—————————————————————————————————— - i - | eee Bellefonte, Pa., June 26, 1981. — {ng something that, despite her bride. Hol GOT TO BE FIT Got to be fit in body and soul | For the great work of the day. Got to be fit and fine and clean To toil in the mightier way; Got to be captain of self and strong In the will of a purpose high To lead in the labor of life's best hour ‘Neath the glow of a stainless sky. The body's keen strength and the blood's high test Are only a port of the scheme; The soul and the heart must walk un- scathed. In the flood of the thrilling dream; Got to be fit and fine and clean With your head held up to the stairs, And noble in thought and in action as well As free from the sin that mars, Got to be true to a high ideal, And to live and to fashion your life In a way that is fit for the grueling test Of the tuned and terrible strife Got to be measured by standards right . As well as by those of skill; of Got to be true to the laws of God ! And master of soul and will, ———— 0. HENRY'S TRUE LOVE STORY Into the life of Willlam Sidney Porter, who was later to be known to the whole world as O. Henry, there came, at a crucial period of his development, a young school girl, Athol Es.es. Their meeting was at Austin, Tex- as, yet neither Porter nor the girl who was to become his wife, was a Texan. The girl was a Tennesseean from Greenville. Porter was born in Greensboro, N. C. The two towns are not so very far apart. But both “Will Porter” and Athol Estes had to be transported to Texas before fate allowed them to meet. It so happens that I am in a po- sition to present for the first time an intimate view of this touching love story, for I was Athol Estes’ | deskmate in the high school at Aus- tin during the time when O. Henry courted her, and we were close friends then and later. The youth- ful romance explains much in the career of O. Henry, who became the best-known writer of short stories that America has produced. His friends of the early days knew him as “Will Porter.” Life as a clerk in the drugstore in Greensboro seemed very flat and uninteresting to young Will. He grew restless. Friends invited him to visit their Texas ranch, and he accepted with joy. For several years he was under the spell of the spurs and the sombrero. However, he did not neglect his two best-pos- sessions en to the ranch with him from Greensboro—a guitar and a dictionary. As he rode badly and thought broadly, he mastered that dictionary from cover to cover. Was there ever a greater master of syn- onymns and antonyms? We have, too, frequent glimpses of him on the ranch in a hammock, swung be- tween two mesquite trees, t ng his beloved guitar and singing love songs. Both the dictionary and the guitar helped perfect him as a lover and a gp, writer. So he came to Austin well equipped for the sentimental jour- ney that awaited him. He had friends in Austin, the Harrells. They, too, were from Greensboro. With the hospitality South they invited Will Porter for an indefinite visit. He stayed a year. It was a very carefree, hap- py year. The dictionary still figur- ed, and the guitar. Will Porter's chief delight was spelling-bees. He could spell down all three of the Harrell boys and their neighbors. He joined the gy Quartet” and of “The Jolly Enter- tainers.” He liked to sit on door- steps and sing “In the Evening by the Moonlight.” He did not meet Athol at once, but played around with the friends of the Harrell boys. He joined the Austin Grays, a military company of local prominence and fashion, and waxed his moustache. It was at this time that the little girl from Tennessee, with her bob- bing curls that shining cascades, scene. She was just a high school girl, aprons, and made with the medal she had won in “English com- position.” It was then that I desked with Athol Estes. (Everyone had desk- mates in those days.) It was the whispered girl that form the basis of this love story. Athol was engaged to another man. She was his lock- bracelet and his opal ring. He was disturbingly handsome, well-to-do, and could also twang a guitar and sing “In the Evening by the Moon- light.” However, Athol Senaty: tobe happy in her engagement. a Will Porter. He could talk love with more diversity of expres- sions than any man she had met. He was wonderful! She would discard Lee's opal ring SHY I1% 10h es, Wis carrying the to e would not ey it for her. She wept bitter tears, but Lee was ad- amant. Ahtol's mother was Lee's champion. Athol's fancy for Will Porter would pass. It must pass, for she could never marry him with her mother’s consent. Athol firmly removed the ring, but