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Superstitions Have Such »
Strong Hold
“It is the hardest thing in the
world,” wrote Gilbert White in 1776,
“to shake off superstitious prejudices.
They grow up with us at a time when |
‘they take the fastest hold and make |
the most lasting impressions; they be-
come so interwoven into our very con- |
stitutions that the strongest good sense
18 required to disengage ourselves frow |
|
them.”
And even with the strongest good
sense, there are those among us today |
who look with dismay upon a mere |
black cat crossing our path and who |
wouldn't think of molesting the crick- |
ets chirping on the hearth. And think |
with what solemnity we enter into the |
ancient custom of wishing on the |
%reast bone of a fowl. . |
Although the supply seems inex-
haustible, there are many superstitions
that have been long forgotten. White |
tells of the shrew-ash that stood in the
barnyards of his English forefathers.
It was just an ordinary ash whose
twigs and branches were endowed with
curative powers, It was believed that
when a shrew-mouse crept over a
horse or cow, the animal was threat- |
ened with the loss of the use of its
limbs, The beast could be restored
to its normal state only by applying
the twigs of the shrew-ash to the af
fected part.
But in order that the shrew-ash pos-
sess those curative powers, it had to
be prepared in a certain way. Into
the trunk of the tree a deep hole was
bored with an auger, a shrew-mouse
was thrust in alive, and plugged in, no |
«doubt, with certain quaint inecanty-
“tions. —Detroit News,
‘Why One Is Cautioned
to Mind His P’s and Q’s |
My grandmother frequently used
“the expression “Now, mind your p's |
and q's,” when cautioning her grand- |
«<hildren about getting into mischief |
and nearly always when they left the |
house to go for a visit. [I find my- |
self using the expression, but was |
“stumped” when my daughter asked
me what it meant and where it came
‘from, Can you give me some help?
asks a reader of the Indianapolis
News, and that journal answers: The
expression Is commonly used to mean
“be careful” According to some au-
“thorities, it originated among printers
when all type was set by hand. Type
bearing the p's and q's was easily
~¢onfused by apprentices, and journey-
men printers urged them to be care
ful about distributing the letters to
their proper place In the case. This
explanation commands the weight of
authority, but there is a contention
that the expression came from Eng-
lish alehouses, where accounts were
kept on the back of the door under
two general headings, pints and
quarts. If the customer charged a
pint of ale, a chalk mark was made
opposite his name and in the pint
column, After the customer received
his wage, he went to the inn and pald
his bill, or, as the old expression had
®t, minded his bill, or business, hence
the expression in the sense of an ad-
monition to strict attention to the
‘husiness or affairs at hand.
Why Glass Changes Color
The bureau of standards says that
4lass frequently changes color on ex:
“posure to sunlight and the surface may |
weather or decompose slightly on ex
posure to certain types of atmospheric
conditions, The color change is gen.
erally from the initial color of the
glass to a purplish tint. This is
thought to be the result of the action
of sunlight on the manganese which
was used to decolorize the glass, The
weathering produces a scum on the
surface of the glass and renders it
fess transparent, but does not in gen-
eral change its color,
Why Countries Separated
Norway separated from Sweden It
4905. In June 7 of that year the king
of Sweden refused to sign an act es
tablishing separate Norwegian con
sulates, and the Norwegian ministry
resigned. No one would accept office.
whereupon the Norwegian storthing
voted that the union between Norway
and S.veden had been dissolved. since
the king of Sweden had acknowledged
himself unable to form a Norwegian
ministry and could not discharge his
eonstitutional functions,
Why Bare of Trees
“The absence of trees in the prairies.
steppes and similar grasslands Is doe
© principally to natural conditions, such
as climate, soil, ete. Practically no
forests occur In regions of less than
20 inches of rainfall except coniferous
forests in regions of low temperature,
where evaporation Is slow.
Why Termed “Gridiron”
The word gridiron is derived frou.
the nilddle English gredire, and is of
ancerialn origin, perhaps connected
with the old French grediller, mean-
ing to scorch or burn, The word for
merly designated an iron grating used
for torture hy fire,
Why Shell Turns Red
I'ie carapace, or shell, of the lob
ter turns from green to red when
holled on account cf a chemical change
in the chitin, or hard substance, in the
zhell produced by heat. The flesh
does not turn color,
Why Iron Is Colder
Iron feels colder than wood be
»ause metals are good conductors of
heat, whereas wood Is a poor con-
ductor
Street Laundry in Genoa.
(Prepared by National Geographic Society,
Washington, D. C.)—WNU Service.
