MILLIONAIRE SHOW
PLACES GOING OUT
Trend Toward the “Model
Village” Is Gaining.
New York.—'Millionaire palaces,’
those resplendant show places which
used to dot the suburban countryside
in such profusion back in the old days
of pre-depression prosperity, are go
ing out of style, according to a sur |
vey report just put out by the Amer
ican Institute of Architects.
Experts who participated in the
survey envision the time when such
symbols of wealth and social sta.d- |
ing will ornament the American land- |
scape no more. Indeed the report sug- |
gests the possibility of the passing of |
the personal suburban dwelling of |
whatever size and cost in favor of |
the “model village” or standardized
bouse. |
The report, prepared by Dr. Leices- |
ter B. Holland, chief of the division
of fine arts of the Library of Congress
and chairman of the committee on
preservation of historic buildings of |
the American Institute of Architects,
is described as an analysis of the role
of architecture in the present art con. |
sclousness of the social body.
Waning Interest Noted.
The waning interest of the wealthy :
in large private houses is explained |
by Doctor Holland as “largely due
to an increase In mobility,” and fur |
ther to the fact that the wealthy, In-
stead of concentrating on a single es-
tablishment, are now in the habit of
maintaining two or more residences
in different parts of the country o- |
sven abroad.
“It is to be expected that the effect
of mobility will extend constantly
down the scale of wealth,” says the
report, “with a consequent tendency
to lessened interest in the personal |
suburban dwelling. The model vil
lage or the standardized house may
iv time replace it. There will prob-
ably result an Increase in economy,
possibly an Increase in beauty, but
also a decrease in esthetic responsive.
ness. For it is only the selective In-
terest of the individual that makes for
critical appreciation.
“The city apartment building illus
trates this reaction. Moder: apart.
ments are architecturally far more
interesting than the uniform rows of
city houses they replace. But they
have very little effect on the archi
tectural consciousness of the commw-
nity.
Matter of Pride.
“On the other hand, business buila
ings, such as stores, offices and thea-
ters, which a century ago were of
almost no architectural consequence, |
today have assumed prime impor
nce. This change is due chiefly to
e modern devotion to advertising in
all commercial undertakings, though
with this there enters an element of
personal pride on the part of the
merchant owners,
“An early expression of just this
combination of motives was P, T.
Barnum's residence, Iranistan, at |
Bridgeport, Conn., designed by a Lon- |
don architect in fantastic Moorish |
style and built regardless of expense
within unobstructed view of the main |
railroad line.”
‘The report shows that business
dulldings have assumed first impor
nce In American architecture. Gov-
t architecture is “esthetical- |
ly unimportant.” College architecture |
tends toward “archaic theatricality,”
while churches, libraries and other |
cpitural foundations will rank at the
end of another century as “the out-
standing architectural examples of
the day,” according to the report.
Seminole Indians Cling
to Ancient Folk Songs
Wasbington.—A new kind of folk
song has been recorded for posterity
by Miss Frances Densmore, Smith-
soplan Institution ethnologist, who
recently returned to Washington with
more than 200 phonograph records of
songs of the Seminole Indians of the
Worida Bverglades.
Miss Densmore was told by the re |
ticent Indian peoples that the Semi.
nolés bad no songs. After a four |
stay among them, however,
slie discovered and recorded much of |
an a native music,
inole songs, she found, are |
The Ser at two big annual feasts—
corn dance in the summer and
the ceremony preceding the hunting |
season In the fall. Music also is
used In treatment of the sick.
Old Plainsman Plans to
Ride Steer 1,000 Miles |
Sewing: Neb.—Tom Rivington be
Heves t the modern generation
to have its knowledge of the
West revived.
This eighty-two-year-old veteran on
the saddle and the range days pro-
poses to help in the revival. He's
sanning to straddle a steer next year
and ride the “critter” from Gering to
Ohicago—neariy 1,000 miles,
Rivington, bowlegged from ridin,
bronchos, believes If he gets a steer
with a reasonable amount of meat he
won't be such bad riding,
The old plainsman proposes rt.
finance his steer ride to Chicago by
sale of pamphlets en route. He plans
to start early enough so as to give
him time to sell his literature. |
Gourd Is Octogenarian
Gurdon, Ark.—A gourd eighty-two
years old still is in use at Mrs T,
Mathis’ home. It is employed as a
coffee receptacle and was the prop
erty of her grandfather.
| Amulet High in Favor
| law
| the limitations of mankind's
With Ancient Peoples
The most familiar of ancient
“charms” are perhaps the amulets
| worn generally for luck and certain
ones more specificelly as a charm
against disease, accidents or misfor-
tune. They go back to the early Chal
| deans, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans.
