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lively. It s1nay thus be noted that the average magnitude of the seven in Orion is IT. Orion has two stars brighter than any in Ursa Major, and Ia third equal in brightness to the brightest of Ursa Major. It is thus seen that Orion exceeds Ursa Major in brightness as it does all other con- stellations.
 Next, we may consider the positions of the consultations. Ursa Major is a North Polar constellation Two of it's stars the pointers" are usually used to. locate the north star and the pole. AS a polar constellation it is above the horizon at all times for most northern observers. For observers north of 40 degrees north latitude noneSof the seven stars ever set. We must go as far south as 2S degrees north latitude before the whole seven will be found to set. This fact that the stars are nearly always visible in our attitudes helps greatly in making the constella> tion familiar to us. But observers south of 2S degrees south latitude never see some of the stars in the dip per. What is our gain is their loss.
 Orion, on the other hand, is an equa torial constellation. The equator passes through the middle of it, For this rea- son. 1t can be seen only half of the time at any place on the earth. but there is no place except in the unin- habited regions near the poles where the whole constellation cannot be seen. Orion is at it's best at the equator, where it can be seen overhead. Ursa Major is nearly overhead in the lati- tudes of the United States. It is in this position in the early evenings in the warm months of the year. Orion is visible here, In the early evenings during the winter months. Ursa Major is easily described by comparison with a dipper. Orion is not easily described, but it is hard to see how one who has once known it can easily forget it. Observers too far south to see the Ursa Major fill it's place with con stellatlon Crux. The Southern Cross, very familiar to them but not to us, for we never see it.
 THE PLANETS
 The position of Venus cannot be shown on Figure 1, for the beginning of the month, but it's position at the end of the month is shown. The planet is brightest on March Is. Throughout the month it will be splendid object in the early evening in the southwest ern sky It is So bright that it may be seen easily. even at high noon. If
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CHICAGO ID PUT
 ON BEAUTY SHOW
 ID HELP WOMEN
Big Idea Is to Prove That Cos metics, If Properly Applied, Might Add Charm, But
 Only Sometimes
By Associated Press

Chicago, February 26-An educational beauty show, said to be the first of it's kind and size to be held outside of Paris, will be staged here the week be- ginning February 2S. The exposition w.,ii be largely for the purpose of proving to milady of 1921 the truth of the statement that beauty is only skin deep and thar all women may be beautiful.
 The show is being sponsored by nearly 900 manufacturers of practical aids to beauty, but one of it's announced pur- poses will be to agitate against the ex- cessive use of cosmetics and to demon strate benefits which may be obtained from the proper use of the proper kinds Of beauty aids.
 There will be dozens of experts to in- struct the ~omen Women artists, psy- chologists, health and dietetic specialists and beauty experts will assist at the ex- position-all with the same object in view, that of helping American women develop the beauty they have and to be- come more beautiful
 According to the promoters of the show, there is perfume Of certain scent
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Philip cabot, in the Worlds Work

Philip Cabot, in the Worlds Work.
 From the moment of firing up to
 the completion of a days duty, he To- comotive demands continual stoking of coal to keep it's boiler hot, whether it is doing useful work in hauling it's load, standing idle at terminals or passing points, coasting down long grades or standing in the roundhouss. Every hour it is burning coal at min imunh rate of 300 pounds There are about 63,000 locomotives in the country going through this cycle of loss every
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day. with no direct supervision
 vast army of firemen employed acting independently and with VI efficiency, but with an average ; that it would bankrupt an el power company in a competitive
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Loss In Locomotives

rroper manner of dressing and the re- lation of bodily health and beauty.
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has just been awarded the gold medal of the Royal Astronomical society Lack of space prevents a further dis cussion of this theory now.
 SAMUEL G. BARTON.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20
Charity Appeals to
Society as Holiday
Season A pproaches
Continued from First Page.

