Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-30
WOMAN AND HOME.
The Work and Happiness of Women,
and Their Ways.
The Kerosene Can---Cluh Life VS..
Homie Living---A Yankee Fam
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Among the innumerable natural curiosities
OF Colorado none possesses deeper interest
than what the people of Canon City are
given to calling ''the bone yard
The scenery presents the finest geological
exposures have ever seen, the little stream
through whose canon you approach the now
renowned field, having in many places the
formations cut clearly down 5000 feet,
showing all the qualifications 1t would be
an ideal spot to start a school of geology.
The bone yard proper is but seven or eight
miles out from the town, but the interest
continues for the geological student for six
or seven miles beyond.
''There it IS" said Capt. Felch, who has
charge Of the operations of quarrying out
the nastodons He was pointing to dizzy
ledge of sandstone away up the perpendicu-
lar side Of the canyon, where Z stretch of
white sail cloth protected the redeemed
treasures from the disintegrating action of
the weather.
''And is this quarry your own property, and
how did you discover these bones in the
rocks"
''As to your first question, no; the quarry
is not mine, except by priority of occupation;
it is government land, but it adj joins my ranch
over there in Garden park, and I am not
likely to be disturbed in my possession, for it
would be useless to anybody else. AS to how
1 came to discover this lost but most interest
ing page from the great book of nature,
that was natural enough, we are Yankee
family with the native inquisitiveness devel-
oped in a special line. We are naturalists.
That odd little girl there of mine, demure as
she seems, is g born student of nature; she
has made some rare and valuable collections
Of insects that have attracted attention. She
is not yet able to classify them completely,
but you see she has had no instruction ex-
cept what she CLEANED herself from the scien-
tific books and periodicals which we have
about the house. My children discovered
this particular spot and drew my attention
to it. 1t is a perfect geological mine; but, as
matter OF fact, these saurian remains
abound in the Jurassic exposures about here
They are, however, found in this particular
spot in greater abundance and perfection
than anywhere else yet discovered.
1t is a humanizing and refining study
Whether it is that only gentle natures take it
up, or that it has the magic to work gentle
ness in the soul of him that does so, it is at
least to be observed that savageness is at its
lowest point in them that commune much
with nature through any of her forms. This
family, of Fetch, that has been engaged on
these excavations, are typical Yankees. but
all the New England irregularities have been
toned and softened in them. Those rough
clothed boys, who had found this scientific
bonanza, made me ashamed OF myself when
they talked of the geology of the region.
That demure girl, who has no more notion
OF the exact or proper thing in the way of
| bang or hustle than a Comanche maiden,
will Jump out of warm bed before sunrise
one OF these cool mornings, and run away
half mile to a clay bank where she knows
certain rare species of bug may be found at
just that particular hour. If they send her
to the spring for bucket Of water, as likely
as not, they viii have to go a half hour later
and bring both her and the water in for
breakfast She has been leaning over the
spring all that time reading a thrilling story
to her; but, dear girls. beloved sisters and
cousins, you would never he thrilled by
anything so stupid. II is not tale of high
life at all, in which you learn the habits and
language and manners of the upper classes
frol some literary shop-girl. She has only
been studying the way those curious little
worms in the bottom of the spring cover
themselves with preparation of silica and
lime extracted from the water, making
shells for themselves.
Stupid, wasn't it'll Not half 30 smart as
high-heeled shoes and bandoline, and hand
kerchief Irritation, and a 10-cent novel on
high society. Dear girls. you would make
this demure child ashamed of herself with
your precocity in Irritation and your wonder
full store of maxims about 'the gents" She
would not know that you are spelling your
hair with your ridiculous frizzes and raising
crop of corns in those high-heeled shoes to
destroy your future happiness. She might
even envy you, and you would certainly
despise her style-that is, her utter want of
style. But when you are little, old, weaz-
ened, premature women of 80, painting your
wrinkled skin, pairing your corns, and Ia
menting your thin hair, and seeing high life
in cheap boarding house, this girl viii be
fine, fresh, clear-eyed, and clear-headed
young woman, whose companionship viii be
sought after by men of sense, and probably
by men of distinguished sense. am preach
ing; but to tell the truth, l was more inter-
ested in the live children up in that secluded
park than in the dead saurians