Peuarralic Watcpan
Bellefonte, Pa., March 8, 1929.
Big Preparation for
Bow Before Royalty
Presentation at court involves con-
giderable preparation in advance and
those who have been favored with this
honor must adhere strictly to the ae-
tails of the program, says the Loudnm
Graphic. A few minutes’ lateness is
unpardonable and would, in all likeli-
nood, result in the disappointment of
the eandidate for royal Lonor, which
would be a tragedy indeed after bav-
ing undergone the long and tedious
process of preparation. This often
means a long string of carriages and
automobiles forming for hours beforé
the time set for the reception. Here
the debutantes and others to be pre-
sented wait sometimes for as lonz as
three hours till the time for entering
the palace arrives. It is still daylight
when the blockade of cars forms and
swarms of curious people walk up and
down the Mall close to the curb and
gaze through the windows of the ve-
hicles at the faces and gowns of the
ladies in their court dress. The scru-
tiny is far from timid and casual, ip
wany cases quite impudent.
Arrangement of Hair
Marks Chinese Wife
It is customary in occidental lands
for a married woman to wear a gold
band on the third finger of her left
band. Not so in China. You know
a married woman in China by the
way her hair is trimmed above ber
vrow.
Usually on the night before the
wedding friends of the bride trim her
hair. It is sometimes clipped and
shaved, but in most cases the hair is
removed with two twisted threads.
These threads are rolled over the
forehead with the fingers, the twist of
the thread extracting the hair and
giving the forehead a square appears
ance. If you can imagine what you
would look like if your hair above
the forehead were removed. leaving
a clearing of, say, four inches long
and one inch wide, you will have
some idea of what the Chinese mar-
ried woman's head is like.
After the marriage this must be
done at intervals to keep the shape
present.
Quail Die of Thirst
Dr. Joseph Grinnell, ornithologist. ot
California, believes that lack of water
explains the disappearance of quail in
"Centuries U
many parts of that state, He has made
investigations and finds that areas
formerly supplied with water are now
dry owing to climatic changes and rec-
lamation work and have become un-
inhabited as nesting grounds for the
quail.
Doctor Grinnell does not believe !
that vermin has accounted for the dis-
appearance of the birds so much as |
the lack of water, as the species of |
wild birds and animals designated as |
vermin also have become scarcer dur- |
ing recent years in the same area. |
Young quail which are hatched more |
than 400 yards from water and where
rain does not fall or Leavy dews occur
“shortly after they are hatched will die
from thirst, says a bulletin of the
American Game Protective association.
Louvain University
The restoration of the University
of Louvain was brought about by the
,various nations of the allies. To the
'Dnited States fell the privilege of re-
building the library. The University
of Louvain was founded more than
two centuries before Harvard. At the
time of its destruction the library
contained but a quarter of a million
volumes, but these works had been
accumulating for five centuries. The site
of the present library is the finest in
all Louvain, occupying one entire side
of the Place du Peuple. The archi-
tect was Whitney Warren, who was |
chosen by an international committee.
The corner stone was laid by Nich.
olas Murray Butler.
iF Bees Seldom Inactive
Honey bees do not go into a true
state of hibernation during the win-
ter but remain active within the hiye,
‘although they do not venture abroad,
says Popular Mech 8s Magazine.
To keep Warm, the colony rachis a
marvelous system of insulation and
exercise. A large number of bees
form a more or less spherical cluster,
‘those on the outside having their
bodies packed close to each other,
lel and with their heads up.
This formation constitutes an in
‘gulation shell. Inside, the other bees
keep up a constant twisting and
squirming motion to create heat. This
is so effective that the temperature
inside the shell seldom drops below
57 degrees Fahrenheit.
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Passe
There was a little gathering in the
‘church vestibule, waiting for the new
‘baby to be christened and friends of
the family were taking the opportunity
to admire the tiny newcomer. Over in
the corner, three-year-old Betty Leu
gat in lonely state, a wee bit jealous
of the attention being paid the baby
brother. Finally an observant friead
noticed it and eried out tactfully:
“What a pretty dress you have ea
today, Betty Lou!”
“yes,” sighed the child discomsolate
1y, “but myself is old”
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Dim Laurel Wreath
Laurel wreaths should be immortal,
and it is appropriate that a laurel
wreath recovered from an Etruscan
tomb over 2,000 years old should stil’
be green.
Who its hero was we cannot tell.
