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Turning your eyes toward space

IF you have a small telescope, field glasses or binoculars

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the craters on the moon just as Galileo did long ago.

you can see

solid Photographing the sky

the

With any ordinary camera, without a telescope, you take photographs of the sky.

On a clear night, put your camera on something steady

can

SEA OF KECTAR

He was the first man to use will find that you can tell these moons. These were discovered the telescope to observe the bodies apart the stars will by Galileo. heavers and his instruments look like points of light and was no larger than some you the planets will look like can buy today at the dime bodies. This is because

planets are closer and shine It is best to do your explor- only by reflected light while ing when the moon is half full. the stars are really very dis- Be sure to rest your telescope tant on something steady, especially when you are looking at stars. Probably on а clear night and point it at any open place

When you look at the stars you will be able to see the four in the sky. Set the camera and planets, Like Galileo, you largest of Jupiter's twelve

time and leave it open for sev- eral hours the longer the bet- ter, but get it in before rise!

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suns.

Here's how moon looks through telescope.

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young dentist and a young doctor starting business in the same town rented adjoining offices and shared a typist's services. She was • most attractive girl, and neither doctor nor dentist was unaware of the fact.

One morning the dentist was called to a nearby city on urgent business. After he had left, the typist found a note on her desk reading: "Dear Mary:

You

I am leaving for five days. little present in your lower desk drawer."

will find

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discovered

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Opening the drawer, she

SHINY, RED APPLES.

-Credit Card to Robert Bau.

In school they call me "Elephant"-because of my memory suppose.

Credit card to Antoinette Rozario.

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SEA OF FECUNDITY

SEA OF TRANQUILLITY

È SEA OF VAPORS

sun-

· SEA OF CRISES

The moving starlight will make white steaks од your photograph as the earth rotates its axis. You will get straight white streaks if you Lay the camera on its back pointing straight up. If you point it toward the North star, you will get a series of white circles made as the stars travel around that star.

-Walter B. Hendrickson Jr.

MANY LOOKED;

GOLD AT

WHO SAYS

SEA OF SERENITY

SEA OF SKOWERS

SEA OF COLD

SEA OF

MOISTERE

·CSEAN OF STORES

Names of different parts of the moon

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ALL

NOBODY FOUND OF RAINBOW

LL of us have heard stories about the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, and of people who searched in vain to find it. Do you know why they have failed?

THAT ANIMALS no end. It

ARE DUMB?

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A Tennessee dog likes ice cream. When he went into drug store with his master, the druggist gave a cup of ice cream to the dog. When he had licked the cup clean, the dog carefully picked up the cup and carried it to the counter. Holding the cup in his mouth, the dog stood up on his hind legs and waited till he got more. Who says dogs are dumb?

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The answer is simple, because the rainbow has no end. It is a circle. You see only the half which is above the horizon. The only way you might see the whole circle would be from a balloon or possibly from a high mountain.

You see rainbows only when showers falling to the west of the sun is shining. Most of you when a rainbow appears in them are visible in the morning the morning. The sun will be or towards evening. It is im- in the east. possible for you to see them Different names are given to when the sun is too high in the the rainbow in different parts sky.

of the world. The Italians call You get your best view of a it "the flashing arch.” African bow when the sun

is behind tribes call it the bride of the you and the rain is falling rain." somewhere in the distance in front of you.

Gods

In Sanskrit it goes under the name of *bɔw of Indra." Sunlight is a combination of Several different terms are the seven colours named in the applied to it in Central Europe, rainbow. When sunlight passes "the arch of St. Martin," "the through, raindrops, it is broken bridge of the Holy Spirit", and A cat liked where he was liv-up into many colours, such as the crown of St. Bernard" ing, and didn't want

leave violet, indigo, blue, green, being three of them. when the owner closed the shop. yellow, orange and red. This is The Greeks looked upon it So the cat lived alone in the known as a "spectrum.” All as

from their a sign shop for eight years. Twice a these colours are sent back by foretelling war. Iris was Com day the master brought cat food each drop. Usually they are sidered the Greek goddess of over to the vacant building, so blended into each other. As a the rainbow. the cat even had cafeteria ser-result you see only four or five The Norsemen considered it vice!

clearly.

their bridge between heaven When you see an afternoon and earth. The early Hebrews rainbow, look for the sun to be took it as a promise from God the earth to destroy Dogs can sense when there in the west. The rain will be never is danger. A mongrel dog in falling to the east of you. On again by floods.

notice you will Aylesbury, England, saw a cat the contrary,

-Carolyn Crane. fall into a brook and heard its piteous meows. The dog jumped in, paddled to the cat which was struggling weakly, grabbed it by the scruff the neck in the approved hu- man fashion, and brought it safely ashore.

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Two pet raccoons which had lived from infancy in a cage, broke out one day and were gone six weeks. No one knows where they went; but they returned to their original owners. Maybe they liked it better than being loose in the wild, having to forage for their own food. And they call animals dumb!

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