Never, since cupid began to shoot his arrows was there a more beautiful valentine! more fortunate children had re- ceived “double deckers” now and but this had “decks” to the number of four— “decks” of lovely gold and silver paper lace which could be smoothed to a uniform flatness when the valentine was folded away in its box, or could be pulled out, tier upon tier of shining glory, by means of the neat little paper supports hidden cunningly un- der the pretty frame-work, When this was done, your delighted eyes looked down a deep telescope of fluffy edges, and beheld at the end of the vista, a lovely lake on which a silver swan was swimming. On his back perched saucily a rosy cupid who smiled at you as he aim- ed a gold-tipped arrow just taken from a rose-wreathed quiver. All around the top-most ‘‘deck” were boquets of pink roses with floating pale ribbons confining their stems, and on these graceful, true-lovers knots were inscribed touching senti- ments such as “Ever thine,” True love's token,” “To one I love,” and “Love's offering.” After all these glories had been exhausted there was still another joy in store, for inside the covers of this wonderful missive, in golden letters, was print- ed the dearest little verse: — “Kind and gentle, Frank and free,— She's the Valentine For me.” There wasn't a child in Maple Vil- lage for two long weeks, ever since its first appearance in Mr. Dobson's shop window, who had not gloated over this valentine, hoping against hope that the fourteenth of Febru- ary might find her selected as the “kind and gentle” one mentioned in the charming valentine. Many times did Mr. Dobson, smiling through his spectacles, open the covers that he might delight the eyes of some little rosy-cheeked, wide-eyed maiden with the tender lines inscribed therein. Many a time did he be- behold the disappointed falling of an eager little face when to the question of “How much for that one?” accompanied with a mit- tened finger pointing to the covered | treasure, he responded, “One dollar.” One dollar! in Maple Village had that much to spend on St. Valentine's offerings. Many of odds and ends of colored papers, and hardly anyone felt justified in spending more than a five cent piece on the more artistic valentines at Mr, Dobson's store. So, wkile the cheaper valentines disappeared one by one, picked out after school by happy children, ve secret and important in their sen ental er- rand, the fourteenth of February found the saucy cupid still perched upon the back of e silver swan in Mr. Dobson's window. It was there when the group of lassies hurried down to the noon mail for the precious missives they knew they were about to receive. It was the custom of Maple Village to send its valentines through the mails, and the clerk smiled good naturedly as he counted out the white envelopes to the little maidens who stood on tip-toe bzfore his win- | dow. Then they rushed away, seat- ing themselves on the steps of the bank across the street in the warmth of February sunshine, eager to look at St. Valentine's gifts. And that was how Mr. Granby came to see them. Mr. Granby was accounted very rich in Maple Village. The older people had substantial grounds for their belief in his wealth, for be- side being president of the bank, he was master of a beautiful estate down by the river; horses and ser- vants were his, and he was known to own stock in many desirable com- panies. But the children had a sim- pler reason for believing in his riches, based on a theory of Cora Marsh's, brighest and prettiest of the little girls. “You see,” she said, he must be just awful rich, ‘cause he owns the bank, and so he gets all the money in!” No one thought of disputing Cora, and from that time her little circle pictured the great man as puted monarch of piles and piles of glittering gold and silver and heaps and heaps of notes stored away windows of the brick building opposite the postoffice, But there were no little children on Mr. Gran- green behind the grated He had no wife and, apparently, no relatives. And so it was no wonder that his eyes had grown hard and cold behind his gold-rimmed specta- cles and his lips had become thin and unyiel for lack of something to smile about and that his face was lined and sallow, although Granby was not so very old. From his grated window he watched the enthusiastic, laughing group seated upon the stone steps below him. He ca the flutter of crimson hearts and bright papers while now and then some bit of sentiment, shouted in a shrill child- ish voice, pierced the plate window. Mr. Granby almost smiled as he realized that fourteenth of February and that St. Valentine was ruling on the steps below him. The children were counting their valentines. Cora Marsh had the most, of course. “Fifteen!” she told off proudly, The others follow- ed by thirteens, tens, and sevens. No one, unless we except Winny Dickson who, admiration and envy in her big black eyes, strove to catch glimpses of the beautiful hearts and darts and bow-knots which emerged from the fancy en- velopes. Ror Winny's little cold hands were empty. Nobody paid any attention to her. | A girl with no valentines was not | very interesting on the fourteenth of February, except as a sort of curiosity, and