Evening Star Newspaper, February 3, 1894, Page 19

A FLOWER DANCE A Beautiful Entertainment for Little Ones, T0 REPRESENT FLOWERS Effective Costumes and How to Make Them. A FAIRY-LIKE SCENE ‘Fritten Exclusively for The Evening Star. Now that the season for fancy dances is im full sway, new suggestions are eagerly welcomed. A unique entertainment for the Uttle ones is a flower dance. The invita- tions request each maiden to come repre- senting a flower; the variety of pretty cos- umes that may be so made is surprising. g The Rose Costume. ‘The rose is, of course, one of the first | thought of. The gown shown in the ilus- tration is of pink satin, the rather low-cut neck is finished with a row of petal-shaped Pieces, which stand far out over the shoul- ders. The skirt corsists of three rows of Petals, one above thé other, so arranged that as the gay littl® dancer flits about, | they stand out around her like veritable flowers. To the frant of the gold circiet which is piace’ above the flowing har fastened a large pink rose, standing up- Fight on its stiff wire stem, and which bobs Wildly about at every motion. ‘The asvaragus Vine. A fairy-like crea.ure is dressed in white Diagonali wauze. iy around the skirt are long sprays of the delicate asparagus vine, with a wreath of the same around the neck head. A narrow green ribbon tied about the waist and bows of the same on each shoulder compiete this simple cad §raceful gown. = The Morning Glory. The morning glory makes a very attrac- tive costume. The skirt is of a purplish | Dive shade of .silk and cut very circular | that it may flare a great deal at the bottom; five pieces of satin ribbon of a lighter shade are placed from top to bottom around the skirt. Around the waist is a calyx of dark green velvet, while the waist itself is of silvery green silk. The sleeves are made like two morning glories. The tendrils are made of silk-covered wire and are placed | in bunches on the shoulders and around the | waist. The odd little hat is an inverted Morning g.ory, made of silk the same| @hade as the skirt, lined with crinoline. The Marguerite Costume. The costume representing the marguerite is of light green gauze, with artificial dais- fes sewed here and there over the whole skirt. The full waist has a row of daisies eutiining the neck. The puffed sleeves are dotted with daisies. A wide satin ribbon is tied about the waist with a bow in the back. The gown requires a lining the same shade as the gauze. The jaunty hat is made of a wide strip of the green gauze, | box pleated in the center, the top part is caught down on the brim with daisies, and the flowers are sewed at intervals around the edge of the brim. A satin bow with a daisy in the center adorns each slipper. The jonquil is a dainty dress for a little maid with golden hair. The underskirt is not very full and is made of yellow satin scalloped at the bottom. Over this are large petal shaped pieces of yellow silk which float gracefully about. The waist THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1894-TWENTY PAGES. is of the silk ilar to the The Jonquil. ‘The crown Is of silk petals mae very stiff to keep them ii: place. The forget-me-nct is the most effect! e gown of al! and the lit:ie maiden seems to have stepved right out of fa and. ‘The dress itself is of dark green silk gauze: over this are rows of the narrowest fat.n ribbon, hanging in va above the other, from the wi en’ of each ribbon is fastenel a larze biue satin forget-me-not, which gicams on tifully against the dark green back T 1 of the thrsat bi Note green gauze, o1 of the blue ribb of the puff angie ribbo many strips ied ia front with loops of risbou form the wreath. T costumes will readily sug- A il fowers may 2. The fern, Lue bell, vioiet a = will be found to make equally preity SS as those represente! in the ilus- ms. One could almost be persuaiet midsum: ight had come and the ms oh iaces and become eir merry dance. outtercup, pansy, oth THE BLACK SPOT. About an Imperfection In the Par- lor Carpet. said a young west side r young west side wif> the other day, “how'd you burn that great black spot on the parlor carpet?” - “It wgs an accident,” replied Milly. “Too bad, isn” it?” “No,” and Milly's face took on a queer expression, “1 don’t think {t ts too bad. think it’s the best thing that has happened since I was married, or before either for that matter. ‘ e Milly's friend pondered for a minute. “Well,” she then declared, “I can’t for the life of me see how it is a good thing to have a great hole burned in a parlor car- pet, especiatly when I don’t think you can afford a new one any better than Fred and I can.” It was then Milly's turn to ponder. She finally said: “We can't afford to buy a new carpet, and that hole is in such a bad place that I will have to plan a good deal before I find a way to cover it up. But, for all