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The New Astronomer
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HERE. THERE
and
EVERYWHERE
His Absent-mindedness. No wonder that M. Painleve, on three hours' sleep a day, is famous for his absent-mindedness. He has been known to arrive at the door! of a house at which he was expect
what for dinner, forget for purpose he had come, and depart without ringing the bell.
ed
But perhaps the most famous story told against M, Painleve con-
Invitation.
Your Daily Smile.
SUGGESTION.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1933.
THLORY OF A LOST
CONTINENT
ROMANCE OF LEMURIA
IN THE PACIFIC :
FASCINATING STUDY
(By Howard Spring.)
When you walk up the steps of, certain knowledge amid much that
buy clothes. body start a swimming school for out cement, flah?
one
cerns an occasion on which, after the British Museum and see is conjecture, seems to have been being entertained at dinner, he te-grimming at you on the entrance lost.
The Polynesiana, Mr. Spence lephoned to his hostess on the fl colonnade the great stone images
comparatively, late- lowing morning and apologise for from Easter Island it is impos- thinks, are,
ousted the original his forgetfulness in neglecting her faible to check some speculation comers who
concerning the civilisation that Lemurians. But traces of them can brought them into being. be found here and there: a white,
fair-haired race. In Hawail, the: You know, vaguely, something author tells us, there were rich about it. You know that some legends of the fair-haired people of the images on the island are and they were worshipped as gods,
You
of whom, Lono, departed, A woman journalist has started colossi of nearly 40 feet. a school to teach women how to know about the vast platforms promising to return. When Cap- Why doesn't some-of cut stone, fitted together with tain Cook, a fair-haired Englishman, and of the stone arrived in Hawali; he was regarded houses; and you know that those as the god Lono returned. He was blind images look from their hilla worshipped by the natives." And, upon a desolation without parallel incidentally, murdered by them, too. in the world: Pitcairn Island 1400 These are the people, Mr. Spence
the South American miles away;
thinks, who Coast 2,000 miles. The island is high pitch of civilisation. The re small; the present inhabitants are mains of them that have been found clearly incapable of executing such scattered throughout the Pacific's Britain has laid down her dis-work; and, in the remote
thousands of miles postulate the armament plans on the table, and when the statues were carved, is it ordered activities of highly intelli- France has laid down her plans for likely that so small a community as gent beings. "Numerous cities of the island can support would have considerable population," thinks Mr. found these works either necessary Spence, "some sacred and religious or possible?
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"Actors can, and should, teach themselves to speak so that all in a theatre may hear," I read,
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The mind is driven up against or porta." the question whether the bulldera did not come from elsewhere. If they did, whence? The nearest
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Was
rose in Lemuria to a
commercial nuclel
Traditions of a Flood. The existence of "millions of coloured people" working as slaves
Ros
She heaps coals of fire on her speck of land is so far off, and in that the lenst glorious part of husband's head and then hauls him those distant days navigation was for a ruling caste of aristocratic not the simple matter it is now whites is also postulated, as well as Hong Kong. Saturday, Jan. 23, 1933. Halley's life was his old age at
over them. Greenwich. In their record of
Was there conceivably a land near the existence of "a large and power- ful priesthood.... That the arts to Easter Island, a land that achievement Sir Frank Dyson's What the Stars Foretell.
and crafts were in the hands of twenty-two years at the Roya!
"He will be the first husband; there no longer? Yes; there
castes, probably hereditary, is also likely...
Another conclusion which Observatory need not be afraid who has made me really happy." Lemuriu. of comparison with the work of
That is the answer given by Mr. seems irresistible is that the royalty his illustrious predecessors. The Even a Germ Will Tura.
Lewis Spence in "The Problem of and aristocracy of Lemuria led an Thales, while looking at the use of photography, the issuing Many a man who boasts that he Lemuria" (Rider, 10/6). Whether existence of the most luxurious stars, is said to have fallen into of time-signals by radio-tele-has never had a cold should ponder or not Atlantis will ever be more character."
self-respecting than a gorgeous myth that stirs the ja well; and a Thracian maid rat-graphy, the adoption of the Free
Mr. Spence does not think that a catastrophe overwhelmed ed him soundly for neglecting Pendulum Clock, the equipment germ would get within miles of imagination of men, Lemuria, at sudden
of the Magnetic Observatory on him.
