1928. mmm Yo ar Health, Bellefonte, Pa, September 21, The First Concern. —Years ago a good many physical ailments were not understood. It was not unusual to group together sever- al ailments which are now recogniz- ed as separate and distinct diseases. Pneumonia, for instance, is now divid- ed into several different “types.” —Bacteriology, the science dealing with germs has revealed the true na- ture of a good many diseases. It has proven that some of those which were formerly counted as separate diseas- es, are really identical. As an example, let us consider the old-fashioned “membranous croup,” as it was called. This is now recogniz- ed to be diptheria. ~—There is another disease which used to be called “false croup.” It wasn’t croup at all. Now it is re- ferred to as “spasmodic laryngitis.” The larynx is the part of the throat between the base of the tongue and the windpipe. It is lined with mucous membrane and like such membrane elsewhere, this is a tissue which is li- able to become inflamed. Children betwwen the ages of two and five are most likely to be attack- ed by croup. It is preceded for a couple of days or less by running of the nose, slight cough and, possibly, a little fever. It may be thought the child has a mild cold. FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT. —Be pitiful, for every man is fighting a hard battle—Woman’s Life. —With the autumn showings of the French couturiers completed, all the world is eagerly waiting for the last word in current fashions. It is not altogether surprising to report that while there are as always some new tendencies, no very drastic changes in style are set forth. As I have de- clared so many times, fashions do not change overnight, rather do they go through a slow process of evolution, and by a slight accenting of famliar themes or a modification of those formerly stressed, we are led gently and without resistance to an accept- ance of what is new in the mode. Slim lines are still retained, with flat hips stressed more and the waist- line as indeterminate as ever. If low the hips by long tight jumpers, | or if the jumper is short the plaits are held in below by stitching or hip | yolks. And skirts are by unanimous consent distinctly longer—yes, they | actually reach two or three inches be- | low the knee. Not only does the feminine note, | which has prevailed for more than a y season, come in for a good deal of no- | tice, but the formal afternoon rode} which has been somewhat neglected | in favor of sports things, seems to | have come back very strong. In fact this might be noted as one of the big achievements of the recent open- ings. This very feminine effect is created by the continued use of flares, achieved by godets, circular flounces, plaits-and ruffly tiers; by bows at the neckline and by many scarfs. —Velvet is highlighted as a fall fabric. Every known type of this fabric is given first place by popular acclaim. Although in many of the good houses transparent velvet is still used, there is a decided tendency to return to the stiffer elegance of the old-fashioned Lyons variety. And an entirely new type of velvet has made In other cases there may be no warning signs. The attack may come on with great suddenness. In the early part of the night, us- ually after the first sleep, the child is aroused from a sleep which may have been natural and undisturbed. He awakens with a loud and barking cough. It is a peculiar, metallic cough. There is very marked difficulty in breathing. Every breath seems harsh and whistling. The swelling of the membrane leaves little space for the entrance and exit of air. The face becomes flushed. The skin is hot and the pulse is rapid. The child gives every evidence of fear as well as suffering. He cries, is very restless and wants to be carried. In an hour or so the symptoms improve and the breathing is less difficult. The attack may be repeated the next night, and perhaps for two or three nights. In the treatment there are two things to be accomplished. The first and immediate thing is to overcome the spasmodic closure of the throat. Then the inflammation may be treat- If hot water can be had, fill a tub with it, at a temperature of about 100 degrees. Keep the little patient in this for a quarter of an hour. Be very careful not to scald the child. Sometimes a hot foot bath, with a tablespoonful of mustard in the wa- ter, will relieve the symptoms. This Ey be enough to give complete re- ief. The common household treatment is to give an emetic. For this pur- Pose syrup of ipecac alone or with syrup of squills is a favorite remedy. But your doctor should advise you about this. —The large increase in measles during the past twelve months