THE CENTRE REPORTER, CENTRE HALL, PA. SUCH IS LIFE— What's in a Birthday? WHEN \S NY BRADY 1 BOY, WAT A OSE CALL. \F THIS MOMTH HAD ONLY 30 DAYS, WHERE ON THE 3157 OF ir Dye, lack snd rown, 50¢ Colden Knife for Unveiling To unvell a statue to his ances. tor, the first king of his dynasty, Phar Buddha Yodfa, and to open the first road bridge across the Chow Phya river, the king of Slam used a golden knife. The ceremony was held at Bangkok, Siam. The king inserted the kpife into an electric apparatus in the form of a box and this caused the drawing apart of the curtains of gold hich welled the statue. The knife was a gift from the firm which built the bridge, and the box had been ume many notable openings the world, The bridge artistie in Siam, Washington, — “Ginseng's popular ity with the Chinese seems to defy falling markets and political disorders, for last year more than a quarter mil lion pounds were exported from the United States to Hong Kong,” says & bulletin from the National Geograph- Ie society, “Ginseng has been an item in United States commerce since Colonial times. The first American cargo boat that cleared New York for Hong Kong, In 1784, carried ginseng. The Chinese drink ginseng tea for its tonic quality. Though we raise it and sell it, the tea has never been highly regarded in the United States, and very little is con- sumed here, laws to protect their plants against the raids of southern Chinese. Prftec- B to 20 Inches high, has oval-shaped | tion of ginseng resources was one of leaves, bears greenish-yellow blossoms | the reasons for the laws which exclud- In mid-summer and red berries in the | #0 all Chinese from the domain of fall. It thrives In mountain areas of | the Manchus. Operations of ginseng temperate North America and Asia. | Smugglers, Fowere ied, The aboveground portion of the plant Is not utilized: it is the thick root | though the American layman cannot that enters commerce, detect the differe “Long before Marco Polo passed | and cultivated roots. With the de down the Cathay coast, ginseng tea | pletion of the oriental wild ginseng was a favorite tonic among the nobll- * supply, the American Colonist readily Try Lydis E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound “Ginseng played an important part in oriental politics In the Seventeenth century. Manchu nobles, seeing their 1 happiness, supply of wild ginseng depleted, made PRN may with less difficulty throw off the lages. which they have assumed, the more “Perhaps the first American ginseng DIVORCE readily to take on others, y coliections were trappers who discov Graham was telling me the other ered the plants while making thelr day that he had entered into a con- Crop United States Grows ity and wealthy people of China. The | led professional hunters into the Emeritus Dean of Men, product this summer. 1 am not at b tD N tU poor could not afford to drink the | trackless American forests. Thus gin University of Illinois. all lmpressed with Graham's quali u oes INO se. brew. It was once worth its weight | seng helped open up new reglons to cations as a salesman and I frankly in gold. Last year's shipments aver. | the Colonists. sald so to him, “Most of the early oriental ginseng | regions from Minnesota to Maine and | age when Walter und Grace were mar- | me, “I'm not of age, and 1 don't have | grew in the mountains of Korea and | southward te the Gulf coast. As in ried, hey were | to keep the contract If I don't like the Manchuria. Every plant was owned | the Orient, domestie wild roots became quite children at | work. It Isn't difficult to get out of by the ruling houses. Korean kings | scarce and high prices pald for the the time; they | the thing.” ginseng roots, Manchurian rulers | establish farms, Some growers have other only a few | obligation, but I presume 1 am a little waxed rich, profited from ginseng cultivation, but weeks, and their | old-fashioned, nor have I so thought “Shape has much to do with ginseng | small fortunes also have been lost. It : acquaintance had | of marriage. It has always seemed price fixing. The more a root is shaped | takes ffom six to seven years of ex- <A in no sense been | to me a binding contract, a contract on the Chinese market. Some domestic ginseng farms have marriage had | gitimately broken excepting by death. been established in the woods where Be been a matter of | Those who go into marriage with the the wild roots thrive. Others have sudden {mpulse, idea that If it Is not pleasing they been established in clearings, but in and they had | need not be bound are not likely to that only one-fourth of the day's