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The Answer
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By KLLA WHKKLKB WILCOX.
(Copyright. IBIS, 6Ur Company.)
Up to the Gates of gloaming Pearl,
There came the spirit of a girl.
And to the white-robed Guard she said:
"Dear Angel, am I truly dead?
Just yonder, lying on my bed, t
I heard them say It; and they wept.
And after that, methlnke I slept.
Then, when I woke, I taw your face,
-And suddenly was In this place.
It seems a pleasant place to be,
Tet earth was fair enough to me.
What Is tnere here to do, or see?
Will I see God, dear Angel, sayT
And Is He very far awayT"
The Attgel said, "You are In truth
What men call dead. That word to youth
Is full of terror; $ut It means
Only a change of tasks, and scenes.
You hare been brought to us, because
Of certain ancient karmlo laws
Set Into motion, aeons gone,
By us you will be guided on
From plane to plane, and sphere to sphere,
Until your tasks are finished here.
Then back on earth, the home of man,
To work again another span."
"But, Angel, when will I see God?"
"After the final path is trod;
After you no more long, or or are,
To see, or hear, or own, or have
Aught beside HIM. Then shall His face
Reveal itself to you In space.
And you shall find yourself made one
With that Great Sun, behind the sun.
Child, go thy way Inside the gate,
Where many eager loved ones wait.
Death Is but larger life begun."
Singing and Winning
By IRENE WESTON. ,
''The girl who sings to herself at her
..work Is the best worker." declares a
physician In a newspaper. . He has been
going; into he question of the effects of
singing on man and woman, and says
that if you want to be "happy, wealthy
nd wise," you should have at least one
6ng and sing It at least twice a day. It
Is one of the most potent tonics.
, ' His letters arose out of the stories we
have been reading of soldiers. A British
officer wrote biro that "Tipperary"
warmed his very heart. When he heard
the fellows singing that he felt every
thing was going right. He didn't care
rwhat It was they sang so long as 'they
sang something. He was not at all par
ticular as to "execution."
One of the most exhilarating concerts,
lie said, he had ever herd was that he
came across one day Vhen he discovered
si troop of Indian soldiers who didn't
understand English singing . "Teeparoo
loo." One of them with an ear for music
tied "picked" up the words, as he Imag
ined, and passed them on. He had not
got them very accurately, and his pupils
had got them still worse, but It was ''a
row." And it evidently did them an
enormous amount of good.
, The French troops sing 'Tipperary'' as
a compliment to Britain, and British sol
diers return the compliment with the
"Marseillaise," It is, of course, a well
Known fact ' that a regiment marching
with a band or singing covers the ground
faster than if it had no such accompani
ment. It goes farther with lees fatigue.
"People might do well." says the phy
sician, "to study the question of hinging
and music as a tonic"
It Is cheap "within the means of all."
Joseph Hatton. the novelist, once told
tne of a man who was the head of a big
commercial concern, and who was gen
nelly known as "Old Up Skies." He was
riot particularly old. The term was ap
plied to him as we speak of "Old Jones"
or "Old Smith men we admire because
they know a good deal more about things
than many. "Old t'p Skies" was always
iight and cheerful. Nothing cloudy
bout him.
One of bis acquaintances declared that
if you met "Old Up Skies" in the morn
ing before setting out, it would probably
lead to your going out without your um
brella whatever the weather threatened.
lie filled you with the idea that there
was heaps of sunshine about. Tet he had
occasionally very bad luck.
When the news spread around emdngst
" Ms friends that things had gone wrong
iwlth him, people who didn't know him
well received a shock when they crossed
ever the street, suitably arrayed in their
most dismal facs, and were greeted by
him with a hearty, "Good day, old chap.
How are you? Tou're looking dismal.
What's the matter?"
The secret of his perpetual cheerful
ness was, he told Hatton, his singing a
song every morning as ha dressed. 'It
mas a cheerful song to a cheerful tune,
and by the time he came down to break
fast he was In a mood to "take every
thing as It comes and make the best
of If .
-Try It. my boy." he said, "try It Only
take care to get the right song. Don't
aing "The Last Rose of Summer" or "Oh.
