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SUCH IS LIFE? Pretty Mad! By Charles Sughroe Astronomers Will Check Moon W eight Observatories of World to Take Measurements. London. ? Headed by Dr. H. Spencer Jones, the astronomer royal, eighty seven observatories throughout the world are now making u co-operative survey to discover the weight of the moon and determine the scale of the entire soiar system four times more accurately than at present. The planet Eros is being used as the key to the solutions. The International Astronomical union, under the chairmanship of Doctor Jones, Is looking after the lit tle planet Eros, which three years ago made Its nearest approach to the earth ? a distance of some sixteen million miles. Although Eros Is only about twenty miles across, it is the only planet which Is bright enough and comes near enough to the earth for Its position to be surveyed. Problem Baffling. But the "baseline" of this celestial survey is nothing less than the diam eter of the earth and when the astron omers have completed their task they will have weighed the moon, a feat which has always been regarded as extremely baffling, and, determined the scale of the entire Bolar system four times more accurately. The astronomers commenced their survey In 1025 and hope to complete their Job by 1938. "The first task," Doctor Jones ex plained In an interview, "was to work out the expected path of Eros across the sky. ?'It was then necessary to obtain as On Silver Survey With President Roosevelt's approval, the treasury Is sending Prof. James Harvey Rogers, money expert of Yale university, to China for a study of the nllver situation. accurately as possible the position of some JXX) 'background' stars near which Eros would pass In Its track (irst across the northern hemisphere and then south across the southern sky. "From October, 1930, to May, 1931, the eighty-seven observatories were engaged In taking photographs of Eros. Most of the photographs did not Include enough reference stars from which the position of Eros could be measured, so a further series of pho tographs had to be taken. "In the meantime," added Doctor Jones, "Doctor Witt, the Berlin astron omer, who first discovered Eros, has Just completed a calculation of what its observed path would have looked like from the center of the earth." Point* Out Error. A number of observatories are now taking advantage of Doctor Witt's work. "The final answer," Doctor Jones said, "will be, not the distance of Eros from tbo earth, but the distance of the sun from the earth. The possible error Is now about 50,000 miles In 93, 000,000 miles. We hope to reduce It to a quarter of this figure. "All other distances In the solar system will be similarly affected, and we also will know the mass of the moon with greater accuracy. "The mass of the moon comes Into nearly all astronomers' calculations. This is because the earth as well as the moon Is always moving round their common center of gravity, which Is about 3,000 miles up towards the moon from the center of the earth. In fact, the moon's gravitation Is pulling the earth, as well as the earth's the moon." Nebraska Gives Prizes for Hunters of Crows Lincoln, Neb. ? Nebraska nlmrods have been Invited to participate In a state wide crow shoot, sponsored by the Nebraska iBaak Walton league. Predictions have been made that the large, unloved, black plumed birds will fall In great numbers during the con test, which will continue throughout 1934. Awards are to be made to the crow hunters turning in the largest number of "scalps" for the year. Bottles From Past Found by Workmen Avineourt, France. ? French mili tary workers engaged on construc tion of the steel and concrete ring of underground defenses came up on a rare find recently while mop ping up some old German pill-box fortifications near here. Including personal belongings and accouter ments of the defenders, a score or more bottles of Delberk champagne wpro found. It was of the vintage of 1912. It Is thought to havq been seized back of the French lilies by German raiders during the World war. ODD THINGS AND NEW? By Lame Bode SPECIALS - fu**~ gt; <??? OMMHh .... ^ .... Art qo Aft ant) n? ? Gr&many 9u^ramtincs ALL NEW AUT OBJECTS TO WtOTtCT A6AIHST D|tCMi AND MOLD. American lack rop PROPER NUTRITION "The U.S. Public Health Service has , "FOUNO THAT TWENTY PER CENT, of Ait Americans, Z+, 000,000 PEOPLE SUFFER FROM SOME FORM OF MAL NUTRITION. TfiXAS OCEAN - "Th* ocean's water WOULD coven TBXAS TO A DEPTH Op t?aso mi lh , "PUT YOURSELF IN HIS PLACE" By LEONARD A. BARRETT An Incident which occurred In the boyhood life of Lincoln is not found In many, of his bi ographies. It runs like this: "I can remember," says Abraham Lincoln, "going to my little bedroom after hearing the neigh bors talk with my father and spending no small part of the night trying to make out the exact meaning of their sayings. I was not satisfied until I could repeat It and put It into language plain enough for nny boy I knew to comprehend." This very remarkable practice explains the clearness as well as the convincing sincerity of Mr. Lincoln's addresses. A boy can understand them and yet they challenge the thought of the wis est of men. One of these speeches Is the Gettysburg address. It Is a classic and has a permanent place In American literature. Edward Everett, who spoke on the same platform with Mr. Lin coln, at the time the latter gave this address, wrote to Lincoln as follows: "I should be