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T 6:30 P. M. Nell Cable looked
out of the living room window
and saw Sidney just coming
round the corner. And Sidney
Cable, hurrying home from work,
fooked toward the familiar window and
saw Nell standing there, a welcoming
sight in her blue dress. They had been
doing this for thirty happy, helpful
years. Only it hadn't always been the
same corner or the same window.
Nell ran to open the door, and Sid-
ney dashed in out »f the rain. His
face smelled of tobacco smoke and
fresh air as he kissed her. Nell's face
smelled of spinach, roast pork and ap-
ple dumplings, with a da%h of rice
powder. They smiled, glad to get each
other back.
“Well?” she inquired.
“Good day, take it all round. What
you been up to?”
“Curtains. Washed six pair. They
dried beautifully. Hurry up and wash.
The roast’s getting overdone.”
They sat opposite each other at the
dainty table. They ate with keen en-
Joyment of the food. Nell was a good
cook. They glanced at each other with
satisfaction, two middle-aged married
folk with graying hair, clear eyes,
steadfast hearts.
“Rose was in this afternoon. She’s
going to have her dining room done in
panels and change the draperies,”
Nell related. “Did you see Paul?”
“We lunched together as usual.”
Paul and Rose were their children,
married and taking right after their
parents. “Paul reminded me that we'd
been married thirty years day after to-
morrow. It don’t seem so long!”
“Paul was our first anniversary pres-
ent, And Rose came near being our
third,” Nell mused tenderly.
“This time we're going to celebrate,”
Sidney announced.
“What do you mean?”
“We're going back to Cedarville,
where we started together; where I
earned $8 a week. And we tried he-
roically to save $2! We did it, too—"
“Till Paul came. He upset our
Achedule,” Nell laughed softly. “And
Rose upset it still more. We had to
‘have more money. So we pulled up
stakes and came here. You've always
been a good provider, Sid.”
“And you've always been a man-
ager. What say to the trip?”
' They talked a lot about the trip.
Nell got excited. She called up Rose
and consulted with her, Sidney called
up Paul and consulted with him. The
children, too, became excited, for fa-
ther and mother were dear old steadies
(who always stayed at home. You
couldn’t pry them off the front porch
iin summer or away from the radio in
‘winter. Cedarville was a day's jour-
ney away, and to review old memories
was something of an adventure.
Nell admitted that she had been
iftching to go back this long while.
Cedarville called her louder and lcud-
er as she grew older. It must be some-
thing about the dear little white
house where she and Sidney had set
up housekeeping—.
All next day they traveled towara
Cedarville. They had seats in the pull-
man. Nell wore a trim tan coat and
close-fitting hat that made her look
almost girlish. Sidney might easily
ihave been taken for a bridegroom.
(Their bags were new. Sidney read his
newspaper and Nell tried to get inter-
ested in a magazine. But her thoughts
strayed to that fateful day now almost
a quarter of a century past when she
had last come this way. Sidney car-
ried Rose and the biggest satchel ; she
led Pau’ and carried another satchel.
They were tried, yet eager and hope-
ful. Rose had the snuffles and it took
a good many hankies to keep her little
nose clean. And Paul was at the age
‘where he asked a question every other
‘minute. Sidney answered the child
patiently, although his mind was busy.
‘with the whys and wherefores of the
new job he was undertaking.
Evening brought them back to Ce-
darville. Cedarville, they found, hadn’t
‘been standing still in their absence.
‘Cedarville had grown up. They taxied
to a great new hotel. They were a bit
bewildered by this lively new Cedar-
ville. Not a soul they knew anywhere
in sight.
Next morning they started out to
And the little white house. Suppose it
‘had burned down or been moved away
or built over into some unrecognizable
shape? Nell’s eyes misted.
They found the street and it was
much the same, for Cedarville had
moved on toward the railway station.
And they found the house. Nell
grabbed Sidney's arm. She couldn’t
speak.
“Gosh-all-Friday! Look at that
maple! 1t wasn’t any thicker through
than my finger when I set it out!”
Sidney exclaimed.
Upon the front door was a sign
“For Sale.” They peeked in all the
lower windows. It was so dirty and
shabby. It needed mothering dread-
fully. Nell, remembering how it hgd
looked when she left it, felt a lump
rise in her throat.
