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ed with variable colours with twoo or
three hundred men, women and children
following it, with great devotion. And
thus beyng reared up, with handker-
chiefes and f1agges streaming on the
toppe, they strawe the ground aboute.
binde greene boughes about it, sett up
Sommer haules Bowers, and Arbours
hard by it. And then fall they to banquet
and feast, to leape and daunce aboute it,
as the Heather people did at the dedica-
ton of their Idolles, whereof this is
perfect patterne, or rather the thyng it
self"
The pretty custom of searching the
woods for the May pole May day morning
was often not followed in London and
other large Cities for there the May
poles were apt to remain in the streets
from year to year. In the seventeenth
century one stood in the Strand measur-
ing 1874 feet in height.
The May queen held a prominent part
in the festivities. She was either the
prettiest or the most popular girl of the
community. For one entire day she could
wear her crown, be ensconced in a throne
Of roses. and hold dominion over her peo-
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sky. It rises a few minutes after Q
o'clock May 1, and at o'clock May 81.
1t is In the southeast, in excellent posi-
tion for observation.
Saturn passes the sun nd enters the
morning sky at noon May II. May q,
at pm, 1t passes Venus. but both bodies
are then too near the sun to be well OBJ
served
Uranus Is low In the morning sky In the
constellation Capricornus.
Neptune Is in Gemini and is stin In
good position for observation with the
telescope. May IL, at 10 pm. the planet
Mars In its eastward motion passes ex-
actH degrees minutes north OF Nep-
tune: by bringing the bright planet ex-
actly in the center of the field Of the
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plates, however, the place Of the new
star was taken by a star of the four
teenth magnitude. If this faint object is
the nova itself, it's brightness must have
increased 1900 fold in the course of a
few days.
1t is possible that sudden blazing out
OF a star in the heavens is caused by the
meeting of an old and dark star with
meteoric cloud. The collision and friction
of the meteOrs of the cloud may heat the
cold star to incandescence or may merely
weaken it's crust and enable the i'm
prisoned gases to rush out Some
astronomers think 1t more probable that
the outburst is caused by the near ap-
gravitational pull which results tearing
apart the crust of one of the stars and
thus enabling the hot, inner material to
escape as before. Still others believe
that the wonderful brilliance is due to
an explosive bathurst in the body of a
slowly shrinking star. and that no out
side influence need be imagined to ac-
count for 1t. What the cause Of so enor-
nous an explosion can be we do not
know. and, indeed the whole matter is
one Of the many problems in astronomy
still awaiting solution.
X X
Mercury is a morning star, reaching its
greatest distance west OF the sun on the
afternoon Of May Is. For few days
before and after this date 1t may be found
shining brightly In the dawn. almost due
east. rising about / hour 80 minutes -e-
fore sunrise.
Venus is also a morning star. but is
too near the sun to be well observed.
On May 1t rises hour minutes before
sunrise, which time is iessened to but 40
minutes by the end of the month. It Will
not finally pass the sun and become an
evening star until July 5.
{. Mars moves very rapidly eastward dur
Ing the month from Gemini to Cancer It
figure /. May S. and just below the
Praesepe and between the stars L and NJ
June s. In one day 1t moves over the sky
an amount equal to the apparent dis
lance across the moon. It Is now very
far away from us and appears In the
telescope as only slightly more than one
half full
Jupiter i now just entering the evening
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cent dog star has wholly Withdrawn
from the evening sky. while of the
brilliant Taurus and Orion. only the east
ernmost stars still linger for brief time.
almost on the western horizon. before
finally leaving us to be seen no more until
the approach of another winter
Stretching almost all the way across
the heavens in the south is the long water
snake. bearing the cup and the crow on
its back. and above this we see the large.
faint group of the Virgin, whose bright
est star. Spica, Is a wonderful double sun
the brightest sun. which We see as this
star revolves forever about a great dark
and unseen companion with a speed of
more than fifty miles a second The star
at b Is another kind of double-sun sys-
TEN. for even In a very small telescope
lone Of an aperture of an inch or Iess) we
may see that there are here two bright.
hluish stars. each Of which Is separately
visible. Though they appear very close to
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telescope at this time. and then inclining
the telescope southwark an amount equal
to twice the diameter Of the moon, Nep-
tune viii be seen in the center OF the
field. 1t has the appearance OF q faint.
ninth-magnitude star. but may be recoS-
nized by its more steady glow and by its
greenish color.
