Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 1, 1915, Page 9

4 ) ¥ ke flyspecks on an P The Bees Home Magazi They Possess a Great Deal of Significance and Importantly Affect the Earth, but the Spirit in Which the Wise Astronomer Studies Them is a Tremendous Lesson for Mankind. : : By GARRETT P. SERVISS, We shall hear a great deal about sun spots from this time forward, because they are coming on, with increasing mumbers and growing It you look at the sun, with a spy-glass, & binocular, tak- ing care to protect the eyes with deep- ly smoked glass screens, or | better, with & palr of electriclans’ black spectacles, you will see one or two groups of dark spots, which look once more, mag- nitudes. now, eleetric-light globe. To a powerful tele- scope these offer a wonderful appear- ance, the larger spots having inky black | centers, surrounded with penumbral shad- ows, while in some places around the| spots the surface of the sun is spattered with brillant white splashes. These, | which are seldom seen unless the spots | happen to be not very far from the sun’'s erdge, are the faculae (“little torches™) | of the astronomers. Faculae are brighter | and more numerous near sunspots, but, they also exist independently in places| where there are no dark spots to be seen. The return of sunspots is a phenamenon that astronomers regard with great con- cern. They gome flocking back once In ahout eleven years. It takes, o nthe aver- e, four and a half years for them to reach a maximum of numbers, when the sun is seen to be more or less speckled A Fine Family mlinner For 10c—Prepared in 30 Minutes. Here is & meal that is at once nutri- uz to digest, easy to prepare, {¢5 the huoger and the daintiest of appetites and eosts but a trifle. ook a Whole package of Faust bout 30 minutes with to..a. th greted e as a spread. With bread and butter this dish is fust about as lflty as you could wish for— ine racy smack to it that s y 'enjoyable. Made i m wheat, Faust S| hett! is a highly glu- tinous food—contains the food elements that make for muscle and tissue. Comes in large 10c packages and should fre- quently served as a partial substitute for meat and as & whole meal. MAULL BROS. St. Louis, U. 8. A, DIAMONDS WATCHES ON CREDIT CHRISTMAS GIFTS GIFT TIME is here. You will re- oeive handsome Christmas presents, and you will want to make equally beautiful ones. Don't think you must forego this pleasure ise your ready money is limited. By - with us you can grati- fy every wish and be satisfied with your gifts, while at the same time they will be easier to pay for than trifling ones where you have to pay cash, suggest a beautiful Dia- niond Ring, or a La Valliers, Brooch, Bar Screws, Stud, Scarf Pin, Bracelel, Wrist Watch. Chain, Ch Ope: Face or Hunting Case Watch, et Come in and see our magnifice mammoth assortment of all Kinds of jewelry, and make your selection: This Handsome Ladies’ \oftis Belcher Diamond Ring Duru cut sparkitox Dismoad Woecial value in this hand ‘some ring st _130.00. Gold Filled Thin Model Watoh Wo. 18—Genuine Elgin, Waltham or Hampden Watch—in 2§ Bvery Call or write for fliusirated Catalos No. . Phone Dous. 1444 and our Seiseman will esi| OF TIS i ”.mm 409 w st v every day, and six and a half years to decline again to a minimum, when for | months in succession the sun's face is as | clean as a polished mirror. Upon the | whole, the heat on the earth, taking its | entire surface into mccount, and bas'ng the observation on the temperature of the atmosphere, is about one degree and a quarter of the Fahrenhelit scale lower at sunspot maximum than at sunspot minimum. This cannot be wholly due to the dark- ening of the sun caused by the presence of the spots, since, as Mr. C. G. Abbott of the Smithsonion Institute has shown the amount by which the temperature is | lowered is five times too great to be ac-| counted for in that way. | But there are other ways in which an invasion of a horde of spots on the aun | makes its effects felt upon our globe. | The most conspicuous of tiese s in eon- | nection with the earth’s magnetiam. The earth is a great magnet, and the sun appears to exercise a direct in- fluence upon its magnetic state, that influence varying with the condition of | the sun as to spottednras. When sunapots | are at a maximum, magnetic storms of great violence occur, during which the electro-magnetic excitement of the earth | is vividly manifested—in the »tmosphore | by imposing displays of the aurora,| borealis, ahd in the earth itself by vagabond currents which interrupt tele-| sraph and cable communication, and | sometimes leap into . visibility and | avdibility in the form of crackling sparks | and clectric flames playing about the | instruments. | Occasionally it has been possible to trace phenomena of this kind to the influence of individual sun spots of unu- sual magnitude and activity. It is like the transmission of .a -shock from the sun to the earth, across a gap of 93- 000,000 miles, supposed to be filled with nothing but the invisible and intangible ether. Exactly how the forces that produce spote upon the sun affect the earth's ‘Weather is ‘an ‘Unsettled questi There is & conslderable amount of evidence for sdying that such storms as our west- ern tornapoes, the hurricanes of the West ndies and the typhoons of the China seas, are far more numerous during sun spot maxima, and especially during the time that spots are increasing in num- bers. It has also been thought that wet and dry seasons are connected in some way with the sun spot cycle, but on this subject the evidence is contradictory. Some statistics show that dry seasons accompany sun spots, and others that wet seasons accompany them. But all of these things are really ol little account in comparison with the great question of the effects produced in the Infinite vault of space, we are animated atoms living for the fraction of a moment upon that Insignificant speck! Of how great consequence in the vast scheme of the creation can the little questions that relate te our ephe- meral comforts be? If a sunflame should lick us up our disappearance from the wuniverse, physically considered, would be of less importance than that of the minutest drop of water from the ocean. But if the sun should disappear there would be a star gone from heaven. A part of the universe, at least, would upon the sun itself. The earth is a speck | Old Flames b ] L1 | ml il ‘t notice its absence. Whatever threatens the existence of the sun, then, has an appreciable importance, The astronomer finds that the sun spots are sympto- matic of progressive changes which will eventually bring the sun's career to an end, and 80 he studies them, not for the sake of finding out merely how they may affect our petty affairs, but in or- der to trace, for his Intellectual satis- faction, the grand phenomena of the life and death of a star. And in.dolng that he is pursuing the only course which can rescue man from oblivion, offsetting his material insignificance and nothing- ness with the relative greatness of his mind. Advice to Lovelorn to Yo Home, Dear Miss Fairfax: 1 am & sirl of 19. Six months ago I met & map six my senior. 1 am a&n orphan, but 1s wealthy. 1 did not pay any attention to him when he told me of his love for me. He still keeps on lllltn' me of his love. Now, Miss Fairfax, I am beginning to like this youns man. He keeps asking mo to introduce him to my uncle, but my uncle is very strict. Now do you think 1 ought to tell him the circum- stances and ask him up some evenl my uncle will be out and my aunt wil be home? RPHAN. By all means invite this young men up to meet your aunt. He shows a very nice spirit in wanting to know your peo- ple, and by this very attitude proves his respect for you. If you think your nncle would not be cordial to him, have him meet your aunt. Don't sacrifice a friend- ship because of a silly unwillingness to confess that your uncle is rather stern to you. Perhaps when he sees what a fine young man your friend is your uncle will respect you all the more for having won the friendship of such & worth while young man A Case of Frankneass, Dear Miss Fairtax: A gentleman has an appointment with a young lady. Al most at the last moment the lady finds that she will be unable to keep the ap- pointment. The gentleman then calls on another young lady who is willing to take up the appointment. The second lady then ‘inds, after keeping the appointment. that the gentleman had the appointment with the first girl. Has the second #irl any reason to fgel insulted? ALBX BRICE. Few girls like to feel that they are “second choice.” This is a petty feeling that might be eliminated by any man who would frankly state the case. The girl of whom you speak had no cause to feel ineulted—but you might have saved her from this feeling of slight by starting qut with the assumption that she was a godd enough friend of yours to be willing to go With you even though you had on this occasion happened to ask unother girl figst. “Let's see.” The man leaned back, rubbing his chin that Tooked a bit whithered in the upward glimmer of the firelight. ‘‘I was | 20—by Georg: When June came along. ‘June came along.' | mean when June bloomed into my life—Ilike a glad, golden poppy— 80 tanned she was; swirled into my life Ilke a. strong, soft, west And west winds breathe of free things and are rich with And that was June—she had a voice—she sang like a lark. ‘When she opened her clean-cut, red, sweet mouth and tipped back ker ruffled head her voice rose and knocked at the doors of paradise—a silver messenrer! The meadowlark on the telegraph pole leaned and burned and ruffled with envy when June sang. And June had character—she was no shadow girl. She was as real all through the smooth strength of her brown arm. June was & blonde, sun-smitten to gold. I was suddenly gone blank where the mystery of my ‘golden eyes’ was concerned—my mind simply fallea to remember her—and my whole heart turned back to the pal-needs of the days of Ivy, “Rut June was a woman, too. June was a peach. peach-like in her gold and red, peach-like for sweetness, for wholesomeness and bloom. She was a lithe, strong person, al ways laughing, alert, appreciative, patient, with a mind like flame to the tender of my brain that