Westbrook High School - Blue and White Yearbook (Westbrook, ME)

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20 lake is silent and mysterious. It has a won- derful color scheme. The mountain peaks are of grays and silvers. VVith the green of the woods, these colors reflect in the vivid blue of the lake. VVe stopped at a stone hotel which was sit- uated on the rim of the lake. The accommo- dations there were very good. It is said, Of all the fire mountains which. like beacons, once blazed along the Pacific Coast. Mt. Ranier is the noblestf' This is the place which we next visited. This mountain is noted for the glaciers The glaciers fill twenty-eight valleys and cover forty-eight square miles. The most interest-- ing and largest glacier which we visited was Nisqually Glacier. It averages sixteen inches in speed a day. The Nisqually River fiows from a cave in the end of Nisqually Glacier's snout. The river is milky white when it first appears, because of the rock sediment in it. From Mt. Ranier we went to another Fairy- land, Glacier National Park. This park, in northwestern Montana. covers many miles of mountain territory. Its name is derived from sixty Glaciers. It was unlike any place to which I had ever been. Imagine yourself ap- proaching two chains of vast tumbled moun- tains which bear living glaciers in every hol- low, and which break thousands of feet to lower masses. Here there are many lakes of great beauty, and roaring rivers of icy water. Scattered through the park there are nine Mountain Chalet-Villages, which are very unique. XVe stopped at the Many Glacier Hotel, which is in the very heart of the park, on l.ake Mcllermott. It is of Swiss architec- ture. and its timbered walls are stained with many wood carvings. A VVe took many trips on the Auto Stages, which go deep into the Rockies. On our first trip we went to the Two Medicine country, where Two Medicine Lake and River are, also Rising XVolf Mountain and Mt. Rockwell. On another trip we went thirty miles, on the stage to St. Mary's Lake, which is the most beautiful lake in North America, then we took the St. 8 ' The Blue and White Mary's steamer and sailed up the lake ten miles to the Going-to-the-Sun region. Here are the park's finest peaks, Going-to-the-Sun Mountain, Goat Mountain, Red Eagle Moun- tain and Little Chief Mountain. Here are also the Sexton Glacier, Grinnell Lake, and Morn- ing Eagle Falls. After spending a few days there, we went to Yellowstone Park. Yellowstone National Park had always been a land of great mystery to me, and it was with great pleasure that I looked forward to my visit there. I was not disappointed, for its great geysers, hot springs. Waterfalls and fos- sil forests were of great interest. There are five active gevser basins here: the Norris. the Lower, the Upper, the Heart I ake and the Shoshone. Some of the geysers. like Old Faithful, spout at quite regular in- tervals, and burst upward with immense pow- er: others shoot streams at angles, or bubble or foam when in action. The hot-spring terraces are rather awe-in- spiring when seen for the first time. In cer- tain lights, the steaming pools appear vividly colored: the deeper hot pools are often intense- ly green. The incrustations are beautifully crystallized: clumps of grass and flowers which have been submerged in the charged waters become exquisitely plated as if frosted silver. The fossil forests are also of great interest. The largest fossils are found on the banks of the Lamar River. There is also a small for- est near Tower Falls, and just outside the park is another petrified forest which covers more than 35,000 acres. XVe visited these forests on horseback. From this place of wonders we took the train to Kansas City. St. Louis, and home. The nearer East we drew, the more I felt that my vsiit to the National Parks of the Unite-il States had been like a child's visit to Fairy- land, and was only a dream. And when I left my aunt at her home in Massachusetts, I felt more than ever that my travels were an unreality. GER.XLl'llNlE H. VVEIHHER, '23.

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22 ' THE AUTO WAR Daniel Daring was. as one of his frank neighbors described him, The queerest gol dern critter living. I.eft when a boy to face the world alone, by his shrewdness and business ability he had bettered his fortunes until he was now the owner of a large ranch and great tracts of forest land in Oregon. His outstanding characteristic was his old- fashioned aversion to the modern electrical and automatic devices. Because large, time- saving machines were necessary on the ranch, he bought them without a murmur. And he suffered in silence the Victrola which his wife had persuaded him to buy, but when it came to telephones and automobiles, he put his foot down. No! I will not be bothered by an in- fernal telephonef' he said, and as for auto- mobiles, well, hosses carried my father and grandfather before me, and they'll carry me or I'll walk! But, Dad, argued his daughter Marjorie, who had just returned from an Eastern col- lege, you're dreadfully behind the times, You really ought to have an automobile. You do so much business in Northford, and that's twenty miles from here. Horses are sc slow and poky. Well, let me have one. she con- tinued, as her father shook his head, just a little one for my own use. I learned how to run one at school. But Daring refused, and for the time Mar- jorie was forced to give it up. She had in- herited his stubborn disposition, and her de- sire for a car was increased a hundred-fold by his opposition. During the next few weeks, the Auto NVar, as Marjorie called it, was waged every time she and her father were together-in the morn- ing and in the evening, at meals and while they were galloping over the countryside on their horses, for, despite their love for arguing and debating, they were great comrades, and spent much time together. Mrs. Daring, a merry, vigorous woman, good-naturedly sided with her daughter on the auto question, and together they pleaded, ar- The Blue and White gued and scolded, all to no avail-Mr. Daring was adamant. Finally, in despair, Marjorie took matters into her own hands. Calling her mother into her room one day, she laid before her a plan which she had thought of. Her mother agreed, and Marjorie wrote a letter, which she at once mailed. Then followed several weeks of impatient waiting. At last a return letter came which sent Marjorie with a whoop to find her mother. Then, donning her riding clothes, she set out at once for Northford with john, one of her father's men. It was late in the day when they returned, Marjorie proudly driving a shining black road- ster, and john following with the two horses. far behind. Mrs. Daring rushed out, and together they admired and exclaimed over the little car. Mr. Daring, fortunately, was away, but, as Mar- jorie expressed it, wait till he gets home! lVhen he did arrive, he stopped short anfl gazed in amazement. An automobile before his house! An automobile! He knew at once that it was no chance visitor. He strode into the house and confronted his smiling daugh- ter, his face dark with anger. Marjorie, he said, sternly, I did not think you would deliberately disobey me. Now, you hold your horses, Dan Daring. intervened his wife, if that child wants an automobile, she shall have it, and there's no logical reason why she can't. Even if you do intend to have ideas as old as Napoleon, the rest of your family don't. I told Marjorie she'd never get a car if she waited for your consent. Mr. Daring looked at them helplessly, his anger fading before his wife's unprecedented attack. VVell, he surrendered, if you women folks set your minds on having a thing, I guess there's nothing to do but to give it to you. But, he continued, turning to Mar- jorie, don't expect me to have anything to do with the contraption, because I won't. If you go ranting over these hills and kill your- self, don't blame me!