MOUNTAIN recently was
blown into bits near Genoa to
make way for a seaside high-
way between the city and
Samplerdarena, one of its suburbs,
Before excited Genoese who crowded
every vantage point, tons of dynamite,
which had been poured into 700 foot
drilled holes, leveled the rocky bar-
vier, thrusting a large part of it into
‘he Genoa harbor,
Genoa may be considered the Alma
Mater of the Americas. She nurtured
Christopher Columbus in his boyhood
years, when he dreamed the dreams
that were to shape his life; communi-
cated to him a love of the sean that
had made her great; imbued him with
a dominating thrist for the adventure
that was hinted at by every strange
galley and caravel that crowded her
harbor, and all the motley throng of
bronzed seamen from distant lands
who jogged elbows with him on her
ays,
And, having reared the hoy Colum-
bus in this atmosphere, the city sent
him forth to battle with true Genoese
spirit for his dreams until that Oec-
tober day in 1492 when, fulfilling
them, he wrung a hemisphere from
oblivion to add it to the map of the
world.
The Genoa of today is a great mod-
ern city, if you center your attention
on its Industries, on its steel ships,
on the dwellings of its upper tiers, on
the business of the Via Venti Settem-
bre (20th of September street), and
the crowds of prosperous-appearing,
well dressed people who throng that
thoroughfare morning and evening to
Yoliday proportions,
But Genoa is not only a modern
city. The links that tie the present
to the times of Columbus, and to days
long before his, still hold strongly.
One may step on the very stones on
which young Christopher walked; the
walls that rose beside the narrow
ways that his restless young feet
trod still stand, block after block of
them: and only a few steps from the
present business heart of the city,
where heautiful modern buildings rise
about the Piazza De Ferrari and the
Via Vent] Settembre starts upon its
hroad, straight way, is the most im-
portant link of all, the House of Co-
‘ymbus,
This dwelling of Domenico Colombo,
father of the future admiral, and of
Susanna, his mother, was the place
in which Christopher spent his early
boyhood. Tourists must view this his-
toric old house from the outside, un-
less they have & special permit.
Records All in Palaces.
Official records of the family of
Columbus are kept in municipal of-
fices, These offices are in one of the
beautiful old palaces of the Genoese
nobles, Whatever activity you search
for in Genoa, it seems, you find in a
palace. The city offices are in one, the
port officials transact their business
in another, the prefect looks after
matters of state in a third; and oth-
ers are museums, art galleries, schools,
and telegraph offices, You begin to
wonder, as you make your way from
palace to palace, whether the butch-
ers ard bakers and candlestick mak-
ers of Genoa conduct their businesses
in these sumptuous structures, and to
doubt that in Genoa's palmiest days
there were any commoners at all to
‘ive in mere houses.
In the municipal palace Genoa
keeps mementos of her illustrious
sons, whether by birth or forced adop-
tion, There are portraits of the great
statesman, Mazzini; the incomparable
explorers, Marco Polo and Columbus;
and sundry heroes of the Crusades.
In a glass case rest the violin and
bow of the world’s master violinist,
Paganini.
At an end of the council chamber,
carved from one piece of marble,
stands a tall pedestal surmounted by
a bust of Columbus, A recess has
been cut into the pedestal and fitted
with an ornamental bronze door. This
a custodian unlocks and takes from
their marble resting place Genoa's
most precious documents: three let-
ters written by the hand of Christo-
pher Columbus and signed with his
curious signature, and a parchment
book containing copies of the docu-
ments through whieh various priv-
ileges and titles were conferred upon
him by Ferdinand and Isabella.
All the letters were written from
Seville to Genoa, two In 1502, as the
great navigator was preparing for his
fourth and last voyage, and one in
1504, after his return from the New
world. Two are to Nicolo Oderigo, an
important citizen of Genoa, who
served as ambassador from the re-
public to the Spanish court. That of
March 21, 1502, tells of sending his
book of privileges for safe keeping. |
Treasures Carefully Guarded Now.
The letters are framed now anc
protected by glass, This was not al |
ways so, as the missing lower corner
of one of the documents shows. ‘This
fragment, the custodian tells you, was |
torn off years ago by a tourist who
had been courteously permitted io ex-
amine the letter—~one of that inex-
plicable breed of vandals, the soul-
less souvenir hunter, to whom ethics |
apparently are beside the point. |
As soon as a privileged visitor has
examined the treasures, the watchful
curator takes his treasures and locks |
them again in their queer place of
safe Keeping. The Columbus house
is some distance away but every step
adds interest to the traveler's stay
in the city. The narrow, winding
streets teem with an Intimate mix-
ture of wheeled traffic and pedestri- |
ans, Some of these ways have nar-
row sidewalks, from which the pedes-
trians spill over at intervals. Others
have no curbs, and one must needs
compete for space with taxis, open
“cabs,” and laden carts. Still other
ways are mere crevasses between old
five and six storied tenement houses,
far too narrow for wheeled vehicles.
