New The lizhtning und mother shivers and you swallow hurd and tell “'ooh, there fs nothing to be afraid of.” and then duck your own head under the hed clothes—don't. You are right. There i8 nothing to be afraid of. The chance of a person being struck in his home is one in several million. And if you be at your desk in skyscraper, the lightning cannot reach you, You have the assurance for this from IR. M. Spurck, an engineer of the new switchgear plant of the General Electric company at Philadelphia, in charge of the high voltage testing of circuit breakers, where ares of arti. ficial lightning at from fifteen to twenty feet are played over apparatus to make sure there are no defects and that it will withstand conditions when put into service out In the in natural lightning areas Not Mere Guesswork. “Shooting a million volts into eir- cuit breakers to thoroughly test them before leaving the factory is nol mere York flushes the and time cries next baby Johnny, yooh J | ’ chance to some downtown Of wr ——————————— A —-———————————————— On the Other Side of the World By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK Dean of Men, University of Illinois. HAVE alwaye thought that things would be very different on the oth- of the world—diflerent different language, different The South Sea islands always spelled mystery and magic to me and dusky forms waving strange weapons in the air. India and the Malay peninsula | was sure Was ap other world. er side Cus toms, a peoples have My cousin lracy, who Is a bankef with nothing to do ou occasion but fo seus and to stop at gfirange und unfamiliar parts has been around the world recently, an experi ,ence which is new peither to him nos to his much traveled wife, He me a bundle of pewspapers Singapore. Of course you all what and where Singapore is. | do, since | asked Nancy, and she, to he certain, looked it up in the Atlas, I is an English possession, | believe. where the bathing costuines” fiftecn you? pounds, siuil the poling sends from Know papers advertise “snapp) nine tno mind not at (rom dollars each—doliars, American and good dollars, shillings, pence. in They anu murder Sing apore as tlized aud enlightened marry the sume we do in this ely country and whisky Volstead's in hey itor k for advertise nu e) Cars {without an Mr. S LIFE BM —————— SUCH 1 guesswork The fundamentals are based on studies made in the com- pany’'s laboratories, fief observations, and the classic work of the late Doc- tor Steinmetz” Mr, Spurck If on the top of a hill with no trees about, you are in a com- paratively perilous position. Bat if you the average city home, with houses of equal height about vou, lightning is likely to single you out about once every thousand years, As for :the residents in the house perched upon the hill, the chance is one in several! million that they will be struck by the bolt that comes once every hundred years The bolt might tear up the roof, or even set It afire, but likely would get no you, It would encounter the house wiring and would be carried impotent to the grouhd Or It would hop on to the plumbing system and docilely speed off into the said, you reside live In closer to electric earth, Keep Away From Walls, in your where these house Is light Most ihe safest anywhere except ning conductors place are centered, phutogruph shows Edna Davey. Australia in the al Amster best time for 4h seconds, will women's 430 this who represent meters race dam Her 440 vards 1s 6 minutes 3 And her henutys judges in pleking winners, summer, will certainly help the fluence has not traveled so far, have moving pictures, and just at time Min the and Chester i boards his Gump were hol Think stuff Chester of ttle doing in Singapore! They bh and seems inconceivable to me, political outrages there, men are phitmbing ad down Keep they metal dintor Is nothing tion that In the lightning ntl heating in the uway from run. Do not olijects, pipes run up middle of the house, the walls which stan between two such as a heating ra- the plumbing pipes. There wrong with the supersti- the hed Is nn safe place, modern in and steel office building even get the roof, Most roofs of such buildings nee metal and are purposely brought in contact ut with the steel frame. work, and this elrcult absorbs and car ries off any lightning that may chance fo down. cunt some paint shoot Perhaps the question of the eflicacy of lightning rods has never been fully settled in the public mind, Lightning rods are now to be seen chiefly in the country. There is a lightning rod on nearly every house In the cltles, though It not be visible to the Every plumbing system has an vent—a pipe—that runs upward If not through the roof, BErVes exactly the which alr on house, may eye air to, It lightning the us does the rod pricks farmer's ¥ | A OEE ER EERE SEE) This picture was taken 2s a sghipload — (ES ER Eee ion of emigranie sailed, Albany, N. Y.—Four almost price the museum of the world left to the the will of Anna Treadwell Thach- tovd Thach- 1803 for $500, the New it one of “historical in make collection York state nest groups these he hells were museum The known four belts In the collection Hiawatha belt. the belt, the Wam Sight of Pale new as the Covenant to Mark the First to the gnscerupulous shot in a manner very similar which our own Hticiang are done with, They cars, tlie rubber AWNnYy to have the motor the seen s#ine jubricating oils, the same same tires, same varieties { i | HL are in surprired me, it rather ml hools and pacifists, and ten football sports and sportsmen there are In our own other side of the world different from the are acquainted as Kankakee, There as itary HIDE 8 clubs, and associations sorte of Singapore The soPm as Ot “i hh which we suppose, » after dinner at the fas! they use safely razors faces, and the famous Champlain bell The Hiawatha belt is belleved hwre to be the original record of the forinn- tion of the Iroquois league. The exact age of the belt is unknown, but it 1% believed to have been made io middie of the Sixteenth century The Washington Covenant bell the most prized by 1 wampum keepers of the Onondagn na tion. It derives {ts name from its use during the Presigency of Washington as & between the thirteen wins one highly he Hearyge covenant of original peace gtates and eat Quaker oats, and take patent medicines for rheumatism, snd alarm clocks to rouse the lethargic from thelr morning sleep, and sit through plays which depict the an ties of college students the same as use they we do Io our own undergraduate-filied towns. In fact the