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| BY PROF. SAMUEL G. BARTON, [ Of the University of Pennsylvania. For those north of the Tropic of Cancer. June is the month of the Bun. Now, if ever, come perfect da w=s0 the poet wrote. It is during thi onth that the sun exerts its greaf- fiz influence upon us, beneficent or therwise. The influence is at its aximum when the sun is highest bove the Equator, which occurs this ear June 21, 11:30 p.m., Bastern andard time. On this day the sun p 8 above the horizon longer than on @ny other day of the vear, making the day, that is, the period of sun- ghine. equal to or longer than that ©f any other day. At the Equator the sunshine lasts a_little over 12 Bours, and at Arctic Circle and north ©f it the sun does not set at all, 8o that the sun may be seen even &t midnight. At Philadelphia the vlight lasts 15 hours and 1 minute. he figures are nearly the same for other places in the United States. After the sun sets and just before it rises we have the periods known as twilight in which we receive light from the sun indirectly. The light gomes to us by reflection from the rth’s atmosphere. ‘This period of vilight is also longest on June 21. At Philadelphia the morning “and vening twilight period is each almost iwo hours long on this day. Fxcept to us, as we showed last fnonth, the sun is relatively an unim portant star. The stars which we can see with the naked eye emit on the verage about 33 times as much light ‘nd heat as the sun. But the earth re volves about the sun, and what is still more important the sun’s distance from us is but one-two-hundred-and sixty-thousandth part as great as that of the next nearest star. Because of ts nearness the combined light and éeat received by the earth from ail ther stars is so small compared with that of the sun as to be negligible. Sirius, the next brightest star as we ee them, gives us only onetwo-hun- dred-billionth as much light as the gun. The heat received from it is so #mall that only the most refined ethods enable us to detect that there Jeanv. " When the sun is in view all other stars disappear from view be- cause their light is so incomparably Fmall. The dark background which makes them'the dlamonds in the sky = gone. The thought was well ex- pressed by Bourdillon in the lines: The night has a thousand eves. And the day but one, Yet_the light of the bright world dies With the dying sun. Our Debt to the Sun. ‘The importance of the sun to man ean scarcely be overstated. Without the sun, life on the earth could not survive a month. The temperature would soon fall to that of the space which surrounds us, which approaches the temperature called absolute zero, which is 459 degrees below zero Fahrenheit. The clothing with which we protect ourselves from the cold is from either the animal or vegetable kingdom, neither of which could survive low temperatures. - Man might survive a longer time by the use of fuel. He could not use water power, for the water would be ice. Winds would largely cease. He would soon perish also for the lack of food. But even that were supplied, the very lack of the sunshine on his body would make him perish of disease, or perhaps from the effects on his mind. Jt is not my purpose to discuss these matters in detail now. I wish here to call attention to a few of our words and expressions which testify to our recognition of our debt to the sun. In the Century Dictionary we find Bun defined as “that which is the chief source of light, honor, glory or pros: gerll.\' as, when Shakespeare writes in Julius Caesar, ‘the sun of Rome is set.’ Sunny means bright, cheerful, cheery, as a sunny disposition, or the sunny side. meaning the bright or hopeful side. Sunshine means anything hav- ing a genial or beneficlal influence; ‘brightness, cheerfulness.” We may take references to light as yeferences to the sun, the chief source of light. Absence of light is darkness. « Any good thing can be represented metaphorically by light and any bad thing by darkness. This very fact is a very excellent proof of the influence which the sun has exerted on the minds of men. Here are a few illus- trations: We speak of a bright pupll, & brilliant orator, an enlightened people. A face is lighted by a smile, but darkened by a frown. “Liberty Figure so that the the bottom as south now is. The center of the map is the y 2.241.YDS 1. The constellations at 9 p.m. June direction faced is at the bottom; that i3, if facing e: o - . to the sky, hold east at int overhead. 1. Hold the ma mf Figure 2. Sunbeams at Philadelphia December 22 and June 26. enlightening the world.” “Brighten the corner where vou are.” The Ger- mans wanted their place in the sun. “Long may vour land be bright with freedom’s holy light.” On the other hand, we speak of the dark ages, darkest Africa. Things look dark. Benighted heathen. He has a shady reputation. A cloud has come into his life. “The day is dark and dreary.” “Sunset and evening star.” She thinks that the sun rises and sets in him. Befriend mo. night, best patroness of grief Over the pole thy thickest mantle, throw. —Milton. the bodge of hell. Dlack is ; The b and the ecowl of of dungeon: ;fi‘lhl.‘—b’hh’(r!w 1 close the subject for the present with the beautiful epitaph written by the Astronomer Brashear for inscrip- tion on the tomb of himself and wife: ‘We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night. More Benefits From the Sun in June. There are three reasons why we re- celve the most light and heat from the sun at this time, cach depending upon the position of the sun. First, the period of davlight and twilight is longest, as explained above. Second, the rays of sunshine come to us more nearly in a vertical direction at noon or at any other corresponding hour than at other times. This means that a beam of sunshine—which is the name, for a bundle of rays—of any given size will cover a smaller area on the earth, and therefore the heat and light will be more intense on that area. This is illustrated in figure 2. On the right-hand side we represent a beam of sunshine of cross section, one square yard falling on the earth at Philadelphia _at noon June 22 when the angle between the rays a a horizontal plane is 731 degrees. The beam then covers 1.043 square yards of the carth's surface, as indicated by the shaded area. On the left we represent the conditions on December 22, when the sun’s rays make an angle of only 26l; degrees with a horizontal plane. A beam of sunshine of the same size at that time falls upon an area of 2.241 square yards of the earth’s surface, indicated by the shaded area. A given area on the earth then receives more than twice as much light and heat at noon June as it does on December 22. A milar argument, of course, applies at any other hour, as 10 o'clock, al- though the ratio will not be the same, Tt is also obvious that the rays in December must pass through a greater amount of the earth’s atmosphere be- fore reaching the earth than those in une, which fall nearly perpendicular- upon the surface. The atmosphere | absorbs both light and heat, and this is a third reason why we now receive | the most light and heat from the sun. The planet Saturn is now in good position for early evening observation. Its position is marked on figure 1. Tt lies between the bright stars Spica at A and_Antares at B. but is brighter than either. It rises before sunset and sets at 3:49 am. June 1, and at a.m. June 30. Jupiter rises south of east just after midnight June 1, nd at 10:09 p.m. June 30. It is in Capracornus, Mars rises in the Fast at 1:12 am. June 1, and at 12:04 a.m. June 30. Tt is now in Pisces. Venus rises at a.m. June'l, and at 2:23 a.m. June 30. It is a very conspicuous object in the E.st just before sunrise. R g Not only impoverished Jews from the ghettos, but many well-to-do mer- chants, are establishing themselves in Palestine, and more than $30,000,000 has been taken into the country in the last five ygars. NewHampshire Jand of Sconuc Splendor “The Most . Beautiful Stretch of - Country in the World” HUS a world wide traveler spoke of New Hampshire —and he spoke truly. 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