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What If the Sun Went Out?
What Women Have Done in the World
Matrimony Is Thy Job
Copyright. W Intotn'l News Kervl.-e.
By GARRETT P. SKRVISS.
"If the nun should no out, how long
would It be before darkness would ap
pear on the earth?' asks a reader.
E I g h t minutes,
eighteen see o n d a
and five hundred
and sixty-six tone
thousandths of a
secondl
At the end of
that brief Interval
of time the blue
c u r t a I n of day
would disappear aa
If an almighty
hand had snatched
It off. and the
dome of night,
s p a n g 1 ed with
atara, would In
stantaneously arch
the earth. We would be plunged Into
darkness so quickly that for a moment
nothing would be visible. Then the
piercing 'rays of stars would begin to
affect our eyes, and after that, grad
ually, our Immediate surroundings would
tlmly emerge from the gloom. There
would be starlight, but no moonlight, for
the moon shines only with reflected sun
llgh At first the disappearance of the light
would be the thing moist troublesome to
us, but aa time went on a chill would
begin to creep over the aunleas earth and
out of the dark and frosen air all around
the globe a pallid snow would descend,
aa the atmospherlo moisture condensed.
When days and weeks had elapsed the
awful cold of outer space would chill
the atmosphere down to the earth's sur
face and animal and vegetable life would
alike perish In the endless winter of
universal night!
The time mentioned above aa 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 82.894,767 statute miles, while the
velocity of light la 1S6.S24 miles per
second.
Dividing the first number by the sec-
ond we get, for a quotient, 498,668, which
represent the number of seconds and
thousands of a second that light requires
to pass from the sun to the earth. Ulvld
this by sixty gives us the same period
in minutes and parts of a minute.
But It must be remembered that
slight degree of uncertainty exists in re
gard to the figures representing the dls
tanca 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
rwould make but an extremely smu)
change in the time required for the pas
sage of light from sun to earth. A
quit perceptible difference, however,
arises from the variations In the earth s
distance from the sun. due to the eccen
tricity of tne earths orbit.
We are about three million miles nearer
the sun at the beginning of Jan lary thai.
at the beginning of J my, from, which uj
follows that If the sun should be put ou,
in summer the cos.nlc night would bt
I about sixteen seconds longer In reach. n
! the earth than it wou.d If the extinction
occurred in w.nler. In the Southern
Hemisphere exactly the opposite state ol
aMairs exist, for there winter occurs
when the earth is farthest from tht
sun.
Ihe fact that light requires a measure
able time to traverse long distances
makes it an agent, or Instrument, oi
astronomical research of Inestimable
value. As Prof. Young has remarktu
when we observe a celestial body, we sti
lt not as It la at the moment of ub
servation, but as it was at tho moment
when the light left It.
If, . then, we know its distance li
astronomical units line astronomical unu
here spoken of is the earth's distance
from the sun), and also know how lout,
light takes to traverse that unit, wt
can at once correct our observation b
simply dating It back to the time when
Its light started Irom the object. This
correction Is called the "equation Oi
light." and the time required for Hani
traverse the astronomical unit of dis
tance is, called the "constant of the lignl
equatlon." amounting, as slated before,
to 4s,ott seconds.
To understand the application of this,
suppose that we take some star which
attracts our attention by Its beauty or .
brilliance. We say to ourselves, with a j
glow of intellectual enthusiasm: "Behulu
that mighty sun, whose goluen rays are
so much richer than our daylight! Can
anybody doubt that there ate world
around it enjoying its genial warmth
Whereupon an astronomer may correct
us with the remark: "What you sa
about that magnificent, but distant, sun
is very probably true, but you fchuulu
Bpeak In the past tense, for tne l.ght by
which you see it left Its surface Ion
years 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 umverse,
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
left them while they were yet alive with
radiance has speeded steadily on, un
onsclous of their fate, and bringing us
n assurance of their continued existence.
The Message of Autumn
By BEATRICE FAIRFAX.
The wonderfulness of autumn brings
treat Joy to the appreciative mind
"The death of 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, root days with
the tang of life and Inspiration In the
air.
Summer Is 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 bi
cool and endurable.
And then comes autumn. You wake
ome morning with a marvelous feellnj
of power and energy that causes you
to throw back the covers and fairly to
leap up, aflame with a mere aest of
being alive. Tou have slept well and
dreamlessly. In through your open win
dows comes the clear, cool, bracing air
of the world. You are ready to go out
and meet life with sest and force.
Why not then constitute this season
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 resdutl ns ani failing to
keep them Is a sort of breaking faith
with yourself that must weaken and
harm your character.
But now, at the coming of autumn,
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
scious of powers coursing through your
own refreshed blood. Feel a kinship with
all tho bigness of nature.
And then make up your mind that you
have a group of natural assets right
within you and that It Is bad business not
to use them.
Now, having determined Jhat you are
a human being of potential power and
that you mean to use that power, turn
from the general to the particular. Look
around you. Kxamine tne 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 yoi
ome definite opening through which you
Ji iy go to a bigger place In your world?
