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STAR GAZERS LOOK FORWARD TOpIG SCHEDULE THIS YEAR Six Comets and Two Ecliptet of Sun on Program. Washington.? The sky schedule for * 1888 will be of crest interest to star gaxers, says the American Nature as* sociatlon. Six periodic comets are due for return engagements. Two eclipses of the sun sre on the schedule also. Theh, too, Mars which Is probably of more popular interest than any oth er planet, because of its possibilities as an abode of life and Its fascinat ing and varied surface markings which indicate Seasonal changes, Is due to come to perihelion on March 1. Perl* helion is that point of the orbit of a planet or comet which is nearest to the sun. This Is one of the less fa vorable oppositions, since the planet Is 02,700,000 miles distant from the earth at nearest approach on that date. Nevertheless astronomers Interested In the physical phenomena of the plah ets sre prepsrlng to keep this little neighboring world under scrutiny be fore and after the date of opposition, and we may expect to hear more than usual about the ruddy planet Mars within the next few months. tflx Comets Due. As to the comets, Nature Magaetne lists them by the namfes of Brorsen, Fons-Wlnnecke, De Vlco-Swlft, Giaco blnl, FInlay and Holmes. The first was discovered by Brorsen. It was last seen In 1870 and Is due to come to perihelion again In November. The Pons-Wlnnecke comet has a pe riod of nearly six years and was dis covered by Pons In 1810. It Is due to return again In May. The De Vlce Swlft comet returned In January. Glacoblnl's comet was discovered by that astronomer at Nice In 1000. It is due at perihelion In June. Finlay's comet Is also due In June. Holmes' comet was discovered Independently In 1802 by Holme* on November 6 and Davidson on November 9. It la due In August f'1' ; There will be two eclipses of the sun, both annular. An annular eclipse is one in which the relative positions of sun and moon are such that the moou falls completely to cover the so lar disk and there Is a thin annulbs or ring of light surrounding the dark lunar disk at the time tha? would correspond to mid-totality .of a total solar eclipse. Eclipse of 8un. The first eclipse will occur on Febru ary 24. The partial phase will be visi ble in the southern and central part of South America, all of Africa, except the extreme northwestern part, the western part of the Mediterranean, Qreece, Aala Minor, Persia and Arabia. The annulus in this eclipse is visible within a very narrow path with a max* Imum duration of only 1 minute 55 sec onds. This path crosses South Amer ica, near the fortieth parallel, the South' Atlantic, and from Stephanie ville, Africa, to Aden in Arabia. The next eclipse will occur on Au gust 21. The partial phase will be visible In central and eastern Europe and northeastern Africa at sunrise, la ter In the morning, or near midday, in Siberia, central and southern Asia, and in the afternoon in the Philippines and East Indies. In Australia the eclipse will occur late In the after noon or at sunset. The path of the annulus, also narrow in this eclipse, passes from Alexandria, In Egypt, over Bagdad, across India, grazing Delhi and Calcutta, across Slam to Borneo, and north Australia, ending on the coast of Queensland at sunset. The duration of the annular phase will be only 2 minutes 18 seconds. "Experimental Baby" at Wellesley The students of Wellesley college, Massachusetts, department of education, are now studying child development, with nlne-raonths-old Eliot Morton Sterling as the "experimental baby." Bitot Is the son of Mrs. Morton B. Sterling, an In structress of the department. The mother has taken movies of the child every day since he was one month old, to show his progress. Self-Estimation By THOMAS ARJCLE CLARK Ut? Dean of Men, University of Illinoia. "For an artfat's contemporaries," Paul Bonrget says iq speaking of the g e n 1 u ?. of Fiau bert, "cannot mefts ure him with ex actness, neither can he -measure himself. Would It not have surprised Voltaire to learn that he would live only through 'Oan dlde' and ^Diderot that his work would reduce itself to 'the 'Neveu de R a m e a u' ? two pamphlets s c r i b bled in a fev. days, tho second not even published by Its author!*" Would It not also have surprised Lincoln to have known that the few sentences scribbled on a scrap of pa per on his way to Gettysburg and car ried in his hat would mark him through nit time as a master of Eng lish style and the writer of a classic? A successful executive, once said to me that when a man boasted to him that |he could do may specific thing well, he was at once pretty well con vinced that that particular thing the man was more thafi likely to do In differently. A writer who Is well known through* Mrs. Minnie D. Craig Is a good housewife In addition to being the first woman speaker of the house In the history of the state of North Dakota, and possibly in the history of tho United States. She is shown drying dishes in her home In Jllsmnrck. out the country once said to me that the composition upon which he had I put the most enthusiastic work and which seemed to him the finest thing he had ever written, he had never been able to sell. No one but him self fcOnld find In It any particular enjoyment. I recall that when William E. Cur tis was writing a daily letter, and a most interesting one, too, to the Ohl The Household . By LYDIA LE BARON WALKER > . Etching embroidery ia a type which suit* the Incoming vogue of black and white In decoration. It la an old-time work a a la tb* *eaaa -with all needle craft, Its uovcity consisting to mod em 1 ted application of ancient atltchea. This revival of modes la not conflned to needlework, but applies to all the arts. Historical Notes Originally etching embroidery waa called print work. It was very much In vogue early In 1800, making It over one hundred and twenty-Qve year a since Its Inception. It was modified In Its