Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, November 6, 1915, Page 15

By GARRETT P. SERVISS. “If the sun should go out, would it pear on the earth?’ Elght minutes, elghteen seconds and five hundred and sixty-six one- thousandths of a second! At the end of that brief interval of time the blue curtain of day would disappear as i an almighty hand had snatched it off, and the dome of night, spangled with stars, would in- stantaneously arch how long be before darkness would ap- asks a reader. the earth. We would be plunged Into | darkness 80 quickly that for a moment nothing would be visible. 7Then the plercing ‘rays of stars would affect our eyes, and after that, grad- ually, our immediate surroundings would fimly emerge from the gloom. There would be starlight, but no moonlight, for the moon shines only with reflected sun- 1gh* At first the disappearance of the light would be the thing most troublesome to us, but as time went on a chill would begin to creep over the sunless earth and out of the dark and frozen air all around the globe a pallid snow would descend, the atmospheric moisture condensed. ‘When days and weeks had elapsed the awful cold of outer space would chill the atmosphers down to the earth's sur- face and animal and vegetable life would allke perish in the endless winter of universal night! The time mentioned above as that which would elapse after the extinction of the sun before the earth would be plunged in darkness depends, of course, upon the speed of light, combined with the distance from the sun to earth. Ac- cording to the table of astronomical con- stants used in the calculations of the American Nautical Almanac office, the mean distance of the earth from the sun is 92,804,767 statute miles, while the velocity of light is 186,324 miles per second. Dividing the first number by the sec- ond we get, for a quotient, 49,668, which represents the number of seconds and thousands of a second that light requires t0 pass from the sun to the earth. Divid- this by sixty gives us the same period in minutes and perts of a minute, But It must be remembered that a slight degree of uncertainty exists in re- gard to the figures representing the dis- tance of the sun and the velocity of light. The sun may be a hundred thou- sand miles nearer, or farther, and the velocity of light may be twenty-five miles per second greater, or less, than the figures adopted show. Still, this would make but an extremely smal change in the time required for the pas By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. The wonderfulness of autumn brings great joy to the appreclative mind “The death af the year” Is not death at all, but a sleep to be followed by re- newal. Autumn stands, not for a season of sere and falling leaves and of deso-| late and moaning wind, but rather as a | time of blessedly crisp, cool days with the tang of life and inspiration in the| alr. Summer 15 the season for the golden- spoon play-folk of the world. To work-| ers it is likely to be one protracted fight with heat and a longing for distant; loveliness. It means waking after rest-) less nights to stifling days. It means; dragging through turgid heat in the hops | that tomorow, always tomorrow, will bs cool and endurable. And then comes autumn. You wake some morning with a marvelous feelinz of power and energy that causes you to throw back the covers and fairly to leap up, aflame with a mere zest of being alive. You have slept well and dreamlessly. In through your open win- dows comes the clear, cool, bracing air of the world. You are ready to §o out &nd meet life with zest and force. Why not then constitute this scason of awakening power, this season of re. freshed vitality one of resolution? Why | not determine to make yourself a force in your world, and to work and to ac- complish? Why should the eve of a calendar date be saved as a time for resolutions to be made and broken? Just making resclutins and failing to keep them is a sort of breaking faith with yourself that must weaken and harm your character. But now, at the coming when you feel your powers renewing themselves, when the child world goes back to school, when the forces of busi- ness life gather themselves again in preparation for the winter campaign— now is the season for determining just what power there is in you to carry you on to place in the world. Take an hour off one of these splen- did vital days and go away alone in the| open somewhere, Sit down and give| yourself over to the feeling of renewed force within yourself. Let the joy of life mean something to you, Be con-| sclous of powers coursing through your own refreshed blood. Feel a kinship with all the bigness of nature. And then make up your mind that you| have & group of natural assets right| within you and that it is bad business not | to use them. Now, having determined that you are & human being of potential power and that you mean to use that power, lurn! from the general to the particular, Look | around you. Examine the circumstances of your own life. Doesn't your work hold | some chance for advancement? Can't| you do all the things you have been do- ing far better than you have done them? Aren't there new things crying out for| your attention? Don't you see before you some definite opening through which you may go 1o a bigger place In your world?