They went round and sat down upon
the sagging back steps. Nell saw that
the valley-lilies she had set out were
a great patch now. She stared at them
wistfully, recalling the April morning’
when she had set out the few plants
somebody had given her. It was one
of those times when their income and
expenses refused to come out even,
and they had only mush and milk for
dinner. But what matter? They were
young and healthy and happy and aw-
fully in love.
Voices, steps. A child came first,
then a girl. The boy was sunny-haireq,
a gallant two-year-old in blue rompers.
The girl, his mother, was young, eager,
alive, and so pretty that one didn't
notice how shabby were her dress and
hat.
“Oh!” she exclaimed, startled. “I
didn’t know anybody was here! Were
you thinking of looking at the house.
too?”
“No,” replied Sidney, while Nell
hungrily eyed the child. “We're just
resting for a bit, that’s all
we're not in your way.”
“Oh, no!” The girl looked relieved,
finding that they were mot prospec-
tive buyers.
Meanwhile Nell had got hold of the
boy, making friends by way of a candy
she had found in her bag. H2 crunched
the hard sweet with his white baby
teeth and grinned.
“I've got the key here,” said the
girl. “The real estate man said I could
come and look round. Maybe you'd
like to go in with me?”
They went in. Nell carried Jimmie
as they strayed from room to room.
“I don’t know,” murmured the girl
“The price is more than we expected
to pay. But it’s nice and quiet out
here. Steve said I could go ahead and
pick out a place. He's busy all day,
and tired at night. I wish you folks
would tell me what you'd do in my
place.”
“I should take it,” Nell said prompt-
ly. “Of course, it’s terribly dingy, but
a little paint and fresh paper wili
change all that. Just tell the real
estate agent that he’s got to allow
you something toward alterations. He
will, I'm sure—Have you noticed this
dear little corner cupboard? And this
closet under the stairs? Just the place
for your husband to hang away his
coat. And wouldn't a red geranium
look nice on that windowsill? Up-
stairs that small room over this one
will be fine for the boy. And the sun
will shine across his little bed al!
morning.”
“I believe I'll take it,” said the girl.
“Did you notice the lilies and that
splendid maple tree?”
“I—I believe I did,” answered Nell,
They went away leaving the girl with
the house. But that evening they cama
back again. The moon was shining,
they had planned to sit on the steps,
Hope
but just as they approached the front |
door opened and out came a tall younz
man and a girl. They locked the door.
their door, behind them.
“They were the nicest couple, Steve,
Nell heard the girl say. “Just like
what I hope you and I shall be when
we get to be their age. You'd have
thought they'd lived here once them-
selves by the way they knew about
everything. If it hadn't been for her
I don’t know as I should have felt we
could have it, but don’t you see what
a dear little home it’s going to make
us?”
“You're a wise little woman, Daisy,”
returned Steve.
In the shadow Nell squeezed Sia-
ney’s arm. She sighed thankfully.
The little house was in good hands
again, that was evident.
Finding, the Best Birds
Among Pilot Applicants
Some persons make better birds than
others.
To determine what persons have suf-
ficient birdlike qualities to make good
flyers the United States Department of
Commerce has recently appointed 300
medical examiners to test candidates
for commercial flying licenses.
Perfect development of certain spe-
cial senses are required in the good
aviator, says Hygeia in commenting
editorially on the development of avia-
tion medicine. The aviator must use
his bodily organs for purposes for
which they were not intended. The
flight surgeon must pick men who will
be competent in the air and must
keep them in such condition that they
will not fail through physical, defects
in their own bodies.
“More and more invention provides
substitutes for the senses men have
not developed, so that flying daily be-
comes safer,” says Hygeia. “But the
time has not arrived when anyone who
wishes may pilot a plane as men now
drive automobiles. Federal licenses
are required for flyers between states,
and many individual states are begin-
ning to see the necessity for physical
examination before issuing state li-
censes.”
Where Man Falls Down
It may seem a bit odd, but a stand-
ing offer of $1,000 to the man who
ill imitate the work of the bee and
reproduce the honeycomb is still with-
out a taker. Maeterlinck could write
feelingly of the life of the bee. Bee
Fesler and James Whitcomb Riley
could philosophize humorously, and
fool the busy insects into doing dou-
ble duty by shifting the hive from
north to south and back again; ex-
perts are able to obtain honey in vari-
ons flavors by sending the honey
gatherers into varied pastures and
among different blossoms to do their
stuff, but the construction of the
comb continues to be the private and
secret function of the bee himself. So
far as making honeycomb is concerned
man gives a fine imitation of the
drone.—Lafayette Journal and Cou-
rier.
