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Show BEAVER PRESS lloosrun . a - . jr an . PAPERS KNOWN AS X Y Z DISPATCHES ROLLING STONE ur By JANE OSBORN ft wc- 1 i - : ft "yjIO caiw for moss, anyway! haJ n out sisto, sister gotten it. I'OU ll.in't w m'-- advlee, all a,",, right Sald1 aiU teu aud 1 aiu ried thiuk advtr,UUri,levvould that W be worth something 'aS si"""' telling you that d d nor ..- o?ha'ad Lhin. that0;,. itv wl ! Ue worth a he never sticks at any- W 1168 eot a motion in the VUUkemore mo W :,dpin z m A Bit of - r;1U"'aW- ? "nowasoul and ruis thuu he marr'ed and I know to have a that a girl comfortable income to be happy after she Is married Thank fortune George wasn't f rolllnS stone. lie had sense enough go into his father's store, and as a resu t we have enough aud I am ici ieciiy nappy." munt say you weren't happy," snapped Daphne "And 1 didn't say that I was going to marry Donald bcott Donald has never asked me to nun. What I did say was that juairy wasn't going to marry Walter Reed, even if he is your husband's best rnend, and even if he had chosen to cramp himself by settling right down here in Blenheim in a garage when all the time he hated the smell of gaso line ana really wants to be an artist lerhaps he will gather a whole lot more moss than Donald but, as I said before, who cares for moss?" "You'll sing a different song four years from now," said Agnes. in a way Agnes was right. Four years later Daphne was quite willing to admit that what she had once light ly caned "moss" had a perfectly legiti mate place In considerations of mat 'US SJD11,1y California Garden Scape. St period the desert literally blossoms as the rose, although the rose does not blossom in the desert ordinarily have arid, diirli are normally The term "wild flowers" does not a riot in forth burst recently to describe some of this desert flora OcE f colorful wild flowers due casionally they are savage flowers, carainfall. heavy usually of protecting themselves better pable , for showcases miinv " ijiiruia uaa than any laws could possi-tjpay vi Merrus are me bly protect them. In magnificent coli In the hlgn or, in delicacy of texture of petal, the inquiringly and plants, peeping cactus flowers are perhaps the most the snowcaps jfTcusly through wonderful of the California desert tot warmth of spring moves blossoms. But no one ever came home to mushy activity. iid pack from the desert with a handful of chol-l- a s down the slopes, ucuens, flowers or a bouquet of of ferns, prickly sundry family groups pears. "Look and leave 'em" is the wild flowers of varieties jsy the wooded into lowlands, safest motto, for the cactus has a fiendish defense against all comers. especially north of the California mothers no scenic symthe live oak more marvelous than the Yose-niit- e phony a Its shapely limbs and often National park, with its mighty while adding beauty j protection peaks, rugged canyons, giant trees, pasture land, where herds or rat waterfalls tumultously spreading a rds browse. be northern part of the state protecting veil over the rocky outlines of naked clefts rising from the floor now with little cultivation, but of the valley sheer a thousand feet or ie profusion of goldenrod in more. lrOTia. wo mere Dusnes sumce In the giant sequoia, the sucar nine. rimony. b wealth of blossoms. They Walter Iteed had resumed his suit the western yellow pine, the red and :a trees, often to a height of 12 from time to time, and, being the only we tnore, and curious results of white firs, and the incense-cedar- , in Blenheim, there were times eligible in have this Yosemite region one of Aei varieties are sometimes when Daphne had seriously considered the most conremarkable of freakish groups but delightful array i There had ifers in the world. It serves to give accepting his proposal. ;!e tree. In Santa Cruz ar- certainly never been anything of the it.m the sidewalks of some of the park an interest and charm which stone about Walter. lie hadn't gratifies the esthetic sense and stirs rolling d rtts, and over these roses, even taken a vacation for four years. with geraniums, climb and deeply the imagination. Not that there was any undue press A View of Contrasts. dusters. of business. On the contrary, the From Artist's Point there is a fine state bl the cultivated flowers which highway had been diverted away are beautiful and varied, all view of the valley and its contrasts in from Blenheim, though there had been from the sand dunes, Scotch height and depth, in verdure and flora. a good chance at one time that It and rhododendrons Near the foot of Yosemite falls, the would run of Crescent right by Walter's garage. :;ch Is almost the last outpost largest and most spectacular in the "I would marry Walter," Daphne rcia before the Redwood hlsh- valley, the blueblossom, commonly was saying as she sat with her sister 'itnes the Oregon line, to Ka- - called "blue lilac," grows in profusion, Agnes on the front veranda one pleasthe soft coloring blending with the ant summer fsrilen, in San Diego, only a evening, "only the idea rainbow effects of the torrent, broken 4 from the Mexican border, it of giving up a good job to try and t"wide open In its descent to the floor of the valspaces," the des- scrimp along on what he makes Just sonntain sides of the southern ley. makes me terrified. You told me once, Use The Yosemite National park, which state, which we turn in that at least a comfortable inof Agnes, miles 'predation. embraces 1,100 square come was necessary to happiness. I ssy see and "valley incomparable" and scenic think you were right, especially when study the snow the dome of Shasta, dip mountains, offers a rich field for the a girl marries a man that she isn't wonderland of plant and flow-i- t botanist. So great is the range of absolutely crazy about. Walter told the experimental farm of natural conditions between foothills me Just what his income was. He Luther