The Philippine
Prepated by National Geographic Soclety,
Washington, D. C.)=—WNU Service.
I'TH interest in miniature golf
waning, enterprising mem-
bers of the “play industry”
in a western city substituted
fishing poles for golf clubs, fish for
golf balls, and transformed the dimin-
utive golf courses into fishing ponds,
tl.us ushering In the “pee wee fishing
grounds.”
Play knows neither geographical
ooundary, nor historical limit. There
was a law among the Persians by
which all children were to be taught
three things: horsemanship, shooting
with the how, and telling the truth.
Carthaginians and Phoenicians owed
«omething of their maritime glory to
2 Jove of swimming, the sport by which
they first mastered their fear of the
sea. One wonders whether the more
rapl¢ strides made In England to-
ward the political emancipation of
women may not be traceable to the
ardor of British women for outdoor
exercise and sports,
Climate often determines the way a
people play. It Is obvious that coast
Ing Is popular in a zone where snow
falls, and reasonable that those peo
ples most generally proficient in swim.
ming should be found in the equa-
torial islands, where limpid waters in-
vite surcease from the scorching sun;
but less well known, perhaps, that
ecard and board games developed in
southern Asla, where zest for play Is
Just as keen, but temperature damp-
ens the ardor for exertion. To the
Netherlands Is traced the origin of
slit and skate which even yet have
thelr work-a-day usé in flooded and
frozen areas, but to the rest of the
world they are playthings. Norway
once had a regiment of skaters and
Holland's soldiers were taught to
drill and play on ice.
" Just as the Individual adopts games
which meets his bodily needs, so na-
tional pastimes are modified to foster
and fortify the peoples who play them.
In the age of personal combat, there
were men like Milo of Crotona, a
veritable Samson, reputed to have
been able to break a cord wound
about his head by swelling the mus-
cles; or Polydamas of Thessalia, sald
to have siain an infuriated lion, and
to hive been able to hold a chariot
fn its’ Place while horses tugged at it.
"Those were the times when boxing
and wrestling, most ancient of sports,
were in their heydey, though they
were not always gentlemen's diver
sions, reckoned by modern standards.
Missle-Throwing Games.
When missle-throwing became the
technique of warfare the Ifallan city
youth reduced stone-throwing to a
fie art, and In winter made use. of
snowballs on fete days. In Perugia
as many as 2,000 would engage In
this game. Defensive armor was worn
but many fatalities resulted. Old
English laws encouraged archery, and
Charlemagne sought to popularize the
sport. Play and love of competition
bave often been the mother of inven-
tion. The great automobile races have
revOlutionized the automobile indus
try. Benjamin Franklin, employing a
boy's familiar plaything, “snatched
from the clouds a secret that outdoes
the pranks of a magic carpet. On the
offfer hand invention made popular
certain ways to play. For example
the invention of the rubber bladder
was a boon to the game of football
and the gutta-percha hall added im-
mensely to the popularity of golf.
Theodore Roosevelt's influence Is
generally accounted In social, political,
economic and literary ilelds; yet time
may show that one of the most pro-
found lessons he Impréssed upon
American people wag a deeper regard
for healthful, vigorous, strenuous out-
door sport,
The story of how the weakling
Roosevelt went to the open places
of the West and played at broncho-
busting and cattle-herding and later
relaxed in African jungle from seven
years in the hardest job In the world,
is an oft-told tale. Such an uproot-
ing of one's life, thanks to our na-
tional parks, Is not necessary today.
More und more it is the habit of young
men and old to seek the health-giv-
ing recreations to be had in Uncle
Sam's matchless play piaces,
Walking is one of the most health-
ful and Mmvigorating “games” and 1s
free to everyone. Yet it is much neg-
lected by Americans, Perhaps the autc.
mobile is to blame in some degree;
but the fuct that walking Is delib-
erite and lacking In that element so
dear to tle American heart, competl-
tion, also must be taken into account.
To the seusoned pedestrian, “joy rid-
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Slapping Game.
ing” cannot compare with “joy walk
ing.” :
The Instinct Is Universal.
