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THE MYSTERY OF THE METEORITES.
ORIGIN AND COMPOSITION...,
The meteoric stone, weighing soven tons, which has just reached Aberdeen}" | from Greenland, where it fell from the j skies many years ago, is an exceptionally big thing of its kind, and astronomers and geologists will be curious to know exactly of what materials it is composed. The largest meteorite ever actually seen to fall on the earth was one that fell in Hungary sixty years ago, the weight of which was just over a quarter of a ton. Others have been found (the composition origin) much larger one in Mexico esti- of which clearly suggests their meteoric
mated to weigh fifty tons, and another, brought from Greenland by the late Commander Peary, which turned the scale at 36 tons.
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MR. WALPOLE ON THE NOVEL. IN COURSE OF COMPILATION
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THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY.
Mr. Hugh Walpole, the novelist, who says he has made his home permanently on the shore of Lake Derwentwater, gave his first lecture, in Beswick when us spoke to the Keswick Literary and Scientine Society on "The Victorian and | FOR CHINA, JAPAN, KOREA, INDO- the modern novel contrasted.”
The Victorian novelista, Mr. Walpole said, were on the whole the most jovi and most unself-conscious group of human beings to be found anywhere.
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hey were extraordinarily fortunate, and no novelist looking back to thow- days but would give his stars to be back at that wonderful period when this new form of literature had been scarcely ox- ploited at all, and there were no books written about it, at no books about those books. That unself-consciousness
But the great majority of meteorites
was the great diference between the weigh only a few pounds, though, as their They were unconscious of anything Victorian and the modern novelists. fall is always preceded by a loud explo outside their writing, and were swept sion, those that reach the earth are almost certainly fragments of a huge mass
into their subjects because they felt is Was something that anyone could do disintegrated by the intense heat gene- rated by its encounter with the earth's People began to liku novels, and novels atmosphere some fifty miles above the
Krew a little more sophisticated, but not ground.
The largest known, to have very much, Consider how, Thackeras avonta ports and cities of the Far East, from
and Dickens wrote their books, and osten all not know what was going to happen next, and altered characters or kille them off because people became tired of them or did not like them. The second thing which differentiated them from the modera novelist was that they had moral views. They had the clearest ideas the clearest, simplest and strongest
But modern comedy, he proceeds, even musical farce of to-day, makes much of modern dress. Special articles, publish ed in advance of the production of the piece, whet ene's curiosity to see the fashion, and of those who makes a rush to the stalls a large proportion are more interested in dress than in dramatists.
Men admire in dress precisely what they admire in character-simplicity, grace and femininity; and surely that plies to women of the Victorian era.
The present generation look upon the women's dress of the Victorian era both in their mothers' and grandmothers' time with derision and the crinoline as abortion. In this, young people are absolutely wrong, for there is one thing to be said of the much-vidiculed crino- liae that cannot be applied to women of to-day. A lady looked and moved with dignity as lady should when she wore a crinoline, but the commoner women did not, thus showing the different class of wearers very distinctly,
fallen in this country came to earth in What am I to say of the dress of Yorkshire, a few miles from Bridlington, latter days4 Is it indelicate 1. Well, toin 1795, the weight of which was 50 lbs. my mind it is suggestive and suggestiveIt is among the meteoric collection in the ness is worse than indecency. I am any. Natural History Museum. thing but prudish, yet I have been shock- ed to see women of refinement and social position. hpe the demi-monde. During the War and for a year or so afterwards the scanty skirts, the bare necks and chorus-girl theatrical attire, of our girls and children were--and still are shock ing, and quite out of place off the stage of variety shows burlesques. That it is also appallingly risky is proved by the crowded Divorce Court list. Added to this, the free-and-casy manner and cus toms of the present-day girls, to any no thing of their peaition of equality with men, make the subject of dress one dan- gerous to dwell upon. We are living in a time of revolutions, but the revolution in women's dress is by far the most start ling. Self-respect is the only means of fighting the vulgar, selfish grabber. Our women, however, in their dress have abandoned self-respect and are therefore a ready prey for the brute.
No meteorite has ever been found which contains substances not found in the earth. Over thirty terrestrial ele- ments have been definitely located in meteorites, including iron, nearly always alloyed with nickel calcium, carbon. magnesium, oxygen, phosphorus, “arsenic. potassium, hydrogen, and sulphur: while.tually no foreign influenes. in a few, minute quantities of gold, silver, copper, and the rare metal platinum are also present.".
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About 1870 the English novel became something entirely different. There came into existence that very dangerous thing -dangerous if used wrongly, but a very AN EARTH ORIGIN ↑
fine thing if used. rightly-realism. The origin of meteorites is a problem Then came that strange thing, the now vet to be solved, but it is almost certain woman, perpetually unhappy. "So tho that they were ejected from a volcano English novel began to look very strange- Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Fires, on one of the planets. But dynamically foreign. In the curly books of Mirthe Directory giros the CLASSIFIED LISTS considerations make it very improbable H. G.. Wells there
of TRADES and PROFESSIONS at the larger that any planet other than the earth difference from the Victorian novels, Commercial Centros. could in this way propel meteorites into except that the Victorian novels were space that would ultimately fall on the very much longer. But suddenly Mr. earth. The late Sir Robert Ball mathe Wella wished to improve people. With matically investigated this problem, and this tendency to realism and this deter I suppose that it may be generally ac- came to the conclusion that these bodies mination to write about ideas they saW cepted as an admitted fact, that women originated in terrestrial volcanic cut- the modern nove! being born. Every; dress more to please other women than bursts ages ago, and that when they now body began to be extremely serious, and to please men. Probably a few dress in fall on the earth they are returning to psychology "was introduced, and the be a way to please. themselves; and it may their birthplace. Any such bodies eject. lief that people were either good or bad be said that, provided the latter and ed with great velocity from a terrestrial
was replaced by psycho-analysis. And smaller class are neither eccentric nervolcans would pursue elliptical orbits although psycho-analysis was perhaps.. faddists,, it is they who best succoed in round the sun, but once in every, revolu. very helpful to people, when it croppect pleasing both men and women.