she could not remove the bracelet. There were numerous dances, and at all of these she was a belle, dressed invariably in ruffled blue dimity. Will adored her. The" bob! curls were piled high on the hi now, with a little queen- ly air that won for her a coterie admirers. Through grammar high school, her desk always bristled with heart-offerings. There were of the old pling wearing long-sleeved white ever throughout the trial. candy hearts with impassioned vers- es, fruit, candy, flowers. She accepted these naturally and happily, as she accepted life. But this new love was something differ- ent, something new and Previous engagement, she had never Will Porter went to see her mother. That lady was firm. She ‘could never consent to Athol marry- Will Porter. She had | weighty a reason for Athol was young. ‘know her capable of ousness of ter's mother is, and Athol's father the same disease. will resolve to | He no longer in the | Entertainers, serenade at the ‘dow of his love. He had passed | that milestone on his sentimental journey. There was som 8 the caveman awakened in his soul ‘by the opposition of her mother. | Athol was his. She was the heart | that heaven had made for him. Both sang in ” after church one night that she | promised to be his, regardless of | parental objection. | When they did elope the time was | quite unpremedi quite unplan- (ned. Athol had gone down the | street in a hurry to get some little | thing for her mother. She met Will | Porter quite by accident. He per- |suaded her to go with him to the ‘home of a mutual friend. From there they drove to the minister's, “in the cool of a July day,” and were married. ! But was not the end of their romance. It was just a be- ginning. Life and love were best by trials and joys, the essentials in the life of a man who was destined to become pre-eminent in the art of depicting human experience. | Could Athol have known the pain, 'the sorrow, the humiliation that was to have been hers, there would have been no turni aside, no sadness, ‘no Tepining. he would have gone | bravely on, happy in her love and in 'the thought that she was contribut- ing in no small degree to the mak- ing of the great O. Henry. The frequent pictures we have of Athol in his stories, vivid and pleas- ing, show distinctly what an impress she left on his life. He ske her lightly but 1 y. In “Sis- ters of the Golden Circle,” he in- troduces you thus: “But I beg of you observe Mrs. {James Williams, Hatty Chalmers ‘that was—once the belle of Clover- Willingly had the moss rosebud loaned to her cheek of its pink—and as for the violet—her eyes will do very well as they are, thank you. O. Henry knew very little about clothes, as he, himself admitted. Some one asked him once why it was that he always dresed his hero- ines in dimity. “Why, it's the only material I know anything about,” he replied. “Athol always wore dimity. It always looked good to me." Anything Athol wore, or anything e “looked good” to Will Porter. He particularly admired her hair that she wore in bobbing curls when he first knew her. Do you recall Della’s hair in “The Gift of the Magic?” It fell in “rip- , Shining cascades,” he writes. “Had the Queen of Sheba lived in the flat across the airshaft, Della would have let her hair out of the window some day to dry just to de- preciate her majesty's jewels and gifts.” No jewels or gifts could ever have delighted the eyes of Will Porter as did the shimmering, gold- en hair of Athol Estes, “rippling, shining cassades. la, as you may remember, sac- rificed that hair to give her beloved husband, Jim, a Christmas present— a foolish fob chain. Athol sacrific- ed far more than her hair to give her beloved husband a Christmas | present when he was a tive from ‘justice in far-away Honduras. It was a foolish little present as Del- la’s had been, but it was costly. Night after night, tired and ill, she worked on a pointlace handker- chief for which a friendly merchant had promised $25. With this sum she bought Will Porter the little niceties of toilet that she felt that he must miss in | that remote uito coast. The crowning glory the Christmas box ‘was a small vial of extremely ex- pensive perfume that she knew confidences of this young would carry to him a message un- ‘expressible in words. | It was this box that brought him | back to her side, there to remain un- (til her loyal spirit took fight and (left him, abject, alone. He made no defense against the accusation of embezzlement that he faced. What {was there to fight for, now that she was gone? way. ‘was the attitude that he took. That (was the attitude that