Wea, THE MEYERSDALE COMMERCIAL, MEYERSDALE, PA. DISCOURAGE ALL RADICAL BILLS That Seems Policy of Present Legislature, AGAINST REVOLUTIONARY ACTS ! —— Speaker Baldwin One of Those Who is Opposed to Passage of Such Legis- lation in a Critical Period Like Pres- sent—Presiding Officer Has Courage. Harrisburg, Pa., May 29.—With the end of the session hardly more than a month off, though the date of ad- journment has not yet been definitely set. Both branches of the legislature are steaming up. Appropriation bills calling for millions are through the houre and is the senate cemenitiee, from w.. ich they wil’ ba rer-rted prob- ; ably the latter part of the present week. SPEAKER RICHARD J. BALDWIN. The 1917 legislature will leave be- hind it a record of fewer revolutionary laws than any previous state law-mak- ing body. Though many bills calling for radical changes in the present or- der of things have been introduced it Is doubtful if any will ever react tus governor. Throughout the session it won'd seep thei ‘he aim of the lead- ora nas been to discourage any and every attempt to further upset the people in a period like the present. Measures that would revolutionize ex- isting acts and, thereby, aff-ct the peo- ° ple by adding to their burdens have been frowned upon by those dire t’'ng legislative affairs with the re found olng over some important matter ee re ies WASHING THE DISHES. Doing This Jeb Only Once a Day, It Is Said, Saves Time. “The careful housekeeper will always resent the suggestion that once a day is often enough to wash dishes,” writes Dr. H. Barnard in “Table Talk” in the National Food Magazine. “She cannot train herself to allow soiled plates and silverware to stack up from one meal to the next, for she has been taught that such actions are evidence of shift- less, slovenly housekeeping. As a mat- ter of fact, along with many other no- tions which are fixed in the operation of the home, both time and energy are saved by cutting out two of the three daily dishwashing jobs.” Dr. Barnard goes on to recite the ex- perience bf one housekeeper who actu- ally dared study the homely work of dishwashing. One week she washed dishes three times a day; the next week she washed each day’s dishes alto- gether. She used the same number of dishes each day in both weeks. She found that it took her fifty-one minutes a day to wasp dishes after each meal and forty-one minutes a day to wash ‘hem once a day. This took account only of time, but there was a considerable additionai saving in gas or fuel cousamed by heating water once instead of thrice a day, to say nothing of the saving in soap. SALT IN THE FOOD. Why Its Flavor at Times Is Too Weak! or Too Strong. The average housewife wonders why | she often over or under salts her dishes when she “knows” that she salted them just right, as she always did and as the recipes called for. The reason is just this: The season ing value of different brands of salt varies widely. This is easily proved. Take five slices of ripe tomatoes; apply equal parts of five makes of salt upon the separate pieces. Eat as soon as salted. The difference in flavor, per- meation, rapidity and equality of dis solution and seasoning value are read ily detected. A table salt should be fine, the crys tals of equal size, quickly soluble and free from ingredients which absorb moisture from the air. Large and small crystals will not dissolve uni- formly; consequently the full salting effect is not obtained until the large crystals are dissolved. The quickly soluble salt diffuses itself through the food at once and gives an equality of savor. Sticky salt is an intrusive nus- sance. Failures in salting are largely due to changing from one make of salt to an- other. Get the best grade, grow ac- customed to its use and stick to it- San Francisco Chranicla ; Single File. When the Indians traveled together they seldom walked or rode two or more abreast, but followed one anoth- er In single file. It has been thought i by some that this practice resnlted from the lack of roads, which com- pelled them to make their way through woods and around rocks by narrow paths. If this were the real reason for the practice, then we should expect ; to find that the tribes who lived in open countries traveled in company, as do whites. The true reason for jour- i neying as the Indians did in single file seems to be a feeling of caste. This . feeling ‘was at the bottom of other It must not bs understood, hewever, | fkely to eome up the following day customs of the Indians. It made their women slaves and rendered the men silent and unsocial. This peculiarity is Asiatic. How it has warped and disfigured Hindu life is well known. The women of a Chinese household are seldom seen in the street. The chil- dren, when accompanying their father, follow him at a respectful distance, in single file and in the order of their ages. Poor John! “Hello! Is this you, mother dear?” “Yes, Sue. What is it? Something awful must have happened for you to call me up at this”’— “It's not so awful. But John, dear, hasn’t been feeling well, and the doc- tor gave him pills to take every four hours. I've been sitting up to give them to him, and now it’s about time for his medicine, but John has fallen asleep. - Should I wake him?” “I wouldn't if I were you. he suffering from?” “Insomnia.” — Pittsburgh Telegraph- Chronicle. What is Smoking In Japan. In Japan woman has smoked ever since tobacco was introduced and im- variably used the plpe of metal with the tiny bowl holding only sufficient tobacco to provide half a dozen whiffs which was in universal use until the cigarette entered Japan with other western innovations. His Excuse. . “Your honor, I frankly admit that 1 was exceeding the speed limit, but I was afraid of being late at court.” “What was your business at court?” “I had to answer to a charge of ex- ceeding the speed limit.”