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From the Paris Shops
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By Olivette
Here's the "Fado" -Newest Dance
It's the Rival of the Tango and the Latest French Fandango
Ono of tho
smartest of the
new silhouettes U
that of tho Dutch
jeasant. Our
model illustrate
a suit cut on
these Hues. it
is of midnight
blue satin cloth.
The short, coat Is
made on cutaway
lines and crosses
tho chest in two
points. A stitched
hand of tho same
material borders it,
and another such
band girdles the
waist and fastens
with a hug bono
button.
The stitched
band appears
again in a line
down the lone
loose sleeve,
which is slightly .
failed into a
largo armhole.
White linen is
used for tho col
lar, cuffs and tho
waistcoat, which
extends below the
coat in the
new lines of
double points.
The skirt is cut
in ono pice It
is pulled np in
fullness at the
front and has a
trimming of sldo
pockets. 4
These photographs show Miss Margaret. Ilawkesworth of New Vork
and Basil Durant doing tho lmlv celebrated "Kado" with which they it
ccntly took the French capital by storm.
axr?e. Is el elks
3eauiy Lesson
I.KfchU.t Ml
-l.HT I.
Wireless Telegraphy
By OAUnETT P. SKKW.BS.
The attempt Is often miulo to convey
a clear Idea of the tremendous depths
of spate In which tho Mars are situated
by calculating the number of years that
lght, tr&voling at
New York Paradise of Bachelor Maid
By ADA PATTEHSON.
Now York Is tho pa rail I so of the single
woman. A scoffer 'declared 'that when
an America! dies he want nothing- bet
ter than to so to Paris. It Is with no
scoffing vision that
we see the woman
who has determined
to tread her "way
through the world
alone setting out for
2ew York or com
fortably settling1 Into
the niche she has al
ready made for her
self In the metropolis.
' For this there aro
1 s a t Istying reasons.
In New York, alone
nass docs not mean
loneliness. There
aro natures that pre
fer fitting as an
audience while tho
drama of life is enacted to taking an
active part In It. There are characters
that would rather watch the stream from
the oank than swimming In its current.
You have seen seaahoro swears 'sit morn
ing after morning watching tho bathers
Instead of themselves battling with tho
surf.' It laa matter of taste, and tem
perament. If tho bachelor maid evades
family life and duties she may be wiser
than those who crltlolse her for tho
evasion. Sho knows better tian anyone
else whether she la prepared to assume
the duties Into whleh many women rush
unthinkingly and which they afterwards
find too heavy to be borne, or so -we
judge from the fact that they rush to
the courts for relief from these burdens.
The point Is that in New York the
slnKlc woman can Intwostedly watch
life without herself being actively to the
fore in it.
Bachelor maids usually seek amuse
ment In pairs, or they may permit the
prosence of a widow of their own age. In
an cmtrgency they are - not averse to'
dropping In to a tea room for refresh
ment, going to a gallery to look at
pictures, or going to matinee or an
evening performance st a theater alone,
novtlists endowed them modern novel
lst know better Is missing. Their only
hunger Is that of the normal stomach In
the healthy body.
the BPCOd of 180-
000 miles per sec
ond would require
to come: to the
earth from certain
stars .-whoso dis
tance has been ap
proximately meas
ured by means of
their parallax.
Parallax means
the agular dis
placement against
the background of
tho sky that a stsr
shows when
viewed alternately from opposite sides of
thn earth's orbit, which Is about 166,-
000,000 miles across, or a thousand times
the distance that light can go In a sec
ond. This dlsplscement Is never largo
enough to be visible except by the most
delicate Instrumental measurements. In
the case of the nearest star known It is
equal to less than one JWOth part of the
breadth of the full moon.
"When distances represented by such
slight parallaxes are calculated In miles
the numbers Involved bcoomo tod great
for ready comprehension, beoausq there
is nothing In our earthly experience with
which wo can compare them. Hence tne
attempts to tnako them "realisable" I. n.,
tho space that the light of the stars tra
verses In one year. Tho standard of
measurement, or "astronomical yard
stlok." thus obtslned Is about 6.S00.O0O,
000.000 rnlli-s long, which lnvplves again
ah almost unimaginable number, but It i
stems to be the best wo can do. At an j
rate, the employment of this standard
enables us to reduce the numbers repre
senting the distances of the stars to very
sstronomloar year-stick, we may list th
distance that a wireless signal sent out
from the earth would travel In tho same
time.
Hlnce the two distances sre supposed
Identical the question may be asked:
"What Is gained by the substitution?"
The reply is that In consequence of the
public's growing familiarity with the use
of the electric waves It has a clearer com.