His skeleton was wrapped in veils of
white and blue. There were leather
objects whose purpose is unknown.
ornamented with geometrical designs,
purses containing glass beads belts
with copper clasps and buckles, and
the laurel wreath, but no name.
The tomb is one of a great number
at Vulei, in Tuscany, Italy, whose
existence was first discovered a hup-
dred years ago. The wife of Napole-
on’s brother, Lucien, was watching 8
yoke of oxen plowing in a field when
they suddenly disappeared, and it
was found they had broken through
into an Etruscan tomb. Over 6.000
tombs were opened in the next quar
ter of a century, their contents being
distributed over Europe, after which
‘he tombs were filled up.
Englishman at Rest
in Odd Burial Place
Among the many curiosities to he
found in Wimborne minster, in Dor
set (England), is the quaint tomb of
Anthony Etricke, the first recorder of
Poole. He was for some reason of
fended by the Wimborne people, and
so made a vow that he would not be
buried in their church or out, under
the ground or over. To carry this out
he cut a niche in the wall and placed
there his coffin with the date 1693 in-
seribed thereon, believing that he
should die in that year.
die. however, until 1703, when he was
buried in the chosen spot in such a
way that his body was neither above
the ground or below, in the church
or out. The date 1703 was then writ.
ten over the other in gold. He left
$5 a year for the tomb’s upkeep.
which is still paid.
Canning Machinery
The most useful cannery inventions
.n recent years have been of machines
for doing the work of the dressing
gangs.
in canneries where such machines are
employed, was first used in 1903 at
Fairhaven (now Bellingham), Wash.
it removes the head, tail and fins and
opens and thoroughly cleans the fish.
ready to cut into pieces for the cans.
By the use of these machines the
dressing gang is almost entirely done
away with, dispensing with 15 to 20
men. This same machine is now so
arranged that the fish, after dressing.
are also “slimed"—that is. the thick
muens covering the skin removed and
the inside of the fish cleaned.
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Timber From the Tropics?
It is recognized. says the American |
Tree association, that the forest re
sources of tropical America may be
a very important factor in our own
domestic timber problem. Some be-
lieve that those forests will be called
upon to bridge the hiatus that is
bound to exist between the exhaustion
of our wild timber crop, and the har :
vest time of our man-managed for-
ests. Others believe that they will
form a permanent source of timber
to replace some of our own special
purpose bardwoods.
All are agreed that, in any case, |
we cannot fully and completely out-
line our own forestry problem with- |
out taking into consideration all the
factors that may influence the out-
come.
Special Oven for Pie
A huge brick oven was built in a
disused corn mill near Hudderfield,
England, so that the village of Denby
Dale might surpass all its previous
efforts in making giant pies. The pie
dish, made locally of earthenware,
was 15 feet long, 4 feet wide
and 18 inches deep.
tained beef, mutton, kidney, potatoes
and plenty of gravy. About 10,000
people partook of the pie. Qn the
occasion of the last previous Denby
Dale pie, in 1896, more than 60,000
people visited the village, which has |
a population of 1,500. A pie made in
1887 went bad, and was dragged by |
borses to a wood and buried in quick-
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Moon's Movements
The Naval observatory says that the
moon does not revolve in the plane of
the earth’s equator, but in a plane in-
clined to the plane of the equator at
an angle that varies approximately
from 18 to 29 degrees. In any month
the moon may be seen at least 18 de-
grees south of the celestial equator,
and after two weeks at least 18 de-.
grees north of the celestial equator.
In some years, as 1913 for instance,
the moon may be seen nearly 29 de-
grees south of the celestial equator.
The moon’s rapid northerly progress
occurs about one week later than its
farthest south, and about one week
earlier than its farthest north.
Shark Good Eating
Shark meat has grown in favor
among the native population of Ber-
muda until it is now their favorite
delicacy.
More than 200 kinds of fish can be
caught in the warm waters around
Bermuda and all are edible. Fisher-
men find, however, that young sharks
are most in demand. These average
about four feet In ‘length and are
caught alive Just beyond the six-mile
coral reef that surrounds the islands.
He did not !
The one commonly known as
the “Iron Chink,” now in general use !
The pie con- |
"BLISTERS IN EARTH
T0 ALTER ITS SHAPE
That Is What Noted Scien-
tist Sees for Future.
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| New York.—The earth’s crust prob
| ably is not “dead” and finished in
| shape, the American Association for
| the Advancement of Science was told
| by Dr. Bailey Willis of Stanford un}
rersity.
