Show BOIS GIELS GIRLS on any dark night when the moon is not shining it if some one tells you where to look you can see a neb ula this is a latin word which means cloud and is applied to star gas if it may be so called that Is if you believe in the nebular hy poti sis SIB of the origin of stars for that theory says that stars begin in a vast enormous cloud of thin aarl rari fled fied gas which by the force of at traction begins to congregate then to whirl in a great spiral with immense curving arms on it getting coddens ed more and more getting to move around on its axis faster and faster and as things went on becoming more and more luminous until a star is formed this theory is modified but very briefly stated it is about like that A star is a sun one very emi nent astronomer says we were yank ed eft off the sun this earth was by a star coming near and its pulling force drew this earth dob out of the great plastic mass and that when we were caught in the gravitational pull of our sun and hae haie spun around it ever since this fall for a few weeks it you will look in the right place some where northeast of us say about over leamington leavington Lea pass you can see if your eyes are good a tiny little gray fog with an ordinary pair of 0 field glasses or binoculars you can make it out better it Is a huge spiral turned partly edgewise toward us so big it is thought that it takes light many years to even travel across it and to come from it many THOUSANDS OF OP I 1 EARS the thing that you look at tonight you see with light that left it a long long time ago it is called the great nebula of 0 andromeda and is one of the big gest in the heavens the story Is queen cassiopeia and her spouse had a marvelously beautiful daugh ter as good as she was pretty but the kingdom was in sore straits had incurred the ill will ot of the goda gods and a sacrifice must be made a noble one none other than the queen queens s lovely daughter so andromeda was chained to the rooks and the sea serpent dra co was just going to gobble her up when perseus flew up armed with the helmet of pluto making him in visible and bearing the good sword that would cut anything and he snipped the chains and set th mald n free after killing the mon monster sterl the wedding was held in the por tico of 0 the palace but the other lovers of th gal got their heads to gether and said let s give th dutter duffer th bum s rush and pitch im autta th party with a bloody nose and a torn shirt lets let a learn im t stick t home homet and th whole caboodle started th rumpus when perseus put his hand into his wallet and pulled out medusa medusas s head that ten gorgon he had slain who was so awful a sight with her writhing snake locks and her fangs dripping human gore that whose whoso looked was instantly frozen into stone in hor nor he pulled it out and held it high instantly the onrush was stopped guests enemies the mad crew whoever looked froze in their steps turned to stone and today the stat uary nary may be seen in ancient greece and it if you will but look up toward the leamington leavington Lea pass any dark night this early tall fall you may see see it all Casse cassiopeia on her throne the poor maiden chained in agony to the rocks draco the serpent winding his sinuous length to the dainty morsel set tor for him and perseus poised on wing to strike the freeing treeing blow all this you can see by just glanc glane ing up toward leamington leavington Lea from any where here on the flat there are some people so dulled as not to believe a word of it sto king are as read hawthorner Haw WONDER BOOK for this put most entertain angly never ever discuss a child a eating hab its with others in his presence |