that, I think that that is the luckiest and best thing that has happened to me since I was married.” Milly's fried drew off her gioves, pulled a couple of cushions about, so that she was perfectly at ease, and said, imperatively: “Tell me.” Milly blushed a bit and then said: “Well, I suppose I might as well, now that 1 have spoken about it’as I have.” She hesi- tated, as if at a loss to know how to begin her story, and then plunged boldly in like this: “Jack and I have been married for six years, and never until last night had @ quarrel which could be dignified by the name. “There have been plenty of little spats, of course, but never any out-and-out quarrel. Last night we did have one. It’s no need telling what it was about. It began shortly after dinner and after the babies were in bed. It was pretty bad at the start, but in half an hour we were saying perfectly aw- | ful things to each other. I felt that I hated Jack, and I know from the way that he looked at me that he felt that he hated me. | “Things went from bad to worse, and finally, about 9:30, Jack got up, vowed that he was going down town and that he didn’t care whether he ever came back or not. 1 told him that I wasn’t particular, either, and he banged out into the hall, threw his overcoat around him and grabbed up the first hat he could find. Then he came back into the parlor and I said something else mean and he said something that was so awful that I can’t think of it. Then he started toward the door. Now, as long as we have been married, Jack has never gone away from the house without kissing me good-bye. I stood over there by the door, waiting to see what he would do. I vowed mentally that if he didn’t try to make up before he went away I would go straight home to mother and never come back again. I wanted to cry, but wouldn't give in, and kept saying mean things to Jack and he, enraged beyond endurance, paid me back with interest. I gave him one particularly exasperating shot and he made another break for the door. He said that he would never, never come back, and i think he half meant it, or thought he did. “I stood looking at him with a mean smile on my face all the time, trying ever so hard to keep the tears back. Jack hesi- tated again. He didn’t want to go. I gave him no encouragment to stay and he Wit his lips said something under his breath and gave a leap for the hall. “Well, his feet struck where that burned spot is. Somebody had dropped a parlor match there, and of course his stepping on it lighted it. It cracked loudly and Sack gave a little start of surprise and the most ludicrous look of fright came over his face. It was so funny that I laughed. And the next thing I knew Jack had me in his arm: and we let the carpet burn until it burned out. And that’s the reason why I am so thankful that the parlor match happened to burn that hole in my carpet.” ———~oo—_—_—_ The Difference. From the Indianapolis Journal. Teacher—“Tommy, have you found out the difference between a republic and a monarchy yet?” Tommy-“I asked paw about it, and he says that In a monarchy the people obey their rulers because they respect them, and in a republic they obey the bosses ‘cause they can’t help it.” ——~—+eo— “You wouldn't wear that primrose so lightly if you knew what it was,” said the professor to Chappie. hat is it?’ asked Chapple. “Why, in reality it is a corollaceous daico- tyledonous exog»n,” said the professor; whereupon Chappie went home, and would have had brain fever if he had had anything to have it with.—Harper’s Bazar. the lower edge! HE WANTED TO KNOW The Young-Old Bachelor Looking for an Heiress, WHAT HE THOUGHT AND SAID Fortune Hunting as a Profession in Europe. pee Se eeereale RICH MEN AND RICH GIRLS T HE MAN WHO lives in Washington need not go very tar if he wishes to ob- serve some of the pecullar phases human nature puzzle people make them wonder the va hopes a: pirations that other it was Sa, good luck that the writer for ac with families, but th ce, although 2 on the | pasties whenever t whenever th parties wh arty instead. ouse to do so, eir clo thoughts. ihe stre lazily hes r of own clubs, 1 yearly stra be remarked in pa ¥ ‘Oh, bi | men. ‘His com ! or izaguldly. é: i “Ye-es," he said, sic { is, Who was it, old x “Wh y ank, isy de ‘ate judgment that she is the be 1 woman in this wa. Say, don't yo voursolf?” to be preity,” was the unen- That's too § more, she ‘e me around to call on her on xt reception day,’ he said. What tie Wanted to Know. it was very evident that this fine man of | face it as ssoa as he k that a preity fos > went along with it. 21. then set to Work, and made systematic inquiries about her. Wirst of all, he wanted to know if her 3 we! li When he was told paren taut tie father wa | er, who was quite old he made the sage observation that it was better so. A father, ne explained, is al- } ways prone to