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Show WATERFALL CASTS A SHADOW Curious Effect of the Full Moon Upon the Beautiful Yosemite, Highest American Waterfall. "Did you ever see a waterfall cast a shadow?" asked Stephen T. Mather of the group around the club table. Mr. Mather, who is assistant to Secretary Lane, in charge of the new development develop-ment work which the department of the interior is doing in the national parks, had just returned from a strenuous stren-uous summer among the mountain tops. "Well, Yosemite falls cast my shadow shad-ow very distinctly one night last August. Au-gust. I was half a mile or more away, gazing, beauty-bound, at the effect of the full moon upon these giant falls, which are, by the way, as high as sixteen six-teen Niagaras piled one on top of the other. "The moon was behind' me, of course. The double falls, shining like silver, lit brilliantly by reflected light the dense shadows of the trees which hid me from the moon. Turning, I saw my shadow outlined vividly upon the grass." |