I prchonslon of their Immense speed than
! It has of the speed ot light, which Is only
dcolth with In scientific Investigations.
To say, for Instance, that a wave nt light
would require 300 years to come-.to. us from
a certain star Is less Informing to the
I average mind than wotild be' tho: equiva
lent statement that a wireless mesHage
sent to us from that star would be 300
years on its way tnrougn tne winer or
space.
A striking application Is afforded by the
recent measurements by pioouni of the
Yerkea Observatory ot the parallax of
the brilliant now star which suddenly
shone out In the constellation aominl in
1912, and which Is still faintly visible.
According to these measurements tho dls.
tanco of that star Is about ZW light years,
nut how much moro picturesque and
graphic the statement becomes when put
In thin form:
If tho victims of the awful catastrophe
that destroyed tho worlds surrounding the
biasing star In Gemini (a catastrophe
that became' known on tho earth In 1912),
had sent out by radio-telegraphy to all
tho unlvcrso their last despairing cry,
"We are lost!" the electric waves con
veying It would havo required 286 years
to reach the earth.
A Merger of Churches
UCopyrlght, 1814, by the Btur Company.)
By HUV. THOMAS U. (JHKfJOUV.
Apropos of the discussion that Is now
Lgolng on all over the country upon tint
subject of "Church Unity, we may wen
ask tho question printed at the bend of
this article-"Why
not a rollRious
merger?"
What's to hinder?
and If there Is
nothing to hinder,
why pat bring It
about?
Old Oliver Crom
well, when In the
thick of his fight
with the plumed
cavaliers, declared
that' a man "Is
never so wise as
when he goes with
out knowing where, he Is going."
The inference from the raying of the
grim Old Protector Is that a powor larger
and wlsar than ourselves directs our
goings, and that In giving ourselves tin
to 'ts full we can make no serious mis
takes. The great world dramatist makes ono
of his characters sayi "There's a divin
ity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them
how we may," and It would seem that all
history Is a corroboration of the poet'4
dictum.
The religious world of today Is being
striped In the direction of s larger,
sweeter unanimity of thought and feel
ing, a broader, deeper program of pur
pose and achievement: and It requires but
a modicum of faith to be assured of the
fact that the cull to this graatsr brother
howl Is worthy of our slncerest admira
tion and respect,
The shamo nf Christendom and the
standing punle of heathendom Is the ugly
and disgraceful fact that Christians are
split up Into so many warring camps, so
muny boUlgoroul floats, which, Instead of
fighting In unison against sin, the com
Kieri'Uft for PhyslrHl Ciiltarr.
The meat convenient time tor doing ex-er-:es
Is In the morning before dressing
or Jiut before retiring- This does away
with the necessity of disrobing during
the day. for tt Is obvious that the best
tesulu cannot be obtained while wearing
i oi net or any form of heavy clothing
The exercises I am giving first arc for
nil women, whether stout or undeveloped
fhey limber the body, bring into piay
unused muscle. Increase breaming ca
pacity, tone up the nerves and Improve
the general hsalth of the body. They
will also give Brace and elasticity ot
movement.
This latter point la partlculsrly Impor
tant Just now when the new styles In
gowning call forth a correspondlnr
chants In movement, walk and Attitude,
Remember that ft is only the woman
whose body Is In correct poise that csn
sicop gracefully and that attitudinising,
uraceful and attractive when the mus
cles are In perfect training, becomea stltr
and awkward when the body Is not re
sponsive. Thsie exercises ran be dons In ten min
utes, night and morning. They vUl tire
you nt flrft for. If you havo been neg
lecting physical work entirely, they cell
Into piny muscles that have not been
used. Do them with your mind, as well
as your body: get the fullest measure of
aim.! out of them, and. as you note Im
provement day by day. you will find them
more Interesting-
negln the day with the breathing exe
cues given In lesson X. Follow with ex
erclre A stretching. Stand with face
against a wall or door, chest touching,
lift arms at sides to shove head, palms
out! rise on tiptoes and atrstch the arms
higher and then' still higher; drop arms
at rids and heels on floor. Ilepeat this
not less than ten Units,
i Kxerclss II to Umber and strengthen
shoulder muscles Ut fist on floor, face
down, fet together and arms at side,
rtslse head, chest and entire torso as
high as possible, turning head first over
right shoulder and thon over left, slowly
and as far as possible, Feel tho working
of th musrles across h back. Itcpewt
ten times to right, ten times to left.
i Usson XII to be continues
Advice to Lovelor
By nEATHICn VAXTtTAX.