The idea of suspension is connected
' with the word amulet, its origin trac
ing back through the Latin to the
Arable, meaning a pendant, Edan
Wright tells us, in the Chicago Eve
ning Post,
And having provided themselves
with an amulet for safety's sake, the
ancients sought to care for their ani
mals in the same manner. The horse,
of course, being the swiftest means
of making a journey, was very impor
tant, and it was a bold traveler, indeed,
who undertook a trip without seeing
to it that his horse's trappings car-
ried the requisite amount of amulets |
to afford ample protection for beast
and man. There were brass amulets
for the horse's forehead, ears, breas’
and shoulders.
Early settlers in this country hung
witch balls in their windows which
were supposed to keep away the evil
spirits and witches. We can't vouch
| for their efficacy as charms, but most
of them were certainly charming af-
fairs, of glass, some colored, others
wlain.
Canada’s Buffalo Herds
Acquired From America
Legend has it that the buffalo owes
its present existence to a quarrel
between two Indians, father and son.
in-law, in 1873, says an article in
the Los Angeles Times, The son-in-
left the paternal tepee, fled
northward to Saskatchewan from his |
home at Flathead reservation, Mon-
tana. But his longing for home was
too great. He decided to return. On
the way he found a small herd of the
fast-disappearing buffalo. He sorted
out four calves. These he led home,
They brought him once more in the
family circle, for the father-in-law
was happy with Hunting Dog's gift.
The four calves grew and bred under
the care of the priests of St. Ignatius
mission, Soon there was a small |
herd, too large for the priests to
handle. Came Pablo, the Mexican
halfbreed, and bought 10 of the ani-
mals for $250 each. He led them
home, where he bred them till they
became the herd which he sold to
the Canadian government at a price
per head similar to what he paid for
| the first 10. The United States gov-
ernment did not want them, for he
offered them In 1908. Canada took |
them, and now has the greatest buf-
falo herds in the world, totaling |
more than 20,000 animals,
Nature's Heating System
We hear a lot about central heat |
ing in homes, says a traveler, but |
New Zealand can boast that the land
itself is centrally heated over a wide |
area, with boiling springs, hot gey- |
sers spurting high in the air, and |
cavities full of boiling mud that!
heaves and works in a sinister way.
You may see the houses of the
Maorls perched over the edges of
the hot lakes, observe the Maori
mothers cooking their dinners in a
steam hole, or the boys enjoying a
bath in the hot water nature pro
vides. The thermal region is indeed
unique, and it is possible to find
lakes where one side is ice cold and |
the other nearly boiling owing to the |
hot springs. i
Biblical Mystery |
Lamuel, or Lemuel ag it is some
tmes spelled, is the name of a king
mentioned in Preverbs 31:1 and 4.
That chapter begins: “The words of |
King Lamuel. The vision wherewith
his mother instructed him.” The |
name occurs again in the fourth verse: |
“give not to kings, O Lamuel, give
not wine to kings. . .” Chastity and
temperance are the themes of the dis. |
course that follows. Nothing else |
whatever is known of King Lamuel.
Some Bible commentators believe that
he was an ancient king of Massa, a
small kingdom somewhere in Arabia,
although that Is mere speculation, |
Massa Is mentioned in Genesis as be
ing one of the sons of Ishmael.—Path-
finder Magazine.
Colors’ Meanings
Different authorities ascribe vari |
ous meanings to the colors. In the
mural decorations of the Library of |
Congress, red is used as a light of
poetry; orange, of excellence; yel- |
| low, of creation; green, of research;
blue, of truth; indigo, of science.
Other symbols often given are as fol- | i
lows: black, grief, death or evil;
white, purity, truth or hope; re
courage or love; blue, loyalty, truth or |
faith; gold, gioty or power; silver, |
purity or chastity; purple, royalty or |
Justice; green, youth, immortality or
gladness; violet, penitence; yellow,
Jealousy, inconstancy.
World's “Deserts” :
Strictly speaking, only dry lands are
considered as deserts, It is there that |
the ghosts of buried civilizations walk
and the traveler comes upon ruins of |
great dead cities, as in the Sahara. |
But if we add to the hot deserts the |
cold deserts of the Arctic and Antare-
tic we see in even more startling terms
habitat. |
The polar ice-caps are the truest Ges
erts of all, tor they support no life |
whatever, unless of a microscopic sort.
The Arabian desert or the Sahara |
teems with living things.—New York
Times. |
| evade—death and
' RIVIERA GAMBLERS
SIGHT PROSPERITY
Build New Casinos for the
Expected Rush.