revival half a century ago, and It Is In this modified form that It Is used A Table Runner Wilb Etching Embroidery. today. At the beginning It was nn elaborate needlework combining chleily sepia tinted grounds with various stitches In black such as outline, li^rench Itnots, satin stitch, crewel stitch, etc. The Intention was to re produce printed pictures through these two mediums, stltchery and colored washes. Some of this early print work was choice. Pictures done In the em broidery were framed and hung with genuine prints and etchings on walls of rooms. Later on pictures were embroidered In outline only and It Is this fashion which today Is known as etching em broidery. When the stitches are One and the design suitable these adapted etching embroideries also make de lightful pictures to frame. The new vogue, however. Is nn much for orna mentlng nnpery, cushion covers, and other household linens at> for pictures. Color Scheme* The black and white vogue Is fol lowed whether the medium Is black and foundation white, or the reverse, notwithstanding the fact that the for cago Record- Herald, from the remot est parts of the earth, our neighbor's hired man who lived Just across the road, announced that Mr. Curtis* Job was the sort that he felt eminently qualified to take up. It didn't seem difficult to him to fill two or three col umns a day when one had nothing else 4 to do but travel about and enjoy him self. He had never written a line; he didn't know how to spell the simplest wbrds, yet he seriously thought he could do the Job. What do you think you could do best? 40. Illl, WMtcrn N?w?pnp?r Union. ODD THINGS AND NEW? By Lame Bode WWCKP LINE IWS MORE fhfibJ AO 0gflN)fiONS?. NAIURE'S MUNPRV A HMQK&tCHltf QPOWIO IH10 U t BOUIHQ MttRS Of HAHOKtRCHW PtXVJN WllOVMOM PARK. mi wsmpmr, am? MhpPMR n mure ItftR THOROUGH# amsep Aching feer m RtA/LY f) SlGHOfi RAI H.... mcr has historic precedence. Should a foundation be black, as for Instance. In a satin sofa cushion, use a light transfer pai>er and embroider the de sign In white silk. The fashion Is not followed when other colors than blnek or sepia are employed, but this doe? not bar the design being carried out In any preferred color schemes to har monize with decoration of any special rooms. ?. Bell Syndicate.?- WNU Service. CjABBY (jERTIE "The latest thing In men'a clothing la wlfia'a pilfering mitt." Turns Pro Wrestler Stanley J. Sokolls, captain of the University of Pennsylvania's football team last fall, has turned professional wrestler and will try to earn as blgh a ranking In the mat sport as he did on the gridiron. He will not quit col lege to follow his new profession. Boucle Knit Suit A new version of that favorite for country club and resort wear, the knit ted boucle dress, Is expected to be popular this spring.''* The puffed sleeves and yoke treatment of open weave are new details. A Strange Caae . Cleveland. ? Students at Case uni versity would rather have their basket ball than eat. They recently gave up their annual All-Case dinner and put the money Into the athletic department treasury for support of the cage squad. "Electric" Palate to Give Dope on Food New York. ? An electrynx, or "electric palate," that tastes and gives readings of the acidity, or julco character and also Indicates the ripeness of apples, oranges, lemons, and other fruits and vege tables, together with the recording of the acid contents of ten and cof fee, has been developed by It. C. Hitchcock, electronic engineer. It tfas demonstrated for the first tlino here recently. This latest scientific achievement Is so sensitive thnt It records the action of one-millionth of an am pere, or about one-tenth the "wing power" of an ordinary horse fly and Is 100 per cent more sensitive than any of Its type now on the market. Previous recording meters of this sensitivity were expensive and not readily portable. The electrynx was primarily designed for the measuring of the minute currents that flow In photo-electric tube cir cuits. By Charles Sughroe Idea Now Is to Merge Individual Into Mass There Is no longer any other crime than that of being different, any mor ality other than conformity. This Is, Indeed, a kind of Intoxica tion. At first men believed that the new order of tilings would bring on suffocation and death. Then certain among them discovered that, even If It threatened destruction. It also held out the promise of excitement, It could become a kind of drug. The revolutionists of the Elglit teenth century and their successors, ? the nineteenth century philosophers, evolved the one new and completely modern pleasure ? that of feeling one self part of a crowd. All barriers have beon leveled. A single absorbing passion seems to have taken possession of all of hii manlty'8 great leaders: Napoleon, Kant, Mark, Bismarck, Lenin. It la a passion to transform humanity Into a herd as vast and homogeneous, as docile and subservient as possible ? and to do so by means of blows, arms, principles and doctrines. Tills miserable mass once created, a they pound at It with redoubled en- f ergy In order to transform living full-blooded, Individual llesh Into at Inert and brutish substance. ? Ber nard Fay, In the Forum and Century VrtrtM SHES UPSET SUFFERS Constipation Drove Uau VA/1 1 *\ made her feel cross, head ner ?VIICI achy, half-alive. Now dbe has a lovable disposition, new pep and vitality, lieed Nature's warning: Slutgtsh bowels invari tem? often the direct cause of headaches, tua ziness, colds, complexion troubles. NATURE'S REMEDY ? the mild, all-vegetable laxative ? taftly stimulates the entire eliminative tract ? strengthens, regulates the bowels for normal. natural function ing. Get a 25c bo* today at your druggist's. Heroes' U?et "Life would bo pretty awful If wa didn't have heroes." ? I'etel* 15. Kyne. STOPPED -UP NOSTRILS To open the nostril* and promote clear breathing use Mentholatum night and morning. 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