auction bridge tournament which is to be
held next Tuesday afternoon in the new
ball room of the Plaza for the benefit
of the Winifred Wheeler Day Nursery.
Tea will be served during the afternoon
by Misses Mary Danforth Strange,
Elinor Stewart, Kate Wyman Griffin,
Margaret Starr and Marion Danforth.
Tables at $40 and single seats at $3.50
may be obtained from Mrs. Samuel s.
Auchincloss. 1b3 East Seventy-fourth
street, or from the committee. The lat
ter includes Mines. Henry III. Abbott,
Anson McC Beard. Thomas w. Bake
we'll, Howard C. Brokaw. Clifford V.
Brokaw, John E. Berwind, Paul Bar
ringer. Frederic Bonner, Edwin r.
Campbell, Charles NJ. Connfelt. Charles
G. Cornell. Jr., Alfred E. Ellis. Andrew
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at each side of the skirt. sometimes in
front. but the back of the skirt must be
drawn tightly across the figure. Such
manipulation OF the fabric exposes ev-
cry bulge or ridge beneath.
If you talk to women about these
corsets--and il any other subject can
get ahead of this, I'd like to know it,
the fault of the ugliness of the middle
bone will be laid TO the brassiere.
Some of us must wear heavy bones
in front" say the takers, land we
must have the corset rise a bit above
the waist, but the brasslere people do
not think of anyone but a fiapper who
goes without corsets." Alas and alack,
too true, too true.
There Is one answer to the appeal of
these women. 1t rests In n surplice
brassiere, built OF coarse lace that
crosses> around the waist line and ties
or hooks in the back. This has to be
fastened to the top of the corset by
sefety pins to make it stay down and
it's two lace streamers going about the
waist give unsightly thickness.
France has produced a new long bras
siere in answer to this demand. 1t is
like a corset cover, cut on slim lines
and it buttons to the middle front of
the corset.
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reading room," which the book commit
te is donating to the children of France.
and the home for boys In this city,
which cares for homeless waits found
In the streets and parks.
Many distinguished patrons are in
cluded among those interested In the
entertainment, both in the social world
and art and literary fields. Mr.. and
Mrs. Booth Harrington. Mr. and Mrs
Otis Skinner. Mrs. Willard Straight
Mrs. George Gordon Battle, Mrs. Mar.
shall Field and Mr.. and Mrs. Albert j.
Beveredge are lending their active sup
port while among the professional folk
are Mr.. and Mrs. Michael Fokine. Pierre
Monteux, conductor OF the Boston SYM
phony Orchestra. and Stuart Walker.
Next Friday afternoon the book COM
mittee, which Is giving Ave "rHeure
Joyeuse" afternoons at the Plaza In
addition to the Ruth Page performance,
will give bridge party. Tables may be
reserved from Mrs. Henry Lienau,
hostess. by communicating with her at
7S0 Park avenue.
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Above on Left-These two figures
show the back and front of the new
corset designed by Nine. Dupre, who
makes for American women. 1t has
no opening except at the back,
where it is laced. One steps into it..
1t goes high in front and low in the
back. A special brassiere goes
with it.
On Right-The seated figure
shows new Paris dressing sacque of
pink duvetyne, trimmed with white
fur, which is to be worn over the
corsetless figure in the house. The
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corsets for different costumes is appar-
ent. The corset makers have hardened
to the criticisms of the public and
fashioned types to suit tailored clothes,
also fleshy women. Certain of them are
cut higher in the back than the after
noon and evening corset. A long wasted
brassiere that fastens to the top button
of the corset goes along with them.
The striking novelty of the season is
a black velvet corset made for dancing.
1t is topless and has six elastics loosely
fastened to the stockings, as every
woman knows she cannot dance with
tight garters.
There Is a black lace brassiere to go
with this corset which is hung over the
shoulders with fine platinum chains.
There are afternoon corsets which 60
up higher in front than back in order to
give the new silhouette which calls for a
lowered waist line in the back.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

Fletcher Leroy Frost. Henry A. Griffin
James NJ. Hartshorne. Eugene d. Haw-
kins. Richard F. Hoyt, James Imbrie
William C. Ivison and William A. Lock-
wood.
Also Mines. James p. Lee. r. Burn
ham Moffat, Charles e. F. McCann. John
II. Morice, George w. Morgan, William
III. Nichols, Jr. Walter c. Nichols,
Rufus L. Patterson. William Ross Proc
tor, James Parker. Frederick Peterson.
owen F. Roberts. Ralph s. Rainsford,
Robert H. Simpson. William c. Sheldon.
Lloyd b. Sanderson. Sylvanus L. Schoon-
maker, Percy II. Stewart, j. Allen Town
send, Edmund s. Twining, Arnold Wood
and Lester Watson and Miss Elizabeth
X Lamont.
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Public May Not Accept Revo-
luton, but There Is Evi-
dence That 1t Will.
by ANNE RITTENHOUsE.

