THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL. PA. we— LOVE MAKES WORLD GO ‘ROUND By LEONARD A. BARRETT y ESTERDAY a gray-haired cou ple walked into an old Wash. fogton hotel and insisted on having a room with a certain number. They told the clerk that after forty years they were making their honeymoon over agnin—sume cities, theaters, same churches, same sume rooms, wherever possible. yet they say marriage Is na So rends a current editorial There are four essential elements In the marriage relation. Friendship, children, economic partnership and sex. It takes all four of these har moniously working together to suc cessfully make the world go round The tendency to emphasize sex to the exclusion of the other three factors explains many of the pitfalls leading to the divorce courts. No marriage can last very long bullt upon a theory of sex alone. Human nature is funda. mentally against it It must have been an interesting event, well "worth witnessing when that couple, after forty years of mar ried life, were honestly and sincerely desirous of taking “their honeymoon same hotels, And failure.” (©) by McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) tobe Boy Scouts the summer White House, again. by a mutual sharing of the joys and struggles of a united life, Something Infinitely higher than mere sex, something which transcends and purifies it, makes such a relation ship possible. it was Robert in his poem, “Rabbl Ben Grow old along Tha best is yet The last of life, made: ur times are in his hand Who saith, “A wholes 18 pla Youth shows but half; trust God; all, afraid.” (E) 1928, Western Nowspaper Unilor nll over possible only Ezra": with me! to be, for which the nned, nor be MOTHER'S DISHCLOTH By H. VA EN a girl Is married and goes | away from home to set up her | own housekeeping, she should always | steal her mother's dish cloth away with her; as that her being homesick. probably bring her good luck. There are brides, even today, who | begin married life by doing their own | housework, and to such this superstl- i tion applies. The first part of It— the prevention of homesickness—is the | part most extensively believed in, though both first and second proposi- tions have their votaries. The source | of this superstition is the same as that | of many others—the idea of the primi tive man that anything closely asso clated with a person came to partake, in time, more or less of that person's individuality. Unknown to herself, idea persists in the bride's scious” self as psychologists call and it is added the consciousness of handling In her dally task an article which brings before her fancy | her mother engaged In hers. There is a sense of companionship in it and, | . likewise the half-formulated idea that | she, like her mother, Is now set out | on a domestic career of her own. Were it only an ornament of her mother’s | which she handled it might merely | make her think of her mother and be | to earry | will prevent | Besides it will this | “uncon it, | fo homesick. But the dishrag is not only | something closely connected with her Lord Effingham A good many towns in the United States are called Effingham. There is always a rearon., During the Revolu ticnary war, Lord Effingham resigned commission In the English army, refusing to fight the Americans after England employed the Hessian mer cenaries.—B, W., Howe's Monthly. his Suburban Values “Have you made any money?” “Not yet,” answered Farmer Corntossel “But we're hopeful. However prices may go. there's a real estate boom just ahead.” > o“ < a mother, but It Is associated with her in her capacity as housewife—a some- of her mother with her, and helping her, and useful to her in her daily tasks-—and so she is not home sick; a fact which she ascribes to magical properties in the dish- rag and not to the magic of psy- chology. The good luck Idea comes .a natural ly through association. The mother has heen the young bride's protector, made things safe and pleas The dishrag partakes of the Individuality of the mother; to It a primitive feeling transfers the moth. (2 by MeClure Newapaner Syndicate y SRB BEBO : CBee AND GANDER By Vicia Brothers Shore. FOR THE GOOSE- PERSON severest critie friend But they your best friend to critic. fo he your might have your best to be your severest 10 be don’t h be ave A woman can forgl quicker than a joke ve a real hurt carried tod fur. Some women think the best idea Is to run away from a man; and some think it's better to go after ‘em. But I claim the best is to sit still, highly charged with ecome-hither, FOR THE CANDER-- Your lies shouldn't have But should-— w your memory No ma studied the art whale in titer how much a8 man has of fishin’, he a duck can’t catch a pond. blindly you If you trust fiable to if you Kk to make your wife fool suspectin’ muke an outn ee § her you're liable fools outa both of you. (Copyright) Bess NEAR EASA Ess sss genes MONG the worst wents Is “blues.” But lmagioary diseases can trouble, as well as real ones I have known temperamental ladles who had nothing whatever the maiter them to render life miserable to and thelr families for a time, And it is actually ple to worry or fret But for the “blues” excuse. It is a trouble of Inferior minds. It will come om at any time, usually when there Is no apparent cause for | it, and last for an indefinite period. Meantime the patient Is not worth much. His work is bad. His temper is tricky, and it Is wise to avold him | and let him get over it Gise a tictim of “blues to think about—something that he bas simply got to think about, like hustling for a living, or keeping his job, and he | quickly gets over It. Coddle him, snd sympathize with | und he will have a long spell. » * * of fancied all make at possible for peo themselves sick. there is little »” something | » “blues” come to people who are | for themselves—who think they misunderstood, or that they are | half as much out of life | entitled to. It comes sometimes, genius, but genius can is intolerable. The sorry nre not geting of he course, lo spoiled by By JOHN BLAKE Ask any grand impressario about that. Normal people are