Kesolve here and now that the powers
you feel In your qjickened blood and
' alear mind shall be used. Tbe summer
of sleepless nights and headachy morn
lngs Is over. You have come to a season
of bracing air, of golden sunshine and
of picturesque beauty. 1 ou are a part of
all the promise and strength you see
around you. Determine to be an active
part.
Don't wait for December 31 to swear
off 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 i
to use tb,ese powers. And out of this
determination, weave for yourself a pro-,
gress toward success that shall carry j
you Into the new year on the high tide
of your own ability and brave willingness
to work.
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Hj IrOROTHY nix
Grace Darling's Exploit Is Another Proof Tint Woman's Place in History Is as Secure as
Her Place in the Home.
This Is the Tenth Commandment of
Matrimony:
Thou shalt remember that matrimony
Is thy Job. and If tlmu tallest therein,
the shame thereof la on thine own head.
The reason that so many marriages are
failures Is because we hold to the smplo
theory that whether a wedding turns out
welt or til Is solely a matter of hick.
Also, we pin our faith to the cheerful
belief that undertaking the rrsponsibll;
Ity for another person's happineas and
well being, setting up a new household,
and running a family la so simple a Job
that any callow girl and boy ran pull It
off successfully.
If every bride and groom would only
face this rnek-bottnm fact at the be
ginning of their married life, and In
stead of saying, "I hope we are goln
to lie happy," say, "1 know we are golnH
to be happy, because we are both de
termined to make our marriage a
success." they would wipe Keno off tho I
map and do away with divorce.
For It Is a pitiful truth that If the
average man and woman gave aa much
thought and Intelligence toward making
marriage a success as they do toward
making any business they are engaged
In a success, no marriage would be a
failure, and If any man or woman took a
hundredth part of the trouble to try to
please wife or husband aa he or she
noes to please an employer, there wouid
be no more talk of affinities or aliena
tion of the affections.
And the same tactics that make a busi
ness a success would make a home a
l success, w hen a man goes into ousmesa
he doesn't expect his store or olflce to
flourish and prosper Just of Itself, lie
doesn't expect his partner to do alt the
work and let him share In more than
half of the perquisites. He doesn't ex
pect his partner to be perfect.
He knows that to make a business go
both partners must work together In har
mony; that they must overlook each
other's faulta 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 U
make a business successful, and that a
man must use tact and diplomacy and
self-control In dealing with his asso
ciates. Women are Just as guilty In this re
gard as men. If, when a woman got
married, she recognised that she had de
liberately chosen domesticity as her
career, and that It was Just aa much
triumph to success In It as it Is to be a
grand opera star, and Just aa much a
shame to fall In it aa it Is to be hissed
off the stage, why, we should have none
but happy homes.
Wen a woman undertakes to make
living outside of the home she soon finds
out that she has to be efficient and
painstaking, and punctual; that aha 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.
Suppose a woman applied the earns
methods In dealing with , her husband
that she uses In dealing with her em
ployer. Suppose she was a crackerjack
cook Instead of a crackerjack bookkeeper.
Suppose she was as accurate about her
household expenditures as she waa In her
cash account at the store. Suppose she
showed up at the breakfast table aa neat
and trim and trig as she waa when aha
came Into her employer's office to take
his dictation. Suppose she used as much
blarney In Jollying along her husband aa
sha did In soft-soaping the boss.
What man would want a divorce from
such a wife? No one. And, as a matter
of fact, the men who do marry girls who
have got their training In business of
fices, and have learned the Iron self con
trol that Inculcated, seldom do figure
among the matrimonial failures.
Finally, there la this word to be said:
When a man makes a folllsh trade. In
stead of whining over his 111 lurk, 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
In matrimony, and If the husband and
wife who find that they are mlsmated
would only bend all of their energies and
their Ingenuity to making the best of the
situation, they would find that patience
can work miracles and turn even a cJs
appolntlng marriage Ipto a comfortable
Jog-trot sort of companionship.
After all Is snld and done, this Is tha
one great secret of how to le happy
though married: To realixe that the
making of a home la the finest work that
any man or woman ever undertakes, end
to go at It with all tho 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 mntrlmony, which
Is: Thou ahalt remember that matri
mony is thy Job, and if thou falleat
therein, the shame thereof is on thine
own head.
Health and
Beauty
Ry MSA CAVALIER!.
The litany of reduction la exercise, diet,
abstinence, perspiration.
Kxerclse until you ara tired, and then
don't rest, but exercise some more. Best
rrom one kind of exercise by trying
another.
First try a series of exercises that force
you to breathe deely. Begin as soon as
you rise In the morning, and, by the way,
rise at least an hour earlier th-n usual.
You fatten aa much by too much sleep
aa 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 raised above your head, palms out
ward, elbows straight. Inhale deeply
and slowly, 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 eight. Repeat this until
a slight dlsxlness warns you that you
have done enough.
