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in early August for visit In Chicago
to be gone for several weeks.
Mrs. ]. M. Thrift and Miss Nellie
Pa, where they win remain several
months.
Mrs. Laura Disney, Beech street,
Mount Rainier, Is visiting in Eaglesmere,
Pa.
Mrs. Clara J. Madden Of New York
City is visiting her son, Mr. Ira j.
Madden, Bunker Hill road, Mount
Rainier.
Mr.. and Mrs. Scott of Thirty-fourth
street, Mount Rainier, are on a motor
trip through Washington State. They
will be gone several weeks.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Bothell, Greeley,
Colo, have been guests of Mr.. and Mrs
c. A. Hall, Thirty-fourth street, Mount
Rainier.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. Horace Mitchell,
Thirtieth street, Mount Rainier, have
returned from motor trip to Florida
where they spent several weeks.
Mr.. Ralph Frey Of Ash street, Mount
Rainier, has returned from Quebec,
Canada, where he attended the conven-
ton Of the American Leather Chemists
Association Of which he Is vice presi-
dent.
Mr.. and Mrs. Z. Hoge Of Thirtieth
street, Mount Rainier. have returned
from visit to Pennsylvania.
Mrs. Nora Fry Of Atlanta, Ca, has
been visiting her sister, Mrs, Hazel
Frey, Ash street, Mount Rainier.
Mr.. Robert f. Lehman of Altoona
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Forty-fourth place are attending the
convention of Mr. Wilkinson's fraternity
at Swampscott, Mass.
Miss Ethel Thorne Of Remington
Va, is spending the week end with her
sister, Mrs. B. T. Hef1in of Connecticut
avenue.
Mrs. Howard Jones has returned to
her home, on Livingston street, after
spending month in Louisville, KY.
Mr.. William Kendall, student al
Dartmouth College, has returned to
MIR. and Mrs. w. G. Kendall of Kirke
street.
MIR. Allen Graham of Swavely School
Manassas. Va, is spending his vacation
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. George
Graham.
Miss Dorothy Seay, student of the
University Of Mississippi, formerly OF
Chevy Chase, Is the house guest of Miss
Sarah Fulton on Thirty-third street.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. Frank Kelley have
returned to their home on Ingomar
street after attending the graduation OF
their son, Mr.. John Stafford Kelley, al
Franklin and Marshall Academy, who
accompanied his parents home.
MIR. Weaver Garnett, son Of Mr. and
Mrs. Philip Garrett, left Thursday fol
Annapolis. Md, where he will enter the
United States Naval Academy.
Misses Carol, Lucille and Maude
Forbes Of Patterson street entertained
at bridge-supper and shower Thurs
day evening in honor of Miss Ruth
Pearce, whose marriage to Mr.. Kenneth
Forbes will take place June 20.
Miss Marian Bates Of Livingston
street entertained at q supper dance
Monday evenint at the Arlington Hotel
in honor of Mr.. Weaver Garrett, who
will enter the United States Naval
Academy Thursday.
Miss Mildred Ward of Rockville, Md.
Is the house guest of her aunt and
uncle. Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Oehmann
Of Morrison street.
Mr.. Ward Oehmann, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Oehmann of Morrison
street, entertained at q dance Wednes-
day evening in honor of the members
Of the graduating class of the McKin-
ley Technical High School,
MIR. and Mrs. Roger Whiteford oil
Leland street left Wednesday for Mon
tauk Point, Long Island, NJ Y, to at
tend the American Bankers Association
convention.
Mr.. G. Stuart Parker, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. George H. Parker of Cedar park
way, is spending the week end at Tray
| len, N. j.
Mrs. George F. Buell. of Herndon. Va.
is visiting Miss Margaret Russell on
Mckinley street.
DR.. D. G. Davis of Mckinley street
will leave Sunday for Los Angeles
Calf, to attend a convention of the
Union Central Life Insurance Co.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edwin c. Dutton have
returned to their home on Hesketh
street after spending a month in Cali
fornia and at Lake Louise.
