Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, December 6, 1915, Page 10

: I} i - DECEMBER 6, of Equinoxes By GARRETT P. SERVISS, “T have read that the sun passes Intn' 0 new slgn of the Zodiac once in 1,180 years, Please explain what this means; | hiso the statement that at each of these | periods some now phase of religion has | appeared on earth. | T. encountered s the Drecession of the equinoxes, a ma- Jestic and unhast- ing phenomenon of the solar system, from the contem- plation of which astronomers derive great intellectual pleasure, while it appears to fll1 astrologically minded persons with mysterious awe. ‘It you will imagine this earth to be & huge spherical top, spinning daily upon a peg which s tipped about 23 degrees | from the vertical, and also, like any othor top, turning slowly round upon the volm‘ of its peg, so that the upper end of the peg describes a circle In the air, you will have the first conception necessary for understanding the precession of the | Let the earth’'s axis be the peg; let peg, lot circle of the ecliptic, which the sun appears to describe once a year mround the earth, be parallel to the in- wvisible floor on which the top is sup- posed to be spinning, and just so high above that floor that its plane outs The Bees Home Magazine Page Mighty Swing :I "M-0O-T-H-E-R---A Word That Means the World to Me’ By Nell Brinkley ‘ through the center of the earth-top. Then, back of all, among the stars, which surround the scene like the spangled walls of a elrcular room, let there be a band sixteen degrees In width, extending completely around, with the plane of the ecliptic marking its cen- tral lne. This starry band will be the zodine. Divide it into twelve equal parts, each thirty degrees long, and they will be the “signs” of zodiac. Now, remember that the top ls spin- ming from its peg, or axis, inclined from i £ a5, 185555 s § i tH “5 L i} il il at the opposite point the sun is seen Gescending below the equator for the ‘winter half. The first point is the most important, since 1t the year, # i ! xigliggg m._ ;2;! | LT '!l!t i t R sy | = SRS SN~ The best love song! About the tenderest sweetheart a man may have, ‘ Mother.” Where now Is Sylvia—and all the dim, ghostly parade of maids, pale gold and nut-brown and night-dark, who lean A thousand songs a year lift choruses to the grace of a girl—a line to her penciled brows, a chant to the blue of her two eyes, a refrain to the fragrant flower of her mouth, a walts wherein her twinkling satin feet skim like a wind on the water ——always a man in rapturous pralse of a mald and singing aloud for all the world to hear. And now, at the end of a year—to crown it—soars above the crowding music & new love song. the most musical name in the world—** ‘M-o-t-h-e-r,’ the word that means the world to me.” Somebody has been clear-sighted enough, understanding enough of the world’s good and still childish heart, and wise enough to put the feeling of struggling mankind for the idolised name of Mother To an old, old sweetheart, with And when you hear it you will not wonder. Here is how the M—Is for the million things she gave me. O—Means only that she's growing old. T—Is for the tears she shed to save me. 73 H—1Is for her heart of purest gold. E—Is for her eyes, with lovelight shining. R—Means right, and right she’ll always be. Put them all together, they spell M-O-T-H-E-R, a word that means the world to me. from the realm of songs? And how understanding that somebody has been is attested by the fact that “M-o-t-h-e-r, A Word That Means the World to Me,” is being sung from hundreds of stages by artists from coast to coast. 3 —NELL BRINKLEY, Your Friends Hasty, for Thus You Condemn Y_ourldt. By BEATRICE FAIRFAX. By H. H. STANSBURY. ardly, and the third represents the only fair, decent and honorable thing to do. But too small a proportion of human beings practise the third course. made an arrangement with a printer in the office of the Detroit Free Press to See the proof of the most important plece of news before the paper came out, that he might have advance information. Edison regulated his orders for papers according to his opinion of public inter- Sometimes he sold as high as 30 coples on the report of union victories. One night, in the first week of April, 1862, the printer showed him a. proof of a big story for the next mora- It was the first news of the battle of Shiloh and contalned the report ef and untrustworthy merely on the strength of this much-traveled and oft-repeated tale? Of course you would. But if the Case were reversed are you sure that you would give F' the benefit of the April is just & plain, nolsy newsboy, but he enjoys the distinction of serving the president of the United States with coples of the daily papers each morning and afterncon. He also crosses the street from the White House to the State, War and Navy bullding and performs a similar purpose for the secretary of state He is trusted to the extent that he goes unchallenged into the of- fices of his distinguished patrons, no matter what important conference is “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” many of us are famillar with thai 2 wants to be the dupe of his own weak lking for anm untrustworthy and unre- liable individual? Who wants to be be- trayed by a friend and thea go to that Judas friend and say, 'Explain this as you can and as plausibly as you may—I'll listen and belleve” Who wants to accept disloyalty se meekly and humbly as to invite & repetition of it Iave you never been guilty of an im- pulsive action that set free a chaln of dangerous circumstances? lave you ne\er bald something in all good faith to A Which by the time it had passed from Every time you sit in judgment on a friend and condemn him unheard you are practically acknowledging that you are capable of disloyalty! None of us can conceive of anything that lies absolutely oulside of his own nature. If you can suppose that any one has lied to you it is because you are capadble of lying. Our concept of the world comes as much “Golng to be a newsboy all r life? from within our own nature as from s e g i e I asked the other aftermoon. “Thomas A. Bxlison started as a news- He straightway telegraphed a brief bulletin of the news to the agent at every place where his train stopped, asking that it be posted in the station. Then he endeavored to get credit for 1,000 copies of the kree Press. The circulation man- ager refused the credit. Bdison then went to the owner and asked that he be given credit for 1,500 coples, and obtained it. He found mob awaiting the train at the first stop. He usually sold two papers there, but his bulletin enabled him to sell 200 at § cents @ copy. He sold 300 at the next station at 10 cents and at the other stations he Was big war news he sold more, and he | had no difficulty in getting % cents a Before you judge a friend, judge your- self. If you can think in terms of disloy- alty, untruth and unfairness these qual- ities lle In you. As you give to amother the benefit of the doubt and allow for the fact that though he acted unwisely it may have been with decent mctives, ¥ou mark yourself out as one whose own i | motives are decent and kind. Whenever you judge cruelly and un- kindly you judge, first of all, yourself, and then the criminal vou condemn un- Before I could add a word of encour- fagement to such an ambition, Sammy was half way up the steps of the somber gray building across the way, but he had recalled the story, T have heard the great inventof tell himseif. Mn Edison begen to sell papers in 1559, when he was 12 years old. Later he be- came a train butcher on the Grand Trunk raliroad, running out of Detroit. usually sold 200 papers a day. When there THE OMAHA BEE——— ) copy, and disposed of his entire gtock. Mr, Edison has sald that he became #0 impressed with what a telegraph mes« sage could do, he decided to become s telegraph operator. Next he became in« terested in electricity. And the rest is history. THE M;DERBILT / fih‘l THIRTY FOURTH STREET AT PARK AVENUE NEwWYORK The most " conveniently situated hotel ?1 in New York At the Thirty-third Street Subway THE HOME PAPER,