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The Washington times., 1925-03-23

Being a street astronomer,
and greatly interested in astron-
omy, / wish to ask you whether
Sirius is a new-fermed star, and
whether Betelgeuse is the
largest star known; also the dis
lance and diameter Of both
NJ. S., New York"
~ IRIUS is younger than the
sun in order of stellar evo-
~ luton. but it cannot be
called a ''new.formed" star. 1t
would better be called a middle
aged star. 1t is ranked in class A,
standing next to the B stars,
which are the hottest Of all. It's
parallax is 0.376 Of a second, cor
responding to a distance of about
$4,000, 000, 100000 miles. 1t is &C.
cordiDgly one of the near stars.
Its diameter has not been meas
ured, but it prabably at least
double that of the sun.
Betelgeusc is a much younger
star than Sirius, since it belongs
to the spectral class of the IN
giants" which stand at the open
ing stage of stellar evolution.
The parallax Of Betelgeuse is va
riously estimated from 0.012 to
0.021 of \ second. Taking a mean
of these, and assuming the true
parallax to be about 0.010 of a
second. the distance is nearly
1900 900 900 .000,0 miles, or
twenty-five times that Of Sirius.
Even so, Betelgeuse is not by
any means, one of the most dis
tant stars.
This distance, combined with
the angular diameter measured
by the interferometer at Mount
Wilson, gives the real diameter OF
Betelgeuse as 800 times that OF
the sun, making it's volume, or
bulk, 100000 times the suns.
But its mean density must be far
less than that of the air we
breathe. The star Antares 1s
larger than Betelgeuse, being APP
parently 400 100000 miles in diam
eter.
You should know something
about the present theory of stel-
The Washington times., 1925-03-23

lar development, and the accom-
panying picture is intended to
help you. 1t is based on Profess
sor Henry N. Russell's theory OF
dwarf and giant stars"
The stars are divided into six
principal types or classes. indi.
Gated by the capital letters, B,
A, F. G, K. M arranged in the
arbitrary order just given, and
based upon the differences that
the spectroscope reveals among
them. In a general way, 1t may
he said that the stars Of the
various spectroscopic classes,
ranging from B toward NJ, show
an increasing degree of obscura.
ton through the formation of
chemical compounds. When they
reach the Nj stage they turn red
and their light is smothered.
After that. probably, they become
solid, dark bodies.
But it appears that there are
two sorts of M stars. both Of
The Washington times., 1925-03-23

Happiness is added life and the giver of life.
sublime idea remains the from whatever brain or
in whatever region it had its birth.
Preaching that from the soul most works on the
soul
He who will not his eyes u.s. for the present.
al he that cannot
There is nothing either good bad but thinking makes
it
Books like proverbs receive their value from the
stamp and esteem of through which they have passed
The Washington times., 1925-03-23

We learn wisdom from failure much than from
We often discover what will do by finding out
what will not do and probably he who made
take made discovery.
All spirits enslaved which serve things evil.
fervent and diligent prepared for all things
Custom has an ascendancy the understanding
foundation OF good and cultivation of learn
ing required give a seasoning to retirement and
make taste the blessing
Nothing is heavy to which necessity brings.
The Washington times., 1925-03-23

Your fury swells the flood within the brook
Your hunger rises hot within the trees
Your power strengthens grass to raise the stone
Your purpose breaks the tomb of winter death
Your spendor lays enchantment land that yesterday
was sullen hill and swamp
# AND SO DARE VOICE MY DEMAND
AND DARE TO THINK THAT YOU WILL ANSWER
ME!
For am l not with the trees and grass?
Am not nodded from the earth and stone?
And kin to everything that clamors for life?
Since this is YOU CANNOT LEAVE Me OUT!
Your fury and your splendor mine too
Mine too your purpose and your power.
/ only ask that you will make brave
AS you have made the little grasses brave.
And patient you've made the budding trees
And mad with joy you have made the floods
That, though am of most imperfect clay,
l. TOO, MAY SERVE YOU IN THE SPRING.
The Washington times., 1925-03-23
DIR. FRANK CRANES
DAILY EDITORIAL
By DOCTOR FRANK CRANE.
UneUen Bricks

g is essential that should have smooth surface
brick sticking up brick sticking down Is
y equally faulty
The Washington times., 1925-03-23
s ss#sss sg,'s. By ELSIE ROBINSON
By 7. E. Powers