Burbank, near and mountain glaciers that one author- - even showed me a Santa possible budget as winder through San Fran-Wde- n mat m "iu.uai he had figured it out No allowance Gate park, where he varieties of flowers, plants, and ferns fm An(, jugt one hundre( fl al, wtically every are native to this area. Though most and hcp dollars a flowof variety year for my dress fifty mi that will grow under a of these are typical of the entire Sier allowance. He said that his mother ra Nevada, many are exceedingly rare, had got along on that" The fragrance of the western azalea standing pride of this park did not tell her sister that Daphne tioosands of rhododendrons. is enhanced by abundant bloom. The a tall, afternoon that very 'to varieties are in delicate canchalngua, with Its snowy preponderman called at the bank, that he young ated closely by natives of dusters of bright, thick flowers; the had asked for her and that he had taller collomia, with its dense beads turned out to be Donald Scott. j- Oregon, Washington, anil alblossoms, of dainty, funnel-formeEspecially conspicuous Daphne had talked to him for a minmost salmon in color; the golden frarantlsslmum, which at-or two through the gratings of of 7 to 10 countless ute or monkey-flower- ; feet, with cashier's "cage." She told him the 'fflCheg in (liiimeter nrul en blue flowers, such as the light-bluthat she still lived with her sister ttat the odor can be detected pentstemon, with its whorls in tall Agnes and that she would be at home ooaest tiny group nearly a city stems; tall blue that evening, "after supper." dark-blucollinsia; the red Indian Donald sat with them there on the (i ' National paintbrush; the brilliant scarlet pent- comfortable veranda. Geographic soDy Lrged and leaves lutions to Yunnan province, stemon, with of them told something he Daphne wed in the addition nf mnn funnel-formecorolla, about one Inch He Blenheim. he left his life since of rhododendrons Y,f long; golden buttercupsall go to had gone to a big city where he J'Q bae of mosaic large brilliant form the park collection. worked for a time as a newspaper P'y Dre in Spp, sheets and pools of color on the valto doreporter, then somehow he got ipnog California dons ley levels. led that and work, theatrical press "Ms and look hpr ho,t The wide variety of conditions, inga on the months or three two brief to F niM have tinted ranging from the hot and dry slopes of stage. Then a try In the movies. re Had a verdant hillside foothills to the blealt the brush-clat get into the englThen a above he'd had timber.lne, the abode summits delicate !he r orange P nee air with it- of glaciers and perpetual snow, give stretch to the flora an exceedingly diverse and he worked his way through college. ,ike m"k' totter Innumerable eve mm Interesting character. But not enough. Followed a winter ponds, and rivers, to creeks, blossoms springs, studying working like a beaver lakes provide suitable habitats for Then went. J,1Pa"nond treea he as pay his expenses SaWy lovely. The land- - moisture-lovinplants. Rocky back to the Job he had left among graveland 'th enormous cliffs, was ? color, while motion picture engineers. That re seen adaptthrough the ly ridges accommodate species two years ago. Since then "things moded to such situations. had gone rather nicely," Donald yields topography S-toThe irregular ne estly explained. well?" southward facing slopes, which re"Then you're really doing ceive the full effect of the sun's rays, well as if you'd "As asked. Agnes ""MIL as well as northward slopes, cool, stuck here in Blenheim V varirnh little are where they and moist shady, Donald laughed but answered poast arjen of felt. The altitude ranges from 2,500 litely enough that he thought he was. than feet in the foothill belt to more uerI wouldn't tell anyone eise, vmnm crest of the the He named 13.000 feet along borrow-..- I. ' times four was Nevada. ine ra income that Spaniards , - . ,. husbandfirst white a Jear" ta the ii. ia i ,i,hi that-- - Yosemite as ui yn....... ! '"wr. U the irreat mi,dered more than eom- va ley men to look upon 11. Hot the o of Josepn i were members fortahle. "I am telling you i stand. I where Just er expedition of 1833, which oescen-know will Paphne of the Sierras. I,Pn,,1 to ask Daphne val,ey. for ed the western slope You see I came back not . snot. r,ia This expedition apparently dideffectivego to marry me. I never dared ask ber down Into the valley, and the . before." '" ""tela and tent discovery was not made until 18j1. by Agnes faked some excuse and ent members of the Mariposa battalion ,to the house. Two days later when It while In pursuit of hostile Indians. Donald went back to the big city ' had who he frequented men that Blenheim The first white was known In h y,b,'tW(,'n Kebru- 'Iw the yucca this YoPemlte hinterland were miners, become engaged to Daphne. even the cattlemen. Then mes- "I always told Daphne that sheep herders, and to guard on air, live couldn't lovers came surveyors and idlers of host forests anyand and husband meadows her the mountain Acnes said to aMNtt e her. "stl who wanted to listen to member of And. last, the tourist, at first else l'tn)lly, one now in r fine and but of fond Intervals was very group nt long of the "Walter rc!ght have glories see the and Daphne to ways, ' floCl1 b"wheat throne, recon- - marked It had not been for Mm- -lf mountains. The first systematic mnde by was melon i,o f my advice." be-geological survey, California the Worli In this lush tween 1803 aud 1S07. j fc. National Society. Geographic man-mad- e -- "be roy In 1797 strained relations existed between the United States and the young French republic. The in-e- CAN'T United owtes. desiring to repair the friend-Shi- p between the two countries which nad been of such importance during the American Revolution, sent three commissioners to France t. effect an understanding. 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