Ballroom Etiquet of 1860
In an old bookshop on the Strand,
London, a collector recently found an
old volume entitled “Htiquet of the
Ballroom,” puldished in 1860. Among
its “rules” is this one: “The practice
of chewing tobacco and spitting on the
floor is not only nauseous to ladies but
injurious to their gowns.” Need for
this one has been outlived but here is
one still applicable t¢ modern times:
“Love-making is cut of place in the
ballroom.”-~Capper’s Weekly.
Varieties of Spiders
Have Communal Nests
Some spiders live In large colonles
in close intimacy not only with spiders
of different species, but with other
Insects. In Mexico In regions at sn
altitude of 2,500 yards, spiders are
found that live in societies and con-
struct common nests of large dimen-
sions like the nests of ants and bees,
The nests are in great demand among
the natives of the country, who take
fragments of them and hang them
about their rooms as traps for flies
and mosquitoes.
The nests are surrounded with
threads that serve as hiding places
in which the spiders lie in wait for
their prey. All the insects crught
are used as food for the colony. tn
the nests, which the spiders never
leave for any reason or under any
circumstances, are piled heaps of flies,
yet the nests are kept with the ut-
most cleanliness. The public hygiene
of the colony is looked after by a
small creature treated -.:‘h scrupulous
respect by all the spiders. This in-
finitesimal being does for spider comn-
munities what the blind white wood
louse does for ants. It is of the fam-
ily of the Latricides; it lives in the
common oaest with all the spiders,
nourishing itself on everything re-
jected and cast off by them.—Wash-
ington Star.
Cretans Were Liberal
in Decorative Id»
The Cretan decorators did not sciu-
ple to depart from a literal interpreta-
tion of nature if by so doing they so
cured desirable decorative effects.
If a monkey with a blue head svited
their purpose better than a realistic
monkey they showed no hesitance in
altering it. This is the decorators
privilege, a sort of artistic license that
has been taken by artists from those
ancient times to the present.
Do not think that curious drawings
and distortions are the product of
amateurish hands. The Cretan gec-
orators did not alter the apparcut
forms because they could not draw
them correctly. It was done deliber-
ately, to suit their scheme of decora-
tion. Sometimes a naturalistic treat
ment of flowers and ferns was used.
When they liked they could give
realistic interpretation and at other
times conventionalize their subjects.
When it suited their purpose they put
in colors that nature never used in
such places. These Cretan decorators
were great craftsmen and artists.
Their designs are studied by artists
today.
Not Guilty
A man was charged with kissing a
girl against her will, and during the
proceedings the girl went into the
box. y
“You say,” said the counsel for the
defense, “that my client took you by
surprise, and that you gave him no
encouragement?”
“I do,” replied the girl.
“Doesn't it strike you as strange |
that he should have managed to Kiss
you as you were unwilling?” added
counsel. “Look at my client, and
then consider your own height.
you must be wvearly a foot taller than
he is.”
“Well, what of it?’ retorted the
girl. “I can stoop, can’t I?”
Chasing Woodchucks
The wise farmers, when bothered by
woodchucks, resort to one of three
methods in thinning them out. They
insert either calcium cyanide or car-
bon disulphide in the chuck’s burrow
and seal it over. The fumes in a
short time will penetrate every part of
the burrow and Mr. Woodchuck 18
gassed to death. Another method is
that of attaching a hose to the ex-
haust of a tractor engine or automo-
bile and inserting down into the bur-
row, sealing the entrance and racing
the engine. Carbon monoxide does
the rest. Hunting chucks with fire-
arms is a long drawn out job and has
never been satisfactory.
Narrow Escape
A small child who much disliked
milk pudding had been made to firdsh
it before leaving the table. When st:é
had at last eaten it she asked if sne
might get down.
“Yes, when you have said grace,”
said her mother.
“But I've nothing to be thankful
for,” answered the child sulkily.
“Very well then,” said the mother,
“stay where you are.”
This was too much for the child, sa,
putting her two small hands together,
she said, in a loud, clear voice,
“Thank God I wasn’t sick. Now may
1 get down?”
Not in His Line
While doing some historical research
recently, an Indianapolis woman
stepped into a cigar store seeking ipn-
formation concerning a tablet in the
vicinity, supposed to represent the site
of the first school building in Indian-
apolis.
In response to the woman’s ques-
tion, the man behind the counter re-
turned politely, “We don’t keep tab-
lets, lady.”—Indianapolis News.