May 80. at S pm. (eastern standard
time), the moon viii pass the brights1t
star Of the Scorpion. Observers In some
Of the western parts Of our country will
see this bright. red star hidden from
view by our satellite. while In other re-
gions the two objects will merely be seen
very near together. the lower edge OF
the moon appearing to almost Craze the
star.
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lance across the face of the moon.
throughout May and June occasional
faint shooting stars may be seen to dart
outward from Corona, but the display
will at no time be striking one, for the
stream of particles from which this
shower comes Is very thin and scat
tered one The observer should also not
fail to examine the wonderful star-cluster
at q. about one-third Of the way from
the star F to the star g. Here there are
0O0O stars crowded together In q COM
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Crown. This star is receding from Ls at
the rate of twenty miles each second.
Indeed. all Of the stars Of the sky are in
motion In all imaginable directions. but
50 immensely far are they away from us
that we cannot usually perceive any
change In their positions until after the
lapse OF hundreds, or even thousands Of
years. Thus. Arcturus. for example.
which is moving with wonderful swift
ness. requires more than 1000 years to
amount SO great Is the apparent dis.
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; THE months of
spring go by we see
the brilliant winter
consultations sink
steadily lower in
the western heav-
ems. while in the
east the interest
ing simmer groups
appear. one after
another, TO take
their places. AL
ready the magnif-
yx~E Allr- xwt%
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y centuries past.
when the time ar
rived for natNre to
emerge from her
winter lethargy,
the people devised
some striking cere-
monies to manifest
their pleasure in
the renewal of
vegetation. There
was no more fit
ting period fol
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bonfires in the hamlets. The young peo-
pie dance about them while the old ones
gaze at the flames and predict from their
appearance much Of value for the coming
year. The chief feature of May day here
is a sham battle between parties repre-
senting winter and summer. Winter, of
course, is always defeated, and they bury
him in eff1gy and strew the ashes over
the grave. The mock battle is relic of
one of the most ancient of all the May
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BRINGING IN THE MAYPOLE.

snowe. Soc they past me and were gone
the noise and mamie voices and of musick
growing fainter till it was nigh stilled
by the distance
They have decked the village allie out"
he added, "lintel and beanie, with those
blossoms, and all is joyousness and
mirth.'
Gathering the May, however was not
the leading feature of the days observ-
ances 1t was raising the May pole,
feasting. dancing and playing games
about it. that gave them the greatest
pleasure. The fun began when they
started for the woods to procure the
straight young tree, generally a birch,
which was to serve as May pole.
The cheapest jewell they bring home
with great generation, as thus" writes
Stubs, Puritan of Queen Elzabeths
day, in his Anatomy of Abuses" They
have twentie or fortie yoke of oxen, every
oxe having a sweete nosegaie of flowers
tyed on the tippe of his hornes, and these
oxen drawe home this Maize pole, which is
covered all over with flowers and hearbes
bounde abOute with stringes. from the
top to the bottome. and some TYNE paint
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ligatory that the wearer should have
gathered 1t himself: all that is insisted on
is that 1t should actually have been gath
cred on May day. and that it is narrow
been gathered the day before it is indig-
nantly torn from the wearer as being
April-May. The broad-1eaf elm is de-
nounced as 'horses'.May April,May is a
May is blunder in botany. Each is pun
ished by dipping.
I'm many Cornish towns an open
stream of water flows through the
streets. AS soon as the May has been
secured, and breakfast hurried through,
all the boys of the town assemble at
this stream or gutter, each with his
dipping horn.
Few of the Inhabitants were so
thoughtless as to appear without the cor
rect May day sprg. Wayfarers happen
ing into the town were the usual vic
Tins.