Tha begin the bending exercises. With
flniers extended bend slowly until the
finger tips reach the floor. Then rise
slowly, and raise the arms above the
head. Do not raise tha shoulders, but
slowly bring the tips of the fingers to
gether above the head. Then gradually
bend forward until tha tips of the fingers
reach the floor. Then back and up
again.
Bordered Effects
in Fall Dresses
The Wounds of
Vanity
By VIRGINIA TERIIUXE
DE .WATER.
VAN
A
A matinee frock la made of gold-striped
amethyst chiffon, trimmed with fur.
Oppenheim, Collins 4 Co., West Thirty
fourth street.
Tbe Qners Deitiarred,
"But," she objected, "you're a Jack of
all trades."
"Thou art the queen of my heart," he
reminder her, "and the queen takes the
Jack." t
Refusing, howftver, to be Impressed with
this ajsument, the maid Inswted on a new
deal. Judge.
Copyright, 1D15, Star Company.
"My husband has many faults." said a
wife to me, "but he has never looked at
another woman."
By "looking" she meant admiring or
paying attention to any woman but her
self, I supposed.
"Such 'looking' would be an unpardon
able sin in your eyes?" I asked.
"It certainly would!" she replied em
phatically. "It would be exactly that."
I knew that her husband was not an
easy man to live with, that he was some
times cross and moody, that he was not
always strictly temperate Indeed, that he
was lacking In many of (he attributes
tt at go to the making of a gentleman.
Yet she could forgive all of these. The
one thing she would not have forgiven
would be the "looking at another wo
man." "Marital infidelity would be hard to
pardon," I remarked. "Do you mean
that la the offemie you could never con
done?" "What woman could 7' she returned.
"But that was not what I meant. I
meant that Cieorge has never since our
marriage shown the slightest admiration
ior any woman but me, that he has never
flirted a bit, that he has never talked
silly nonsense to anybody. If," her face
flushing, "I caught him doing any of
those things well I would never forgive
him and I am always watching to be
sure that he doesn't do them. Ono can't
trut men In such matters."
Words spoken In my hearing some
years ago by a young husband flashed
Into my mind. "I ved to think," he said.
"that to admire any woman but one's
wife was an awful offense, that to make
love to anybody I be. vas a tin, Hut It Is
evidently a sin to which my wife, who
loves me, I know, fancies I might stoop.
It has been hard for me to maintain my
preconcleved opinion of the evil of such
practices since I find that she thinks
ma capable of them. Were I less strong
in my principles I might almost feel that
I might as well have the game, aa the
name."
That was, as I have said, some years
ago. Now he has bith the nsme and the
game. Is the blame altogether his? Did
not the wife, by uer suspicions, put Into
his rr.lnd the suggestion that it would '
be possible for him to perpetrate the fol
lies alia feared? Would he not have been
more constant to twr had she shown that
she trusted him?
I wonder this often as I see husbands
and wives making themselves wretched '
with suspicion of eoch other. Such suspl- 1
clons are so futile that one marvels that
sane human beings Indulge in them. For,
after all, what good are they? As one
Irishman expresses it, "What do they
get a body?"
I wish I could make wives understand
that no man wus ever kept from wrong
doing by surveillance or espionage. All the
watching In the world will not make a
man faithful if he determines to be un
faithful. Moreover, tlio knowledge that his
wife is suspecting him will lessen his
love for her and make htm feel Justified
in eluding her vigilance.
But, looking deeper still, can a woman
become a spy upon the actions of the
man she has married and yet retain her
belf-respect? I doubt It
I may be entirely wrong, but I do
not think that a woman cun read a let
ter sent to her husband, and lntende.1
for his eyes alone, and not sink to the
level of the man who Is attempting to
deceive her. lie. Is cheating her; she I.
cheating him. He Is deceiving her; she
Is deceiving him. He is pretending fidel
ity to her. yet carrying on a clandestine
correspondence with another woman; the
wife, pretends that fche is open and hon
orable in her dealings with him, and at
the same time Is pilfering letters from
his pockets and reading that which is
his and his alone.
Her sin is not as great ai his but it
Is the same kind of a sin only varying
from tils In quantity.
What, then, is llio wife to do who sus
pects her husband?
First of all, she can try to trust him.
and can let him feel that nhe trusts him.
In all this matter we are not dealing with
the wife whose husband has been crimi
nally unfaithful only with the wife of
the man whose vanity Is touched by the
flattery of clever women and who likes
to be popular with the fair sex.
If the wife can show how that at
tentions from other women do not hurt
her and that she believes that nobody
ran really shake him from his allegiance
to her, the 1 pretty sure of holding his
affection. If not, it Is not worth holding
It is his vanity, not his heart, that Is
affected. And one reason a wife resents
her husband's admiration of other won.ti
Is that such admiration wounds her own
vanity a little.
For, after all. In the matter of being
vain there is really not much to choose
between tho sexes.
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