Show HEA HEAVENS VENS PROVIDE FREE SHOW Tuesday night the Dame Nature opened her vast good will and staged a fine exhibit for free with all the show open to everyone About nine o'clock a shadow was seen crawling over the face of the moon This grew By half past pastor or so the moon was fully covered The final disapPearance disappearance disappearance of the last tiny crescent of white moon surf surface surface sur sur- sur- sur f face ce was very pleasing It was reluctant coy to tod tois d daP disappear is s pear requiring prompting from the wings to obey the cue Slowly the whole surface of the moon became one solid dull copper color most beautiful The man in the moon could be made out under different up make-up whereas before he was a platinum platinum I num num blonde or in up make-up of white wig and powder powder pow pow- pow pow-I der cler now he was a swarthy skinned dark-skinned pirate or deeds of blood violence buried treasure Or maybe it was the Woman in the Moon Moon- if so she had but go to the drug store for a different battie bottle bottle bot bat tle tie of up make-up and presto instead of f a platinum blonde as we were used to she was a henna-dyed henna mascara beauty and th the women have havea a habit of that Today isn't yesterdays yesterday's female female female- except in form The fhe earth was in the way of the sunbeams going to the moon in passing through our atmosphere those rays took on the color of our rich sunsets and gave the copper tint just as we see on the Big Flat Flata c a marvelously gorgeous sunset after a v Windstorm when our air is full of dust and the sun sinks a big ball of fire T Total olal obscurity lasted for some time The moon hung there changed in aspect and many cai called d asking the matter with the moon to tonight tonight tonight to- to night Then slowly an edge of white crept from the Yi west est and in an hour a reverse crescent appeared appeared appear appear- ed edas as if the sun had swiftly got around the heavens and was shining on Lunas Luna's from the di di- Or was it the spot light shifted Photographers Photographers P hers w work rk wonders in in merely shifting a lighting appliance Whatever the stage effect the was glorious Salt Lake City papers s said id clouds in that area obscured vision and it was disappointing disappoint disappoint- ing but here we were natures nature's favored children and not a thing interfered The group I was talking to asked Now could that be photographed Yes I and often is In In colors Yes in colors Such a ai I film is slow but it can be used under proper time exposure e and following of the object object- now a subject subject subject sub sub- getting too technical bringing in clock mechanisms mechanisms mechanisms isms and so forth Those who witnessed this sight saw one of the I perfect total eclipses in which earth sun and moon are in such perfect line as to cover the moon by the earths earth's shadow Often a minor up or down gives only the more common partial eclipses eclipses eclipses ses this was fullI full I cliPse Does it mean that the world prestige of mighty England ruler of the seven seas has eclipse That a shadow has b been en cast upon her might Make answer as you will The former has been dimmed and we will have to aid mightily to restore her glory My history is dim What important battle was it that a lunar eclipse that night aiding the side winning winning- Lawrence of Arabia mentions one i in lances also are recorded in Roman and Greek times and become history r Superstition has waxed fat in the past over ses Portents Ill III omen Punishment Nowadays aYs the event is scheduled by computing g mathematic- mathematic to the second far in advance Some those birds A few in Delta missed this treat Too bad It was wasa a fine show and well worth gazing at A treat |