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Petorvaic Waldman
Bellefonte, Pa., January 11, 1929.
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The First Cencern.
THE HEALTH GNOME SAYS—
Christmas comes but once a year
There is no doubt of that.
But there's little use, and no excuse
To be foolish o'er that fact.
Now, Johnny Jones, a friend of mine
Pid just that very thing;
He celebrated with bootleg stuff,
That had an awful sting.
Mary Ann, she too went wild
And danced her young head off.
A nervous breakdown was the cost,
Methinks that head was soft!
Another fellow, Willie Wake,
Tried to eat it all—
And Willie Wake, in consequence,
Isn’t eating now at all!
The moral to this short tale of woe
Is plain, it seems to me.
In celebrating Christmas time,
Make use of sanity.
—As it is understood by many of |
us heart disease is not so alarming |
as it often appears to be. This “dis- |
ease’ can be divided into three
kinds; functional, when the heart is:
not damaged but does not do its work
properly; slightly damaged, when the |
heart can “carry on” for years; and |
badly damaged, calling for close ob-
servation and no over-exertion. These
three conditions can be likened to a
chair which can not be used because |
it seems to be, or is, too weak.
A chair wobbles when used, but on
examination it is found that one or
more screws are loose. A screw driv-
er can promptly correct that fault. |
A functional “heart disease” can of- |
ten be as easily cured. The “serew’ |
that is loose can be indigestion or an,
unstable nervous system due to finan- |
cial or family worries. Correct the:
conditions and the heart becomes nor- |
mal. This, therefore, is not heart dis-
ease as physicians view it, although
the suffering and discomfort is just
as painful. |
One functional disturbance of the
heart is called “acute indigestion.” :
This produces sharp, often agonizing
pain, shortness of breath—gasping
for air describes it better. The heart
becomes rapid and irregular, both ‘n
time and force. The face becomes
pale and clammy. The patient cold
and chilly. This is what happens:
Something eaten does not digest, it
ferments and causes an excessive
amount of gas which distends the
stomach to such a degree that it takes
the place that belongs to the heart.
Tt struggles against this barrier, beat-
ing rapidly to make up in the num-
ber of beats what is lost in force.
The duty of the heart is to pump
the dark red or venous blood through
the lungs. This blood carries the
poisons produced by the blood, circu-
lates through the tiny blood vessels
surrounding the lung air-cells, there
is an inter-change through the micro-
scopic sieve-like membrane of these
cells. The air we breathe gives up its
oxygen, which passes into the blood
stream and the blood gives up its
poison— carbonic acid gas. If the’
blood passing through is lessened in:
quantity the oxygen in the air is not
taken up in sufficient amount to make
us comfortable. No matter how much
air we breathe if the oxygen does not |
pass into the blood stream our breath- |
ing does us no good. Another thing
happens because of this hampered
heart action. The chemical changes
necessary for life are still going on
producing carbonic acid gas which, re- |
maining in the blood, brings about a
heavy dull stupor. If net promptly
relieved the situation will become
serious. I hope that this picture has
been so drawn that my readers can
apppreciate that this condition no
matter how alarming is not heart dis-
ease.
To repeat, something eaten forms
“gas” which distends the stomach.
The stomach presses on the heart
which struggles to do its work in a
small cramped space and loses force. |
The blood can not pass freely through |
the lungs, keeps its poison, and does '
not take up enough oxygen. Distend- |
ed stomach causes pain. Lack of ox- |
vgen and poison retained cause short- |
ness of breath, dullness and stupor.
What is the method of relieving this |
situation?
Let the suffering person assume the
position of most comfort, as nature
unconsciously directs that this be
done. Mix one teaspoonful of aroma-
tic spirits of ammonia in one quarter
glass of cold water. Take about one
quarter of this mixture at once, then
sip of the rest until all is taken in
about ten minutes. If this does not
relieve in fifteen minutes repeat the
dose—that is, one teaspoonful of ar-
omatic spirits of ammonia mixed and
taken as before. If this is ineffective
then call a physician. In any event
have a thorough examination to pre-
vent a recurrence and to correct a cor-
rectable defect. Do not forget we are
just using a “screw driver” to tighten
up the loose screws.
It must be emphasized however
that a heart disturbance due to an
unstable nervous system caused by
worry is not a medical problem. It
is an individual problem to be solved
by the individual.
Let us now go back to our broken
chairs. We have easily fixed the
screws but we find another chair
where the legs and rounds have be-
come loosened because the glue is not
holding, again easily fixed, but takes
longer and must be watched more
carefully.