Tear down my SNUG content, as swollen
brooks tear down too narrow banks.
Drench me and drown me with new floods
of restlessness-
Set me on fire with new glimpses of the
SUN
Rend my set stubbornness till new roots
start
AND MAKE NE FIGHT FOR MY OWN
RIGHT OF WAY!
GREAT Power
"a Men say that there is no God
-. That all our prayers go out into the
empty air
That we who cry for help are Knocked by
our own visoning-
But though l cannot bare your face nor
quote your voice,
THIS MICH KNOW
The Washington times., 1925-03-23

The tiniest grass blade fire with life and chal-
lenges the other grass blades to the right of way
And in the brook the shove whirl until the
banks give way their demands.
THERE is much of agony joy in this spring birth
= The lovelness is born violently!
Conflicts surrenders, onses and rebuf turmoil and
hundred deaths and preface the opening of each
bud frond.
The loneliness spring is but airy veil she wears to
hide her madness desire.
No life to birth old life dies
All this comes to my spirit roams while NV sad
body sits cooped in four walls.
And / cry aloud to you-Oh Source of Life
LET Me, THOUGH COOPED, BE PART OF SPRING
TIME, TOO!
Let m be one with this great awakening
Strip off the sothful angour of my winter sleep
The Washington times., 1925-03-23
LISTEN, WORLD!

"hEAI source OF LHe---
My body sits before this desk with
" in four office walls, but all my soul
is roaming on the hills today.
The hills are like warm, golden flesh, new
from sleep, dewy and eager for the coming
day.
There is no heavy earthiness to this spring
soil-no stupid darkness to this perfumed,
pressing air.
It swarms with meaning.
1t is full of life.
New life turns in it like thrusting blade.
Hot life pours on and through it in an
amber flood
The whole earth body quivers with the
questing of the roots.
The leaf buds swell and burst from out
reluctant bark
The flowers seek an outlet furiously and
Evening star., 1925-11-22
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Evening star., 1925-11-22

sey. executive secretary. American
Academy in Rome, 101 Park avenue,
New York City.
I X
THE Washington Study is present
ing series of morning lectures
on art in Washington. beginning yes
terday with a lecture on the Freer
Gallery by Miss Grace D. Guest and
including lectures on the Phillips
Memorial Gallery by Mr.. Phillips next
Saturday. the Corcoran Gallery, the
National Gallery and one other sub.
ject on successive Saturdays. This
course offers an opportunity TO visit
the chief galleries in Washington and
to hear of the collections from those
responsible for them, with special
comments on particular art treasures.
Evening star., 1925-11-22

He Is going in a fortnight, however,
to Los Angeles, to paint a large por-
trait for which he has received a com
mission.
THE Corcoran Gallery of Art is
temporarily closed, owing to the
displacement and replacement of it's
permanent collection occasioned by
the centennial exhibition of the Ma
tional Academy of Design. Six thou
sand persons. by the way, visited the
Corcoran Gallery last Sunday after
noon. the last day that this notable
exhibition was on view. over 1000
catalogs were sold during the period
of the exhibition. In all proba bilitv
the gallery will reopen on December
l. Shortly thereafter several special
exhibitions will be put on view.
X
THE American Academy in Rome
announces its annual competition
for fellowships in architecture, paint
ing, sculpture, landscape architecture,
musical composition and classical
studies. In the fine arts the compe-
titions are open to unmarried men
not over 80 years of age who are cit
liens of the United States; in classical
studies, to unmarried citizens, men
or women
In painting and sculpture there is
TO be no formal competition involV-
ing the execution of work on pre-
Scribed subjects, as formerly, but
these fellowships will be awarded by
direct selection after a thorough in
Vestigation of the artistic ability and
personal qualifications of the candi-
dates. Applicants are required to
submit examples of their work and
such other evidence as will assist the
jury in making the awards.
For the fellowship in sculpture the
stipend is provided by the Rinehart
fund of the Peabody Institute of Bal
timore, Md. The fellowship in mu
steal competition will be the Horatio
Parker fellowship.
For each fellowship in the fine arts
the stipend is $3.50 a year for three
years, with some additional allow
ances for material and model hire:
in classical studies there is q fellow
ship for one year, with a stipend of
$3.50, and a fellowship paying S1,250
a year for two years. All fellows have
opportunity for extensive travel, and
fellows in musical composition, who
travel about six months Of the year
in visiting the leading musical CEN
terS of Europe, receive an additional
allowance of $3.50 a year for travelling
expenses. In the case of Ill fellow
ships, residence and studio Tor study
are provided free of charge at the
academy.
Entries will be received until March.
For circulars of information and ap-
plication blanks address Roscoe Guern-
Evening star., 1925-11-22
IDA GILBERT MYERS.

