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"Me to the Foot," Says the Old Year
"We'll Toast
Us Promises,
Them Both; One Gives
the Other Memories."
By Nell Brinkley
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A darling little kid I know, with little yellow
rings of hair and great dignity, (which never
stooped to slang), when first he bent above the
new baby at his house' lying-all wadded up in the
place beside his mother where'he had always snug
gled, had this surprised out of him: "Me to
foot!'
Me to the foot," says he and ancient,
silverytopped Old Year is saying that too. For
his place is filled. There's been a change all
'round, and when midnight struck and things were
all straightened out there sat a very young and
new fat person with no hair at alt at all, a wide
grin, curiosity lighting his eye, and promises ou
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.
And behind the New Year is Cap-and-Bells with
the spiced nectar of Happiness which I wish for
you, and turning away behind the Old Year is a
Uloom with the Brew of Past-Troubles which I
hope, for you, is leaving your board for good and
all ! Nell Brinkley. . .. ,r.- '..'.,'.
Mighty Projectiles of Space
; By GARRETT P. SERVISS. ,
UmonK the wonder of.our ol.
tern I wish you would point out the tre
mendous velocity ot our earth and moon
(ravelins through space, comparing it
with the speed of the rifle ball. etc.. etc.
Nothing in the universe la more impres
sive to me than the speed and power of
those vast projectiona. H. fc. S. Brixton.
; The direction and speed of the earth's
flight ar the resultants of two motions
with which it is endowed the one around
te sun. the other with the sun straignt
away through space. The combination of
these simultaneous motions causes me
earth to travel In a spiral path whose
axis is directed nearly toward the bright
artar Vega, or Alpha Lyrae, the most
beautiful in the northern ky.
? In Its orbit, or annual path around the
Vmn, the earth's mean speed Is eighteen
'snd one-half miles per sec.PJ.. while Us
natation toward Vega, which
It shares with the sun.-Is about twelve
mites per second. Wa may call the re
sultant, or combined, speed of the earth
im Km actual antral trajectory twenty-two
miles per second.
Thla means that If you could stand be
side It and see the earth rush by. its
whole enormous globe, 1.000 miles in diam
: eter, would pass your eye in about six
minutes. It means that in one day and
p'ght (twenty-four hours' the earth trav.
els l,900,Stt) miles!
Compared with the velocity of projec
tiles the S)eed of the earth's flight Is so
great that the swiftest of them would
seem to stand still. A rifle bullet may
go, say, one-third of a mile per second,
la the first moments of its flight that
is. sixty times slower thsn the earth,
which never stops or slows up.
The Initial velocity of some projectiles
ay be half a mile per second, or forty-
our times slower than the earth. If a
nnon could be planted out In space and
fired At the earth from a distance equal
to one-quarter of the earth's dlamrter
(which would be like a hunter firing his
rifle about eighteen Inches from a deer's
side), and If the shot were aimed at the
front edge of the flying earth (Imagining
the fatter flat 'like a disk), and fired with
an undimlniihing velocity of half a mile
per second, it would not only miss Its
mark, but the whole breadth of the earth
would have paised by before the ball had
traversed one-tenth of the original dis
tance separating the cannon from the
earth. To recur to the comparison of the
hunter and the deer, it would be as If
the animal ran so fast that It got out ef
th line of fire before the bullet had trav
eled two Inches from the gun.
Tha motion of the earth becomes pos
sibly aven more Impressive when we con
sider the awful energy it produce
Kinetic energy, or the capacity to do
work, auch as striking a blow, is meas
ured by multiplying the ma a of tne
moving body by the square of Its ve.
locity and dividing the product by two.
In order to get the result In foot
pounds we reckon the mass In pounds
and divide again by thirty-two. or b
alxty-four In all. The reason for divid
ing by thirty-two (more exactly 81-11) U
that that number Is the unit (In feet per
second) of the earth's gravitation," or
the acceleration of gravity.