was growing and thinking. She came from the west—from the prairies; and sometimes I could see the width and vastness and the breathless beauty of them in her eyes when she looked past me. June's eyes were gray. The color of the raindrop that runs down the crystal of the window-pane-—with black Ily, truly; peach-like THE BEE: OMAHA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1915, By Nell Brinkley Copyright, 1916, Intern'l News Service. pupils that widened and spread when she listened intently—and listened a heap-——oh, dealer in romance! For | talked a lot the IA:d ‘;V';mde put her strong shoulder to thé underpinning of the castles u ed. “Her face was cleverly modelcd, with a strong chin and wide brows—and her browny gold hair blew across her cheeks, like corn tassels across the reddened ears. June and 1 swam one long sum- mer through together—fighting the toppling green and cream surf. June had almost as good a stroke as I-—but not quite—and I was glad atout that, So had my ideals changed since the first pal, Ivy. For 1 was glad, with an exulting leap in my heart, when June tired and floated, with a hand on my hair. “June taught me gayety, courage and valiancy. She seared out of my heart what lurked there of unwholesomeness in iy love of mystery. Because of her and the unchangeable worship of sane goodness she bred in my heart did I later tear out of my life a flame that thrived on sunless things and grotesquerie! “June burns bolden—a flame that has not ever completely died down In my life. The clasp of her strong, pretty fingers is printed on my hhnd for keeps. #Once | kissed June. In the canoce. In a purple twilight when all the sound water and the air was a swimming flood of wine color, And that 1 will not tell you of. “I know June still, You see, June was a trifle older than [— and she didn’t wait for me. ‘Which,’ says she, and I don't belleve her, ‘was & very good thing, dear boy." " —NELL BRINKLEY. e By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. First of all, love ought to be unselfish— | and seldom is! Real love ought to con- " af wider the happiness of its beloved, as well 1A 2 zhf.:::.?:dn,f ahat tout |ak ttaeit. Tt ought to be faithtul and | atfection and love are the same thing. |tender and true. and because it 1a these | Now T like s sreat many peopie, but do |things In iteelt it ought to belleve in not love them, and /feel that jealousy |them in its beloved. |would follow love rather than love | Jealousy s not part of love—it is love's | Joalousy. “Won't you explain the matter |cruelest enemy. and it slays real love. . It to me? writes Edith. you cannet trust, ‘you do not love—and 1" What 18 love? is & question that bas [make up your mind to that. been asked almost ever since the world | Emotion and love are often mistaken began. The answers to it are about as |for each other. Emotion may oe & wild, numerous as are the individuals that |turbulent thing of feeling and desire. It | populate the earth. ‘Bven the ideals of |craves possewsion end resents the thought love differ according to climate, race and |that its object can find happiness away icreed. A very clever man recently said |from it. It ls jealous, exacting, fever- |%o me. “Love is & matter of geography.” |ishly unBappl in itself, and all too likely | Love is & matter of all sorts of ¢xternals, | Lo produce & similar effect in the person | which it would he hard to define. But |it honors with its dangervus devotion. in an ideal state love ought to be and Love ousght to mean and stand for certain very definite | friendship, plus healthy normal human | things. emotion. It has been defined as “friend- What Is | cannot command them through faith and | trust and well-balanced congenial attrace be honest, congenial: Love? ship plus flowers and vell.” Emotion is not a thing to be despised or hidden. It is & beautiful, human ex- pression that too many of us pervert by constant usage. John meets a charmingly attractive young girl; she appeals to his senses and he imagines he loves her. He goes ex- citedly whirling through an amorous ad venture he calls a love affalr, He de- |is to mands loyalty and devotion, and since he beloved; dence points to unfaith, hope for strength, cause it has come into It give than to receive. gracious and long-suffering on the Interests of Its beloved. 1t out jealousy and doubt, tion, he is miserably jealous and suffers, | and all and ses all sorts of doubts harsh judgment. It anything about love. They are having & facile, feverish affair in which youth is callin pressing itself without a background of understanding and respect and con- genlality to make it worth while True love longs to give happiness. It to deserve will keep us from mocepting cheap he Dage believes in the kindly Intentions of its It has faith when all the evi- | It has aym- | pathy for pain; tenderness for weakness; and above all splendid desire to be fine and worthy, and to make life more worth while be- Love knows how much more blessed it | within the means of every woman to gl h1wmu. AllL one need do is to Love takes | SURCCEY o 'plain liquld siimerine at any drug store and apply a