Belefonte, Pn. January 29, 198%. |
Your Health
+E FIRST CONCERN. |
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By Dr. Morris Fishbein
Pneumonia, called by Osler “the
«captain of the men of death,” called
also “the friend of the aged,” since
it is a means of guick death for
those who have survived to the point
at which their life is merely a bur-
den and no longer a pleasure, con-
tinues to be a disease of great mor-
tality among all civilized peoples.
The disease is transmitted from
one person to another or by ma-|
terials containing the secretions from |
the nose, throat and lungs of those
who are infected. Our present con-
dition of housing, the crowding that |
takes place in the street cars, trains, |
elevators, motion picture houses, and
similar places, leads to such inti-
mate contacts of human beings that
transmission of respiratory diseases
is exceedingly likely.
Apparently the disease develops |
two or three days after the germs
get into the lungs through inhala-
tion, provided that the human body
is not possessed of enough resist-
ance to throw off the infection.
The patient with pneumonia
should, if possible, be attended bya
nurse who understands the proper
sanitation and hygiene of the sick-
room in contagious cases, and who
will see to it that the dishes, the
vedding and other materials in con-
tact with the patient are nroperly
sterilized or disinfected before be-
ing permitted into possible contact |
«with other people. i
Pneumonia, above all of the oth-
ar diseases that attack mankind, de-
mands good medical attention and
“the best of nursing care. |
The disease tends to run a limit- |
ed course. During the time when
“the lungs are congested it is neces. |
=arv to supnort the action of the |
heart bv proper measures. Oxygen
administered properly tends to re-|
tieve the strain on the incapacitated
tizsues of the lungs. |
BLOOD PRESSURE |
The average blood pressure of men |
at 20 years of age is 120; at 60
_years of age, about 135. In peo-
{John R. Collins,
with the very important
or Groundhog day,
as cai it. This second day
of February is groaning under Su-
perstitions which partake of the sub-
out eary
Candlemas day,
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Man's relentless war on the natural
enemies of bugs may some day prove
his own undoing. When the grass
hoppers, locusts, army worm, cut-
etc, which are
McNary of Oregon Prof. A. Brazier
ins. Our » by the way,
inherits his importance from his
German ancestor, the r. The|
legend of this Teutonic hibernator is
to the effect that he uncurls himself
from his winter slecp on this day.
If he finds the skies overcast or
the ground covered wtih snow he
takes stock for an early spring. |
Should there be brilliant sunshine
he simply yawns and turns over for
another nap.
Our first German
abouts must have
prophet badger, which is seldom
found east of the Mississippi, but
they amiably made the best of it
and took up with the groundhog or
woodchuck. After all, it's what one
makes of a thing that determines its
worth.
Many quaintly charming rhymes
are connected with the day. Here
is one:
“If Candlemas Day be dry and fair
The half of the winter's to come and
mair;
If Candlemas Day be wet and foul,
The half of the winter came at Yule.
If Candlemas Day be fair and bright,
Winter will have another flight;
But if it be dark with clouds and rain,
settlers here-
missed their
Howell of Johns Hopkins charged that
the grasshopper menace in the Middle
West this summer was a resalt of the |
government policy of exterminating
rodents. Pointing out that ground
squirrels, gophers, etc, constitute the |
chief clieck on the increase of in-
sects on the western plains where
there are few insect-eating birds, Pro-
fessor Howell said such animals not
only eat large quantities of grasshop-
pers but they actually diz up and
devour the eggs of insects. The
Department of Agriculture, he claims,
is practically exterminating rodents
by poison over thousands of square
miles with resulting “terrible scourges
| of insects.” Professor Howell would
have the rodents controlled rather
than exterminated.