Calculated tn.thle way the - 'kinetic
energy of the eerth comes out at moiij
than ninety aeptillion (80 followed by U
aero) foot-pounds! Figured in another
wax tht energy In the flying earth Is
equivalent to nearly fhree sextllllons of
horsepower, the horsepower being- the
measure of the work done by 33,600 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
Its energy turned into driving machinery
It would develop nearly three sextilllons
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 Ha cal
culatlon.
Then we may consider the thermal ef
fects of the earth's kinetic energy if, by
Instantaneous arrest of the motion, it
were turned into heat. There would be
sudden, development Pf so te,mendou
a temperature that the earth might be
vaporized.' Puff!' And some astronomer
on some distant planet, aiming his tela-,
scope through the eool evening air,
would catch eight of a little new nebula,
twinkling like a- thistle down blown Into
the sky of space, and would run to send
oft a telegram quick, that nobody might
snatch his discovery from him.
Thereafter tha dissipated earth would
appear In a catalogue on that far-eft
world under the name of "Jones' No
buU," and nobody, casually glancing at
It from an observatory, and unsympa
thettcally noting ita extreme exiguity,
would ever think of the heart-breaking
history that had been nebulised In that
speck of cosmic vapor.
Advice to Lovelorn
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The Heavens in January
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Want Married Women to Teach College Girls
By WILLIAM F. RHjMJK.
bt aaATmxos taiktax.
Twentr-rire Dollars a Week.
Dear Miss Fslrfsx: I am 21 years old
and I am going about with a young
ludy the same age. At present I am earn
ing 823 a week, but this ledv does not
think this is sufficient to he married on.
lo you think this lady Is right, or do
you think two persons could live com
fortably with this mount 7 I am deeply
in- love with her and would not like to
give her up. K. J.
You are very young for marriage and
would do well to wait a year or so, but
a girl who doea not love a man enough
to begin Ufa with htm on 126 a week Is
a worldly young person who If unlikely
to make a very good wife. If a wife Is
one in the truest, sense that of being
a "helpmate,, 4 ought . to cover the
needs of the home beautifully.
A Ma 4 t,eaaoa.
Dear Miss Fairfax ! I'p ta six months
ago I was engaged to a young man ou
year my senior. Then a member t my
own family related some gosetp concern
ing him, and I gave him up. Three weeks
ago I learned the gossip was fat, and
wrote him a letter of apology, whlrh h
did not acknowledge. As I vain tht
min i friendship can you edvUe me wh'tt
steps to take to retain It? Also, ouht
I return the Jewelry and pres-nta he rvo
me? MARIE O.
True leva cannot exist without filth.
Since you condemned this man unheard. I
cannot blame him tor ailing te acknowl
edge your letter of apolojy. Possibly jf
you go te bl-n and tall him that you have
learned a aad lesson through, jour on
foolishness tn being so- ready to' listen lo
! gossip he may forgive you. If persistence
falls, then you must return his gifts and
try to forget him.
The monotony of the last few months
will be broken on tho night of the 18-20
by a partial eclipse of the moon. The
annexed diagram will glvo tha particulars.
The largest circle is tha earths pe
numbra, and the next In also the earth's
shadow-N SEW being their cardinal
points. The five small circles represent
the tnoon at Important momenta on the
long oblique line, which Is Ita path with
respect to the umbra and penumbra.
When its center is at A at 12:06 a. m. on
tha 80th. tha moon enters penumhi-a. At
B at I K the moon enters shadow. At
C at S:40 we have tha middle of the
eclipse. At D st 3:24 the moon leaves
shadow, and at O at 1:14 the moon leaves
penumbra.
Only 14 per cent of the moon'a diameter
will be obscured In tha earth's shadow,
so that this eclipse Is not worth the
sacrifice of an hour's sleep. To make
amend! for thla tha moon promises to
erllptie tha sun for us on February 3.
