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The Most Celebrated ofOur 'National Parks-
Efforts Being Made To Enlarge It - It
Ha5 Many Wonders; Geysr. s, Hot
Springs, Canyon, Petrified Forest
By HATHEiiINE .LOUYSE. SMITH
OR THE BENEFIT AND stead of following the contours of
EPTJOI'1VIEINT OF THE PEO-
PLE." These words are carved
on a large stone embedded on
the face of the arch at the north-
ern entrance of the Yellowstone
National Park. They greet you as
you enter . and remain with you
while y o
tour u what w at has been
called the safety valve of the globe
and nowhere are so manly remark-
able manifestations of Nature con-
fined to a restricted area. In' its
three thousand or more °square
miles you see an astounding ac-
cumulation of thermal activities.
Though this has appropriately
been called the greatest park : in
the world plans are now underway
to increase, its possibilities for
sightseers. New large' areas to the
East and Southeast consisting of
great tracts of forests, wild .noun-
tai=l country and. unfiahed trout
streams will be included . if the
park lovers have their way.. The
Grand Tetans among the most pic-
turesque of America's :mountains;
and Grasshopper Glacier which
.has preserved in the ice millions of
prehistoric grasshoppers will be•
outstanding features.
Profile Of uncle
Sam
-When the Park
was created fifty
years ago the boundary lines, In-
the country, described a perfect
rectangle. If the Park is enlarged.
the wonderful .Tackson Hole coun-
try will be included and it will be
easier for rangers to patrol. By
a' peculiar coincidence the pro-
posed Eastern boundary will have
anu
o bine somewhat om what resembling
the profile of Uncle Sam:,
The Yellowstone Park has en-
trances on all four sides, but if you
are wise you will enter at Gardiner,
the northern entrance, and come
out at one of the other places.
This methodgives diversity both
coming and going. The usual
schedule is live days for the hur-
ried visitor and in this time you
•can'see marvels which can be seen.
no •where, -else unless one takes
into ; account the geysers. of New
Zealand, but if you really want, to
enjoy your Yellowstone try to re -
'main longer, for you are where in-
credible things happen and: aston-
ishment becomes a constant emo-
tion.
A Fai ' lan Wonders
ry a Of
You are in a region g .where are
approximately one hundred geysers
=more than in all the rest of the
world—where ° the earth around
puffs and steams as if underground
factories' were ;at work, in a local
ity: where are prismatic pools with
the exquisite beauty et gems, and
tinted terraces that look like
fretted architecture. And around
all this wild flowers grow in great
profusion in the valleys, gentian,
for -get -me -riots, buttereups, wild
roses—dozens of other flowers—
blossom by the wayside, many
varieties of. trees furnish food for
elk, deer and beavers that you see
close by or in the distance, You
will think you are in fairyland, for
there seems nothing too prodigious
to believe in this place where are.
lakes with fire at the bottom, ponds
the shape and colors of the morn-
ing glory, a lake with a hot geyser
in its cold waters, a mountain that
roars and : a roadway made of
glass.
You will begin to appreciate how
much. has been done in public
health and hospital service, studios
for developing pictures, ^stores for
necessities, lectures, watersy e
st ms
service ranger g rvIce, sanitation,- Horace
M. Albright has for many years been
superintendent of this Park, and it
is largely due to his work that
you can travel so comfortably, for
with small Government appropria-
tions he has worked ,wonders.
The Geysers
Coyne with me and glimpse some
of these marvels which belong to
you and me and to every one who
lives under Uncle Sam. First . let
us see the geysers some of which
are literal volcanoes of water.
Take Old Faithful for example..
This famous geyser erupts every
seventy minutes. It spouts 33,225,-
000
33 226-000' gallons a day, enough 'for a
city of 300,000 inhabitants! And
this, thoughthe most regular, ;is
not the largest geyser. Youwill
be astounded tonote that some of
these geysers spout' with clock-
work regularity and others, appar-
ently, when they feel like it. The
principal geysers are in three
basins in the west central part of
ss
U��
eee
•
the Park. They, are called Upper,.
Lower and Norris basin..
The geysers send graceful, spray
like columns of water skyward and
b
combine beauty great
m a y and g ea power.
Before eruption you hear a ru rn-
bling .noises , as you expectantly'
watch, from 'a safe•. distance, 'You
see the pure white hot watergrad-
ually mount toward the blue sky
and, you gaze breathlessly ' until
gradually the waters recede. The
Lone Star geyser is quite regular
and at intervals of forty: minutes
plays sixty •feet, in :the air for ten
minutes. Other geysers play at'in-
tervals of days, weeks or, months
and some hurl streams at angles
or b`noole and ifoam. -The Giant'
'geyser has been known tohurl wa-
ter two hundred and fifty feet in
the air.
