What She Learned

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 28, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 17.

"I THOUGHT it was a pretty fair sort of telescope for one that wasn't very big," said Uncle Silas. "I rigged it up in the attic by the north window, and had it fixed so it would swing round easy. I took a deal of satisfaction in looking through it — the sky seemed so wide and full of wonders; so when Hester was here I thought I'd give her the pleasure, too. She stayed a long time upstairs, and seemed to be enjoying it. When

she came down, I asked her if she'd discovered anything new."

" 'Yes,' she says. 'Why, it made everybody's house seem so near that I seemed to be right beside 'em, and I found out what John Pritchard's folks are doin' in their out-kitchen. I've wondered what they had a light there for night after night, and I just turned the glass on their windows and found out. They are cutting apples to dry — folks as rich as them cutting apples!'"

"And actually, that was all the woman had seen! With the whole heavens before her to study, she had spent her time prying into the affairs of her neighbors! And there are lots more like her — with and without telescopes." — Christian Uplook.