Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1912-12-15

wooden walking costume
and to her own bravery and
resolution, a former public school
teacher of Pittsburgh, Pa, owes
her recently acquired position as
wife of the son of one OF Colorado's
richest ranchers and mining men.
This is literally the Romance of
Brave Girls Wooden Skirt, for If
her costume on that memorable
day had been of any more fimsy
material. the happy young hus-
band would not now be alive to
tell the story. But in owing his
life to her-and the skirt-and in
winning her for his bride. he
robbed the scientific world of one
of its most enthusiastic and prom
Using young archaeologists, a young
woman of brilliant attachments,
who. though exceedingly pretty and
femininely graceful, had forsworn
men and matrimony in favor of a
career among the rapidly increas-
ing number of women who are Do
ing Things.
At the close Of the school year
last Spring in Pittsburgh Miss 1mo-
6Cil Vial NC ltslSli llti GOSlllDI III
one of the upper grades-where
she was near the head of the line
for promotion to the coveted post
OF prlncipal-and set out for the
land of the prehistoric cliff dwell
ers in Southern Colorado.
From early girlhood archaeology
had been Miss Clarkeis fayorite
study. She had made herself mis-
tress Of the lore o. ancient Egypt
and Babylon. had deciphered for
herself the hieroglyphics on tab.
let's and pottery fragments dug up
by the great German. Schliemann.
from the ruins of ancient Troy; had
compared Schliemann's evidence
that the most ancient of the cities
under the Trojan site had been trlb-
utary TO the great empire of lost
Atlantis with similar evidence that
the very ancient Toltees of the VII.
catan peninsula had sprung from
Atlantean ancestry and had form,,.
lated her own per onal theory that
the Colorado and Arizona cliff dwell
ers were also Atlantean in their
origin
To seek for evidence in sunnort
of this theory had long been Miss
Ilafke's fixed purpose. In preDara.
ton for modest expedition into
that desolate region under her Nor
sonal leadership she had lived fru.
gally, laying aside the larger part ~
her salary as school teacher Iast
winter a legacy of few tbousand
doll RS enabled her TO
broaden me scope Of her
researches - She would
devote her whole future
to the study of civiliza-
mons lonC dead and bur
led. She was not vet
twenty-six years old. and
Tas almost alone in the
world. For her compan.
ION IN her explorations
she selected a sensible
and robust distant rela. x
i've, a middlea-ged spin
ster. Miss Helen Doher- ZaSa
~ whom she had known
from childhood as "Annt
Nelly" Before her
friends realized that
they were ser ,us In
thelr adventurous pur.
pose, Miss Clarke and ~
4. !: ): J. 4: !"
Aunt Nelly properly
outhtted, were en- route ~
to the Navajo country.
At Pueblo they com. q
pleted their equipment 81 n
which included tbraa e +
pack mules besides their
own mounts and a guide. tsxGs-I
VINO was also man-of.al.
work for the little expe-
dltion A week later As Yo,
they had arrived safely r.,
at the Mesa Verde
ere stands the
la III o us restored
Balcony House" decI,r,
Edgar l.. Hewett, of the Schoo, - :
american Archaeology. to have bee
the citadel where tho ancient eli
aweiiers made their last unsucces
1ul STAND against their maraudin
enemies from the plains.
Making Balcony House their hea,
quarters and base of supplies, til
adventurous young woman and he
sturdy woman companion bega
their careful inspection of ever
promising cave anC cliff throughol
tnab region.
she was innocent of all know
edge that, In the meantime, Fate
which is no respecter of archaeolog
had been Communicated by Cupi
as his aid in bending her TO thu
tricky gods old familiar purpos
Young Leroy Wickes. son and he
of the millionaire rancher and mil
ing man of that name, was return
ing from the direction of Ell Pas
with small party of prospector
II young Wickes hadn't got SCI
arated from the party forty mile
to the south of Balcony House an
wandered to the westward of ii
trail. archaeology might still has
been saved the loss of Miss Clark
But Fate saw to it that every hol
OF that eyentful day saw the
headed steadily toward each othe
though each was profoundly ign
y