All tha great planets will be visible In
the early evening. Venus Is conspicuous
tn the southwest, setting on the IMh at
7:44 p. m. Jupiter Is higher In the sky
than Venus, and sets on tha 15th at J0;2i
p. m. Saturn is higher still, and is on
tha meridian at 11:44 p. m. Mars rises
on the 13th at 1:01 p. m. Mercury may
be glimpsed on the 20th. when it is
farthest from the sun. It lets on that
day at f.l p. m.
By adding four minutes per day before
the dates given, and subtracting there,
after,- the positions of tha planets- may
be found for other days of the- month.
The moon la nw pn the 4th at 10 41
p. m., In first quarter on the 11th at 8.38
p.' nv. full on the 2th at 2 29 a. m., and
In last quarter en the 77th at I X p. m
On tha th It la In conjunction with
Vend, on the trh with Jupiter, nn' tha
isth with Saturn, and on the 22d with
WUrs.
The days Increase In length' 48 minutes
during the month, being I hours 10 min
utes long on thr 1st, 9 hours - minutes
on the 1th, and 8 hours it minutes on
tha .list. On tho ."d we have the latest
sunrise of tho yesr, 7:M. The standnrd
times of the rising, meridian pasaaxe and
setting of the sun and moon at Omaha
during the month are given In the follow
ing table:
I BIN. I moon. I
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mss.lNoonirtet.1 JAN Ki rHouih I h. I
1. 7Mi 12.87!6.0.T.at... i, S"i s 4 "l.l .l .
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. TMi 12.f.V(Ri..fciuii...t 5is I 0 4 111 I.J
8. 7 54! 12 2a n.4!..Mon. I fc:tH11iin l.fS .i
4. t S8i 12. S.:..Tue. . I 'I HA I II "2 i.3i I t
I. 7 Mi 12.J9 ft.O ..Wed. S 27 1 I.M 2
7W i;..'i'f..(7i..Thu.. '7I '-' ")
7. 762 J-'.':.S.iH.. Krl. ..! 8.01 a. 80 .7
I. Ibi 12.:'i!i.ir.i!..Bat ..I l"0ti I 3.X ii .1
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. 762 I2.815.1A!.. Hun.. I 10 M I 4 1 10 M I
10. 752 13.3HS.ll!..Mon.- 1061 r..J1 I 11. M 1.10
11. Iht 12.SJ r,12 ..Tue . ; II 1 j.i,dn.U
12. 1U l-'.32 5.1J.Wed..l II 41 .4? I 03 i 12
18. 76) 12.32 5.14 ..Thu.J 12.0K 7 .' A 2 07 .18
14. 761 12ft:t.VlM..Kri. 12.41 2 3 11 .14
15. 760! 12.sri5.Hi . .Bat... 118 012 4 IS .14
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it. 7 49! 12 34 Sl.. Sun.. I J.(I6 I 10 68 620.1
17. 7 4; 12 34 i..l ..Mnn. I i.f I 10.64 (4 .17
1ft. 7 461 1S.34s..2i!..Tue.. :;.62 I 11.43 48 1
It. T4V r2 8V.V22...Wed. 4 M'(1n 7 24 .!
80. 47' 12.:&23'..ThU..I &K I 12 32 I s 01 .20
21. 7 47, 12 ?.h 6.24 ..Frl..,l 7.02 i 1 It 27 .21
22. TM 12.3r...2.-.i..Hat...l .! I 2 02 1 Sol .22
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28. 7 4l 12 JW.i.'Jfi ..Pun.. 8 2 4 till .22
24. 7 4.S. 12 o.27i..Mon.. 10 18 8 2ft t 87 .34
26 7 4.M 12 .3 6 29 ..Tue.. 11.21 4 10 8 07 .26
W. 7 441 12 Wt 3 )..Wed. Mldn 4M 10 33 .8
27. 7 431 12.37 6 31'.. Thu.. 12 31 6 44 10 47 . 27
2 7 421 12 ; 5,S2 ..Fri... 143 84 1123 .38
38. 7 411 12.3715.341. .Sat... 1 67 7 33 12-03 . 2
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80. 7 401 12.8716 V,I..Pun.. 4 10 8 86 13 68 .80
31. 7 3t 12 37'5 37'..Mon.. 6 17 40 2.06 31
The dot or period between tha houra
and minutes Indicates p. m. times. The
times not. so marked are a. m. The
sun Is slow tha whole month on the sun
dial, lime, tho exact amount In mlnutea
being found by subtracting 12:24 from the
times given In the "noon" column. On
tha Slat the sun enters Aquarius. On tha
Id at 7 a. m. the earth la In perihelion
and nearest the su"
By All A PATTERSON.