he maintained By his atti- tude and conduct he aided and abet- ted the jury in their verdict of to Columbus, Ohio, sentenced to five where they had laid to rest their first-born, a son, that was to have been named William Sidney Porter. No wonder Austin became to him in after years a “city of silence.” In his still quick memory the always lived, as in a shrine, t tell in buried, buried | Pear — | Athol “The ‘of the spring waters, overture lark, the twist of the lemon | the cocktail of creation—such ; 53 2d §Esfe : | mother, girl—but the check | that the po A send in married to mortality.” We who were A from day to day, who were merry ‘when se was sad, recognized in wit, ker quick sical humor and her loving Hil +E he companion divinely fashioned for Will | Porter, We believed that had she lived, Will Porter would never have been sent to the Columbus tentiary. For she would have t to the end, and all he needed was someone ..to fight for him. He discouraged friends, and he would not fight for himself. For all the fight had died within him and was buried in the ve of Athol Estes. —By Frances Maltby. Three thousand miles of trunk pipe lines—the newest compet- itor in the transportation field—are projected, have been or are being built. America’s great railroad system, already harassed by highway trans- portation, crude oil pipe lines, and airways, now is faced with new losses of freight if the gasoline lines prove feasible. It seems likely they will. | Railroad men regard the lines as largely experimental, rather than as economically expedient—but they are growing. Once crude oil lines were experi- mental, too. Now they move most of the oil. Pipe line construction appears to be at the beginning of an era. The largest gasoline pipe line un- der construction is that being built by the Great Lakes Pipe Line com- pany (a company owned by a group of mid-continent refiners,) to move gasoline from wie mid-continent area into the highly competitive Great Lakes territory. The line will be 1,218 miles long with a total capacity of around 1,- 260,000 gallons a day. Phillips retroleum Compan built an eight-inch line covering 760 miles from the Taxes Panhandle to St. Sos, 5 The Sun company is building a 500-mile gasoline line from Marcus Hook, Pa., through southern Penn- sylvania and northern Ohio with again branches to eastern Pennsylvania and northwestern New York. The Atlantic Refining company contemplates construction of a pipe line from its refinery at Point Breeze, through Philadelphia to Scranton and thence to the New | York state line. Later the company plans to have two main lines from Point Breeze, one ou oS ctatiion and | even y extending into New York Pennsylvania to Bit tabu r gh ash sbur an Franklin. g Standard Oil of New Jersey has rehabilitated the old Tuscarora oil pipe line for use in moving gasoline. This 1000-mile line stretches from Bayway, N. J, refineres westward through Lebanon, Pa. to Negley, on the Ohio Pennsylvania state line. Standard Oil of New York has an- nounced the building of a 100-mile gasoline line between Providence, R. I, and Springfield, Mass. MAPS OF STATE ROADS : FOR DISTRIBUTION Officials Tourist Maps of Pennsyl- vania, covering the State highway system and chief connec roads, is free to any person a copy and no person is au to sell copies or to use them in ad Limited supplies of the maps have been distributed to Chambers of Commerce, hotels, and automobile clubs. Individual requests directed to the De t of Highways, ‘Bureau of Publicity and Information, ‘Harrisburg, will receive prompt at- tention. The seventh annual issue of the map was designed along the same ‘lines as in other years, with im- provement wherever possible. Maps of r vania cities on the reverse of the map aid mortorists in traveling through cities, while enlarged maps of the m litan ou oo the congested ‘afford access ‘centers, at the same time locating many suburban centers not shown ‘on the larger map through lack of ‘space. Three colors were used in pro- cing the tourist maps. ‘The en- du tire State highway system is shown in red, with route numbers in shields for United States routes, and in ‘circles for Pennsylvania routes. Con- ‘necting roads in county or township systems are indicated in blue, as are ‘names of towns. County lines, the Let injustice have its names of counties and rivers, lakes annual international beauty H all. That and creeks are outlined in green. eant e cared not at * into No rank was given the other en- ©g8S in a custard ice cream are | The map extends sufficiently | neighboring States to enable motor- ists to choose suitable connections |for thru journeys. | Connecting roads shown on the Unprotestingly, he went tourist map were chosen without re- colonel if she achieved the gard to the township road system, which was not a part of the State highway system at the time the map was drawn. A brief summary of sensible driv- ing rules and major motor laws ap- on the reverse with a scale of approximate distance between nine- ty-two cities and towns of Penn- sylvania. A woman teacher in to ex- the meaning of the word “slow- y" illustrated it by walking across the floor. When she asked the class to tell her how she walked, she nearly fainted when a boy at the foot of the class shouted, “Bowlegged, ma'am!” 