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-and thank your stars!
E are all hellotropes at heart, Imitating the flowers by turning our faces to follow the sun. People in lands where the sun really lets himself go are apt to take him very much for granted-even curse him occasionally. Hoping, then, that you are reading this on some sun-baked bench, take a peep through your sun-glasses at this distant fiery ball which means so much to your holiday, and realise what a lot we have to thank him for-even though we do some- times curse him.
No statistics! Everyone knows that he is nearly 93,000,000 miles away, and that he mea- sures about 864,800 miles across. He is very big. Leave it at that.
No one knows quite how old he is, but he has been shining down on our little planet for at least a thousand million years. We are, or wern, part of him; we owe everything to him; and we couldn't live without him.
His most important job from our point of view is, of course, to keep the world spinning round him; but we take that for granted.
Obligingly, he distils every drop of our fresh water for us, drawing it up from the salty seas and pouring it down as rain. Maybe he overdoes. it sometimes, but we couldn't do without it all the same. We must drink.
Without his sunshine there would be no food. Grass d blants-self-contained factories for -use his rudinnt energy manufacturing the sugar and they live. tarch upon which Animals live on the vegetation, and we live on both.
BUT although we could neither rat nur drink for any length of time with- out his useful rays, we Book to him for something a little more exciting-warmth, cheerful- ness, joie de vivre! That is why. although we know he is constantly on duty behind the clouds, we lonit to see and feel him shining on us. He is a tonic; and that is not Imagination. Hear the birds sing when he comes out; see the in- creased percentage of smiling faces: notice the new springiness which comes into your walk. not only makes you feel good, but he actually does you good.
He
For simple and pleasant as sun- shine may appear to be, It is really ឆ very complex phenomenon -- radiated energy of many different wavelengths, hurled across syner by the sun in the role of a high- power transmitter.
The part of sunshine that the eye sees is the group of wave- lengths which make up the visible spectrum-the enlours of the rain- bow. Incredibly short compered with Droitwich's radio waves of nearly a mile in length, the longest of these light waves-RED—meas- ures but 0008 of a millimetre.
OF slightly longer wave- length, but Invisible, are the infra-red or heat rays, which feel so good after a long winter: but the rent tonic in sunshine lies in the ultra- violet rays, also invisible, which are hidden beyond the violet end of the spectrum.
Those are the rays which make you hum to
to yourself goal at al
through the
park, and send you Uack from your much-needed holl- day with A face as brown as mahogany-not the pleasant light WAVES. or the comforting heat waves. It is indeed a pity that this tonic part of nutshine is not balter understood; if it were, wa might make much more use of what ittle we receive,
AB everyone knows, ali energy must come from something: and the the sun energy that hands out so generously causes him to lose weight at the rate of
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We couldn't live
without him!
about four million tons per second! Has planets, ours included, together jereive less than one part whe hundred infllion of thaï energy,
The polluted atmosphere above large towns absoring about thirty per
ernt, of the tonie ultra-violet rays, Ordinary window-glass stops nearly You can sit for hours. all of Dir. it thr sunshine behind ordinary glass and never go pink.
THAT is why the coun- try air and sunshine really is healthy and 50 different. Sunburn, which looks and feels so good, la a plg- ment (melanin which the body arranges, after the first redness and peeling, as protection against further damage.
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vehemently yourself, the more Nature says No in bronze letters-- which is just what you want?
Apart from holidays, fun and health, however, sunshine is most
necessary for the success of har- vests
frunt And
Crops. Even the of honey tomson's flow
is regulated by it, for the bees cannot pat in their full amount of work unless the
Some fortunate people live Funnier
than heritage
we: others i
not so a far better ope- which IN pleasant. Parts of North América bask in an average 3,250 hours of sunshine per year.
I have worked in the comparn- tively cool shade temperature of 120 degrees, and I prefer aft English beach! The
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Krunise wehrtner, one might well think that The sun never shines on the centre.
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ANSWERS ON PAGE 3
1. A pint of pure water weighs: Boz, 12oz. 14402., b., 14lb.
2. How high from the ground is the cross on the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral?
212ft., 380ft., 305ƒt., 404/t., 435ft. 3. Berwick-upon-Tweed is in
Scotland.
England.
4. Rearrange these pairs of words
to make synonyms:
Profligate-bigoted;
Hidebound--slothful;
Hebdomantal-bombistic;
Prodigal-indolent:
Werkly-highfalutin,
6. Who won last year's Walker
Cup?
Great Britain
U.S.A.
0. Which King Louis was execut-
ed at the French Revolution?
Louis XIII, XIV, XV, XVI, XVII,
XVIII.
7. Muchinve}}l was
An Italian author and statesman.
A mentaeval criminal.
A 16th Century Spanish priest.
A famous General,
A painter.
8. In which of these words is the
letter "e" not pronounced?
Scintillating, sclerotie, sceptic,
scimitar, scythe.
9: An Intaglio is
A slang term for an Italian, ·
A design cut into a precious stone
or ictal.
A small framed portrait,
A Papal Bull.
A mulcat term. 10. Do you know the meanings of theso Cockney rhyming along expressions?
"Fitfer, Christmas card, lally, Aow- Fery, trouble and strife,
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News About About
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1939.