(Where Are the Once Happy Days that
Siave Fled,' or stuff like that kind, if
lyou live In an apartment house and are
afraid of the fellow In the next room,
sing It sotto voice. Even a hum Is worth
lot"
Soma time ago an Italian physician
tnade experiments on a number of men
and women to find out what effect luusie
had. He found that cheerful, stirring
gdeoes sent the Mood circulating more
geeetty fa the listeners, while sad music
How Old is the Earth?
. -'eV
according
adopted
had Just the opposite effect There was
only one man whom . the muslq had no
effect upon at all. Nothing would dis
turb the sluggish flow of his blood. A
Jig or a wail did not add a single beat or
taka one off. He Informed the doctor
that all the tnualo was the same to him.
He couldn't tell one tune from another.
He applauded at the end "because It was
over."
If music without words will send the
blood coursing faster or slower through
one s veins, musio with good words will
do the triok a thousand times better. But
take "Old Up Skies' " advice and be caret
ful as to getting both right. ,
Toole, the actor, knew a man who was
fearfully timid at teeing strangers. In
some remarkable manner he became a
commercial traveller, of all things In the
world, and tapping at an office door he
did so with terror In his heart.
He composed a little song of two verses
for his own private use. What that song
was he would never reveal. He described
It as "the kind of stuff to make one
chirpy." I suspect It was something
about "facing the foe." "charging" and
onward we go," and that kind ot thing.
However, he told Toole that, humming
that song of his, he found he could
charge at a possible new customer with
out feeling his legs tremble. A good
Ideal
There Is the old proverb tliat "What's'
well begun Is half done." and It has a.
larger amount of truth in it than many
proverbs. The day we begin In a cheer
ful Spirit Is the day ' in which we are
going to do great things. But the morning
Is Just ths time when most people are
depressed and soured. Breakfast Is the '
most dangerous meal of the 'day. TheYe
Is more grumbling at the breakfast table
than at any other. Ask the proprietress
of a boarding house as to which meal it
is that her boarders are most sore-
headed at
We are most Inclined to find fault
with our people at breakfast." a woman
writer on household matters wrote the
other day. "It la the time when people
appear to be the most querulous and Ir
ritable. But they don't exactly quarrel.
They Just grumble. They haven't the
energy for more than that. There Is not
the slightest doubt that most people, be
gin the day la the very worst manner
possible. Wouldn't It be worth while to
discover some way to alter such condi
tion of affairs?"
It would. Prof. Laissaille, the distin
guished French scientist, declared that It
was most Important to cultivate. Immedi
ately on rising, the mood which would be
most useful during the day and certainly
Irritability is by no means the most serv
iceable. Start on the right note. Start on
the wrong one and things mostly grow
worse and worse. "
If you want to alert on the right note in
the morning, it Is necessary you should
end on the right bote the night before.
Nothing, according to the physician who
prescribes singing as a way to mental
and bodily health and success, is more Im
portant than the mood in which one goes
off to sleep.
"People who wake up In the morning
unrested and unrefreahed don't know
what Is the matter," he declares. "They
don't remember any dream they have had.
They tell themselves they have been
sound asleep "slept like a top" all night.
Tet here they are fagged out. The simple
explanation is their minds have - been
runnln on all through those hours In the ' the problem. T!ie geological HS!ei-t Is
mood In which they dropped ssleep. If j iilte differe nt Tt.e i:r;U r:,.. :,m,.i .m
you are very anxious, you may sleep and a moment u content with the exceed-
life r ' ( , .
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Plaited bands of black satin .insert in the
sleeves and in the short, full skirt give the
demure 1856 air' to Worth's blue serge robe
tailleur, the characteristic white organdie
points flaring over the satin stock. ' The veil
toque is of black faille,' the white veil being
drawn into a soft bow on top.
. The military suits are seen everywhere In
Paris. Paquln designed this model expressly
for Harper's Baser. Of blue check cloth, the
tour pockets are bound In black braid. A
silver tassel weights the belt of black satin
and a smaller one hangs from either side of
the collar.