least, the sunken continent of the Lemuria. He leans rather to belief what lay at his feet while attend-Leith Hill, and the preparations
Pacific, emerges more and more as in a gradual undermining of the ing to the things above his head. for a new, transit circle -- these
matter that may engage the mind mighty empires which he This is but one of many inci-are outstanding achievements in
Ernst Haeckel, in the "History of postulated. And what became of dents w nich have caused the an age when astronomical pro-
Creation,' had no doubts, "The the Lemurians, driven thus from profession of astronomer to be gress is quicker than ever be held lightly in the popular esti-fore. To the outside world the Flashlights to be worn on a base- South Sea," he wrote, "at one time pillar la post by earthquake and It is the author's view that some nation. Yet it is not too much nightly watches of the observa- ball umpire's back to signal his formed a large Pacific continent. eruption?" to say that the whole structure tional astronomer may appear decisions in night games have been and the numerous little islands
which now lie scattered in it were of them found their way to Peru. of modern civilization depends on dull. They are of the solid rather invented by a Florida clergyman. simply the highest peaks of the "Goad evidence exists that the races astronomy; for upon exact astro- than the spectacular kind. From nomical observation hangs the Flamsteed, who furnished the Manganese deposits in the Port- mountains covering that continent of the West Coast of South America science of navigation. No in- mean places of the moon to New-masburg district of South Africa. This large continent of former possessed their own traditions of a stitution has done more for obser- ton, through Maskelyne, who have been brought into production times Sclater. an Englishman, has great flood, and this assists the called Lemuria, from the monkey theory that the region in which they vational astronomy than the made 90,000, observations with after four years of investigation. like animals which inhabited it, and dwelt had been at one time settled Royal Observatory at Green-only one assistant, right up to the wich. The appointment of present day the ideal at Green. A new scrubbing brush holds it is at the name time of great im- or invaded by people of Lemurian new Astronomer Royal is wich has been to dispel what pieces of soap that produce suds as portance from being the probable race who had brought with them the
cradle of the human race." therefore a matter of public im- seemed to Burke the apparent the brush is operated between a In sponge pad and a removable wooden portance, and it will be with "confusion" of the stars. great satisfaction that the public handing on that ideal Sir Frank top. learnt that Sir Frank Dyson's Dyson has the satisfaction of successor is Dr. Spencer Jones, knowing that it will be faithfully who was his Chief Assistant followed by Dr. Spencer Jones. from 1913 to 1923 and has since been His Majesty's Astronomer
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memory of cataclysmic happenings." Now Mr. Fitzgerald Lee, in that Other Sunken Lands.
fascinating book
Great "The Mr. Spence's mind, too, is made Migration," reviewed here recently, Cars attached to cables suspended up. He believes that there was a took the South American flood archipelago in legends, coupled with the existence from bigh towers carry passengers great land mass or across the harbour of Barcelona, the vicinity of Easter Island and of similar legends in the Old Testa- that it foundered as recently as the ment, as one of the starting points seventeenth century; that there was for his theory that the original at the Cape of Good Hope. Ho Cricket And Chewing Spain, at a rate of 300 an hour.
a continent stretching from the home of the Hebrews was South "Exodus" comes to his new duties with
time. It is far otherwise, however, Sandwich group to New Zealand and America, and that the [high qualifications. He still bears!
with the women cricketers and the completely including that land with was an epic journey thence across: the lustre of an exceptionally brilliant career at Cambridge; he The Victorian Women's Cricket Victorian Women's Cricket Associa-in its area; that another continent ths Behring Sca, through Asia, to' If Mr. Spence is right and Mr. has a knowledge of the routine Association, an Australian rather tion. They are vexed with a ques-stretched from New Caledonia to Egypt. work at Greenwich that will enthan a nineteenth-century body, have tion of health and fitness which Sumatra; and that there are three sure continuity with Sir Frank a problem before them much thora also goes to the very root of cricket-other sunken land-masses of con- Lee is right, we are back one step Dyson's tenure of office; and he far-reaching than the problema -be-ring ethics. At a recent match be-siderable magnitude indicated now further, The Wandering Jews and common.antiquity amid the fruitful has had long experience of what fore the Australian Board of Con-tween two women's elevens at Melby the islands of Ponape, Oleai and the 'Lemurians are confounded in a wastes of the Pacific. "Were the is an astronomer's Paradise. So trol The Board of Control have to bourne the complaint was lodged Yap.
