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Editorial 



THE COMFORT OF THE STARS 



"Canst thou bind the sweet influences of the Pleiades or loose the 

 bands oj OrionV — Job. 



Long before the time of Job and continuing to the present year 

 of War and Peace the sweet influences of the Pleiades, unbound 

 and unlimited, have made calm the souls of men who have looked 

 up into the night skies and have thus learned to forget the troubles 

 which beset the dwellers upon this small planet we call "the 

 earth." It is unfortunate that more people have not learned to 

 look up and think: "I am one of millions of beings inhabiting 

 this world; and this world is only a small satellite whirling around 

 a medium sized star, which we call our sun and which in its turn 

 is only one of a million stars shining upon us from our skies. Not 

 one star among all that I can see but may have worlds like ours 

 whirling around it. What am I that I should be troubled when I 

 am only such an infinitesimal atom in so great a Universe!" 



However, it is not for this reason alone that teachers and 

 parents should give more attention to teaching the children to 

 know the stars as marked in the chief constellations; for such 

 knowledge is an intellectual and spiritual asset which will enrich 

 their future years. It lends a most friendly aspect to the night 

 skies to find there, when we look up, those stars which we have 

 known from childhood. Especially when we are in foreign lands, 

 or elsewhere far from home, is this a heart-warming experience. 

 It is as if the heavens were smiling at us and sending down to us 

 cordial greetings. 



The stars make appeal to the imagination of the child, — an 

 appeal at once stimulating and uplifting. In his mind, he leaps 



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