BY Gamaliel Bradford. au-
thor of Damaged Souls" etc. Illus
trated. New York: Harper and
Evening star., 1925-11-22
NOTES OF ART AND ARTISTS
Persian Pottery Now Exhibition the Freer Gallery
Etching and Autographs of Whister-An Exhibition of
the Works of Leading Americans of Past Centuries

politan Museum. New York, and the
Pennsylvania Museum in Philadel-
phia.
A SMALL exhibition of French
color etchings or aquatints in
color is now to be seen in the Smith
sonian Institution. set forth under the
auspices of the department of graphic
arts of the National Museum. These
prints by French etcherS differ con-
siderably from the color etching that
has been done in this country and
present much more the appearance of
mezzotints in color than do the works
of our own etchers. The method here
has been to etch a plate in outline
and to print in color laid on somewhat
after the manner of the wood-block
method. Naturally, the result Is by
no means the same. Also the French
etcherS seem to choose more elaborate
themes and to use much larger plates.
And to "a great extent these etchers
have devoted themselves to reproduc-
ing the works of painters rather than
producing original themes. In this
collection. for instance, there is an
excellent reproduction of a painting
by Turner and one or two reproduc-
tons of French genre paintings.
Somehow the spirit of the originals
seems to have eluded this method of
reproduction, and the works. while
attractive in color and very toneful.
leave the observer rather cold. For
the most part they seem spiritless.
x x
THE collection of pictorial photo
graphs which Clara L. Sipprell
is showing at the Arts Club at pres
ent is distinctly out of the ordinary.
The portraits are unconventional and
full of the subtle personality of the
sitterS. The landscapes are of a quiet,
gentle sort, Yet possess lyric quality
Most unusual OF all, however, per.
haps are her stilllife studies, her sun
lit bowls and jars of water, showing
decorative tracery of stems and leaves
therein.
Whatever may be handicaps of pho
Biography as a medium, one restriction
at least may be accounted a blessing
without the element of beauty pic
torial photography would cease TO ex-
ist. The painter. through Cleverness
of technique, may hope TO secure ap-
plause, but the pictorial photographer
knows that he or she has no such
staff to lean upon, and therefore
cannot afford To disregard subjective
interest. This is well.
Upstairs al the Arts Club there is
now being shown a collection of water
colors done in Honolulu by Mrs. Anna
w. MARVEL. a club member who lives
in California, the wife of Admiral Mar
veil 1t is a large collection and the
pictures were mostly painted last
Summer, II is understood They rep
resent a wide range of themes, and
whatever may be their shortcomings.
they do. indeed, give vivid idea of
the brilliant coloring. of the unfor-
getful loveliness Of the Hawaiian Is
lands, their sky and water, their
Evening star., 1925-11-22
NEWS OF THE AUTUMN BOOKS
7 w Z l.
Really Interesting Work Written About Lives of Women Bear
ing Famous Names-Mitchelrs Winged Defense THE
Little Karoo' Volume of Fine Short Stories

we already know Lad and Lady and
Bun and-yes, we already know Wolf.
That's why-this knowing Wolf is
why we approach this story with re
luctance. we remember that day
when Wolf, trying to save tho othor
dog-Well, you read about il. if You
want to have your heart ache over the
herolsm and courage that we AFRO
gantly assume belongs to the human
alone. But before YOU reach this
point in the life of Wolf you will hala
many happy hour oyer the wisdom
and the understanding and the genera!
lovability of another Terhune do.
Maybe you'll not read the very last uf
it. / didn't.
Evening star., 1925-11-22
BOOKS RECEIVED