is a manifestation of the periodic return of this disease in epidemic form which is likely to occur every third year. In many cities of the Commonwealth the peak already has been reached. On the other hand there are numerous sections in Pennsylvania that have not shown a definite increase in this malady. These latter localities may reasonably expect a decided addition to their measles rate during the 1928 —1929 season,” said Dr. Theodore B. Appel, Secretary of Health. “However, all parents, whether or not they are living in communities already vigorously attacked by meas- les, should at all times carefully guard against the possibility of such infection on the part of their chil- dren. This can best be accomplished by avoiding contact with this type of illness. “The first symptoms of this disease are affections of the eyes and nose similar to those usually associated with the common cold. ‘Tt is at this time, before the appearance of the rash, that measles is highly communi- cable. Therefore, parents should, as far as possible, keep their children away from other youngsters mani- festing these early symptoms. —Suggestions for the care of the eyes prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the United States public Health Service, furnish many useful hints: Tc remove “something” from the eye, dip little pieces of flannel in hot water and apply constantly below the lower lid. If the substance is a dif- ficult one like a bit of steel, go to an oculist. For “black eye” the swelling may be reduced by applying to the closed lids every three or four minutes, lit- tle squares or circles of clean, white, absorbent cotton or linen, fourfold which have laid on a piece of ice un- til thoroughly cold. This treatment should be kept up continuously for from 2 to 24 hours, until the swelling has subsided. The removal of discol- oration may be hastened by applying more or less constantly below the low- er lid, little pieces of flannel dipped in water as hot as can be borne. «Blood shot” eyes are regarded as serious and if there is a discharge from the eye which dries on the lash- es and causes the lids to stick togeth- er, a campetent physician or special- ist should be consulted, its appearance, called “Velours Afg- han,” a fine non-lustrous velvet with a creepy surface effect. The use of velvet is consistent throughout clothes for the whole day. It is, of course, extremely good for evening, richly trimmed with jewels, but it is also seen in morning ensem- bles combined with tweed and printed frocks, both of the sports type as well as those of more formal mein. The printed and faconne varieties are good for one-piece dresses along simple lines. A very smart outfit of this type was a yellow and brown checked mix- ture, the skirt flaring, the jacket short, the whole completed by a charming yellow moire blouse. Vel- vet jackets combine with satin skirts for daytime wear and for evening this soft flattering fabric is frequently allied with chiffon or lame, Crepella is excellent for day wear and many fine novelty woolens will make the new sports apparel. Day dresses of flat crepe are complement- ed by coats of velveteen or broad- cloth, the coats cut slightly flaring at the front. Sweaters of novelty jer- sey are prominent in sports ensem- blies, patterned in small designs io resemble tweed, while plain jersey and angora are also featured. There is much metal, in solid lame fabric | and a tracery of metal thread is intro- duced into every conceivable mate- rial, particularly in wool and jersey. For afternoon and evening lame broches is extremely good, especially for coats, many of them lined, col- lared and cuffed with duvetyn. One a very effectual combination, is of gold and silver lame trimmed with pale manuve duvetyn. Beige continues to hold first place for sports, much black and consider- able brown are shown in afternoon things. The newest of the novelty shades is a brilliant orangy red. There is a decided carrying over of the blues into the autumn, every tone of this color being shown in the new things. But even so there is a feel- ing that when the leaves begin to turn the browns and other autumn shades will come into their own. —Chinese mandarin coats, always decorative, are expected to be very much in evidence. They are to be worn with a skirt as a blazer, or card- igan might be worn with a tailored frock of crepe or an odd skirt. A mandarin coat heavy with embroi- dery, with a soft one-piece frock— one of finely pleated chiffon, or of draped or pleated crepe, voile, ninon or satin, pleated or wrap-around, of- fers an ensemble that may suitably be worn on many informal oceasions in one’s own house. —Indoor ferns as a rule have