Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-08-09

ana then went over 70 Ha0clne m Camnrldged
where the facilities Of the Harvard Observatory
assistant in the research laboratory and chose
the study Of stellar spectrums as her special
line Of investigation. Here, with the direction
Of Prof. Pickering. she began her exploring OBJ
servations and drifted deeper and deeper into
1t until 1t became her Network
Pooh, pooh,- Miss Cannon SAYS 70 Won I'd
yoa should drop . remark Of wonder at her
work. We're the most normal people IN the
world and many Of US are the happtest Our
work makes ~ cold, cynical hopeless in O UNI
verse IN which man seems the plaything? Oa
course notl Life is adventure! Never for
get that No matter what you're doine-how
little how trifling 1t is-remember that nowhere
aise, probably, Is . creature that could do Just
as you do.
mo other creature but you stops to question
its world, TO look out into it and wonder why
1t should be as 1t Is, to ask their place in it,
Your life Is q gift TO you-make it a bright
adventure None Of these instruments here can
measure your sorrow nor your happiness
"A mathematician could measure sound waves
for you and tell you in accurate technical terms
what symphony was made up Of But when
ne told you his own literal, scientific story Of it
he had not then interpreted 1t to you rs it Is
when that beautifully correlated music breaks
upon you in an auditorium
Mans moment upon earth, his httleness
and insignifcance IN the face Of the great
are one set OF facts But there are other facts
as real-love and beauty and gayety and an
the other things life gives you with Q prodigal
hand Never turn your back ON life Take It
the light and the shadow together and when
you come TO the end Of 1t you may not know
what you have wrought. Nor what may be
ahead.
Each Summer, when sunlight and warm
winds have taken the bite from shipboard ON
the Atlantic youn find Miss Cannon and her
multitude OF bags bulging with telescopes and
cameras and tripods, tucked away on one a.
the bag liners that nose down the harbor three
times Q week bound for Southampton ana
Cnerooarg. Her vacation each year with The
Eddingtons Of England is one of the BRIGHT
events On her calendar There In the pleasant
English countryside the great English astrono-
mer and his wife and Miss Cannon study the
stars and talk endlessly in their precious weeks
together.
Of the stars nils more than 100 volumes
and q corps Of skilled assistants was necessary
to make the recordings and read the prOofs
More than 15,0O0 Photographic plates were
studied in compiling the colossal work each
plate revealing Q galaxy o. heavenly bodies
and variable stars.
And one by one Miss Cannon studied each
plate. finding the variable stars with her power
full glass and classifying each one according
to its content Its magnitude and its position
In the middle Of the nineteenth century only
10 variable stars were known. Today volume
SIS Of the Harvard annals contains Miss Cam
mons catalogue Of 10000 variable stars with
copiOus Information concerning each Of them.
And I'M ADDITION 20 the see variable stars ghe
discovered are I'VE great fixed stars she ha@
located for the world Of astronomy.