of the teams had used
That land in the Pacific plays Lemurians Jews? Is the question favourable is the South African decide how far members of the that one
tricks is incontestable. with which these scholars, confront climate to observation of the Australian Eleven may carry on chewing gum to fix the balls to the strange heavens that since 1902, eight ob-journalisms, and whether men who wicket, so that the slow bowler, the Floating islands, and islands that servatories have been added to are, upon occasion, allowed someone bowler of lobs or sneake, had little are here to-day and gone to-morrow, getting a wicket, are almost a commonplace. Fifty the two already existent there; else to run for them may also, if chance of
สไล hit the stumps years ago, Mr. Spence reminds us, and the Radcliffe Trustees have they plead a stiff forefinger, have even if
one thing for s for them. It is
bats the ship Dayspring lost ber anchor for long debated the advisability someone of adding a ninth by moving These questions turn on the health woman to be allowed to smooth out in deep water off Tanna, "To-day theirs from Oxford. Dr. Spencer of the players, and journalism, the pitch with her bat to prevent it rests on the summit of a bill Jones has turned this climatic, ad-which is proverbially a life of late bowlers from gaining unexpected which has taken the place of the vantage to good effect, notably hours and dissipation, is frowned advantage from a special worn depths where it was lost." in his work on the now star, upon as being bad for young patch. It is something quite differ-
Here is the ground on which Mr. "Nova Pictoris." In returning to cricketers. To the argument of the ent to allow them themselves to Greenwich it can truly be said of would-be journalists that the beat doctor the pitch or the wicket. Spence assumes that the land round himp, caelum, non animam, doctor is a good Income, and that Women cricketers are more fully Easter Island foundered in modern mutat and, if in our northern the profits of their pens will make equipped than are men for this times. In 1688 one Wafer describ To suffer oneself to be stung no fogs he does not see Charles's them leap about the field in an doctoring. The shine on the newed how he saw to the westword of fewer than 150 times by, bees in a drastic form of treat- Wain so frequently as he now ecstasy of solvency, bringing off im- ball can be taken off by the same Easter Island a range of high land order to be cured of rheumatism sees the Southern Cross, he will possible catches In order to have cosmetics which keep the shine off which we took to be islands... This seems have the satisfaction of knowing plenty of copy for their articles, the the nose, and much can be done land seemed to reach about fourteen ment, yet this is what one Christ. that he holds the most important Board have no particular answer at with powder to mitigate slipperi-or fifteen leagues lo a range, and church resident did in order to and most highly coveted post in the moment. What is plain is that dess. Bowlers would find it useful there came thence great flocks of be rid of the disease to which she the astronomical world, and that among Australian men cricketers a to dye particular important epots on fowls The land was call- was a martyr, from him all Great Britain will simply criterion of health is what the pitch, rolling their heads on it ed Davis and after the com- It was 80 years ago that she take its times and all the world has to be applied No responsible while waiting for the next bats-mander of Wafer's ship. Thirty did this, but the announcement its longitude. His appointment man, whatever his views on this woman. All these tendencies must five years later a Dutch ad- that doctors in Vienna had die- is a high tribute to Bir Frank matter, is suggesting, that unfair be voluntarily checked, or the Vie mirallooked for Davis Land, covered the efficacy of treatment Dyeon, with whom he has been ness will creep into the match. Any torian Women's Association will and found nothing but Easter by, Bees' venom reminded her of The idea was not new, she so closely associated. Since the member of the Australian Eleven have to forbid the presence of hand- Island, Mr. Spence does not tell us what she herself had undergone. King's Astronomer is now a who uses his journalistic appoint- bags and the use of cosmetics whether Easter Island was then In-
else to write
RHEUMATISM CURE
BY BEE STINGS.
Christchurch Resident Has 150 "Doses."
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(Reuter's Special. Mall Service,)
me
Civil Servant, Sir Frank Dyson ment to attribute high scares to altogether, And then what chance habited, or whether, if it was, the said It was certainly effective levetiring on reaching the age himself and ducks to his opponents (will poor old cricket have of increas Dutch admiral talked to the people, in her case, for she had been com limit of sixty-five. He will probajor rivals will find that he will only ing its present quite slight popu- Their minds would have been full pletely cured. The first 30 or 40
overwhelming. A good chance of she had not noticed them. ably be glad of an opportunity to be able to establish his own version larity among the more Influentis of a catastrophe so recent and so stings had hurt, but after, that Megye: Gree rich while his eye in a limited area and, for a short half of the human race?