The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-08-07

party next week at her home, 715 Polk
street. The guests will arrive Thurs
day and remain until the midle of the
next week. They will be honor guests
at a number of affairs while here.
Those who will come are: Miss Fran
ces Shaw of Medicine Lodge, MISS
Chrystal Kelley of Yates Center, Miss
Bess Tyler of Austin, Tex. and Miss
Margaret Dodge of Manhattan
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Mrs. ]. NJ. Cornell entertained few
guests informally yesterday for Mrs
S. E. Barber, of New York city, form
erly of Topeka. The guests were
members of the Caffee Klatch, to
which Mrs. Barber belonged when she
lived here, and few additional guests.
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Mrs. Elizabeth Claypool Earl OF
Connorsville Ind, who has been the
guest of Mrs. j. d. Mcfarland Tor
few days, left today for her home
Mrs. Earl stopped in Topeka on her
return from the west and northwest
In Portland, Ore, enc attended the
Council and Federation of Woman's
clubs, where she read paper on
Home Economics and the Depart
ment of Agriculture. She attended
the meeting of the American Library
association in Berkeley, Cal, and the
fairs in both San Francisco and San
Diego. Mrs. Earl says that 1t is her
opinion that the art and electrical dis
plays at san + FRANCISCO are the LIOSl
wonderful in the world
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Miss Alice Meade and Miss Virginia
Meade will entertain their Friday
afternoon bridge club at their home
on Friday of next week.
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Miss Margaret Lovewel1 will enter
tain her bridge club next Wednesday
afternoon at her home on College ave-
nue.. Miss LoveweH will leave in
few weeks for New York, where she
will spend the winter.
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The Beta Alumnae were entertained
yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Oscar
Bolton at her home on Elmwood ave-
nue.. Those present were: Mrs w.
Mrs. D. Elton Mcintosh, Mrs. Clay
McKibben of Great Bend, Miss Eliza
beth Kimmell of Goodland, Miss Grace
Gaines, Miss Corinne Ripley, Miss
Miss Winifred Burch, Miss Anetta
Nicoll, Miss Majorie Cole, Miss Alice
Griffin, Miss Lugrace Whitmer and
Miss Daisy Neil
That those who have remained in
Topeka this summer might have an
outing, we have asked Mrs. Eli G.
Foster to take US through the Yellow
stone and Yosemite parks. Mrs. Fos-
ter said:
You ask me to tell something
about the two national parks we visit
ed this summer, the Yosemite and the
Yellowstone, and to compare them.
To compare them is almost an i'm
possibility. They are both wonderful
beyond description, yet very unlike.
One suggests, first of all to me, the
big trees and the waterfalls, and the
other instantly flashes to the minds
eye, a picture of giant geysers and hot
springs of unknown depth.
THE Yosemite is rich in foliage
and flowers, much more so than the
Yellowstone. Even the numerous
trees in the Yellowstone are small
insignificant as compared with the
trees of the Yosemite, as if dwarfed by
the fumes of the hot sulphur springs
that abound.
ones life forever. We are thrilled by
the beauty, the wonder and mystery
but description lies beyond the pro-
vince of words.
The Yosemite as a national park
was set aside Oct. 8, 1890, and contains
three-fourths of a million acres
Entering the park from MADEIRA, in
the early morning we ascend to Miami
Lodge, 1920 feet in altitude. Then
on up and up until we come to Wa
IONA, in the vicinity of the big trees, a
distance of 81 miles the first day.
Travling is pleasanter in the Yosem-
tie than in the Yellowstone, as the
trips are made in large 90 horse pow
er, passenger automobiles, while in
the Yellowstone they still use the old
fashioned 4-horse stages or the 2
horse, 3-Seated carriages. Some of the
trips in the Yellowstone are long and
tiresome in a stage coach. Aug. 1, for
the first time in the history of the
Yellowstone, automobiles driven by
their owners. were allowed to enter the
park, and 1 predict that inside of two
or three years. all of the five trans
portation companies now operating in
the park will be using automobile
The roads in the Yellowstone are
fine and wide, while in the Yosemite
they are dangerous in many places.
Many times in driving up to the Mari
posa grove, cars had to back to safe
places in order to pass. There are two
curves here called hairpin curves
where our car had to back to make
the turn 1 consider this part of the
Yosemite road very dangerous.
There is a lot of work being done
now in the Yellowstone on their al
ready good roads, but nothing per-
manent, that L could see, on the
Yosemote roads.
The chief attraction to most peo-
pie in the Yosemite is the Mariposa
grove of giant redwood trees. These
big trees, (sequoia gigantea) are found
only in the high SierraS, at an eleva-
ton of from $500 to 1000 and 5000
feet Their age is estimated at 5000