The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1917-07-13

babies TO the right, babes 10 the IelI
laughing and crying.
We arrived at the cave at twelve
o'clock at which time the Head
found that the high cost Of living
had struck Mammoth Cave. At One
fifteen the guide took Us in charge.
At the mouth Of the Cave The Lady's
other Members and Young Members
boomers came into full view. We also
had a better view of the Young Men,
bers dropped stitches. All was now
ready. The Head surrendered to the
guide the only evidence in his pos.
session, that he had left with the
owners of the Cave fourteen perfectly
round, eagle embossed dollars, for the
privilege of viewing the interior or
said cave; the guide in return politely
lighted our kerosene torches, the
Head gave his arm to the Lady. the
Daughter took the Mother Lady by
the arm, the other members of the
party deferentially let them pass
down the steps and we were in Man,
moth Cave.
The entrance to the Cave is cold.
The guide scientifically explained the
reason, but to us cold has always
been the absence of heat, Illustrated
aptly on a January morning, as you
realize that instead of filling the mag
azine of the base burner, when you
called him in the middle of the night,
your husband had simply rolled TO
the further side of the bed, to es-
cape annoyance, and as result the
fire went out.
The first part of the trip in the
Cave is uneventful. The Guide point
ed out the formation of mineral de-
nosits on the dome. Magnesium sui
phate" he said, The Head remember
ing that the Young Member had re-
ceived several expensive dresses as
an asset to graduation this spring,
/ called her attention to the fact that
/ Chemistry was supposed to be includ-
ed in the Curriculum Of her Alma
/ Mater. The Young Member admitted
that she had chemistry at school,
/ but unon leaving she had hoped not
TO have her attention called to 1t
again. At this juncture the Guide e1-
planned to the Party-at-large that
Magnesium Sulphate is EPSON Salts.
Whereupon we all felt a desire to go
further down the Cave. The forma-
ton of Mammoth Cave is wonderful.
. There are three levels, the lowest Is
three hundred and sixty feet. we saw
Richardson's Springs, The CHANTS
Coffin, Shelby's Dome, the Suicides
/ Rock, Rapier's Cave, The Dutchman's
Tran. The Tall Mans Misery, The
Valley Of Humility the Fat Mans Mis-
erv and the Corll-sCrew. Perhaps the
most interesting of all our expert
ences was the ride on Echo River.
/, The Mother Lady baked at the ride
q ON the River. However reinforced by
the Guide. the Head and the Daughter
, she went aboard The Guide made
! some very pretty echoes after when
we were permitted to sing. We sang
several selections and as we were
r about to land the Head led in singing,
! 'Pm Going to Tell God, How you
Treat Me" As we sang party COM
ing down the cave applauded heartily'
' We are not mercenary, but we thought
that had we Nesdames Hadley, Cam
r eron and Prof Work along, we could
7 have formed a glee club and possibly
! made some tips.
We had lots of fun in the Valley OF
= Humility. The Lady was the only
member of the party able to pass
! comfortably. In Fat Mans Misery
she came through without a scratch
At the corkscrew, we had our real
thrill. The Daughter admit that she
had Shaking at the Knees. Inc
3 continuous climbing was hard on the
Lady and the Mother Lady the
/, Other Member was tired and the
Young Member suddenly reallHeu
that she wanted her dinner. we founu
; our skirts in the way for the nrst
time. The corkscrew is a narrow
opening two hundred and twenty teet
deem. II is the only exit out or the
= cave. You reach the top by stone
steps, wooden steps and ladders,
At the entrance of the Cave. seve-
raj pictures we're made and we hun
ried way to our dinner. Dinner was
spread in the shade on bench. ice
e was procured and the grape JUICE
noured on il. At this point we dis
covered that almost any one can eat
= If given the proper conditions. we
left The Cave at six o'clock and at
, many places on the road the only SEN
sible nerson in the car was the Head,
who kept himself awake by singing,
"L,Oye Me and the World is Nine.
At one point the Lady having been
awakened by a fresh outburst OF the
harmony, sleepily remarked, "Thats
the only song he knows" and drowsi-
" closed her eyes. Only one or two
of the party remembers passing RUS
= sellville, Auburn and Adairsville.
Neither of us remember passing ShaK'
ertown. Near Springfield we had an
other puncture Even this failed to
, rouse the Young Member who had
} turned down her seat and was COM
fortably asleep in the bottom of the
r car, her head on the Mother Lady 8
d. knee. We aroused long enough 10
, realize that the Other Member really
and truly did snore and that with
the car stalled in front of hog pen,
7 she was now earnestly on the job.
: Nashville was reached about four o.
/, clock in the morning. AS we crossed
l the Jefferson St., bridge the Young
l Member succeeded in putting on her
( shoes. We attempted to do the same
3 thing, but in the absence of slipper
horn when the car reached our door,
we had gained access to the inside
!, of only one slipper
We hoped into the house with the
: other shoe in our hand. The queer
r noise caused our husband to jump
. out OF bed and meet us at the door to
: the back bed room He thought we had
l lost a. limb at Mammoth Cave.