HOW TO JUDGE DISTANCES

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 267, 18 December 1909, Page 3

HOW TO JUDGE DISTANCES

If you devote your Saturdays to golf- . ing, shooting, or taking photographs, i you have, in all probability, met the • problem of judging distances. Bear in mind these few simple rules, s and your difficulty will te " lessened, i With the naked eye, if youf ave aver- : age you sen see t'hdF* ,'hites of people's eyes at 30 yards; yards you can just see their eyes. When all parts of their body are distinguishable, tiiey are 100 yards away; when the outlinen of their faces are just visible, the distance is 200 yards; and when a face appears as a separate dot you should be . 400 yards away. Six hundred yards i away, a group of people can be distinguished singly; but at a further distance than this no detail of the human form can be determined. Vet at 1200 yards you should be able to tell a man on horseback from a man on foot; at 2000 yards lie is dimply a dot on the landscape. The majority of people, too, arc unable to determine the wind's velocity •When the smoke from a chimney move 'in a straight, vertical column, it mean Itfhat a one to twp-miles-an-hour wim 'will just stir the leaves on the trees Twenty-five miles an hour wfll sway tin 'trunks; at forty the small branches wil 'break; and it takes a milc-a-minute gall Ho snap the trunks) of big trees.