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Show Ill IIJ uu- Jl J VIEWING THE MORNING II ! STAR, fl ' Urging the Importance of looking f I at something more impressive than j the lights of the streets, the Bulletin II ' says: i : "The planet Venus is now, the as-. I f! tronomers say, at a rare period of II i ! greatest brilliancy. Early every morn-i fl j I ing she comes swimming up out of I I i the dawn mist, glowing like a warm I ! young moon. The sun is not tar . behind her, but she hold her own j ;. ) against its coming light, and glows j i so brightly that one might expect j ! to see her by plain daylight. It is . j ' worth while to get up to look at Ve- j, nus, or, if that cannot be done, 10 ! stay up to see her. We go long dis- tances by automobile, train and steam- er to look at sights much less wonder- j lul. But It Is doubtful if very many 1 I people who live in modern cities do i look very often at the stars. Our I K house-tops are too often somebody else's floor, the lights on the ground ij ! dazzle us and we are reminded of Ut- j I tie not made by the hand of twentieth century man. It would soothe us to I I j remember that other civilized people, I jj ; centuries ago, looked on this same J. : Venus, and that others still, after yet H , ! more centuries, will still be able to 1 look at her. We are a feeble folk I I 1 and do not live very long; we might I , worry less if we realized how feeble wo are, how short our time, and how great and enduring are the forces of the universe. If our small tick of . time is going wrong it may not prove ' that all things always and evcry-' evcry-' where are wrong." oo |