"As soon as non-conformist appeared,
whether inha,bitant or stranger, male or
female, the guardians of the rites shouted
in chorus and in tones not to be misin-
terpreted: 'Ha' penny. or penny or
good wet back and il the coppers of
communication were not instantly forth
coming the unfortunate wayfarer was
drenched without delay or mercy, and the
DdpllSm was InerclIeSSIy COntlnueu uHtll
his or her greater speed had left the
pitiless pursuers hopelessly behind"
Even London is not without her rem
nant of May day festivity. The first of
May is known there as sweeps day."
and the chimney sweeps have a parade,
where Observation-Disclosures" man in
closed in a bower shaped like pyramid;
"Black SAL" a man in woman's DRESS and
bons. green boughs and a profusion of
cheap tinery, still dance and caper
through the streets. Ditchfield, in his
May Day Survivals in Rural England"
ney sweep ceremony in Cheltenhan, Eng
land.
1.-THE dancers have their faces BACKED"
he tells u.s. land their band consists Of
fiddle and tin whistle. The center of the
group is formed by large bush or, hol-
low cone bedecKed with leaves, out of
which peers the face of Jack-f -the-Green.
The dresses of the attendants are red.
blue and yellow, and they dance around
the bush. The leader of the party is the
clown, who wears a tall hat with flap
ping crown and a fantastical dress, and
'fancies himself greatly. There is also
a man with a FOOLS cap and black figures
fastened on his white pinafore, and the
representation of a gridiron. Two boys
complete THE group, one wearing a girls
hat adorned with flowers. They levy
contributions by holding out iron ladies
or spoons, and strike the by-standers with
bladders fastened to q stick. Their per-
Torrance consists in dancing and roaring.
The Cambridge sweeps evidently used to
have a similar festival, as the children
still go round with doll hung in the
midst Of a hoop wreathed with flowers,
singing the ditty:
The 1st of May IL garland day,
And chimney sweepers' dancing day;
Curl your locks as do mine,
One before and one behind -
X X
May 1 is also gala day for Sweden.
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this manifestation than the first day OF
May. Some affirm that northern coun-
tries feel the pleasure of returning spring
more keenly than do others, since win
ter holds a sharper contrast for them
Hence May day in the north, they main
tain, was observed with greater pomp
than elsewhere. However this may be,
history records that nowhere in the
world was the celebration of this day
attended with more beauty and interest
than in England. where the first of May
the land is rich in blossoms and the
mult-songs of birds. Therefore, in Eng
land particularly We find throughout the
years many attractive customs of May
day popularity.
The festivities of the day began an
GENTLY little after midnight. when the
young people rose and with the accom-
paniments of music and horn proceeded
TO the woodland to gather branches and
MOVERS At sunrise they returned and
made their windows, doors and porches
festive with sylvan Spoil. In a later
period early daylight was the time for
the country trip and they called it gath
ering the May" since from time i'm
memorial the hawthorne, which was
their most important collection. had been
known as the May.
An old letter of 1910. written by one
Ralph Cunnynghame. gives a vivid de-
scription of the gathering of the May.
Last night | slept but lie, soc was
awake in the dawne of day. it reads
and forth to coole my brayne in the
freshe dewinesse of the Garlic morne.
There was tumult of sweete sound
from the throat of a thousand birds till
allie the ayre both far and neare was
fun OF THERE pubilate, and all the breath
or the norne was laden with the bitter
Fragrance OF Maye" (hawthorn) "Soe |
wandered, my heart no calme within
me- with blessed peace, till / came to
tnat reare spot where l first beheld my
love IN all her beautie. and there / sat
me doWne IN deepe meditation. How long
sat there | know not, but | was aroused
from my thoughtfulnesse by the merrie
sound OF pypinge and sweet laughter OF
youths ana maydens. and presentlie over
the MIL came a partie, the most Joyous
that ever 1 nave seen. that had gone
forth at dawne to gather the Nave and
MOVIE We're returning to the village with
pypinge and songe, ale laden with the
blossoms lyke great heaps of fragant
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ileged to view this day and to observe
nature unfolding her exquisite robe
in a part of the grandest mountain
region of America will quite forget the
city of the modern world, with it's ex-
citing wiles and it's keen commercial
in the spirit of the olden lay:
While time serves and we are but decaying,
Come, my Corinna. come, let's goe a-Maying.
