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Bellefonte, Pa, May 18, 1928
Ancient Cuban Tiles
for American Homes
Curio dealers of Havana are acquir-
ing old Spanish art tiles to supp:. the
demand in the United States. AS
each old house is torn down, the bid-
ding for its art tiling is active, al-
though there is nearly a 90 per cent
loss in breakage—the tiles having
been so long cemented to the walls
that they have become as brittle as
porczlain,
The Spaniards and Cubans have al-
ways been fond of tiling, and their
residences are often faced with geo-
metric designs in vivid colors, strong-
ly reminiscent of the Moorish influ-
ence on Spanish art. The tiles may
represent hunting and marine scenes,
mountain vistas, battles. sieges and
religious subjects. One set depicts im-
portant passages froiQ the Bible and
gives the text from which they are
taken. These tiles were taken from
Holland by the Spaniards during their
occupation of the Netherlands, and
after several centuries’ use in a
house in Madrid crossed the Atlantis
to Havana.
American visitors to Havana pur-
chase, besides the tiles, much Spanish
bronze, copper and beaten brassware.
Cuba was at one time rich in such
curios, but the supply has been prac-
tically exhausted, so that the dealers
now spend their summers in Europe
to renew their stock. Spanish glass-
ware is another fad of the visitors.
The older pieces offered for sale are
extremely beautiful. When Carlos III
ruled Spain he imported hundreds of
glass workers from the Capa di Monti
factory at Naples, and the delicate
products of these craftsmen is today
highly valued.—New York Times.
How Policeman Came
by Nickname “Copper”
After a century or so of suppression
in London the story has leaked out—
how a policeman came to be called a
“copper” or “cop.”
Twas evening, ah, bitter chill it
was, and the policeman was courting
a cook. He was devouring a feast of
ple and ogling his buxom darling when
her mistress was heard approaching.
“de! '’ide!” was her smothered cry
of dismay. He hid in the only refuge
he could see—the huge copper laundry
vat. Alas! It seemed the mistress
had come to order the fire lighted be-
neath that very vat, that she might
have some hot water. Forced to com-
ply, the cook soon saw her brave lover
leap out and with one tense backward
look of reproach, vanish into the
night.
Ages ago that lover fled into the
storm, but still the ghost of his seared
romance follows him and he must an-
swer to the name of “copper.”
Big Handicap
The woman was playing golf one
fair day, and, although her score was
‘assuming alarming proportions, her
enjoyment ot the sunny weather and
the invigorating exercise kept her
from becoming quite too downcast.
“Well,” she confided to her com-
panion, as she trudged off iLto the
rough after a particularly poor drive,
‘“] understand there's a woman at the
club who has a handicap of 80. I
shall have to look her up.”
This remark seemed to make a pro-
found impression on the caddy, who,
against all regulations, contributed
‘his ideas on the subject.
“Holy smoke!” he cried, “she must
play in de tousands!"—New York
‘Sun.
Magisterial Wisdom
When called upon recently to settle
a quarrel between two Jewish women,
a London magistrate handed a copy
of the Bible to the official interpreter,
saying: “Take these women out of
court and read them the One Hundred
Thirty-third Psalm. One of the wom-
en has only a limited knowledge of
‘English, Translate it for her into
Yiddish.” Later, the interpreter re-
turned to court and reported that
the magistrate’s scheme had been en-
tirely successful. The first sentence
of the psalm reads: “Behold, how
good and how pleasant it is for breth-
ren to dwell together in unity.”
The Cynical Flounder
Wisdom may not be in the depths,
put enough things are there to keep
wise men thinking deeply, and mil-
licns of men at work, preparing pot-
ash and ammonia; drying sea weeds,
to use among other things for decora-
tion, on the Japanese New Year, as
an American uses holly on his. We
think of paper made from kelp and of
mattresses stuffed with eel grass. Of
glue and of Irish moss, “used as an
ingredient in kalscmines, shoe stains,
shaving soaps and cosmetics,” accord-
ing to Dr. Donald K. Tressler, author-
ity on such things,
American Birds
By far the most abundant birds im
the United States are the robin and
the English sparrow, but several oth-
ers are common enough to make their
total numbers run well into the mfi-
lions. The counts so far show thet
the most abundant bird on farms in
the northeastern states is the robin.
Next to this is the English sparrow,
and following these are the song spar-
row, chipping sparrow, meadow lark
and catbird, in the order named.
—Subscribe for the Watchman.
“Mums,” one of the largest elephants in captivity, which will be seen in
Bellefonte on Tuesday, May 22, when the Gentry Bros, Circus will give
two performances here.
“Mums” is one member of the two big herds of
elephants with the circus and towers two feet higher than ordinary circus
elephants.
Capt. Leo Blondin, noted trainer, is shown with “Mums.”
