THE CENTRE REPORTER Bo ol i LR id aa CENTRE HALL. PA. the time. making a mess of the has been. . « without " nes ts the Centred Office T0 Red Hair and Souls Not Found Together? I believe that if the red-haired women one knows are submitted to an impartial comparative scrutiny it will be found that there Is something diffi. cult to define, impossible not to feel, which all of them lack, It is the harder to distinguish In that few of them are destitute of at- traction; yet the ruthless analysis of of ten, bring the attracted up against some ultimate blind spot, some chord ness that cannot be moved. but as one does one will, There is all, that rejects responsibility. red-haired woman has not got, though it 1s one that has gone out of fashion and will probably be hailed with con. tempt. A soul. The red-haired woman has no soul There are men and women who have souls: there are men and women who have not; and we know them when we meet them, Red-headed women be- long to the latter class; and there is no other form of words which will cov- er their peculiarities except that which declares that they have no souls— Monthly. Oldtime Home Brewing Brewing beer was a respectable household task among families along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers 9,000 years ago. Evidence of this high antiquity of the craft of brewing and its place in ancient social systems of Babylonia and Egypt has been traced by German scientists of the Soclety of History and Bibliography of Brewing. There were laws about drinking in those days, the report shows, Certain rations of beer were allowed to each class of workers, Beer was also used in mixing medicines, and as an offer- ing to the gods. Brewing was an or ganized business as early as 0000 B. C., It Is stated, News “News” 1s commonly belleved to be formed from the initial letters of the four directions, north, east, west, und south, but it is authoritatively claimed that the interesting sameness is merely coincidence. There are synomous foreign words “nova” and “nouvelles,” which employ various letters to mean the same thing. In our own langunge the word was fore merly spelled “newes” It Is likely that the German word “das neue” Is the origin of ours since their phrase, “Was giebt neues?” menns the same as our. “What's the news?” - a Romans First to Make early times as bathing and cleansing themselves in some manner or another, Although the time of the first bath- tub is fixed on or about 200 B. { tubs for bathing. the first to use what we might term a bowl not large enough to hold a bather and which necessitated dipping the water out of the vessel and pour ing It over the body. The practice { of bathing flourished and the Greeks made luxurious use of It, but it took | the early Romans to develop the prac tice almost into a fine art Some of the largest Roman baths | covered areas of a square mile and | conld accommodate over 3,000 people, For over 600 years Rome used no { other medicine than her baths The swimming tank in the city of | Maecernas was the first to use warm | water. No mention «s made as to | how the water was heated. The | earliest method was to place heated | stones In the water and later using Backed “Short Horse” When Conan Doyle was in St. Louis on his visit to the United States he men” he says they were—"who would, “One quaint fellow,” says the cre- American Adventure” which passed through large jars heat. | ed by flames of fire. Bathing spread to the English and { In 1127 Henry 1 Included bathing in | the Initiation ceremony accompanying the knighting of 600 commoners into the “Order of the Bath” Ancestors in Seals of Honor at Feasts Entertaining the spirits of ancestors and conversing with them is as real as an actual affair of this world to anese villages in the neighborhood of Tokyo. Signal fires are kindled by the vil- lagers before the graves of their an- cestors and the spirits Invited to come home with them to partake of the feasts spread in their honor. When the fires go out, torches are lighted show the way home for the depart souls, As they walk it is not at unusual for-old folk to talk aloud the spirits and offen these simple point out a mud puddle to their spirit guests, warning them to be care- ful, "When a family reaches home, a tub of water ig found at the entrance, In which the spirits are invited to wash thelr feet. At the table, the living members talk to the spirits, usually about incidents that took place while the ancestors were alive, The follow. ing night, the spirits are escorted back to the graveyard and bidden fare- well until the following year, BO yy used to get his information ‘out of the onts box, to use his own expression, and pass on for a fee the plans of the horse to his fellows, “When the Information proved wrong he had to Invent excuses to avoid trouble, “ ‘Yes, sir, your horse was beat by six Inches, sir. But it really wasn't beat at all. It was just unfortunate. “See it? I had $2 on it. You bet I saw it’ “Well, then, If you saw it you would notice the rumps of them horses was dead on a line when they passed the post. It was a dead heat at that end, but you backed a short horse. That was all that was the mat- Importance of Oil Springs of oll were mentioned by a Franciscan