thing me as | read the Singapore Free Press is that on the other side of the world things go oo much as they do in these western American of People play the games, and drink the = with which Impresses middie towns Ours, sane ime food ent plight and in the daily thoughs, modifications, routine the the same main follow and think (2 1938, Western Newspaper 1¢ game ony ARENT YOU eg Na” he A) AFRAID which he represented and the six na tions of the federation. [roguaols, he great Indiun The third belt was made by the iro quols lo the the first but It known refere rue commemorate “sight palefaces,” is not whether this Spaniards, French or The Champlain ¢ of the belt duplicat belt, commemorates (en part of the the excursion gel Champlain into the country 16068 collection of ' faisoe a froquois in | SOOOOO0LOOLOSDCLODOO000 DIPPING INTO SCIENCE OOO00 OL SO 3 o o Oo Q Ou o o : Qo 9 Q oO Q Q : Lo odetetotatototetedototatototo te tete ens Millions of Insects here are befween five and ten million species of insects in Many of very necessary us, help In destroying the insects, others give us and others still carry the the world. these are to Some nrmfo valuable medicine, more from hem 1« flowers, nseful polien plant to plant, enabling r thelr fruit 1828. Western Newspaper Ur uo SOO00000 00D O00D000000 ten and Palmnicken, Germany.— With fros: out of the ground, quarrying for am ber has started again at the great Prussian amber mining works here which 1s the only plant of ite Kind in the world Palmunicken amber, The lives on Just What They (THATS TH J08 FOR ME ~~ village of SN ployed in the plant Amber, “Prussian gold,” was traded at thie little spot on the Baltic codst with the ancient Phoenicians. Fisher men dredged for it in earlier days but more recently it has been dug oul Are Looking For i whole people is em the blue clay with machinery. Great hoppers bring up cars of clay from an area a square mile in extent The clay is washed for amber in much the same way as auriferous earth 1s washed for gold. Each season about 3.000000 cubic meters of oil are moved. Amber is found in clusters, The pieces are picked ont and washed with sand in great revolving drums. An army of girlie sits at a running band and picks out six recognized standard qualities, Every year the “crop” runs to about 125,000 pounds but ouly one third of this is suitable for beads and ornaments, The rest is ground to powder to make “pressed” amber, or melted down to make varnish and co jopliony. Amber oil and acid are by products obtained by distillation. Pieces of seven or eight pounds welght are not rave, but the biggest single lump ever found here weighed about fifteen pounds. In the laboratory, pleces of amber of all shades and sizes are kept— bright amber, pale-yellow amber, plain and with flies, bugs or tiny leaves im pedded in them, dating from the ter tinry period when coniferous forests flourished here In a subtropical eli mate, . The most valuable amber bears the quaint name of “sauerkraut” because it Is of a paleyellow tinge and has markings suggesting strands “of cut cabbage. of Government Is Asked lome.— Bare arms, low necks and short skirts would be taboo for Italian high school and college girls if Minis ter of Education Fedele took the ac tion asked in a letter now before him, The body known as “the national committee for the correctness of the mode” has petitioned him requesting that all those whose costume “does not conform to that modesty which i# dictated by civilized Christian usage and sentiment” be barred from the in stitutions under his control. The school supervisors in several large provincial cities have already public iy admonished girl students for “im modest dress,” but with little effect. German Waiters Again Will Work in England Berlin. ~German waiters are to work In English hotels and restaurants again for the first time since the war, Four Ger man walters have left Germany for England and others soon will follow them. According to German esti mates, more than 40 per cent of all employees in English hotels and restaurants before the war were Germans. The Neue Berliner Zeitung states that the first group of German walters to resume work in Bogland and who have jus departed, have been engaged for a period of five years at wages between $30 and $35 a week-- far more than they could earu in Germany. IN BLACK TAFFETA a Myrna Loy proves her talent for designing by thie simple yet beautiful dinner frock of black pussy-willow taffeta with overdress of black dotted lace, showing the uneven hemline. Two large bows at the hips of taffeta and lace add a touch of smartness to the gown, and a colored flower at the shoulder completes the effect. A large black satin and tulle hat is most ap propriate wilh this dregs & ob GRR Wa THERE is nothing quite like Bayer, Aspirin for all sorts of aches and pains, but be sure it is genuine Baye’; that name must be on the package, and on every tablet. Bayer is gens ine, and the word genuine—in red — is on every box. You can't go wrong if you will just look at the box when you buy it: ee Retelalotatelotolotatotodutatotetetototeteleie) Aspirin is the trade mérk of Bayer Manufacture of Momoaceticacidester of Sallcylicsel} No more Heartburn For correcting over-acidity, nor- malizing digestion and quickly relieving belching, gas, sourness, heartburn, nausea and other di- gestivedisorders. Safe. Pleasant. Normalizes Digestion and Sweetens the Breath Kill All Flies! "55 DISEASE Placed anywhere, DAISY FLY ILL attract Mille ot Sor he ELLER tracts and cheap Lasts alipes son, Made of sretal, can’t spill or tip over; will pot soll or indore anything. Guaraniesd. ! from your desler, HAROLD SOMERS Brookiye N Political pression “on with or its intr two line Lowell. Englis} a well-known poem by COULD NOT GET OUT OF BED Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Strengthened : Her Fikhart, Ind "1 had a tired feel. ing and was unable to get out of bed without the help of my husband. We heard of the Vegetable Com. vound and de cided to try it I am still taking it and it sure is a help to me. I can do my work without resting : l before I am Lo 8 through. I know — — that if women will give the Vegetable Compound a trial they cam overcome those tired and worn-out feelings. I cannot ex. press the happiates I have received and how completely it has made over my home. "—Mzs. D. H. SiseRT, 1326 Laurel St, Elkbart, indiana. ta) Health depends upon proper food assimilation. 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Significant historical Pennsylvania newspapers