suspect mercenary motives jon the part of the men who come to court | his daughter. Indeed, he is sometimes so very suspicious on this point that he is open to the impu- tation of having possibly had some ex- perience himself when he courted his daughter's mother. A mother, on the other hand, may sometimes be induced to believe in sincerity of a prospective son-in-law. Moreover, some mothers do not care if a man is mercenary. If they are determined to have a genuine, unmistakable swell for their daughter, they know that very few of them are to be got for nothing. But the man who is beiag quoted went on to say that there was a decided objection to mar- rying an heiress whose mother would insist upon living with her daughter after mar- riage, a proceeding that can only be toler- ated when she is the base of supplies, in which event, of course, the wisest policy is to keep near her. If she is old and feeble, too, she has a right to keep her daughter with her, but this is a condition of affairs | that can be endured, seeing that, in the | ordinary course of nature, it cannot last ; very long. He finally declared that any Parent was an objection, but he thought | one could be managed by a man with tact. He could not help expatiating upon the bea: ties of an orphan heiress. To ask the con- sent of a guardian to marrying his ward was such an easy matter of form, and afterward the problem of matrimony was stripped of many of its difficulties. The Disadvantage of Brothers. He wanted to know next whether the girl had brothers and sisters, and when he was told that she had two brothers older than herself he took the matter seriously. He said this was very undesirable. An only sister, and especially one without a father. was apt to pin her affections to her older brothers. She would probably ask their ad- vice, defer to them and even obey them,and they would feel disposed to exercise their authority even more positively than a fa- ther would. Of course, after marriage the brothers would not count. They might like | or dislike their sister's husband, it would make little difference. Their influence was great before marriage, but unimportant , afterward. As for younger brothers, they | made no difference at any time. They were | not consulted and if they offered advice it | was not likely to be regarded unless it was such as the sister desired. Sisters and younger brothers very often fight, anyhow. | On the whole, as nearly all women, whether | they are poor or rich, have some ‘relatives, this calculating fortune seeker determined | that he would go to see this particular mil- | Honaire and look the field over. The Fortune Hunter. Now, it would be amusing to follow up | the affair further, but the chances are ten | to one that he will never propose to the | girl at all, for men of this type are much | more apt to talk about their mercenary in- tentions than they are to put them into ef- fect. It is a sort of irony of fate that makes | them not infrequently end by uniting them- selves to some girl who has not a penny in the world. rs An old gentleman who has lived every- where and knows all about it was asked for his views on this subject. “My dear fellow,” he said, “your genuine fortune winner hardly exists in this country. I know there are a few of them—fellows who started out in life with the full determination of mar- rying a fortune and who have done it, but as a general thing they take fright and run away or the girl sees what they are after and ends by marrying a rich man herself or not marrying at all The Real Article in Europe. There is a great ‘eal of truth in this. Stop a moment and think of the number of rich old maids there are in the world, and old maids, too, who have some at- tractions, or had, at any rate. And keep an account of the marriages each year and you will be surprised to see how many poor girls get married soon after they come out into society and how many rich girls have to wait. The real home of mercenary imar- riage is Europe. In France it is customary to regularly discuss the settlement that the girl or her family will make purely as a matter of business, and, if a good settle- ment cannot be made, a brilliant inarriage is out of the question. Men with big titles and small incomes fully expect a high price to be paid for the former. In Eng- land it is very well known that any woman who is willing to do it can buy a title just as she would buy diamonds, if she only has money enough to do it with. She has an incumbrance with the title in the shape of a very worthless man, but it is to be pre- sumed that she expected that. In Russia the head of a family expects pay a good round sum down with every daughter's wedding. If he has many girls the funds may not hold out, «nd as a consequence several of the girls may be obliged to re- main old maids or to marry men who are |, but that a