In the old May day ceremonies, still
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gether. In this system one sun requires
about $50 years to complete a revolution
about the other; the path is 80 fiattened
that when nearest together the two suns
must by their mutual attractions cause
enormous tidal disturbances in one an
other. At such times it is to be expected
that great alterations may be observed
I'm the intensity and character of their
light, a matter that will doubtless be
carefully studied at the time of their next
nearest approach In the year 2O16. In
contrast with this widely separated sys-
TEN, the bright Spica revolves about its
obscure companion in period of only
four days.
High above the Virgin there shines the
constellation of Bootes. or the Driver,
whose brightest star. Arcturus. is won
derful object. A study of the light of
this golden-y yellow star shows Us that it
is sun in very nearly the same condition
as our own sun. but almost inconceivably
larger and brighter. For the apparent
brillance of Arcturus does not arise from
its nearness to us, in fact. this star is so
very far away that its distance cannot be
measured by any means which we at
present possess. We know, however
that it's light requires at least 100. and
probably 200 or 800 years to come to us,
and that 1t is many thousands Of times
brighter than our own sun. Could our
sun be removed into the depths Of space
and placed beside Arcturus. it would ap-
pear to us as q faint, tenth -magnitude
star, wholly invisible, even In small
telescope.
There are no less than seven of the
brightest stars of the sky which are SO
far away from us that their distance can
not be measured One of these is the
brightest star Of Orion Cat A, figure u.
but this. unlike Arcturus, Ii In q vr-y
different condition from our own sun. 1t
has apparently proceeded much farther
in its development. and Is approaching
the point Of extinction.
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Customs, Only a
~ Few of Which Have

" Few of Which Have
Been Handed Down-Eng-
lish, Irish and Swedish Ways
of Celebrating the Coming of
Spring-Sham Battles Be-
tween Forces Representing
Spring and Winter-May-
day Celebrations in America
Puritan Fathers Nearly
Killed All Thought of the
Day for Their Descendants.
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A BRIGHT New Star
- Discovered-Both Mer-
curry and Venus to Be Seen
in the Morning-The Moon
Will Pass the Brightest Star
OF Scorpion May 80.
By Prof. Eric Doolittle of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania.
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felled a May pole ''in God name," and
called the spot Mount Dagon, 'in men,
DRY of the Philistine idol that fell before
the ark of the Lord
IF Moses was angry when he saw the
people. dance around golden calf, well
may we be angry to see people dancing
about a post" declared Puritan preach
er at that time. And so the sentiment
continued.
Harmless May poles are rallied upon
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TO the east Of Bootes is the delicate arc
OF stars known az the Northern Crown.
or Ariadne's Crown, of which the star at
d Is sometimes called the Pearl Of the
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May l is also a gala day for Sweden
The last evening in April they build great
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with a towering erection of puffs. bound
with a scarlet band on her head got up,
and after that they volunteered with a
rush.
Toe the crackv ordered Mrs. Storrow
The women toed whatever crack was in
front OF them, all but one matron, who
was so plump she really couldn't see It,
"Up with Your Spines."
Now pull up your spines!" admonished
Mrs. storrow. Draw in your chins
Don't think sticking your chins out Is
standing straight. 1t isn't"
They all obeyed orders as to chins. ex-
cept the plump nationwide had three.
Imagine yourselves hanging by the very
top OF your head from hook pursued
Mrs. Storrow. A puzzled expression ap-
peared on the faces of the volunteers as
they mentally CROPPED around for that
hook. Mrs. Storrow explained.
IF you can imagine yourselves depend
ing from a hook" she said, ut will be the
greatest help in standing straight In
time you will attain so good carriage
that you Will hardly be conscious OF the
ground you walk upon. Now, imagine
yourselves we'll hooked"
The volunteers sought 10 imagine IT,.
