Image provided by: University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries, Lincoln, NE
About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1914)
Tl I K JKH: OMAHA. FIUOAY. IK('KM 1M14. What a Modern Young Woman in a Hhgh Place Thinks : : : "Coming and Going! By Nell Brinkley OnprMfM, 14, Internet lonil Mews Ferrtce. By ADA IWTTKRSOX. r f Y .1 ' The minds ami eyi-s of many nro turn Ins; toward a slender, prareful, clear yeI young woman who on Now Year's day will ascend to a place of vicarious donor. That her nign place la one secured merely by sharing It with the one who earned It makes tt none the I pet precloui to her. She Is the wife of h brave man and an honest one, whose state has re warded him for hla bravery and hon esty and great abll lty by electing him governor of his Mate. Because she in the wife of the man so honored, eyes and minds turn to ward her, as I have snld, with kindly In terest. As the world loves a lover, eo It loves those who have well earned their success. She Is young to share honors so great. n New Year s day when the keys of the executive mansion of her state are handed to her she will be S3 years old. Those keys, rusty perhaps and heavy and un lovely, save In their significance, will bo her husband's birthday gift to her. Need 1 tell you that they are more welcome to her than a tiara of rubles? Before two months have passed within the quaint walls of the old gubernatorial . mansion another life will have dawned into being, and the 4-year-old daughter of the honored pair will have a email brother or sister. Tho point of view is the Individual. The outlook of this young woman, raised to such place of honor and social power and far-reaching Influence is of interest and weight because of its influence. Every one stands for some dominant principle, ome ruling thought, that governs his or her llfo. Mrs. Charles Whitman, wife of the governor of New York, stands for homo cheer and for the future as well us tho present welfare of her children. "My life haunt prepared me for the cHreer of. the wife of a public man." she told me, while this crowning honor was nearly two years away. "But I doubt whether any preparation is necessary one, must take good ca.ro of him, must keep, him healthy and keep his house well. Of course, I am frightened when I think of- the danger h Is In In the discharge of hla duties aa district attorney, prose- utlng murderers and their vindictive friends. Last summer wlicn I had to take the baby sway from tho hot city to the mountains and my, husband was - alone here at ' business, I was petrified with Tear. But I never told my husband that I was afraid. His natur Is of the up and ilown kind .and we are always gay and liKht-hearted when he Is about It we were not, his spirits would drop. I don't want tJ Interfere, even by moods, with what he Is doing." "Which la worth your cogitating, O wife In every station." She is not a shouting woman. Hhe makes little noise about her beliefs. But she has the large view and peers far Into the future with her singularly clear, bright, far-seeing eyes. She worked with organisations for making working condi tions and living conditions better. She Is not addicted to social rlubH, but she ,fs a "member of societies who work for the betterment of life. "As a mother, I natumlly look forward to the future and give consideration to what the future will bold for children when they are men and women," she said. "Women who do not give thought to In terests outside the homo, Interests which will later on affect them and the lives of their children, are not doing their duty by the future race." The wife of the governor of New York sets ail womankind tin example by her own practice! she Is teaching those who will heed to look over the ruin of their bom world Into the wider world which, too, is their home. - SSSCL .. ... Comin the bright-checked skating girl, with her furs and toque, her gay sashes and woolly sweaters, her knight at her rough-shod feet buckling on her flashing runners to the time of her laughter, the crackling trees with their muffling of snow, the sky clenr like the thrill ing note that rings inside a wall, the pond-sheet stretch ing like a blue-gray dulled mirror slashed and marred with the winged skates and ringing with their grinding song. Coming the summer girl of the sea riding the jade breakers with their torn lace trimmings beaded with the salt water on eyelashes and nose and ear tips glistening and brown black-clad, with arms and throat bare to the wind and the water and tho sun, like golden buds emerging from an ebony sheath short-skirted, comfy from head to foot, revelling in the warm heart of summer-time and rioting in the last little stingy days that are lefte. Going the sea girl and hot sami and soft sweet winds, Ai! Nell Brinkley. Marvels of the Starry Universe The Great Law of Inverse Squares and the Wonderful Consequences that Re . suit from It The Unthinkable Size of Some Distant Stars, By GARKETT P. BEItVISS. that that tremendous number should rep resent the distance In miles at which the sun would appear of the brightness of a candle seen one mile away. But the law of Inverse squares shows ua that we must take the square root of 1.900 septllllona, which Is forty millions of millions, In order to get the dlstanoe In miles at which .the sun would appear no brighter than a candle at one mile. Thus we see that if the sun were only about one-fifth as far away aa the star Capella It would be a mere glimmering point In the sky! Th law of Inverse squares produces many ' striking contrasts and deoeptions In tho heavens. There Is, for Instance, a well known and very beautiful pair of stars called "The Twins," In . the con stellation Gemini. Their names are Castor and Pollux. To an Inexperienced eye they seem