Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, January 1, 1916, Page 11

A darling little kid T know, with little yellow | fings of hair and great dignity (which never . foot!"’ silvery:topped Old Year is saying that too. place is filled. i stooped to slang), when first he bent above the his ! new baby at his house'lying-all wadded up in the ’round, and when midnight struck and things were { place beside his mother where'he had alway# snug- )] gled, had this surprised out of him: ‘‘Me to THE BF OMAHA, ““Me to the foot,”’ says he—and ancient, For There’s bheen a change all all straightened out—there sat a very young and new fat person with no hair at all at all, a wide grin, curiosity lighting his eye, and promises on his lips, at the head of the table, and to the foot had gone the willing and feeble old man; and his hair is long cotton-white, and his lips are folded tight, for there are no more songs for him to sing, and his eyes are filled with memories. SATURDAY o JANUARY 1916 ‘“We'll Toast Them Both; Ome Gives By Ne!l Brinkley 115 . Us Promises, the Other Memories.' Copyright Tnternl News Service Aud behind the New Year i# Cap-and-Bells with the spiced nectar of Happiness which I wish for you, and turning away behind the Old Year is a (iloom with the Brew of Past-Troubles which I hope, for you, is leaving your board for good and all!—Nell Brinkley. way, the energy in the flying earth Is equivalent to nearly fhree sextillions of horsepower, the hersepower being. the measure of the work done by 33,000 foot pounds of energy developed in one minute. That is to say, If the earth could be brought to rest in one minute and all By GARRETT P. SERVISS. ong the wonders of our solar 8 e % You would point out the tre- mendous velocity of our earth and moon traveling through space, comparing it With the speed of the rifle ball, etc., etc. Nothing in the universe is more impres- sive to me than the speed and power of | those vast projections.—H. E. S. Brixton. p— | The direction and speed of the earth's| | | | it would develop nearly three sextilliona of horsepower, But if it were brought to rest in one second It would develop sixty times more horsepower! Power is the rate of doing work, and necessarily involves the element of time in its culation. Then we may consider the thermal ef- fects of the earth's kinetic energy if, by utiful in the morthern sky. instantaneous arrest of the motion, it d'In its orbit, or annual path around the | were turned into heat. There would be ;n,‘} the carth's mean speed is eighteen & sudden. development of so tremendous flight are the resultants of two motions with which it is endowed—the one around the sun, the other with the sun straight wway through space. The combination of these simultaneous motions causes the earth to travel in a spiral path whose axis is directed nearly toward the bright r Vega, or Alpha Lyrae, the most| nd one-halt miles per second, while its @ temperature that the earth might Le {zpeed of translation toward Vega, which | vaporized. Puff!' And some astronomer /it shares with the sun,’ is about twelve ! on some distant planet, aiming his tele- miles per second. We may call the re-| scope through the cool evening alr, ( sultant, or combined, speed of the earth | would catch sight of a lit{le new nebula in its actual spiral trajectory twenty-two | twinkling I'ke a. thistle down blown into miles per second. | the sky of space, and would run to send This means that If you could stand be- | Off a telegram quick, that nobody might side it and see the earth rush by, its| snatch his discovery from him. whole enormous globe, 8,000 miles in diam-| Thereafter the dissipated earth would 3 eter, would pass your eye in about six | appear in a catalogue on that far-off minutes. It means that in one day and | world under the name of ‘‘Jones' No pight (twenty-four hours) the earth trav-| bula,” and nobody, casually glancing at i els 1,900,500 milea! !u from an observatory, and unsympa- , " ( Compared with the velocity of projec-| thetically noting fts extreme exigulty, d tiles the Speed of the earth's flight is 80 | would ever think of the heart-breaking great that the swiftest of them would | history that had been nebulized in that d soem to stand still. A rifle bullet may | speck of cosmic vaper. &0, say, one-third of a mile per second, | in the first moments of its flight—that| — —= is, sixty times slower than the earth, | 4 which never stops or slows up. | 2 It The initial velocity of some projectiles AdVIGe to Lovelorn ¥ fmay be half a mile per second, or forty- . our times slower than the earth. If a| cannon could be planted out in space lndl fired at the earth from a distance equal to one-quarter of the earth's diameter BY BIEATRION FAIRFAX. Twenty-Five Dollars a Week. . “ Dear Miss Fairfax: I am 21 years old (which would be like a hunter firing his| o 0®) SO0 C oL Lags A Yo Young rifle about eighteen inches from a deer's||udy the same age. AL present | am earn. side), and If the shot were atmed at the [Ing $25 a week, but this lady does not front edge of the flying earth (imagining | {0k this i* sufficlent to he married on. the fatter flat like'a diak), and fired with | you think two persons could live com. an undiminishing velocity of half a mile |fortably with this amount? T am deeply o oy St Rk ol "H::;‘:n\h.erw\ilph mer and would not_ itk to mark, but the whole breadth of the earth | You are very young for marriage and would have passed by before the ball had | would do well to walt & traversed one-tenth of the original dis-|a girl who does not love a man enough tance separating the cannon from the |10 begin life with him on 25 a week is earth. To recur to the comparison of the |& Worldly young person who is unlfkely hunier and the deer. it would be as if t© make a very good wife. If a wife Is the animal ran so fast that it got out of | ON® in the trueal sense—that of being the line of fire before the bullet had trav- | ® helpmate,,~42 ought to cover the eled two inches from the gun. needs of the home beautifully The motion of the earth becomes pos [ A e Taaen sibly even more impreasive when we con- | pDear Miss Fairfax: Up te six manths sider the awful energy It produces | ago T was engaged to a young man ons ) Kinetic energy, or the capacity to do|Year my senfor. Then a member of my own family related some gossip concern- work, such as striking a blow, is meas- | jng him, l:d I gave him u‘p. Three weoks ured by multiplying the mass of tne|a#o I learned the gossip was false, and moving body by the square of its ve. | Whote him a letter of apology, which he 4 not acknowledge. As T value this locity and dividing the product by two.