little of it oe- casionally. This 18 remarkably effective and bitternes does all |these things if it s ideal love—tha sort Neither John nor his charmer knows | we all long for and do pathetically little :: preas There s one thing we all owe to love— | llrorlnfl curling iron will to youth and emotion s ex- that la & high ideal of it, an ideal that | used. T tations—an ideal that will make us lons to be worthy of the promised land we can vision and may enter If we choose. — - The Heavens in December | By WILLIAM F. RIGGE. The winter constellations are com'n: into view. Orfon s very conspiouous in the southeast in the early evening, and o1l the great planets are vis.ble, Venus Jupiter, Saturn and Mars, along Wik Birjus, Procyon, Aldebarcn, and many other first-magnitude stars. On the 224 at 416 p. m. the sun reaches | fta farthest south and enters Capricorn | and astronomical winter begina. That da; I8 the shortest of the year, nine | hours and eight minites. This length varies scarcely more than a quarter of an hour th whole month. . The standard times of the rising, me- ridian passage or southing, and setting | of the sun and moon at Omaha during the month are given in the following table: L SUN. MOON. b e — ] wlRi06. oot 1But. | Deo. L Rise. |Aeuthl Sot. x 1 T3 108405 . Wed..| 198 7 J1 plfa bl Rl I8! 1813 4| 738 1204464 .Fri...| 361) 910| 203 4T lfl.l‘du._fi.l.u! b1 XON] &fl‘.‘ 7 8| e®l1nor IQH.‘ 6. 7% 7456|1223 406 118 806 | 120 | 646 (7 sl 78 64| 29| 706 |8 |81 w17 110.1 7 40| 1M1 423 om0 1 Ta 1142) 5J2)12006 11 12| 141 1207 | 688 | 1200 |12 |7l BE| 68 WS1 el 7 SRS dwy 3kt 1| 74 114 £08| 219 (15 116) 74 i® 312 1T 7 8 27| am| 416 [0 lm'mi 240 617 (18 nl1a Aol el 0. 7411 1% tan 1 im a7 8011200 2 FAER €01 1368 | 880 (32 R e =) 7 80| 'uil bl 4% luolZ= . 5 1013 | 408f1007 %8 |8 501, i1 - o) ol gm0 s " . 18| 613118 )% |90, o). 131) 869 1218 (@ {81, 7681 12 evibe2 36 780120 7 he dot or period between the hours and ninutes ind'cates p. m. times. The times not so marked are a. m. The sun is fast ~ | on sun dia) time from the 1st to the Gth, and slow the reat of the month, the exact srount In minutes belng the difference between 24 and the minutes given after 12 in the “noon’ columm. - “Venus 1s well visible in the southwest efter sunset. On the 15th it sets at 6:20 p. . Jupiter is still in full brilliancy. It #ets at midnight on the 18th, Baturn ie in fjne position near Castor anc Pollux In the Twins. It souths at 188 a. m, - Mars rises on the 15th at 10:01 p.m. The time of rising and setting of the pianets may be found for other days Ly #dding four minutes per day before the | piven date and substracting them, after, | The moon is new on the 6th at 12:0f p. m., in first quarter on the 18th at 5:3; a. 1., full on the 2ist at m. and in lnst quarter on the 20th &t a m It is in conjunction with Venus on the 7th, Jupiter on the 13th, Saturn on the 2 and Mars on the 26th, C Start Tdmorrow and Keep It Up Every Morning Get In the habit of drinking a glass of hot water before ® breakfast. We're not here long, so let's make our Stay agreeable. Let us live well, eat well, digest well, work well, sleep well, and look well. What a glorious condition to attain, and yet, how very easy it Is If one will only adopt the morning inside bath, Folks who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when they arise, splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, cam, in- - stead, feel as fresh as a dalsy by open- ing the sluices of the system each morn- ing and flushing out the whole of ‘the internal polsonous stagnant matter, Everyone, whether ailing, sick or well, should, each morning, before breakfast, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver and bowels the previous day's indigestible waste, sour bile and polsonous . toxins: thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before put- ting more food into the stomach. The action of hot water and lMimestone phos- Iph.le on an empty stomach is wonder- | fully Invigorating. It cleans out all the | sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appe- tite for breakf: While you are en- joying your breakfast the water and phosphate is quietly extracting a large volume of water from the -blood and getting ready for a thorough flushing ©of all the inside organs. The millions of people who are bothered with constipation, bilious spells, stomach trouble; others who have sallow skins, blood disorders and sickly complexions are urged to get a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from the drug store. This will cost very little, but is sufficient to make anyone a pronounced crank on the subject/ of inside-bathing before breakfast. —Advertisement. the To Have Perpetually Wavy, Curling Hair Perpetually wavy, curling hair is now in producing a beautiful curliness and By Sloss’ which bear no evidence of .nmcufl aking. It is neither sticky and It will not streak, stain injure hair or scalp in the least. | " After one trial, the mn‘un.v«. .:ur-‘.- he best way to y the ine is wih a clean tooth brush, dra | this through the hair from If this is done befs into the mirror in t ford a most agreeable tsement