Benoa Walp
Bellefonte, Pa., August 22, 1980.
WHY ——————-
Recumbent Body Requires
Covering
Do you know why you must. cover
up when you lie down? It is because
dt takes less muscle activity to main-
tain a recumbent position than a stand-
dng position, and therefore less heat
ds produced in the body. This is one
«of the interesting facts related by |
Dr. B. C. H. Harvey in his series of |
sgimple lessons in human anatomy
which appeared in Hygeia, the health
smagazine. In the article he describes
ithe wonders of the muscles.
Wherever movement is needed in
the body, there muscle tissue exists.
All muscle tissue is made up of thou-
ssands of fibers. The biceps muscle, for
Anstance, contains about 260,000.
A movement is not always made
with all the force we are capable of
wsing. A piece of muscle one inch |
square can lift about 140 pounds. There |
are billions of possible combinations
of fibers. No two persons use the
And that is why signa |
#ures identify people, Doctor Harvey
mame ones.
-gxplains. Bach person learns in child. ,
‘hood what combinations he likes tg
ase and thus develops his-own peculiar
~style of handwriting.
Why Airmail Service Is
of Value to the Nation
Some idea of the value to this coun-
ry in case of war of the air mail
sservice 1s indicated in figures recently
quoted by Assistant Postmaster Gen-
=gral Irving Glover.
He pointed to the training of a
corps of expert pilots, who daiiy fly
“44,000 miles, 29,000 of which are after
agdark.
The growth of the air fields coinci-
-dent with the expansion of the serv-
Ace, the employment at aircraft fac-
“tories of skilled labor, drawing a
“weekly pay roll of $1,000,000, the de-
velopment of a system of airways
“syhich in time of invasion of this coun-
i#ry would be of inestimable value in
speeding defense from one part of
‘the country to another were all cited
Dy Mr. Glover.
Incidentally, the daily quantity ot
air mail carried by plane has increased
from the 700,000 letters in the first
year of the service, in 1918, to more
than 25,000,000 letters which were
«carried in the month of April alone.
Why Called “Knickerbockers”
There are few of us but at one time
-or another have worn knickerbockers
-—those loose trousers, fastened at the
‘knees, which have become quite the
“vogue for sports wear for both nen
sand women, boys and girls.
This particular type of wearing ap-
.parel has been worn for hundreds of
years, particularly in Holland.
They were called ‘“knickerbockers,”
however, in America, after Diedrich
Knickerbocker, a nom de plume adopt-
~ed by Washington Irving, when he
“wrote his History of New York.
Diedrich Knickerbocker was consid-
~ered a typical Dutchman. He wore
ithe kind of trouser we know as knick-
erbockers. And after him, it was 80-
«called. —Kansas City Star.
Why Colors for Children
According to a traditional color
“scheme, which is of unknown origin,
“baby boys should be dressed in pink
~glothing ana baby girls in blue, al-
‘though in some parts of the country,
‘purticularly in the southern states,
parents reverse the old symbolical ar-
rangement and dress their baby boys
“in blue and their girls in pink. One
“writer says that blue was assigned to
<girls because that was the color adop-
ted by the Virgin Mary and the royal
house of David to which she belonged.
-At any rate, blue and pink have he-
come associated with babies.—Paih-
“finder Magazine.
Why Star on Currency
"Paper currency is printed and fin-
“dshed in sheets of 12 subjects. The
“finish includes imprinting the numbers
dn series. [It occasionally happens
after a serial number is imprinted
sthat the bill is discarded because of
some imperfection. A bill discarded
‘i8 replaced with a perfect bill, which
“has been prepared for such an emer-
-gency, and bears a number not in the
regular series, but which 1s distin-
guished by a star preceding the num-
“ber,
Why Exposure Hurts Coal
‘One would naturally believe coal
=gould be left lying around until want-
«ed without any loss from exposure to
the weather. This, however, is not
the case, for coking types of coal lose
-much of their coking qualities through
%this exposure. Coals particularly high
“in oxygen absorb oxygen rapidly, and
‘An thus doing lose the qualities which
smake them valuable for coke produe-
tion,
Why Owl Regurgitates
Owls, like other birds of prey, eject
through the mouth in the form of
elongated pcllets the hard, indigestible
portion of the food which it swallows.