missionary writing of a visit to America In 1632, but the Red man, when laid low by sickness, skimmed it from the surface of the rivers and drank it as medicine years before the Palefuce set foot In the country. Products of petroleum are met with on every hand today, motor cars, motor boats, airplanes. and airships all rely for their safety on petrol, for fuel in their engines, ocean liners, the mighty generating machin. ery, providing electric current for countless purposes, and the driving power for our great Industries often depend on either to raise steam or for direct use in Internal combustion engines. Energy From Grains Of the food eaten by the people of the northern part of the United States, 00 per cent Is represented by the fol- lowing five articles of diet: Bread and cereals: These furnish 87 per cent of enloric energy. Fat, Including butter and lard, con- tributes 16 per cent of calories, Meat provides 15 per cent of food energy. Sugar ylelds. 10 per cent of nour ishing service, White potatoes, the most generative of the food fuel required to keep the body machinery in operation, that the Filipinos believe In growing their own coin banks. The two most popular forms are a section of bamboo ends, and the other is a carefully hol- lowed and polished coconut. The bam. boo bank Is called an “Arkancia” and the coconut a “Tabo,” Both are pretty good at defying the attenpts of chil | dren to get at the contents, because they are very difficult to break, Although coin banks are not widely used In the Argentine there is one form which serves a double purpose, { particularly In the Interior of the | country, This is an artistically deco- | rated gourd which though primarily | intended as a receptacle for tea drink. | Ing is ‘sometimes converted into a coin | bank, The tea drunk in the Argentine | Is known as “mate.” It is sipped from the gourd by means of a metal tube | called a "Bombilla.” The gourd of tea | passed from one to the other at table | is considered a gesture of real friend- { ship and regard, Dolls and animals, attractively col- ored, are very popular as designs for children's coin banks in France. Singa- pore uses no design typical of that section of the world, the favorite re ceptaele being a tin can with a slit at the top.—~Exchange. “Shook Up” Officeholders President Andrew Jackson was among the first Presidents to recog- nize the power of the press and the value of its support in a political cam- paign, Not long after his Inauguration some of his advisers decided that it was highly important to have a news. paper in Washington, They organized the Washington Globe and started it on an immediate paying basig by the simple procedure eral officeholder whose salary was more than $1,000 a year, The hand- picked subscribers were sent the pa. per and a bill for a year's subscrip- tion. Most of them paid promptly and with as good graee as they could sum. mon, A few balked, and these were told they could either pay up or get another job, They pald—Kansas City Times. Term of Opprobrium Fakir is a word that has come to Jos from the Far East where It literally means a poor nan, a Mahommedan re- ligious mendicant, who espouses pow erty as being in harmofiy with his sense of spiritual insignificance. The life Is one of Inactivity, Many of these ascetics are sincere, but many were humbugs and so In the West the word “fakir” has come to mean much the same as mountebank, an Imposter, especially In matters relating to re ligion "oe ——— to Have Become Bore Bermuda would seem to offer an in. viting field for the Society of Psychical Research, Several old houses on the islands are reputed to be haunted, and one of them, owned by a well-known American writer, has for its particular wraith the ghost of a notorious pirate who frequented the spot in the ple- turesque olden times. Another spec- ter haunts an ancient mansion now serving as the winter bome of a wealthy American family. This Is gaid to be the ghost of Dorothy Tuck- er, an aged colored woman who toiled on the surrounding estate in slavery days, and who, for some misdemeanor, was locked in a cellar, where she was forgotten and thus starved to death. Since then, as a spook, old Aunty Tucker has often appeared, accord- ing to local stories and as she always popularly known as the moaning ghost, She Is said to have appeared so often to former tenants of the house that they became accustomed to her pres ence and were even bored by her re peated visits. “Needle Ice” The federal division of agriculture engineering says that needle ice is one of several names given to the invis- {ble crystals or minute particles of ice sufficient velocity to prevent the forma- tion of sprface ice and the tem perature of the water Is 32 degrees Fahrenheit or slightly less. It does not form under soild surface ice, but forms in open water when very cold, windy weather, particularily at night, favors the radiation of heat from the water mass, Needle lee may be carried long distances by currents. both In open water and under ice cover, and often ‘ collects in large and more or less comnact Masses or jame To Perpetuate His Name Greeley wrote in his “Recollections of a Busy Life”: “Fame Is a vapor; popularity an accident; riches take