Lost Walk in Spirals
Persons lost or blindfolded naturag
ly walk in circles or spirals, not he-
cause one leg is shorter than the
other, but because of a special “steer
ing mechanism” that takes control
when the eyes are unable to function
a8 directing agents.
Why, :
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Art Treasure Brought
From English Mansion
A Fifteenth century window of |
stained and painted glass from the |
teautiful chapel of Hampton court, an '
ancient English mansion house, is at
the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
Hampton court was built by Sir
Xoland Lenthal about the year 1435,
f little more than a half-century be-
fore Columbus voyaged to America.
Sir Roland, who built the mansion un-
der the auspices of Henry VI, had be-
come wealthy partly through the vie-
tory of Agincourt, where he had ac
quired a number of prisoners.
As was customary in those days, a
chapel was a component part of the
dwelling.
was made by John de la Chambre
pere, who painted much of the fine
ecclesiastical glass of the period,
notably the great St. Cuthbert window
ut York minster. It is interesting to
note in this Fifteenth century work
that there is much plain glass inserted
and then painted, although stained
glass was widely used at the time. In
this example, the hair and beards of
the apostles are painted on. Above
eight ‘apostles—Peter, Andrew, James,
John, Bartholomew, Matthew, James
the lesser, and Simon—set in niches
under painted canopies are figures of
St. Francis and St. John the Baptist
Excavators Work to
Restore Ancient City
Excavators have done excellent work
in restoring the wonders and beauties
of ancient Herculaneum. Thus the
missing portions of a frescoed wall are
no longer considered as irrevocably
lost. No trace of destruction or ruin
is left after the discovery of a build-
ing, and, as far as possible, no blank
spaces ure to be found in any mosaic
or fresco uncovered. Wooden doors,
windows, stairs and furniture are re-
constructed or reproduced from the
ariginal surviving fragments, general-
ly consisting of charred or carbonized
pleces of wood.
Trees, plants and flowering shrubs
griginally adorning gardens are identi-
fed from their surviving roots and
replaced by new ones.
Several houses have been un
earthed, and most of them have been
practically rebuilt. he carbonized
remains of wooden beds and chests
found in three cubicles rendered pos-
sible the reconstruction of the orig-
inal fur:siture.
A swimming pool faced with marble,
A water tank covered by an iron grat-
ing, a ladder leading to a slave’s bed-
room in an attic, shutters meant to
keep the glare of the sun from cool
marble halls, have all been recon-
structed.
Flower Cultivation
It is not possible to answer defi-
ritely as to when wild flowers were
domesticated. The ancient Egyptians,
Greeks, Assyrians, Romans and Chi-
nese cultivated flowers for use and
gleasure and propagated many plants.
One of the most ancient examples of
enitivated plants is a drawing repre-
genting figs found in the Pyramid of
izh in Egypt. Authors have as-
signed a date varying between 1,500
and 4,200 years before the Christian
era. The first notions concerning
gardening were introduced into Japan
by the Koreans in 604 A. D. In China,
2700 years B. C., Emperor Chennung
fastituted a ceremony in which every
year five species of useful plants were
sown.
Materialistic
Mrs. J. had become weary of the
noise that accompanied the play of
ber two young sons, especially since
there seemed to be indications that a
slight quarrel was developing.
“Boys,” she cried in desperation, foi
éhe had been troubled with a head-
ache all day, “if you do not stop quar-
reling, mother may get sick and: die.
and then what will you do?”
The boys stopped suddenly to con-
sider the effects of such a tragedy.
“lI know what I should do,” volun-
teered Jim. “I should go to Aunt
Jane's, because she has such good
peach preserves.”
“I shouldn’t,” disagreed Charles. *}
should go to Aunt Helen's, for I like
strawberry jam better.”
Tell Age by Scars
In the Botanic gardens, Regent's
gark, London, is a remarkable tree
gnown as the “Kaffir Bread” plant.
More than 1,000 years old, it is not,
however, a native of Great Britain,
kaving been imported from South Af-
rica a few years ago. Nor is it very
ig. At its widest point the trunk is
only 15 inches in girth, and the tree
is barely ten feet high, yet it is known
by the formidable name of Encepha-
lartos Altensteinii.
How can its age be told? This is
done by comparing the number of leaf
scars which cover the trunk with the
gumber of fronds produced each year.
Presents of Mind
The small son of the house had jus
informed his parents that he had been
dreaming during the night.
