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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10418, 23 March 1912, Page 5

Everybody who is _at all alive is making love all the time to something or somebody, to an idea if not to a person. The moment yon cease to be in love yon ceaso to Jive. And the, worst of it is that yon have to go on " living just the name—E, E. Benson. Camilla Flammarion undertakes to-" answer, in '"'VAstronomic/' the following question, proposed to him by a' correspondent: Why are your eyes" less dazzled by tin? sun toward sunset than just after sunrise ? Is tJie curly morning sun really brighter than the ' later afternoon sun'? There are two 1 answers; one physiological, the other physical. The retina becomes progressively more sensitive in tlio dark. A sudden illumination at night dazzles" our eyes, whereas the same absolute intensity of light would have much less effect in the daytime.. During tho .. day the eye becomes gradually moie and more accustomed to the light; in , other words, less sensitive to it. However, the setting sun is probaldy actually less bright than the. rising sun, because of the. diminished purity of tho atmosphere through which it ' shines. Solar pumps up an enormous amount of moisture from tho earth during tho day.