| Resolve here and now that the powers of autumn begin to | What If the Sun Went Out? afiairs exist, for there winter occurs when the earth is farthest from the sun. ‘The fact that light requires a measure | able time to traverse long distances makes it an agent, or instrument, oi astronomical research of Inestimabl it not as it ls at the moment of ob ||t‘l‘\nlmll, but as it was at the momen. { when the light left it. | If, then, we know (its distance & astronomical units (the astronomical ui here spoken of Is the earth’'s distance from the sun), and also know how long light takes to trave that unit, we sage of light quite from sun to earth. A |@ perceptible difference, however, arises from the varlations in the earths distance from the sun, due tricity of tne earth's orbit We are about three million miles nearer the sun at the beginning of January thau at the beginning of Juiy, from which i tollows that I the sun should be in summer the night about sixteen seconds longer in reachins the earth than it wouid if the extinction occurred In winter. In the Southern Hemisphere exactly the opposite state ol to the eccen: cominic would value. As Prof. Young has remarked | when we observe a celestial body, we se¢ can at once correct our observation by simply dating it back to the time when its light started from the object Thus correction is called the “equation o | | Ught,” and the time required for ligni | | traverse the astronomical unit of dis tance ig called the “‘constant of the lignt equation,” amounting, as stated betore, | to 4us,566 seconds, To understand the application of thie, | suppose that we take some star which atiracts our attention by iis beauty or lis brilllance. We say to ourselv with & glow of intellectual enthusiasm: “Beholu | that mighty sun, whose golden rays are | 80 much richer than our daylight! Can anybody doubt that there are worlds around it enjoying its genlal warmth: Whereupon an astronomer may correc. us with the remark: “What you say about that magnificent, but distant, sun is very probably true, but you shoula speak in the past tense, for the Lght by which you see it left its surface lons | yegrs ago, and, though it still appears to be shining in the sky, it may in reality have ceased to exist.”” Regarded in this way, the starry heavens exhibit a perspective of time. When we look at the nearer stars we see backward, one, two, three or sour years; when we look deeper, we see back- ward in time ten or twenty years, and when, with the aid of the mightiest in- struments yet devised, we plunge into the profoundest depth of the universe, we behold the starry hosts as they existed thousands of years ago. For all that we can tell, those stars may have “fallen like leaves in wintry| weather” long before the pyramids of Egypt were erected, but the light that ito use these powers. 3 you feel in your quickened blood and slear mind shall be used. The numm-rl left them while they were yet alive with radiance has speeded steadily on, un- onscious of their fate, and bringing us n assurance of their continued existence. | of sleepless nights and headachy morn-| ings is over. You have come fo a season' of bracing air, of golden sunshine and| of picturesque beauty. You are a part of | all the promise and strength you see| around you. Determine to be an active part. The Message of Autumn ¢ i Grace Darling’s Exploit Is Another Proof That Woman's Place in History Ts as Secure as v 1 W 7 // 7 Copyright, 1915, Intern'l News Service //,/ i i 4/ %;// //// / ,{/ 7 /) Her Place in the Home. What Women Have Done in the World A ,// s / fi/’ ” 7 / 1, b / W ./ i i il / I il . / Matrimony By DOROTHY DIX This s Tenth Matrimony Thou shalt remember that matrimony is thy job, and If thou fallest therein, the shame thereof s on thine own head The reason that so many marriages are fallures Ia because we hold to the aimple the Commandment of well or ill is solely a Also, we pin our faith to the cheerful bellef that undertaking the responsibil; ity for avnother person's happiness and well being, setting up & new household, And running a family is so simple a job that any callow girl and boy can pull it off successfully, It every bride and groom would only face this rock-bottom fact at the be- ginning of thelr marrlod life, and in- | stead of saying, “I hope we are goinx 10 be happy,” say, “1 know we are xoing to be happy, because we are both de- termined to make our marriage a success,” they would wipe Reno off the map and do away with divoroe. For It 1s n pitiful truth that if matter of luck the a thought and Intelligence toward makink marriage & success as they making any business they are engaged In & success, no marriage would be a fullure, and if any man or woman took a hundredth part of the trouble to try to please wife or husband as he on, does to please an employer, there would be no more talk of affinities or allena- tion of the affections. And the same tactics that make a busi- ness n success would make a home @ success. When a man gves into business he doesn’t expect his store or oifice to flourish and prosper just of itself. He doesn’'t expect his partner to do all the work and let him share in more than half of the perquisites. He doesn't ex- pect his partner to be perfect. He kpows that to make a business go both partners must work together in har- mony; that they must overlook each other's faults and