At this point chuckle sounded from the
rear OF the room. 1t was an irreverent
male photographer. But Mrs. Storrow
and her volunteers were too busy to hear
chuckles or care II they heard. From
simple exercises they passed on to dane
ing, Mrs. Storrow enthusiastically eN-
planning what dancing had done for her
in tie ten years since she began 10 learn
IL And the matrons and the plump girls
and the thin girls had the time OF their
lives prancing in her wake, the matrons
wondering between steps II doing this
would make them so graceful that John
would renew the compliments Of their
youth.
Mrs. Charles Henry Israel-, chairman Of
the committee on amusement resources
Of working girls, watched the dancing
with a regretful smile. Mrs. lsraels has
lust had a brilliant but brief career as
part owner OF a dance hall over in New
ark, and she had to give IL up because
the unfeeling business men who formed
the rest Of the company looked on the
reforms she wished to introduce with a
hard. hard business eye. So dancing is
rather a sad subject with Mrs. Israels
now, but still she had sufficient spirit
yesterday to make plea for the teach
ing OF social dancing in the public
schools, and 10 denounce "the abortions
on dancing that are seen in too many
bathrooms now"
But Mrs. Storrow was the chief thing
yesterday, and II any Of the masculine
belongings OF the members Of the Fed
Grafton for Child Study or the committee
on amusement resources for working
girls went home last night TO find the
wives Of their bosoms trying to toe the
chandelier. IL was up to Mrs. James J.
Storrow, OF Boston.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-21
HETTY GREEN is 78 TO-DAY
Will Celebrate Her Birthday by
Hard Work, as Usual.

This is the birthday of Hetty Green
known as the weslthiest woman in the
United States She was born in 1894 in
New Bedford, Mass, and consequently Is
seyenty-eight years old. The newspapers
have persistenly quoted Mrs. Green's age
at seventy-six. but she said yesterday
that she was seventy-seven.
If nothing happens to upset her plans
Mrs. Green will be found to-day at her
little rosewood desk in her private office
at No. III Broadway, where, on the sixth
floor, Room COS, she and her son, Colonel
Edward II. r. Green, manage their prop
ertv under the name of the Westminster
Company, organized by them about three
years ago.
To all appearances in good health, Mrs.
Green and Colonel Green, whom she calls
Eddy were attending TO their CORE
spondence and mail yesterday afternoon
and so busy were they that they denied
themselves to reporters who called during
the afternoon to get interviews with the
aged business woman.
The clerks in the little Office thought
Mrs Green and the colonel wouldn't be
ready to get into their new automobile
and ride away to their home, No. West
Goth street, until a late hour. AS for the
programme to-day, they were sure Mrs.
Green would accept no substitution for
work. even on her seventy-eighth ami
,yersary. Still, it may be that the colonel
will take his mother for a little ride up
town about O'Clock in the afternoon
as he did last year.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-21
'POLICEWOMEN IN QUAKER CITY
Female Member Of Los Angeles Force Conunces Public
Safety Director, and He Will Urge Councils
to Provide the Needed Funds.

advice. This is easily understood, and, as
a result, it behooves every municipality
TO provide women officers, who can rem
der help in many ways where a man is
almost entirely powerless" She added:
The polcewoman is particularly adapt
ed TO preventive work She is the best
fitted 10 handle Juvenile offenders, for a
woman has the motherly instinct that
enables her TO accomplish wonderful
tasks. / believe that every city should
have a woman attached to it's lost per-
sons bureau. She il OF great value in
tracing missing persons who have become
separated from their families / have had
considerable experience I'm this line in
Los Angeles as head of the lost persons
bureau and know just what can be done.
Mrs. Wells told OF her experiences in
preventing in Los Angeles the sale Of
tickets TO moving picture theatres or any
other public amusement to children under
fourteen years unless accompanied by
adults. Many arrests were made as the
result Of her Investigations.
Mrs. Wells said that the policeman
work and that OF the policewoman is
greatly hampered by the refusal of many
persons TO appear in police courts as wit
nesses. She severely criticised well-to-do
people who shirk going into the police
court to assist in stamping out crime.