sun- announcement shine will strike the plants. knowledge of thelr “Most of the ginseng exported from friends. the United States today is of the cul- | headstrong, found a market for the roots which GINSENG IMPORTANT grew at the back doors of their vil- MARRIAGE AND responsibilities and the obligations rounds. Later search for the plant By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK tract to sell a certain guaranteed aged about $8 per pound. “Wild ginseng thrives in mountain We were all surprised a few years “Well, you see,” he explained to derived most of thelr revenue from | roots led enterprising Americans to 2 : Vy had known each I had not so looked upon a business like a man, the more valuable it is | pert care to develop a mature root, intimate. Their | entered into for life, and seldom le these cases the farms are roofed so \ BY cone off without | find tivated variety.” or (@. 1932, Wesleorn Newspaper Union) . . Noecaergy. ..circlesu Athletics Get Prize nil ir ari Vegetable Compound she could be strong “Ginseng Is a plant that grows from ‘hey were both of them, each deter. mined to have what he wanted with out regard to right or reason. They stayed on through college, as many All Tomnd young people do, after they were mar yey . : | 2 lorie 3 ried, and gradunted. No one seemed 5 . nr F J . the ruin 3 - to concern himself as to whether they - Ge ‘ 3 lieved to be ouse were gesting on together 11 or over. | [EN OUUSRORERE | ccd to wise, “Chinese prefer the wild ginseng, al y between the wild un The newspaper last night an . WOURCe his 18 y uing fo 1i- tion only If you want it to be light. | POUnced ™ at K: 2 Was r di : § 4 : yorce © el Omanc i £ iling first in one direction and then | "7° heir bri r at How a “Perfect Baby” Keeps Fit o another is almost sure to make It | A% €0d. Cruelty was the ground she ugh. fzed ti} : $ : ¥ two weeks later a zex] the real meaning 3 i 5 X * * » € i ii 1 and the only way When making pastry, roll in one di tal 2 Evra: Fyvae ¥% all had grown from the seed. DAISY FLY KILLER Placed saywhere, DAISY FLY KILLER stiracts aus kills al! fies. Nest, clear, orosmentyl, eovvesiest and heap. Larts oll none LT nd champ | , these LL in ee 4 won. Made it metal} . 8» oF Kin : , ea op rah est apill or tip overs | YOrce easier, a the thi © y hie 138 ks nin a i f(A will not soll oy injug i . . & x i i F anything FORT RGLe | Impety and thoughtiessly into ti caren | (ere NEE 1rniet upon DAISY FLY ¢ . Ad an sis i a tionshiy Tr } HALLER from your desler, : 3 1a re hate, HAROLD SOMERS, BROOKLYN, N.Y. Dust Is most successfully removed ’ f the nddle they ' 23 L41€ : Ge Lhe from reed furniture when a hose is | © n ¥ used. Set the furniture on the lawn when the sun is shining and play the was divorcee, and tiles marital difficulties There | a days | ik is made by whiter over a raw appl eces. Let it mos which Starved Amid Plenty Poor but hones was the Mexican peon, name unknown, who could not ! nd work in Mexico ft) ob- hen press with : } Athletic tained permission of the owner of a spot with magnesia, let It 4 : league champions for the last three | bakery to sleep inside his shop to | C8 keep warm, s— m — — Arthu Murphy, nsational nine J t ; her of the . ¥ ; fi wontract being signed by his fathe was foun If washable curtains become rusted ! James OC. Murphy. { shop. died of on the rods during damp weather, For Dress: Up { investiga sl art open he dampen the rust spots and cover them 5 in coating of salts of lemon. Little girls adore the sn 1 11 ¥ ’ . : » until the stains disappear. work T-strap sandals In blue or red | foun dan » hy the rh. E: S24 Po is 1 ored by the Wom mem - x kid which they can wear with white | # litle eake Miss Sheila Christina McCormick, six month id, ho took first honors with not a mark against her in the annual baby elle spons ¢ a at Tala ¢ ‘ g v. $ t 7 po £1 - " en's Benefit association at Toledo, Ohio, snapped in an informal pose while frocks. The same style comes In pat taking her setting-up exercises rn k Ls ABBY Y GERTIE A 4 3 ent leather and in beige kidskin foe | STRANGE BONE AILMENT OF g J GIRL IS PUZZLE TO DOCTOR | £leven-Year-Old Miss Has Had Many Fractures. Unanimous first Actress—In my love scene in the first act 1 didn't know whether to close my Second Actress—I noticed a sim- ilar Iindecigion in the audience. —8Srd ney bullets eyes or not POTPOURRI hospital designed to make her bones Peculiar Candles less brittle, Mary has suffered so many bone fractures in the last eight years that hi | her parents have lost track of them ~ al i 3 | At least 35 or 40 fractures are re 4 : { vealed by