Show TIPS TO THE STAR-GAZERS STAR Authority on lT Tell Telia About Almut Spring Do you ou kno know the tho great Spring constellation con con- Each season has one star star- picture In the sky eky lk which stands out above all tho the others In Iii winter It Is tho tim starred belt of or Orion On the left hand Bide ido shines rOH roHe on tho the rl right ht the white sun In III tho tue left-hand left upper corner cornor Is the Ama Amazon on star In Ill tho the lower right-hand right corner gleams the sword star The They form the th parallelogram paral ral 1010 Iam which we e now see sluIcing sinking In Inthe Inthe inthe the western skies In tho the Summer near the BoutT southern ern horizon gleams the tho red star Antares the tho Scorpion star between two other faint stars t In ill a curved line Above and to one ono sido are three other stars In a line which all aU together make malee tho the sprawling tI figure figuro ure of that Scorpion which killed Orion Orlan the Hunter In the tho days when the world was young oung That I Ithe Is the reason that Orion always goes JOl out of or night Ight In the tho west wesl as soon as at tho Scorpion appears In the thc southeast Tho Scorpion Is the summer l' l constellation Now aw however almost overhead nd shines the constellation of or spring Leo Leothe Leothe Leothe the Lion This constellation Is In the shapo shape of a sickle or question mark Tho The first t and brightest st star r In tho the handle of or the sickle Is Regulus one o of tho the four sk sky kings Icings Tho The next brightest star Just above e la 18 is Al leba which sounds like hike algebra but Far ur to tho the loft Is la a n. star about as al bright ht as I This Is tho tim tall tallot of ot tho the Lion Regulus Is king of tho tito south while which Is In Inthe Inthe the Southern Fish Is tho the king of tho the north Aldebaran tho the C eye 6 of or the Dull Bull o of the thc cast and Antares Antt In the Scorpion of or tho the west Re ulus Is also called thu tho heart of tho the Lion An old tablet from more than 2000 years earl before Christ has an Inscription which reads reach If U tho the star of ot tho the great Lion Is gloomy the heart of tho the people will not rejoice Rc reached Its hl highest point In the tho folk sky or culminates as the tho astronomers sn say on April C G and la is coming toward th the earths earth nt at the rate of ot five and one half miles per pOr second There Is no Immediate Immedi ate ate- cause for worry vorry however as at nt this rate rato It will not reach us for several hundred thou thousand and years ears Samuel Scovill yule vill Jr In Philadelphia Ledger |