Suddenly you leave these congested
streets and come out into the Plazza
De Ferrari, the largest of the open
spaces within Genoa'’s business sec-
tions. One side of the square is lined
with the buildings of Old Genoa, the
walls of palaces for the most part:
but on the opposite side a newer |
Genoa stands forth—the Teatro Carlo
Felice, the Academy of Relle Arts,
the new Bourse, the post office, These
fine structures are relatively new and
form the portal to the Via Venti Set.
tembre,
When this era of new constructio.
was under way many ancient buildings
were demolished. Part of the ground
s0 obtained was used as sites for the
new structures and part was left va-
cant and added to the piazza. One |
of the blocks of closely packed build. |
ings marked for destruction contained |
the house of Columbus. The identity |
of this edifice had long been lost, but |
became kmown in 1885, after which |
the property was purchased by the
municipality and set aside as a monu- |
ment, |
in the House of Columbus.
The house originally had five sto.
ies, but was only one room in width,
It was hemmed in between taller
buildings and was in part supported
by these neighboring ectifices, When
this group was torn down the entire
house of Columbus could not be left
unsupported, so the upper three stor-
fes were removed. The two lower
stories, roofed over, now stand iso-
lated, an approximate cube of rough
masonry—a sort of Genoese Kaaba
and, like that sacred Meccan shrine, a |
center of world interest If not of pil- |
grimage. |
Inside the large wooden door the |
traveler finds himself in a gloomy, |
unlighted, boxlike room, wholly bare.
It is some minutes before one's eye
can make out the details of the in-/
terior. The floor is of stone, and the |
brick wails have a queer, jagged sur- |
face. Overhead the beams and thick |
floor boards have the same rough, |
nicked appearance. Your guide ex-|
plains that for a long time before it]
had been identified the house had
been used as a tenement by poor |
families of the eity, and that when it |
came into possession of the munici- |
pality its walls and ceilings were en- |
crusted with the grime of centuries. |
Serubbing would do no good; so stone |
cutters were put to work with chisels
and mallets to eut away the incrusta-
tions of half a millennlum and to
bring to light a surface at once clean
and nearer to that of the Columbian |
era. i
Toward the rear of the portion o. |
the building still standing is a nar-
row, winding stair of wood. The front |
room on the second floor has two win- |
dows In the front wall, is more airy!
and is better lighted than that be- |
low and was probably one of the chief |
apartments of the Columbus family. |
Its walls, too, have been chipped to |
form a fresh surface, and the floor, |
reasonably elean, has probably been |
scraped. Into one of the side walls!
has heen set i mueble slab, carved in- |
to a charming base-relief of the Santa |
Maria, the ship which bore Columbus |
on his great adventure, In a corner |
stands a little statue of Columbus, |
the boy. These are the only mementos |
of the great man who as a child lived |
here; for the rest the house is have, |
| sloners appointed
HOW
PIPS ON PLAYING CARDS
GOT NAMES THEY GO BY.—
When you say you are calling “a
spade a spade,” you mean that
you are not mincing your words,
but are using those that exactly
describe whatever you are talk-
ing about. At that you would be
all wrong if your remarks were
applied to the queer looking ob-
Jeets called “spades” on a pack
of cards. They were originally
rapiers, und they derived their
names from the Spanish word,
“espada,” meaning a sword.
Another misleading card name
is “clubs,” The first playing
cards came from Spain, via
France, and this particular suit
in these early packs was stamped
with a baton, or ciub. But the
French substituted for this em-
blem a trefoil, or clover leaf, al-
though they did not trouble to
change the rame,
Hearts have nothing to do with
the organ that pumps the blood
through the body. They were
originally called “cups.” You
can trace the resemblance even
now if you look at the pips
turned upside down as they are
in the two top rows of, say, the
six of hearts.—Chicago Ameri-
can,
Bhi Pee bee H eed PPD B DG GRP Pb PPP ddd
ldo d Pld PPP bebPdd ddd ibd
How the Word “Rival”
Got Meaning It Holds |
Many words are so changed in mean- |
ing from their original significance |
that there remains no logical connec-
tion whatever, And yet to be initiated, |
their course from their earliest begin- |
nings is as plain and clear as the |
course of a well-mapped river flowing |
from its source to the sea.
