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The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-02-08
CHAPTER V

C6tAT 1Eh
 It was almost midnight when Sy- bil returned to her own home. She had left her uncle in a particularly jovial frame of mind, and she felt certain that he would relent in the matter of Philip. She decided to wait up an hour or so, in case her brother did get home that night. It would not do for him to believe that she had let him down, because she meant to lave him do something for her.
 As matter of fact, she rarely failed him. Philip was extrava- gant, impetuous and utterly ir- responsible, yet he had a certain reckless charm which compelled her admiration. It might have been that she understood his faults because the same desires smol- dered within her. If she were bet ter able to control them than he was, it was bcause she viewed the worlds tolerance with more calculation.
 There was Uncle John, for one thing. Despite the trust fund with her father had left them, Uncle John was still an economic necessity, and his principles must be appeased. That task Sybil took unto herself and she handled it well.
 Jennings, the butler, looked in- to the living room.
 q put your car in the garage Miss Sybil," ne announced sedate- ly. will there be anything else"
 NO, Jennings, nothing more She picked up magazine anc settled herself on the divan. "By the way, did my brother call while was out?"
 "No, Miss sybil. There were nc calls"
 Thank you. Don't bother with the lights. I'm staying up a while"
 Every well, Miss Sybil." He withdrew quietly, leaving an op- preSsive stiffness about the room.
 Sybil turned the pages of the magazine listlessly and listened to the hall clock tick of the seconds. The house seemed chilly, she thought.
 Her own living room was a fit- ting background for Sybil Hendry. It was, as she was, smart, Sophisti- cated. Modern furniture stood out strikingly against dull, off-white walls, skillfully frightened by con- cealed ceiling lights. The floor was completely covered by a warm char treuse velvet carpeting, with lux uriouS small Chinese rugs, in the same tones as the furniture, scat tered in careleSSly correct fashion. The draperies were in old-blue vel vet, their edges caught back in the same studied carelessneSS to show a lining of chartreuse satin.
 Mirrors were used artistically - as table tops, as frames for the two large Chinese prints, and as panels down the entire length of the wall from ceiling to floor, to catch the reflection of windows op- posite. Odd pieces of furniture in old ivory and gold held priceless lamps of Chinese porcelain and ex- penSive smoking accessories.
 The only striking note of color in the room was huge vase of deep red roses. kept fresh through the thoughtfulness of Uncle John, which stood on a table in front of an enormous triple window.
 Uncle John did not like Sybil's living room. He often intimated jokingly that its absolute perfec- ton made him feel uncomfortable. One day, he told her, the room would learn that he'd been raised in the degradation of mining camp and 1t would freeze him to death for bespoiling it.
 Shortly before one o'clock Sybil
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A program of dancing numbers by pupils of Miss Peggy Minnaman was given after the dinner. Miss Minnaman danced a solo waltz, and group numbers were done by Mary and Harriet Walton, Beth Olson, Jean Mitchell and Arlene Cook.
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Contract Bridge
ELTON CONTRACT CLUB

Top scorers in yesterday after noo'n's session of the Elton Contract Club conducted by Mrs. William Sherman Smith were: Section l.: Mrs. Edward Balthazar and Mrs. Clifford Morin, 27 1-2; and Mrs. S. M. Main and Mrs. H. H. Walcott, g 1-2.
 The standing in the section is as follows: Mrs. Arthur Williams and Mrs. Charles Hayward, "A 1-2 and Mrs. J. R. Hicks and Mrs. Bessie Cameron, 72.
 Section II: Mrs. John Monzani and Mrs. J. A. Wright, 87; Mrs. H J. Mccarthy and Mrs. Walter Wood tied with Mrs. G. W. Swentor and Mrs. Thomas Tobin, 86 1-2; Mrs Charles Egan and Mrs. A. G. Dem ing. 83.
 The standing to date includes Swentor- -Tobin, 269 1-2; Wright Monzani PAS and Hess-Moeller, PAP.
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The Connecticut Federation of Music clubs annual convention will be held in Waterbury on May 20. Plans for this and other events were made at the February meet ing of the executive board held at the Stratfield hotel Bridgeport, Saturday afternoon, at which Miss
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The four-f1ve no trump conven- tion is probably the best known of the Culberston slam devices. De- veloped comparatively early, it was retained in the modern Culbertson system. When a player feels that he and his partner have an excellent chance of making slam in the play of the cards, he bids four no trump to find out how many aces there are in the combined hands.
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CAST OF CHARACTERS