THE MISSION AND THE NEEDS
OF THE UNITED STATES
NAVY; Collection of Articles ami
Addresses. Reprinted from the
United States Naval Institute Pro.
ceedings
SEEING SOUTH AMERICA. Routes
Rates. Cities. Climate. Wonders
and other Condensed Information
for Prospective Travellers Nasl
ington: The Pan-American Union
FAINGLORY. By Ronald F'irbans.
New York: Brentano's.
THE PRINCE OF WASHINGTON
SQUARE; An Up-t0-the- Minur-
Story. BY Harry F. Lispconb.
New York; Frederick y. Stokes
co.
CONCERNING THE NATURE Or,
THINGS. By Sir William Bragg.
X. 3. E.. D. Sc, F.. r. $. Illus.
trated with many plates and dia
grams. New York: Harper u
Brothers.
PROFITS. BY William Trufant Eos
ter and Waddin Catchings. Boe-
ton: Houghton, Miffln co.
THE RELIGION OF UNDERGRAD
YATES. BY Cyril Harris. some.
time university pastor for the
Episcopal Church, Cornell rniver-
sity. New York: Charles Scrib-
ner's Sons
SIMPLIFYING MOTHERHOOD: IL.
ing a Handbook on the Care of the
Baby During the First Year b.
Frank Howard Richardson. 4. b,
NJ. D., etc. Containing a Chapter
on Breast Feeding by Isaac A Aht
NJ. d. Illustrated. New York. g.
p. Putnam's Sons.
THE TROUBLE MAKER. BY +. Z.
Eastman. author of american
Agriculture. New York The
Macmillan Company.
YOUTHS ADVENTURE. By Allen
4. Hunter Foreword by Harry
Emerson Fosdick. New York: y.
Appleton Co.
CLAIMING COMES THROUGH. By
Charles Alden Seltzer, author Of
Brass Commandments" etc New
York: The Century Company.
SMALL WARES. Being Marked
Down Remnants of Comment auj
Criticism, Together with Few
Lengths of Shopworu Anecdotes
and Some Odds and Ends OF Cheau
Yarns. BY the author OF The
Notion Counter" Illustrated bv
III
Brown & Co.
HARE AND TORTOISE BY Pierre
Coalfleet, author OF solo" New
York: Duffield & Co
THE JESUIT RELATIONS AND
ALLIED DOCUMENTS: Travels
and Explorations of the Jesuit Mis-
sionaries in North America Q6Io.
lI9n With an Introduction b.
Reuben Gold Thwaites. Selected
and edited by Edna kenton. New
York: Albert & Charles Roni.
THOUGHTS on THE WING. Ry
Brother Michael Dunn. O. : f.
Boston: Christopher Publishing
SCIENCE AND THE MODERN
WORLD. Lowell Lectures. 1925.
BY Alfred North Whitehead. + T.
S, Sc. D., Hon. LII. D.. etc. New
York: The Macmillan Company
LINCOLN AND HIS GENERALS. By
Clarence Edward Mccartney. DID.
Illustrated with official photo
graphs from the War Department
Washington. Philadelphia: Dor
rance & Co.
EYESIGHT CONSERVATION Sur.
NEY. Compiled hy Joshua Eyre
Hannum, NJ. E. research engineer.
EyeSight Conservation Council Of
America. Edited by Guy a. Henr'
New York: Published by the Coun-
Gil.
SPIRITUAL GRAVITY OF THE
COSMIST; The Religion of Science
and Philosophy. BY Willis Luther
Moore. Sc. D., Ii. D., professor
meteorology George Washington
University, president National Geo
graphic Society and vice president
Washington Academy of Science
1905 to 1910. Eighteen years CHIEF
of United States Weather Bureau.
Pasadena: The Spiritual Gravity
Press.
A BOOK OF HORS D'OEUNRES. BY
Lucy G. Allen. Illustrated. Bos-
ton: Little, Brown q co.
Evening star., 1925-11-22

ing both in size and in the character
of the exhibits with that great ex-
hibition of American silver held in the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts in 1906.
In assembling these collections the
loan exhibition committee has had
the cooperation of collectors through
out the country as we'll as the Mu-
scum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Metro
Evening star., 1925-11-22

mountains and hills with enveloping
blue haze, their marvellous profusion
of flowers and luxurious vegetation.
i: x
FBEN +. COMINS, the well known
portrait painter. has lately re-
open his studio here after spending
the Summer in New England as usual.
Evening star., 1925-11-22
BY LEILA NECHLTN.