n TO one should minimize the i'm
M portance of the change ir
women's figures brought about
by the corset which is not a corset
What happened two decades ago is
happening now, and the public re-
CARDS the change with the same scep-
ticisln it accorded them. To-day the
so-called corsetless figure rules among
those who follow new movements in
fashion. Two decades ago it was the
loV, straight front corset which
caused the revolution in women's
flgares.
At that time the public insisted that
the change was temporary and would
nQ. be accepted by sufficient women to
guarantee its approval, yet, to-day,
Il is very straight front corset Is sup
posed to be the standard, and modest.
fO1hion for women.
That was an important revolution
in women's figures in those days.
Women who like the small waist and
tie curving hips protested wildly at
eSacing these alleged attributes of love-
lihess. Men admired their wasp waist
and gentle curves. There are men living
who refer to the fine figures of those
days as they do to old port and good
uanners. Clothes had bones and tight
N ntaN LANs
grotesque to curve out fully and freely
below the waist.
But these ladies who liked their figures
found the stream of fashion against
item. Yet what woman would return to
this type Of corset? Those who rebelled
against the new corset are dead or they
lave drifted with the tide.
The suppression of hips. the f1atten-
ing OF the bust, the broadening of the
vaLst continued until Il became the
standardized figure and the corsets OF
tfle world were modelled to support IT,
What has been, will be. The revolu-
ton Is here. 1t may be that the public
will not accept II. but there Is every
evidence that II WILL
The features of the revolution are
these; Tha waist line Is left to it's
natural proportions. The abdomen is
not entirely suppressed. The bust is
held in by brassiere which does not
extend over the diaphragm. The lower
part OF the hips may not be suppressed,
but when they are. tricot or rubber is
used. The middle bone of the corset
does not hold the fasteners, except in
isolated cases.
Dominating all the other features IL
this: The corset goes down in the back
and UP in the front. To insure this
movement the elastics are often omitted
from the front and placed directly in the
back.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

The book committee on children's $
libraries. under the craftsmanship Of
Mrs. John Lewis Griff1ths. and the New
York Home for Homeless Boys, OF which
Mrs. Philip A. s. Franklin is chairman,
have announced that Miss Ruth Page
classiaue danseuse Of the Bolm Ballet
Intime. will appear in performance
under the auspices Of the two philan-
thropies at the Selwyn Theatre Tuesday.
December g. The entire proceeds will
he divided between the Marshal Foch
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standing figure shows the new black
velvet corset for dancing. With it
goes a black lace brassiere, held
over the shoulders with a platinum
chain.
Below on Left-Combination slip
to be worn over the topless corset.
1t 10 in black and white to suit
a dark skirt and light blouse.
On Right-Here' the corset for
tailored suits and frocks, cut higher
in the back than the afternoon COR
set. 1t has a long brassiere which
buttons to the corset in front.
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what to Wear Beneath.

These things are not ~ 20 the corset
raker. They are new TO the majority
or women. Tho same uproar Is going on
against this state Of affnirs that greeted
the low, straight front corset in other
DAYS.
When the corset makers advanced
these new corsets over year ago they
were greeted with amusement by the
dressmakers and the trade did not lend
enthusiastic support. The young and the
supple women accepted them as a SUBJ
stitute for IN urdershirt and n pair of
hlonmers. which Is the maximum amount
of underwear endorsed by the debutante.
In Paris they were accepted without
protest except In the working classes
where they are still considered indecent.
In America they have gained widespread
popularity and are soils even by con-
servativa frr- who refused TO have
anything TO do with them last winter
or course. they change the figure. or
course. they change the arrangement Of
ones clothes.
No woman can wear n skirt with a
tight waist belt over such corsets It is
not comfortable With her tailored skirts
she usually wears the pinafore top,
which Ia like a girdle bodice with shoul-
der straps. The French designers used
this form OF lining for all their froclSs.
no matter what the fabric. The Ameri-
esn was offered this idea two years
ago. but refused It.
Bloomers do not go as well over this
corset as they went over the other kind,
so the French designers offer TO the
American public the type of garment
which all Of them wear--a one piece slip
hanging from the shoulders by straps.
IL serves as q substitute for bloomers
and petticoat. IL Is made In all colors
or crepe, satin and georgette.
There is another garment worn under
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

The Woman's Auxiliary of the French
Hospital will give a supper dance for
the benefit of the activities OF ths
auxiliary. The new ballroom of the
Hotel Plaza has been engaged for the
evening of Tuesday. December 6. Many
of the visiting French delegates now In
Washington will attend
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