CAST OF CHARACTERS
 JOAN BARRETT, heroine, sec- tary of John Hendry.
 JOHN HENDRY, mining in- vestment head.
 BOB ANDREWS, Hendry's ju- l;ior partner and loans fiance. SYBIL HENDRY, sOcialite, John Hendry's niece and Joan's rival in love.
 PHILIP HENDRY, Sybil's brother.
 DOROTHY STARKE, Joan's girlhood friend.
 CHARLES NORTON, California mining promoter.
 Yesterday: SybiI learns that Joan once worked in Chicago and promptly she seizes that as starting point from which to check Joan's past.
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CONTRACT BRIDGE
 By VIM. E. MCKINNEY Secretary of the American Bridge League
Locate Aces

Slam Bidding FourFive No Trump Convention Is One of Best Known Culbertson Devices to
 Anoc
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CORNELL CONTRACT BRIDGE

CORNELL CON1RACl DhADOE
 In the Monday afternoon session of the Cornell Contract club con- ducted by Mrs. John c. Moriarty top scorers were: Mrs. William Cleary and Mrs. Nelson Squires, 1l31a Mrs. John McManus and Mrs. Will liam Connell. no; and East and West, Mrs. George Bolan and Mrs H. R. Standiford, 12912; Mrs. Thom- as Morin and Mrs. John Shea, 1201a
 The standing to date is as follows: Hengeveld- -Hengeveld, 33314; Bolger- Petitjean, 324: Ryan-Smith, 32212, and York-Reilly, 3211a.
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MT. and Mrs. Lawrence Osborn have returned to their home on East Main street after spending 8 few days in New York.
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ELTON CONTRACT CLUB

MT. and Mrs. David Miller and Walter Geraghty and Alfred Gold man were high scorers with a score of 45 at the Elton Contract Club last evening with Irving W. Chap man and w. s. Smith, runners-up with Al.
 Following the session a social hour was enjoyed at which time the Elton Contract Trophy was awarded.
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Weddings
Personal

Mrs. Mabel Martin and Mrs. Lydia Friend of Camden, N. J., are guests of MT. and Mrs. William F. Chipman of Easton avenue for several days.
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D. J. Moynahan, manager of the local Metropolitan office, Otto Bath and Joseph Cavanar~h have return ed from New York where they at- tended the convention of the Metro politan Life Insurance company. It was reported that the Mattatuck of- flee led New England groups in all around records for the company.
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children and the bottom one for the
adults.
There are some very old log out
buildings on the premises, seemingly
to indicate that earlier structures
were built there even before the man
sion itself was erected.
The old-fashioned garden surround
ing the mansion is typical of those
cultivated by the early Maryland set
tiers, and the enormous lockwood trees
indicate they were planted many years
ago.
Frederick County and Washington
County were particularly among those
Maryland counties invaded by Con.
federate troops during the Civil War,
and Rock Hall was not entirely spared.
The marks of at least one soldier
there is visible today This happened
when a search was being made Tor
arms, and when one of the cup
boards was not opened quickly enough
the officer in charge of the troops OIL
dered it slashed open. The saber
marks still exist.
But even if ones mind does not
turn to old buildings a drive up
through picturesque Maryland at this
time of the year cannot prove other
than beneficial and interesting.
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Sightseeing Trips to
Capital Are Part
of Program.

