Roosevelt High School - Bwana Yearbook (St Louis, MO)

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EWZHE the Lost River. We are just in time for the wedding: the bride and groom have just stepped before the priest. ' We are now on a sort of a hill. All about us and far below us is the Grand Canyon. There are steep steps leading down into the canyon. But before we descend, there are some things I would like to show you. I shall turn off the lights. You focus your eyes above that hill in front of you. You are going to see the rising sun. Oh, how wonderful! How is it done? CA battery of hidden lights throws the light rays over the hill.D l know you are anxious to get to the bottom of the canyon, but there are few figures l would like to point out. See the calf and the racing pack-horse right alongside it. ln front of you, up almost to the ceiling in that small crevice, there is a white-breasted owl hanging by its left wing. It is a bit difficult to locate, but it is a perfect formation. Now you may go down the steps. What is that hanging on the railing? It is a fungus. That slope to your left is Hillside Cemetery. To your right are the Three White Sisters. A little ahead is a shepherd carrying a small lamb. We begin to hear the rush and roar of water and soon see it. On one side is a quiet, muddy pool about four feet deep and very coldg on the other is a clear, rippling, shallow, rnoisy stream whose source has never really been found, but because of the manganese dioxide in it, it is believed to have its source in the Rocky Mountains, since Montana and Arizona are the only places where manganese dioxide is found. Farther on, we notice a petrified forest. Now comes the wonder of wonders! It is a stalactite more than fifty feet in diameter supported by each wall. You have been walking beneath it but only when you passed to the other side did you notice it. It has been named the Big Swinging Canopy. You have reached the end of the cave. l have saved some interesting sights for our return trip. Notice the little white Easter rabbit perched on the shelf above you and the deer head. Farther ahead are the ruins of the ancient city. Off to the side, in and out between cones, we shall come upon the Natural Shower Bath. The water is dripping from the ceiling for a distance of about forty or fifty feet. All along you have noticed that many of the cones have broken apart and shifted. The break is so clean it looks as if a knife had cut through the center. Look out! You almost bumped into that scrawny-looking witch. uwhy must they put such pleasant things next to such horrible things, a group of campfire girls sitting before a fire while the witch looks on! What a sturdy asparagus bed! ln, these two boxes with the glass covers are skeletons, one of a mang the other of a bear. It is generally believed that about fifty years ago this man and bear met in the cave. Each killed the other. There is a coating of onyx about one-fourth inch over the bones. Since it takes from hundred to hundred and eighty years to form a cubic inch of the rock it must have been about fifty years ago: and, since both skeletons have the same amount of onyx covering, the theory seems plausible. Twenty-two

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EWENE Many of the cones resemble totem polesg those three are the best examples. By beating these delicate pipe stems, l can play various notes sounding somewhat like those of a Xylophone. There is a room off the Ball Room called the Card Room. Even though it is called a room, it is a long narrow passage whose sides are filled with cards left by the visitors. We are again in the Sand Hill Dome. Of course you would like to know how far you have gone. The surveyor reported one and flve-eighths miles, but you have really walked about two and a half miles, beneath two hundred and flfty acres of ground. Your trip is ended. I hope you have enjoyed it. BARBARA SCHAFER Term 7 i Bio sweauwca STATE PARK I Twenty-three ,, , ... 4