" HE F'reer Gallery of Art has
lately placed on exhibition
number of pieces of early Per-
Il sian pottery which are eN-
Evening star., 1925-11-22

politan Museum. New York, and the
Pennsylvania Museum in Philadel-
nbia
Evening star., 1925-11-22

ner in which these little framed pic
lures of an intimate sort are hung
only five or seven on a wall, but SO
grouped in the matter of spacing that
they present in themselves decorative
effect. There is nothing more difficult
to display than a group of such little
pictures. nothing which presents a
more monotonous, dreary appearance
as Il rule, but here the impression is
quite different Immediately upon en-
tering the room the visitors atten-
ton is engaged. curiously awakened
the desire TO look and TO hnger en-
gendered. And well are those who do
look and linger rewarded, for here
are some of the most choice and sue
cessful of WhistlerS etchingS and
Autographs - London and Venice
themes. figures and character studies,
all done with that amazing compe
tency which causes the sensitive and
informed onlooker the keeneSt delight.
What an original genius he was, what
amazing senSibility, what keenness of
vision and command of his medium,
how we'll he knew what to leave out
and what TO put In,
The Autographs in several instances
are typical of the time in which
Whistler lived, subtle interpretations
of character. And how capable he was
of expressing compoSure. stiffness. 81
lenCe. those things which as a rule
only words can tell Among the litho-
graphs is one of woman reclining on
a couch: complete relaxation is in
every line. There is another of a man
seated in an armchair, absolutely at
rest. BY the tilt of "A hat or the turn
of an elbow he gives us to understand
what some one is feeling. what sort of
a person he or she is. This is more
than ClevernesS. il is the acme of ge-
MUS. Here we have Whistler at his
best, not the eccentric, but the great
artist.
THE National Gallery of Art. or
rather that portion of the Ma
tional Museum given over to the dis
play of the National Gallery collec-
tons, will be closed to the public from
the 18th of this month until the 5th
of December in order TO take down the
paintings which are now on the walls
and install the special loan exhibition
OF early American portraits, minia-
lures and silver which has been as
sembled by the Washington loan eX-
hibition committee and is to be shown
therein under the auspices of the
Smithsonian Institution from Decem-
ber 10 January 3.
This exhibition will comprise the
works of the leading American paint
ers of the eighteenth and early n.ne-
teenth century. the majority OF which
are in private ownership and many of
which have not heretofore been shown.
The oil paintings have chiefly been
collected here in Washington. The
miniatures, however. and the silver
have come from Boston. New York.
Philadelphia. Baltimore and other
cities. The exhibition OF silver will be
one of the finest AMI most compre
hensive that has ever been held. vie
Evening star., 1925-11-22
The Public Library

The following recent accessions at
the Public Library may be found in
the Industrial Division.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1925-01-29
$50 KIDDIES TO.
STAGE PLAY
Children Will Present 0per-
eta Saturday

one hundred and fifty Seattle Ald.
dice, ranging boz age tom 2 60 no
years. viii present the operrrla
rllyariuth" the coming saturday
at the Metropolitan. under the di-
reci.on u MrH Hannah Kingston
NraEhsr who has written and ret
the operelia % music
These talented youngsters. drawn
from the various dramatic and dan
cling schools Of the city, are pre-.
EentinE the play for the Campfire
Guardians association, 20 raise
fundH Tor "a Frand plano for the Sc.
attic Campfire chip, the Camaud'
erie.
The operettB was presented AZ the
Roosevelt high last spring. y a
regular tw0.hour performance. and
has az lts theme "a fairy tale " uu.
usual charm and dolcacy The
ttuner chorus und the stars ln the
clouds weave their fantasies around
Hwciuih Marie Kelly and the
Prince % Light Maxine Mckinney
bringing their pretty adventures "a
the ultimate happy ending
Mrs MsaEhcr Tho not claiming
professional honurs. has. nevcrthe
lees, written a plumber Of successful
productions on the order OF this
ono. and her own four children are
in the cast Her work h. insplra
tlonal-Hs, indeed. II must bc-dons
In between her duties Of busy house
wife and mother