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
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“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)
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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
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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
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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 | ,
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| 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
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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 |
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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.
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