wings; the only earthly certainty is oblivion; no man can foresee what a day can bring forth: while those who cheer today will often curse tomor- row; and yet I cherish the hope that the journal 1 projected and estab lished will live and flourish long after I shall have moldered into forgotten dust, being guided by a larger wisdom, a more unerring sagacity to discern the right, though not by an unfalter ing readiness, to embrace and defend it at whatever personal cost, and that the stone which covers my ashes may bear to future eyes the still intelligible Ingpiration, ‘Founder of the New York omni gv Building School System Calls for Wise Foresight What are the right school condi- tions and how shall they be brought about? It will not be long now before every city has its planning commission, a part of whose job is the study of schools, A school distribution survey i should be made as part of the gen- eral city plan. Nor should schools be located near hospitals, for the sake both of the sick and of the children themselves, It should not be necessary for chil- dren to go through heavy or dangerous traffic, In the development of a school sys- tem, the plan should look ahead for twenty-five years at least and school buildings be located where permanent residence districts will be bullt up. If good in a locality, there people will to live. should there are schools come School playgrounds should be large enough for kinds of activity and for every of child. The small children be able conduct being oider all class should to without disturbed by children, Every kind of game should be possible which Is the of children who use the ground. A physi. cal education system which develops players and 1.000 spectators wil never go far in raising the physi. cal efficiency of America—Marcia Mead and George B. Ford In McCall's Magazine, their aor play overrun the suited to age the eleven Best Citizen Looks to Good of Neighborhood Theoretically a man who owns prop- erty ought to have the right to do what he wants to with his own land. Yet practically the man who does just as he wishes with his own property may create serious damage to his neighbors. For instance, if a man who owns a home in a pretty residence neighborhood should put up an ugly chicken in a conspicuous posi- tion. the neighborhood is to some ex- tent damaged. Real estate promoters often establish restrictions on the use of land which those purchasing con- sent to for the benefit of the neigh- borhood, Some people may object to certain restrictions, on the ground that they | Interfere too far with private rights Yet these conditions may make the land more attractive to others be. cause they seem to make the property more secure against deterioration. People ought to realize that if they make any addition that is inappropri- ate or ugly, or if they put up strue- tures unsuited to the location age Is done not merely to their neigh- bors but to themselves as The inexpensively bulit town show so much refinement in its homes and the care given to that it looks more pleasing and livable than one in which the average cost of the dwellings was as much. = Lebanon Reporter. Coop a dam- well, may them, twice School Garden Spot A few trees, a bit of grass and a | rose bush for every home is the for- mula by which Paul R. Young, super- visor of school gardens, expects this summer to turn the old Brookiyn dis trict into a garden spot. On the five-acre garden tract at Benjamin Franklin schoel several hun- dred children will set an example for their parents. They will stake out a tract the size of the ordinary home lot and show how to beautify it. The children are to be encouraged to take a hand in the home beautifi- cation as well as in the school project and they will receive seeds and In- structions. A garden class for adults is projected. Prizes probably will be awarded for the most beautiful home surroundings.—Cleveland Plain Dealer, Careless Americans Americans are the greatest rubbish | scatterers in the world. Most of us seem to think that It is one of the | Innlienable rights of man to deface the streets and parks and roadsides | by throwing about any waste material that happens to encumber us. The | other day we read in an English news- paper that a young man was fined five | shillings for leaving some chocolate paper and tinfoil under a bench in a London park. In New York or Boston or Chicago, would anyone have so | much as shaken a finger at himde | Youth's Companion. ; | Trees, Shrubbery Aid Looks | In the process of turning a house into a home the planting of trees and shrubs plays a most important part What to plant and when and how to plant it are questions not to be lightly answered. By all means confer with a landscape architect or equip yourself with literature published by tree and shrub nurseries. Proper planting adds beauty and value to any house, Permanent Construction The intending home builder should realize that permanent construction is the only sensible type of construc. tion for him, This is doubly true In the case of the man of moderate means, and that takes in most of us, where the Investment In a is a hig thing. probably the single Investmvent he ever makes
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