glad If I could flatter my self that I came as near to the cen tral Idea of the occasion in two hours as you did In two minutes." Simplicity of speech Is difficult. It Spectator Sports Coat The center front closing In redlngote effect and the flat rippled collar, to gether with the unllned fabric, Dutch blue and white checked tweed, con tribute to the smartness of thin apec tator sports coat. In worth all the effort necessary to attain It. Misunderstandings are tho cause of much of our worry, and particularly of our domestic troubles, which could be avoided If every person would put his thought Into language "plain enough for nny boy to con prebend." The use of a wrong word In an Im portant sentence may change Its entire meaning. Many an Important Inwsult hnn been settled on the Interpretation placed upon u single word. Frank I ness of t?v|,r %??lon Is tho essence of I permanent friendship. Our actions which nre the reactions of our thoughts many times convey a differ ent meaning than was intended. Avoid this by cultivating clearness of think ing and expression. One \yay to cultivate clearness of expression Is to do Just what Lincoln did ? think In terms of the other man's point of view, see the problem as he sees It, try to feel the pulse of the argument an ho feels It. In other words, put yourself In the other per son's place. ? h)r WMt?m N?w?p?p?r Union. Th* Molly M?|uir*i The Molly Mngulres were members of an Irish secret society organized In 1848. They dressed In women's clothes, blackened their faces, or otherwise dis guised themselves, to prey upon agents employed to enforce the pay ment of rent, a similar secret society In the mining districts of Pennsylvania was known by the same name about 4 "?y Ltjdia Le Baron Walker Antique Lamp. With Porcelain "Wool" Reappear as Chimney Ornament.. T.1E balance of geometric und realis tic motifs In decoration Is In a constant state of adjustment. Some times It Is so perfect as to be scarce ly noticeable unless one is on the alert for it. And again It Is weighted In one direction or the other so that a vogue is accented. Just now there Is an In terestlng balance being struck between lines as found In plaids and other pri mal conventional arrangements, and In Images of animals, especially domestic animals. There Is In the balance as instanced In decoration the decided Im pression of one being a complement of the other as if too much realism would be bewildering and too much conven tionality tiresome. Old Treasure* Reinstated. As this is an era of straight lines In furniture which Ih severe decoratlve ly, there is needed the relief which Is present In animal figurines, and bird ornnnents and especially as produced In ceramics and metal craft. There was a time not so very long ago when these statuettes and llguries, however choice, were relegated to a top shelf in a closet.. Today they are brought forth as treasures, either crude and quaint, or as handsome examplea of workmanship, some worthy of museum collections. There are little woolly lambR and dogs principally Stafford shire, since they were once featured In this ware. There are Parian stat uettes, few of the real marble, but many of the ware of this name. There are plants and nnlmals of Chelsen and figurines, Rome of exquisite color paint ing with much gold introduced. And j there are all sorts of wee statuettes and figurines of present-day manufac ture which have nothing to do with these older and rarer wares, products of factories, some of which nre still In existence and some of which have gone out. Today one may find fascinating dogs ] In all sorts of wares, from glass of j fragile beauty to those of stolid pot tery and terrn cotta. There are cats of high lineage and ordinary alley cats of amusing styles suggesting the Che shire Cat of Alice's wonderland. There i are elephants of lucky significance and i monkeys, sacred In some parts of the globe. In fact, there are whole me nageries from which to choose when in troduclng these units into decoration. ?, Bell Syndicate. ? WNtJ Servlo*. Harvard Students as Nursemaids Many atudenta nt Harvard unlvornlty, finding tt dllhcult to make both end* mee', hto accepting bonne work Jobs, to enable theni to defray expense*. Coring for balden, cooking, sowing and houaedeanlng are nil In line In the Job* nought by more thnn 1,100 undergrada. In the above photograph- Anthony Hmnll (left) and W. B. Bftraaftnberger, are two of the atudenta working aa nuraemalda and ?r* ihown at on? of their dutloa, keeping baby amuaed. I I LAUGH TELLS CHARACTER Better watch thut luugh from now on or people may read your charac ter from It Just the same as chiro graphers read It from your hand * writing or astrologers read It from the stars. Dr. George C. Williams, for mer president of Ithaca college, says the horse laugh with a broad "a" denotes an eccentric and sometimes vicious temperament. A long "e" is feminine sound and a short "e" re veals sarcasm. A normal and healthy person laughs with the Italian sound of the "a" clearly perceptible. ? Path finder Magazine. Smooth Off Ugly Freckles, Blackheads Nature's Way Here i9 an inexpensive, quicker way to skin beauty ? a way that has been tested and trusted by women for over a genera uon. Y ou can whiten, dear j and freshen your com plexion, remove all trace of blackheads, freckles, coarseness in ten days or less. Just apply Nadinola Bleaching Cream at bed time tonight. No massag ing, no rubbing. 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