- Why Traffic in United
States Passes on Right
The reason why traffic in the Unit
| ed States passes on the right rather
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Winter's gone, and will not come again.” |
Another contains some advice for
matron and maid:
“Down with the rosemary, an’ so
Down with the bays and mistletoe;
Down with the holly, ivie, all
Wherewith ye drest the Christmas hall:
That so the superstitious find
Not one least branch there left behind.
For lock, how many leaves there be
Neglected there Maids, trust to me,
S80 many goblins shall ye see.”
DELEGATES-AT-LARGE FOR
NATIONAL CUNVENTION.
The list of candidates for
than the left, contrary to the practice |
| of the rest of the world, has just been |
discovered by the Department of Agri
culture,
It originated, says a department bul
{etin, with the drivers of the six-horse
teams of eastern Pennsylvania.
oak that was pulled out on the left
side of the wagon body.
The driver usually walked beside his
team or rode a saddle horse. [Krom
the lazy board he could operate the
| prake and call to his horses,
dele- |
gates-at-large and alternates to the |
next Democratic National
tion, as agreed upon at the recent
meeting of the Democratic State
Committee, follows:
For delegate-at-large the commit-
tee recommended to the voters:
Sedgwick Kistler, Lock Haven,
member of the National Committee;
of Coudersport,
chairman of the State Committee;
Roland S. Morris,
Conven- |
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of Philadelphia, | through the earth take
former Ambassador to Japan; E. J.|
Lynett, of Scranton, eidtor and pub-
ple who are overweight this pres-|lisher of the Scranton Times; John |
.sure is likely to be higher.
A va-|F. Short, of Clearfield, editor and
riation of five millimeters of mer- publisher of the Clearfield Republi-|
cury above or below these figures |
may be considered within the aver- |
age.
There are many reasons why the
‘blood pressure may fall below the
average. ‘This occurs whenever a
person is nauseated, faints, or has |
a severe hemorrhage. There are,
nowever, other conditions of general
weakness in which the blood pres-
sure is low and in which the physi-
needs to concern himself with
building the person back into a good
«condition.
A condition may develop follow-
‘ing any long continued infection,
and the method of taking care of
the condition is obvious. Rest is
necessary. If e who had a
severe cold, even without a fever,
would stay in bed in the acute
. stage and if every person who had
a fever would ay ln bed from one
‘to three days r the tempera-
ture became normal, a vast amount
«of degenerative disease, of low blood |
pressure, and of general weakness
“would be avoided. f
‘There are certain diseases which |
‘ phia, a
‘Roosevelt; Mrs. Anna Felix, of Pitts- |
tee;
can; Guy Bard, of Lancaster, the
party's candidate for Lieutenant
Governor two years ago; Robert Gil-
more, of rt, a manufac-
turer; Judge Henry C. Niles, of
York.
Mrs. Emily Roosevelt, of Philadel-
distant relative of Governor
burgh; Mrs. Lulu Roberts, of Harris-
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burg; Mrs. Anna Cort, of Latrobe;
Mrs. Katherine Flohr, of Allentown;
vice chairman of the State Commit.
Mrs. Mary Doran, of Johns-
town; Mrs. Carroll Miller, of Pitts-
burgh, sister of Mr. Guffey; Mrs.
Isabel Crosby, of Meadville.
Alternate delegate s-at-large:
James P. Rossiter, of Erie; Clinton
B. Ellenberg, Stroudsburg; A. B.
Clark, Altoona; Charles A. Jones,
Pittsburgh; George R. Meek, Belle-
fonte; Michael R. Kerwick, Philadel-
phia; Hiram G. Andrews, Johns-
town; Stanley Janowski, Nanticoke.
Mrs. Anne Madden, Millvale; Miss
Macken, Montrose; Mrs. Frank
ps, Altoona; Mrs. Kathryn
Stime, York; Mrs. Frank len,
_ attack the glands of internal secre Montgomery county; Mrs. Lucy Win-
. tion which are concerned with keep- | gton,
the blood pressure normal]
through maintaining proper elastic-
‘ity in the blood vessels.