Sports of a nation afford an almost
invarible barometer of its progress in
civilization. DBasebull is one of the
most complicated and highly organized
pastimes known to any people, It is
a veritable instrument of the most
delicate precision in the world of
sport. A South Sea Islander no more
could play it than he could operate
a linotype machine or deftly handle
the paper money in a bank teller's
cage,
Yet the instincts baseball satisfles—
the zest of racing to a goal ahead of
the ball, the deep satisfaction of di-
verting a swiftly moving object to
serve his own ends, the mere Impact
of the speeding sphere against the
instrument he controls, bagging the
spheroid as it flies afield, the suspense
of nine men as they await the batter's
fate—ench and all find thelr counter-
part in play as old as animals that |
wilk on two feet and have enough
gray matter atop their spinal columns
to control nature's laws for their hu-
man purposes,
The foot-race was the most popula:
of the 24 Olympian events. Romans |
batted balls with the forearm swathed |
with bandages, and the Gilbert is-
landers wrap coconut shells with cord |
go they will rebound to a blow from
the open palm; Homer's princess of
Phaeacia is represented In the Odys-
sey as jumping to catch a ball tossed
by her malds of honor; and the Chi- |
nese had a game in which a suspended |
ball was kept hurtling to and fro by
blows from the players.
Wrestling is much older than Greece, |
as Indicated by bouts pictured op |
tombs along the Nile. In Greece box- |
ing fell into disfaver among the Spar- |
taus for an unusual reason. The |
Greeks had developed sportsmanlike |
rules for the game, eliminating kick-
ing, biting and ear pulling, and the
bout closed when one hoxer admitted
his defeat. Lycurgus held it improper
for any Spartan to acknowledge de- |
feat, even In a game. Boxing and
wrestling have been popular sports in
Japan for ages.
Running, throwing, hitting and kics
ing are the fundamental muscular op- |
erations of America's characteristic |
sports—baseball, football, tennis and |
golf. The peoples of antiquity mani |
fesied all these Instincts in cruder |
form. Luzon hillmen, the Polynesians |
and the Eskimo and Sumatra Islanders |
had games played by kicking a ball. |
Greeks played it, and the Roman game, |
harpastum, derived its name from the
Greek “I seize” which Is evidence |
that carrying a ball was practised then, |
In old England football was even
rougher than most sports of those
hardy times. James I thought it was
“meeter for lanieing than making able |
the user thereof.” Edward II frowned |
upon it for its Interference with arch-
ery and also because of the commo- |
tion It aroused. In those times it |
was played In the city streets. A
writer of the Sixteenth century called
it a “deviiish pastime” and charged It |
with inciting “envy and sometimes |
brawling murther and homicile.”
Tennis Goes Far Back.
One must also go back to the Greeks |
and Romans for the origin of tennis. |
In the Twelfth century a game with |
ball and plaited gut bat was played |
on horseback. Then came “La boude” |
in which the horse was abandoned.
Louis X died after excessive playing
of the game, Henry VIII was a de
votee of the game. Until the Six-
teenth century the hand was used for |
batting the ball, but soon the racket
came into general use.
If tennis Has a royal lineage, gon,
which was later regarded as a rich |
man's game had most plebelan be- |
ginnings, Contrary to widespread be- |
lief, it seems not to have originated in |
Scotland, but in northern Europe. Ap-
parently it was first played on Ice,
being one of the winter sports adapted |
to the physical geography of the Low
countries, By the Fifteenth century
golf had attained such vogue in Scot-
land that it threatened the cherished
archery, and it was classed with “fute-
bull” and other “unprofitabil sportis”
by James IV.
America’s love of play Is a distine
tive part of her Anglo-Saxon heritage.
Where two or more English-speaking
people get together, he it in Bagdad
or Buenos Aires, their common tongue
makes the point of contact, but It |
generally is their love of active play
that forms the tie that binds thelr |
comradeship, l
| guy, a fellow | never saw.
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Acquaintance on Train
Wife’s Former Husband
In a smoking compartment of the
Twilight Limited, bound from Chicago
to Detroit the other day, a Chicagoan
and a Detroiter met and speedily be-
came acquainted as people will on
trains. Houser Massey, who is au-
thority for the story and vouches for
its truth, said the two men soon |
reached the point where they were
trading their opinions on life and liv
ng.
The Chicagoan was cynical about
women, and said so. “You can't trust |
‘em,” he declared. “I was married
once and my wife left me for another
An expe-
rience like that is enough to teach you |
| mot to trust women again.”
“Well, 1 don't feel that way,” said
the Detroiter. “I'm married, have |
| been married for several years, and |
| my wife and I get along very well,
ot
course, she's an exceptional woman.
She'll be at the station when we get
to Detroit, and 1 want you to meet
her. You'll see your ideas about wom-
en are wrong.”