There are at least ten'' geysers in
the Norris basin and: near them is:
a -beautiful hot spring exactly
emerald in hue. In the: Lower:` basin
you will find, not • so -'.far *from the
hot geysers, hot. pools of 'different
colors that seem like:- paint;,, and
most beautiful of all a. small .,pond
called :Prismatic Lake which looks
as if tinted by subterranean fires.
These water volcanoes are sur-::
.passed In number by those in the
Upper basin *here besides Old
FaithfuRiversidec
1 s i geyser vvhf, h
spouts over a river and at certain
times of the day shows a beautiful
rainbow.
When you are through with the
geyser basins comewith me to an-
other hot water phenomenon:; the
•terraces, : made of mineral sub-
stances : which the water has,
brought. to the surface, and over
whose'. fretted sides the spring
water 'flows. Several of these ter-
races are near Mammoth .Hot
Springs, the administrativecenter.
of the Park, They are of . great'
beauty, for the hot water pours
over and :frets their, sides, and°algae
growing on the.edge of their basins
tint the waters pink, red and bluish.
gray. Here ' you will. see ' Pulpit
Terrace, so called because.•of' its
shape, the basin filled with sulphur
water from springs above. When
the springs are dry the white basins
seem like' fretted'architecture. -You
can climb around the terraces and
In this way get a near view' of the
vividly' colored pools and crystal,'
lized incrustations,
The Grand Canyon
' But do, not delude yourself that
when you .have left the. Terraces
and Geysers you have seen • the
Park's 'wonders for great marvels
yet await=you.: -If you will: take 'a
longer, . auto•'trip;' you can reach
what many, ,.think the . crowning
glory of the Yellowstone, the Grand
Canyon, On the wayyou can pass.
by ' or travel on the :Yellowstone
Lake, a large sheet of water twen-
ty miles' across, over seven` thou-
sand feet above sea level and of
great depth. There.`is splendid' fish-
ing in =this lake and•. near, the outlet
amateurs :enjoy the trout fishing.
You.;must not coxifuse the t? an•d
Canyon of .the 'Colorado with this•
Grand .Canyon of the Yellowstone
as many `do. They are entirely/
different.. While; the Yellowstone
Grand, Canyon,is smaller .it is so
inarveiousiy variegated in • color
.that .it'seems. like',a ;:cameo or
taglio . , If :you .wish toe' see the
'Canyon and look directly down on,
the foaming' Teilo'wstone,river lei
me take youto -Inspiration,Point.
To the south risa. waterfall "nearly
twice• the height of `Niagara; which
seems 'to rash out of • a -forest :.of
green and,to [pour down, down, to
be .lost 'in another: massof. green
depth: The Great Falls" is :308' feet,
in height and. tumbles into'a'river
of green jade -coloring .,These.
Great . Falls and the , 'Upper.: Falls,
which drop:109°feet; are among the.
most'' beautiful 'falls.: on our- con
tinent.: •
The most.notable•efeature•about
7 W/YG'.E' T.EiPR.9C4
the ' Canyon, ,however, 4s its, mar-
-velour coloring.,,, Many"' distin-
guished persons have stood. on ,In-.
piration' Point and looked: into its
depths; ; Moran, painted .it ,but
Rudyard Kipling perhaps voiced it
best when he said: "1 looked into
agulf 1,700 feet deep with, eagles
circling over head. The sides of
that gulf .were one,, wild welter of
color -crimson, emerald, cobalt,
amber,' honey,splashed with port
Wine, Vermilion, lemon and silver
gray. The sides did not fall Sheer
but were graven by time and" Water
into monstrous heads of•kinge,`dead'
chiefs -men and women of the old
time."
' Petrified Forests
Not far front the Grand Canyon
the road ,leads to Mt. Washburn,
over ten thousand V s nd feat high' ''
j3• and
upon: ;whose' slopes are marvelous
gardens' of wild flowers, ',you ;will
also desire • to,etay'long-•enough in
the • Park to . see the, great';petrifled
forests 'where :many 'varieties::;:of
trees have bee:orne•fossilited: The
pieces look like agate and •carne
Ilan. If you fish you. will think the
Park the flsherniansparadise,. for
no license is required: and •Govern-
ment has introduced:zna
nyarie
'v
ties of:trout White°fixh andgray
-,
ling. Of course,• you .will be inter-
ested in the animals, soma of
which you seteas you ride ;through.
