Show the suns distance the rhe sun is about miles distant from the earth writes alden W quimba in june ladles ladies home journal it v irl through the year because the earths orbit Is elliptical and the sun Is ia at one focus of the ellipse the earth is more ali thin in miles nearer the sun gun in december than in june at which time the latitudes south of the equator receive his direct rays and experience peri ence the great heat of their summer let us try to comprehend the figures stated the other day two racers of the sea proudly lowered the record of tru transatlantic passage could they turn their prows to the sun and drive their great engines day and night in the ero crossing ang of the ether main it would be aj years before they could reach harbor most persons persona have noticed the appreciable preci able interval of time between the stroke of an axe at a distance and the resultant sound could we hear bear the sound of a solar explosion we would know ow that the explosion had occurred courten lour fOur teen ten years before perhaps the most striking illustration is that which arll imagines in s a little child to have an arm long enough to reach the sun the hild child might thrust its fingers into the seething ee thing fires but it would grow up to maturity and calmly descend into the valley of extreme old age blissfully unconscious of any pain from the burning ling in fact it would require another r such a lifetime to bring brim the news to the brain i |