These pellets of regurgitated food can
generally be found in the haunts of
“these birds.
Why Moon Is Colc
Although the sun strikes the moon's
wgurface with terrific power, it stores
no warmth there. For the moon lacks
what we possess—a thick coverlet of
«alr which acts as a sort of blanket
wand holds the heat from the sum,
{ Person of Usssual Size
Classed as Monstrosity
Many persons admire giants, per-
| tups envy them, and imagine that
| they are examples of a superior hu-
manity. A complete error; for gigant-
ism is an anomaly, a monstrosity, as
| much so as dwarfism.
| It is really a disease. The work of
anthropologists has shown that the
giant is a man that is still a child,
in whose case growth does not stop
at the age when normally he ought to
have ceased to grow. The giant is
rarely well-proportioned; his hands
and feet are almost always too large
his face is generally distorted.
Physicians who have studied gigant-
ism say that giants are all diabetic.
Professor Landouzy says also that al-
most all of them are candidates for
| tuberculosis. They are subject to all
sorts of other morbid troubles; they
tire sooner than normal persons; they
are unfit for all violent labor; their
muscles are weak in spite of their
size ; their nerves lack resistance, and
‘ they are often affected with neuras-
thenia., Handsome giants are rare.—
Jean Lecoq in Le Petit Journal, Paris.
St. David’s Day Holiday
for Grecian Youngsters
The Welsh are not the only folk
' who keep holiday on 8t. David's day,
' gays an article in the Montreal Family
Herald. In Greece it is called Swal-
low day, the festival of spring, when
the children go from house to house
gathering small gifts and carrying
wooden swallows, which they spin
around to the accompaniment of folk
songs. Some of these “swallow songs”
have a long history. One of them has
been traced back, indeed, more thap
2,000 years.
Jesus college, “Little Wales in Ox-
ford,” as the facetious have called it,
because of the preponderance of
Joneses there, has its own method of
celebrating St. David’s day. For one
thing there is the toasting of St. Da-
vid in “swig,” an exclusive and potent
Jesus college brew. This is dispensed
by a ladle that holds half a pint, from
a beautiful silver bowl presented for
the purpose by Sir Watkin Williams-
Wynn in 1732.
Derivation of “Tariff”
According to Edwards’ “Words,
Facts and Phrases,” the word “tariff”
comes from the Moorish name
“Tarifa,” a fortress that stands on
Cape Tarifa, a Spanish promontory
commanding the entrance to the Medi-
terranean. When the Moors had pos-
session they levied duties at certain
fixed rates upon all merchandise pass-
ing in or out of the straits. The Cen-
tury dictionary and other authorites
on etymology, however, give the word
a different origin. It comes from an
Italian word, “tariffa,” meaning “cast-
ing of accounts” or “list of prices,”
which was itself derived from the
Arabian “arif,” meaning “knowing.”
Adjustable Owl
An “adjustable” owl is on view at
the zoo, London. It is known as a
European Scops owl, and, though in-
significant in size, being normally
less than six inches high, it ig regard-
ed as a great rarity. The color and
markings of its plumage are like
those of a tree trunk. When at rest
the owl elongates its body and sits
motionless in such a position that it
resembles the stump of a branch. But
a remarkable change comes over it
when alarmed. It blows out its body,
which visibly grows in size like a toy
balloon being inflated. The bird is
then almost globular in shape and
quite unlike its elongated self.
Theory Made Real
A few years ago at a meeting a
banker opined that the total amount
of money in the world ought to be
equivalent to the total wealth of the
world; else, he suggested, people
would never be able to pay their
debts. He explained that in the
United States there were $20 of wealth
for every dollar of money, and there-
fore there was but one chance in
twenty of a debtor’s paying his debts.
“I will give $5,” he said, “to anyone
who can disprove that statement.”