DR.. and Mrs. w. I. Ogus entertained
at dance Saturday evening, June IS
IN their home on Mckinley street.
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Pa, Is spending several weeks with his
daughter, Mrs. j. Ashton Nichols, Date
street, Mount Rainier.
Mr.. Owen Kerby and family, Fort
Foote, have returned from visit to
friends and relatives in Baltimore.
Engagement Announced
For wedding In July.
Announcement Is made Of the en-
gagement Of Miss May DUNE, daughter
Of Mrs. Susan Dufie, Seat Pleasant,
and Mr.. Raymond Taylor Of Washing
ton. The wedding will take place July
10 in Annapolis, Md.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Vaughan and
Mr.. and Mrs. Schmidt and children of
Maryland Park have been visiting Mr..
Henry Davis In Fairfax, Va.
The family of Mr.. Sumner Welles,
after visiting Mrs. Welles' mother. Mrs.
Richard Townsend, on Massachusetts,
avenue, Washington, have moved into
their new home in Oxon Hfif district,
adjacent to Fort Foote. MFR. Welles re-
Gently returned from Haiti where he
was member Of the Dawes Commits
sion.
Miss Hilda Ward of Baden had as her
guest last week Miss Louise Spencer of
Warren, Mass.
Mrs. j. j. T. Graham Of Springfield
will entertain with a lawn party Tues
day, June IS. The proceeds of the af-
fair will be devoted to the purchase Of
a carpet for the altar Of st. Georges
Episcopal Church.
Mr.. Austin l.. Adams Of Fort Foote
has returned from visit to relatives In
Baltimore.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harmon Acuff Of Seat
Pleasant have as their guests Mr..
Acuffis mother and sister from Tennes-
see.
Mrs. Audrey Cralle Of Capitol Heights
has returned after visit to relatives In
Brownsville, Pa. Mrs. Ethel 3. Julian,
Mrs. Cradles sister Of Washington, ac-
companied her.
Mrs. Julian v. Floyd of Capitol
Heights is visiting relatives In Lewis
town, Pa.
Miss Bessie Cash, principal Of the
Capitol Heights graded school, and Mrs.
Minnie Brooks, also Of Capitol Heights,
left Tuesday night for Asheville, N. c.,
where Miss Cash will attend special
courses at the normal school there.
The ladies' auxiliary of the Capitol
Heights Fire Department entertained at
q card party tonight. A number Of
prizes were awarded and refreshments
were served.
The fire department of Capitol
Heights Is making arrangements for o
carnival to be held at the corner Of
Sixty-first street and Central avenue.
July to 6, inclusive.
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Informal Social Functions
Feature Week in Annapolis
Gard Parties, Teas and Luncheons Scheduled
Visitors Observation-Disclosures Made in
Official Personnel at Naval Academy.

land avenue, and will have as his guest
for the remainder of the month his
nephew, Manfredo Campario of Milan
Admiral and Mrs. Halligan
Announce Daughter Engaged.
The engagement has been announced
by Admiral and Mrs. John Halligan of
their daughter, Miss Katherine Loomis
Halligan, to Ensign Charles Adair OF
1926 at the Naval Academy.
Mr.. Clayton Brewer entertained at
tea Saturday afternoon at his old home
on the Marlboro road near Annapolis
His sister, Miss Helen Brewer, also en-
tertanied Sunday afternoon at small
tea in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. H. E.
Atterbury of New York and Annapolis,
who have recently opened their country
home near st. Margarets.
Mr.. Henry Phipps and his daughter,
Miss Louise Phipps, entertained a few
friends at tea Sunday afternoon at their
country home on the Bay Ridge road.
Miss Eliza Lane Dugan, who has been
the guest of Miss Louise Phipps, has
returned to Carvel Hall. Annapolis
where she and her mother, Mrs. Blu
chanan Dugan, have been spending the
Winter and Spring.