You catchglimpses of mountain
sheep in the distance' and set' -:the
beavers banding..t
houses •3 �'"the
streams. , The -bears oonie' al
a ;xc�i
time to;eat from the.garbag. ".cans.•
Zee, , you' will in the re ul io
B at lou*
of five days,enjoy a.galasy„o wone
ders and .you; will :'long to. return
year after gear. For .thoser'whe
can -linger • there • are miles :of in4
teresting trails,, moiintairis''to' be.
climbed•and hunts 'taken withrthe
camera. o •
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Home Economics No Longer
g aFol- de-xo1, But
Something That
Touches All
Parts of
School Training—Helps
in History,
Geography
and Health Work
' By NORMAN 'dl.;McLOUD
N the modern sch'ooi •prog ram.
the Twentieth Century puiii, has
1
s: chance to learn a iot of things
gs
that can fiat be taught h throw g
the tinted page •p
Reading, rri#i1g and 'r
ithroeti
a
aro still the favorite lino of, in-
'stru:ction 'but 'therel
>, is" a liberal
Sprinkling of every day usefulness
in the Present. a .e
urrieilurr, that
enables c it a t
h rn o c 1
d a u r4 kn t-
ri nw
edge along lines that are intensely
'rsctleal in theft relation to yeara.
of Maturity,
an oud
Can retternber when
a”.
the old-fashioned housewife laughed
scornfully at the suggestion that
her daughter would find it useful
to stgc1ir home economics in her
clays at the 'public schools; Perh 'ap e
they did not tali it .
ome coon-
oiler" at that;t 'lm e
'I've.. a dim
notion that they ,dailed it
ceeklng
lessonsand,the like,
pl7an't
try fM toll Meth
at at the
tiehdols Ca a
nta0 a girl hr t'� Make
g n
good bread and baste a Chris{#tinea
turkey," was a Prevalent counnettt,
"The only WAY a, child
Hatt laarn.
things like that Is. In her Mother'S
kitchen—or in her own, Good
cooks are born, not made.
Today there is a different atti-
tude. The schools are doing the
things that the housewife of a
past generation characterized as
out Of the question; and they are
doing It'with 'success. As, now in-
terpreted, the study of home
ecohiomfcs covers awide range of
useful training, from cooking to
dressmaking, and 'from hoiYeekeep-
ing- to the rules of hygiene and
health.
Striking Contribun'
tib
In. California a short titre ago
had the good fortune to; see the
operation Of an up to date pian of
education In theub'lic schools., n
r i, i
which, lionte eemitniaice made rath.
er surprisie oontributio
g on to the
general ai program of elementary
'tri ti
i0 an. tilting a n da visit
I
ys s
gleaned ns d thm im re sic !
a n that there
p t
are few pointe in the elasses at
Which the future homer Akers'
ti
felled to receive
incidental
tiafnW
ins in, the Tine ref,euccedsful liven ,
eeeke
'Al 5 Pi' .. �$44 ;0144;tilks. , 4, 4, ¢i;.aw0f.tWM
,y.��,�^,�- is-✓G�,%✓,�s�G�.. •rte.-�rv,�r.
erkei6
B y teaches hoerie economics
from the fourth grade to theend,
of the course in high`school. There
is close correlation between this
special work and the work of all
other departments. To - such , ex-
tent Is tlio 'practice carried that
the United States Bureau of Edu-
cation has scan fit to hold Berkeley
before the nation as 'a place of
progressive methods. Worthy of
general attention.
, 'rake, the clo hi fore
exaiplatter of
m ng
t , . In this line the teacher
has many opportunities to impart
useful knowledge in connection
with the.Werk te
wo t in t hie, clasar+ooms
eha c
.'
One such chance o Come'
s With the
task of making in
g n clothing for' dolls.
g
/naldetital to this instruction the
teacher 'gives helpful hints' us. to
the rope 1
r othn � to
p Pbeworn for
c iia
health. and c,or ort,. and; ib• able, at
the same time, to guide the pupils
'as to correct attitudes and postures
that insure the greatest degree of
bodily welfare.'
Doll Clothes And. History
Doll dressmaking is also; found
to leave distinet,relati
onsifp to the.
teaching of hlstory. On the clay of
my visit to the Berkeley "'schools
one classroett was engaged in a
etudy of ancient Egypt. There
was
no tendency : to slight the text
books dealing ' with :historical
phases of the subject but it'w. as
notable ,that .thecentral 'point of
interest for
the
widen a e pupils
was a doll that
wasn
ei°
bs dressed
in the ce to e
s m of an ancient plk;yp-
tlan girl. Through -the medium of
the Boil and her wardrobe the
pupils seemed ,to acquire a living;
Intermit in the history. 'ef ,irgylIt
I 11
and in itti 'modern. geography
They listened with the utmost'
eagerness to everything, the: teach-
er told then, concerning the Dgyp..