' The Zouave Jacket shown by Worth Is of
dark dull, brick-red army cloth, with a
waistcoat of cream . cloth extending below the
Jacket. To the close-fitting yoke Is gathered
the full skirt, the bottom of which Is turned
up and attached to a knee-length lining, giv
ing the effect of Zouave trousers. .
By WILLIAM F. KIKK.
Wife, sod Pa to Ma last nlte, do you
remember that yung man all of your
club wlmmen was raving about last year,
that yung poet nalmed Sylvester Sylvenla
or sumthlng like that?
Tea, sed Me, he rote sum divine poetry.
We used to read It at our wlmmen' s
meetings. He was up here at a reesiul
one nlte If you reemember. Ma sed.
Tea. sed Ta, I reememher. Just beefosr
he went he nk-ked me for a ten unot. You
toald me that he was not the kind of a
poet that wud think of setting pay for
his entertaining, but I notK sed Fa, wen
I asked him out in the hall If I didont
owe him a llttel sumthlng for his rc
Itaslnma. he was quick enuff to ny
Ten Dollsrs.
What about him now? sed Ma.
Well, sed Pa, he has none crasy. I
have Jet been reeding a pee.'e about
him In the Sunday paper. He is In Mld
dletown In a bcoby hatch, sed Pa, & he
la tltenng moar poetrey than he used to
rite wen all you cluh ladles-thought that
he was the dlvlnest thing ewer. 8oin
of the peeces he rites now are the limit,
sed Ta. The moar I think of It. the
moar I reckon thnt. he wip hugs when
he calm here, t rtldent think his poetry
sounded snno In thm days, sed Pa
Oh, how can you say that? ed Mn.
Dldent hn ritf the must dutiful stanza
about vllcls, the one that wont:
Vllets! I kls yure purtcl hlnom
Here In this ghost encircled room
.And 'are me forth Into the gloom.
How cud anything be moar divine then
that? sed Ma.
Well, anyhow, srd Pa. he Is a nlaln
loon now. This Is sum of the poetrey ho
la ritelng In the aslltim. Here Is one t
his keeper:
Oh. keeper of mine,
With yure hslrt spot.
Wl y shud I whine
At my sud lot?
I e a sliad 1 '
iJee-vour a flea.
I am not mud.
But soon shall be!
The poor boy, sed Ms; isent It sad to
think of en much fccrnyus going rong?
I dare say sum woman break his hart &
that lwiy he had to go A git rrasy. I
feel sad enuff to weep, sod Me. Jext
aotls, she sed. how he hasont fursnt h
wunderful gift of meter, eeven If hi
words seem a llttel Inco-herenl.
Tea, sed Pa. Here Is another of Ills
latest masterpeeces:
They say that I am mad. kcrprr!
yet I am not msd:
I feel the rain beat on my brain
As when I was a lad.
I smell the tender fragrnme
Of garlic and wild W-h.
And hope to he dtecharged l.-om here
Inside of a few weeks.
, The poor boy, sed Ma. lie Is reply of r.
Isent he? Lots of poets get thst wsy
dnant thay?'
Ho, sed Pa, not If thay doant ree-sitt
poems at wlmmen's clubs.
to
By GARRETT, P. HKKVISS.
'"Piesse explain the methods of . de
termining the age ot. the earth. From
what point in the evolution ot the earth,
from the vaporous to the solid-encrusted
mass. Is this age
oaloulated f J. H.
V., Scotia, N. T."
There are two
different' ways ot
calculating the age
of the earth, the
geological and the
a a t r o n o re leal.
Their results do
not agree, whence
tils' vast cloud of
'uncertainty, that
covers the whole
subject Moreover,
the results vary
enormously, I n
each way of calculating,
the different assumptions
bones for computation. The astronomical
results are nearer In accord with one an
other than the geological ones, but this
arises from the fact that the, astronomi
cal method is simpler and based upon a
smaller number of assumptions.
The astronomical calculations begins
with the assumption that the earth can
not be older than the sun, since, what
ever precise theory of the origin of the
solar system Is adopted, the sun has to
be regarded as the generator of the sys
tem. Treating the sun as a heated body
(at present in a compressed geaseous
state), which Is gradally cooling off and
condensing through radiation, it is pos
sible, on physical principles, to trace its
history backward as well as forward.