—New York Times. Friendly Advice. “We surprised all our friends by get- ting married.” “Good enough. Now surprise em by staying married.”—Exchange. An Ancient Cake. Patlence— Would you like to sed the esko I got on my twenty-eighth birth- day? Patrice—Why, yes! Is it wel preserved 7—Yonkemy Statesman. How blessings brighten as they taks thelr flight!—-Young. ~ —— rumen He Lacked Concentration. Speaking of a man who was a faflure because of his lack of concentration and his inability to know his own mind five minutes at a time, a captain of in- dustry said he reminded him of a hunt ing dog he once owned: “At sunrise the dog would start out on his own hook after deer. He would jump a buck and run him for miles When the buck was on the point of ex- haustion the hound's nostrils would catch the taint in the air where a fox had crossed the trail, and he would in- stantly decide that, after all, fox was what he had come for, and he would turn aside to pursue the fox. Perhaps an hour lat®, when the chase was growing warmer every minute, his keen nose would detect the presence of a rabbit, and he would go after the cot- tontail, with the inevitable result that by 4 o'clock in the afternoon that hound would be thirty or forty miles away from home in a swamp with a chipmunk treed!"—Saturday Evening Post. George and His Legs. Bit by bit the historical grubbers are digging out the truth about our im- mortal George. We have heretofore Leen told that he wore false teeth and that at Valley Forge he unblush- ingly deceived his ragged and despond- ent troops with the arrival of ample supplies of ammunition, which consist. ed of powder barrels filled with sand, and now a correspondent of the New York Sun declares that in the full length portraits of Washington by Stuart, of which there is one in the New York public library, the legs were not his own. “I have seen the letter from Stuart thanking the true owner for his kindness in providing a sym- metrical foundation for the bust of the great president and presenting one of the smaller portraits in thanks for his kindness.” Free Speech. An old negro woman had lived with a certain family in the south for many years. One day her mistress had ocea- sion to reprimand her quite sharply for something that had gone wrong. The negress said nothing at the time, but a little later her voice could be heard in the kitchen in shrill vituperation of everything and everybody, with a rat- tling accompaniment of pans and ket- tles. So loud became the clamor and so vindictive the exclamations that Mrs. C. went hurriedly down to the kitchen, “Why, Liza,” she began in amaze ment, “who on earth are you talking to?’ “I ain't talkin’ to nobody,” the old negress replied, “but I don't keer who in dis house hyars me.” —Harper’s Mag. azine. : Misprints and Maxim Guns. Tle Inte Sir Hiram Maxim says in his autobiography that when he organ ized the United States Electric Light’ ing company the printer sent home its stationery with the heading, ‘“The United States Electric Lightning com: pany.” When he established his new gun company in England he told of this mistake in order to emphasize the importance of getting the stationery printed correctly. When the first sheets were brought to b'm. however. he found that the English prinfers ha? made his concern appear as “The Ma: im Gum company.” Easy Generosity. oO Mother (to sinall son)—2obby. dear’ I boped you vould he unseldsh enough to give little sister tlie largest piece of candy. Why. see, even our old hen gives all the nice big dainties to the little chicks and only keeps an occa: sional tiny one for herself. Bobby thoughtfully watched the hen and chickens for a time and then said, “Well, mamma, I would, too, if it was worms.”’—Rochester Times. A Ceneration. In the long lived patriarchal age a generation seems to have been coins puted at 100 years (Genesis xv, 1). Subsequently the reckoning was the same that has Deen ore recently adopted—that is, from thirty to forty years (Job xiii, 16). = Incongruous. Little Alick—What is an incongruity, uncle? Uncle Williata—An incongruity, child, is a divorce lawyer humming a wedding march. Yegetation In Polar Regions. The rapid growth of vegetation in the polar regions is attributed to the electric currents in the atmosphere. O00O0O0DOOD0ODO0D0DO0OO0OO0OO0O0O0OO0OO PRACTICAL HEALTH HINT. Neuralgia. Neuralgia means nerve pain. Neuritis means inflammation of the nerve. In neuralgia the pain comes and gbes, In neuritis‘-the ache is steady and sticks closely to the affected nerve. If the nerve could be taken out and ex- amined we could find nothing abnormal in the case of neural- gla. In neuritis the nerve would he found to be inflamed. The question of what is behind the pain of neuralgia is more impor- tant than the answer to the cry for relief. It must be remem- bered that neuralgia is merely a symptom, not a disease. Some- times malaria is the underlying cause. Other times it may be due to alcoholism, diabetes, lead poisoning, gout, rheumatism or Bright's disease. 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