The exploration of the poles has, however, a value to science, and,
like man,; other matters in which much money is spent, this lies in added
information or knowledge and mental satisfaction. Practically all the
value of the science of astronomy lies apart from any help that it can
give us in a business way. It is very true that we depend upon astronomy
for our time, for great help in the navigation of vessels across the oceans,
end for the ability to determine how far apart two places may be on the
artist colony around Fifty-seventh
street and Eighth avenue. She was
pretty and popular and good.
Miss Holmes was not only a painter,
but even after she began to sell her
pictures she continued to be an en
thusiastic student.
She went to France and Italy, where
she studied art in the best schools.
She was successful there, and event
ually went to South Africa and Asia
for landscapes.
Still heartfree and winning her own
wa'y in the wcrld, she settled down in
Florence, where the air is the very
breath of art, and where the sky is as
tender as the eyes of love.
Here in the course of her work she
met a young painter named Burr Nich
ols. He, too, was a fine artist, and
their mutual tastes drew them much
together.
It is strange that the very traits
and characteristics and the mutual
likes which give birth to love should
in the end be the means of its death
and funeral. The young artists did
not dream of the truth of these things.