X-ray pictures, however, her i physician, Dr, Frederick Harvey, said | Doctor Harvey ls engaged in research / : Mre. Grace Morrison Poole of Brock. | work on Mary's case at Northwestern ton, Mass, was elected president of | i | { i Certain Alaskan tribes use a salt water fish called the candle fish measuring about 15 inches in length, for lighting purposes, After the fish has been dried, a crude wick Is forced through it When ignited It burns freely This is possible because of the extreme olliness of the fish, The is also considered very good sea write “ food. {(D. 1922, Western Newspaper Union) 1g 0 "ii STHMA REMEDY, Chicago. —Suffering from a strange ailment which has kept her a semi-in- valid since she was three years old, Mary Mestdagh, eleven years old, of Homer, Mich, has returned to her home after treatment In a Chicago university. Mary returned to her home ANS the General Federation of Women's The Shawl Gown from the North Chicago hospital, . i where she was treated for a broken right arm after her physician in Hom- er, Dr. F. B. Van Nuys, sent her to Doctor Harvey. But she will have to return to Chicigo at Intervals for ob Clubs at the convention in Seattle, to | gncceed Mrs, John F. Sippel of Boston. Mrs. Poole was unopposed, servation. ODD THINGS AND NEW—By Lame Bode Music Shorthand is Latest *It is an unusual malady,” said Doc: A system of music shorthand tor Harvey. “Virtually every long bone with which anyone possessing a mu- in her body has been broken one or wHats NAM ? sical ear, but ro musical tralning.can more times. They have healed fairly INA 2 take down unfamiliar melodies well, We think that the last fracture Ay while sung or played, has been de Is going to heal perfectly, but of vised by a man at Chester le-Street, course we can't be sure yet. IONA FORTUNE England. He claims that anyone 1G A RESIDENT A. 80 OF MINNEAPCLS, Minn. “If you can't find the bath tub don't transmit your loss to the receiver” Row With Mate Over Cards Fatal to Wife Cleveland. —A quarrel during a game “We've given the child special diets may use the system after a few les containing calcium and are studying the formation of her bones, “Examination revealed that the bone structure is so extraordinarily thin | of rhummy with her husband brought s Ji ! KH eave and brittle that any slight stress re | death to Mrs. John O. Steer, thirty ; $ OC. KEENER sults In a fracture. This obviously ; six. The husband, a middle-aged den AN imperfect calcification appears to be | tist, will be formally charged with occasioned through malnutrition of | murder, authorities announce. Mra opfomeTRIST the membrane that nourishes the | Steer died of gunshot wounds and in Kenmore, NY. bone” blows. rcua Doctor Harvey, a specialist in bone The quarrel arose over an argument diseases, also has been treating the | concerning systems of playing rhum- GECRGE Sapp MARRIED ESTHER WOODYRARD Caroll, 12,89 No Escape “It's an awfyl business, going to a wedding.” “Then why go?” “Idiot! 1 am forced to go. It's my own" An. Arrant Coward For anything 1 know, 1 am an ar rant coward. —Fletcher, child with Injections of glandular ex- | my, Steel is reported to have con tracts. These are made from the duct. | fessed, and it was the first serious dis less glands, which, It has been proved | pute In many years of married life. by science in recent years, control to Two Are Hitch Hiking a large extent such functional proe Across Sahara Desert esses as that of growth. The ailment has left Mary's bones Paris.—Two young Londoners have made their way half the distance “as brittle as egg shells,” It was said. The outer covering Is so unsubstantial ncross the Sahara as the desert's first hiteh-hikers, walking and catching as to permit of fracture from the least rides on camel caravans. William Jar or pressure. Her latest fracture was sastuined from 3 Sug strain in Donkin and Norman Peran were re- volving mot even a Hall, ported recently to be near Fort Flat: ters on the edge of the Hoggar, a re EATS NOTHING BUT EGGS vee ® Behe ern bron The shawl gown with a wide panel bordered with fringe on either edge, pet In at the waist in surplice line, but feft free thereafter to be adjusted as fhe wearer may wish, Becoming Veils Veils are smart and becoming, espe cially those large square meshes of cobwebby lightness worn over a small square-crowned shiny sallor, gion Inhabited by the wildest of desert tribes. From Fort Flatters they will go to Fort Polignae, then across the Hoggar to Tamanrasset and on to Kano in the Niger colony. - PETERMAN’S ANT FOOD | Lo mens
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