moth- ad feebie, survive | the world cared a great deal abovt a pretty | | what they want, whereas ail the wealth of | of | the Ing that’ 4 man to marry her. She must sit ani and + cool muiiom in her owa right, my | ! aner chenged at) | gale. not ambitious. It is among the latter chiefly that marriages cre made for In the German army the regulations quire that an officer and the woman he wishes to marry must show a = ay amount of fortune before they be united. The emperor looks out for these little matters, and while he cannot prevent the poverty of bachelors and spinsters, he will not tolerate impoverished married couples. Certain 4iplomatic officers, too, even if they be rich themselves, are not permitted to marry foreigners. In Ital and Spain money is considered quite much as it is in other European countries. We have the former country to thank for several fine specimens of immigrants in America who were full-fledged counts and who married American girls—for their money, of course—who afterwards beat their wives, who figured later in the Gi-/ vorce courts, then in the police courts and | woo are now grinding out the stirring melodies of hand organs. And the Rich Men. But hew ts it with the rich men? Can | they take their pick among the pretty giris? Hl Of course they can't. They are constantly | being rejected, but still it must be ad-| mitted that they are very apt to have good | ooking wives. They have one great advah- | lage over rich girls, for they can ask for S$ will not permit a woman to ask it, but he can go and search for a jewel to his taste. Having found it, it is whether he can appropr be said, however, about ig on the part of a woman, that ad methods unfathomavle ndlva if Dees the ri ¢ sex. man when he ts led in his heart ¢ girl loves him or the rich girl when si siter have half the ple rained by the refle+t bank account mi Who ? that the him is not mer Phe Lest Trip of the € Told by Cap of the poli erulser Joe at the : on last night. * always yvarners, and C. the trest of his a loom for the auld te! or to It, he took a long a2 cloud of smoke, i ring curls and edd: fleeting pletured “iaboring barks and npus high.” 2 tar- wh sh-ups, cut-4 send reminds me of that raw, tii2 eirs ago, when the Old eopatra and the steambout came together with a splinter- der than the prayer that wa for seven a thud ces are still rumbling and roiling T was operating on the We were tound from New ‘0 Wasningto na Capt. E. 8.8 the Wave to connect Wasiington and the nm terraces of River View. N better figure than the vne coulda’t beat her. In a Mad Sen. “We soared from New York with hopes as te monument and bright as the of our capital girls. The sea was rough, > tune hadn't been greased for some time, and we had to lay to at Sanday Hook. After a stay of cne week there, more put to sea, A side-wheel river steaia- boat isn’t the st and hardiest craft in a mad sea, but the Wave weathered the It nd the vibrations of the two ip’s beil were dying aw Ww he capes of D2taware d the land wes under the horizon. It was ary morning and as thick as mush. ed not turned out of his chamber in the east, and Nox continued his, reign. “Capt. Me was in the pilot house. I was standing at the door of the engine room talking with Capt. Randall and Mr. Thomas Gray. No thought of disaster troubled us. We were homeward bound, and visions of familiar scenes were before us. A volley of hoarse shouts came to us from the war- ring waters. A black hull came out of the mist. Only a Httle water intervened be- tween us. Then there was a crash. All hands were knocked down. The crashing continued. The black hull was cutting our craft in twain. Timbers were being shat- tered; deck beams weré being splintered; stanchions were being ripped up, and the decking and upper works were being torn away. It was an awful moment. There was a crushing, grinding noise and the hiss- ing of escaping steam. Rousing seas were sweeping over our decks and through the cabins. We had been struck on the star- board side, seventy-five feet abaft the bow and just forward of the gangway. There was a churning and twisting, and the black bill of the strange ship began to back away from us. Then the sea pounded us with increasing fury, and the hoarse shouts from the crew of the receding ship grew fainter. Swallowed in the Waves. “We had been cut through to the keel. The cutwater of the stranger had broken our ridge pole that ran from the pilot house to the jackstaff. We were making water by the ton. We sounded whistles for the un- known craft to stand by us, but she stood away, and just as the day was chasing away the shadows of the night we saw her founder bows on. We were sinking steadily, but slowly. “The boats were swung out from the davits, and one hour and a half after the collision we pushed off, and from a safe distance watched the faithful, pretty Crystal