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(To be continued)
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Ad Wiiter's Idea of
Great American Home
According to the advertisements it
is a private residence and gentleman's
estate and built of certified lumber
and southern pine, the aristocrat of
soft woods bought direct from the
mills, and colored stucco, hollow tile,
concrete for permanence, sheet steel
for every purpose, the inherent charm
of stone, and brick that is cheaper in
the long run, and it is covered with
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hardware, painted with imperishable
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of all coal windows, the utmost in san-
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from plumbing fixtures with finest
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used on Park avenue yet priced low
enough for the most modest cottage,
and is desirably located in a fast-
growing community with rising values
and filled with period furniture, genu-
ine linoleum, and musie fiom radios,
phonographs and grand picnos used
by the immortals and bought cn the
installment plan with a small down
payment or what have you?—Kansas
City Star.
Kept Within Law but
Cot His Shaft Homes
A Mount Vernon (N. Y.) lawyer
{ had lost but one case in a practice
extending over 25 years. "This par-
ticular case should never have bien
lost; the lawyer knew it and wus cor-
respondingly angered at the judge,
{ whom he blamed for the loss of the
case. Arising from his seat the luw-
yer addressed the court:
“Your Lonor, is it agzinst the law
to think?”
“Of course not,” replied the judge.
“Ig it against the law to tell whar
you think?”
“Of course not,” replied the judge.
“You know very well that it is nol.”
“Is it against the law to say at all
times and anywhere what you honest-
ly think, you honor?”
“Now, Mr. —, your experience
teaches you that you can say at all
times and anywhere what you really
think,” said the man on the bench.
“Well, your honor,” said the defeat:
eld lawyer, “I think that the decision
just handed down was rotten.”
And he “got bg" with it.
Peach Grower's Friends.
The ladybird beetles are perhaps the
most beneficial of the several insects
that act as a check on the peach tree
insects. They prey upon scale iu-
The twice-
ladybird beetle 1s usually
prevalent on peach trees that are
heavily infested with the San Jose
scale. It is jet black in color and
has two orange or red spots on the
back. Ladybird beetles take their
nourishment by sucking scale insects
dry. They also assist materially in
checking infestations of the rusty-
brown plum aphid or other aphids.
Syrphus fies, lacewing flies, tachina
flies, ground beetles and some of the
assassin bugs and praying mantis
are other insects that are beneficial
to the peach grower.
Indians Good Swimmers.
The Bureau of American Ethnology
says that the Indians were remark-
able swimmers and some of the tribes
were in the water as much as were
the primitive Polynesians. They swam
six or seven different ways, including
treading water, and would dive to the
bottom of deep water. A common in-
stitution among the Indians was the
sweat bath. They would sweat in
‘a specially constructed sweathouse,
which was closed up to keep the heat
in, and when they thought they had
sweated enough would suddenly run
outdoors, giving warwhoops, throw
themselves into the cold water, and
after a while re-enter the sweathouse
to dry off, since they had no towels.
The Lombards.
Lombard street, the principal bank
quarter of the city of London, takes
its name from the “Lombards,” so-
called Italian goldsmiths and money-
lenders, who settled there in the be-
ginning of the Twelfth century.
They were then commonly called
“Longbeards,” and the name of the
thoroughfare was spelt indifferently
Longhord and Langebred. A century
or so later it had become corrupted
into Langbourne—that is, “long
brook”—and this misleading title is
still retained for the ward in which
it is situated.
Daring Air Thieves.
Explorers in Abyssinia report that
there are many birds of prey in that
country, the most daring of which,
and the most common, is the Kite.
Flocks of them will sit for hours in
the trees near the camp waiting for
an opportunity to steal a meal from
the cook tent. In this they will often
take great chances and they have
been known to dart across the cook’s
fire and steal food from his pans on
the stove. They have no hesitation
in stealing the food from any wild ani-
mal they encounter which happens to
be enjoying a meal
THE
LOVELY
LADY
(© by D J. Walsh.)
ADGE MEREDITH calied
Lim up that morning on the
telephone,
“Come over tonight for a
game of bridge, Guy, and meet out
guest, Miss Angell. She's perfectly
lovely. You'll fall in love with her,
I know. I'm simply crazy about her.
Mother first met her at the Woman's
club in Delfield, and she hasn't rest-
ed till she got her here to make us 8
little visit. You'll come?”
