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Show 3,r i? THE SAUNA SUN, SAUNA UTAH r25JZ52SZ5ZraSZ52SB525i25HSHS2S?Sj . MARRYING MOTHER LULU viwmi FULTOfl. ABK, By LOUISE M. ADDELSON tt2SH5HSZS2S2SSSZSE5HS25a5H52SZ5Z5tl ). 1923. hr McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Its a terrible situation," said Doc- tor Pratt. It is, admitted his wife, sadly. And I dont know how we can remedy it. If only dear mamma were not quite so dictatorial 1" One would think, ruminated the physician, that she was the doctor and I the office boy. If she doesnt like a patient's looks, or manners, or expression, she refuses him admittance ; says Im out, or sick, or dead ; anything to make it certain that he will never call again. And Shepard, across the street, only too anxious as he Is, to grab my practice But what can we do?" walled the doctors pretty wife. We cant deny her a home, can we? Poor mammal" Poor me I Poor you! Poor children But cheer up, little one, I have 1 1 something In view. Something in view? repeated Mrs. Pratt, uneasily. Dont worry. Its not murder or banishment Im contemplating for your dear mother. What I had in mind was matrimony." Mrs. Pratt, who was not wholly without humor, smiled. Who is it?" Alwyn Pratt, my uncle. Since his wife died, a year ago, hes been very unhappy for lack of some one to scrap with. I'm in hopes that your mother " Mrs. Pratt laughed in spite of her- Zzazrzffim By JOHN DICKINSON SHERMAN II'TY years of National Parks 1 Yel-- i lowstone has been celebrating Its 7X) this summer. When It was established by act of congress y in 1S72 it was the first public playground of the people created in all history. Now the United States has nineteen and several other nations have followed our example. V x Yellowstone is a land of wonders yTV and its early history is In keeping. Our third president, Thomas Jefferson, bought the Louisiana Purchase the unknown land between the Mississippi and the Rockies from Napoleon Bonaparte in 1803. In the spring of 1S04 Jefferson started Lewis and Clark westward from St. Louis to see what we had got for $15,000,000. They went to the mouth of the Columbia and returned to St. Louis in 1800, after being given up for lost. Both going and returning they passed a little to the north of the Yellowstone, but heard nothing of It. John Colter, one of their men, turned back before reaching St. Louis to trap beaver on the headwaters of the Missouri. He discovered the Yellowstone In 1807, returned to St. Louis in 1810 and told about the geysers and other marvels. St Louis refused to believe and laughed at the YelGen. William Clark, lowstone as Colters Hell. Colters commander, was apparently the only man to believe; on Clarks oflidal map of the Lewis and Clark expedition you will find traced Colter's d semi-centenni- "" iroute In 1807. Jim Bridger, one of Gen. William H. Ashleys lieutenants in the Rocky Mountain Fur company, .rediscovered the Yellowstone in 1827. Bridger was ;as good a mountaineer, plainsman and guide as this country ever saw. But he was a practical joker along the line of monumental lies he was the inventor of the obsidian cliff, boiling spring, alum creek and echo canyon stories which have been Western classics for nearly a century. So his report of the Yellowstone wonders was set down merely as another of Jim Bridgers big yarns. In 1842 and again In 1862 men reported the wonders of the Yellowstone. Nobody would believe them. In 1869 the semi-offici- al Washburn-Lang-for- d expedition from Montana succeeded in getting a hearing. But It was not until 1870 that a special federal government expedition established the existence of the Yellowstone. Thus it took sixty-thre- e years and more than six discoveries to put the Yellowstone officially on the map. Cornelius Hedges he has deserved well of his In country September 18, 1870, by a camp-fir- e the Yellowstone, proposed that the wonderland be made a national park a public playground set aside for the peoples use forever. The Idea took. Congress established the Yellowstone National park March 1, 1872. The United States now has nineteen national parks containing 10,859 square miles or 6,949,760 acres. Chronologically In the order of formation they are ns follows: 1832 Hot Springs, Arkansas, 911 acres, originally a reservation, made a national park this year; 46 curative hot springs. 1872 Yellowstone, and Wyoming, Montana Idaho, 3,348 square miles; geysers and other volcanic exhibits, Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone, large lake, great animal preserve. 1890 Sequoia, California, 252 square miles; 12,000 big trees over ten feet In diameter, and some over thirty-fiv- e feet and 5,000 years old. 1890 Yosemlte, California, 1,123 square miles; Cffig Arf&RTCAff Tl?OTrJ! AV Yosemlte valley, high waterfalls, three groves of t big trees. 