When no one accepted the chal-
lenge, a wag suggested it was because
there was only one chance in twenty |
of getting the promised $5.
Talcum Production
North Carolina powders the nose of
the United States, having one of the
biggest talcum mines in the country !
near an abandoned gold mine and
much more valuable than any gold
mine. From the same rock which pro-
vides the finest and softest talcum for
the faces and arms of women comes
the talcum used in roofing and auto-
mobile tires. Much of that is sold to
the motor industry, while the finer
kind that 8Qes into dainty powder
boxes measures 80,000 particles to the
inch and is guaranteed to shed water,
New Ford Truk With Closed Cab
Model A light delivery cars
were announced this week by
the Ford Motor Company and are on
display in the show rooms of Ford
dealars.
Changes in the -trucks are prin-
cipally in the front end, which has
been completely redesigned, and in the
Ne Ford Model AA trucks and
-cab. The radiator is higher with more
cooling surface, fenders are wide and
flowing, and a black cowl strip adds a
note of distinction.
The new Model AA trucks with the
four-speed transmission introduced
several months ago may be had with
enclosed or open cab. The enclosed
cab, shown above, is all steel, it is low
in appearance yet with ample head
room. The open cab is of black rubber
top material and is easily removed.
Both cabs are equipped with wind-
shields of Triplex shatterproof glass
and vacuum type windshield wipers.
Model AA trucks may be had with a
platform body, which can be equipped
with stakes or a panel body. The
chassis has many improvements, in-
cluding the four-speed transmission,
larger front brakes, stronger springs,
power take-off opening and optional
dual rear wheels.
~The Model A line of new commercial
cars comprises a light delivery truck
with pick-up body, a deluxe delivery
truck, a small panel truck and a sta-
tion wagon. These cars have the
smaller wheels and larger tires of the
new Ford passenger cars.
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teoland Althing First
of World Parliaments
Iceland in June, 1930, celebrated
two great events: the one hundred
nineteenth birthday of Jon Sigurds-
son, its George Washington, who
wrung home rule from Denmark io
1874; the thousandth anniversary of
the althing, oldest parliament in the
world.
A century before the battle of Hast-
ings, 850. years before our own gov-
ernment was founded, the franklins
(free landowners) of Ireland were liv-
ing under a constitution (the constitu-
tion of Ulfiot) and a regularly consti-
tuted lawmaking body. The althing
met in midsummer and was the occa-
sion for great feasts and merrymak-
ing, as well as numerous bruises, lac-
arations and concussions.
What political life and law were like
in the old days is recorded in Iceland
sagas and law codes. The althing did
not function perfectly, nor did the
judicial system which was set up, the
real governing being done by the vari-
ous chieftains; nevertheless, the al-
thing forms a magnificent tradition, It
looks down from its hoary eminence
with paternal solicitude for such
youthful bodies as the English house
of commons and the United States
congress,
Many Plants That Lure
Insects to Their Death
There are a great many varieties
of -Insectivorous plants which grow al-
most all over the world. The first
group of these plants is known as the
pitcher plants, which have the blos-
som in the form of a pitcher which
acts as a death trap for flies and other
insects. The insects are attracted by
a fragrance or some other lure, enter
the mouth of the pitcher, and crawl
down toward the bottom, being forced
onward by small spikes downward
" pointing from the sides of the pitcher's
throat. The poor fly is thus given no
chance to escape and when he reaches
the bottom he is caught in the sticky
mass of fluid there and his body juices
absorbed by the plant.
types of insectivorous plants are the
Venus’ flytrap genus and the Dionaea
which grows only in the low coast re-
gions of North Carolina. This little
plant is probably the most famous
stem variety of the iInsect-eating
plants. A third type is a Sundew
Drosera, which is common to Aus-
tralia.
taining a great variety of species.