SAT
A LAY SERMON
NAUL was anointed captain of | God's signs as he journeyed. The Isruel to save God's people | culminating sign was to be given out of the hand of the Philistines, | hậm at Gebn, for there the Spirit One wonders how he felt when, of the Lord would como upon with only one servant for com- him, and he would be "turned into pany, he was told by Somuel to another man."
go to the
very The hill of God, kpot where they where
the had their gorri- garrison of the son.
Philistines, He came from 1 Samuel, x. 5. "the least of all the families" of Benjamin, smallest of alt the tribes. Yet here was Samuel tell- ing him of a destiny almost in- credibly great, and bidding him take a certain road and look for
What a lesson for timid Chris- tlans. And what a light on the reason for so many spiritual fathures. God calls us and anoints us for some part in Ills glorious servico. But when. He gives us our marching orders we lack faith both In Hini and in our mission, We see only Geba, the Philistine garrison, where faith would find the 1 of God.
Music
MIRTH
AMONG MOTORISTS
A LADY motorist who had 'driven ! - The
fntr motorial didn't know her car through A plate-glass much about the rules of the road. A window was being exumlined in an than in a big car did his best to netion for damages,
avold a collision, but she ran into luit.
"Hut surely, when you handi 20 much run to manoeuvre in, you could have done something?" she was asked.
HIE Haslemere Festival of then in Vienus, the same emple of area," said the Magistrate lovers, same type
servant.
The orchestra, 100, includes in- struments that are introduced with the deliberate intention of emphasis
inter, the Oriental character of the tale.
recently and continued for the usual two weeks. The music this year was chiefly taken from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in England, France, in the way Mozart was to do Germany, Italy and Spain.
complete
of The
family
vials Cancestors of Lite present-day stringed instruments), the complete family of violins, virginals, harp-
Jute. sichords, clavichords, vihuela (the guitar-shaped Spanish equivalent of the hite), these are but a few of the old and indret semi- obsolete instruments one could hear only at Haslemere.
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Stany of these instruments have veteran made afresh by the been head of this gifted family. Arnold Dolinetsch. He, besides being one of the greatest instrument makers of the day, is a researcher and a per- former. Ten other members of the family were among the performers who part in this year's festival in Surazy.
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"Why didn't you signd what you wanted to do?" he demanded In- dignantly.
"I did do something." she answer- "Because there is no signal for ed, "I screamed!”
what I wanted to do," she replied "You are sumunoned for exceed- | sweetly, ing the speed limit in p built-up
"What's happened, George?" the to the wife inquired as her husband got out OF not of the car to investigate. Ruilly?"
"Puncture," he replied briefly, Well" protested the motorist, "You should have been more cure- "It's not my faul it was bail up." | ful," said his better half reprovingly. A husband and wife were motor-"The guide book warned us there ing home one night when a police was a fork in the road at this point."
them to man suddenly called to
stop.
"You've got no lights," said the constable sharply.
"Oh, thanks," replied the husband, "but it doesn't really maller."
"Matter!" retorted the constable. "Here, show me your driving licence."
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A very young man bought a very old car and felt that he owned the road. But he was furlous when an- other driver, whom he had kept be- Hind him for over a mile, yelled; "Get your old iron out of the way." "Look here," he cried, pulling up, 1 demand an apology." "Driving Heente! Never had one
The other driver looked pityingly in my life."
at Come
the
"You've got it," very old car. he said quietly.
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RE DECENTLY an organ recital given t Alexandra Palace by the Frenchman Andre been heard Marchat. He has not here since his visit last year. M.
That makes Iwe offences. of the great organists Marchal is one
along with me, my man." of France, remarkable alike for his
Then up spoke the tactful wife. technical accomplishment as for the
"Oh, don't take any notice of my fact that, although blind, he has be
she and sweetly. "He acknowledged husband," of the one come
always says things like that when he modern masters of the instrument.
is drunk."
This is most interesting," the sweel young thing to the motor "And now will you car salesman. show me the depreciation, please? in there I hear it is very heavy
UNDERSTAND that in the list of works to be given next season at the Courtauld-Sargent con- corts in Queen's Hall there will be the first performance in England of "Noc- entitled an orchestral work
S. Y.
THE comic opera by Gluck turne" by the modern Swiss com-
www performed at
poser Honegger, Essex recently Was Loughton in called "The Pilgrims of Mecca," These in need of more exact informa tion will find the spera in books of reference under its orignal title, "La Rencontre Imprevue," as it appeared in Vienna in 1764, or in its taler Ger- man
"Die forn,
Pilgrime Mekka.
The opera, which seems never to have been performed in England be- very similar 10 fore, is a story Mozart's "Die Entführung aus dem Serail," whiel Glyndebourne, having made it one of our most delightful emories among all the Mozart per- formances there, has forced us to do without this year.
Gluck's "Rencontre" has the same eastern atmosphere, fashionable just
Honeymoon Visit To The Duke Of Windsor.
LADY RACHEL HOWARD, eldest sister of the Duke of Norfolk, whose marriage to Mr. Colin Davidson, Clerk to the House of Lords, took place re- cently at Arundel, hopes to visit the Duke and Duchess of Wind- sor during her honeymoon.
The Dresden porcelain, which is the wedding present from the Duke and Duchess, was not among the presents-there are more than 1,000 --which the guests saw at Arundel Castle.
The Duke and Duchess have sent a photograph of thele gift with a mes- sage which says: "We are looking forward to giving you your present your arrival," It is signed "Wallis Windsor and Edward."
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Ther was an accident in the street between a baby car and a motor bus. "Yes, I know it was my fault." aniel
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