davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1909-04-25

May-day costumes. were the women 9
schools and colleges.
Vassar, Wellesley, Bryn Mawr and some
others Of similar rating started a
modest scale professions to the May-pole
and dances around its ribbon-bedecked
environment.
The first thought of those who installed
these festivities was for the immediate
pleasure of those who took part in them.
The idea of making them spectacles of
such beauty that audiences would be
drawn had not then been taken into the
calculations, but eventually 1t was found
that for every May-day enterprise there
was ever crowd.
Visitors found much to admire In the
white-robed girls, ornamented with dai-
sizes. greens and other field flowers. They
enjoyed the singing and the dancing and
the merry sport that marked the revels.
Nav day had become an event In the col
lege, and with each year it's Importance
increased and the amount of care and
preparation put on it grew in proportion.
Now May day is a great festival in all
those places of higher education where
women train for their life callings, and
every girl longs to be the May-day queen
The smaller schools followed the train
of their leaders. and the little children
leaped eagerly at the idea of taking part
in professions and exercises that salts
fed every childish longing for the bril-
liant. beautiful, picturesque and perfumed
Society also cast an interested eye on
the possibilities of the newest-in this
country-form of outdoor spectacles.
Would not the young matrons the
the younger girls not yet out,
and for tn, matter OF that the little ones
the sons and daughters of society, make
pretty pictures in flower garb?
The idea had the originality and the
Evening star., 1909-04-25

on May 1, at pm, it becomes station
ary and then begins to move eastward
again. Though its motion is so slow, the
observer can readily detect 1t by noticing
the position of the planet in reference
to the star at r on few different even
ings.
The planet Venus. which passed to the
east of the sun on April %. is as yet
moving upward I'm the evening sky so
slowly that even by the end of the month
1t sets only about forty minutes after
sunset. On the first of the month the
suns position among the stars is at A,
Fig 2. and that of Venus Is at C; on
May 81 the sun will have reached 3 and
the planet will still be close to the sun at
d. After this date. however, they will
begin to separate much more rapidly and
the planet will soon become a beautiful
Evening star., 1909-04-25

sky.
For a few evenings before and after
May 20 there will be an unusually favor
able opportunity for viewing the bright
swiftly moving little planet Mercury. At
this date the planet will have reached
its greatest distance east of the sun: it
will then be at the point E. Fig. 2, and
will not set until an hour after sunset.
1t may be seen shining out in the twi-
light glow almost exactly above the point
of the horizon at which the sun disap-
peared, and nearly in line with the Pole
Star and the brilliant Capella. at o. If
the Pole Star is not visible, it may be
Sickle and the Twins: the two Twin Stars
will be nearly midway between the Sickle
and the planet.
There is a great pleasure in detecting