Miss Frances Du Barry of Baltimore
was the guest this week of Mrs. John
Pitcher at her home in Wardour Miss
Du Barry and her mother, Mrs. Duanna
Du Barry, have just returned from a
visit of several months in Europe. They
will be joined shortly in New York by
Mrs. Du Barry's son, Mr.. Frank Du
Barry, who is a student at Yale. They
will remain for the Summer months
in New York, where they have taken
an anar-fment
MRS. Victor Blue of Fort George,
Fla, widow of Admiral Blue, is
spending this week as the guest OF
Miss Mollie. Milligan, at her residence
on Maryland avenue. Mrs. Blues SON
Lieut.. Stuard Blue, Is attached to the
u. S. 8. Nokomis at Philadelphia.
Much interest is felt here In the
recent appointment of Mr.. Joseph Pot
ter Cotton Of New York as Undersec-
rotary of State, as Mr.. Cottons brother
and sister-in-law, DR.. and Mrs. Frede-
rick j. Cotton of Boston, have coun-
try place at Waterbury, neal ANNAPOLIS
Mr.. Richard Poor Of New York,
recently appointed to the new fourth
leaving the Severn School from which
he graduated, has been the guest Of his
aunt, Mrs. Roscoe Bulmer, at her apart
ment on Maryland avenue. Mr.. Poor
Is the son of the late Charles Poor:
who was q graduate Of the Naval
Academy and was well known here.
Admiral and Mrs. william woodward
Phelps of Portsmouth, N. H., visited
Annapolis for a short time last week.
They were the guests also Of their
daughter LAW, Mrs Woodward Phelps
at the home of her grandmother, Mrs.
Frederick Cotton, at waterbury.
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General and Special
Social Events Listed
In Week just Closed
House Guests Noted In
Chevy Chase-Residents
Visiting In Other Cities.
Personal Notes of Interest.

Miss Nora Taylor Of Baltimore, Nd,
and Mr. John Miles of New York, N. Y,
were the week end guests Of Mrs. Harry
Paul Gentner of Forty-second street.
Mr.. Charles FoutS of Maryland Uni
versity is spending the Summer vaca-
ton with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
w. FoutS of Mckinley street.
Miss Olive Montgomery of Philadel-
phia, Pa, is the house guest of her
cousin, Mrs. Burton Corning of Leland
street.
Mr.. Irwin L. Moore and his son,
Donald c. Moore of North Pelham,
N. Y. are the house guests Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j. D. Thompson of Ingomar street
Miss Sarah Fulton, daughter Of Mr.
and Mrs. w. L. Fulton of Thirty-third
street, entertained at tea Tuesday from
4 to 6 o'clock pm.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Lynch and their
daughter Joan Of Forty-fourth place
left Monday for England, where they
will spend the Summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cecil j. Wilkinson OF
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Activity In Social
Affairs Noted Among
North Suburban Folk
Residents Planning for Sum
mer Recreation House
Guests Entertained
Home Comings Special
Events-Personal Notes.

Mrs. Francis Hallowell, accompanied
by Mr.. Thomas Hallowel recently left
for an extended stay on the Pacific
Coast before returning to their home
near Sandy Spring. On their way
West they were the guests OF Mr.. Robert
Hallowell at Lake Charles, La.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ray p. Hoover Of
Evanston, Ill, are leaving today for
their home after having visited rela-
tives for a week In KenSington and
Washington. During their stay in
Washington they were at the Maydower.
Their daughters, Miss Marianne Will
liams Hoover and Miss Jane Williams
Hoover, will remain with their grand
mother, Mrs. Arthur Williams, in Kens-
ington for several week longer.
Miss Louise Massey has returned to
spending the Winter with her uncle and
aunt, Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Parrey, in
Bethesda.
Mrs. James H. Adams of Kensington
left yesterday for Knoxville, Tenn,
where she will remain for an extended
visit with Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott D.
Adams and Mr.. and Mrs. w. Russell
Briscoe.
Miss Florence Bradley and Miss Ruth
Alexander entertained yesterday at the
formers home on Brookeville road in
honor of Miss Margaret Waters Grifith,
with a bridge shower preceded by
luncheon.