ilumllnim 6f propriety
yelorn
The single woman prefers New York
because here she sees a In no other city I g V , ,,or ln.tlinP,, the near
u i, J ' , , . m est star is about five light-years distant,
the mtddle-ased women. Here life's mid- n(,"from t tne mred star distance
Dear Miss Fairfax: I know severs,
rsople to whom I have never been Intro
duced, since I hava met them In business.
mon enemy of mankind, have almost from w?u,Mt u. P&r r n,- Sy;raS
WIU UCKU.IIIHtt "CWU "FRlliir mv.s, vt.-. rj.vK Qt DMtl lnirOUUCCU i lift" MM v.
fighting ono another. ; ment with a young man for J rln
The gospel of the aalllean would long 'nK. M ,h, Ime I mads hcgage;
ago havo been the gospel of the world I ft'"1, Vnn to lm ?t home alone. Shall I
but for tho scandalous diversions and i aik this young man to call another nlgnt
spiteful quarrellngs of the missionaries or Hiall I let him como asplunned
among themselves. . I It Is generally best for a islrl to keep
Let Christians get together, and forget- ,,,, nnd social life separate,
ting the petty shlbboUths and silly non- ... w0Ver ,, you mcet your business ac
esscntlals that have heretofore divided ,ntBn(.e do not ,,lght them by falllpg
them, march all one way In the Kiest introduce them to your friends. 1 trust
campaign OHslnst the evil of tlm worw. t r ...fi-i-ntlv dignified, self-
If the energy which during the last 'J. ,,, , nblB to entertain
r
bfcT ' j.1 YT . 1 (twenty centuries hss ban expended In -aiier In your own home without Impro-
VLifnit 'or tne Universe mp n iimiw
"" WA VXW V'AmW Cfttnollo und Protestant and between Pro- S'sd" in general, though, try
I I tMtant and J'rotcatant, had been directed j J e ellKa(?.rnont for evenings when
in in wy ui , iiiviHvwii ii. o P....H. , fn,ii,. wiu hC at nome.
e very reasonable gospel fcf ths good man B,""c ' '
summer may be Indefinitely prolonged
'of 2S years until she dles. Not by groje
or cosmetics, uui because one is never
reminded of her age. In tho western
village tbero Is always an expert ac
countant who went to school with her
ond can calculate her age to the fraction
cf nn hour- In the south there Is always
a person of dreadfully accurate memory,
' who has the same pernldoua gift and who
pestlforoutly exercises It. Coming to this
city of brelf memories and enormous
expectations she Is pot reminded of her
age. Sho Is not weighted down by Im-
) pediments. Sho Is as one reborn. There
Is no daily recjtal of her life's litany.
She has no family to live up to or down
to. In the home she came from everything
tends to make herself centered. The blv.
busy, light-hearted metropolis bustling
about Its own affairs leads her out of
the prison of self. There is so much to
see. to hear, to think about, beside her
self. The metropolis Is the foe of that
life blight and world blight, too much
Introspection.
(which are nil only approximations) run
up to a hundred or more, or witn great
uncertainty, to J.000 light-years,
nut there Is reason to believe that there
sre hostw of stars whose distance may be
not only a thousand, but several tnousana
light-years. In oth,r words, they are so
far away that if one of them should sud
denly be extinguished (a fate that has
ometlmes overtaken a star), ths lest
ravs of light that it hss given birth to
would still be on their way to earth sev
eral thousand year after the star bed
actually ceased to exist.
And. contrariwise. If a. new stsr should
suddenly spring Into existence In those
remote regions its light would require
thousands of yesrs to reach us, and con-
length of time without our being made
awsre of the fact by the arrival of Its
luminous waves through the ether.
This is the old way of Illustrating the
enormous distances of the stars, but while
It has an Imposing effect upon the Imagi
nation. It generally falls to produce a
inman contact la nusribin wh.n h very definite result In the understanding.
desires It There are so many of her J simply .because It is based upon the mo
that she can always find someone who ! tlon of the waves of light, and in every
Uvea in her own environment, thinks her dsy life we have no consciousness ot thst
own thoughts, solves her own kind of motion, which is so rapid that It escapes
By EDGAR LUCIKN IjAHKIX. ,
Q. How can It be hoped to determine
thn limit of tho universe, when, theo
retically, there is no limit to the magni
tude of telescopes?
A. Man, as at present developed men
tally, cannot think of the meaning of tho
term "limit of the universe," because the
limit Is wace, and none is able to think
of Infinite space nor any other Infinity.