ment and character to serve the boys
and supervise activities.
As usual, branch of the Y. M
c. A. Woodward School for Boys
will conduct six weeks session at
the camp this year, the purpose being
to assist boys who want to improve
their standing in their public school
classes, or those who may wish to
make up class work at Woodward
or some other private school, In
dividual instruction will be given in
one or more studies. Study hours are
arranged SO as not to interfere in any
way with the students participation
in the daily camp program.
AL instructors for the summer ses-
sion will be members of the Wood
ward School staff. The instruction
and teaching is planned and super
vised by Prof. J. j. King, headmaster
of woodward School.
The camp is only short distance
from Washington, both as to mileage
and the length of time it takes to
get there by automobiles over good
roads.
Camp Let's present-day develop
ment is the result of hard work on
the part of Y. M. G. A. executives
and friends, who have brought 1t to
its present status from crude be-
ginning in 1906. 1T is named for the
late John c. Let's, its principal bene-
factor.
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his own use a small telescope. His
friends and acquaintance became
interested, and with his aid more in
struments were built. These anna
teurs then organized club which, in
1924, bought the top of a mountain
and built its own observatory.
Mr.. Porter then wrote an article for
Popular Astronomy, captioned THE
Poor Mans Telescope" Albert Ingalls,,
casually turning the pages of that
magazine. stopped at that arresting
title. What he read so stirred his
imagination that without delay he
visited the New York City Library, in
search of book that would tell him
how to go about making a telescope.
There was but one book covering
that subject, in the English language,
and none in the book shops. But Mr..
ingalls, had determined to make a
telescope, so he imported a copy of
that book from London and set to
work. In the course of time he i'm
provised mounting for his mirror,
claiming that the adventure in so
doing was half the fun.
Mr.. Porter. in the meantime, had a
few more articles published, with the
result that he was besieged with re-
quests for practical help. About that
time Mr.. ingalls, conceived the idea
OF popuiarizing telescope making, this
with the information at hand and the
aid of Mr.. Porter. As a reader-inter-
est test, he had published in the Sci
entific American, in 1925, the story
OF a night with the Vermont anna
teurs. There ensued nearly 300 let
ters urging the publication of prac-
tical instructions for making tele-
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"It Is not hard to see shooting stars
and make unreliable observations of
them," he tells us, but it is an art,
mastered by few amateurs or profess
sionals, to photograph the elusive in
truders in our upper atmosphere and
make permanent and accurate records.
I'VE must have meteor photographs.
One thousand Photographic plates ex-
amined in the Harvard collection re-
vealed only few hundred meteor
trails. They form the most important
collection Of such data in the world
and emphasize the Importance of
meteors in the problems of inter-
stellar space, of comets and asteroids,
OF the nature Of nebulae and of the
origin and maintenance of starlight.
Meteors are fundamental and little
known; they are the game of the as
Economical sportsman, and If he can
work with others of his kind, so much
the more important is the contribu-
tion.'
II you have the time and spirit
for 1t. he continues, YOU may crown
the zeal you have displayed in max
ing an astronomical instrument by
using it intelligently and constructive
ly on important projects. The pro-
fessional astronomer has gained too
much from the amateur in the past
to disregard him at this time. when
many useful contributions can be
made by the man whose hobby is
astronomy"
CHRISTIAN HUYGENs was one of
the first amateur astronomers.
Inspired by Galileo's efforts, he built
a telescope by means of which he
untangled the mystery of Saturn's
rings.
sir William Herschel, a musician
OF the middle 18th century, became
impressed by what had been discoy-
cred by the use of telescopes. He
mad started to write treatise on har-
mony. Then he bought a book on
astronomy, by Ferguson, and the
treatise on harmony was never COM
pleted, for when Sir William was not
teaching, conducting, or carrying on
MS work as organist, he was busy
building telescopes and observing,
chiefly for recreation. For four or
nve years he built numbers of tele-
scopes-so many that his sister Caro-
line recorded in her diary her dismay
at his turning the drawing room, bed
rooms, almost every room in the house
into a workshop where he could build
bigger and better telescopes.
But even Caroline succumbed to the
fascination of the starry heavens as
seen through her brothers telescopes
She discovered seven comets and wrote
Q Book on Observations
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scopes such as the Vermont amateurs
had constructed and used; thus ANA
teur telescope making got of to a
good start.
Mr.. Porter. because of his excellent
work while pioneering, has been called
to work on the 200-inch disc at the
California Institute of Technology,
while Mr.. ingalls, has written a book
on amateur telescope making, in
which he puts it to us this way. "It
is not dead easy not for the born
bungler. You must use your head a
little, but need not be an Einstein." :"
The sale of more than 10000 copies
OF that book is mute testimony to
the popularity of amateur telescope
making.
DIR. SHAPLEY anticipated the ques-
tion of amateurs who have built
telescopes for themselves. In his fore
word to Mr.. ingalls, book, he answers
that question-"what next?" Besides
stressing the good work that can be
done in observing and recording vari-
ables, he holds out a tempting bit of
bait to all amateur astronomers.
IF you have fashioned telescope, !"
he says, when you have mounted. a
very rapid Photographic lens you are
invited to join the ranks of the as
Economical sportsmen and 60 cunning
for photographs of shooting stars.
Photographing shooting stars costs no
more than fishing in the Adiron-
dacks, hunting mountain sheep in
Rockies or angling of Catalina Island;
but it should have much the same
appeal and bring a greater thrill when
success arrives"
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nose and throat specialists. MIR. Bar
nick. the camp director, has q back
ground of seven years experience as
an executive in Y. M. G. A. boys
work. He had done graduate work
at Columbia University In develop
mental psychology.
kDW1N T. THAYER, associate camp
director. likewise has long back
ground Of experience in camp work
and in the promotion of activities
for the health, welfare and enjoy
ment Of boys.
AL those appointed to the camp
counselor staff are young men, chosen
for their special fitness in temperma-
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Modern Rifle Range
Ready for June
Opening.
BY William G.. Pollard.