Paris.—In adversity the baccaret
| « . . He had little pain, and it stopped
Tolstoy Evidently Was
No “Hero” to His Wife
July 23, 1897 . . . Again Lev Niko- |
laevich (Tolstoy) was ill all night, |
toward morning. He had esten pota- |
toes the day before, and had drunk
| kvas, In spite of his indigestion. . . .
barons of the golden sands of the
French and Italian Riveria are pre-
paring for prosperity just around the
~orher,
The gambling casinos are having
the worst season they have had since
Considering his intelligence, his greed
and his Ignorance in matters of dier |
wre quite extraordinary.
September 4, 1807. . . . Lev Niko-
' laevich wnites everywhere and al- |
the war. Little white five franc chips |
are used where formerly hardened
plungers fingered only the 1,000
franc red chips. Yet the barons have
found the hundreds of millions nec-
essary to build three new gambling
valaces,
There are at present £2 gambling,
casinos along the 100-mile strip from
San Remo to Hyeres, as well as three
race courses where plungers and
bookmakers swarm. The combined
“hese 22 casinos is 32,000.
, capacity of the gambling tables o*
In good years the tables have beew |
populated from noon until dawn with
as many as 500,000 gamblers trying
their luck at one of the 800 tables
during a day. At the present time it |
is no rare sight to see two croupierr
and only one gambler.
For the happy days to come, how-
ever, the barons are making ready. |
At Monte Carlo a new $4,000,000 ca-
sino is being built In the shadow of |
the famed oid casino on the rock.
Monte Carlo Is so small that you
can walk is length In five minutes,
yet it has three casinos already and
& fourth under way. The new one
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will be called the International Sport- |
ing club and will be the most luxu- |
rious gambling place in the world.
Baccaret players will tread on rare
oriental carpets, the walls will glitter |
with real gold and the ceiling will be
movable and open to the sky.
Another luxurious “sporting club
also is being built slong the Crois-
ette at Cannes. The only sports will
he indoor sports—poker, bridge, bhac-
caret and chemin de fer. This will
put one new palace on each side of
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ways about brotherly love. It always |
puzzles me when 1 read it or hear it.
All hig life from morning till night he
has absolutely nothing to do with his
fellow mortals. He gets up in the
morning and drinks coffee, and goes
out for a walk or a bath without
having seen anybody, then he settles
down to work; later he goes out on
his bicycle, or for another bath: then
he has his dinner or plays tennis or
goes down stairs to read.
He spends the evening in hig own
room, and only after supper does he
spend a little time with us, reading
newspapers or illustrated magazines.
And this regular and egotistical life
goes on day after day, without love
for anyone, and without any inter-
est In all the joys and sorrows of his |
near ones.—From the Diary of Sophie
Andreyevna Tolstoy,
Thief Delivered Into
Hands of His Enemies
Not so long ago ome of the most
daring burglars in London was work-
ing confidently and leisurely at the |
task of opening a safe in a room at
the top of a building, when something |
in the atmosphere caused him to sniff, |
Instantly he sprang to his feet and ran |
to the door. When he opened it a
great volume of smoke poured in,
Then he realized that he was trapped |
in a burning building, and that to save
his life he must shout for help.
the £5,000,000 gambling factory which |
Frank Jay Gould built at Nice.
World Is Now Inhabited
by Two Billion People |
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| out they put the burglar in—for five |
Washington.—The world is inhabit. |
ed by approximately two billion peo-
ple, or 39.2 persons for every square
mile of land on the earth, according N. H., was the outgrowth of Joshua
to Commerce department figures com- | Moor’s Indian Charity school opened |
piled for 1929,
Only official statistical publications, |
of the 103 countries surveyed were was collected in Great Britain and | ]
used by the department in the first | placed in trust. With the endow | | E
| compilation of this kind ever made. A ment Doctor Wheelock decided to ex-
Data gathered Indicated that fe
males greatly
throughout the world. Fifty-one out |
. of every 100 persons in the United
| States are, however, males,
The United States, with a land ares. = to Lord Dartmouth, who was head of
of 2,878,776 square miles and an esti-
mated population of more than 124.
000,000, has a density of 41.7 persons
per square mile. Alaska has the
smallest density of any country list-
ed, with 0.1 per cent.
Town in New England
Votes to Pass Up Tax
Orleans, Vt—The fellow who said
there were two things one couldn't
taxes—was only
| half right.
This village of 1,300 inhabitants has
roted to make no tax levy for 1982,
Orleans thus becoming the only tax-
less community in New England.
With a balance of $12,000 In the
treasury, town officials figured there
was enough to carry on for another
year without burdening the citizens. Das been recorded in any year.
Seek Divorce; Not Wed
Vancouver, Wash.—When Waltex
and Pearl Priddy sought a divorce
they discovered they never were le-
gally married. They Immediately ob-
tained a license and were married.