few insect or disease enemies, but when they do get into trouble no time should be lost in taking effective re- medial steps, a writer in House and Garden asserts. This bit of advice, indeed, applies to all plants, whether growing in the house or outdoors. Perhaps the commonest fern enemy is scale on the stems or leaves. When the infestation appears the plants ought to be turned upside down (of course, holding the soil and roots so that they cannot fall out of the pots) and dipped in a pail filled with a mix- ture of one ounce of nicotine solution and one-half ounce of soap dissolved in water. After dipping, the plants should be kept in the shade for 24 hours. A weekly spraying with the same mixture is an advisable supple- mentary procedure. In case the scale infestation has made much headway before discoy- ery, it will be well to remove entirely the most affected fronds before ad- ministering the prescribed treatment. LIMA BEAN SOUFFLE. One cupful Lima bean pulp, two eggs, salt and pepper to taste. Beat egg yolks and add to bean pulp. Sea- son to taste with salt and pepper. A little onion juice may be added if desired. Fold in the stiffly beaten egg whites, turn into a buttered bak- ing dish and bake 20 minutes in a moderate oven. ~——The Watchman gives all the skirts are plaited, they are held in be- Being Greatly Extended By Means of Comparatively x 3 =f 12 U os i] ot! 3 =a AFT £ 1 ET ! | PLT HLT] : = i ! ‘VACUUM Tups ELECTRICAL MLTER ) Demmmems N L Soma 3 — ® - . a { == « 7 3 Tey 4 £ ? a YH. ~~ Bn ) i I A am, TOI 3 : : a [) p FOUR CONVERSATIONS | ge TRANSMITTED SIMULTAN- . EOUSLY OVER ONE PAIR : i OF WIRES BY CARRIER 4 dos - 4 ag AY aR EA “Carrier” circuits permit two or more telephone conversations to be held simultanecusly over the same pair of wires, according to a deserip- tion of these circuits recently pub- lished in The Telephone News. This is accomplished by sending the -onversations over the lines at differ- ent electrical frequencies. By means of filters the different frequencies are “unscrambled” at the receiving end and are transmitted to their destina- New a revenue from service in 1927, nevertheless on long- distance open wire circuits the say- ing is such that it goes toward keep- z down the cost of service between distant points. It was also partly re- sponsible for the reduction in some of the long-distance rates that went into effect on December 1, 1927. In the annual report of the Ameri- can Telephone and Telegraph Com- Development Several Conversations taneously Over the Same Pair of Wires _ out-of-town telephone tions. The vast saving in wires is at once While the equipment nec- essary for the process is expensive and complicated and the savings were small in comparison with the total | apparent. pany for 1927, it is noted that there has been a marked increase in the carrier current systems. During that year 65,000 miles of carrier circuits were added to the Bell System. Dur- ing the present year it is planned to Use of “Carrier Telephone Circuits’ is by Bell System re Held Simul- aw 15d AA te FER PE a at’ place in service over 100,000 miles of carrier circuit. . When it is noted that there were only 70,000 miles of the circuit in use at the beginning of 1927, it is seen that the extensions during 1927 and those planned for 1928 will bring the total up to 235,000 miles. This is more than three times the amount at the beginning of that peried. This rapid growth, says the re- port, would hardly be possible were it not for the fact that carrier circuits are a relatively new development in the great toll plant of the Bell Sys- tem, which has about 7,500,000 miles of long-distance wire. COUNTY SABBATH SCHOOLS GET 35 DELEGATES TO mesma : Penn State Begins 69th Academic | ministration building for the school i : STATE CONVENTION. “opened its 69th academic year Wed- ! A letter has just been received by president Foster, of the Centre Coun- ty Sabbath School Association as- signing them a minimum of thirty- five delegates to the great Pennsyl- vania Sabbath School convention to be held in Philadelphia, October 10- 11-12. Pennsylvania, this year, with the aid of her largest city and the bal- ance of the State, fully expects to hold the largest Sabbath School con- vention in the entire world. Pennsylvania, with her 10,609 Pro- testant Sabbath schools, and her two and a quarter million Sabbath school teachers, officers and pupils even at that has only one in four of her pop- ulation in the Sabbath school. Yet with all that, she has one six- teenth of the entire Sabbath school enrollment of the entire world and one eighth of the United States enroll- ment. The State organization has created live auxiliary organizations