, Since the blood pressure is a re. |
, flection of the power of the heart
"to push the blood through the ar-|
: teries and veins and of the condition |
(of the blood vessels through which
the blood passes, any factor that
greatly influences these two basic |
features of the circulation may
: about either a high or low
"®lood pressure.
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_ Epidemic sore throat usually oc-|
«curs in explosive outbreaks and is
apread chiefly by milk.
It must be differen from
seertain other types of infection of
#he throat by streptococci which
smay occur almost any time be-|
«cause of the widespread distribution
«of the various forms of streptococci
among people generally. There is,
for instance, in a sore
throat which is due to invasion of
the throat by the streptococci as-
sociated with scarlet fever in cases
in which the rash of scarlet fever
does not develop. Any time that
the throat is invaded by these viru-
‘lent germs and the body is unable
‘to throw them off, there occurs in-
‘flammation of the throat, the ton-
‘sils and the neck with fever, pros-
tration, and all of the other symp-
toms that usually accompany infec-
typical of inflammation.
This disease is usually spread from
‘one person to another, except so far
as concerns the epidemic form. In
the epidemic form it is usually
found that the germs are
ralifariea through milk.
e disease begins promptly and
lmsually follows a rapid ig,
Most of the epidemics of septic sore
vthroat have occurred in the spring
Mechanicsburg; Mrs. Helen
Sutton, Bangor, and Miss Marion
Stone, Coudersport.
APPRAISERS WILL
CHECK TAX RETURNS
1932 will soon begin their
secretary of Revenue Clyde L. King
announced. The assessments made
by them will be on the gross vol-
ume of business transacted during
the calendar year ending December
31, 1931.
The mercantile license year be-
| gins May 1, 1932, and license taxes
should be paid on that date. All
| persons liable for this tax are ad-
vised by Secretary King that they
should make accurate returns of
their whole volume of business for
the calendar year 1931, on which
the 1932 license tax is based.
Investigators from the State De-
ent of Revenue will check. the
returns made to the mercantile ap-
praiser by dealers, to verify the ac-
curacy of such returns. Addition-
al assessments will be made in all
cases where it is found that erron-
eous reports are made.
All mercantile, theatre,
billard, bowling alleys and eating
house licenses are assessed by the
mercantile and are pay-
able to the county treasurers.
of course, they may occur at any
In general, the only advice that
can be given relative to the avoid-
ing of septic sore throat is proper;
examination of the throat by a com-
petent physician who will recom-
mend removal of the tonsils or of
lymphoid masses in case there is
frequent infection. The routine garg-
ling of antiseptics is not apparently
particularly helpful in preventing
infection. The gargle merely cleans
the throat temporarily and the per-
son may take in a full dose of live
«or in the early summer, although,
streptococci just as soon as exposed.
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Coaches and other vehicles of th. !
day—luate In the Seventeenth century
—were driven from the right side, but
traffic had to make room for the wax-
oner, seated on the left. So the prac-
tice of turning to the right gradually
spread until it became the established
American custo!
Why Oceans Are Salt
The oceans are salty because they
are the reservoir for the inflowing wa-
ter from the land areas of the earth.
These flowing waters in passing
up min-
ute particles of salt and hold them
in suspension and finally deposit
them in the oceans. When water is
evaporated from the oceans the salt
remains in the sea, and the rain that
falls on the land is fresh water, which
again flows to the oceans, dissolving
more salt from rocks and earth and
depositing it in the ocean. This proc-
ess is continuous, so that the oceans
are constantly growing more saity.
Why Mahogany Turns Blue
The bluish haze that is often no-
ticed on a polished surface is nothing
more than the accumulation left by
moisture and dust from the atmo-
sphere. This may be washed off with
a damp cloth or soft material, wrung
out of tepid water in which a littie
pure soap may be used if necessary, or
a few drops of olive oil may be put on
the cloth. Wipe off with a soft, dry
cloth or clean chamois.