bans of the past, their habits of,
living, theft' customs and their
general state of 'civilisation,
fthen'there'was the incident con-
demning China, eneountered in the,
elassroom of another school build -
Ing. These children did net have
to glean their 'sole Information„
through the 'did -fashioned plan of
mernorizing the enact dates of this
or that particular d ast
yn y, andthe
precise population of, theg reat,
oitie.s of ' Shanghai, Peking . and
I•#on on
$ g For m own a
S Y rtl;a
p
ni
willing -to, 'confess that an after•
noon gaitle of baseball used' lei
bring complete crasure et Anil m
y
mental record ofdates and popil-
Tatiana, when. t WVM acguiripig
juvenile aptitude for . answering
the questions of my, teachers: To
me the • Chinese' nation was remote'
and uninteresting for the very rea
'son . that the ' mine' dates" might`
have applied to ar,iy nation in the
World' as 'far as practical ; appllca-
tion was concerned"
Learn .About .Chinese
tiretherkeley classroom. I
learned thing concerning the
Chinese that 1 hat never learned
in 'school' nor. elsewhere. More to
the point, I. found myself Interest-
ed in the people . -as If . they had
been next door neighbors, with the
human setialitiete of fleshand blood
existence; and I found that the
children were li'aving'the same ex-
perfenee,
The explanation . is simple.
enough.. At this particular rno
went the pupils were interested in
preparing for the • serol -annual
piny, produced under the direction,
of their
instructors. The drama
chosen', for the season�'
was ',Phe
Chinese. Nightingale seledte : e.
, d b
cause vf•lts'kinshil with the study'
of Chinese geography p y then:current
In the classrotnns. Through the
medium of `his play" theg
t:pupils
were. given a °'glint se o
glimpse' P Chinese
lifer ctistonXs:' and . charaeteristios
not ,:otherwise
a
tt
ainab
lo.,TheChinaseNig ting
aler
is
a
dr
amatz
atia
n
of
a
'Fairy story
Written' by that master of 6h11d48h
teles, Pians Christi sent
Christian Andersen.
The product/
do was in the halide.
of the childeen thernscives, In
preparing or :Litt eltertairin1eiit
i%9irds,
the pupils, received -training Al
written' and oral iE'inglish,' in art, 111
geography, ' in . music, in manual
traiaingand-3n; home economics.
,At first -glance it may,seena. thail
the home economics "instruction
was out • of place, but a bit of •.e.s
amination, shows that: this was.
vital • part • of the -program., , With
,out the , clothing • Classes' -there,
would'ha'e been no costumes,' and'
without the costumes there . would
have been no play. The work of
design'fasard
robe forin$ theandproduchioningtion the gave•wthe
pupils'vivid glitnpses into the daily
lives of the people of 'China, ;and
brought the Orientals into exist-
ence as flesh and blood individuals.
Home Economies And Health 1
There is, close relationship be-
tween home economics. and the
Program of physical education and;
health;, development: ase practiced 1Uthe Berkeley . schools. ;The Inti
mate', connection:; is ;based'. on the
truth that. health is .the 'bast°
element in educational ork+
,Recognition of 'this: Pundaal
platform is shown by the W, y!: in
'which the • various departments.
work together, '
' rood Study .Yelps" ;' ..
The • place of the : home econ-
orn!'es teacher 'In the health Pro'
grain is one. of'widespread activity'
and responsibility. As,i a starting
'point, she. suggests ani,outline for''
classroo n lessons on child hygiene,
and strengthens this by giving .''11-
lustrated tante on foods and health
habits. She plans the'.menus for
the . school lunchrooms;,: and .en-
pourages pupils to drink' the mid-
morning' milk made available
through 'e 1redipm -
teria systethm, .At lunchof 'timtheecafe:she
assists the children
in'the proper
Selection of food ;f,or their noonday
meal, with emphatic discourage-'
ment to the 'chlidAaho,wojtid spend
his or her entire allowance on'p ie,
cake ande '
c Cream. She addresses
inothere' clubs' an nutrition' and
holds conferences with Children
that require s`
q pedal attention; fate
lowing the g I latter
with suggestions
r
Iia encs
htoabits that as needto encourafoodand erhent,health
g'.
All of
1
w ileh would seem to In-
&teata that the timea for
is, . past dismissin
ho
g me economics bne
f
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� d fol- ie
that
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tree
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tax
a e s fol-
p r. e
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n
de -rel .Hari ' te:iCli' h3st0 •; sett,:
rY, .
mtrac
l , dressmaking and.' physical
well-being it• acasea .to be a fol-
de»rot and becomes something th1C
Cdrnrrie.hda respect, . '