in every one of the sixty-seven counties of the State, and Centre county can feel proud of her part in such a splendid organization. The great auditorium in which the convention will be held in Philade]- phia will seat ten thousand people, half of which is confidently expected to come from Philadelphia, and the other half from throughout the State. The program for this convention is to be better than ever before in an- ticipation of this great throng of Sunday school leaders, and our coun- ty can well afford to make an organ- ized effort right now to run away ov- er the minimum number of delegates assigned us. The board of directors of the Pemm- sylvania Sabbath School Association are at their own expense going into every county this week meeting the county officers and other interested workers in the interest of our county work and of the coming Philadelphia convention. Citizens Help to Enforce Ajr Rules. Pennsylvanians rapidly are becom- ing “airplane fans.” A pumber in- terested in aeronautics have consti- tuted themselves volunteer inspectors and have advised the bureau of airs, of the infraction of the state’s air laws. Among the verified reports reach- ing the department was one from a western county telling of an ambi- tious airplane builder who has under construction in his back yard a ship which, he announces, he not only plans to fly when completed, but will use to give lessons to young men who want to become pilots. While there is nothing in the state air regulations that would prevent the construction of the ship, the own- er cannot attempt to operate it with- out it is first inspected by a represen- tative of the department of internal affairs and its airworthiness deter- mined. Futhermore, none but a licensed pilot is permitted to fly the plane, even should it proved airwor- thy. No one but a transport pilot, the highest grade among pilots, is perv- mitted to instruct students. The builder of the plane has been notified of the state regulations. The aeronautics bureau has licens- ed a total of sixty-nine pilots, fifteen mechanics and forty-one planes since the new regulations became effective July 1. Included in the list were licenses issued to holders of depart- ment of commerce permits and others who made application direct and were examined by designated inspectors of the department of internal affairs, a 0 — news while it is news. —Subscribe for the Watchman, | ‘ed the student i i Year. The Pennsylvania State College nesday morning with a general stu- dent convocation in the Schwab aud- itorium at which Dr. Ralph D. Het- , zel, president of the college, welcom- | body. Immediately following the convocation first class- | es and recitations of the year were f held, starting more than 4000 stu- Sent off on their year of classroom work. This resident enrollment of 4000 sets a new record for the college; it is the first time that the total enroll- ment of those in residence has ex- | ceeded the 4000 mark at the start of the year, Included in this total is a class of 1200 freshmen, which is also the largest entering class in the his- i tory of the college. The freshmen have been on the campus for the past week, learning something of their new environment before actually be- ginning to attend classes. of Engineering was begun last month and will release some classroom fa- cilities when it is completed. This will scarcely be before the late spring and will not aid materially in taking care of the increased enrollment. A dormitory for women students, an addition to one of the chemistry buildings, and a botany building are expected to be under construction be- ore winter. The new gymnasium, and the new infirmary, which was erected from funds supplied by potato . growers of the State, will be ready for use this fall. There are few changes on the faculty for the coming year. One major appointment, that of Edward Steidle as dean of the school of mines, was made during the summer. A new commandant for . the military department was detailed to Penn | State by the war department. He is Col. Walter B. McCaskey, an army officer for more than 30 years. Both Dean Steidle and Colonel McCaskey attended Penn State as undergradu- Fine Job Printing 4 SPECIALTY at the WATCHMAN OFFICE There is mo style of work, from the cheapest “Dodger” to the finest BOOK WORK that we can not do in the most sat- isfactory manner, and at Prices consistent with the class of work. Call on or communicate with this office. New? Dry Cleaned? The only difference between a brand new suit and one that has been dry cleaned by us is the difference be- tween $1.75 and whatever you usually pay for a new suit. 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