Arriving here, the two acquaintances
walked up to the waiting room togeih
er. The Detroiter's wife rushed up to |
greet him, stopped suddenly. Her face |
paled. As she stopped, the Chicagoan
flushed, muttered something about see-
ing a friend across the way. grabbed
his bag from the red cap and was ol. |
The Detroiter didn't know that his |
acquaintance of the train was his
wife's former husband.—Detroit I'ree
Press,
Death Adder Fourth in
List of Deadly Snakes |
The Australian death adder is said
to have long borne an undeservedly
bad name. People said the death ad-
der was the most virulently poisonous |
of Australian snakes. Now Mr. le
Souef, director of the Sydney zoo,
states that it is not nearly so fear-
some as has been imagined. The av-
erage farmer will say emphatically
that the death adder is one of the most
dangerous reptiles in the bush. At tlie
week-end a man was bitten by one.
The fact that the bite had little ill-
effect on him prompted Iinquirers to |
seck Mr. le Souef's opinion, Mr. le!
Souef declared that he would have
been surprised if the man had died, as
he would rank the death adder as only |
among Australia’s poisonous
snakes. The most deadly is the tiger
| snake, capable of killing a healthy
man in 70 minutes. Next comes the
brown snake, a potential killer In two
hours. Then, says Mr. le Souef, the
| black snake, which can make man des-
perately sick for 12 to 24 hours, but
gives him a chance of life. Then the
death adder and other varieties,
Sports Improve Posture
While corrective exercises are [me
portant for Improving poor posture,
sports have been found even more |
helpful, In the case of students at
Harvard, it was found that of the
freshmen who were obliged to take
corrective exercises for poor posture
those who took part In organized
athletic sports during the subsequent
three years showed much greater im-
provement In posture than those who
did not go in for sports, the latter
showing little if any improvement, ac-
cording to the Boston Herald.
Traveling Cinemas
Traveling moving picture shows are
she latest cinematic development in|
Soviet Russia. At present there are
more than 1,200 such units traveling |
from one village to another. The pop- |
ularity of the exhibitions may be |
Judged by their rapid growth in num- |
ber during the past two years. At the !
of 1925 there were less than 400 |
ing movies. This fignre rose in|
-
vel
Tobe to 900, and for the present year
it is planned to produce 2,000 pro-
jectors.—Washington Star.
t Do You Give?
A New York vocational guidance ex- |
pert advises people who are not happy |
fii their jobs to Save their money until
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they can make a change. She might |
| say, too, that if people are not taking
happiness out of their jobs they would |
lo well fo see that they are putting
into those jobs everything they have |
to give. What you get out of your job |
{a the way of contentment depends
upon what you are willing to put into |
it fn a day to day effort.—Grove Pat- |
terson, In the Mobile Register.
Lake's Depth Varies
The depth of Lake Titicaca, the
jargest lake in South America, in some
places reaches 700 feet, but large por- |
tions of it are shallow, and the shores, |
especially in the south, are lined with |
marshy tracts covered with reeds. The
lake receives a number of streams
from the surrounding mountains and
discharges through the Desaguadero
into Lake Aullagas, whose waters |
Anally evaporate in the great salt
marshes in the southern part of the
closed basin,
Man's Food Consumption
A healthy man, with a normal ap |
petite, who reaches seventy has eaten |
700 times his own weight, according |
to the calculation of experts of the |
faculty of Paris. They have figured |
that in his span of seventy years the
average man of 140 pounds would have |
eaten 138 tons of bread, 15 tons of veg- |
etables, 7 tons of meat or 13 whole |
cows; 7 tons of fruit, 1,600 pounds of |
eandy aud sugar, drunk 15,000 quarts
of milk and 20,000 quarts of beer, In |
Europe, or water. in America.
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Bloom of Rice Plant
Varies in Localities
Temperature plays an
part in the flowering of the rice plant.
Rice flowers are relatively inconspicu-
ous, hut an official of the United |
States Department of Agriculture, who
works on the improvement of the rice
crop, has studied the blooming habits
of the plant in connection with the
eross-breeding of varieties,
The rice plant blooms suddenly and
for only a short time. One ohserver
noted 1 complete opening of the flower | :
The blooming con- |
tinued for only ahout two hours. Rice |
in thirty seconds.
fiowers are rarely onen before the sun
has warmed the earth and air, and
they close before the sun is far down.
In the United States and in Japan the
rice blooms later than in warmer
areas, such as Java, India and the
Philippine islands. In India, observ-
ers say, rice will not bloom until the
temperzture has reached 77 degrees
Fahrenheit. But there the tempera-
ture runs high as a rule and rice
blooms most freely in the early morn- |
ing hours soon after the dew evapo- |
rates, and the flowers close before the |
In California the max- |
heat of noon.
imum period of bloom is the two hours
after noon.
Rice has a complete flower, and usu-
ally fertilizes itself.