tion they would return to the point of Young men are too conceited over their their origin and cross the garth's orbit, cwa appearance to bother about the dress and every meteorite meeting the earth at of women; the middle-aged man, except this critical junction would inevitably be those who live to make a splash in So dragged back to the earth, whence it jciety, or purely for outside impression,
prefers the wife who does not dress over-encounters with the earth in the case of a much, his idea being that the best-dress- meteorite criginating on ed women are those whose dress one never notices at all; and old men have passed the days of observing such raatters altogether. But, on the other hand women-young, middle-aged and old- admire, emulate, criticize or ridicule other women's dresses. Of course, by dress I mean everything, from the fea ther in, the, hat to the tip of the shoe.
YOUTHFUL, MOTHERS.
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The chances of such
any other
up in the novel is was rather embarrass- ing. Just then his great friend Henry James came to England, and in his last period wrote three obscure novels in which nothing extraordinary happened to the characters; in fact nothing hap- pened externally, but everything hap pered inside the brains or the characters.
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planet are so slight that Sir Robert Bell That was all right for a genius likes and Mentures
dismissed the extra-terrestrial origin of
teorites as very improbable.
CARRIERS OF LIFE-GERMS. But admitting that some of these bodies may have come from other planets, & startlingscovery claimed recently by two French scientists, MM. Galippe and Bouffand, is of very special interest. They submitted a number of admitted meteorites to laboratory investigation, and asserted that in many they found life germs, which showed definite signs of vitality and development when placed on culture mediums, after being, subjected to extremes of temperature, both high and low
Heary James, but lesser en copied him, and the danger arose of becoming too static for words. Indeed one woman
novelist had written nine or ten volumes, and there were more to come, about a young lady, Miranda, who, except for one short journey to Germany, never moved except from the dentist's parlour where she worked, to the second-rate boarding-house where she lived. The idea was that going home on a wet night the effluvia from the umbrellas in the kitchen, and the efflavic from the gas tscaping from the fire upstairs combined. to make one think of Bocrates, and, instead of taking of one's wet things, one sat down to wonder why one thought of Socrates. After discussing that for three or four volumes ́one was a good deal advanced in the evolution of one's soul.
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There is one class of gentlewoman whose dress does attract the unfavour able attention of men, and it is just as well that such ladies should be made aware of it. I refer to the fashionable mother with grown-up daughters, who, in order to make believe that she is still
Many years ago Lord Kelvin put for youthful, dresses herself in the most ex- travagant and expensive fashion, and ward the hypothesis that the origin of life on the earth was due to germa her daughters dowdily-or perhaps brought here from another planet by ought to say plainly and in proportion- meteorites Bat few scientists agreed ately childlike style. There, are unfortu with Lord Kelvin, the main objectious nately, many such selfish women, their being that no forms of life could survive excuse being that young girls only re the intense cold of planetary space or quire the very plainest attire. That may the destroying effect of the nitra-violet be true, if the plainest is of the best rays from the stars. But it bas since bat. I have in mind those mothers who deliberately dress their daughters badly been proved that many seeds and spores of bacteria can survive temperatures as to make themselves more attractive. low as 250 deg. below the Centigrade Juvenility is often their object, and in zero, and that at such frigid temperatures those Victorian days when an English life is not destroyed, but suspended, the satirist of the pencil made fair game of germinative power diminishing no more ladies' dresses, John Leech, who was in a million years at minus 920 deg. always excellent and persistent in poking Centigrade than in a single day at aver fun at fashion, was extremely scathing aga winter temperatures. in dealing with the would-be young mother-young at the expense of her PROF. BECQUEREL'S EXPERIMENTS | growing daughters..
But, the ultra-violet ray objection has In my opinion nothing becomes the not yet been disposed of. Professor young girl better than a white frock and Becquerel immersed bacteria in liquid air black hat and feather, unless, perhaps, at a temperature of 212 deg. below Centi- neutral tints-greys and greens. Con-grade zero without destroying them, but
not one. of these bacteria, so tenacious MOTHERS-IN-LAW NOT ALL BAD. flicting colours in a young girl's attire are artistically objectionable. Artificialism of life at low temperatures, survived ex- ought to be avoided, and affectation, posure to pltra-violet rays for six hours. such as jewellery, bangles, chatelaines, It may be that there is some unknown MR. JUSTICE AVORY'S JUDGMENT. Ham chains and watches, cannot be too severe ly condemned:
Simplicity in dress is the hallmark of the artistocrat, elaboration and over dressing that of the "nouveaux riches" | theatrical dress is adopted by the vulgar, and dowdiness by the stupid; eccentri city (no hats or shoes) by the foolish and ugly, and boyish get-up by the fast and bourgeois.
If simplicity in adult dress is advis able, it is ten times more so in that of children. The child whose costume is ugly, gaudy, or bizarre being trained in bad taste, unfitted to appreciate the higher forms or to make a good appear- ance in society later on to say nothing of the cultivation of vanity and extravag- ance. The child who is cumbered and loaded with unsuitable garments whose weight, shape, or perishable nature cramp its movements, or compel constant re straints and scoldings, is being injured and etuated in body and mind. Apart from all this, a lack of simplicity in children's dress is an advertisement
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