Why Letter J Is Dotted
The consonant j did not appear Iu
the Latin and other alphabets of west-
ern Europe until the Sixteenth cen-
tury. It had been by. the
letter 1. In manuscripts the letter |
was carried slightly below the line to
indicate that it was being used as a
consonant, This form crept into the
alphabets.
Why Called “Dark Ages”
The times usually referred to as
“The Dark Ages” are the earlier cen-
turies of the Middle ages, I. e, from
476 (the fall of the Roman empire)
till the end of the Tenth century. The
word “Dark” refers to the Intellectual
darkness characteristic of the period.
Why Soldiers “Break Ranks”
The vibration of a body of soldiers
marching across a bridge Is so great.
and sustained such a considerable
time, that it may endanger the struc
ture: therefore, they are required to
break ranks.
Why Use of Guinea Pigs
Guinea pigs are used in laboratories
Aue to the fact that they are suscepti
ble to many of the diseases of man.
They are also small animals and can
be easily handled and are not vicious.
Why Known as “Rookies”
Army recruits got their nickname
rom the term “rookery,” which in
English military slang refers to the
quarters in the barracks occupied by
subalterns.
How to End Worry
Worrying can be cured, declares 8
Auropean specialist, who claims that
constant suggestion and resolution can
cure people of this weakness,
Why Flag Is “Colors”
The use of the term “the colors” as
applied to a flag is based on a figure
of speech which employs a part to in-
dicate the whole.
Why Eggs Become Tainted
It has be~n found that eggs become
tainted if stored near citrus fruits.
tmmense Brass Brain
Figures Out the Tides
In a room of the United States Coast
and Geodetic Survey building at Wash-
ington is a great machine which an-
swers to the name “Great Brass
Brain” Its function is to predict
tides with the utmost exactness at
any place in the world, or to tell the
state of the tides at any moment ir
the past.
This robot is a marvel of wheels
and pulleys. Tides rise and fall with
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| driver, instead of having a seat in- |
side the wagon, rode on the “iazy |
board.” a sliding board of strong white |
mathematical exactness, but there are
a large number of forces acting upom |
of the earth, and many other things
The machine takes into account 37
of these factors in its mechanical ca’
~ulations,
Its chief purpose is to help in set
ting time schedules for ship move
ments, but it is also useful to the
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For instance, the delay of the Brit.
ish expedition which landed at Charles.
town in 1775, which gave Paul Revere
| the chance to save the countryside,
has been ascribed to their waiting for
low tide. Brass Brain, however,
showed that the tide was low when
the British landed, so that they must
have been waiting for something else,
probably provisions.
in Black Hills Region |
One of the most productive water |
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| Vast Water Resources
pearing formations of the northern In- |
terior of the United States is what Is |
known as the Dakota standstone, |
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which crops out about the flanks of
| the Black hills in southwestern Sout
| Dakota. The formation extends east-
| ward and northeastward to the bor-
ders of Iowa and Minnesota.
As the sandstone slopes away from
the Black hills, the water percolates
northeastward and eastward through
the porous rock and underneath a
dense covering of thick clay shale.
Beneath the James river valley h
.« under considerable pressure, and
where the surface altitude is not too
great, strong-artesian flows have been
| obtained. In fact, the artesian wells
are among the greatest natural re-
gources of that area.
However, so many wells have bees
driven, the supply shows signs of hav-
ing been taxed about to the limit, and
the force of many of the wells has
fallen considerably below the original
pressure,
Monarch Before His Birth
Sapor, king of Persia, probably
nolds the record for the earliest age
at which a king has been crowned.
He was crowned about two months be-
fore he was born, His father, the
reigning king, dled at that time, and
an uncle, finding the throne vacant,
organized a usurpation, The queen,
anxious for the succession of her son,
proclaimed a coronation ceremony and
had her unborn child crowned in her
own person. Such was the veneration
of the people for the dynasty that
the ceremony was effective in fore
stalling the uncle's usurpation. The
child proved to be a boy and ruled as
King Sapor.