And “river” brings us to the sto:,
of “rival” our word for a competitor, |
for one of two people who are striv-
ing to reach the same goal, both of
whom are trying to get what only one
can possess. Hardly a relationship
there, to the naked eye, with a river.
And yet “rival” comes to us from the
Latin rivals, which means “pertaining
to a brook.”
The story is that in Latin “rivales
acquired the connotation of “neighbors
who got water from the same stream,”
and the Roman Digest discusses the
contests that sometimes arose between
such people concerning their riparian
rights,—Kansas City Times,
How to Hang Pictures
The charm of a beautiful picture
nay be ruined because it is hung
either too high or too low. Some
rules to go by In hanging pictures
follow. Place the pleture so that one
standing can see it without raising or
lowering the head to do so. The
center of the picture should fall di-
rectly on the eye level. Hang pie
tures so that they will be well bal-
anced. If you have a large. heavy |
picture in the center of a wall space |
on one side of a room, balance it with |
some tall piece of furniture or a wall
hanging on the opposite side of the |
room. Groupings of small pictures
help to create that feeling of balance
—only be sure that the pictures |
grouped together have some feeling
in common,
How Play Teaches Child
Denial of au child the chance to
slay not only deprives him of pleus-
ure, but robs him of some of the
fundamental lessons of happy living,
the children's bureau of the Depart-
ment of Labor stated in announcing
the publication of a bulletin on child
care, “The Child From One to Six.”
In play, the bureau says, the child
earns to play his part, to wait his
turn, to pay a penalty if he plays
out of turn, and to adjast himself
to the demands and ideals of the
group.
How Lamps Differ
The filament of a carbon lamp fis |
made of absorbent cotton that is dis |
solved in a zinc chloride solution |
| which forms a thick viscous liquid |
that is forced, under pressure,
through a die, thus forming a long
thread-like filament, It is then dried.
shaped and afterwards carbonized.
The filament of a Mazda lamp is pure
metallic tungsten that is drawn
through dies, the same as any other
wire, the final drawings being through
diamond dies, |
|
How Capital Was Chosen i
When congress voted thar the |
capital! should be located on the |
Potomac river, It also decreed that |
President Washington should be |
permitted to select the exact spot, |
He did this with the assistance of |
Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, |
These two, with the three commis- |
to prepare the
new seat of government, named the
city Washington, and the district
Columbin,
|
How to Freshen Leather
Leather work, if embossed and
stained. loses a little of its color In
time. It will retain its freshness long-
er if rubbed with a good leather polish
after the color has been put on. Be-
fore restaining, remove the old color
with methylated spirit if a spirit stain
was used, or with hot water if the col-
oF wis an water stain,
How Bran Is Made
Dran Is made from the broken coat
A the seed of wheat, rye or other
cerenl grain, separated from the flour
or men! hy €ifting or halting,
| year.
| tighter,
| move.—Popular Mechanics Magazine.
Cradle of Icebergs on
Greenland West Coast
The world holds few more awe-in-
spiring spectacles than the movement
of Icebergs out of Jacobshavm fjord,
into Disco bay, on the west coast of
Greenland. Jacobshavn glacier is the
world's greatest mother of Icebergs,
the experts claim. On the average, it
calves more than 1,350 bergs each
wide and running back inland fifieen
| miles, between high precipitous walls,
to the front of the glacier. When the
investimators ran the prow of their lit-
tle eraft into the mouth of the fjord,
they were met by an impassable wal?
»f hergs,
The hunters made their way afoot
to th» top of the recky bank. As far
as eye could see in the fjord, Icebergs
were packed tightly, row on row, a
breath-taking aggregation of white pin-
| nacles and domes. They estimated
| that the great rock-walled trough held
| between 4,000 and 6,000 bergs.
The movement of the bergs is not |
a steady march. Most of the year
they lie there, packing in tighter and
About once a month they
Judges’ Charges Short
but Much to the Point
American love of “wisecracks” ex
| tends even to the judicial bench, and
a Pennsylvanian magistrate received
commendation for what is claimed to
be the shortest summing-up on record:
“The ham was there, the prisoner was
there. The ham was gone, the prison-
er was gone.” For lucidity as well as
brevity that certainly will take some
beating, but some of our own judges
have run it pretty close, writes a col-
umnist in the Manchester (England)
Guardian. The late Justice Cave, in a
case where there had been much hard
swearing on both sides, addressed the
jury: “Gentlemen, one side or the
other ig telling lies, Perhaps you can |
| tell which it is. 1 cannot.” Lord St. |
ileller, too, once delivered his charge |
to the jury in a divorce suit in two |
helef sentences: “If the husband were
the: brute his wife says he was, she
is well rid of him. If he is the saint
he makes himself out to be, he is far
| too good for any woman,”
Politeness Personified
Our recent anecdote about the chi'd
who rendered the second line of the
Lord's Prayer: “Hollywood be thy
name,” has brought to us from Mrs.
