Venus, A Zeppelin.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 38, 18 May 1917, Page 2

Venus, A Zeppelin.

The report of the Women Police Service tells how some its members reassured a crowd who suspected the planet Venus of being the light of a Zeppelin. That is one of the results, no doubt, of the popular ignorance of astronomy in large towns to the competition of the municipal with the heavenly lights. The suspicious populace could not believe that a mere star would make all that display.

Yet ignorance of the heavens is shared by many who should know better. The late Lord Avebury used to tell how ho walked from the House with a well-known M.P. across St. James’s Park one beautiful moonlight''night. “I wonder.” speculated his companion, "if we shall ever know how it is that the moon so constantly changes its shape ! I suppose that is one of the things we can never hone to know !”