1890 General Grant, California, four square miles; big trees. 1S99 Mount Rainier, Washington, 324 square miles ; Mount Rainier with forty-eigsquare miles of glaciers. 1902 Crater Lake, Oregon, 249 square miles; lake in crater of extinct volcano, with sides 1,000 feet high. 1903 Wind Cave, South Dakota, seventeen square miles ; caver with many miles of galleries and chambers. 1904 Platt, Oklahoma, 848 acres ; medicinal springs. 1904 Sullys Hill, North Dakota, 780 acres ; wild animal preserve. 1906 Mesa Verde, Colorado, 77 square miles, prehistoric cliff dwellings. 1910 Glacier, Montana, 1,534 square mountains, lakes and glaciers. 1915 Rocky Mountain, Colorafy), 397 miles, heart of the Rockies, Continental peaks up to 14,255 feet. 1916 Hawaii, Hawaiian Islands, 118 miles, three famous volcanoes on two Islands, tropical scenery. 1916 Lassen Volcanic, California, 124 square miles ; only active volcano in United States proper, other volcanic exhibits. 1917 Mount McKinley, Alaska, 2,200 square miles ; highest mountain in North America (20,300 feet), great wild animal preserve; not yet accessible. 1919 Grand Canyon, Arizona, 958 square miles, gorge of the Colorado river. 1919 Lafayette, Maine, 5,000 acres; group of mountains on Isle of Mount Desert 1919 Zion, Utah, 120 square miles ; gorge of the Rio Virgin. Many volumes could be filled with photographs of first-clas- s scenery In these national parks. The photographs reproduced herewith were selected for these reasons: Yellowstone is the oldest, largest and best known of our national parks. Rocky Mountain is the most popular. Grand Canyon Is the greatest natural wonder In the world. Lafayette is the only national park east of the Mississippi. Zion is the newest of our nineteen. The remaining picture, a scene on the way to Rocky Mountain, is typical of the American people at play In the national parks. The visitors to the national parks in 1921 numbered 1,007,335; the private automobiles numbered 175,825. Rocky Mountain led with 273,737 visitors and 57,438 automobiles. Hot Springs was second with 130,968 visitors. Yosemlte was third with with 91,513 visitors and 18,947 cars. Yellowstone had 81,651 visitors and 15,736 cars. Appropriations in 1921 were $1,031,549 and revenues were $396,928. Eventually the national parks will be practically The act of 1916 creating the national park service, a bureau of the Interior department, sets forth that the fundamental purpose of the national parks Is to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and tbe wild life therein and ht Choio tr Courtesy l.S forest Jerrice to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations. There will be more national parks. The policy of the national park service, as set forth in 1918 by the late Franklin B. Lane, then secretary of the interior, is that the national parks of the future should be justified by scenery of supreme and distinctive quality or some natural feature so extraordinary or unique as to be of national Interest and importance. The national park system as now constituted, should not be lowered in standard, dignity and prestige by the inclusion of areas which express in less thn the highest terms the particular class or kind of exhibit which they rep- resent. The national park movement Is now nationwide. There is an army of enthusiasts. These enthusiasts are preaching that the mission of the national parks is manifold; that general use of them by the people will bring physical, mental, moral and financial benefits. transcontinental tourist trafThis national-parfic by private car Is getting to be a big thing, with tremendous possibilities In dollars. The Scenic West was literally full of motorists this summer on vacation trips ranging from two weeks to the whole season. All sorts of estimates have been made of what this means financially to the country to have this money spent at home Instead of In estl- sightseeing abroad. It Is purely guesswork to to more visitors the and million mate what the national parks this summer paid out in money. An arbitrary minimum estimate of $100 each gives a total of $100,000,000. The national pnrk enthusiasts have formed an asorganization of their own the National Parks of unofficial friends formed by sociation. It was the national parks to enter a field of the movement which the federal government apparently does not intend to occupy. The present policy of Is congress if It hns any national park policy maintenance the for protection, to provide merely and development of tbe parks, leaving it to the use they shall make of people to determine the them. The association is an organization of the