C. M. R. a story which is new to us
if not to all of our readers:
A little girl from Boston whose
name was Halliwell was spending the
night with the Cabots. She knelt at
Mrs. Cabot's knee to say her evening
prayer.
“Our Father Who ‘art in heaven,”
the little one began devoutly, “Cabot
by Thy name.” 3
“What? That Is not right, dear!
sald tha startled lads.
“Oh,” said the child, “of course a.
home I sav ‘Halliwell be Thy name,’
but here I thought it more polite to
say ‘Cabot. "—Boston ‘I'ranseript.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS
XECUTOR'S NOTICE.—Letters testa.
E men! having been granted to the
the estate of Mary Then Tom Parker called.
oro Same et | He wants to buy for
selves indebted to same are requested tc | slaughtering.”
make prompt payment, and those having Mr. Hart laughed. “Let
me have the telephone!
Coming together like that,
I'll say ‘ves’ to both of
claims sald estate must present
them, duly authenticated, for tthe
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
of State Coll
W. Harrison Walker, or
Attorney. 77-7-61
HERIFF'S SALE.—By virtue of
S a writ of Alias Levari Facias
issued out of the Court of Com-
mon Pleas of Centre County, to me
directed, will be exposed to public sale
at the Court House in the Burough of
Bellefonte on
FRIDAY MARCH 25, 1932
The following property:
All that certain messuage, tenement
and lot of ground, situate and being in
the Borough of Bellefonte, Centre Coun-
ty, State of lvania, bounded and
described as follows, to wit:—
On the East by lot of W. J. Musser;
on the North by Lamb Street; on the
West by lot of Al Landis; on the
South by an Alley.
The lot having a frontage of about
47 feet between the corner posts, and
extending back from Lamb Street toan
| Alley, 150 feet, to a uniform width.
Being the same premises which James
C. Furst, Executor of
Testament of John
The Jacobshavn fjord Is a giant |
. trough in the solid rock, four miles |
CANDIDATES MUST
Warning that heavy penalties are
| imposed by law when political com-
| mittees receiving or more
| than $50.00 in support of any can-
| fice fail to file expense accounts with
| him is being given by the
of the commonwealth, Richard J.
Beamish.
A circular letter setting forth the
requirements of the law is
‘sent to every candidate who files a
petition with the department of
| state. It explains that the law ap-
plies to both the primary and gen-
eral election campaign for any of-
fice for which there is a state-wide
election, and the account must be
filed with the secretary of the com-
monwealth. The report must be de-
tailed, itemized and supported Ly
bills, vouchers and affidavits.
The penalty for failure to file is
not less than $50.00 nor more than
$1,000, or by imprisonment for not
less than one month nor more than
| two years, either or both, at the
! discretion of the court.
Committees representing individ-
| uals or organizations during former
| campaigns have quite generally fail-
{ed to file such accounts when they
| have had charge of a limited tern-
| tory such as a city, county or dis-
| trict, and have taken the stand that
| they have complied with the law if
‘ they filed in the county where their
political work was done.
| They must file with the secretary
'of the commonwealth however limit-
{ed may be the territory under their
| charge, whether working for one
| candidate for a state-wide office, or
|for a group that includes one or
‘more candidates running for such
| an office, Beamish said. The law ap-
| plies to both the primary and gen-
eral elections.
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!
OBERT HART eyed
his herd speculatively.
Comfortably bedded down
and content in their stan.
chions, forty cows returned
his gaze.
“Star boarders,” he mut.
tered, “that’s what half of
them are. I can’t afford to
replace them—and I can't
afford to keep them!”
It was the old problem
of dairy farming and Mr.
Hart pondered it afresh as
he returned to the house.
“There were a couple
of telephone calls, Bob,”
said Mrs. Hart as he en-
tered. “Old Mr. Beal is
sick again. Can you take
over any of his cows?
Employers,
granted and the unto | :
Farry Ward and Rosa Ward, his wife. ‘This Interests Yoru
Seized, taken in execution and to be
sold as property of Harry Ward and The Workman's Compensation
Rosa Ward. Law went into effect Jan. 1,
Sale to commence at 10:00 o'clock A. 1916. It makes insurance com-
|
M. of said day.
Terms Cash.
JOHN M. BOOB, Sheriff,
Sheriff's Office. Bellefonte, Pa., .
March 1832, 77-10-3t
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