The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1902-02-10
Observation-Disclosures
II GIRL AND ASTRONOMER.
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by Barry Pain.

fault Of my education," said the
homer.
glanced at him shyly and back 20
lowing logs in the fireplace Il
tell you why; everybody knows
he birth Of a new year is impor-
Look how the Scotch regard it..
hs' said the young astronomer,
rg always at the girl, and not at
the smouldering logs. Yes,
It's Scotch for the Scotch on
ry l. National custom. love
old national customs-they pro
he standard of imbccility for the
II wisdom They are the Fixed
by which We can judge our prog
II Is by looking at them that we
e balloon is really going up
II say things like that, though
t say things myself Qtn me-
why the birth Of a new year does
after to you"
n reduce mv to the flattest COM
lace. One lnomen. OF time is pre-
as important as another-no less
more. A year Is a year, because
bose to call it so. These divisions
be are man-made and arbitrary.
Are undoubtedly, convenient divis-
Ind one often sees a thing which
lade for convenience converted in
! etish. to which convenience is sac
in this case you will sit up
lf.er your usual bedtime to wor-
L the shrine"
5. We always sit up to see the new
n. But We let visitors go to bed
like"
( is visitor" said the astronomer.
nothing so much as going to bed,
A perhaps. getting up again. Have
said, too. that love old customs.
when their origin will net stand
sis?"
:. by anallze? It spoils things. As
sny is a cold science, = think"
astronomer laughed don't like
bience hot; when it gets feverish
lucntly ceases to be a science
Id ! believe astronomy spoils o2e
8ar sight You look so far You
many other worlds. You know
a ich about thea
so little.' added the astronomer.
theticallv
ID you lose interest in this world.
don't care for a wor'1 that you
look at through a telescope"
not a point OF Importance, but
an look at this world through a
ope,"
bu know what mean. These tre-
Gus distances dwarf everything.
iet to think this world quite trivial.
hess knows what you must think
specks OF people on it!'
nope I'm not ass enough TO talk as
lought my fellowmen did not mat
b. no. OF a sudden it fitted
her mind that she was talking
r seriously the usual light inter
,e had died down But it was the
hoon of the last day in the year
IN went down in splendor, redden-
he sky and the fiat, mysterious
hes: her own heart inclined to SER
ess. "You know, too well, the
; TO talk. l think. besides, that you
90 kind. But it does not follow
you talk exactly in accordance with
convictions. Certainly, you al
speak Of yourself as if you were
kind Of bitter joke, / thought al
was self-defense.-so many people
- read about you in the papers, con
late you and generally in th'
dest way. But l don't believe III
that. After all, if You think th'
trivial. and its people contempt
that is not unreasonable. % Sh'
d for a vigorous denial; she di,
get it.
ossibiy," he said; but then oa
a't hold reason as final and impreg
E."
sut-er-science! she said. amazed
eason itself teaches the limitation
ason. Before instinct and emotio
pn goes always viii. Lii
a be a poor and insipid business
ere not so. Is it any good TO tai
On to a sane man who has the hor
of heights? Or to sane man j
win you convince the one ths
AN walk the edge Of the preeipiC
.afety OF the other that the woma
worthless? or course not And
Id not have It otherwise. You sal
science was cold; IL is JUST tina
enthusiasm for some new instr
Of scrupulous precision ana hde
IS intense, but it is a cold intansit