k them to use effectively people themselves to enable these public playgrounds. At present the enjoyment of the American people of its national parks acis largely emotional. Among Its many other of a campaign association purposes the tivities the of people the enjoyment education to double In effect to the, by adding understanding. It says American people: Our national parks are natures great laborawontories and museums. They are not merely ders and .scenery. They are exhibits on a mighty; scale of the processes by which nature has been and Is making America. You may double your their pleasure In these exhibits by comprehending Let us See study. Intelligent through meaning I America first! But let us also know America as Its well as Let us know Its natural history national history. Let us differentiate, distinguish and appreciate. Then we shall really know. Then we shall really enjoy. self. Edwin, thats not nice of you. Mother will never marry least of all a metnber of your family. You know her." I know her. Therefore Pm bringing Uncle Alwyn to dinner tonight. Good-by- , dear. Some of the patients your mother couldnt drive away are waiting for me to see them." Mrs. Colwell, Doctor Pratts mother-in-ladressed for dinner that evening with the satisfied air of ohe whose time has been well spent, as, Indeed, it had been. Mother, dear, said Mrs. Pratt, timidly breaking In on Mrs. Colwells pleasing reileetlons, I hope you dont mind if we if we have company tonight? Company? Mrs. Colwell stared incredulously. Company, and I not know it? Who Is coming?" Edwins uncle, Mr. Alwyn Pratt a very nice old gentleman, Indeed." The door bell rang sharply. The dinner guest had arrived. Mr. Alwyn Pratt was a handsome old gentleman, with white hair, and sharp, black eyes that twinkled mysteriously as he shook hands with his His eyes connephews mother-in-latinued to twinkle, In spite of the glare with which Mrs. Colwell favored him. The dinner was a nervous affair. I would like, said the uncle, a little more pudding, if your gracious mother would be so kind." Mrs. Colwells outraged feelings could be repressed no longer. I am curious," said she, ns to what a member of the Pratt family knows about manners, gracious or otherwise." "Ilml" said Mr. Pratt, with a Not much, maybe. Just chuckle. enough to know when they are missing. Sorry you dont like the Pratts, ma'am. Our people dont show (heir feelings so plainly. We proved It when my nephew here married your daughter. Not that we were disappointed in the little lady, bless her. Shes everything that could be desired. But we disapproved of of her connections." Her connections I" Mrs. Colwell gasped. She was the only living relaHer connective of her daughter. tions I Why, I considered It the disappointment of my life when my daughter married Doctor Pratt Dont you boast about your family I One of them is a rascally barber!" Oh, madamel protested Uncle AlDont say that I Joe's not a wyn. rascally barber. A more painstaking Snd affectionate man I never saw. Hes shaved me for years, and I know. The soul of honor, Joe is. Im not ashamed of him. It might be a good deal worse. For example, he might have been a horse thief Mrs. Colwell turned a deep purple. Her daughter rose, hastily, but Doctor Pratt restrained her. Dont worry. Everything Is going 1 1 he whispered. Mrs. Colwells furious voice filled the room. It isnt true that my grandfather stole a horse. He had bought the horse, and Dear lady, said old Alwyn, blandly, did I say your grandfather stole a horse? Far be it from me to make so vulgar a statement. I didnt know your grandfather. I didnt even know the fine, Moreover You you at least you can't deny that your uncle was one of the worst gamblers in the city. He Doctor Pratt seized his wifes hand and drew her from the room. Tbe courtship is in full swing, he said. Old Mr. Pratt spent a delightful evening, and called again the following week. Nor, to her daughters surprise, did Mrs. Coiweil object to his coming. In three months they were married. The bride explained, to the satisfaction of all. He never stays long enough for me to shew him where he Is wrong. Under ordinary circumstances I wouldnt think of marrying him. One of that family ! But Its the only way Ill succeed in convincing him that his mothers uncle kept a butcher shop and d his customers; and theres another matter about a lady that his grrrdfnther kissed her mother ant) Mrs. it wished thu.. applnesa. Suggests to Suffering Women the Road to Health I used Lvdia E. Pulton, Arkansas. PinkhamS Vegetable Compound for a soreness in my side. I would suffer so badly every month from1 my w&i&t down that could not be on my feet half the timei. 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