Mrs. William Howard Gilpin has re-
turned to her home in Bloomfield, N. j.,
after being the guest of her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah w. Jones, at the
Briars, near Olney.
Mr.. and Mrs. Parkhurst
and Daughter Going Abroad.
Mrs. Frederick Parkhurst of Edge
moor accompanied by her daughter,
Miss Anna Parkhurst, left this week
Tor New York, where they will be joined
by MT Parkhurst and their son, Mr..
Glloden ParkhurSt, who have been
spending some time in Philadelphia.
They will sail this week for England,
where they will spend the remainder
OF the Summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Edwards have as
their guests at their home, In Battery
Park, the latter's sister, Miss Minnie
Adams, and their nieces, Miss Margaret
Adams and Miss Dorothy Adams of
indianapolis, Ind, who will be their
guests for a month.
Mr.. Barnard Welsh, IT., of Rockville is
staying at the Norfolk Country Club
during the junior tennis tournament,
eastern section, in which he Is play
ing.
Mrs. Richard Antrobus of Edgemoor
left Thursday by motor for Cleveland,
where she is the guest Of Mr.. and Mrs.
Oscar Stein.
Mrs. Victoria Massey has returned to
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her home, in Kensington, after spend
ing the Winter with her son-in-law
and daughter. Mr.. and Mrs. Louis Boyn-
ton, in MerchantSville, N. j.
Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Peter have
taken possession of their Summer
home, near Rockville.
Mrs. Keplinger Hostess
To Garden Club Members.
Mrs Fred Keplinger entertained the
members of the Battery Park Garden
Club Friday at luncheon in the garden
Of her Bethesda home. Following the
luncheon the members visited the gar
dens Of Miss Mona Gill, Mrs. A. L.
Shafer, Mrs. Benjamin Elmore, Mrs
David Lumsden, Mrs. E. F. Kohman
and Mrs. Thomas Macdonald. The
members are arranging q garden tea, to
be held In July.
Mr.. Ernest Fisk, who has been spend
ing short time in Kensington with his
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Harlan Fisk,
left Friday by motor for his home, In
Oberlin, Ohio. He was accompanied
by his parents and his sister, Miss
Marion Fisk
Mrs. Caroline Novack has returned
to her home, in. Edgemoor. after 10
days spent in Wilmington, Del.
Miss Katherine Dawson returned
Thursday to Rockville to spend the
Summer with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. Somerville Dawson. Since the
closing of Mount HolyokeF College,
where she is student, she has at
tended June week at Amherst College
and visited with friends in Mount Yer
non, N. Y. "
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Graf Of Kensing-
ton left Thursday for Monroe, N. z,
where they will sojourn for the rest OF
the Summer.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mortimer O. Stabler
have as their guests at their h Jme, In
Sandy Spring, Mr.. and Mrs. Clifton
De Vorak of New York.
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Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Wells and sons
Reginald and William, Mr.. and Mrs.
william Hunter and daughter Doris,
Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Brown and son
Robert and Mrs. Hoffman and daugh-
ter, all Of Washington.
MRS. John McCabe and daughter
Clara aud Mrs. e. J. Hobbs Of Buffalo,
N. Y, have returned after q visit to
Mr.. and Mrs. H. B. Collins, Glendale.
Miss L. A. Arnent Of Rochester, N. Y,
has been visiting at the home of her
niece, Mrs. H. H. Rowland, near Lam
ham.
Miss Helen Cox, who has just been
awarded q bachelor Of arts degree by
Goucher College, Baltimore, viii
shortly sail for Europe for an extended
Cook, Phi. D., until recently president
Of the Prince Georges County Fedora
ton of Women's Clubs viii join her
daughter in July.
Mrs. Arthur Cough and her son Of
West Virginia are guests Of Mrs. A. s.
Cough, Laurel.
DR.. and Mrs. H. Cooper, Los Angeles,
Calf. have been the guests Of Mrs.
James Boss, Laurel.