Bit of Greece in France
Antibes, like all the other places
along the fascinating French Riviera,
has had a romantic history, says a
writer in the Detroit News. It was
founded more than 2,000 years ago by
| descendants of the Greek colonists |
who had built a thriving city on the
site of Marseilles. Legend says that
among these first settlers were some
men and women who had come from
Greece and that they chose Antibes as
a place to build because the scenery
there reminded them so much of
Greece. Pheniclans and Carthaginians,
Romans and Gauls, Germans and Ital-
ians and French—they have all met on
this coast In the centuries that have
passed since, but Antibes has man-
. aged more than any other town in
resist fire and weather and protect all
underlying surfaces.—Capper’s Weekly. |
Three Was the Limit
“You must give your husband five
teaspoonfuls of this mixture every
night before he goes to bed,” ordered
the doctor.
The patient's wife looked a little
disconcerted.
“Five!” she sald. “I can't doctor.
Im afraid that’s quite impossible.”
The doctor frowned.
“Impossible? he sald. “Oh, non-
sense! What on earth do you mean?”
“Well, sir,” explained the woman.
#1 don't think we've got more than |
three In the house.”
France to retain its Greek appear
ance.
University’s Art Treasure
A full-size copy of Murillo’s “Im-
maculate Conception” in mosaics is in
i the chapel of the Catholic university
at Washington, a gift from Pope Pius
XI. Three artists labored nearly four
years in the Vatican mosale studio to
plece together nearly 800,000 bits of
! colored glass and of other mineral
compounds which form the finished
picture, the original of which is pre-
served in the Prado at Madrid. The
mosaic is 934 feet long and 6 feet
wide. Without a frame, it weighs
6,600 pounds. The pieces are of ou
000 different tints and shades.
—Read the Watchman and get all
the news worth reading.
Two other
This is also a large genus con- !
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Historic Buildings in
City of Philadelphia
Its wealth of historical landmarks
and associations and its close prox-
imity with other cities and places of
Interest on the east coast places
Philadelphia on the main roadway of
eastern tourist travel. To the visitor
interested in the nation’s history this
city offers associations which are iden-
tified with it alone and which distin-
guish it among all other American
towns. Chief among these is Inde-
pendence hall, where the Liberty bell
reposes and within whose walls the
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution of the United States were
drawn and signed.
Many of the most interesting ola
landmarks are confined to a small
area on the central part of town,
among these being Carpenter's hall,
meeting place of the first Continental
congress ; the Betsy Ross house, where
the first American flag is said to have
been made and old Christ church,
place of worship of Revolutionary he-
roes and in whose graveyard lies the
body of Benjamin Franklin. Congress
hall is another point of interest.
Bright Jap Youth Tells
All About the Banana
Japanese descriptions are almost al-
ways good for a few laughs. One of
the latest is the theme of a littl
Japanese schoolboy in the Sacramentc
valley. The subject was “The Banana,”
and the little fellow wrote:
“The banana are great remarkable
fruit. He are constructed in the same
architectural style as the honorable
gausage. Difference being skin of sau-
sage are habitaunally consumed while
it are not adviceable to eat rapping of
banana.
“Banana are held aloft while con
suming; sausage are usually left in
reclining position. Sausage depend for
creation on human being or stuffing
machine while banana are pristine
product of honorable mother nature.
“In case of sausage both conclusions
are attached to other sausages; hon-
orahle banana on other hand are joined
on one end to the stem and opposite
termination are entirely loose.
“Finally, banana are strictly mem-
ber of vegetable kingdom while affili-
ation of sausage is often undecided.”
~—Los Angeles Tires.
Alaska in Summer
The Alaskan summer is one of gor-
geous, vivid sun, warm winds and
flower gardens. The warm Japan cur-
rent, striking Vancouver island, is de-
flected northward and carries to the
Alaskan coast the same delightful hu-
midity of the lower Pacific coast. To
the visitor Alaska becomes a land of
great forests, rushing rivers, Indians,
curious totem poles, black fox farms,
salmon fisheries. The journey there
through 1,000 miles of scenery such
as found nowhere else is made in four
days threading the almost land-locked
channel known as the “Inside Pas-
sage” which winds through mountain-
hemmed filord-like waterways as
through a fairyland with wooded 1Is-
lands, tremendous glacier peaks, fas-
cinating Alaskan towns and queer old
settlements.