The Friends of the Sick Poor will
give a rummage sale to aid the Domini-
can Sisters OF the sick poor on Novem-
ber q, % and % at 955 Third avenue
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

No woman should be misled into be-
lieving that she can go into shop and
order one of these corsets without
thought.
There is no one type for all figures.
There is as much variety in these cos
sets as In the kind we have worn for
decades. The makers are tumbling over
each other with remedies, inventions. de-
vices for comfort, adaptations for those
who have not the perfect figure that
save money" as Rose Stahl once said In
'"The Chorus Lady"
To offset the evil middle bone which
digs into the waist a designer has put
out corsets that button on each side.
Many flexible bones are placed across
the front panel so that It will not be en-
tirely useless.
Sometimes this type has lacing at the
back, not always. Women prefer the
absence Of laces for the reason that new
skirts are pulled tightly across the end
Of the spine and the lacing makes a
ridge under the fabric OF the frock.
There are types that have no fastening
and no lacing. You step In them and
pull them up after the fashion OF a
nineteenth century squire pulling on his
long boots. There are no straps that
help you
For women with too much flesh on the
hips wide elastic bands are added on the
inside Of these corsets to act as garters
below the hips and keep them from
rising up IS one walks.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

near Fifty-seventh street. New and old
articles will be on sale. More donations
are requested and may be sent to the
above address on Monday. Mrs. Law
renee l.. Ellis. chairman and Mrs.
1gnatius NJ. Wilkinson. chairman Junior
Auxiliary.
A bridge tournament for the benefit
of the children's clinic OF the Warren
Goddard Settlement House has been arr
ranged for Tuesday afternoon in the
home of Mrs. James Byrne, 270 Park
avenue. Play Ia to start at . o'e,ocb.
The party is under the direction &c Mrs.
Hamilton Fish Armstrong. the Misses
Sheila and Beatrice Byrne. Mrs. Henry
Sturges, Mrs. Chauncey B. Carver. Mrs.
Gerard p. Herrick and Mrs Henry Nor
gan Post of So East Sixty-hfth street,
from whom tickets at $5 each may be
obtained.
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

The fitting rooms for corsets are In
teresting places these days.
Flustered and bewildered women are
trying to learn the new method. Patient
and expostulating salesladies are trying
to point out the new path.
You don't mean 1 have to pull II
down in the back and let II ride up In
the 'front.'" wildly cries a woman who
has spent much of her life pulling the
flesh above them. She could cry when
the corset filter gets through with her.
But I have always had such a good
figure" she walls. None Of my clothes
will At over this corset. feel as though
were falling backward. 4"
The corset filter agrees with her, but
does not console her.
You cannot wear the new gowns IL
you do not put your corsets on in the
new manner Surely you do not want
to go about with a whalebone sticking
through the middle of your frock. over
your diaphragm -
But look so fat in this corset" says
the woman. She is on the point OF
tears. Her life is falling like building
blocks about her.
"On the contrary you look much
smaller" explains the saleslady. "All
that flesh is gone from your diaphragm.
IL no longer makes a ridge over your
your arms. You are in proportion now"
But don't like It don't like 1t"
pleads the woman. will / really be
unfa shionable II wear my old corsets?"
The fapper looks them over and says
to the saleslady: You don't think I'D
wear one Of those boned things, do you?
Give me a plain tricot band with pair
OF garters at the back and row OF
buttons at the side. How could dance
with one of those things that have bones
at the front and come above the waist?'
And the saleslady. ever ready TO meet
varying opinions, says: But these are
newer than the bands. Corsets have
really come back into fashion. The lack
OF them has caused women 70 spread.
Here's one Of velvet with Just a few
bones across the front and short laces
at the back. DO try II. The entirely
uncorseted figure is out"
Decide between the two, you who buy
corsetq
The New York herald., 1921-11-20

There are corsets OF plaue combined
with elastic which button on each eide
and have strong garters down the middle
Of back. Others are OF satin and tricot
with short bote in front and long
back which extends over the hips.
The Importance of choosing different
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Trouble with Middle Bone.