To think ot any Infinity Is to be pos
sessed of an Infinite mind. Hut tho high
est of all humans, high mathematicians,
do not by ony means claim to bo of In
finite mind. They tho fow havs more
exalted concepts of what Infinity may be
thun all humans combined, but modestly
say that they cannot think Infinity
Theoretically and practically there Is; a,
limit to magnitude of telescopes. If not,
man would be able to make an Infinite
aequently It would be in existence all that 1 telescope, nut human genius Is now
. ... ... . . t .n.1n! Ilnir Inv.H tn itm nrpnt limit Of flklll
In making a mirror 100 Inches In dlameetr,
herd In Pasadena.
problem, when she chooses. But this Is
not. as In smaller spheres, obtruded.
Time wasters do not, perforce, Invade .
her home and steal her hours. She can
work uninterruptedly, can think undls
tractedly, arid can thank high heaven
that amidst thls ocean of noise she has
found an oasis of silence, work-eneourag-Inir,
setf-bullding silence. Her uncrowded
apartment Is a place of peace.
Rxnctlnir Voters.
"Your constituents seem anxious to hear
from you."
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. "My
tunslr Isn't trr I nir in YMt am 4i u V mm T rifm.
The bachelor maid Is sure to see at those , found u Tn wu a wnn , u,d
i nt. t.,..cnlf n t-n .,lr ria r ...
places women wno iikb uoii.. . v. h)re H DrBsa pand' and give 'em a concert
ut not lonely, well-garbed women, oe- )tl)at W0U(J leavn , perfectly satisfied.
orona women, serene women, plainly at i j-ow j.ve ROt to thrown In a carefully
eace with themselves ana we worm, i prepared lecture free or chsrge, v-wasn-
ffhe hfart hunger with wrah old time ,u.stgn Star.
our senses. i
But slnee the Invention of wireless teleg-i
raphy a more striking comparison Is af
forded by means of which we may hlp
ourselves io comprehend the distance of
the stars, This depends upon the speed
of ths electric waves .which convey the
radio telegrams through the other. This
speed there Is every reason to balleve
Is Identical with that ot Ughtln .other
words it amounts to 1K5.C00 miles per sec
ond. An electric wave, translatable Into
an Intelligible signal, can cross tho At
lantic ocean in the sixtieth part of a
second. It could go to the moon In less
than one and one-third seconds, If Its
speed Is exactly that of light, the, in es
t'matlng star distance e may subttltute
r "telpgruph year" for s light year, that
Is to say, Instead of using ths dUUnco
that light traels in one year fo "jr
Q. When, where and how was ttye sun's
altitude obtained, or Is assumed?-!!.
Knarf, Newark. N. J.
A The sun's altitude Is obtained ac
curately by measuring with a sextant on
shipboard at sea, or by an Instrument
called an alt-aslmuth on land. When, Is
answered by ssylng at. any time when
any person dselies to "know the altitude
of the sun Where. Is answered by say
ing at any point on earth where the sun
Is visible above the horlson. How. Is by
setting the lenses of the Instrument sev
eral kinds are In use and radlng the
fine rulings on the circles. And peoplu
handling thsse delicate Instruments
would nqt for! a moment think, of mak
ing an aSaurnptlon of tho value of the
sun s altitude; for If they did, then a ship
might dssh on rocks.
ments known to Illustrate tho Intrlracl
of rotation and composition of force,
motions snd rotations, The great Now
tonlan laws are demonstrated before
pno's eyes end tho peculiar mechanism
proves their basic truths.
The heavy disk In rotation proves tha
persistency of piano or rotation of anv
mass once set In rapid motion. This
fundamental law obtains all the way from
bicycles to the rotation of worlds and
suns on axes. Tho motions arsumed by
the axis of a gyroscope In rapid revolu
tion are known as compositions of mo-1
tlons Imparted to the disk to set It In
rotation. and ths force of gravitation.
Tho properties of tho gyroscope have
been differentiated with extreme accuracy
In every detail because the entire earth
Is a huge gyroscope and Imitates Us com
position of motions.
Tho ring of mutter entirely around the
earth, 13.M7 miles deep central'" of the
equator, contains l.TSO.SV'.STT cubic mllo.
and weighs 23,fi07,JOO,lfiM76,l,if03 tons.
Hut the earth's equatorial bulge or ring
corresponds to the heavy ring or rim of
the disk of a gyroscope. The suii and
moon attract this ring around the eo'th's
equator, as the earth attracts the rim
t'f the groscpe. Then the axis qf the
entire earth moves as does the axis of a
gyroscope One. by timing a gyroscope,
can find how many seconds Is required
for It 'o make one isvolutlon.
very reasonable gospel
Jesus, the wcrld would by ths time have
been much fairer than It Is, a much
cleaner, happier P)nco for peopls to live
In.
rlpenlc Plrst.