“Sure, I'll come, Madge. And thank
you for the chance to meet the lovely
lady.” Guy Holding laughed as he
waited politely for Madge to hang up
first. Then he went back to his desk
and forgot about everything but what
he was doing. He even forgot about
Madge whom he had reason to think
liked him a good deal and who came
nearer to being his ideal of what a
girl should be than any woman he
bad ever met or was, perhaps, likely
to meet.
le lunched downtown and went
nome rather late to dinner, remerm-
bering as he entered his mother's
house that he had made a promise to
Madge.
Iiis mother met him in the hall
She was plump, gray-haired and fad-
ed but a nice woman for all that, as
Guy often teld her, He adored his
mother, And she worshiped him. Her
husband hadn't amounted to much,
but her son was entirely satisfactory
He took after her side of the family
when it came to go-getting, but for
all Lis business acumen he was ter
ribly ingenuous. Mrs. Holding suf-
fered a good deal on that account
Calla waited ypon them at dinner.
Caila was colored and elderly, but a
perfect maid. She set Guy's soup be
fore Lim like a caress, and he smiled
at her out of frank, boyish brown
eyes.
“Going out this evening,
Mrs. Holding inquired.
“That's so. 1 am, Madge asked
me.” Lis mother smiled in a pleased
vay. “I'd rather planned to take you
to see u play, but if you don't mind
waiting till tomorrow night—"
“I'm rather glad. I've got a whole
pasketful of your socks to mend”
Mrs. Holding said.
“You best of mothers!” Guy blew
ner a kiss across the table and she
Llew him one back again. After that
the roast fowl warmed up from yes-
terduy tasted ever so delicious.
dear?”
Guy walked down the moonlit street |
ander the denuded maples to the
Meredith house, which was at the ex-
treme end. He thought about secing
Madze and wondered what she would
be wearing. No matter what it was
it would be sure to be the right thing.
Madge met him at the door. She
nad on a liitle cocoa-colored fiuck
trimmed with a few bands of skunk
fur, very becoming to her fresh, dark
coloring.
“Now prepare to be overwhelmed,”
she bade Lim as he laid aside his Lat
and coat. “Miss Angell is perfectly
lovely.”
“So ure you.” He laughed at her,
aoting the color that rose in her
smooth cheeks.
Mrs. Meredith was in the living
room with the guest who sat in a
deep winged chair by the fireside. At
a word there rose out of that winged
chair the most beautiful woman Guy
had ever seen,
She was tall, slender, yet exquis-
itely rounded, with no suggestion of
pone or muscle in her white arms and
shoulders. Her hair had the ashen
glean of white gold, her face was a
flower, her eyes dark, wonderful. She
wore a gown like a bit of dawn-rose
and lavender and silver, and when
: she spoke her voice was like the call
of a bird to its mate.
Guy (ried not to stare, but he
could think of nothing nicer than just
to look his fill at her. And when
Madge brought out the card table
and they sat down to play he was
glad to be nearer to her.
Before the evening was over he had
fallen victim to that glamor which
attacks a man once only perhaps in
his whole life. And all night he lay
awake, his head whirling with dreams
of Miss Angell and plans to see her
again,
de was not himself next day. That
afternoon he got leave from his boss
and took Miss Angell for a ride in his
roadster, and that evening he made a
theater party and invited the Mere:
diths and his mother—and her.
The following day he sent her a
sheaf of tea roses to carry with her
when she went away. He had one
more glimpse of her as she took the
train and then the pall descended.
How was he going to live without
her? No, rather how could he keep
on seeing her, wooing her until he
could break down every barrier and
make her his? He moved as one in
a dream, and when he ate his Lady’s
Delight—the marvelous dessert which
it took both his mother and Calla to
achieve—as if it were sawdust he
could no longer conceal the state of
his feelings.
“What's gone wrong with Madge?’
Mrs. Holding asked. “She looks so
wan, Are you going over there as
much as usual, dear?”
“1 haven't seen Madge in
weeks,” Guy replied unthinkingly.
«She was here today,” Mrs. Hold-
mg ventured. “I thought maybe you'd
ask her and me to go somewhere to-
night?”
“Qh, all right.”
proposal patiently.
two
Guy accepted the
Between acts hie {ried to find out
from Made something about Mis~
Angell.
“She wrote the nicest bread-and-but
ter letter! She has asked me to vis
it her,” Madge said.
Madge was going to visit her! That
made Madge interesting, and he
turned his attention to her.