All brains seem to be set In the same
direction TO eliminate the ugliness of
the broad steel In the front OF the corset.
Rising above the waist line, as Il does in
the old-fashioned type. It protrudes In
the front of the frocl When the fabric
Is thin. the effect is all II should not be.
One OF the remedies is to place five
small bones In the front and use lacing
or buttons instead of hooks and eyes.
Another source of worry Is the lacing
at the back which many women demand
20 keep the corset from spreading. but
which all admit produces an Ugly line
across the end of the spine.
II II were fashionable TO wenr gath
ers or plaits in the skirts, at the middle
OF the back. the lacing woulH be oblt-
Grated. Tho opposite fashion In In
power. Exaggerated fullness Is placed
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the corset as substitute for the un-
dershirt by those who like to feel them
selves more fully dressed than ultra
fashion suggests. This is the short slip
of crepe de chine or georgette crepe
which is like a slim undershirt, ending
in pair of bloomers held in by elastic
at the knees.
The Change I'm the Figure.
Everything that woman does in fash
ion is taken seriously by the public. The
press and the pulpit. the doctors and
the athletes, the reformers and the pess-
imists leap into action. or rather speech.
whenever woman does something dras-
tic to her figure or to her clothes.
This season they are all at it hammer
and tongs telling woman that she is
immodest, that she Is running to the
length of indecency, ending by the usual
reference to her sainted grandmothers.
They completely forget that their kind
reviled and abused past generations for
lacing the corset and destroying the
circulation, for wearing long skirts that
swept up the dust for covering them
selves with thick flannel that invited
pneumonia
To-day when woman is trying to be
natural, healthy and vigorous, by cut
ting off the top Of her corset, the hem
of her skirt and the better part OF her
sleeves. she is told to go back to her
cocoon and be lady. Little wonder 1t
is that women flick their fingers at what
men think.
There Is this to be said against the
new corset in its application to the stout
middle aged woman II will not support
t. har faf q
these have been supported throughout
her life, she will suffer physically IL she
makes the change.
The present outcry against the corset
from an aesthetic point of view is that
It gives undue prominence to the curves
OF the abdomen. "Grotesduely ugly"
says the public. forgetting that women
who were considered to have lovely fig
ures for a century before the straight
front corset. curved out like inflated
balloons below tho waist.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-01-14
AFTER MURDERER
OF PARSONS GIRL

A Subscription of 500 toward de-
fraying the expenses of Pine Noun
tain Settlement School and other or
ganiZations attempting to detect and
prosecute the murderer of Miss Lura
Parsons, teacher, slain last summer
while crossing Pine Mountain, was
made at business meeting of the Lou
isVille Womans Club A..
In discussing the subscription Mrs.
II. II. Whiteside declared: This mur-
der means the spoilation of the wo-
manhood of the State. Unless the cul-
prit can be brought to justice we can
not protect the women of the noun
tnins who have made great sacrifices
and given the best years of their lives
to go into the mountains and serve
those who need them"
"rhe, State of Kentucky cannot al
low crime or this nature to so uut
punished Miss simpson said. "Ae-
cusations against various men have
been too lightly dismissed"
Contributions may be sent to Miss
Jessie o, Ydncey, State Board of
Health Building, Louisville, or c. N
Manning, Lexington, treasurer, Pine
Mountain Settlement School.
The Big Sandy news. [volume] (Louisa, Ky.) 1885-1929, 1921-01-14
DR.. F. ID. Marcum's
Daughter Marries
Huntington Man

Miss Eunicc Victoria MarCum Of Cc-
redo, W Va and Mr.. j. W. Hicks Of
Newborn, Va, were united in mar
r az" Wednesday afternoon al o'clock
at the home Of the brides aunt, Mrs.
g Z Hin an Oakland avenue in Cat
irltsburg. Tho bride IS thu charming
daughter of DR. and Mrs. +. ID. Mar
cum ~ 9"redO. The groom Is n mem
bor * an old Virginia family and Is a
youu.' man of sterling character and
fine .ualNcss qualifications and is n
ylIu, ,nploye of Norviile- Chambers
Shoe 60, OF Huntington, ". Va. They
lad planned a more elaborate affair to
take place the I4Ih of February but
owing to the Illness Of Dr. MHrcum,
the brides father. who is now in hos
pitdl, their plans were changed. The
ceremony was performed by. the Rev.
Mr. Pope. pastor OF the Baptist church
Of Ccrcdo before IN improVised altar
Of ferns and palms. The house was at
lraCtively decorated for the occasion.
The bride looked beautiful in dark
blue with accessories to harmonic.
They will return to CerCdu after a trip
TO Virginia and for n time viii reside
there. Ashland Independent.