“Well, and what did you drean.
about?” asked his father.
“1 dreamt that you gave me a pea
aling motor car, daddy,” began the
small boy, “and mother gave me ga
box of soldiers.”
“But you know, dear, that dreams |
«ways mean the opposite.”
“Oh, yes!” The youngster was un
dismayed. “But, then, I shall get the
soldiers from you, an’ mummie'll give
me the motor.”
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MOST FIRE ALARMS
GIVEN BY TELEPHONE
Subscribers Ur;ed to Refrain
From Asking Operator Lo-
cation of Blaze
Every telephone, whether in the
home or business establishment, is a
saver of property—and
often a saver of life—in case of fire.
This is evidenced by the fact that a
majority of the alarms turned in
throughout Pennsylvania in recent
years have reached fire companies via
It is thought that the glass , telephone, according to records com-
viled in many cities and towns.
Ignorance of the location of the
neighborhood fire signal box, or its
remoteness from the scene of the out- |
break, are frequently responsible for
the use of the telephone by persons
sending in alarms. Telephoning an
alarm has the advantage of enabling
the person flashing the warning to
designate the exact scene of the blaze.
When a fire signal box is used, fire-
men are forced to proceed directly to
its location, which may be some dis-
tance from the burning building.
To the farmer, the telephone affords
che only agency through which fire-
men may be summoned hurriedly.
Many farm buildings in Pennsylvania
have been saved because telephones
were available in the homes of the
farmers affected.
In connection with the use of the
ielephone in case of fire, telephone of-
ficials have repeatedly emphasizad the
fact that subscribers should refrain
from calling the operator to ask the
location of a blaze.
If scores or hundreds of curiosity
calls are made when a fire breaks out,
it is impossible for the operator to
: distinguish between vitally important
calls for ambulances, physicians or
additional fire apparatus and the calls
of the merely curious.
Life and death may depend upon
che rapidity with which these emer-
gency calls are handled and the
switchboard must be kept clear to re-
ceive them.
Seismograph Notes
Quakes of the Heart
Potsdam, Germany.—Lovers’ hearts
that pound like earthquakes form a
familiar poetic simile, but German
science is reported to be taking it
literally.
The study of heartbeats by the same
instrument used to record earth-
quakes, the seismograph, is a recent
accomplishment of Dr. Gustav Angel-
beister, earthquake expert of the
Geophysical institute at Potsdam, near
Berlin.
Placing patients on a heavily built
couch connected to a special seis
mograph, Doctor Angenheister ob-
tains records of every shock and
quiver produced by the throbbing
heart, precisely as though these were
shock waves broadcast through the
globe by an earthquake.
The doctor's seismograph magnifies
by several thousand times heart
shocks transmitted to it. The vibra-
tions are then recorded on a moving
strip of photographic film.
Physicians now study the action ot
the heart, Doctor Angenheister and
his medical associates point out, by
indirect methods, either by sounds or
by electric changes.
The old-fashioned stethoscope on
even an ear pressed to the chest per-
mits one to hear the heart sounds and
these now may be magnified and re-
corded by modern electric apparatus.
Similarly the electric changes accom-
panying the heartbeat are recorded by
the Instrument called the electro-
cardiograph.
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Real Estate For Sale!
Estate of Clyde I. Blackford, Deceased
Farm six miles north of Howard, situate in Curtin Township,
Centre County, Pa., containing 295 acres more or less. This
farm was purchased with the idea of making a hunting and
fishing reserve. It is ideally located. Two and one-half story
frame dwelling and restaurant on East Bishop street, Belle-
fonte,, Pa. This property is centrally located and restaurant
has been conducted in this property known as the Blackford
Restaurant for 50 years or more.
Estate of Emma E. Cooke, Deceased
Two and one-half frame house and lot with barn and neces-
sary out-buildings, situate in Howard Borough, Centre Coun-
This house has all the modern conveniences and is
Estate of Edward J. Purdue, Deceased
Farm on the top of Purdue Mountain, three miles west of
Bellefonte, situate in Benner Township, Centre County, Pa.,
containing sixty acres more or less, with a house, barn and all
necessary out-buildings. This farm would make a very de-
sirable summer resort and hunting camp.
Estate of Nellie E. Willard, Deceased
Three and one-half story brick house on North Thomas street,
Bellefonte, Pa. This house is divided into six living apartments
and has all the modern conveniences. This property would be
a good, safe, conservative investment.
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