Instead, even the stable bottom of
i the Atlantic ocean now may be heat-
| ing up preparatory to causing land
| shifts. The theory is that scores of
| miles down in the rocks that form
the skin of mother earth, great blis-
| ters form, as big as whole states. and
| that as they melt the rocks, the re-
| sulting upthrusts make the earth's
| surface what it is, and whatever i
| may change to.
| But there was nothing of possible
| human catastrophe in Doctor Willis’
| picture, for he spoke in the new time
| concept of science, his changes re-
| quiring millions of years. He named
| well known places where on the slow
| time scale such shifts actually nov
seem under way.
Great Plateaus of Granite.
Doctor Willis’ address inaugurated
the annual convention of the associa-
tion. His subject was “the Origin and
Development of Continents.” He said
all continents are great plateaus of
granite, standing high above the sea
bottoms, which are of basalt, a heav!
er rock.
“We know the kind of rock that
underlies the sea,” he said. “from seis-
mographs. With aid of earthquakes
{| we can sink our plummets more than
i half way to the center of the earth.
Soothe Doomed Shark
by Tickling Its Hide
Few of us’ would like to tackle the
tiger of the seas in his native haunts,
but the brown men of Aitutaki in the
Southern seas have no such scruples.
There, in the calm emerald waters of
the lagoon, fringed about with wav-
ing palms, are great hollow. in the
coral rocks: here, duiing the hottest
hours of the day, the sharks love tr
hask in the welcome shade.
Ten feet of shark lies snug within
the shadow, only a slowly waving
tail proclaiming his presence. Then
out from the beach creeps a canoe,
with a rope of sinnet ready coiled.
Silently the Kanakas paddle to the
spot, where deep down in the clear
water that slaty-gray tail move”
slowly.
Poised for a moment while he in-
hales a deep breath, the brown man
waits, the loop of the rope over his
arm. Then, in a beautiful curve, he
dives. Now he is beside the shark and
his hand softly rubs the rasping hide
The shark likes it.
Suddenly the noose is fixed over
the flukes of the tail, and a brown
form is seen scrambling quickly ove”
‘he gunwale of the canoe.
Then comes a rapid paddling of the
frail craft, the line is hauled in and
the shark is effectively dispatched
with a blow of a club.
Difficulties of Life
Have Their Purposes
Very rare are those who have al-
ways had their every wish fulfilled
i or forestalled; but even these shoul?
We know the velocity at which shocks
travel. the depths at which they pass
through or around the earth, and the
wind of rock they pass through.
“We know that the earth is en-
veloped about 2000 miles thick with
elastic rock, below which is a core
about 2,000 miles in radius, apparent-
ly inelastic, very hard, probably iror
which may be melted.”
The heat that causes blisters, he
said, probubly does not emanate from
the earth’s inner core.
“Compression by gravity.” he added.
| »is capable of producing all the heat
| of which we have evidence. As rocks
| heat, the melting tends to extend lat-
erally faster than upward. thus form-
ing blisters—asthenoliths, we cal
them.
“Conditions favorable to formation |
of asthenoliths appear likely to de
velop in those layers thirty to six hun-
. dred miles below the earth’s surface.
and probably only those within less
than one hundred miles of the surfaces
lirectly affect it.
“A blister may grow several hun-
dred miles across, and be ten to
' twenty miles deep, containing one or
more million cubic miles. The cover
eventually breaks around the mar-
gins, where eruptions follow, and
© finally the cover falls into the emptied
| center. Conditions thus theoretically
sketched are features of the smaller
depressions that are the deeps of the
. oceans. The Windward and Hawaiian
islands are examples of volcanis
ridges surrounding such deeps.
Takes Years to Grow.
“A blister requires perhaps several
million years to grow. A very large
number of eruptions, a great many
i plisters and an enormous lapse of
time must have been required to form
Africa, Eurasia and the Americas in
this way. The complex structure of
each continent corresponds with the
multiplicity of actions required by
the theory.”
Adobe Houses in Old
Mine Town Yield Gold
| Monterey, Mexico.—T. L. Crawford,
| a British mining engineer who has ar-
. rived here from Mazapil, an ol. min-
ing town buried in the heart of the
. mountains. has found that slag from
more than 200 years ago, and long
abandoned, carries high values in
GOLA. oisenatmlr FT snmp i th ms
1 Even the old adobe houses are rick
. 40 the precious metal, according to as-
i says which he made recently. Some
| of these adobe blocks run as high as
| $500 to the ton of gold, silver and
{ copper. Mr. Crawford has. interested
a syndicate of mining men in the pos-
sibilities of smelting the slag and the
adobe-built houses by modern methods.