Ponderous Doctor Johnson
That Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709
1784), famous English lexicographer,
defined a window as “an orifice in an
edifice,” in his noted dictionary is gq
fact which lends point to the popular
anecdote told by Boswell. Speaking of
animal fables, Boswell said he thought
it would be difficult to write such
fanciful things. Johnson said it would
be easy enough.
In a later comment on this incident,
Boswell recalled the fable of the little
fishes who saw birds flying over thelr
heads. The biographer remarked:
“The skill consisted in making them
talk like little fishes, but if Doctor
Johnson were to make little fishes talk,
they would talk like whales!”
—Read the Watchman.
i
!
Dr. Edward F. Adolph of the Uni-
versity of Rochester has stated that
the elements in human bodies undergo
the following changes: Water changes
every three weeks; salt every 22 days;
potassium, T2 days; magnesium, 108
days; nitrogen, the fundamental ele-
ment of muscles, 200 days; iron, essen-
tial element of the blood, changes
about every 300 days; phosphorus, 800
days, and lime, 2,300 days. Certain
cells, such as the brain cells, appar-
ently last a lifetime.
Baby Learns to Hike
The word “walking” is becoming
obsolete as the term “hiking” comes
into general use. Before long we may
be saying, “The bride hiked down the
aisle on the arm of her father =
Woman's Home Companion.
FEED
We Offer Subject to Market Changes:
per 1001b
2.20
Hecla Scratch Feed
Wayne 32 per cent. Dairy... 2.50
Wayne 24 per cent. Dairy...... 2.20
Wayne 20 per cent. Dairy...... 2.10
Wayne 169% Dairy Ration...... 1.75
Wayne Egg Mash... 2.70
Wayne 189, Pig Meal 2.70
Wayne 289% Hog Meal 2.85
Wayne All Mash Starter.......... 3.90
Wayne All Mash Grower........ 3.40
Wayne Calf Meal............ ... 4.25
Rydes Calf Meal........................ 4.50
Ban ln 1.60
A Midds ........... oa 1.80
B. Midds ............. ...... 1.50
Corn and Oats Chop .............. 2.10
Cracked Corn .............cicoicniony 240
Com Chop 0. 2.40 |
Flax Meal o....... onaaiis 2.40
Linseed oil meal, ................. 2.80
Cottonseed Meal .................... 2.50
Gluten Feed ................... 2.40
Alfalfa meal .................... 2.25
Alfalfa loaf meal ................ 3.25
Beef Scrap or Meat Meal...... 4.00
Hog ‘tankage ... ..... ....... 2.70
Oyster Shells ........ 1.00
Mica Spar Grit... 1.50
Stock Salt . .......... =» 100
Common Fine Salt... 1.25
Menhaden 559% Fish Meal... 4.00
Borie Meal ".......... 38.25
Charcoal»... l-... 3.00
Dried Buttermilk 9.50
Dried Skim Milk 9.00
Pratt's Poultry Worm Powder 10.00
Pratt’s Poultry Regulator...... 9.00
Cod Liver Oil, cans gal........... 1.80
Cod Liver Oil, bulk gal.......... 1.30
14 bbl. 1st Prize Flour............ 1.50
14 Bbl. Pillsbury Flour............ 1.90
Orders for one ton or more de-
livered without extra charge.
We make no charge for mixing
your own rations.
Your orders will be appreciated
and have our careful attention.
A. F. HOCKMAN
BELLEFONTE
Feed Store—23 West Bishop St.
Phone 98-J
Mill—Hecla Park, Pa. Phone 2824
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consistent with the class of work,
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office.
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THE CUTS OF MEAT
that you get from us are always
juicy and tender. We are careful
buyers and years of experience is
our guide in supplying our custom-
ers with roasts, steaks and chops
that always give. satisfaction. We
want you to coma and make your
your own selections. Our chief aim
is to please all our customers.
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Bellefonte, Penna.