Birthplace of Telephone
Among the many things for which
Boston is famous is that it was the
birthplace of the telephone. It was
on the afternoon of June 2, 1875, that
Prof. Alexander Graham Bell and his
associate, Thomas A. Watson, were
working in two garret rooms over the
electrical shop of Charles Williams at
100 Court street, Boston, and there
discovered the principle of the tele
phone. More than nine months later
Professor Bell received from the Unit-
ed States on March 7, 1876, a patent
No. 174465, and thus established the
existence of the Bell telephone. This
has often been called the most valu-
able patent to mankind ever issued.
Under the Stone
“passing through a village in west.
ern India,” writes a lady missionary.
“followed by a friendly crowd, we
stopped at a small wayside altar, the
god heing represented by four flat
stones decorated with red paint.
We said, ‘There is no god here. These
are only stones’ ‘Oh’ sald a man,
‘the god is underneath’ We prompt-
ly lifted one of the stones to discover
beneath it three large, hibernating
frogs, whereupon a great laugh went
wp from the crowd, in which we all
joined.”
Knew the Candy Man
A Baltimore policeman picked up a
small girl crying lustily for “mamma.”
Other than that her name was “Marie”
he could learn nothing about her. She
was taken to police headquarters,
Finally some one thought to ask her
where she bought her candy when at
home. She gave the name of a candy
storé owner without hesitation. The
rest was easy. Her name was Marie
Biser, aged four. She had strayed
from her mother in a downtown store.
—Capper's Weekly.
Consolation for Fat Folks
Many people in middle age and be-
gond are the worst and most serious
offenders in the fad of reducing. Na-
ture intentionally, with most folks,
adds weight with years. The layer of
fat that becomes most noticeable over
the stomach is furnished for addi-
tional warmth and protection to vital
organs, and to compensate for the fact
that with age the body generates less
warmth. A little fat, at forty, is no
sign of physical degeneration.—Amer-
. lean Magazine
| pictured as living on blubber and in-
| gant race In the world at the present
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HOW
GILA MONSTER SPREADS
POISON WHEN IT BITES.—
The Gila monster, which inhab-
its the southwestern part of the
United States, is the only liz.
ard known to be venomous.
The poison apparatus differs
from that In snakes, which have
the poison glands and fangs in
the upper jaw. In the Gila
monster a row of venom glands
lie along the inside of the lower
lip and the openings are near
the bases of the grooved teeth.
When the lizards bite they de-
liberately chew the object and
cause a considerable amount of
the poison to work into the
wound through the channels of
the teeth. Although the bite of
the Gila monster has been
known to cause death to man,
as a rule the poison is not fatal
to human beings, partly because
the creature seldom has an op-
portunity to bite so large a vic
tim and work the venom thor
oughly into the wound. These
lizards feed chiefly on other liz
ards of smaller species and on
these the venom takes effect
rapidly.
FRR R WHI IN HHH R NRHN RRWHR
How Eskimos React to
March of Civilization
The Eskimo has “gone white.” The
most prosperous and most extrava-
era of depression is the fur-clad deni-
zen of the Arctic, who is generally
habiting an igloo,
Eskimos within range of civilization
save gone In for commerce, particn-
larly the fur trade, in a wholesale
fashion, and some of the most sue |
| cessful make incomes from $5,000 to |
wary short wave length.. The heat Is
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$140,000 a year. They spend all they
make. When an Eskimo has a rich |
harvest of furs and cashes in on it,
his first thought is to book passage
on an airplane flying to some city |
where, in exchange for his money, he
can buy a white man's outfit.