NnIS. VI IL. 1OuilB OL LduTGl 1ldS re"
turned from q visit to relatives at
Anneslie, Md.
Bridge Club Entertained
BY Mrs. j. C. Rogers. :.
Mrs. James Charles. Rogers Of john
son avenue, Hyattsville, entertained the
Monday Bridge Club this week Her
guests included Mrs. Marguerite Sands,
Mrs. Nicholas Orem, Mrs. Ernest Hin
richs. Mrs. George B. Furman, Mrs. Ed
ward q. Bucklin, Mrs. John H. Hol-
hngsworth and Mrs. Alfred Hyatt Wells.
Prior to play refreshments were served.
The prizes were awarded Mrs. Furman
and Mrs. Wells.
Miss Margaret Miriam, who recently
returned from Europe after four years
of study in music, is spending her vaca-
ton at her Summer home near Glenn
Dale. Since returning from Europe
Miss Miriam has been engaged in con-
cert and radio work in New York City
Mrs. Melvin Edlavitch of Bowie left
yesterday for trip Of Is days which
viii include Cleveland and Chicago.
Mr.. and Mrs. Berlin, Bowie, viii leave
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Miss Mcknight, Bride-to-Be
At Home This Afternoon

Miss Alice Gardner Mcknight, daugh-
ter, of Mr.. and Mrs. Edgar Senseny
Mcknight Of South Washington, Va.
will be at home this afternoon from
to o'clock. Miss Mcknight will be-
come the bride of Mr.. Guy Guthrie
Gilcrest Tuesday at $50 o'clock in the
Metropolitan Presbyterian Church.
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SUB ROSA
BY MIMI.
Not a Laugh in a Carload.

The lives of some people are just like
that. They drag along year in and
year out, but there is not one laugh in
a carload of their existence. They
Belong to the Ancient Order Of the
Long Face, seeing nothing funny in
what would make even a horse laugh.
With these people, it's pity that IN
all their heavy freight they can't carry
a barrel of monkeys. A laugh day
is as good as an applet can keep the
see it that way. They keep on being
grim and gum and grouchy.
Maybe people don't laugh because
they don't see any good in it. They
ought to know what a laugh really
means. First of all, we know it's bet
ter to laugh than to cry. Indeed, a
laugh will often take the place Of cry
and it's usually the man who has good
laugh where woman will have a good
cry.
When you stop to think about it,
laughter and tears are something alike.
A child can pass from crying to laugh
ing in a second. Grown people, If they
have the risible habit, can laugh until
the tears run down their cheeks. Why
should there be such switches and
short circuits among our feelings2
It seems as though nature had fitted
us up in such way that we can get rid
Of little sorrow and small amount of
pain by using the laugh in place of
the cry. The laugh seems to be cry
on small scale. We can afford to
laugh when we drop a penny, but we
may have to cry If it's a big dollar
which rolls away. We can smoker when
we slip and save the cry until we are
really hurt. In many cases we can
just fall down and go boom.
In this sorry old world there are lots
of things that annoy us because there
are all sorts Of mtx-ups and misunder-
standings. But il we have a sense Of
humor we can see that these little cat
astrophes are quite amusing. A sense
Of humor which tells us that life is
like that can save us many an idle tear.
The smart people who write plays
know all this. When they get hold of
a situation in which a person suffers
just little they make comedy out
Of 1t. It's only when the sorrow is
great and unavoidable that they turn
the show into q tragedy. ~..,,
There's q lot Of laughing matter in
this universe If you can only see 1t. OF
course. there is great deal of sorrow,
but the average person experiences
little more than an annoyance which
can be laughed Of If one only has the
will to laugh.
Copyright, 1921
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There Is no question about who shall
deck the tree when children are little
tots. Parents must do the happy work,
nor would they be spared it, for the glee
of the youngsters when they first see
the tree is joyous reward. The hap
piness Of adults and little folk is about
evenly shared.