Escape From Danger
Makes for Pleasure
In escape from dangers of all kinds
we find one of the greatest thrills in
life. The small child asks to be chased
and squeals with delight as she es
capes; small boys skate over thin ice;
grown men hazard their fortunes by
gambling, and women risk their repu
tations by reading risque stories—all™
that they may have the thrill of es
caping from something.
The stories of universal appeal, from
“Little Red Riding Hood” and “Jack
the Giant Killer,” up to the highest
tragedies, are stories of escape or af
tempted escape. Even our spiritual
struggles are dramatized stories vl
escape. “The Pilgrim’s Progress” is
the story of Christian's escape from
the City of Destruction, though the
interest is sustained by a number of
minor escapes, beginning with the
Wicket Gate whereon was written
“Flee from the wrath to cone” and
ending with his final escape from the
river, which he found deeper or shal:
tower according as his faith grew
weaker or stronger.—Thomas Nixon
Carver, Harvard Professor of Political
Economy, in the Magazine of Business.
Films of Rare Wood
Used for Furniture
The growing scarcity of the more
beautiful and valuable woods has
made necessary the substitution of
other and cheaper kinds. Thus hard
ly any furniture nowadays is made
of solid mahogany, and inferior ma-
terials have very generally taken the
place of the disappearing “cabinet
woods.” Indeed, high-grade timber of
any kind is now so costly as to pro-
hibit its common use as the solid body
of furniture. Manufacturers are re-
sorting more and more to the use of
veneers. Articles of furniture, rang-
ing from tables to phonograph and
radio cases, have skeletons of cheap
wood covered with a thin skin of high
quality wood. ‘
Now the skin is pot usually more
than one-twentieth of an inch thick.
A thousand board feet of lumber will
produce 10,000 square feet of veneer.
Thus a great economy is obtained,
and the furniture so made is as at-
tractive as that of solid wood.
Famous Bachelors
Bachelors are the targets for many
hard jolts in the world of tears. But
let's give bachelors their due. Look
at the batting average of the bachelor
and see what he has accomplished.
Single blessedness has been no bar-
rier to success. There are John G.
Whittier, Washington Irving, Phillips
Brooks, Walt Whitman, John Ran-
dolph, Thaddeus Stevens, James Whit-
comb Riley, James Buchanan, the only
bachelor President,
But why go farther? Let's leave the
United States and see the names of
some ci Europe's illustrious bache-
lors, Here they are: Sir Isaac New-
ton, Michelangelo, Mendelssohn, Bee-
thoven, Pitt, Raphael, Buckle, Gibbon,
Macaulay, Locke, Handel, Galileo,
Kant and Sir Joshua Reynolds.
Hats off to bachelors!—Chicago
Daily News.
Jefferson Found His
Letter Writing a Burden
Thomas Jefferson liked to write let-
ters and to receive them, but the bur-
den became almost unendurable. He
wrote John Adams in 1817 that from
dinner to dark he was ‘“drudging at
the writing table.”
“All this,” he continued, “to answer
letters into which neither interest vor
inclination on my part enters; and
often from persons whose names I
have never before heard. Yet, writ-
ing civilly, it is hard to refuse them
civil answers. This is the burden of
my life, a very grievous one indeed.
and one which 1 must get rid of.”
He consented to write a few lines
ot introduction to one of Delaplaine’s
books that he might make there a
public appeal for relief from this bur- |
den, but it does not appear to have
been successful, for he wrote Adams
in 1822 that he had received 1,267 let-
ters the previous year and had an-
swered all, though many of them bad
required long replies and some extep-
sive investigation.
“Is this life?” he asked. “At best it
is but the life of a mill horse that sees
no end to his circle but in death. To
such a life that of a cabbage is para-
dise.” Since he had earlier described
the life of a cabbage as “surely not
worth a wish,” he had evidently
come close to the irreducible mini-
mum fin enjoyment of existence. At
the time of his death he had 26,000
letters filed and had copies of 16,000
replies.—J. G. de Roulbac Hamilton,
in* Century Magazine.
Beecher Made Victim
of Children’s Prank
Henry Ward Beecher was a great
lover of children. He was happiest
when, seated in his favorite armchair
in the evening, his grandchildren
climbed and pawed over him or nestled
in his lap. It was on such an occasion
when one evening he remembered with
a start that it was time for the eve-
ning service, relates Thrift Magazine.
Without stopping to arrange his toilet
he hurried to the Plymouth church in
Brooklyn, and appeared before the
large audience. There was a tittering
that grew to a positive roar of laugh-
ter. For, as the gngat divine stood be-
fore his audience with all his majestic
dignity, the audience discerned that
his flowing locks had been done up in
curl papers. Momentarily, he was non-
plussed, then placing his hand to. his
head, his fingers found the offending
pig-tails. Some one nearby heard him
say, much to himself, “That rascal
Daisy,” and then he joined in the gen-
eral uproar,
Preferences in Love
When we are told that we are loved
for our body, but not for our ming,
we not only are easily consoled, but
frequently quite delighted. We feel
that we are loved “for ourselves,” as
we say. On the contrary, when we
are told that we are loved for our
mind only, we are generally insulted
and hurt. We understand that we
are loved for something that is really
extrinsic and, in the final count. of
slight merit.—Plain Talk Magazine,
OFFERS RICH PRIZE
FOR SAFETY IN AIR
Guggenheim Acts to Take
Peril From Flying.