This hss been dons by Helmholti, New-
comb and others, with the result of show
ing that .robably not more than W.OOO.OUt
or 26.000,000 years ago the sun was a vast
mass of rare nebulous matter, expanded
over the entire space now Included within
the orbit of the most distant of Its plan,
ets Neptune. If that ta so, and If the
earth was formed out of a "portion of ths
same nebulous matter that eventually
condensed Into the sun, then the earth's
total age cannot be greater than 2,000,0(K
years.
The same method of calculation shows
that within from b.UW.OuO to 10.000,000 years
to eorae the sun will have grown so dense
that It ran no longer radiate heat as It
has been doing hitherto, and when the
sun Is extinguished the earth will be un
inhabitable. So much for the astronomical aspect of
1 .
find after some hours that you have
rested very' little. That la because the
mind hss not dismissed its cares. It has
been occupied, worried, perplexed. Ypu
dream without knowing It. Drop asleep
feeling happy and ronfldent, and the mind
will stlU continue on those lines and al
low you to wake up happy and confident,"
lngly limited number of million years
whk h the sstronoiaer ul'otn to him a
representing the utmost possible duration
of the earth.
He demands at least four times li, 000 000
yeeis, and Ksome geologists demand even
ten times K,0no,n0u years, as a comfortable
and suitable chronological stage for ths
development of the earth. And that does
not cover the entire period of the earth's,
existence,, either.'
It only begins where geology begins,
that is to say, with the first recognis
able rocky crust of the globe. Geology,
properly speaking, knows nothing of the
earth before it began automatically to
reoord Its history In its solidifying rocks.
AU the fiery ages which preceded that
time belong to astronomy, not to geology.
And yet astronomy, adding Its quota of
earth history to that of geology, makes
the sum total a quarter, or a tenth part,
of the amount that geology demands for
Its Port alone.
And then, paleontological evolution, or
the doctrine of the gradual development
of living species out o remote ancestral
forms, backs up the demands ot geology
for time, and yet more time, until, ta
some Instances, the requisitions anil tor
not loss than a thousand million years.
Through all that Illimitable STBsnse ef
ages, they say, the earth must have bean
"growing up In might,-" It eouJd mot have
got along so tar with leas.
Occasionally there is a concession made,
or a screw relaxed. In ths calculation en
one side or the other. Thus the as
tronomers have sometimes been willing
to stretch their calculated limit out to
fifty million, or even a hundred mUlion,
years, snd, on the other hand, the geolo
gists have, on oocaston, cut down their
estimates within the hundred mllUon
limit. Thus J. J. Joly, basing his calcu
lation on the quantity of salt contained
In ' the ocean, and the time that would
be required for it to get there, leached
out of the rocks, has estimated the. geolo
gical age ef the earth at t0,000,00 years.
and Prof. O. T. Becker, using a similar
calculation, has reduced the age to ,
000 000 years.
There was a great brightening up of
countenances among the. calculators of
the earth's age a few years ago when
the amaslng properties of radium were
I discovered. The disputing astronomers
and geaologlsts approached each ether
amlUng, with outstretched bands, and
congratulations were exchanged, because
the former thought that a way had now
been found to give the latter all the time
they could possibly think, of asking for,
and the geologists were rejoiced because
all the while they had been keeping half
of their daima up their sleeves. The
great reooncillator was thought to be the
agent radium, unsuspected ty existing la
the sun from the) beginning of time and
unostentatiously but most effectively
supplying rsdlant energy from no visible
or calculable source, thus secretly filling
i the solar po.-lwts and enabling the prof U
Jgute god of dny to stretch the period of
his s!usnderl;igs over hundreds of mll-
I lions of years, during which he would
otherwise have lain chained In the dun
geon of absolute physical bankruptcy.
But the radium hypothesis .of solar
radiation has been sleeping or late. It
may have a good basis, but before tt can
be accepted a larger proportion of fact
to theory will have to be offered.
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