ed with the “blues” in good health. Even habitual worriers into that state of constant “| opera not much affect while they not do get a corner and pity themselves -. . - remains actual upon the victim just of coma, shedding wental tears, and looking battle of life as aiready lost it sounds rather trite that it Is the best cure for the “bi it is for most other mental foolishness 3ut there has to be a litte ing now and then, or people have no reminder of thelr own infirmi The “blues” 8 sor or and preg achy {to say preach 1 Among colored there are “blues” people, many who but sing happy. the not about them jut these are people whe in developing, and who up with their brethren markable climb up from are cannot in their slavery re achieving people. If you have friends “blues” don’t laugh at them, who have if you have them yourself, and can’t HAVE one more story to tell” said the Sandman, locks, and those readers little too young to stories I ask to be patient, for I've had canals and their ways! “For the “l have been asked how It Is that the locks, in they are on their way up a canal, kept from overflowing. “They are kept from this by waste lnkes and the water runs back into the main river, These locks through which we went on my canal trip are forty-five feet wide. some water in the lock because there is always a certain amount of water below the level of the outtake and in take valves. “From a narrow canal one ap proaches a lock. [It is a small space— there is just room enough, for our boat. The gates are opened | and in we go, and then the gates are And we are locked in a very snug and fight-fitting Kind of pen. “After the pilot gets us in a lock we stay there until enough water has flowed in so we can rise up to the weight of the next canal. “Then we go out into the canal. Why can't they keep the water in so the boats would not have to go through this waiting every time, I wondered The answer was apparent enough. closed, “So Slowly We Went Along” When a boat going downstream passed out of one of the locks the wa- ter naturally rushed out, too, “It was exactly as though we were going up a very gradual fight of Our irregular course had been made so as to follow the least hilly canal route possible, “In the distance we saw the differ And we were going so slowly along because these rocks of nature which made the rapids forced men to use their wits or else give up Inland navigation where they were, “So slowly we went along. It was almost like an old-time drive along a country road. On either side of us were flelds and farms and orchards. Sheep grazed nlongside—the people were so near that we could speak to them. We passed other boats. Tt didn’t seem as though there could be room for us, but there was They naturally knew what they were doing! "At and it and night the canals were lighted, was like going through Fairy in a big boat. It seemed sO surprised at anything! “It took ten hours longer to go along the canal route than it would to go down the river where one could shoot the rapids. The rapids have certainly shown they were the ones In authority. “Yet there is something very splen did, too, about man's power in not al lowing nature to get the better of him! For these canals were built along a river which is filled with rapids, and which could not be much used had it not been for what man has done, “We traveled later past many won derful islands of all sizes, but 1 kept thinking of canals and locks and of big boats which could go only through a canal route because where there are rapids big boats cannot go and ‘shoot’ them, because of the amount of wa ter they draw. “Of course, 1 have only gone along the canals and locks in one part of the country, but I advise anyone who ever has a chance to take a canal trip to do so, for the experience if very interesting and the sensation of being on a boat which Fises up along COR JE JE JR J OR RO RC ER RE EE get over them go to a psychiatrist and get him to tell you what is the matter with you. They are pot normal por natural (Copyright) The Absent From The Heart iy sry WH oe Those Oonglan Ma Hoch, the absent? Surely we think of da h for, ng for, we sing a bit of song for— y by day; we wis those we lo Those Hi a thousand miles away, emory makes them dearer, emory brings th Who are the ab Those but im nearer. gent? Surely not unforgot. a far, Who Those Not, | know, eyes and see, for, pray are the absent? we shut our long for, those hose Those we toll the long day woe fore Though a thousand miles It be, Ev'ry memory, ev'ry yearning, Brings beloved steps returning. Who are the absent? Not, 1 know, Those we still remember so. hope we Who are the absent? Through tears smiles, never lose ink of, "hough it be a thousand Ev'ry memory makes love Makes it sweeter, makes it surer. Who are the absent? When we part, Only the absent from the heart. (£2 1928, Douglas Mallec Though we we part, our see their the gleam of, lips we Eves we Words we th dream of — miles, purer, A \ A aprAghe. 19 by Tin Bel Bomllivamn, Boe © A “People may not worship the golden calf any more,” says Reno Ritzie, “but an out-of.town buyer at a musical com edy gets as much of a kick out of it as nny chorus gisl” a river bed through a “system of locks is amazing to say the least. “And it doesn’t seem to me that it can ever be properly understood unti one sees it for one's self. 1 know | never understood canals and locks un til 1 saw them for myself!” = (Copyright) wi a few diffegent kinds of vegetables that are not enough alone to make a dish, try Curried VeQetables. Cook one cupful each of potato and carrots diced in boiling salted water until goft. Drain, add one cupful of peas, curry sauce and a tablespoon ful of minced prisiey., For the curry gauce, cook two tablespoonfnls wi butter and one-half an onion, sliced; add, when the onion is yellow, (wo teSlespoon.uls of tier mixed with 1 o fourths of a tc spovninl ow. alt one-half teaspoonful of curry powder and one-fon. th to. «uf pepper, then pour on a cupful of milk. Bring to the boliin’ point, strain aud add the vegetables *Russian Dressing for Fish Salad. Shred four anchovies, ndd four hard