Wave sink to Davy Jones’ locker. She lies In thir- ty fathoms of water, and, if I were a diver, I'd like to visit her in her cradle of the deep. After being in the open boats all day, we sighted a collier from Newport News to New York, and signaled he She bore down, picked us up and a little later landed us once more in New York. I tell you what, it was a close call. Then to replace the lost boat, the Samuel J. Pentz was bought and brought around. A large photograph of the Crystal Wave hangs over the main aaloon irway of the Pentz. In due time we ned that the steamer which ran us down was the Cleopatra.” Capt. Davis puffed some more nebulae of Havana incense to- ward the ceiling and sat musing on the past. ing crash. heard ee A FIERY MEMORY As It Came to Capt. Newell of the Time He Was Mate of the Lake. Capt. Newell of the steamer Harry Ran- dall was at Willard’s last night. Capt. Newell is not one of those sometime sum- mer mariners who wear boutonnieres and kid gloves. He is a web-footed salt from stem to stern, keelson to truck, and from the fore to‘royal, stays'l to the jigger spencer. “Well, speaking of narrow escapes from the spiritual tropics," said he, “carries me back to 1874. I was then mate of the steamer Lady of the Lake, plying between Washington and Norfolk. Our Washington dock was where the W. W. Coit lay before she went to glo-y on wings of fire. “We had made the down trip and were lying at the Boston dock at Norfolk. It was January. The wind was from the east, and this presages evil here, just as it d in England. We. were at our evening m A faint odor of smoke began to mingle with the sweet scent of salt-horse and pilot bread. We smelled fire. Smoke and flames were curling around the wood work. We sent up a shout that means to mariners what two nines does to New York Sala- manders. Fire had broken out in the lamp room just over the engine room. The Lady of the Lake was doomed. The fire had ai tacked the ship in her vital part. All the ayers of Bonze and Dervish could not have saved her. The river was poured ifto her in mighty streams, but to no use. burned to the water's edge. “Soon after this event we were taken in tow by the tug Rescue and headed for Wil- mington, Del. There were no quarters on the wreck excepting in the forecastle, and the hulk dawdled and bobbed at the end of the hawse> very much like a caravel. Out- side of Smith’s Island a northeaster struck us. It blew great guns. The hawser parted under the strain, and managed to get back to Hampton Roads, where later we were taken in tow by the steamer John Hopkins of Boston. When we reached Sharpe’s Island, we ran into such floes of salt, tough ice that we had to put back again. It was bitterly cold, and everything was badly iced. Frostbites were the order of the hour, and our suffering can be bet- ter described than born. Finally the Lake managed to reach Hunter’s Point, N. Y., where she was rebuilt, and came back to these waters to join the Jane Mosely on the Washington-Norfolk route.”” She First Messenger Boy (with scorn)—“I say, hfe —— you run your legs off like dat?” con: Messenger Boy (pi I ain’t workin’ my day off.”—Chicago Record. sing in his see? Dis is whose aud the Cleopatra was | tall had bought , eo - Sickle Castor oRequlan bes Mar EBRUL F nY SKIES. The S‘ars That .Will Be Visible | gz This Month. | | ' bts) K - UB BETLLILNCY | A Good Deal of Interesting Infor- | | mation on Astronomy | | - TOLD POPULAR STYLE. | IN ped EBRUARY IS A DE- Mghtful month for | star gazing, particu- | larly if one can rein- force the naked eye With am opera glass. By 9 o'clock in the evening, at the begin- ning of the month, and by S o'clock, near its close, the 4 the ccasie’ the most bi the stars are above the horizon, while around and overhead is e host of interesting objects—star clus- ters, nebulae and double stars—either visi- ble to the naked eye or within the reach of an instrument of very moderate power. At the hour named the constellation Orion, with its splendid setting of first- | magnitude stars—Betelgeuse, Rigel, Sirius, | Procyon and Aldebaran—stands in mid- | heavens almost exactly in the south. Over- head is the constellation Auriga, the prin- cipal star in which, Capella, ranks in splen- | dor second only to Sirius. In the north | the two most striking of the circumpolar | constellations—the dipper, or the plow, as our English cousins prefer to call this re- markable group of seven stars, and the W-shaped figure of Cassiopeia, “The-tady in her chair’—may be seen at about equal altitudes above the horizon, the one to the right and the other to the left of the Pole star. In the east is the constellation Leo, containing the star Regulus, the sickle-shap- ed group of stars which forms the head of the constellation being at about one-third of the distance from the horizon to the zenith. At about the same altitude in