New Tork Is not a progressive city.
Western cities have left It far behind In
the race of modern Improvements In traf
fic and In mental progress. It shows tha
latest Perla-born gowns In Its shop
windows a few weeks before they are
displayed In cities farther west, but for
progress In matters that ra vital we
must look beyond Manhattan Island.
Proof or thla is found In that a mem
ber of the New Tork school board haa
said, "No unmarried woman should be
permitted to Instruct girls In college,"
If Mary Wolley, that superb woman
who founded Mount Holyoke college for
women, were alive, he would dismiss her,
o Miss Willard, who Russell Kege told
me was tha loveliest woman he had ever
known .aid the greatest, would have to
pack her trunk and depart and that with
despatch, from. tha seminary aha graced
and Illuminated, because aha did not
number among her . posaakalona, a hus
band. : The dean of Barnard college
would have to Bay farewell to her girls,
and the dean of Bi ya Mawr. would b
deposed because she had not concentrated
siiffii lently upon how to win that great
prise-man.
And along with the departing founders
and deans of girls' colleges would go a
mornful procession of others of the unfit.
Commissioner of Correction Pavis ot
New York would have to hand the keys
of her office to some woman with a
certified mate. Jane Addams would have
to leave Hull House to run by Its own
momentum unless a woman wnn a
trousered attachment could be found to
assume Its direction. Julia 1-athrop
would never have been permitted to do
her work as the head of the child bureau
of the Department of Labor. Lillian
Wald would be driven from tha Heny
House settlement which she established
Suint '-'opnte of New Orleans would lose
her halo, pla'ed there by a grateful
city government for her founding of the
needed free night schools of that city
Dr. Annie U. Daniels, who for thirty-
five years haa administered healing to
tha friendless oor of tha East Mde,
would have to cense her ministering.
Alice C. fimlth would cease her labors
among the unfortunate women of New
York, a post which Is nominally that of
probation officer of the night court for
women, but that haa earned for her the
title of "The Christ Woman." The little
missionary of New York would have to
resign her volunteer office of the friend
of those in dire need, because she had
never qualified as a wife.
Just what Is this necromancy that man
exercises over women that makes them
so much more capable after than before
taking husbandiT Living under tha same
roof with a lordly mala causes a woman
to cultivate forehearance. fine needs a
vast patience. She must become schooled
In meekness. But these are negative vir
tues. The positive, upetsndlng ones with
which a girl, companioned only by her
own aoul, can face a stormy world with
out fear, can wrest from It what ah
needs, are not often grown In such at
mosphere. Better leave the spinster teachers In
the colleges, Mr. Member of the New
York school bosrd. One of them might
teach your daughter or your granddaugh
ter tha difficult art of standing alone,
which aha msy need. Who Is so strong
that ha can guarantee thausha will not
need It?
The qualification of motherhood? Yes,
It is a good but not a sufficient one for
Instructing .college girls. Tha good
mother will be too good mother. If tha
little one at home hag croup, to fix her
material mind upon squaring tht hypo
tenuse.
There's a main business in lift for
every woman. Jt la family or work.
Either of them requires to per cant o!
woman's limited energies.
And don't forget that tho mother whs
might have been may havg a heart as
big, as ttndtr, at that of any mother
who Is.
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