make allowances for mistakes; that they must make a fair divide of the profits. He knows that it takes planning and thought and study tu make a business successful, and that a man must use tact and diplomacy and self-control In dealing with his asso- clates. Women are just as gulity in this re- gard as men. If, when a woman got married, she recognized that she had de- liberately chosen domesticity as her career, and that it was just as much triumph to success in It as it is to be & grand opera star, and just as much & shame to fall in it as it Is to be hissed off the stage, why, we should have none but happy homes. Wen & woman undertakes to make a Iiving outside of the home she soon finda out that she has to be efficlent and painstaking, and punctual; that she has to control her temper, and get rid of her nerves, and that she has to lock her precious little feelings up in a safety de- posit box and leave them behind her when she goes out to battle with the world, She also ascertains that she must forget how to weep, and not answer back when a tired and irritable man speaks to her crossly, and says harsh things about her work. Buppose a woman applied the same methods In dealing with her husband that she uses In dealing with her em- ployer. Suppose she was a crackerfack cook instead of a crackerjack bookkeeper. Suppose she was as accurate about her household expenditures as she was in her cash account at the store. Suppose she theory that whether a wedding turns out | age man and woman gave as much | do toward | sho | Is Thy Job showed up at the breakfast table as neat and trim and trig as she was when she came Into her employer's office to take his dictation. Suppose she used as much blarney In jollying along her husband a | she dia in soft-soaping the boss What man would want a divorce from such a wife? No one. And, as & matter | of tact, the men who do marry girls who have got thelr training in business of- fices, and have learned the iron self con- trol that Inculcated, seldom do figure among the matrimonial fallures. Finally, there is this word to be sald: When a man makes a follish trade, in- | atead of whining over his il luck, and | calling upon heaven to witness how he | has been stung, if he has any grit in him, he shuts his teeth and goes to work to make the best of a bad bargain. And often and often he wrests victory out of defeat. This plan would be equally effective fn matrimony, and If the husband and wife who find that they are mismated would only bend all of their energles and thelr Ingenuity to making the best of the situation, they would find that patience can work miracles and turn even & appointing marriage into a comfortable Jor-trot sort of companionship. After all s sald and done, this is the one great secret of how to be happy though marr! To realize that the making of a home Is the finest work that any man or woman ever undertakes, and to ®o at Jt with all the brains and en- thusiasm that you have in you. Do that and you cannot fall. Therefore, If you forget all the other nine, forget not the tenth commandment of matrimony, which 18: Thou shalt remember that matri- mony s thy job, and if thou fallest thereln, the shame thereof is on thine own head. Health and Beauty By LINA CAVALIERI. The litany of reduction Is exercise, dlet, abstinence, perspiration. Exerclse until you are tired, and then don't rest, but exercise some more. Rest from one kind of exerclse by trying another, First try a series of exerclses that force you to breathe deely. Begin as soon ai you rise In the morning, and, by the way, rise at least an hour earlier th~+ usual. You fatten as much by too much sleep as from too much food. In your night robe, or, if you prefer it, in a bathing or gymnasium suit, go to the window, fling it open, and, standing with the arms ralsed above your head, palms out- ward, elbows stralght, Inhale deeply and alowly, counting eight. Hold the air while you count eight. This gives the air a chance to sweep through the air cells of the lungs, bathing them with its freshness, Then expel the air slowly while you count elght. Repeat this until & glight dizziness warns you that you have done enough. The begin the bending exercises. With fingers extended bend siowly until the finger tips reach the fioor, Then rise slowly, and ralse the arms above the head. Do not raise the shoulders, but slowly bring the tips of the fingera to- gether above the head. Then gradwally bend forward until the tips of the fingers reach the floor. Then back and up 'lllln. Don't walt for December 31 to swear| oft your bad habits and swear on a few good ones. Bit sit down now In these first bracing days of the autumn and take stock of the mental powers you sense in yourself. Make up your mind) And out of this' determination, weave for yourself a pro- gress toward success that shall carry you Into the new year on the high tide of your own ability and brave willingness to work. | By Bordered Effects VIRGINIA TERHUNE The Wounds of Vanity DE WATER. Copyright, v husband has many faults,” 1915, | another woman.” in Fa,n Dresses; wife to me, “but he has never looked w ea; A matinee frock is made of gold-striped amethyst chiffon, trimmed with fur— Oppenheim, Collins & Co., West Thirty- fourth street. pardon,” 1 into my mind. ‘that to By “looking™ knew that remarked. woman that was not meant that George has never since our | Wife pretends that she is open and hon- marriage shown the slightest admiration for any woman but me, that he has never|the same time s plifering leiters from flirted a bit, that he has never talked |his { silly nonsense to anybody | flushing, “T caught him doing any of | those things—well I would never forgive | !