1t is when the children get old
enough to trim the tree that the cues
ton OF who shall do it arises. There
are several practical viewpoints to be
considered. BY this time, after the
many years that parents have trimmed
trees, the novelty has worn thin with
them. They know that the children
cannot be surprised, although they may
be delighted with the sight of the tree
in all its splendor. Therefore the zest
of the work is decidedly minimized for
the adults. who are often so wearied by
previous preparations and the rush Of
last-minute tasks that they rather
The children are restless and eager to
do something. To be told they can
trim the tree Will be greeted by shouts
of glee, that IS, the first time they are
allowed to trim it. Afterward they will
look forward to helping with the Christ
mas preparations by assuming this
work.
Tired mothers often find this pleasure
of their children great relief. Some
times the children find pleasure in
surprising the parents with the gaily
adorned tree, and it is the latter who
are kept in suspense until Christmas
morning. 1t is then for the parents to
show their satisfaction and astonish-
ment, and never by word or look to in
dictate that everything is not just right.
Copyright. 1927
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Public Schools.

The superintendent of schools writes
from town in a nearby State:
"a few years experience in buying
Janitor'S supplies for schools has con-
WINGED me that there is a wide field for
graft and that the opportunity has not
been wasted. In the matter of disin-
fectants and deodorants, for example,
we have aromatic blocks, pine oil dis
tnfectantS and, finally, the salesman
who would have you pay 50 to 81 gall
Ion for formaldehyde solution whose
content he does not profess to know. I
have paid exorbitant prices for cleaners
with catchy trade names only to learn
that I might have bought the same
thing at a reasonable price under its
common commercial name. Can you
tell me what may be used as clean,
cheap, effective deodorant. What Is
your opinion of the use of sprays in
school rooms as preventive Of diSease?"
If disinfectants, decdorants or cleans
ers must be purchased for use in the
schools, why should not the chemistry
and physics department of the schools
advise what should be used? Are our
public schools so poorly manned that
the head Of the chemistry. department
can't give expert advise about such a
thing? Is the teaching of physics in
the school system so abStruse and un-
practical that the head of the physics
department is unable to tell the pur-
chasing agent what materials are best
for cleansers?
What earthly use is it to require a
boy or girl to take course in physics
and a course in chemistry, as every
school should require, and carefully
avoid teaching the pupil anything about
the physics and chemistry in his or her
daily life? The great weakness in these
science courses in our public schools is
that the science teachers are too much
interested in mathematics. A reason
able amount of mathematics may be
good for a pupil, but when the mathe-
mates department gets through with
him it Is regrettable that the physics or
chemistry department should feel in
duty bound to rub some more mathe-
mates into the luckless pupil.
The graft the superintendent has the
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WINTERTIME

Thin and frail, and very lovely, the
ice sheets spread across the brooks, SO
thin that you would think a rabbit
could not run across them without fall
ing through, and, indeed, it is quite
possible that he could not. In q season
of year that must admit much slush,
much sickness, many day with boil
ing gray skies and much that is dismal
or inconvenient there Is one boast, and
that is the beauty of the ice on run
and creek.
just possibly you are not so pleased
with the beauty of ice when it cracks
your milk bottles. The odd property OF
water which causes 1t to contract as 1t
is cooled (as, indeed, almost all things
do) until close to the freezing point
when it suddenly expands (Which al
most nothing else in Nature does) is
responsible for your spilled milk.
the expansive power Of ice. 1t is a very
healthy little lesson in biological OBJ
servatien and philosophy to stop and
consider what would happen if ice, like
other substances, steadily contracted
as it cooled. If it did so, 1t would, for
its volume, be heavier than water. And
If ice were heavier than water it would
sink to the bottom Of every pond and
stream.
The eccentric expansion curve OF
water is only one of it's marvellous and
unique properties, such, for instance. as
the fact that its vapor is lighter than
air. Were it not, we would never have
rain, and we would live in a perpetual
dense fog.
The supply of water never materially
changes on this old earth. In short
water seems to be exactly adapted to
sustaining life and without it ali things
ole swiftly.