the west is noticeable a pair of second-magni- tudé stars in the head of Aries. The seven stars named above—all of the first magnitude—can easily be identified by noting their relations to one another, as in- dicated on the annexed planisphere. Ca- Pella will be found almost exactly over- head. Betelgeuse is the upper and Rigel the lower of the two bright stars in Orion. Sirius is situated below and a little to the left—the observer's left—of the constella- tion; its surpassing brilliancy renders its identity unmistakable. Procyon, still far- ther to the left and at a greater ultitude, is at about the same distance from both Sirlus and Betelgeuse, forming with these two stars a nearly equal-sided triangle. Aldebaran is to the right of Orion. The three stars in the belt of the constellation Me about midway between this star and Sirius, Regulus, although usually reckoned an.ong the twenty stars of the first magnitude, stands near the bottom of the list, its bril- Hancy being much inferior to that of any of the other stars here pointed out. Its po- sition as the “jewel” in the handle of the sickle renders it easy to recognize. The Gemini of the Almanac. Midway between Regulus and Capella—a little below a straight line drawn from one to the other—may be seen a pair of stars which are at about the same distance apart as the two “pointers” in the bowl of the dipper. Being very conspicuous théy are easily recognized. These are the twins, Castor and Pollux—the Gemini of the alma- nac. Pollux, the more southerly of the two, is of the same brilliancy as Regulus, and is usually reckoned as a first-magni- tude star. Castor, a little less brilliaat, is placed in the second class. * It will be noticed that these eight first-| magnitude stars—the only stars of that| class now above the horizon—are bunched within an area that might be included with- im a circle which would take in considerably less than one-fourth of the visible hemis- phere of the heavens, a fact which strik- ingly illustrates the irregularity in the dis- tribution of the bright stars over the celes- tial sphere. There are but six other stars of this order of brilliancy visible in our lati- tude and these are scattered somewhat at random over the hemisphere which is now below the horizon. Another point worth noting in this connection {is that, while among our horthern circumpolar stars— stars which never disappear below our hori- zon—there is not one of the first magnitude. there are among the southern circumpolar stars, which never appear above our hori- gon, no less than six of this class, On a curved line drawn from Capella through Betel to Sirius, about midway between Capella and Betelgeuse, is a pair of stars which somewhat resemble the Twins, but are less brilliant. These stars form the tips of the “golden horns” of Tau- rus—the horns with which the great celes- tial bull was said anciently “to open the ear,” the rising of Taurus in April being formerly the signal for the farmer to begin his spring’s work. Facing the west one may see a line of four stars of the second magnitute curving downward from near Capella to the horizon, with a slight inclination to the right. The uppermost of these stars (marked aP on the planisphere) is Alpha Persei, the principal star in the constellation Perseus. The three others belong to Andromeda, the uppermost of the three, Gamma Andromedae (A), be- ing in the left foot and the lowermost in the head of the constellation. The great nebula in Andromeda can be seen well only through a large telescope; but it is so often referred to that it may be interesting to know where it is. To the right of the middle star of the three just noted may be seen two faint stars, which, in connection with the bright star, form the belt of Andromeda. The nebula is near the outer of these two starsat the point marked by a small circle on the chart. It is said to be visible to the naked eye, and, in fact, was discovered before the invention of the tele- scope. An opera glass will show it unmis- takably as a blurred star. The star Algol (marked on the planis- phere) can readily be found from the fact that it forms, with Alpha Persei and Gar: | another period of two and a half days. The | third star in the sickle, #£EXBAUARY 4, AT 9 P.M iART SHOULD RE SO HELD THAT TRE IN THE HORIZON WHICH THE OBSERVER ma Andromedae, a nearly right-angled tri- angle. On u celestial chart this star is lo- cated In the head of Medusa; which Perseus carries in his left band. ‘The Blinking Dem Algol, the “blinking demon,” as it was calied by the Arabs, is an exceedingly inter- esting variable star. After maintaining for about two and a half days its ordinary splendor as a star of the second magnitude, it begins to loge its brilllancy and at the end of three and a half hours it has faded to a | star of the fourth magnitude. In this con- | ition It