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OUTDOOR RECREATION 



observation. An evening with the telescope is an ex- 

 perience that few boys and girls will forget. 



The stars. Even without a telescope, the heavens 

 present a wonderful opportunity for observation to those 



who are interested in the 

 distant parts of our uni- 

 verse. A glance at the 

 sky makes one think he 

 can see myriads of stars, 

 but in reality, on an 

 average one can rarely 

 see more than from two 

 to three thousand stars 

 while standing in one 

 place, but by the use of 

 a large telescope, mil- 

 lions of stars are found. 

 Astronomers tell us that 

 each one of these stars 

 is like our sun, a huge, 

 white-hot ball, and that 

 many of them are very 

 much larger than our 



Yerkes telescope of University of Chicago, one mi 



of the largest in the United States. SUn. They appear Very 



tiny because of their 



great distance. When we realize that the nearest of 

 these stars (Alpha Centauri) is 25,000,000,000,000 miles 

 away, so far that it takes about four and one third 

 years for its light to reach us, we are lost in wonderment. 

 And when we also know that another star (Arcturus) 

 is 950,000,000,000,000 miles' away, and that it takes one 

 hundred sixty years for its light to reach us, we are 



