"Friends, you are looking at the very first navigation map of the universe that earth beings ever saw ! This is a map showing the position in space of the more important star groups and certain centers where planets may be found about some of the bigger, older stars. Note this grouping, the lines that represent flight, and this other group over here!"

Scarcely able to contain his enthusiasm, the professor searched further, while Alice and her Dad scanned the map. To the upper left was a grouping of stars, evidently seven of them in a group. Down at the lower edge was a set of stars which could be recognized only as one group — that commonly known as the Big Dipper. True to our view of stars, the two outer stars in the cup of the dipper formed a nearly direct line toward a single brilliant star on the map located about one-third the way from the left edge of the map. This star was a brilliant red color with a few rays about it. Easily recognized about this were a few less brilliant stars arranged in the form of the familiar Little Bear. About the big, bright, red star picture were arranged ten small dots, all at different positions. From the fifth dot out from the red star was a line which streamed across the pictured space in a magnificent curve terminating at one of nine dots surrounding a rather small yellowish spot which evidently was a star.

"Let me show you," said Dr. Jameson. "Here we are at the left You recognize the Great Bear or Big Dipper. It, of course, points to the North Star, Polaris, with two of its stars. Polaris is part of the Little Bear which we see represented by those stars about Polaris. Over here you see the tiny yellow star surrounded by its nine dots. Alice, if you can't deduce the meaning of that from the rest of the constellations, I fear your courses with me were lost motion and energy. What puny little star do you think that is ?"