Girls! You're Doomed
After You Reach 27
San Francisco.—Girls who wait
until they are past twenty-seven
to marry are likely to remain
spinsters for the rest of their
lives.
That is the theory of Caven-
dish Moxon, M. A., consulting
psychologist, who has made a
study of marriage here for the
last ten years,
“Between the ages of twenty-
two and twenty-seven, a girl is at
her best,” he sald. “She reaches
the full bloom In physical and
mental development, She can
choose her husband from the
group of men between the ages of
twenty-eight and thirty-three, the
usual marrying period for men.
“If she waits until after twen-
ty-seven she is apt to find the
man of her own age or s few
years older already married. As
a rule, younger men will not be
interested in her.”
Moxon said he belleved the un-
derlying cause for unhappiness
in modern marriage is the tend-
ency of the times for individual.
ization.
“Marriage Is easy when every-
body has the same tastes, man-
pers and beliefs,” he said. “It
becomes dangerous for the eman-
clpated woman and Individualized
man of today. A hunt for per
fection is a hunt for the impos-
sible.”
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change. {
gardens and parks and brilliant flow-
There was no convenient skylight or
any other way of escape, and conse-
quently the man who had the very |
best of reasons for avoiding the police |
was compelled to do all he could to |
It |
serious as the trapped crook had im- |
years,
Old American College
Dartmouth college, at Hanover, |
by Rev. Eleazer Wheelock at Leban- |
on, Conn, in 1754. A sum of £10,000 |
tend the sphere of his work and ad- |
moved to Hanover in 1785. In|
e charter the name of Dartmouth |
be was adopted as a compliment |
the board of trustees in England, and |
took a great interest In the Institu- |
tion.
Cancer Scourge
The statement was made at a meet-
Ing of the American Society ‘or the
Control of Cancer that there were
more than 360,000 persons in this coun-
try suffering from the dread disease.
At the beginning of the century, can-
cer ranked sixth as a cause of death
In the United States. By 1920 it had |
risen to fourth place, and to second |
place in 1927, a place it still holds. In|
1820 71,756 persons died of cancer.
Since then there has been a steady in- |
crease until in 1029, the last figures
available, the number of deaths from
cancer reached 111,562. No decrease
Ancient Greeks Knew Coal
Some 300 years B. C. Theophrastus, |
famed Greek orator and philosopher, | 1
wrote about coal in the following lan- Ji
“Those substances that are i
guage:
called coals and are broken for use
are earthly, but they kindle and burn ||
like wooden coals.” The coal he re-
fers to was found in certain localities
In Greece. The first written receipt
for cos] in England was given by the |
Abby of Petersboro in 852 A. D. and |
was for 12 cartloads of coal. Among |
the other “firsts” was an account ot |
the mining of coal in 1180, recorded |
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Might Coax Them Back |
The theory that the universe is con-
exploding has had apparent confirma- |
tion in discoveries at Mount Wilson |
observatory that immense nebulae or |
star clusters in distant space seem to |
be rushing away from the earth at |
tremendous speeds, reaching a masxi- |
mum of 12,500 miles an hour. But |
have the astronomers considered the
possibility that these star clusters
might slacken their pace or even re-
verse their movements as soon as con
Beautiful Holland
Urban Holland %Yas many unique |
characteristics. The famous tree-
and crossed by draw or swing-
bridges, are most interesting. Quaint
gabled roofs surmount the narrow
orick houses. Chimes ring out gaily
In churches and public buildings.
Dutch cleanliness is proverbial. All
houses are washed and scrubbed and
polished inside and out once a week.
Holland is also justly famous for its
ers, well planied and tended.
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| SLIGHT WARNING GIVEN
OF DEADLY POISON GAS
dde po
| of the greatest dangers of modern
| lite. The gas, given off by almost
| all forms of combustion,
smell and gives no ordinary warn-
| ing,
‘noted which may be valuable.
ing and hardening of the small ar-
teries which one can feel heating In
| the temples; second, there is often a
un ie patient
should be kept absolutely quiet untii °
is complete. Artificial res-
piration is necessary if breathing
has ceased, but the most important
thing is the prompt use of a modern -
inhalation apparatus using oxygen .
and a little carben dioxide.
has no
but two symptoms have been
First, there may be a slight swell-
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Tax On Bank Checks
Beginning Tuesday, June 21st, a federal
tax of two cents will be placed on all checks
drawn on banks.
No stamps will be furnished, and the
amount of tax will be added to each check
by the bank on which it is drawn.
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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80 years In the Business
BUSH AROADE BLOCK
BELLEFONTE, PA.
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