- ~ OtSNg W.
~ EEPING pace with modern
n camp developments, Camp
L y Let's, the Central Young
Mems Christian Association
camp for boys, located on the banks
of the Rhode River, near Annapolis,
Md. will open June "a with added
facilities for recreation and amuse-
ment for the growing boy.
Added this year to the camps large
accommodations for healthy games,
swimming, boating and variety of
other recreational activities, appealing
jointly to the boys and parents, will be
rifle range.
Built along the most modern lines,
under advice of the National Rifle As
sociation, the range will offer an
other means for fun and training of
the boys. The skillful use of firearms
will be taught on 1t and every safety
measure taken to avoid any accident.
Only boys IL years of age or more will
be allowed to shoot on the range and
then only with the written permission
from parent or guardian. A qualified
range officer will be in charge. Single
shot .22-caliber rifles will be used and
no boy will be allowed to handle either
rifle or ammunition at any place
except on the range and under super
vision. Precautionary measures, like
wise, viii be taken to keep other
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standards are required of applicants
for acceptance.

standards are required of applicants
for acceptance.
THE camp site includes 2l9 acres of
: woodland with an unbroken shore
line. Aside from all the physical as
poets of the camp, In further keeping
with Y. M. G.. A. ideals, especial at
tention is paid to the character build
ing Of each boy and developing in him
his best qualities-to help him get
along with other boys and become q
useful citizen.
Special provision is made at the
camp for the growing boys appetities.
Menus will be arranged this year by
Miss A. L. Gregory, dietitian and
graduate OF Cornell University, who
during the school season is dietitian
here at the Paul Junior High School
As in past years, well-balanced meals
will be served, with 4 plentiful supply
of fresh vegetables. Drinking water
comes from drilled wells and is tested
regularly by the District Health De-
partment.
The camp dining hall is especially
designed and constructed. It Is ar
tistically arranged, with large and
beautiful fireplace at one end. Be-
yond is model kitchen with the
most modern equipment.
The boys religious training is not
overlooked. In a beautiful grove IS
well equipped and arranged OPEN
air chapel, provided for by the Or
ganized Bible Glass Association OF
this city. There chapel services are
held regularly. Boys Of Catholic
faith are taken to Annapolis each
Sunday for worship there.
A first-aid clinic, under medical
supervision, Is maintained to meet
any emergency. Weekly visits are
made to the camp By Or. George B.
Tribe, one Of Washington's leading
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same from any point on this terres-
trial sphere.
THERE are six planetariums in this
country. The largest is the
Hayden, in New York. incidentally,
1t houses the Cape York 361a-ton
meteorite, the largest in the United
States. 1t was brought from Green
land by Admiral Peary. The most
unusual planetarium. however, is the
Rosicrucian, in San Jose, Calf, where
both the Copernican and the old Egyp-
tian theories are demonstrated.
Glasses are instructed once a week
at the United States Naval Observa-
tory. by Mr.. U. S. Lyons, after which.
If the weather permits, teacher and
student club members turn to the
rotunda to observe the objects of their
study. Reluctantly as the midnight
hour approaches they leave for home.
Recently they witnessed the conjunc-
ton OF Venus and Mars 1t will be 40
years before conjunction of these
two planets may again be seen.
Eminent astronomers have shown
an interest in the local association,
and among various things have gener-
ously offered to address the club from