's companions bhi, 29 i 3 8 2 the millions which have been available from the invest- ed $15,000,000 foundation fund, he has answered the question: What ‘can I do with the money now that I have it? It has been spent for charity or- tion, child helping, education, |industrial studies, recreation, reme- dial loans, studies of Southern high- 'lands and surveys and exhibits. Has his experience brought disillu- sionment, has it convinced him that many people do not want to be help- ed to live better, as some believe? Not at all. “There is nothing wrong with most of humanity,” he says, smiling serenely. “People appreciate kindness. They appreciate being helped. They ‘are grateful. “Dissemination of knowledge about conditions with the belief that, once they are known, they can be correct- ed. Investigation and propaganda with a remedial and preventive ob- jective.” For example, in the course of charity investigation, men and wo- men sent out by Dr. seek to aid needy families directly. t poor man- agement was to blame, or that un- employment was responsible, then the remedy was evident. If they dis- covered that housing conditions were y responsible for sickness, then the remedy was evident. At Forest Hills, L. I. money was spent to furnish adequate homes for working people. The example was {followed all over the country. Dr. Glenn waged a fight nst the loan sharks. Investigators learn- ed that poor people were prey for the unscrupulous who loaned money at exhorbitant rates of interest. Dire ‘necessity drove many men to accept any terms to obtain funds, which often saved them from starvation itself. The remedy? Laws to put them out of business. Such laws were suggested and passed. At the inspi- gation of Dr. Glenn one bank was urged to try a plan of making smal ‘loans to poor people. More than 100 other banks followed suit. Then Dr. Glenn sent men to sur- vey prison conditions. They cooper- ated with Congress in finding out facts about care and treatment of Federal prisoners. Abuses were dis- covered. Reforms followed. Interested in helping unfortunate children, money was spent to find out what caused distress. Lives of the maimed, the mentally deficient and these living under bad home conditions were studied. Methods of making them happier were found. There was more money to spend for humanity. The soothing and - curative effects of music were known. rating with Dr. Willem van ‘de Wall, the foundation studied these (effects. They found out that savage outlaws, raving against the world, could be handled when quieted by . music, As the years passed Dr. Glenn directed attacks on problem after problem. The board of trustees, on ‘which are such people as Dwight Morrow, John H. Finley, and Mrs. | Finley J. Shepherd, aided nobly. | Now with his life work nearly fin- ‘ished Dr. Glenn can face the twilight i with satisfaction. Because Mrs. Sage gave her money for her fellow-men and because Dr. Glenn | devoted a lifetime to using it for their benefit, millions of Americans have lived happier, better lives. | GIRL, 18, BLONDE, IS ’ BEAUTY WINNER | Anne Lee Patterson of Ludlow, Ky., 18- and blonde, is the | Miss United States” of 1931. | | She was chosen from twenty-eight cream, | American contestants by a commit- | tee of artist-judges in the twelfth pag- at Galveston, Texas, last week. | trants. | Governor Flem Sampson, of Ken- |tucky, the winner confided, had promised to make her an honorary bons “hie rnp | success e Blue con n She did that. | Miss Patterson then went - and the fancy suit. They are made - trimming. against making it: FOR AND ABOUT WOMEN. DAILY THOUGHT | To be, no matter where, a man vegetables seeded sow | To take what comes of good or ill on Senn ora Jo May, , Sow | And cling to faith and honor still; | cal th And Sigg © HE hui von bbage ® last part of the month. The record of my brain and hand. —Poison bran mash is recommend- And then, should failure come to me, ed