School Runs Laboratory
to Strengthen Pupils
Lebanon, Tenn.—A human labora-
cory for experiments designed to de-
velop a stronger boy of preparatory
school age is being conducted at the
Castle Heights Military academy, lo-
cated here In the Cumberland foot-
hills. £0 fre Ait fen ?
Every student Is required to take
part in some branch of athletics. Only
black bread is served the cadets. The
school prepares its own flour, dairy
dishes and vegetables and dietary
measures are part of the school train-
ing.
City of 11,500 Guarded
at Night by One Cop
Derby, Conn.—Because of an error
in police department bookkeeping,
this city of 11,500 inhabitants is be-
ing guarded at night by only one pa-
trolman. Three men were dropped
from the force by Chief Thomas Van
Etten when he discovered that through
an unexpected shortage there would
be only money enough te pay one
night policeman for the rest of the
fiscal year.
not be envied.
Man is not made to live in per-
petual sunshine, and would very soon
tire of having all he desires, with-
out having to wait and work for the
materialization of his longings. The
greater the ease of obtaining what he
wants—the sooner it would pall upor
Yim.
Life’s difficulties and prolonged
trials, says the London Chronicle, are
a test of character. If we had no dif-
ficulties to overcome and our patience
were not tried, we might continue to
exist—but our claim to be called
“men” and “women” would bc sler
der.
Though we often groan under its
weight, we should “respect the bur-
den,” and thus retain our cheerfulness
and serenity.
Houses in Patriotic Hues
With all the house painting now go-
ing on so busily in city and country.
the elders who as boys or girls lived
on a farm will smile as they con-
trast the quiet colors used today with
the vivid ones common to their youth.
Blue and red were favorite colors
then. They were the cheapest paints
fhe tarmers could buy and mix, er
cept for a standard white.
Barn doors were invariably one of
these two colors. A blue pump
clashed with the green grass in the
door yard. A blue wooden weather-
vane rooster swung lazily on a red-
roofed barn. Houses were mostly
white, but for many years blue and
red trimmings were much in favor.
In many sections the countryside pre-
sented a decidedly patriotic appear:
! ance.
Toad’s Marvelous Tongue
The Spanish toad that lives in the
200 has a tongue that moves faster
than that of the busiest gossip. It
moves so fast that observers could
not see it pick up a worm placed be-
fore it recently. The worm simply
disappeared, as if into the air. Fur-
thermore, an ordinary slow motion
camera failed to take a. picture of
that moving tongue. Another film
was taken, this time at three times
the speed, and in this the tongue was
shown moving at a rate quicker than
a sixtieth of a second, which means
that if the Spanish toad could eat
hurt cperatsd by Spantards i continuously he would devour near}
4,000 meals a minute!
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i Land of Many Languages
The principal languages of Switzer
land are German, spoken by 71 per
cent of the people; French, by 21 per
cent, and Italian, by 6 per cent. Other
languages are Romanshe and Ladin.
By the federal constitution of 1848
and 1874 German, French and Italian
are recognized as national languages.
so that debates in the federal parlia-
ment may be carried on in any of the
three, while federal laws and decrees
appear also in the three languages.
The old dialects of Romanshe and
Ladin do not have any political rec
ognition by the confederation.
© gr op, Daniell
, A big-game hunter in Rhodesia
tracked down a lion and wounded it.
The beast turned on him, beat him
to the ground, and was about to finish
him off when the flap of the hunter’s
collar turned over.
Instantly the lion bounded off into
¢he bush,
Wondering at his miraculous es
cape, the hunter looked down at his
collar, He saw, on the inside, his
pame: “Daniel”!
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Mental Processes
A mother was cajoling her little
daughter into taking some medicine
that evidently was rather of unpleas-
ant taste, saying:
«1 don’t like to take medicine any
petter than you do, but I just make
up my mind to do it, and then I do.”
“Yes, mother, and 1 just make wp
my mind that I won't take it and 1
don’t.” The little girl won her point.
Making A Will A Duty
HE making of a Will is a duty that
T every man owes to himself. And the
selection of a proper Executor is part of this
duty. More and more prudent men are
naming corporate executors rather than in-
dividuals. The corporation does not die; it
has trained officers to do its work. It is
under strict supervision by the State. It
offers many advantages, let Us act for you. |
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