yemains fifteen or twenty minutes generally accepted explanation of this gular behavior of Algol is that it is at- tended by a dark satellite, which revolves around it, and, at regular intervals, passing between us and it, cuts off a portion of its light. On three evenings of this month “minima” of Algol will occur at hours fa- vorable for observing them. On the 16th it will begin to wane at about 10 p.m. (Wash- ington mean time) and will reach its mini- mum of brightness a half hour after mid- night. On the 19th its minimum will occur at 9:24 p.m., and on the 22d at 6:13 p.m. Another remarkable variavie star—so re- markable that it has been given the name Mira the Wonderful—is in the constella- tion Cetus (the whale), which at 9 p. is now only partly above the horizon, a little south of west. Mira’s period is much Jonger than that of Algol, and its habits are more eccentric. Ordinarily it is a telescopic star, away below the limits of the naked eye. But occasionally it takes a freak and begins to brighten. After awhile it becomes visi- ble to the naked eye, and in about forty days thereafter it has attained its greatest brilliancy, which is usually that of a star of the second magnitude. Then it begins to wane, and at the end of three months it is again lost to the naked eye. Mira runs the cycle of its changes in an average period of 332 days, although it may depart from this period one way or the other, to the extent of nearly a -uonth, so that its return to splendor cannot be pre- dicted with certainty. A maximum of this very interesting star is due this month, and it will therefore be well to keep an eye on the spot where it should be seen, as indi- cated on the planisphere. The best time for observing it will be early in the even- ing, while the constellation is well above the horizon. The star Menkar (Mk.), in the head of Cetus, is of the second magnitude and makes a good comparison star for Mira, when in sight. Observe that Menkar is at about one-third of the distance from Mira to Aldebaran. Mira’s Brilliancy. Mira’s maximum of brilliancy is irregalar as well as its period. Sometimes when at its brightest it is more brilliant than the star Menkar, but more often it is inferior to that star. On a few occasions it has failed altogether to make its customary ep- pearance. The beautiful little cluster of the Plei- ades, a short distancego the right of Aide- baran and above Jupiter, hardly needs to be pointed out as a fine object for an opera glass. Close beside Aldebaran is the V- shaped cluster knowh as the Hyades, which is also a splendid object for that instru- ment. Another fine opera glass field is the region around Regulus, in the sickle. About midway between the star Alpha Persei and the center of Cassiopeia may be seen on a@ clear evening @ little fleck of neb- ulus light, which a telescope of even mod- erate power resolves into a beautiful star cluster. It is in the handle of the sword of Perseus. The cluster is double, there be- ing in it two points at which the stars are particularly crowded. Seen through a good telescope, this is undeniably the most beeu- tiful object of its class. At about one-third of the distance from Pollux to Regulus, in the constellation Can- cer, is another fine telescopic star cluster, known as Praesepe, the bee hive. Both of these clusters may be seen with an opera glass, although to bring out their fuil beau- ty requires a more powerful instrument. There are now above the horizon many fine double stars which yield to an instru- ment of low power. A few of them, which may be found readily, may be pointed out. The star Mizar—the middie star in the handle of the dipper—is double, and may be separated with a good field glass or, at any rate, with an ordinary “spy glass.” Its components are both white, one some- | what smaller than the other. Gamma Andromedae is a colored double, } and is not a very difficult object. Its com- ponents are ordnge and green. It is one of | the most beautiful of colored doubles for | a small telescope. Castor is also a very fine “wide” double. Its components are white and are of about equal splendor. Another very pretty double, but one/| which requires a somewhat higher power | for separating it, Gamma Leonis. the | reckoned from | Regulus. The Planets. Mercury will be an evening star through- out the month. It reaches its greatest east- ern “elongation” on the 25th, and for a few days about that time it may be looked for low in the west a half hour or so after sun- set. Venus shone with her greatest brilliancy on the 10th of last month, and since then has been rapidly drawing in toward the | sun. On the 4th of this month she will be but one hour to the eastward of the sun and will be too low at sunset to be visible. Her inferior conjunction with the sun oc- curs on the 15th. 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