Dear Miss Fairfax: We. as school mates
have heard that it Is the young lady
"r'" . .. riri wltn mcetlmr. a
gentleman friend. It .may be Just bash-
Of course, the ugly record that these , "."""".'We'ronilder ll rather forward
''ola- ! oh thi girl's port to speak first. Please
rivalries have made was laraelv unus
able, The race, like tho Individual, has advise us ns to what we houUl do. g
to -i.ve ana isern, sna at a umo wnen d , privilege lws,ys to
reason waa unborn and Ignorant credulity 11 . " lh(1 .cfIualntance is
was In the saddle, Christian. Innocently IIZ T
very close, o gentleman should not apeak
to a lady till she has signified her will
ingness that he should.
enough got their religion mixed up with
the abominable nuisance called
"theology," ami II was that that mads all
of the trouble. I , , . w
When the Stv.lis patriots gave Charles , , " ', m. wh.t
the Hold that famous- licking at the Battle ".ft'8? 0,X to WrW oVc!
of Mogarten, he got out of camp so has- J0n An) nVted to spend the Sunday at
tly that he left behind him all his trsss. tho river with tny friend. Now. would
urss, including the royal Jew.ls. A r.t , vn
big clodhopptr of a Swllier. sspylng the ' yolir ndvlee column. Thanking you kindly,
king's Jewel box, opened It, threw awav HOBMOND.
the precious stones, and took ths ahoy , While Is always In good taste In mul
eaikot home as a prtsenl to his wife. j summer, but a summer waist and skirt
This Is about on a par with what the ! are equally good form. Wear what you
Christians did, a long time ago, with look best In. keeping In mlno the nature
religion they threw away ths heart of tt ' of the trip you are going to take.
and kept the shell. They ceased to be
religious, and became theological. MnUe House Ulft,
Ilut theology Is dead now dead as a Dear Mies Folrfax; la It pi-oper to Rive
door nall-und thers Is no renson why a woddlng presont to a couple after their
Christians should not unite upon the return from their honeymoon.
tilings on which all sensible people are
pietty well agreed.
Those who pre In the habit of hearing
The time lequlred for the axis of thai the pieachers do not nsed to bs told that
esrth to make one levolutlon ha been I they are all preaching practically the
Q. "It the principle of the gyroscope's
stability known?"
A. Kvery minute particular of the re
markable Instrument, the gyroscope, has
been oxplored and equated by maths
mattcliiiis. And the questions are com
plex and as difficult as any In astronomy.
It is una of the nioM sdmlrable Instru-K
measured with great accuracy and Is
2n,87S years: and this gyration gives Mi
new north stars from tlmo to time. The
gyrosoops Is coming Into use on modern
moving things, as In suspended street
cars, monorail cars and on airships, and
may come Into use to stesdy the mo
tions of ocssn steamers. Already ship
compasses sre smpended by gyroscopic
apparatuses.
Possibility Admitted.
"That clerk hadn't been around these
offices a month," said ths railway presi
dent, "until he thought he knew more
about the business thn th directors,"
"What happened to him?"
"Nothing. After we got through being
Investigated we had to admit that maybs
illil " Washlpa-tnn Star
same gospel the gospel of personal pur
ity and brothsrly love, the gospel of help
fulness for today snd hope for the fu
ture Hetween the pri-achlnc or Methodist and
Baptist, Presbyterian and Congregation
alltd, Unitarian and Bplscopallan, It Is im
possible to detect any essential difference.
They alt preach the beauty of the Chris
like life, and nope of them go so far as
to trifle with the Intelligence and moral
sense of the people by Insisting upon
Inanities and barbarisms of the old
theologies, Montaigne remarks:
"No man Is free from saying silly
things; the misfortune comes in when w
endeavor to glvo an air of importance."
The ministers have at last seen the force
of Montaigne's word, and they no longer
Yea. .Send a nlcture. a bit of silver, a
psrdlnlere filled with ferns or any gift
that will aid In the decoration of ths
new home.
attempt to treat seriously the asinine
claims of the ancient creeds.
There Is no reason, therefore, why the
various churches should not Join thslr
forces, and by their consolidation recelvo
the mighty enhancement of power for
good which would bo sure to follow. They
are all substantially sgreed as to the na
ture and location of tha common enemy,
then let thenunlte and fight that enems
Instead of fighting each other.
I.et the people ot the churches read
and study our national motto: "B Pun
bus tjnum." There lies the secrst of our
ppwer among the nations of the earth
and not until ths churches havp odopUxl
a similar motto will tim- ba InvlnHbl
gainst tb powers of darkness.