He usually purchases a swift moto
poat, new hunting and fishing equip-
ment, and clothes of the white man's
mode, for use on ceremonial indoor
occasions. If he has not already in-
stalled a radio he buys one, and it Is
probable that he will purchase musi-
cal Instruments in addition.—Boston
News Bureau.
How Corn Is Popped by Radio
Explaining how corn is popped by
radio, and why it is placed between
jars of ice, the General Electric com-
pany says that “the heating of the
corn is produced by radio waves of
generated by current Induced within
the kernels themselves, The purpose
of the glass jars, with ice, placed on
each side of the corn, was to show
that this was so—that is, that the sur-
rounding atmosphere was cold and
that the only thing that was heated
was the corn itself. The reason that
the corn was heated by the short wave
radio waves and the ice water was not
was because of the difference of the
olectro-conductivity of the corn ker-
nels and the Ice water.”
How Spores Travel
Scouting trips with airplanes show
chat spores of certain plant diseases
are often found at heights of 10,000
feet in the upper air. This is one ex-
planation for the spread of such dis-,
eases as black stem rust of small
grains, say specialists of the United
States Department of Agriculture.
Investigators working with white
pine blister rust have found that
spores of that disease falling in a per-
fectly still atmosphere from a height
of one mile require 55 hours to reach
the earth. Such experiments make it
clear that plant disease spores may he
blown for long distances unless
brought down by rain or some other
agency.
How Gelatin Is Made
Gelatin is formed by the action of
boiling water on connective tissue,
cartilage, ligaments, tendons, skin,
hoofs and bones. By one commercial
process the selected tissues are
washed and soaked in warm, diluted
soda lye for about ten days and then
heated in an air-tight compartment.
They are next washed In revolving
drums, bleached by fumes of burning
sulphur and rewashed to remove the
sulphur, after which the gelatin is dis
solved out with boiling water. Color
is removed by means of bleaching
charcoal, and the clear, hot solution
{s poured out in thin layers, which,
after setting, are cut into small sheets
and dried on nets.
How to Restore Honey
Pure ) oney is liable to granulate dur-
ng cold weather and it can be re
stored to its former liquid condition
without injuring its flavor in any way
by placing the container in a vessel of
warm water and never allowing the
temperature to go above about 120 de-
grees, The honey will then become
liquid «nd retain its delightful aroma.
How Bee Finds Its Way
The bee finds its way home by its
sense of direction. When it leaves the
hive it circles around and then flies
off. Each hive has its own odor. which
helps the bee to identify its hive.
How Miles Differ
A standa-d, or statute mile, contains
5280 feet: a nautical mile contains
6,080.2 feet
BELLEFONTE GRADES
IN BASKETBALL LEAGUE
Basketball among the boys of the
grade schools of Bellefonte is al-
ready exciting a lively interest
among the youthful dribblers. About
forty reported for the first
and enjoyed a hard work-out. Two
ods a week have been assigned
them in the gymnasium for the pur-
of providing exercise and the
opportunity to develop their ability
in the game.
Be Paaicns Jay
ol in the
7th and 8th grades of both build.
. These four teams will play
a regular schedule of games among
themselves. It is also planned to
select a grade school team of the
best players on the four teams and
arrange games with the Freshmen
Hi-Y and other available opponents
The boys will have to maintair
passing grades in all subjects in or-
der to play on their teams. They
must also have good records of con
duct and attendance.
It is hoped that some suitable
trophy or award will be provided by
some organization or business fir
in town to be placed in the room
which wins the grade championship
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—Dahlia bulbs should be examine
to see if they are keeping well. I
|they are shriveling cover them witl
sand; if they show signs of starting
into growth they should be kept ii
a cooler place.
The
Birthday
Surprise
SURPRISE PARTY!
Betty Hale's eyes
danced with excitement as
the guests flocked into the
farm house.
terday myself!”
Mrs. Hale beamed
knowingly. “Why,
you don't
folks have
think only city
telephones,
Employers,
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