as a control for cutworms. These Still work and hope for victory. ‘pests are particularly destructive To have no secret place wherein this year, and only prompt action I stoop unseen to shame and sin; will save vegetables from their at- To be the same when I'm alone, tacks. Your county agent can tell As when my every deed is known; how to mix - To live undaunted, unafraid dy i und apply tis trent Of any step that I have made; — To be without pretense or sham —Repain post- Exactly what men think I am. Re Siould Dot ve " ing, and if it is badly chipped and | broken, ¢ methods of re- painting do not result in a first-class pearance and a durable repaint Wg ang shrubs planted since first o e year must be given of blue and white, green and white, sufficient water to hug Se giv and rose and white inch striped formation of new roots and develop- Hand-made buttonholes and ment of the tops. smoked pear] butivas are the sole — S, by the way, is a Pastures for pi save 133 “word to the wise” when it comes to pounds of grain TOF Sry hundred a question of refurbishing the worn pounds of pork produced, 400 ex- suit. tension demonstrations in Pennsyl- 'vania have proved. Where 20 to 25 good effect. The suits are frequent- ly fashioned on semitailored lines with plain, fitted coats, finished with a flaring ruffle from the raised waist line. The vests make a c “cross” between the severely plain ~The brimmed hat is more in censured had medium width brims. grown. ‘Many of them were the new sailors | -— that Reboux and Patou brought out. | —Young turkeys should be fed as Soon as they are old enough to move to the brooders. & Early feeding does not affect the rate of yolk absorption and, there- fore will not kill the poults. Occa- ‘sionally some breeds of poults are slow in learning to feed and some practically starve before to eat. If they are not fed until 72 hours old, the owner will lose two days when he might be teaching the —Beige Ploskinge were the choice of the majority women censured. ‘Most of this beige was a neutral, | ‘medium shade. But with some light- er costumes, a more summery beige of lighter tone was worn. Five times as much beige was worn as the next favorite color, gun- metal. And only three women out of every hundred wore black. — poults to eat. —If you were born in July, your starting flower is the larkspur, a his in he pug oe the birds pretty blossom. without of their over-eating. When the birds run out of feed and they become ravishingly hungry the poults may over-eat when an abund- ant supply of feed is placed before Young turkeys are raised on any good chick ration, but they seem to make slightly more rapid and eco- ‘nomic gains if meat scrap, fish meal or dried milk is added. A mash to be fed without grain ‘up to eight weeks of age is mivedas | follows: 100 pounds of yellow corn meal, 65 pounds of standard wheat bran, 60 pounds of wheat flour mid- dlings, 50 pounds of ground oat groats 3 hea —Sew the kitch out of doors as mel as Dossisle. Shell the peas on the porch and carry your sewing out under a tree. yo —In sprinkling the garden, re- member that a thorough drenching once in a while is better than more frequent sprinklings. —The proper garb for a baby in hot weather is an abdominal band and a diaper. —If your jelly won't jell, try mix- ing with it the juice of fruits con- taining more pectin, such as cur- rant or apple juice, or shreds of ‘orange skin or commercial pectin. 3 —To keep the "rooms cool, ‘them to the night and morning air from the outside, but keep them closed, with curtains drawn during . yellow corn meal, 75 pounds of stand- the. middle of the day. ard wheat bran, 70 pound of wheat | —Vacations produce a healthier 1°0Ur middlings, 60 pounds of ground and more efficient people as well O2tS, 8roats or heavy oats (grounc as a people with more imagination fine,) 25 pounds of alfalfa leaf meal and capacity for enjoyment. 70 pounds of meat scrap, 40 pounds 22 of dried milk, 5 pounds of salt and —Don’ 20 pounds of steamed bone meal. learning SE Si ig Nite with ut If the poults are confined, the cod best known all-round exercise as liver oil should be continued in the well as jolly good sport. second mash formula until 10 weeks before the turkeys are to be mark- —With o ranges scarce and high in ted: price, it is most consoling to know ees that we may substitute strawberries Size of that big red apple de- pends on the activity of the bees as their dietary equal. In many respects, strawberries and some of the orchardists of the south- oranges parallel each other in food eastern Nebraska fruit belt have be- values. A pound