The pollen from the stamens fertilizes
the stigma In the same plant, usually |
before or at the time the flower opens. |
Easy Way of Inducing
Bees to Change Abode |
Bees often take up their abode
where they are not wanted, as in a
cavity In a wall,
them out is to put a bee “escape” over
the entrance to the cavity, so the bees
can get out but not in. A cone of
| wire cloth about 8 inches high with a
hole at the apex just large enough for
one bee to pass through will serve as
an escape. A regular hive should be
placed beside the entrance for the re
turn of the escaped bees. The queen
remains in the old cavity and goes on
laying eggs, but as the colony is quick:
ly reduced In size the quantity of the |
brood decreases. The younger bees |
leave the cavity and join the bees in |
the hive. A new queen should be giv-
en to the bees In the hive as soon as
possible,
After about four weeks, remove the
bee escape and make as large a hole [ Es
as possible at the entrance of the cuav-
ity. The bees will go in for the honey
and carry it to the hive. For this
method to work successfully it Is nec-
essary that the bees have only one
exit from the cavity.—United States
Department of Agriculture.
First American Flag
A standard with 13 alternate blue |¥
and silver stripes, carried by the Phii- |
adelphia Troop of Light Horse In 1775,
is the first known attempt to provide a
national fla
on January
a flag consisting of 13 alternate white
and red stripes with the crosses of St. |
George and St. Andrew in a blue deld
in the upper left-hand corner. Under
various designations, this was em-
ployed until displaced by the Stars
and Stripes, adopted by the Continen-
tal congress, June 14, 1777.
His Way
“Don't you sometimes get lost in the |
woods when you go out possum hunt- |
ing and get separated from your
brothers?” asked a motorist in the
Rumpus Ridge region.
“Nope!” replied young Banty, son o.
Gap Johnson. “When I don't know
whur I'm at and there hain't nobody
aroiind to ask I just pick out the way |
I know leads toward home and turn
right around and go the other way;
that always fotches me home by the
shortest trail.”—Kanpsas City Star.
Canadian Timber
It 1s estimated by the Dominion for-
est service that the only economic use
for three-eighths of the land area of |
Canada lies In the growing of trees. |
This vast area of territory, while in-
capable of successful agricultural pro- Hig
duction, is, if permanently dedicated,
protected and managed, sulted to the
production of a timber crop which
would guarantee for all time the sup-
ply of raw material for Canada’s wood-
using {ndustries.— Natural Resources §
Bulletin,
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London's Pall Mall
The average American and Cana
dian tourist may have difficulty In rec-
ognizing Pall Mall, as the “Pell Mell.” |
to which the London policeman directs |
him, when he asks for the famous |
street. It was named after the French
game Pallle-malil,
On this street were the homes of De-
foe of Robinson Crusoe fame, Swift
of Gulliver's Travels, Sterne of the
“Sentimental Journey,” and Gibbon,
the historian.
Boiling Water
Waier boils at 212 degrees F. Av
115 degrees a person finds water almost
too hot to hold his hand In it.
and larvae by being dipped for 10 sec-
onds in water heated to 140 degrees
F. Care, however, must bé exercised
to have and keep the water at this or
a greater temperature, Larvae and
eggs in flannel dipped for 10 seconds
in water heated only to 122 degrees F,
remain unaffected.
important |
It “breeds true,” |
and there is little cross-fertilization. |
A good way to get |
At Cambridge, Mass, |
1776, General Washing- |
ton, acting on his own initiative, raised |
which was first |
played here In the days of Charles I. |
Fabrics |
that will not be injured by water can |
be freed of living clothes moth eggs |
| ——Along about the middle of | York and brought pack to Centre
(last July two men, T. H. Andrews county last week. Three cases had
‘and S. A. Whorley, of York, visited | been entered against him throughs
| State College and collected various | justice of the peace L J. Dreese.
sums of money from merchatns for 'On Friday Andrews settled all the
printing their advertisements on |cases against him, paying the costs,
menus they were going to print for a total of over $100, and making"
use in that town. Time passed | restitution of the money collected.
‘but the menus never showed up and | He was then discharged.
| the merchants finally got tired wait-
ling and made information against
‘the men. Andrews was located in
— Subscribe for the Watchman.
SAVINGS ACCOUNTS
eports show a large increase in sales of
merchandise, which shows that the Amer-
ican people do not deny themselves what they
want.
But reports also show a large increase and
steady growth in Savings Bank Deposits; a
good sign.
Sensible people do not deny themselves
proper comforts, but sensible people also desire
to have an anchor to winward in the shape of a
Savings Account in a good Bank.
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when so little money would buy so
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Better Tailoring,
Better Trimmings.
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