their childish thought- lessness took no note of her disap-| pointment. Winny was too proud ‘and plucky to let them see she) | cared, but after the girls had gone Some of the None of the children of the children contented themselves with homemade creations undis- dreds in a huge on up the hill, she sat down in the sunshine on the bank ste her face in her shabby Winny was crying. Mr. Granby watched the pathetic little figure below him for a moment. Perhaps rougish Cupid, who aims his arrows at the most unexpected targets, pierced Mr. Granby's heart at that instant, for suddenly he be- came conscious of a strange stirring there, not love, perhaps, but that which we are told is akin to it, pity. Mr, Granby did not often have impulses. His acts were consequences of much cool deliberation. If oc- casionally an impulse did visit him, he discouraged it religiously. But now his impulse was to go down and comfort the weeping little figure on the steps, and he obeyed it. Winny, quite extinguished in her faded skirts, looked up at a greatly coated figure wearing a sealskin cap. “What's the matter, little girl? Didn't you get any valentines?” a naturally gruff voice, striving to be gentle, asked. “No, sir,” sald Winny, too unhap- py to be much surprised that the great Mr. Granby troubled to in- quire into her grief. Then her stub- born pride and hatred of being pitied forced her to say something that was not true. “But I ain't crying for that!” she continued. A little twinkle shone in Mr. Granby's eyes, It might have been the beginning of a smile or the glistening of an unshed tear. He liked the child's spirit. “No” that's right,” he replied ap- provingly. “There's another mail af- ter school tonight, you know. What's your name, little girl!” Winny told him. Then Mr. Gran- by went into the bank again. But on his way back from lunch his handsome coupe stopped before Mr. Dobson's shop door and Mr. Granby alighted. tine,” he said to Mr. Dobson who came bowing to meet him, The lovely gold and silver valen- tine with its swan and its cupid was laid before him. Mr. Granby seemed unimpressed. “That the best yuo've got?” he ask- ed in his sharp, dry way. Mr. Dobson assured him that nowhere could be found anything more desirable. Cutting the shopman short-—"“Well, give me that, then,” Mr. said without even asking the price. up people like Mr. Granby and | fortune! | gruff and short that afternoon. They failed to notice that, as he looked | from his grated window after the | schools were out, he smiled a little. |For in the little group that counted now but a few belated valentines lon the steps, Winny, her black {eyes shining and her aching little i | fingers forgotten in her glee, was | the centre of attraction, for in her hands she held the coveted treasure of Maple Village. |ed away from the | Granby saw her raise it to her lips (and in Shop Talk. SHOW IN PHILADELPHIA A breath from the big outdoors, fragrant with the odors of spruce, ‘pine and fir, will sweep over Phila- | delphia when that city's first sports ‘men's and motor boat show opens SPORTSMEN'S at the Commercial Museum on Sat- urday, February 21st. Boston has long been familiar with this type of | exhibition, where the sportsmen’s show has become an institution of ‘recognized educational value, besides ‘being the most colorful spectacle | staged there. | Scenes dear to the heart of every | sportsman, depicting forested moun- tains, lakes, streams and great stretches of rusty-brown marshes, will comprise the decorative motif. | The show will be a zoo of Ameri-| ‘can wild life, with 80 cages of live ‘animals found on this continent, in- | cluding moose, eik, reindeer, deer. | bison, bay lynx, Canada lynx, moun-| | tain lions, beavers and other fur | bearers, timber wolves, coyotes, ‘game birds of all native species and | imported birds, wildfowl by the hun- tanks of game, fish and other forms lof wild life seldom seen outside of bank | an exhibition of this sort. | One of the notable exhibits will be | that of the State of Pennsylvania, | which will set forth in its showing ‘of wild e animals, birds and fish by’s big estate to be made happy. | ie : ry a | markable success in conserving the wild life of this Commonwealth and hid | aded frock. | “Show me your prettiest valen- Granby | Oh, the difference between grown-. lit- | tle people to whom five cents is a | His clerks found him unusually And as he turn-| window, Mr. ss it reverently—By R. 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Dr. Stock said that man survived Parliament, is reprinted In at least one of the ice ages which month's are well marked in the geological records of America. Recent ad- | ditions to the evidence of early man- kind have been found in the south- west. New Mexico, Utah, Nevada and Arizona have yielded important discoveries linking the savage ances- tors of mankind with well known types of extinct animals. Geology records accurately record the time these anmals were alive. A University of Chicago wapedl. tion recently discovered the fossil skull of a camel near Fillmore, Utah, | This skull came from an animal | far different from the modern camels which the United States army im- ported from Arabia in the as pack animals. Because their