| man's friendship can you advise me whut In order to get the result in foot- | Steps to take to retaim it? Also, otight 1 = pounds we reckon the mass In ,.nmm-!m'.‘.‘“"‘ the jeweiry pnd preecits he rave ] and divide ‘agein by thirty-two, or by | sixty-four in all. *The reason for divid ing by thirty-two (more exactly 3218 s that that number is the unit (In feet per | second) of the earth's gravitation, or the acqeleration of gravity Calculated o this way the - “kinetic | energy of the earth comes out at more than ninety septillion (%0 followed by 4 serog) foot-pounds! Figured in another True love cannot eklst without fiith Since you condemned this man uriheard. I canpot blame him for failing (o acknowl- edge your letter of apology. Possibly f you g0 to bim and tell him that you have learned a sad lesson threugh jyour own foolishness tn being' 8o ready Yo listen (o kossip he may forgive you. If persistenco falle, then you must return his gifts and ¥ to forget him. its energy turned into driving machinery | 1 | | By WILLIAM ¥ | S The monotony of the last few months will be broken on the night of the 19-30 | by a partial eclipse of the moon The annexed diagram will give the particulars, | 'The largest circle is the earth's pe- numbra, and the next in size the earth's |shadow—N S E W being their cardinal {pointe. The five small circles represent |the moon at important moments on the |long oblique line, which is ita path with |respect to the umbra and penumbra f\\')n’l\ its center is at A at 12:06 a. m. the 20th, the moon enters penumbre. | B at 1:6 the moon enters shadow. At C at 2:40 we have the middle of the eclipse. At D at 3:4 the moon leaves shadow, and at G at 5:14 the moon leaves | penumb Only 14 per cent of the moon's diameter will be obscured in the earth’s shadow, {80 that this eclipse is mot worth the |smcrifice of an hour's sleep. To make lamends for this the mpon promises to | aclipse the aun for us on February { Al the great planets will be visible in | the early evenings RIGGE. on At Venus {8 conspicuous n the southwest. setting on the 15th at 144 p. m. Jupiter is higher in the sky than Venus, and sets on the 1ith at 10:2) p. m. Baturn s higher and is on the meridian at 11:4 p |on the 15th at 901 p, m |be glimpsed on the Mth | farthest from the sun. It day at 6:61 p. m By adding four minutes per day before the dates given, and subtracting there [ after, the positipns of the plapets may e found for othar days of the month The moon is mew on the 4th st 10:43 p.m., in first quarter on the 1ith at 928 P m., full on the 20th at &2 a, m., and in last quarter én the 2ith at 6:3 p. m; On the 6th it is n conjunction with Veris, on'the Sth with Jupfter, on' the 15th with Saturn, and on the 22d with Mars. The days increase in length’ 4 minutes m, Mars rises fercury may when it is sets on that during the month Sun Mon T 2% BRYRERE © times ‘not times given in the the and nearest the s ®© ‘noon’ being § hours 10 min- m colamn st the sun enters Aquarius. %4 at 7 a. m. the earth is in perihelion the hours and minutes indicates p. ‘m. times. #0 marked are a sun is slow the whole month on the sun. disl time, the exdct amount In minutes Being found by subtracting 12:24 from the 7 Want Married Women to Teach College Girls fic and In mental progress. It shows the latest Paris-born gowns In its shop windows a few weeks before they are displayed In cities farther west, but for | progress in matters that are vital we must look beyond Manhattan Island Proof of this is found in that a mem- { ber of the New York school board has York school board. One of them might teach your daughter or your granddaugh- ter the difficult art of standing alone, which she may need. Who is so strong that he can guarantee thatshe will not need it? The qualification of motherhood? Yes, it 18 a good but mot & sufficient one for There's a main business every women, ‘woman's limited energies. might ha big, who s, #ald, “No unmarried woman should be | permitted to Instruct girle in colles | If Mary Wolley, that superb woman | who founded Mount Holyoke college for | women, ware alive, he would dismisa her. (S0 Miss Willard, who Russell Sage told |me was the loveliest woman he had ever ! !known and the greatest, would have to pack her trunk and depart and that with | despatch, from .the seminary she graced and f{lluminatéd, because she did mot number among her . possebaions, ia hus- band The dean of Barnard college would have to say farewell to her girls, and the dean of Bryn Mawr. would ba| | deposed because she had not concentrated | sutficiently upon how to win that great | prize—~man. | And along with the departing founders and deans of girls' colleges would go & mornful procession of others of the unfit, Commissioner of Correction Davis of New York would have to hand the keys of her office to some woman with & certified mate. Jane Addams would have ON CREDIT BEGIN THE NEW YEAR RIGHT "3\ Our annual Janusry Clearance Sales an ogynflunl ¥ to buy Diamonds, Watche awelry, at » The best resolution yon can make for the NEW YKAR is to “Save on Our easy payment plan. 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Daniels, who for thirty- |l ever Wed .06 five years has adminiatered healing to }Zh;l the friendless poor of the East Side, Bat 3 & would have to cease her minlstering. Alice C. Smith would cease her labors Sun.. 1033 4.3 1051 |5 | among the unfortunate women of New | Mon 1081 | s I8 40 | York. a post which is nominally that of Wed..| 11 §1 probation officer of the night court for Thu.. 12.08 women, but that has earned for her the o 8 title of “The Christ Woman." The littls | talog No. 903. Special attention c:vu to mail n w THE NATIONAL GREDIT JEWELERS 388 Opposite Burgess-Nash Co. Department Store. ERaxEa