New York.—Man’s mastery of the
alr has reached a point, the Daniel
Guggenheim Foundation fer Promeo-,
tion of Aeronautics believes, at which;
the factor of safety must be given
greater attention if the possibilities of
aircraft ave to be adaptéd to transpor-'
tation, Te = ;
To hasten the das when a reliable,
plane in the hands ‘of any good ‘pilot
will be as safe as a railroad train or
a motor car, directors of the Guggen-
heim fund have set aside $150,000 in:
prizes, to be awarded to planes which
meet most satisfactorily nine require
ments for airplane safety.
The competition is to be concluded
by October 31, 1929. Five British and
two American manufacturers of air
craft already have entered the race.
Nine Tests Submitted.
These are the nine tests with which
Aircraft must comply:
The plane must maintain level and
controlled flight at a speed not greater
than 35 miles an hour and must be
able to glide for three minutes with
all power switched off, during which
the speed must not exceed 38 miles ap
hour.
The plane must come to a complete
stop within 100 feet of the spot where
it first touches the ground in landing.
A steady glide must be made over
an obstruction 35 feet high and the
plane must come to a complete stop
within 300 feet of the base of the
obstruction. This is to test the ship’s
ability to make a forced landing in
a small space surrounded by wires,
houses or trees.
The plane must clear a 35-foot-high
obstruction from a starting point 500
feet away.
With all power switched off, the
plane must glide at an angle of not
more than eight and not less than six-
teen degrees and at a speed not great-
er than 45 miles an hour, to test its
ability to approach an uncertain land-
ing place in event of engine failure.
In normal flight, at a speed of 45 to
100 miles an hour, the pilot must take
both hands off the controls for at least
five minutes, to demonstrate the abil-
ity of his craft to right itself after
disturbances from wind gusts or from
the application of controls.
The plane must show that if its en-
gine fails it will assume a gently glid-
ing position and make an easy land-
ing. The pilot must pull his elevator
control to a maximum extent at the
moment the power is switched off and
the ship must descend on a steep
glide at a speed of not more than
40 miles an hour.
Three independent controls must be
placed on the ship, any of which will”
keep+it in-perfect control if the others
are switched off.
The plane must show its ability to
take off and to land on a plot 500
feet square surrounded by a 25-foot
obstruction, and it must taxi under
its own power along the ground
against a strong wind.
Schedule of Awards.
Of the prize money, $100,000 will go
0 the competitor whose entry wins
the highest number of points in four
of the nine safety tests. Ten thousand
dollars will go to each of the first five
entries to satisfy all the requirements.
Judges are Orville Wright, R. Tru-
pee Davison, assistant secretary of
war for aeronautics; Edward P. War-
ner, assistant navy secretary for aero-
nautics; William P. MacCracken, Jr.,
assistant secretary of commerce for
aeronautics; Commander Richard E.
Byrd and Dr. George W. Lewis. Three
technical advisers—Prof. Alexander
Klemin of New York university, Maj.
R. F. Mayo and Lieut. E. E. Aldrin
of Massachusetts Institute of Tech-
nology will assist the judges.
“Any effort to make air traffic an~
integral part of our national com-
merce life,” says Harry Guggenheim,
president of the fund, “must first re-
duce and as nearly as possible over-
come the popular skepticism of air
transportation.
“The average man likes to send his
mail by air but he lets somebody else
do the fiying. If present air hazards
are reduced, air traffic will come into
its own as a common method of trans-
portation.”
War on Corn-Borer Is
Possible With Wormwood
Paris.—The corn-borer, which threat-
ens disaster to the corn belt of the
Middle West, can be fought success-
fully, think French scientists, by in-
troducing wormwood into the United
States.
This was given definitely as a fair-
ly certain solution by Drs E. Rou-
baud of the Pasteur institute, in a
paper read before the Academy of
Sciences by Doctor Bouvier. Doctor
Roubaud is chief of the Pasteur insti-
tute’s entomological laboratory.
The devastating corn-borer, called
nere “pyrale,” is prevalent in France
and is said to have been taken to
America by way of Canada, Here, how-
ever, it prefers life in the weed-like
plant wormwood, says Doctor Rou-
baud, and therefore is not a menace
to agriculture or horticulture.
Wormwood, fairly rare in the
United States, is prolific here, where
it was used in the manufacture of
absinthe, the liquor now prohibited.
Unbelievable
Aberdeen, Scotland.—A Scotchman
made a journey costing 80 shillings in
order to collect a government pension
of 10 shillings
P. R. R. Rights
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