. How does the snake-charmer work? asks a writer in the Popular Science Monthly. That’s one of the ques- tions we've always asked ourselves. And now an English doctor tells us one of the secrets. Take the case of the cobra, for in- stance. It is a very venomous snake, vet the snake-charmer is not harmed when bitten by one. The secret lies in the fact that the charmer “milks” the cobra before he allows himself to be bitten. He makes the cobra bite into a piece of meat, thereby expelling two-thirds of the poison in its poison gland. When the charmer allows the snake to bite him immediately thereafter, there is not enough poison left in the gland to do any harm. What is the next step? The charm- er makes the snake bite a fowl while he squeezes the remaining drops of poison out of the snake’s gland; the fowl dies and the charmer wins the confidence of his audience. ——r———ee—— ——The Watchman gives all the news while it is news. Dr. Winslow spoke before the | AED TICATIERES . b TIRIEIE 1 S|AlIVIE Use “Our Best” Flour. BIRIEIDEE EINDER PERT . RI HA A TIE/|REENIOIR oe at ae ae uUiP JAR B|O| XE S|O Spring wheat. TEE Bl AIR[N TEE SK AWED sos | 0.Y. Wagner & Co., | AN ED amo | U. 1. YAODRI & u0., ING I IFENMDIO/ERNR|OICEBAIN' |g 111yr. BELLEFONTE, PA. TP E[D|G/ERSAICIE a — Y/A|IRIDERPIOIERRA RTS WE Sh Caldwell & S PIN[E|UM[O|N; | d we on Bellefonte, Pa. 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