hoofs were too ten- der for the sharp flinty rocks of the Arizona deserts, the camels were | turned loose by the soldiers. For years the descendants of the original camels were hunted for food |by the Apache Indians. They are now exterminated. | Some of the camel skulls are still | found occasionally. But they area modern breed. The fossil skull, Dr. Stock said, was a type of pre-historic camel thick once covered what is now the ! dependence northern United States, man lived Parliament was these freezing years andleft to make men evidences of his existence for modern wiles of vamping ladies. | 1 i | which came to America when this land was connected to Asia. The oer ting gi” a, f Ri ian ha, reposts BE DE eh Sow re ag | uuken Yolcaule peaks of the Day’ moose, deer, fur-bearing animals and | part nse : live specimens of the game fishes | "(yor that brid | ge of land, according | that have made that province fa- |, ocientists, many forms of life it was the] | mous among sportsmen. A fly tank, where “Bill” Vogt, nationally known expert, will log- contests among the world's range, with the competitions under the auspices of the National Rifle | Association; trap-shooting with daily competitions; demonstrations by tax- idermists on the mounting of game animals, are among a few of the entertainment features of the big show. As an added special attrac- tion, Arthur T. Walden, famous trainer and driver of huskies, will dogs which he had with Rear Ad- miral Byrd's South Pole expedition. with the original clothing, tents, sledges and other paraphernalia used on that historic voyage. urday, February 28th. —Subscribe for the Watchman. give daily exhibitions of that art; cleverest lumberjacks; a model rifle be in attendance with two teams of | The show continues through Sat-| | drifted to America. | tare | DANVILLE STATE MENTAL HOSPITAL IN ITS 59TH YEAR With the advent of the new year the Danville State hospital for Mental Diseases enters its 59th year of service to the 22 counties in the hospital district. The 59th year finds the hospital | treating 1800 patients and extending | treatment to 200 who are on parole ‘and to hundreds of others who visit |the nine clinics established in the | district. | The Danville State hospital began operation 59 years ago with one | Benjamin Boon, of Orangeville, | Columbia county, as its first patient. | He was 63 years of age when ad- | mitted to the hospital. A total of 219 patients were ad- mitted the first year. | There were 700 patients in the | institution in 1881 when the build- OLD ENGLISH LAW FO! WOMEN TO VAMP THEIR MEN While America was declaring in- in 1776, the English attempting by law independent of the The law held vamps liable to the punishment accorded to witches—but there isn't any record it succeeded in accom- The law, solemnly passed W.. Aromatics Magazine. It goes thus: “That all women, of whatever age, rank, profession or degree, whether maids or widows, that shall, from and after such Act, impose upon and betray into matrimony, any of his Majesty's subjects, by the use of scents, paints, cosmetic washes, artificial teeth, false hair, iron stays, hooks, high-heeled shoes, bolstered hips, shall incur the penalty of the law in force against witchcraft and like misdemeanors, and that the e, upon conviction, shall stand null and void.” In the century and a half since that law was have changed considerably. Not only do men enjoy the fragrance of good perfume about their women-folk but they are beginning to use scent themselves. “Many of the Anglo-Saxon race are prone to carry the impression that it isn’t manly for one of the male sex to use perfume,” says Aromatics. “Nevertheless, men are using more perfumes and cosmetics than in former years and several manufacturers are successfully mar- keting lines of toilet preparations made especially for men, In general, the article says, men prefer the simpler floral fragrances, such as lilac, lavender, carnation and rose. Women are reported ac- tive in converting their male friends to the use of scents. ing was consumed fire. The walls remained after the conflagra- tion but were razed and the insti- tution rebuilt. The hospital was located in Dan- ville by a commission of three medi- cal men appointed by the Governor. They were Dr. Trail Green, Easton; Dr. John Curwen, superintendent of the Harrisburg State hospital, and Dr, Reed, superintendent of the Dix- mude State hospital. Dr. S. S. Shultz was the first superintendent, appointed in 1868 and serving until his death in 1891. Dr H. B. Merrill succeeded him, serving for 28 years, until his resignation. eleven years ago when Dr. J. Allen Jackson was appointed. The board of trustees elects the superintendents for a three year term. The beginning of 1931 finds the of- ficlals of the institution busily en- gaged in an expansion program which will double its capacity by 1935. | 2 g 2 8 i i 1 H i fh | * Cotton Seed R. R. L. CAPERS. OSTEOPATH. Bellefonte Crider’'s Holmes BIdg D. CASEBEER, Optometrist —Regils- tered and licensed by the State. Eyes examined, glasses fitted. Sat- Satgonioh Susrattotd Frames replaced a i honed. Cassbeer IOS 66-11 VA B. ROAN, Optometrist, by the State Board. 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