¥ the same she meant admiring or ! paying attention to any woman but her- could?" ‘Do you Star Company. sald her husband was not an | easy man to live with, that he was some-in | times cross and moody, always strictly temperate—indeed, that he that he was not she returned. what I meant. mean | deceive her that s the offense you could never con- | cheating him done?” | | “What “But VAN more constant to her had she shown that she trusted him? 1 wonder this often as I see husbands and wives making themselves wretched with suspleion of each otner. SBuch suspi- clons are so futlle that one marvels that sane human beiugs indulge in them. For, atlatter all, what good are they? As one Irishman expresses it, “What do they get a body?" 1 wish I could make wives understand that no man was ever kept from wrong- | gelf, 1 supposed. doirg by surveillance or esplonage. A e | “Such ‘looking’ would be dn unpardon- | waiching in the world will mot mn‘ilu:hn | able sin in your eyes?” I asked. man faithful if he determines to be un- | ‘It certainly would!" she replied em-|gaythful, Moreover, the knowledge that his | | phatically. “It would be exactly that." |wife {s suspecting him will lessen his love for her and make him feel justified eluding her vigilance, But, looking deeper still, can a woman become & spy upon the actions of the was lacking In many of the attributes man she has married and yet retain her that go to the making of a gentleman. |self-respect? I doubt it. Yet she could forgive all of these. The! I may be entirely wrong, but I do | one thing she would not have forgiven|not think that a woman can read a let- | would be the “looking at another wo-|ter sent to her husband, nd Intendgl man." for his eyes alone, and not sink to l):v “Marital infidelity would be hard to|level of the man who is attempting to He 18 cheating her; she 1 He 1s deceiving her; she Is decelving him. He Is pretending fidel ity to her, yet carrying on a clandestine 1| correspondence with another woman; the orable in her dealings with him, and at pockets and reading that which s It." her face|his and his alone. Her sin is not us great as his—but it kind of a sin—-only varying »—and 1 am always watching to be|from bis in quantity, Vords spoken rs ago admire | practices since me capable of them. in my principles I might almost feel that I might as well have the game as the | affection. name." The Queen Demurred. " ghe objected, “you're & Jack of | trades.” “Thou art the queen of my reminder her, “and the 180, heart,” he queen takes the ack. his Refusing, however, to be impressed with this argument, the maid inssted on & new deal. —Judge. game. | sure that he doesn't do them. trust men in such matters." in my find We That was, as I have sald, was a sin that hearing some by & younk husband flashed | 8nd can let him feel that she “I vsed to think," any woman | wife was an awful offense, that to make love to anybody else evidently a sin to which loves me, 1 know, fancies 1 might stoop. {1t has been hard for preconcieved opinion of the evil of such |tentions from other women do not hurt thinks | her and she One can't What, then, is ihe pects iier husband? First of all, she can try wife to do who sus to trust him, he said, | 1" 81l this matter we are not dealing with but one's | the wife whose husband has been crimi nally unfaithful—only with the wife of But it {s |the man whose vanity is touched by the my wite, who |flattery of clever women and who likes to be popular with the fair sex me to maintain my | If the wife can show how that at that she believes that nobody I less strong |©&n really shake him from his allegiance wome years | affected to her, ghe Is pretty sure of holding his If not, it 18 not worth holding It is his vanity, not his heart, that is And one reason a wife resents Now he has both the name and the | her husband's admiration of other won. mind the & sgestion that it Is the blame altogether his? Did |is that such admiration wounds her own not the wife, by uer suspicions, put into | vanity a little. & would } be possible for him to perpetrate the fol lies she feared? Would he not have been For, after all, in the matter of being vain there Is really not much to choose between the sexes. trusts him. | mind. And, remember, always— Use THE BEE as Your Real Estate Guide There — e Your Hands TIED By Rent Receipts? Do your living expenses eat up your income! Do you feel that, though you work hard and persistently, you do not have a chance; can save nothing because there are always bills, bills, de- manding most every cent you bring in? So that you feel as if you are in a treadmill and forever doomed 1 But there is hope! Even though your hands be tied by rent receipts—by rent, the greatest of living expenses—there is hope. You can, in fact, turn this expense into a saving. But it requires decision and action on your part. We of The Omaha Bee —will help you, but, after all, success or failure in your fight for freedom lies with you. 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