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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<ult that
the 1917 session will be remembered
not so much for wrat it did, but what
it refused to do in the way of ham-
stringing and interfering with the peo-
ple of the state during a war crisis.
Doing Much Good.
that the legislature now cit'inz is one
of non-performances. On tte contra-y,
there are evidences every day of the
enactment of those necessary things
that will aid the commonwealth and
the people. For in-tance, a code on
interstate 1nws is now being pushed
and accerdinz to lawyrrs who have !
examined the bills, it will place Penn- |
sy'vania in the forefront of states pro-
tecting' the heirs of decedents. This
summary of laws pertaining to the or-
phans’ court, together with a nvmb-r
of necessary changes, was prepared
under the direction of Hon. George
Alter, former speaker of the house.
It Is a most comprehensive set of ru'es
and régulations governing this impor-
tant subject.
A township code, amendments to the
borough laws, which would enable a
borough to hire a manager, new third-
class city laws and civil service for
firemen In third-class cities, are among
some of the other acts that will pos-
sibly emerge from the deliberations
of the present legislature.
Besides this, the departments are
to be cared for far better than ever
before. A sub-committee of the appro-
priation committees is now carefully
going over the requests from the gev-
eral departments and it is safe to say
that the recommendations of this sub-
committee will mean better and more
economical service on the part of
branches of state government.
Baldwin is Conservative.
Ome of those chiefly responsible for
conservative action by the present
legislature is Speaker of the House,
“Richard J. Baldwin. He promised
right from the outset that the 1917
legislature must not be one of hyste-
ria; that it is not right to keep the
people in a state of mortal dread lest
laws might be passed that would for-
ever jeopardize their well being. Baild-
win never forgets -that the masses
have certain rights which must be
respected and he is not slow to im-
press upon the other legislators his
sentiments regarding this phase of
legislative work.
Speaker Baldwin is one of the hard-
est workers who has occupied the
speaker's chair. He is In his office at
an early hour every morning and usu-
ally long after midnight gen and
accomodating “Dick” may b> found
olng over some important matter
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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.
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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.
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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. A diseased
tooth or a diseased ovary may
be responsible, In every case
treatment must include treat-
ment of the underlying cause.
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