time to time. Some club members
also have taken their place on the
platform and contributed a pleasant
and beneficial evening with appropri-
ate talks supplemented by interesting
pictures or miniature models of celes-
tial bodies improvised for comparative
purposes.
Travel and correspondence also are
features Of the local association. Cap
ital amateurs receive letters from all
parts of the world-they may come
from far away seaport or the midst
of an African jungle, and this proves
doubly delightful to the amateur
astronomer who is also a stamp COL
lector.
Only recently capital amateurs went
to Philadelphia to take in the sights
at the Fels Planetarium and to frater-
nHe with fellow amateurs of the
Quaker City. Both features of the
trip were a delight to the local anna
teurs who returned more than ever
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ly together to accomplish the good
work!
A telescope Is worth any effort put
forth in the making. Six thousand
stars are visible to the naked eye; a
three-inch telescope brings a million
into view. Fascinated, the observer
silently follows clusters of stars slow
ly revolving about each other, or be-
comes engrossed in plotting the mag
nltude OF star. But one would not
attempt to fathom the feelings of the
observer when, with small but eff
fective telescope, he beholds beauty
that stirs in him emotions that touch
his very soul.
A kindred feeling has touched us
all at times when, even without
telescope, the enchantment of a starry
sky has arrested our attention momeu-
tarily and filled us with wonder
wonder mingled with awe.
PATIENCE and devotion are the
watchwords of some amateurs.
Peltier is one of these. It requires
not less than two, and upward to 90
minutes to plot the magnitude of a
star, constantly moving the tele.
scope to keep the star in line of vision.
During the day Peltier's time was
devoted to farming, mechanics and
various other occupations, but at
night he liked to contemplate the
heavens-to visit other worlds. So
he built a very small telescope about
20 years ago. Later he built others.
With the aid of these instruments he
has made and recorded more than
$1,000 observations. But he did not
stop there.
One night he discovered a stranger
in the heavens, and watched it un-
ceasingly for five hours. Growing
anxious lest cloudy skies interrupt his
vigil, Peltier wired Harvard ObServa-
tory to train one of its gigantic tele-
scopes on the newcomer. The morn
ing papers announced the visitor as
"Peltier's Comet" and reported the
astonishing fact that it was approach
ing our planet with such speed that
it would come closer to the earth than
our sun. Late last July, it will be
remembered, Peltier's comet was Wis
ible with the naked eye, from we'll
lighted city streets. An amateur
astronomer had written his name in
the skies.
Records Of accomplishment by
means of telescopes serve as an in
spiration to Washington's enthusiastic
amateur astronomers, who want to
know the stars more intimately-to
sweep the skies whose beauty is en-
hanced hundredfold by the use of
their Six-inch telescopes.
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campers safe distance from the
range, which will have its six targets
placed against a bank.
Ward M. Barrick, the camp director,
who also is boys work secretary of the
Y. M. c. A., announced provision also
has been made for boys to 60 horse
back riding at nearby riding
academy.
A MOTHER feature this year will be
sightseeing trips to Washington
for boy campers whose homes are out
side this city. On these trips the boys
will be taken to the various Govern
ment buildings by camp staff members,
with view to making the visits Of
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A GALAXY of stars, the planets
~ and other celestial habitants,
~ will become the intimates Of
n members of the National Cap