about equal. But Pollux Is three and third times farther away In space than Castor, and applying the law to that faot we find that Pollux Is, In reality, eleven times more brilliant than its twin! Whenever we succeed In measuring the distance of a star we can quickly cal culate Its actual brightness If we begin by comparing Its apparent brightness with thatj of the sun. Thus the superb tar fiUlus Is known to be about $W, 000,0(10.000,000 miles away. The dlstanco of the sun Is about 90,000,000 miles. In round numbers, then, Slrtus Is (40,000 times as far away aa the sun. Now, the square of WO.000 (again using round num bers) la about 300,000,000,000. From this It Is evident that If the sun and Slrlus were of the same actual brightness the former should give us 900,000,000,000 times as much light aa the latter. But careful meas urements show that the sunlight exceeds the light received from Slrlus only 10, 000,000,000 times, from whloh we Infer that Slrtus exceeds the sun thirty times In actual brightness. The aama method of comparison shows that the North Star la fifty times as bright as the sun; Betalgeuae, In Orion. M0 times as bright: Res-ulua, In Leo, 1,001 tlmea as bright, and Rlgel, In Orion, Dnneb, In Cygnua, and Canopus, In Argo, more than 10,000 tlmea as bright! The sun Is one of tho small stars; the earth Is ona of the smaller planets be longing to Its small sun what, then, Is man that tha Almighty should consider hlmT Perhaps the answer could ba found In tha fact that man. in spite of tha in significance of hla Immediate "surround ings, reaches boldly out with his Intel lect and grasps tha universe I Two readers of The Bee request me to discuss the law by which the brightness of a star Increases or diminishes In versely with the square of Its distance. I have only space here to point out the meaning and some of tho cons quences of tills law, which is one of na ture's edicts, af fecting us In thou sands of way a of which we nlmost never think. It governs all kinds ' of radiant energy, light, heat, etc., s well as gravitation. If you double the distance from tha source the lntonelty of the energy diminishes to one-fourth;- If you halve the distance tha In tensity Increases four times, and so for all fractions and multiples of tha original distance, which In every calculation should, for convenience, be counted as unity, or 1. The law can ' ba demonstrated geo metrically by holding a square screen be fore an elcctrlo light emanating from a small point, and letting Its shadow fall on a white wall. If the screen Is half way between the wall and the light the shadow will have four tlmea the area of the screen. This shows that when the light falls uninterrupted on the wall the same quantity is there spread over four times as much surface as It covers at half the distance. Consequently tho in tensity, or brightness, of the light la diminished four times In traveling a double distance from its source. If this law did. not apply throughout the universe the starry heavens at night would blind us with their brilliance, and tha heat of tha sun by day would be unbearable. The law of Inverse squares Is tha constitutional guarantee of tha stability of tha universe. Among other j things It affords a wonderful perspective , in tha oeptns or space, -j-ynaau ouna that the light of an ordinary candle can, on a dear night, be seen at the distance of ona mile. Tha tight of the sun (at the sun's surface) equals that of about 1.900 septlUloBS of eandlest (U followed by 26 seros). At first sight you might suppose C3 A Month lySI. We. SB This asquint LmltU "Perfect Dtaaaeaa Ktaf stand lon s ttie molt, perfect ring ever produced. Fiosit qual ity pn--a white diamond, perfect in cut sad full oi nry brilhsacy. Skillfull mounted in our famous Lotut "Perfection ' prong ring, 14k tolia fold. Cseed in vlt ring bos ready lor presentation. Regular V f value, TERMS: SS A MONTH OPEN TO-DAY AND THIS EVENING fZbristmas For the Convenience and accommodation of our customers and friends who have been delayed in complet ing their Christmas shopping, and for those who have been surprised by the receipt of Christmas presents and wish to reciprocate, our store will be open all day to-day Ch'istma and every evening during Holiday Week. Our ANNUAL HOLIDAY CLEARANCE Sale Begins to-day and continues to and includes N'ew Year's Day. This great Holiday Sale is the event of the year, and afford you an opportunity to obtain a fine Diamond, Watch or other artistic Jewelry at 25 to 40 per cent below actual value. Confidential credit terms to all. 17-Jewat Elgin, Wil than Hufdea Witch A Month $12 $1 No. You en aot iMMtbty ftud , Holtdar promt for th bow" that vtll give lb pltMsurti 4n4 prai-flral trrc of a gorwl , peudAbla waUth. Thla ffvonln. arurai tlm ktaaplnf Klflu. WeltUAia or H&Js.xla WtUub, In Ifc-yvar fuarantM anabi Mrata, ai4 tUtsx) cave. adjuaJeJeJ to trnrraUur, U cbroalan o4 pualtlnaa. with more men l (uu aatesjd yaasa, eatr ill 7. $1 A MONTH f0F1 Lzmos&catss HATIOriAL CREDIT JEWELERS Mala floor, City Hatloaal Sank Block, 40 . lath ft Cor. lata ia Karaey sts Ofaka. Oppoelte Hnrress-lTasa, Departsisat Store, lhoae Douglas 1444 and On alMsaas Will OaU. Call or Write for Catalog No. tOi Open Every Evening Holiday Week and Sunday Next Monday, December 28th BEGINS OUR Year Emid Cleariira All Holiday Merchandise, All Wearing Apparel, FOR MEN, WOMEN and CHILDREN All Staple lines in Which Assortments Are Broken Will Be Marked Down to the Lowest Possible Point Our business for Fall, Early Winter and the Holidays has been enormous, and we are left with immense quantities of small lots here and there, that we insist must be sold before January 1st. This sale is like a dividend to you. Don't fail to take advantage of it Watch Next Sunday's Papers for Announcement