Another week passed. Ile had sent
flowers to Miss Angell and had re
ceived a creamy-tinted note from her
—coo0l and sweet as parfait. It wasn't
much, but—it was something. Then
he did a bold thing. le went to sce
her—but she was not at home, and
he came away uncomforted save for
a sight of the old pillared house and
the sharp-eyed servant who had ap
swered his ring.
Now the awful desire for sympathy
so controlled him that he sought his
mother, He got out of bed, put on
his lounging robe and slippers and
went into her room in the dead of
night. There by the faint, golden-
shaded light he told her all that was
in his heart.
Mrs. Holding sat up in bed with
the extra blanket about her shoul
ders. She had been awakened from
a peaceful sleep and she looked old.
frumpish with cold cream on her face
and her gray hair skewered on cur
ers.
“I'm so glad you told me rhis
dear,” she said. “I've known, of
course, what was geing on, but 1 had
to wait until you were ready to pive
me your confidence. Guy, you be
lieve what I tell you, don’t you? You
have never found me lying to you or
using the slightest subterfuge.”
“Never, mother,”
“Then, my dear, painful as it is 1}
shall give you the truth. Miss An-
gell—"
“She's not going to be married?!
Guy leaped from his chair.
“Qh, Cear, no. If she was ever go
ing to marry she would have dene
so years ago. She has had lovers
enough. Why, 1 remember when 1
was first engaged to your father mo2ei.
ing her at a party—you see I've al-
ways known about her. She was al:
ways pretty as a picture, but since
she inherited all that money and took
that course at a beauty institute—"
“Mother! What are you saying?
“I'm trying to tell you, my dea:
gon, that Lavenia Angell is exactly
one year acd rine weeks older than
1 am,”
She had produced a cataclysm, but
pecause he had always believed her
he managed to do so now. Wasn't she
Lis own mother and hadn't she al-
ways told him the truth? Desides, as
he looked at her, the conviction
seeped in.
Madge could have told you, bu
she wouldn't,” ended Mrs, Holding.
six weeks later Madge Meredith
showed Mrs, Holding a diamond and
platinum ring.
eYou don't mind,” she whispered.
“Dear!” Mrs, Holding kissed uer
“You know 1 think Guy has always
liked me—escept once—for a little
while,” Madge said.
Mrs. lloiding wsiniled joyously.
“Well, 1 shouldn't let that worry
me,” she replied.
Steel Industry Born
in Old Massachusetts
The awesome exhalations of the
genie Steel as wafted from his work-
shops in Pittsburgh and Gary and
the combined sorceries of the metal
industries as seen by Detroit, all had
their beginning so far as America is
concerned on the banks of the Sau-
gus river in Massachusetts.
“Ye Company of Undertakers of ye
tron Works,” with capital equivalent
to $5,000, there began the manufac
ture of iron in 1642. In the low
meadows near where the city of Lynn
now stands there were to be found
iron ore, and easy transportation was
furnished by the river, and water
power, too. There America’s first
iron works continued to operate suc-
cessfully until the late 1600's.
When one “Thomas Hudson of Lyn”
sold hig land to this iron works com-
pany it was agreed that he would be
given the first casting it produced.
This was a small but heavy iron pot
poured directly from the furnace with-
out first becoming pig iron. Thomas
Hudson treasured this and handed it
down to his descendants. Two hun-
dred and fifty years later it was pre-
sented by one of these descendants
to Lynn's public library, where, in-
closed in glass, all may view it.—De-
troit News.
Pointed Suggestion
An old farmer, who was attending
a church convention, chuckled to him-
self as he read the subjects on the
program. “See here, parson,” he said
to his pastor, “you’ve had papers and
discussions all day on how to get peo-
ple to attend church. I've never heard
a single address, at a farmers’ conven-
tion, on how to get cattle to come to
the rack. We put all our time on the
best kind of feed. I sort of have a
notion that if you put more time on
discussing what to put in the rack,
you wouldn't have to spend all that
time discussing how to get your folk
to attend church.,”—Montreal Family
Herald.
Ancient Superstitions
Coins worn as pendants or amulets
were common in the ancient world, be-
cause of their likeness to the moon;
and it Is probable that medallions, and
hence medals, were originally circular
for the purpose of introducing the
lunar element and thereby counteract
ing the blighting effects of admiration
or envy. Spitting is mentioned by
many ancient authors as a protection
against the evil eye, and this explains
the custom of spliting on a coin.
which is still widely practiced.
A Corporate Executor
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you have built up after years of work
and self-denial, to incompetent hands.
A banking institution with Trust
powers and large resources, is betteriqualified
for this important work than any individual.
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Facts that will save you a
lot of money.
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