of strawberries, come convinced. which is about a quart as purchased, So they are installing hives of supplies 169 calories of fuel value. A bees in their orchards or renting pound of oranges as oranges are pur- their neighbors’ hives for a part of chased alse supplies 169 calories. the apple blossom season. The bee Strawberrics also are remarkably gathering nectar from the apple good mineral substitutes for oranges. blossoms to make its honey, aids ir Although sliyhitiy lower in lime they the process of pollinization. Thus are four times higher than oranges on his activity depends much of the in iron content per unit of weight. success of the apple crop. Naturally, if wish to use More and more orchardists of this strawberries as a substitute for or- section are discovering that bees anges and again the same effect the placed in the orchards under the berries mus. be perfectly ripe and trees aid production. The Joy Mor- not deluged with sugar. ton orchards have installed 35 hives ‘this season. —The children enjo retending Many of the growers there, nof they are having somthing at home Wishing to bother with bee keeping but which has first been sampled else- rent the insects from their neighbor: where. The idea of a ‘sundae” at for the blossom season. Muy bee (home suggests all the joys of the fanciers made it a business of rais- soda fountain with none of the dis- Ing bees just for rental purposes. traction near trays of — and chewing Sony ys candy | French vauilla 3 Shatard ice cream partic y good as a pre-war level, aesoling to the State foundation for any sort of fruit partment of Agriculture. '“sundae”, with sweetened crushed The values have steadily declinec fresh fruit served over it, such as since 1920, according to the depart strawberries, raspberries or fresh ment. That year the average valu¢ | peaches, acco to the season. of a farm property was 40 per cen! (Chocolate or butterscotch sauce, above the 1914 level. In 1924 the maple sirup or honey may also be value had fallen to 14 per cent anc used with french vanilla ice cream, above the level for the first time. ice! The report stated that Pennsylva too, to serve with pies “a 1a nia farm property had not sufferec 'mode,” which means simply pie with so much as the average in the Unit a dip of vanilla ice cream on top. ed States, where the decline was 6+ sponge cake to points, or in the sandwich.” The where the drop was 115 points, Tie P vanis decline was nts. ‘excellent for the children, supple- « from realtors in agricul (menting the other nutritious ingre- tural districts and from farmer: (dients of the ice cream by adding to themselves are not encouraging. The |the day's supply of vitamines and opinion prevails that the acquisitior ' minerals. |of real estate, both urban and rural | The bureau of home economics should somehow be facilitated by gives the following directions for easier credit and that ownershij should be made less burdensome fed after eight weeks of age is composed of 135 pounds of —Farm real estate values in Penn sylvania today are now near the or sundaes. This is a good make an “ice cream |a foregin delegation of eight !1 quart milk % cup sugar through intelligent taxation,” the de |women with the title HR '% pint double cream tsp. salt | partment said. |verse.” A $2500 cash prize and a 4 eggs 1%; tsp. vanilla | we | Broadway stage contract will be the | awards. ——QOver two hundred Clearfield county farmers, in fifty-two cars, made the motor trip through Cen- tre county last Friday. The pro- gram of stops as given in the Watch- man, last week, was carried out in detail with the exception of having luncheon in Bellefonte they ate a ing picnic dinner on the fish hatchery grounds. | Prepare as for custard by pouring __what kind of eggs are you go ‘some of the heated milk into the ino to take to market this summer’ lightly beaten eggs and then cook- yo, can do a lot to keep up the ing the milk and eggs with the g,mmer demand for eggs by th |sugar and salt in a double boiler un- qe you give them on the farm (til the custard coats the spoon. Be gyre the hens have plenty of clean | Cool, add the double cream, mix ‘airy nests, well-filled with litter | well and freeze. |One nest for every five or six hen: | For the freezing mixture use one ig gufcient. Gather the eggs tic: {part of salt to 4 to 6 parts a day. Shut up the broody hen: |Turn the crank slowly during freez- every night. Shut up or sell mal |birds. Infertile eggs cannot spoil ——— AAI Store the eggs in a cool cellar i ~———Subscribe for the Watchman. possible.
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